Mental Illness Advocacy Reading Challenge 2012

Hello my fellow bookworms this is a little late compare to some, but with all I have had to do to round off last year, it is now my time to start thinking about reading challenges. I didn’t even have to ponder for a moment whether I would be signing up for a second year for this challenge. If you would like to know how I got on last year go to Mental Illness Advocacy Reading Challenge 2011 is a Wrap! Now for this year, here is what Amanda of Opinions of a Wolf has to say about her challenge:

Mental Illness Advocacy (MIA) Reading Challenge

About the Challenge:

‘I started the Mental Illness Advocacy (MIA) Reading Challenge in December 2010 in an effort to raise awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of mental illness. Reading, both fiction and nonfiction, is an excellent way to broaden one’s horizons and expose one to new ideas and ways of thinking and being. Many reading challenges already exist in the book blogging community to address racism, sexism, and homophobia, but I could not find any to address the stigma faced by those suffering from mental illness. In spite of mental illnesses being recognized by the scientific community as diseases just like physical ones, many still think those suffering from one are at fault for their own suffering. I hope reading and reviewing books featuring characters struggling to deal with mental illness, whether their own or another person’s, will help remove the stigma faced on a daily basis by those with a mental illness. They already have to struggle with an illness; they shouldn’t have to face a stigma too.’

Last year I signed up for the middle level of eight books, however I would like to maybe try some other challenges this year so will be signing up for the lowest this year of four books. I think I can pretty much guarantee I can read four, and if I have time for more I can always bump myself up a level later in the year. Here is my rough list of possible reads:

• Stuart a Life Backwards – Alexander Masters
• House of Silence – Linda Gillard
• Untying the Knot – Linda Gillard
• Killers – Shaun Jeffrey
• I Don’t Want to Kill You – Dan Wells

The first four of which I already own, so they would be the easy options to go with, but after reading the first two John Cleaver books by Dan Wells I am really keen to read the third.

So far this is the only challenge I have signed up for but I have another one in mind, if I join it a post should be up next week about it. What about you, what challenges have you signed up for this year? Fancy giving this one a go?

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