Since I Totally Need To Join Another Challenge...

After spectacularly failing the last one...

What am I thinking? Good question.

You can find more info and sign up at Find Your Next Book Here!

Anyway, 12 challenges... in for a penny....

1- Author with the same name or initials. Couldn't find an author with the same name, searching by first name is a ridiculous venture, and people with my last name apparently mostly write really boring books. No lie.

So-- initials. Curiousity Killed the Cat Sitter by Blaize Clement (Double bonus on this one, I own it and it's on one of my Reader's Choice lists!)

2- Blogroll Roulette. I hopped over to Angieville, since she's got a huge blogroll. It did take three tries to get a devoted book blog, though. I was too lazy to wade through the author/writing/whatever posts on the first couple I got. :D

So I ended up with The Story Siren and picked The Demon's Lexicon to read. (Bonus, it was already on my list.)

3- I picked the Top 100 Mystery Books list and went with #12- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (bonus, I own it!)

4- Award winners. I went with the Newberys since I'm trying to read lots of those anyway. Took me a while to pick one... partly because I was feeling picky. Picked One-Eyed Cat (bonus, I own it!)

5- Title Word Count. I got 5 words. Figures, right? Picked Two Little Girls in Blue (bonus, I own it!)

6- Genre list. I had a hard time here. I read pretty much anything. I decided to go with a horror since I usually avoid those-- I Am Legend which had dang well better be better than the movie was. (Bonus, it was already on my list. In fact, it's sitting right here.)

7- Prejudice. I went for Chick-Lit since I deride it. :D Holly's Inbox seemed like a good pick. (And it was on my list. I add chick-lit occasionally...)

8- Inspired. A book and the work that inspired it. Drood and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This should count, even though it's not a rewrite. I like the idea of a book about Dickens and his last work. (Drood was on my list.)

9- Same Words. I picked the word "bones" and ended up with Bones of Betrayal and City of Bones (BOTH on my list!)

10- Review as a Character. This should be fun. I think I'm going with The Princess Bride which I have sadly never read. (And I own it!)

11- Family. I'm actually not sure on this one... thinking about Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, but I'm on the fence.

12- Anthology. Read an anthology (which I generally don't do) and then a work by an author in it that you liked. I picked Firebirds Rising... we'll see where we go from there...

So, who else is playing??

**Sorry about the lack of links, author's names, etc. My brain is still broken.

ETA-- UPDATE.  I figured out what I want to do for #11.  Greg Bear and Poul Anderson are related!  Or they were at one point.  (Anderson being Bear's father-in-law.)  Anyway, I'm saying it counts.  So I'm reading Eon Vitals and New America.