mongrelheart pointed me in the direction of the Mount TBR 2012 Reading Challenge over at My Reader's Block. And, given that I have an enormous To Be Read pile (more than 70 books), I thought I'd jump in and declare myself. I understand that happychemist</lj> is jumping in, too. Yay for book nerdery!

Challenge Levels

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 25 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 40 books from your TBR piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 50 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100+ books from your TBR pile/s

And the rules:
*Once you choose your challenge level, you are locked in for at least that many books. If you find that you're on a mountain-climbing roll and want to tackle a taller mountain, then you are certainly welcome to upgrade.

*Challenge runs from January 1 to December 31, 2012.

More rules/guidelines at that link above.

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I'm going to do a Mount Vancouver, because although my TBR is currently 70 books long, I'm not ready to commit to reading everything on it (which would mean every Georgette Heyer I own, and all the Unfortunate Events books, which actually I don't possess, so maybe those should go on the Someday List rather than the TBR... oh dear, I've found an anomaly in my filing system! Eek! OK, fixed it). But the titles I AM committed to reading in 2012 include:

• Finish "City of Evil" by Sean Fewster
• The Hunger Games trilogy (got them last year for Xmas, haven't cracked a one)
• All the author-signed books I got at SIWC this year
• Rob Lowe's autobiography
• The Slap, which a workmate lent me and I still haven't opened it
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which I am the last person in the world to read
• The rest of the Glasswrights series by mindyklasky</lj> (e-books)
• A couple of ebook romances I haven't quite got to yet
• The next book or two in the Temeraire series (dragons in warfare during the Napoleonic wars - FAB stuff)
• The next book or two in the Royal Assassin series by Robin Hobb
• The next book in the Marla Mason series by TA Pratt
• Coraline and The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
• Some classics, including Ivanhoe, The Time Machine, North and South, the Portrait of a Lady, The Mysteries of Udolpho
• A few of the Heyers. Until they start to irritate me.
• Club Dead, which is part of the Southern Vampire series. Only because I didn't hate the first book in the series.
• Fool Moon, next in the Dresden Files series

Who else is with me? Anyone?

Yes, with parades and baseball games and lots of beer and food on the barbecue, eh.