Duration
March 1, 2010 - Feb 6, 2014
Summary
This is a personal challenge, but feel free to participate with me by leaving a comment below. The purpose is to encourage reading books from countries other than your own - where the country is the setting for the book, or the author is from that country. And you have until the start of the next Winter Olympic games to do it.
The 2014 Winter Olympics Reading Challenge
If you do want to participate, choose a level below:
Level 1 (Gold): Read a book from every country that won a medal.Level 2 (Silver): Read a book from every country that won a Gold medal.
Level 3 (Bronze): Read a book from every country that won Gold, Silver AND Bronze medals.
Of course, I'm going for the GOLD!!! Valuable resources for finding books from different countries include BiblioTravel and Books Set In.
Below is a List of the 26 Countries with Medals from the 2010 Winter Olympics (* means the country got gold, silver and bronze medals).
- Australia - Gold & Silver (no Bronze)
- Austria *
- Belarus *
- Canada *
- China *
- Croatia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
- Czech Republic - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
- Estonia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
- Finland - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
- France *
- Germany *
- Great Britain - Gold (no Silver or Bronze)
- Italy *
- Japan - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
- Kazakhstan - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
- Latvia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
- Netherlands *
- Norway *
- Poland *
- Russia *
- Slovakia *
- Slovenia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
- South Korea *
- Sweden *
- Switzerland - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
- United States *
This is one monster of a challenge - click here to see my reading plan.
(Photo Credit: {studiobeerhorst}-bbmarie)
Um yes this is a MONSTER of a challenge. I was wondering why it went on for so long. Well good luck to you! You can do it!!
xo,
Lah @ LazyGirl Reads