How it ended....finishing the Novel Challenge

As I sit here wearing a t-shirt depicting the cover of a book I quite like (The Great Gatsby) and watching a mediocre film adaptation of one of my favourite books (the 2008 version of Evelyn Waugh's Bridehead Revisited- despite the presence of Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw who are two of the best young actors in Britain, it isn't great- that said if you haven't read the book, you must do so), I'm reminded that I haven't let any loyal readers I might have know how the MS Novel Challenge ended up for me. In the end I read 19 books (I didn't finish The Tennant of Wildfell Hall but I'm still working on that) which would have totalled up to at least 10000 pages (probably significantly more) and, including one late direct donation a friend is making, I raised $350!

So much thanks to all who donated and read along with massive journey of books!

This means that whilst the blog will occasionally roam into the land of books (I think I'll be posting something tomorrow that is mildly about books in fact) , that they will no longer be the focus. If you don't want the book blogging to end I recommend the blog of someone I know who is attempting to read through all the "greatest" books ever written- http://rainymondaymorning.wordpress.com/ - currently she is reading A. S. Byatt's Possession. If you just want some book porn and think that my cover pictures did not suffice, check out the tumblr profile- http://libraryporn.tumblr.com/

So to end my Novel Challenge blog I will remind you again to read Marieke Hardy's You'll be Sorry When I'm Dead and, of course, everything ever written by Jonathan Franzen.

Just to end with a photo of some of the shelves of my bookshelf- some people have phobias of this bookshelf falling on them, which thankfully is yet to happen