The Octogon Challenge 2012 - updates

I am using this post to keep updated with my progress through the resolutions that I have set myself throughout 2012.

1. To not buy any new books, only acquiring them as gifts, borrowing, or second hand if I have to. This is to get my TBR pile under control and ties in with the The TBR Double Dare run by Ready When You Are, C.B. (see my sidebar)

2. To read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Currently Reading

3. To read 1 or 2 titles that came up during our lit hol discussions

4. To read 3 literary articles and blog about them

5. To compare 3 book to film stories
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Feb post)

6. To read at least one dystopia novel

7.To read the Zola I have wanted to read since 2009 (this is the 3rd year it has made it on this list)

8.To read another George Eliot if possible

We will see how many I complete by the end of the year.

There are also the books recommended by my work colleagues which I will mark in red when they are completed. We only have to read at least one of the 3, but may well read more.

AR - The Dubliners by James Joyce, Seize the Day by Saul Bellow and August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
BD - The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick and Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

I am looking forward to reading as many of those as possible. Completed sections are marked in red.