Yesterday was the last day of the What an Animal II Challenge … and although I did pretty well on this challenge, I fell one book shy of completion.
I read five of six books…my favorites being Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain and Gail Caldwell’s memoir Let’s Take the Long Way Home. [...]
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Incomplete: What An Animal II Challenge
Last Two Challenges Completed…
I managed to complete two final challenges in the last week of December:
Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge hosted by Chris at Stuff Dreams Are Made Of and Robin at A Fondness for Reading .
I was really happy to participate in this challenge to honor Dewey by reading from her books list. I completed the last [...]
Challenges I Won’t Complete in 2009…
The days of 2009 are dwindling and it is clear that a couple of reading challenges won’t get completed. They are:
2009 Mini-Challenges for A Novel Challenge Yahoo Group hosted my ME!
Yes, you read that correctly. I won’t finish a challenge for which I was actually the host. Oh well. I just lost steam on [...]
Two More Completed Challenges
As 2009 winds down, I am reading and reading…and still finishing a couple of challenges just by the skin of my teeth. Here are two more that I can check off the list:
My Year of Reading Dangerously hosted by Estella.
I set out to read 12 “dangerous books” – you can see my list with links [...]
Wrap Up Post for Notable Books Challenge
The Notable Books Challenge is a perpetual challenge to read books from The Notable Books lists.
At the beginning of 2009, I challenged myself to read at least 6 books from the Notable Lists on the challenge blog. Here is how I did:
Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill (from NYT Most Notable – 2008) – COMPLETED April [...]
ARC 2009 Challenge COMPLETED
Many thanks to Teddy at So Many Precious Books, So Little Time who hosted this great challenge to get those ARCs read!
I had a goal of completing 12 ARCs (and I took that literally – so I did not count review copies, only the advanced readers editions). I actually completed 17 which made me happy…until [...]
Challenge Wrap Ups…
I have completed some challenges and decided to include them in one big wrap up post.
The Chunkster Challenge was all about reading those fat books which at times seem so intimidating. I chose the Mor-book-ly Obese option (to read 6 or more chunksters OR three tomes of 750 pages or more). My last book for the challenge was [...]
Wrap Up – Themed Reading Challenge
I hosted this challenge – and completed it by the skin of my teeth!
Here is a summary of what I did:
Option 3: Read at least 6 books that share MORE than two themes.
My themes were:
1. Female authors
2. New to me authors
3. The plot has some sort of mystery which must be solved
4. A child or [...]
What An Animal II Challenge
July 1, 2009 – February 28, 2010
Kristi at Passion for the Page is hosting Part II of the What An Animal Challenge. I did the first one and really enjoyed it…and I seem to have a lot of books on my stacks that meet the requirements of this challenge…so I’m in
Here are the guidelines:
1. Read [...]
Spice of Life Challenge
July 1 – December 31, 2009
Rebecca is hosting the Spice of Life Challenge to read and/or review books about food and eating our way through a good life. I just cannot resist it! Here are the guidelines:
Feel free to overlap your books with any other reading challenges you have.
If you feel so inclined, share a [...]
= Excellent
= Good/Very Good
= Okay read
= Not recommended
= Ugh! Don't waste your time.
