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Friday, December 5, 2008

Spiritually Speaking Challenge




I like to seek and explore. My favorite area to do just that is the spiritual realm of our lives. Therefore, I have decided to turn it into a challenge. Why not! The rules of the challenge are:

1. Read 6 books from January 31st, 2009 to June 30th, 2009.
2. The main theme of all the titles you choose must be spiritual, metaphysical or self-help.
3. The books can be both fiction & non-fiction.
4. You don't have to have a blog to participate* (read up for a small amendment)
5. A new copy of 'Happiness is a Choice' by Barry Neil Kaufman will be raffled away at the
end of the challenge among the participants. You don't have to do anything special, just have
fun! And let's fate decide who gets the prize.

To give you an idea of what books are allowed in the challenge, I am posting my list:


1.'The Witch of Portobello' by Paulo Coehlo (fiction)
2. 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch (non-fiction)
3. 'Color Me Butterfly' by L.Y. Marlow (non-fiction)
4. 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahansa Yogananda (non-fiction)
5. 'Blessed Are The Meek' by Zofia Kossak (fiction)
6. 'Such A Pretty Fat' by Jen Lancaster
7. Elijah's Coin by Steve O'Brien





25 comments:

Smash said...

Wow, what a great challenge! I may participate, I need to see what my TBR looks like around January!!

Thanks for checking out my blog, I tagged you in a Survey post today. :o)

I can't wait to hear what you have to say about 'The Last Lecture!'

lilly said...

Thanks Smash. I hope you decide to take the challenge on.
Thank you for tagging me as well.

Jeska said...

Sounds like an interesting challenge! Will you have a post for us to link our reviews to? Thanks!

lilly said...

Hi Jeska,
I am working on figuring it out. Actuallt if any of you know how to do it I would welcome your advice.
Thanks.
Thank you for joining as well.

lilly said...

I was thinking Jeska that maybe once you post your reviews on your blog you can just send me a comment with your URL for the challenge list as well as your reviews and I can add them to links under my original challenge specifying what the link is for.
Let me know if that would work?

Jeska said...

sounds good!

J. Kaye Oldner said...

Great challenge! I'm in. I think I have them all on the shelf, it's just a matter of listing them.

lilly said...

Thanks so much for joining J. Kaye.

Grilsgood said...

Challenge Me !!!!! This sounds like a good idea, count me in. No blog but I will post back hee and on the A Novel Challenge Site. Lindy

lilly said...

Welcome Lindy. I am very happy you joined.

Diane said...

This sounds like a good one for me these days. Thanks

lilly said...

Thanks Diane.

Jenny said...

Well can't pass this one up can I? Thanks Jenny

lilly said...

Thanks for joining Jenny. I'm glad to have you on board.

Lisalit said...

This sounds great! My list isn't finished yet, but I posted a link to the blog site with my partial list.

Intergalactic Bookworm said...

I have a few Christianity authors that I need to catch up on. This will be a great opportunity to do so. I will be posting the reviews on both my book blog and my "Christianity" blog.

Judy/Intergalactic Bookworm

http://intergalacticbookworm.blogspot.com

http://myrainbowdove.blogspot.com/

Lorraine said...

I'm excited!

April said...

I'm looking forward to participating.

Gabby said...

Sounds like a wonderful challenge. Count me in.

Rebecca said...

Count me in! I was going to do a similar challenge myself because I love these types of books as well. Thanks for the challenge!

Diane said...

I goofed>> I thought this started January 1 not the 31st, so I have to remove my 1st book finished: The Four Agreements. Not a problem though I liked the book :)

April said...

I wasn't sure where to let you know that I've read my first book for this challenge. I haven't taken part in too many challenges, so this is all new to me.

This is my link:http://bookclubofone-me.blogspot.com/2009/02/spiritually-speaking-challeng.html

Rasberryswrlgirl said...

I'd like to join

http://engelsigh.blogspot.com/2009/02/spiritual-reading-challenge.html

Jenny said...

K finished this challenge. Here is the link to my reading blog. Thanks. I really enjoyed this one.

http://jennysimpsonjenny.blogspot.com/search/label/Spiritually%20speaking
Jenny

Rebecca :) said...

I finished the challenge! Thanks for hosting this!

http://imlostinbooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/challenge-completed-spiritually.html

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