Armchair Traveler

I recently stumbled across a literary challenge that I liked the smell of over at A Life In Books. It’s called the Armchair Traveler reading challenge, and the guidelines are as follows:

The challenge runs from July 1 through December 31 during which time you must read six books that fall under the ‘armchair traveling’ theme.

Fiction or non-fiction works are fine, and do not need to be specifically travel related, as long as the location is integral to the book – I’ll leave that to your discretion. Locations must be actual places that you could visit, so no Middle Earths or galaxies far, far away.

Books may be cross-posted to other challenges, but you cannot count any books read prior to July 1st.

To join, make a post outlining your six choices and link to that post below. Because I like to have a little wiggle room, you can opt to switch out books throughout the challenge.

And yes, there will be prizes!

I already set a goal of rereading all of Vonnegut’s books over the next year — hopefully finishing by the anniversary of his death — not to mention we’ve got that continuous feed of books from our book club, but I don’t see why I can’t fold in another set. In fact, it might get me into a few books that I’ve been meaning to read for ages and simply haven’t gotten around to yet.

So…why not.

I’ll try to get through the following in the next six months:

• I’m a stranger here myself
• Into Thin Air
• The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy
• The Meadowlands
• Finding George Orwell in Burma

Naturally, I reserve the right to change any of the above selections based on availability and my general whim.

If any of you book people are interested in joining, follow the link and sign up. In the meantime, I’m sure I’ll be posting reviews as I go (if I can ever catch up on the reviews I still need to write!).