Faster than a short-short story, able to bend thick spines with his bare hands: "Look, in the corner of the library, it's a student, it's a professor, no it's Super Reader."
Like Bigfoot, most people thought this legendary figure was only a figment of the populr imagination. Now he's been sited on the Web. At a blog called The Library Annex Super Reader (a.k.a Steven Davis) has laid down a series of super human challenges, such as reading every work of fiction to win a Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize or the National Book Award. Any of those would be a lifetime achievement for most of us, but those are only three of the ten labors undertaken by this literary Hercules.
Other challenges include:
Boxall by the Decade - based on Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read
Before You Die. Boxall's list is in chronological order; my challenge
is to read a book from each decade starting with the 1700s, and from
each century prior. Minimum goal is to read from 10 decades, ideal is
to read from all 39 that I haven't already finished.Zane's Top Ten - Peder Zane's The Top Ten has a list of 544 books
assembled from the rankings by 125 authors. My immediate goal is to read all books scoring more than 20 points in Zane's ranking system that I haven't already read. That amounts to 13 books. The next goal is to read all the books I already own that scored more than 10.
Have you completed a literary challenge? If so, what?
