Retired Challenge: Middle Grade Madness

Last December, I embarked on Middle Grade Madness, an exploration of books for middle-grade readers. My objective was to survey the genre and get a feel for the novels my own book will share the shelves with. Here are the ones I posted.

After 11 months, I've come to three conclusions:

1. Middle Grade books cover a wide range of topics, styles, sub-genres, language levels, and writing quality.

2. There are more MG books than I'll be able to read in a timely manner.

3. As is the case in the rest of my life, I want a wide variety of experience -- wider than reading only MG can offer.

Not that I've limited my reading to MG for the past year. But it's time to retire this challenge from the sidebar. In the future, if I read a book I think is notable, I'll post about it.

In the meantime, a new reading adventure is percolating in the old noggin. A multigenre extravaganza, the details of which I'll need your input to begin.

More soon!

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