Renee’s Comments (group member since Jan 26, 2012)

Renee’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I'll add this challenge to my never ending list of challenges. Because I'm doing so many different type of challenges I'm having to read new authors all the time. This will be a good way for me to be able to keep up with how many I do read.

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2013
Devil May Care - 20+

1. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame Smith 1/11
2. Wild by Cheryl Strayed 1/16
3. The Tree of Forgetfulness by Pam Durban

Updated post 108/

I've finally read 2 books on my list! I had set my goal to read all these books in one year but I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think I'll put a deadline on this one because I put way to many books on this challenge.

Updated Post 694

January: Read your birthday month

M: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 1/30
A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith 01-16
Y: Your Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz 1/4

Updated post 694

I finished! I finished! The first challenge I finished on time!

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Duration: November 1 - December 31, 2012
Read: 10/10


T: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 12/25
H: Haven by Kay Hooper 11/4
E: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Main Character: Emma Garnet 12/03

L: Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward 11/11
O: Forever Odd by Dean Koontz: main character Odd Thomas 11/14
V: Velocity by Dean Koontz 12/14
E: The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mithch Albom: Main Character Eddie 12/4

B: The Blue Notebook 11/22
U: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 12/30
G: Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris 12/19

All About You Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013

January: Read your birthday month

M: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 1/30
A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith 01-16
Y: Your Heart Belongs To Me by Dean Koontz 1/4



February: Read your birthstone

E: Envy by Sandra Brown 2/17
M: Midwives by Chris Bohjalian 04/09
E: An Eye For Glory by Karl A. Bacon 04/13
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A: The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Soderberg 4-23-13
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March: Read your sign

T: Cage of Bones by Tania Carver 03/15
A: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 3/17
U: Under The Dome by Stephen King 6-14
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S: Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman 3/17

April: Read your Chinese zodiac sign

P: Passing By Samaria by Sharon Ewell Foster 4/17
I: Inferno by Karen Harper 4-27
G: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 4-29

May: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you would like to visit

1. Australia: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 6-23
2. Germany: Hornet Flight by Ken Follett 6-25
3. Sweden: The Girl That Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg, Larsson 7-16

June: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre

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July: Read a triology from a new author

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August: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors

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September: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read

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October: Read your favorite food

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November: Read 3 or 4 authors you have never read

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December: Read 3 or 4 books published in the year of your birth (1971)

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I'm going to try and do this challenge. I'll come back later and post it. There's a couple of months that I think I want to change. I'm going to start the challenge Jan. 1. I'm doing a lot of yearly challenges this year. Hope I can keep them all straight.

Updated post 46. May just finish this challenge after all.

Updated post 46. I'm getting closer and closer!

Updated post 46. So close 3 more books to go. I'll be cutting it close. I just joined a library that has e-books and I have 2 books waiting on my kindle from the library and of course these books don't work towards this challenge. I have a lot of reading to do in 2 weeks.

I have read Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost and it happens to be the first book in the series but Reckoning came out later and it was put out in the series as 0.5, so could I use that book as #1 since I haven't read that one yet?

This challenge seems fun! I want to do it but I think I will wait and start it January 1, 2013. That way it will give me time to find some new series to start. Majority of the series that I have started I have already read the 1st book in the series. I think I'll go to FictFact and see what series that have posted.

I have not been able to read any books that I've been meaning to read. I got involved in two mini challenges and of course I've not been able to cross reference these two challenges. I think I've learned to watch how many mini challenges I get myself into. I'm also getting e-books from a local library and now I'm really having a hard time catching up on my TBR books.

Updated Post 46

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I'm going to try this challenge!

The Never Ending Series Challenge:

Cedar Cover Series by Debbie Macomber
1. 16 Lighthouse Road
2. 204 Rosewood Lane
3. 311 Pelican Court
4. 44 Cranberry Point
5. 50 Harbor Street
6. 6 Rainier Drive
7. 74 Seaside Avenue
8. 8 Sandpiper Way
9. A Cedar Cove Christmas
10. 92 Pacific Boulevard
11. 1022 Evergreen Place
12. 1105 Yakima Street
13. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane

The Christopher Paget Series by Richard North Patterson

1. The Lasko Tangent
2. Degree of Guilt
3. Eyes of a Child
4. Conviction

Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffrey Deaver

1. The Bone Collector
2. The Coffin Dancer
3. The Empty Chair
4. The Stone Monkey
5. The Vanished Man
6. The Twelfth Card
7. The Cold Moon
8. The Broken Window
9. The Burning Wire

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

1. Odd Thomas
2. Forever Odd
3. Brother Odd
4. Odd Hours
5. Odd Apocalypse
6. Deeply Odd

Harry Bosch by Michael Connelly
1. The Black Echo
2. The Black Ice
3. The Concrete Blond
4. The Last Coyote
5. Trunk Music
6. Angels Flight
7. A Darkness More Than Night
8. City of Bones
9. Lost Night
10. The Narrows
11. The Closers
12. Echo Park
13. The Overlook
14. The Brass Verdict
15. Dragons
16. The Reversal

Savannah Quartet by Eugenia Price

1. Savannah
2. To See Your Face Again
3. Before the Darkness Falls
4. Stranger in Savannah

Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost

1. Halfway To The Grave
2. Happily Never After
3. One Foot In The Grave
4. At Grave's End
5. Devil To Pay
6. Destined For An Early Grave
7. This Side Of The Grave
8. One Grave At A Time
9. "Home For The Holidays" In The Bite Before Christmas

New Orleans by Lisa Jackson

1. Hot Blooded
2. Cold Blooded
3. The Night Before
4. Shiver
5. Absolute Fear
6. Lost Souls
7. Malice
8. Devious

Jack Reacher by Lee Child

1. Killing Floor
2. Die Trying
3. Tripwire
4. Running Blind
5. Echo Burning
6. Without Fail
7. Persuader
8. The Enemy
9. One Shot
10. The Hard Way
11. Bad Luck and Trouble
12. Nothing To Lose
13. Gone Tomorrow
14. 61 Hours
15. Worth Dying For
16. The Affair
17. Second Son

Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R.Ward

1. Dark Lover
2. Lover Eternal
3. Lover Awakened
4. Lover Revealed
5. Lover Unbound
6. Lover Enshrined
7. Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story
8. Lover Avenged
9. Lover Mine
10. Lover Unleashed
11. Lover Reborn

Southern Vampire-Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris

1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead In Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead To The World
5. Dead As A Doornail
6. Definitely Dead
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead To Worse
9. Dead and Gone
10. A Touch of Dead
11. Dead In The Family
12. Dead Reckoning
13. Deadlocked

Alex Cross by James Patterson

1. Along Came A Spider
2. Kiss The Girls
3. Jack and Jill
4. Cat and Mouse
5. Pop Goes The Weasel
6. Roses Are Red
7. Violets Are Blue
8. Four Blind Mice
9. The Big Bad Wolf
10. London Bridges
11. Mary Mary
12. Cross
13. Double Cross
14. Cross Country
15. Alex Cross Trial
16. Alex Cross
17. Cross Fire
18. Kill Alex Cross
19. Merry Christmas Alex Cross
20. Free Alex Cross

The Harper Connelly Mysteries by Charlaine Harris

1. Grave Sight
2. Grave Surprise
3. An Ice Cold Grave
4. Grave Secret

Women's Murder Club by James Patterson

1. 1st To Die
2. 2nd Chance
3. 3rd Degree
4. 4th of July
5. 5th Horseman
6. 6th Target
7. 7th Heaven
8. The 8th Confession
9. The 9th Judgement
10. 10th Anniversary
11. 11th Hours

The Dresden File Series by Jim Butcher

1. Storm Front
2. Fool Moon
3. Grave Peril
4. Summer Knight
5. Death Masks
6. Blood Rites
7. Dead Beat
8. Proven Guilty
9. White Night
10. Small Favor
11. Turn Coat
12. Changes
13. Ghost Story

Grant County by Karin Slaughter

1. Blindsighted
2. Kisscut
3. A Faint Cold Fear
4. Indelible
5. Faithless
6. Beyond Reach
7. Undone
8. Broken

Rachel Mogans-The Hollows by Kim Harrison

1. Dead Witch Walking
2. The Good, The Bad, and The Undead
3. Undead In The Garden of Good And Evil
4. Every Which Way But Dead
5. A Fistful of Charms
6. Dirty Magic
7. For A Few Demons More
8. The Bridges of Eden Park
9. Two Ghosts For Sister Rachel
10. The Outlaw Demon Wails
11. The Bespelled
12. White Witch, Black Curse
13. Ley Line Drifter
14. Black Magic Sanction
15. Pale Demon
16. A Perfect Blood

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles by Tess Gerritsen

1. The Surgeon
2. The Apprentice
3. The Sinner
4. Body Double
5. Vanish
6. The Mephisto Club
7. The Keepsake
8. Ice Cold
9. The Silent Girl
10. Freaks

The Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich

1. One For The Money
2. Two For The Dough
3. Three To Get Deadly
4. Four To Score
5. High Five
6. Hot Six
7. Seven Up
8. Hard Eight
9. Visions of Sugar Plums
10. To The Nines
11. Ten Big Ones
12. Eleven On Top
13. Twelve Sharp
14. Plum Lovin'
15. Lean Mean Thirteen
16. Plum Lucky
17. Fearless Fourteen
18. Plum Spooky
19. "Finger Lickin'" Fifteen
20. Sizzling Sixteen
21. Smokin' Seventeen
22. Explosive Eighteen

The Scarpetta Series by Patrician Cornwell

1. Postmortem
2. Body of Evidence
3. All That Remains
4. Cruel and Unusual
5. The Body Farm
6. From Potter's Field
7. Cause Of Death
8. Unnatural Exposure
9. Point of Origin
10. Black Notice
11. The Last Precienct
12. Blow Fly
13. Trace
14. Predator
15. Book Of The Dead
16. Scarpetta
17. The Scarpetta Factor
18. Port Mortuary
19. Red Mist

Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

1. City of Bones
2. City of Ashes
3. City of Glass
4. City of Fallen Angels
5. City of Lost Souls
6. City of Heavenly Fire

This sounds like the perfect challenge for me! I'm going to give this a try and hopefully I didn't overdo it. I have a tendency to do that and then can't read all the books.

I'm going to try and do all these challenges between
November 1 - Whenever

Complete 5 Series:

The Millennium Triology by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

The Harper Connelly Mysteries by Charlaine Harris
Grave Surprise 12-19
An Ice Cold Grave 9-1-13
Grave Secret 05-19-2014

Mortal Instrument by Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels 9/12/14
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire

Women's Murder Club by James Patterson
2nd Chance 05-10-2014
3rd Degree 06/28/14
4th of July
5th Horseman
6th Target
7th Heaven
The 8th Confession
The 9th Judgement
10th Anniversary
11th Hour
12th Of Never

Christopher Paget by Richard North Patterson
Degree of Guilt 02-18-2014
Eyes of a Child
Conviction


Read 2 1,000 + books
Under The Dome by Stephen King 6-14
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Read 5 of the Oldest TBR books
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 1/30
Vanishing Act's by Jodi Picoult 04-27-2014
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag
Dark Horse by Tami Hoag

Read 5 Wishlist Books (This is on my Paperbackswap website):
Sun Going Down by Jack Todd
Drood by Dan Simmons
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Treatment by Mo Hayder
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

I'm doing The Love Bug

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Duration: November 1 - December 31, 2012
Read: 4/10


T: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 12/25
H: Haven by Kay Hooper 11/4
E: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Main Character: Emma Garnet 12/03

L: Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward 11/11
O: Forever Odd by Dean Koontz: main character Odd Thomas 11/14
V: Velocity by Dean Koontz 12/14
E: The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mithch Albom: Main Character Eddie 12/4

B: The Blue Notebook 11/22
U: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 12/30
G: Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris 12/19

I started this group at the beginning of the year but I had a to study for my boards so didn't get as much reading in as I wanted to but passed my boards and now I'm back. I thought this would be a good challenge to get me going again. I want to google some movies first before I commit to one. Will be back with my choice.

I'm going to try this one also. Karla if I couldn't use the same book for multiple challenges I would not be able to do all the challenges either. I'll start this challenge March 1, 2012


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I completed 3 out of 8 for Aquarius. I could have probably finished it if I had not read The Girl Who Played With Fire. Let's see what I can do for Pisces.

PISCES 2/20 - 3/19

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