Challenges: My progress in 2012

It's a whole new year!  Start on a clean slate, you say?  Yes, indeed - that is, with regard to my reading challenges.  While I'm very happy with the overall progress in 2012, I can now, without fear, admit that I may have had too much on my plate.  Still, reading so much more intensely has made me more selective about what I want to read and which challenges to subscribe to this year (I hope...)

Without further ado, this is what happened in the last twelve months:

The challenges:

• What's in a name 5 - completed!
• Mystery & Suspense reading: completed!
• Back to the Classics: completed!
• Ireland reading: completed!
• Graham Greene reading: completed!
• European Reading Challenge: 5/6 (ending in January 2013)
• We want you to read French authors: completed!
• Japanese Literature challenge: 3/5 (ending in January 2013)

And then, the not-exactly challenges:

• The Classics Club: 27/56 (I have to watch out, otherwise I'll end it up in two years instead of the original five...)
• Century of books: 31/100 (I'll get there, eventually...)

All in all, happy enough to gather new challenges for this year and piling more books for them:

• What's in a name 6, hosted by Beth Fish reads
• 2013 TBR challenge, hosted by the Roof Beam Reader
• 2013 Back to the Classics, hosted by Sarah reads too much
• Let's read plays, hosted by Fanda Classiclit and NgidamBuku (started in November 2012)

And, to complete the list:

• the Century of books (sorry Simon it's taking so long...)
• the readalongs with the Unputdownables (I have a funny feeling I'll be doing all of them this year...)
• the readalong of the classic Persephone Cheerful weather for the wedding, hosted by Stuck in a Book

(now that I look at my list, I suddenly feel it's almost empty - can anyone propose any more challenges for me?  please???)