My reading challenge!

Good morning everyone! <3 It is currently the 29th of January 2013 and also my best friend's birthday!  Happy birthday Jessi! :)

I am posting today to bring along my own reading challenge.  I got the idea from the Rory Gilmore reading challenge from this blog right here: http://bookreviews.me.uk/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge/. It's a brilliant blog that I found on Pinterest yesterday.  I honestly have no idea who Rory Gilmore is and don't shoot me for that lol!  I don't watch movies that often and I kind of stick to one genre of literature, choosing to re-read most books because I'm too scared to venture away from my comfort zone. 

I am a bibliophile by the way.  I do believe that it takes over sometimes.  I love everything about books.  Their smell, their texture, and most of all their words.  Sometimes however, I find myself browsing the bookshelves in the thrift store and picking up a book that looks really pretty but I never read it.  It just sits on my shelf and continues to look pretty until it's covered in dust...(actually the bibliophile in me doesn't allow them to get dusty.  I don't even allow my husband to touch my hardback books unless his hands are clean! HA!)...Moral of that rant is, I buy a book and then NEVER read it!

So anyway, I'm happy collecting my books when my husband buys me a Kindle.  A frickin Kindle for Christmas!  What am I supposed to do now?  I have hundreds of free books yes thats right HUNDREDS of FREE books right in front of me!  Many bookworms would smack me right now and tell me that I'm making them look bad because there's nothing better than a real book!  Right?  Wrong I tell you!  Having a Kindle is better than having a library card (getting ready for the flaming arrows) because all I need is wifi and I can get those books in front of me with one touch.  I don't have to spend gas (no I'm not a hippy bookworm btw I do have a fantastic Jeep :P) it's just damn expensive and I don't have to wait for a book in case they don't have it.  Because let me tell you, the libraries in my city (which is in the northern Denver area) do not like Phillipa Gregory and it makes me sad :(.  They only have the latest book 'The Kingmaker's Daughter' and that's because I ordered it!

Okay, my Kindle vs Book rant is over now o.o...I'm a Gemini and I get off track easily hehe....my READING CHALLENGE!

My challenge is to read all of the books on my bookshelf (excluding cookbooks and medical books) starting with:
 'The Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follet followed by it's sequal
 'World Without End'
Because Matt and I just watched the tv adaptations of them and apparently it completely changed the entire plot.  I didn't remember and Matt told me he was disappointed.  His actual words were, "You remember silly lines from a Harry Potter book but you can't remember a plot from a brilliant book?"
(Apparently my husband believes he's grown out of Harry Potter.  Even though we still watch it sometimes because he's in love with Emma Watson) ;).

I am starting the challenge today and will be writing my thoughts about the book as I am re-reading it.  So I better get off of the computer so that I can clean my house before I get lost in Medieval England!