It's my challenge and I'll change the rules if I want to

Two days before my challenge commences and I have decided on a few things:

1. I will not be reading the books on the list in any order.  As long as I read them within the year, I will consider the challenge complete.
2. I may decide not to re-read some of the items that I have read before.  This ties in with #3
3. If I have already read a book and I don't feel like re-reading it I will select a title from an alternative list.  This list can be any top 100 list that has ever been compiled.  And I am open to suggestions.

My main reason for changing the rules are:

1. It's my challenge, I set it myself and I made up the rules in the first place.
2. I didn't officially have any rules to begin with, I'm just kind of making this up as I go along and as I haven't officially started my challenge, I can change the bloody rules can't I (see #1)?
3. I have ordered the first 2 items on the list (or is that the last 2, since they are numbered 100 and 99....) from Amazon marketplace and these are due to arrive anytime between March 28 and April 11..... as my challenge starts on March 27 I going to be incredibly behind if I don't start reading something off that list come Wednesday.

I have managed today to borrow from the Barbican library #98 The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper and #67 Cloud Atlas.  Tomorrow I will be returning my two Claude Levi Strauss books from the same establishment.  These are books that analyse the myths of the South American Indians and there is something very sad about the fact that even though I haven't quite finished these, I will returning them and replacing them with The Inside by Piers Morgan and The Snail In the Whale by Julia Donaldson.  Okay, maybe not so much the latter one.....  clearly this picture book for children is #87 on the list for a good reason.  but Piers?  Why is Piers #85 on any list?

This should be enough to keep me going for a week or two.  On average I should be reading 2 books a week.  Some of these are children's books.  Some are not science textbooks.  And then there is Piers Morgan...... He once pushed past me trying to get into Guy Ritchie's pub in Mayfair.  It used to be my local... Honest!  It was my local before Guy bought it! Although I've just read that he's only just today gone and sold it.  Probably because he's realised that giving away free drinks to your mates is not a clever way to run a pub.

Anyway, I've just snapped at David because he has been distracting me with news stories from the internet while I've been trying to write my blog so I better go and give him a cuddle.

And then I'll read a bit more of The Hollow Hills.  Only 185 pages to go.... Och seriously! I have to start reading faster or I am never going to make it through this list before the end of March 2014.