I've joined Maggie Moran's "Southern Reading Challenge" for summer 2008. Maggie's a librarian from Mississippi whose mission is to get more noses in books, specifically Southern books. All you have to do is pledge to read three books set in the South and written by Southerners over the summer, and then blog about them. Join the challenge at http://maggiereads.blogspot.com/ My three books, in no particular order, will be:

The Hamlet by Wm. Faulkner

Smonk by Tom Franklin

Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty ( a reread)