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Hm nossy Send a noteboard - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
The Not-So-Dirty Half Dozen Challenge.

The Rules:

Every two months you must complete a task. You'll have all of those two months to complete each task. (Thus Task One is for January and February, Task Two is for March and April, etc.) We reserve the right to change one of the tasks when we make the first post on 1 January 2011, but we promise it won't be the first task.

So.

The Tasks:

1. Read a work of Classic literature - one you've never read before.

2. Read a book by an author from a country you've not read a book from before.

3. Read one Scifi, one Fantasy and one Spec Fic book (i.e. three separate books, and they can be books you've read before, if you like).

4. Read a graphic novel, a play or a collection of poetry you've not read before.

5. Read a book and then watch a film of that book (again, you can have read the book before).

6. Read a non-fiction book you've not read before.


I will have access to a ton of new books, so I'm fairly sure I can commit to this challenge.
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2011: a year of RAFO challenges. - 13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM 2631 Views
What do we win? *NM* - 13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM 956 Views
Pride? A feeling of accomplishment? - 13/12/2010 11:01:55 PM 1424 Views
Seems worth it. - 16/12/2010 09:51:48 PM 1450 Views
I demand pie! - 22/12/2010 08:16:19 PM 1382 Views
That looks like fun - 14/12/2010 12:50:54 AM 1430 Views
I like. - 14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM 1498 Views
I think it says "challenge" - 15/12/2010 02:04:34 AM 1473 Views
Competition with yourself, then. - 15/12/2010 03:52:13 AM 1508 Views
I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it - 14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM 1452 Views
I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM 863 Views
Most of my favorite books are unfilmable. *NM* - 14/12/2010 01:40:04 AM 844 Views
Just like Watchmen! *NM* - 14/12/2010 02:46:14 AM 844 Views
Yup. - 14/12/2010 04:06:14 AM 1479 Views
I never watched that. - 19/12/2010 01:12:19 AM 1557 Views
You are a lucky lady. - 19/12/2010 03:53:30 AM 1613 Views
Name one. *NM* - 14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM 822 Views
Mansfield Park. - 14/12/2010 08:36:23 AM 1571 Views
I'll name a dozen. - 14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM 1527 Views
Not all of those are valid choices. - 14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM 1540 Views
Also Big Fish. - 14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM 1625 Views
I prefer the book version of that, by the way - 14/12/2010 10:45:54 PM 1553 Views
Weird. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:47:21 AM 851 Views
Lots of poor movies there - 14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM 1475 Views
Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM* - 15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM 1008 Views
Wonderboys *NM* - 14/12/2010 04:49:47 PM 867 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 14/12/2010 10:43:14 AM 949 Views
Seems nice, I will try to do the half-dozen challange *NM* - 14/12/2010 07:32:20 PM 992 Views
Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM* - 14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM 932 Views
Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time. - 14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM 1430 Views
So... - 15/12/2010 04:13:27 PM 1714 Views
A single book can count for many things... - 15/12/2010 04:17:59 PM 1581 Views
Oooh. This sounds great, count me in! - 15/12/2010 12:38:39 AM 1883 Views
A challenge I'm toying with for 2011: - 15/12/2010 04:00:36 AM 1584 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 15/12/2010 05:20:04 AM 849 Views
Hmm, exciting - 15/12/2010 08:10:50 AM 1793 Views
A condition and an observation - 15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM 1513 Views
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian? - 15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM 1644 Views
I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well. - 22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM 1513 Views
Is The Road really a western, though? *NM* - 22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM 894 Views
Karl May? - 15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM 1586 Views
I'm sorry, but I keep reading "Karl Marx?" *NM* - 18/12/2010 04:51:40 AM 737 Views
Yeah, they're rather different. *NM* - 18/12/2010 01:33:23 PM 814 Views
Hm - 15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM 1604 Views
I've read a western. I'm counting that! - 30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM 1686 Views
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You'd think two things here that aren't true - 30/12/2010 11:56:22 PM 1525 Views
Re: <will watch interestedly as you play> - 16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM 1480 Views
I think you should try to do one challenge now issued by myself - 16/12/2010 01:07:18 PM 1503 Views
Re: If I can afford it, then of course I'll read it. - 17/12/2010 12:35:02 PM 1552 Views
I am so doing this! - 16/12/2010 09:55:19 PM 1447 Views
Question: - 17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM 1603 Views
I think we can accept that. - 17/12/2010 09:05:55 PM 1690 Views
Ok cool. Thanks *NM* - 17/12/2010 09:34:30 PM 807 Views
Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me - 17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM 1499 Views
I think that would definitely qualify. - 17/12/2010 09:07:28 PM 1535 Views
Re: I think that would definitely qualify. - 20/12/2010 12:45:42 AM 1529 Views
As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others... - 20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM 1450 Views
I'm going for the 120 book challenge. - 22/12/2010 06:18:25 PM 1515 Views
I think you missed a trick here. - 30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM 1612 Views
I think that one is always understood. *NM* - 30/12/2010 09:36:38 AM 932 Views
I don't think it is. - 30/12/2010 04:20:41 PM 1418 Views
Well. - 30/12/2010 04:55:00 PM 1511 Views
More questions - 16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM 1437 Views
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Faulkner? - 16/01/2011 08:58:12 PM 1527 Views
Hmmm. Maybe. *NM* - 16/01/2011 09:11:25 PM 1627 Views
Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 08:57:51 PM 1491 Views
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Hm. - 16/01/2011 09:11:29 PM 1656 Views
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Re: More questions - 16/01/2011 10:35:07 PM 1632 Views
I have read a Family Chronicle - 18/01/2011 03:03:48 AM 1680 Views
Nice try. *NM* - 18/01/2011 06:19:48 PM 748 Views
You disagree? - 19/01/2011 01:30:45 AM 1504 Views

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