Really Old Classics Challenge & The Wind-Up Book Chronicles Challenge

I’m joining a new challenge! This one will help me read some books that I’ve been meaning to read but just need that extra push to get going. It’s the Really Old Classics Challenge hosted by Rebecca. Sign up here and post reviews here. The rules:

1. Choose how many Really Old Classics you’d like to read by the end of July 2009, from 1 to 100.
2. Read that number of Really Old Classics by the end of July 2009. If you finish, pat yourself on the back.

I will commit myself to read two of the following really old classics:

The Iliad, by Homer
The Odyssey, by Homer
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Aeneid, by Virgil

If I read more, great. If not, I won’t feel like a failure. :)

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Speaking of failures, I’m going to have to call it quits on the The Wind-Up Book Chronicles Challenge. I have not made it through any of my four selections. I guess there’s a reason I didn’t finish the books the first time through. Anyway, I appreciate the theme of the challenge and may attempt it again should 3M at 1morechapter.com decide to host it again. But, for this year, these books will likely remain unfinished:

Emma, by Jane Austen
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

Have you had to call it quits on any challenges?

Related posts:

1. Really Old Classics Challenge – FAILED
2. The Classics Challenge 2008
3. Casual Classics Challenge Wrap-Up & Elizabeth Glaskell Mini-Challenge Wrap-Up