ten.10.ten

I just discovered that what I thought was the last book in a series I'm reading is, in fact, not. There are two more coming out in the next two years, which means that I won't be able to finish the series for my 10/10/10 challenge. Boo. 

Yay for finishing books! I finished my first series, the Narnia books (started over and read books The Magician's Nephew through The Horse and His Boy so I could say I'd read them all in 2010), and now I'm in the middle of a Nonfiction, an Adult Fiction, and an Award-Winner. It's taking me longer than it should to read them, but I'm really enjoying them all so it's okay.

I finally figured it out! My tenth and final category is going to be Series(...es). That is how the Narnia books will fit into the challenge; I'm just going to go back and read the first three now, so I can say I did them all in 2010 (I was going to do The Magician's Nephew now anyway since I haven't read that in a while), and then it will be counted. Plus, this fixes the problem in which I was concerned about there not being enough books in the challenge. So, my final categories are:

• Award-Winners
• Recommended
• Adult Fiction
• Foreign
• Self-Improvement
• Authors I've never read
• Megan/Miri/Lindsey
  
• Nonfiction
• Books I Own/Unfinished Business
• Series
  

That said, I would like to mention how much I love The Chronicles of Narnia. I first read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in second grade, and while I don't remember my first time reading the other books, I do remember reading the whole series over and over, countless times in my childhood. C.S. Lewis has such a beautiful way of writing, and--I know this is silly but it's a big thing for me--I just love the font in the versions I've been reading, and overall it was just a wonderful pleasure reading them again.