Welcome!

I'm hoping that our newest member will understand the instructions I e-mailed her and come along and introduce herself very soon.

But for now I thought it would be nice to post an entry here welcoming Kate to our midst!

Rolling Around In My Head Book Club

Dave Hingsburger who blogs over at Rolling Around In My Head holds an occasional online bookclub about disability centric books.

On 25th January he'll be discussing The Lottery by Patricia Wood - and rumour has it that she will be contributing to the book club as well.  You can take part by sharing your thoughts on your own blog or in the comments over at Dave's.  I really enjoyed the two previous books and thanks to my friend Heather passing her copy on to me I'm looking forward to reading Lottery too.

I'll post what I think of the book once I've read it - but it looks good.

Introducing Myself

I was going to post something the other day suggesting that people introduce themselves and then Shiloh beat me to it so I didn't

I probably should introduce myself though.

I'm Emma and I'm 28, from the UK.  My blog is A Writer in A Wheelchair.  I really love to read and I've been trying to increase my "range" of books away from easy chick lit and into new areas.

Since partway through last year I've been using this list as a bit of inspiration for some of what I read.  I'm thinking of not having a number goal this year when it comes to reading - for the last three years the goal has been 100 books which I finally managed in 2009, reading 102 books (72 in 2008 and 93 in 2007).  Instead I am making my goal that at least half of the books I read come from that list.  This spreadsheet is proving an invaluable tool in doing so.

I'm going to keep a list of books I read this year on my blog and I'm hoping to check in here every week or couple of weeks too depending on what happens with this challenge/blog.

Linking To Reading Challenge

I have created two small icons (each 100 by 100 pixels) which can be used to link to this blog.  I will do a couple more soon.  Probably slightly different sizes as well as different colours.  I'm thinking of plain black and white ones as well as a blue one because that's what colour my own personal blog is at present.

To use them please right click them and upload them to your own image host and then link them back to this blog at http://notthe100bookclub.blogspot.com

If more detailed instructions for how to do that is needed please let me know, I love to help others with their blogs.

This is the first, it's basically the same as the header image. Plain red with white text which says "Reading Challenge"

This is the second image, it's white with red text which says "Reading Challenge 2010" and it has a red star underneath it, just for decoration,  It's my favourite of the two.

Welcome

I used to be a member of the 100 book club online for several years. However it's now defunct and I really missed having it last year. So I've set up this blog in an attempt to resurrect it somewhat.

The idea this time round is that you set yourself a challenge for how many books you want to read in a period of time - a month, week, year, whatever and post about your progress. How many books or pages you've read, which books you've read - recommend your favourites or tell us what you hated, whatever.

It's very new and I'm still trying to figure out how it's going to work but send an e-mail to writerinawheelchair@googlemail.com if you'd like to take part.

~Emma