Challenges and the All Things Alcott Challenge

Published on by Margaret

At the beginning of the year I decided not to do many challenges this year partly because I want to concentrate on reading books I already own and partly because I find I lose track of where I’m up to with the challenges. I have no problem with the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge as that is ongoing with no deadlines and also the To-Be-Read Challenge fits in well with my aims.

Recently, however, I’ve been attracted by the Cozy Mystery Challenge, the Daphne Du Maurier Challenge and now the All Things Alcott Challenge that Margot has set up. This is a challenge to explore Louisa May Alcott’s world  and her body of work. For all these challenges I intend to read from books I already own and I hope to keep a record of my progress on the Reading Challenges Tab (above).

These are the guidelines for the All Things Alcott Challenge:

  1. Between May 1st and the end of the year (2010), choose one or more Alcott related things to do (see #2). In the spirit of Louisa May Alcott, each participant will set his/her own course in this challenge. You choose one or as many Alcott related items as you wish.
  2. You will also determine the contents of your challenge. As long as it is Alcott related, you may choose books, audiobooks, DVDs, movies, TV shows, a play or live theater. Anything by or about Louisa May Alcott is the intention of the challenge.
  3. It’s not necessary to compile a list at the beginning of the challenge.
  4. It’s perfectly okay if this challenge overlaps with other challenges.

Margot is aiming to re-read some of Alcott’s books and I may do that as well, but my main aim is to read Eden’s Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson, which has been on my bookshelves since last year.

4 thoughts on “Challenges and the All Things Alcott Challenge”

  1. I still haven’t read LW and feel like I should–it’s a classic American novel, written in and about a time period I really enjoy studying, and Alcott seems like an interesting person.

    I like your approach to challenges :)

    I am making a concerted effort to read the backlog this year, and it’s sort of working. Reading other people’s blogs doesn’t help though.

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  2. I loved Louisa May as a kid and read everything she wrote that I could get my hands on. I’ll be very interested in what you think of the book about her and her father.

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    1. I read her books as a child too – and I’m a bit wary about re-reading them in case I don’t find them as good as I did then! But I’m looking forward to reading Eden’s Outcasts. I read ‘March’ some time ago, a novel about Louisa’s father which I thought was excellent.

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