Challenges for me in 2010

I'm generally not one for challenges because I have so many stimuli for new reading but I do have a few memes that "regulate" my blogging life and to them I've added a couple of challenges for 2010.
In all the challenges I will be reading only crime fiction books. And of course there will be some overlap on the challenges.

Regular Memes/Events

We are just half way through the alphabet in this weekly event and will resume with the letter M on Monday 11 January 2010.

Each week you have to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week.
Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname.
So you see you have lots of choice. You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.

See other letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L

Every week I contribute to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books
We are recommencing on January 8, 2010.

I also take part in Sunday Salon and Weekly Geeks.

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Challenges - click on the icons to be taken to the home page of the challenge.

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Audio Book Challenge hosted at Royal Reviews.

I listen to books to and from work every day so hopefully this will be relatively easy to achieve.

I'm trying for Addicted: 12 books

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2010 Global Reading Challenge hosted by Dorte

This challenge is based on reading two books from each continent.

I'm trying for the Expert (14 books) level.

I'm planning to use a world map to track my progress.

create your own visited country map

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Aussie Author Challenge

This one is being run by Book Lover Book Reviews.
I'm signing up for the FAIR DINKUM challenge which requires me to read 8 titles by at least 5 different Aussie authors.

In 2009 I read 20 books by Aussie authors so I should be able to do this easily, although of course mine will have that extra little challenge of being all crime fiction titles.

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This is my own challenge- I read roughly an Agatha Christie title a month, in order of publication, but I have been joined on my journey by a number of people.

I feed them into the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival.
I'm using a graphic to show how I'm going.

20 / 87 books. 23% done!

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100+ ReadingChallenge hosted by J. Kaye

In 2009 I got to 104 books, so I think this one is well within possibility.

You'll be able to follow my progress on Smik's Reviews.