The Fall into Reading Challenge has ended and I changed and added to my list a little bit.  I had planned to read 14, deleted 4 and added17.  I posted my original list on the sign-up post and here’s what I ended the season with: Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See The Serpent’s Children, by Laurence [...]

The Hogwarts Reading Challenge started March 8 2010 and finished up today.  I have been updating my original post with each month’s books for Gryffindor House and it’s added up to a lot of reading this year. I’ll be posting my total 2010 reading stats at the end of the month.

It’s time for the Fall into Reading Challenge, although I’m a few days late getting started.  October is National Book Month, so I’m starting in celebration of that.  The rules: make a list, write a post, and read from September 22 to December 20.  Here’s the list from my TBR pile, in no apparent order: [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]