July 2, 2009 - July 2, 2010
Corey at Shelf Monkey is hosting a fun challenge: Critical Monkey Contest. Corey writes:
There are seven levels of participation to choose from:
To sign up and learn more, visit the post about the challenge.
I, as I assume most people who read this blog are, am somewhat of a book snob. I don't pretend to read only the 'classics' of the Western canon, but there's a lot of crap out there I go out of my way to avoid. See? Right there, snobbery. Bad monkey! Bad!AND:
So I have decided to launch Critical Monkey, a little contest designed to make us confront our fears, and read those we otherwise actively ignore. These do not have to be authors who are typically derided in literary publications; choices can be books you simply have never wanted to read for whatever reason. Never read a Charles Dickens, but always felt bad? Now's your chance to try him on for size. Have you avoided Margaret Laurence because a lousy teacher force-fed you The Stone Angel and squeezed everything good out of it (guilty!)? Time to make her acquaintance. Anything you like. Even Harlequin romance novels. I double-dog dare you to try.
So, let's be clear; I am asking for blogged reviews of any novel you've avoided in the past. I'd like real reviews, not Amazon.com-type two-line hate rants. If you despise what you've read, then good, but let's get a sense as to why. And if you turn out to actually like it? Well, I guess you've grown up a bit now, haven't you?
There are seven levels of participation to choose from:
- Shock (one review)
- Denial(two reviews)
- Bargaining (three reviews)
- Guilt (four reviews)
- Anger (five reviews)
- Depression (six reviews)
- Acceptance (seven reviews)
To sign up and learn more, visit the post about the challenge.
