I’ve had some time for reading this past week and would like to explain how I’ve come along on this challenge.  At first the prospect was very daunting because as close as I could figure, I’d have to read nine books before December 31st of this year. I made such strides this week, however, that like The Little Engine…”I think I can!”

I had just about finished King’s Wizard and Glass when I accepted this challenge that I counted it as the first book read with it falling into the “any other color listed” category with its pink cover. Monday or Tuesday, I read the rest of John Sanford’s Rules of Prey, a nineties publication with a green cover. I have read three chapters of Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda’s published dissertation, “If You Do Not Like the Past, Change it”: The Reel Civil Rights Revolution, Historical Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts, which sports the red cover of University of Houston where he is a Phd and a professor. He guest lectured for me in my Advanced Writing class last Wednesday and we were able to discuss what I had read this far. I am reading a new novel on my Kindle app and will probably count it as my brown cover, although I am reading on the side Barskins, a massive (over 700 pages) tome which I had originally selected for my brown cover. It will wait patiently on my TBR shelf while I complete the Color Coded Challenge. I am also currently reading Song of Susannah by Stephen King, enhanced by an intriguing blue cover.  So, to summarize, I have finished two, am currently reading three, and looking forward to the tricky job of finding a book which “implies a connection of color.” (for example, a book with rainbow or some art term in the title) Any thoughts or suggestions of books I could use for this category?

This week promises to have some time I can dedicate to reading and especially to reading friends blogs and those of my Advanced Writing class. Those students have written a brief introduction (and my goodness, their definition of brief was brief) and will make their first posts this coming Wednesday.  Happy reading ahead for me.