Challenge Guidelines: There are four levels: – Curious – Read 3 novels that are 2nd in a series or second time you’ve read the author. – Fascinated – Read 6 that are 2nd in a series or second time you’ve read the author. – Addicted – Read 12 novels that are 2nd in a series [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on August 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I finished the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge with a very different list than I anticipated at the beginning of the year. Only one book remained the same, but changing it up during the year is fun, too! Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories: [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on July 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I finished this reading challenge 3 months early! The goal of the challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on July 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
I know I said I wouldn’t join any more challenges this year, but this one was just too fun to pass up. The Hogwarts Reading Challenge runs March 8 2010 to December 13 2010. I am a student at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor House. Now I need to attend class (read books) to [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on March 14th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I keep a book journal and here are my statistics for 2009: Books read: 73 Pages read: 23,576 Of the books read: Non-fiction: 3 New-to-me novelists: 31 Continuing series: 36 Re-reads: 5 Challenges completed: 8 Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 48 of 88 2008: 79 books; 32,031 pages; 8 non-fiction; 15 new-to-me novelists; 31 continuing [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on January 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is the last challenge I am planning to join for 2010, but you never know what might happen later in the year. The others are Countdown 2010 and What’s in a Name? 3. Challenge Guidelines: There are four levels: – Curious – Read 3 novels that are 2nd in a series or second [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on December 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the last of my 2009 reading challenges and I have completed them all. I even read extra books for this challenge. War Through the Generations runs 1 Jan-31 Dec 2009: at least 5 books about WWII, fiction or non-fiction Books from my original list: Home Again at Last, by Jerry Borrowman-This is the fourth [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on December 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am joining the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge because I had fun with the #2 reading challenge last year. Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories: A book with a food in the title: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith A book with [...]
Filed under: Books, Sue on December 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Undaunted
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Disney after Dark (The Kingdom Keepers, #1)
The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse