The Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015, hosted by Shelleyrae over at Book’d Out.

Eclectic Reader Challenge Rules:

* Select, read and review a book from each category listed below during the year for a total of 12 books. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format.

* You can choose your books as you go or create a list in advance. You may combine this challenge with others if you wish.

* Where a book is identified by more than one genre eg historical romance, it may only count for either the historical fiction or romantic fiction genres – not both.

* You can read your chosen titles in any order, at any pace, just complete the challenge by December 31st 2015 to be eligible for the prize drawing.

Categories

1 – Retellings (of fairytale, legends or myth)
2 – A book set in a country starting with the letter S (eg. Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Slovakia)
3 – PI Crime (fiction featuring a private investigator)
4 – A novel published before you were born
5 – Contemporary romance
6 – Fiction for foodies (fiction featuring food/food related business)
7 – Microhistory (Non Fiction)
8 – Science Fiction set in space
9 – Sports (Fiction or Non fiction)
10 – Featuring diversity
11 – Epistolary Fiction (fiction written in the format of letters/emails/diary entries)
12 – Middle Grade/YA Adventure

This is the second challenge I have signed up for this year. I am yet to write a single review, but am not neglecting my reading! When I have a moment’s breathing space between thesis drafts, I shall delve into that next stage of blogging and actually generate some content.

In the meantime, I am generating lists! My friend Inga would call this productive procrastination. John Perry won the Ignobel Prize for his theory of Structured Procrastination. So not all procrastination is bad…