Keely’s Comments (group member since Aug 30, 2013)

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Mix 'N Match Alphabet Challenge
Level: Eclectic Taste = All 26 letters of the alphabet
Duration: 1st November 2018 to 5th July 2022

Challenges used:
- Animal Alphabet
- Farm To Table
- What's your Major?
- Yoga & Meditation
- Herbs and Spices

Completed:
Letters: 26/26
Books: 186/186

A (9/9)
✔A - Angels & Demons 5/1/19
✔L - The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part Two 5/11/18
✔L - The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part Three 5/11/18
✔I - It's Not Summer Without You 13/3/20
✔G - The Grim Grotto 5/11/19
✔A - The Austere Academy 23/11/18
✔T - Tomorrow Most Likely 2/9/19
✔O - Othello 18/11/18
✔R - The Rescued Kitten 30/1/20

B (7/7)
✔B - The Book of Dragons 5/12/18
✔U - The Unicorn 19/2/20
✔F - Fifty Shades of Grey 12/11/18
✔F - Fifty Shades Darker 19/2/19
✔A - The Alchemist 14/4/19
✔L - Little Wolf's Postbag 30/7/19
✔O - Ozma of Oz 13/1/20

C (3/3)
✔C - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 24/1/19
✔A - A Small Part of Me 18/8/19
✔T - The Third Wish 17/3/19

D (4/4)
✔D - The Diary of a Young Girl 12/12/18
✔O - Organization Hacks: Over 350 Simple Solutions to Organize Your Home in No Time! 27/1/20
✔J - Josie Under Fire 6/9/19
✔O - Owned 1/6/20

E (7/7)
✔E - The Ersatz Elevator 10/12/18
✔N - Northern Lights 27/12/18
✔G - The Gruffalo 8/12/19
✔L - The Lightning Thief 23/3/19
✔I - I Am A Hero アイアムアヒーロー, Vol. 22 14/11/18
✔S - The Subtle Knife 2/3/19
✔H - How to Write a Brilliant CV: What Employers Want to See and How to Write it 19/11/18

F (5/5)
✔F - Fifty Shades Freed 29/11/19
✔A - A Kitten Called Tiger 26/2/20
✔I - The Interview 5/7/20
✔T - 拷問トーナメント１ (Torture Tornament Vol. 1) 21/6/19
✔H - The Hostile Hospital 24/2/19

G (6/6)
✔G - The Gruffalo's Child 23/12/19
✔A - The Amber Spyglass 18/10/19
✔R - The Return of the King 11/2/20
✔L - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 9/8/19
✔I - Inside Her 19/8/20
✔C - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 2/2/19

H (7/7)
✔H - The Holocaust 25/7/19
✔I - Isadora Moon Goes to the Fair 12/11/20
✔S - The Sea of Monsters 12/6/19
✔T - Tomorrow, When the War Began 23/8/19
✔O - The Owl Tree 11/9/20
✔R - The Road to Oz 1/4/20
✔Y - Yes No Maybe So 16/3/21

I (9/9)
✔I - Isadora Moon Goes Camping 7/11/20
✔N - Never Enough 14/10/19
✔T - Titanic 23/7/19
✔E - Emerging, Tome 2 17/9/19
✔N - Nursery Rhymes: A Treasure Chest of Rhymes 6/12/19
✔S - The Slippery Slope 3/9/19
✔I - Isadora Moon Has a Birthday 8/11/20
✔V - Voices from the Holocaust: First-hand Accounts from the Frontline of History 21/1/19
✔E - The End 31/12/19

J (8/8)
✔J - James and the Giant Peach 30/5/20
✔A - Allure: State Of Desire 15/11/19
✔L - Little Women 19/9/19
✔A - Adolf Hitler: A Life From Beginning to End 25/11/19
✔P - The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 21/2/19
✔E - Euphoria 6/6/20
✔N - Nights of Sin 5/1/20
✔O - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 22/6/20

K (5/5)
✔K - The Kite Runner 9/11/18
✔O - The Opal Deception 15/7/20
✔A - Avatar: The Last Airbender: Imbalance, Part Three 23/10/19
✔L - Les Misérables 1/11/19
✔A - Artemis Fowl 30/12/19

L (5/5)
✔L - The Last Don 5/12/19
✔E - The Eternity Code 12/6/20
✔M - My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 10/1/19
✔U - Untamed 23/8/20
✔R - Remember, Remember 3/5/20

M (11/11)
✔M - The Magician's Nephew 7/7/19
✔A - All's Well That Ends Well 18/3/20
✔T - Touch Me 20/9/19
✔H - How it Works: The Baby 9/12/19
✔E - Each Peach Pear Plum 16/6/20
✔M - The Marvelous Land of Oz 29/11/19
✔A - A Little Princess 12/6/20
✔T - Tears of the Silenced 17/10/19
✔I - Isadora Moon Goes to School 3/11/20
✔C - The Charm Bracelet 4/2/19
✔S - Stolen Jewels: Royal Sweets 3 8/9/19

N (4/4)
✔N - Norse Mythology 2/11/20
✔E - Exposure 13/10/20
✔W - What Katy Did 8/5/19
✔T - The Turn of the Screw 17/12/19

O (4/4)
✔O - Oz: The Complete Collection 5/9/20
✔K - King of Thorn, Vol. 1 31/3/19
✔R - Rinkitink in Oz 17/8/20
✔A - A Midsummer Night's Dream 3/8/20

P (7/7)
✔P - Prescribed 26/6/19
✔A - The Arctic Incident 14/4/20
✔P - Pride and Prejudice 16/9/19
✔R - The Rhyming Rabbit 23/11/20
✔I - Isadora Moon Goes on a School Trip 11/11/20
✔K - Kieli, Vol. 1 17/6/19
✔A - A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow 3/8/20

Q (9/9)
✔Q - 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks 4/10/20
✔U - Unforgettable 26/4/21
✔I - Isadora Moon Has a Sleepover 14/11/20
✔E - Evie in the Jungle 17/10/20
✔T - The Two Towers 5/2/20

✔T - The Truth 31/1/20
✔I - Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide 11/11/20
✔M - My Sister's Keeper 7/11/19
✔E - Emma 23/4/21

R (9/9)
✔R - A Room with a View 30/12/20
✔A - A Killing Frost 3/8/20
✔S - Secretary 19/10/19
✔P - The Penultimate Peril 11/12/19
✔B - The Beach 10/1/20
✔E - Eragon 6/11/21
✔R - Ruby Finds a Worry 24/9/21
✔R - Rock My World 3/11/21
✔Y - Yorick and Bones 4/9/21

S (10/10)
✔S - Schindler's List 15/2/20
✔A - Animal Farm 31/8/20
✔L - Little Miss Princess 9/12/19
✔A - Adults 19/10/20
✔M - The Marvelous Land of Oz 29/11/19
✔A - The Abominable Snowman: A Short Story from Dragons at Crumbling Castle 22/10/20
✔N - Naughty 5/5/21
✔D - Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink 18/11/19
✔E - Equal Rites 10/6/21
✔R - Ravaged 11/8/21

T (6/6)
✔T - Too Close to Home 17/2/20
✔U - Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career 29/11/21
✔R - It's Raining Cats & Dogs 26/11/21
✔N - Nice And Rough 13/9/21
✔I - Isadora Moon Gets in Trouble 19/11/20
✔P - Pleasure 13/11/19

U (13/13)
✔U - Underwriting 5/7/22
✔L - The Ladybird Book of The Quiet Night In 9/12/19
✔T - The Titan's Curse 22/2/20
✔I - Isadora Moon Puts on a Show 21/11/20
✔M - Mr. Bump 13/12/19
✔A - The Alice Network 27/11/20
✔T - Twelfth Night 16/3/20
✔E - The Elves and the Shoemaker based on Grimm's Fairy Tales: Forever Classics 5/7/22

✔T - The Tale of Peter Rabbit 20/2/20
✔R - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 11/5/20
✔U - Ultra Maniac, Vol. 05 3/11/18
✔T - Tak-Tak! 23/4/20
✔H - How it Works: The Sister 10/12/19

V (20/20)
✔V - The Vile Village 16/1/19
✔E - Eternal Truths 5/7/22
✔T - The Taming of the Shrew 3/6/20
✔E - Equanimity 5/7/22
✔R - Roots 1/12/21
✔I - Isadora Moon Makes Winter Magic 23/11/20
✔N - Night Critters Play 11/11/21
✔A - A Day in a Forested Wetland 4/12/20
✔R - Rebecca 3/4/22
✔Y - You Are Here 5/7/22

✔T - The Two Gentlemen of Verona 6/6/20
✔E - Eldest 27/02/22
✔C - The Carnivorous Carnival 22/4/19
✔H - How it Works: The Brother 14/12/19
✔N - Northanger Abbey 21/01/2022
✔O - The Other Side of Dawn 22/4/21
✔L - The Ladybird Book of The New You 13/12/19
✔O - Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants 18/01/2022
✔G - Grimm's Fairy Tales 3/2/20
✔Y - You May Already Be a Winner 8/11/20

W (6/6)
✔W - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 13/6/19
✔I - Isadora Moon Goes to the Ballet 7/11/20
✔S - Stone Soup 23/4/20
✔D - Devotion: Book One 27/10/19
✔O - Old Tom 25th Anniversary Edition 25/10/20
✔M - The Metamorphosis 16/1/20

X (6/6)
✔X - X-Day, Volume 1 26/10/20
✔A - The Ant and the Butterfly 4/12/20
✔N - The Night Is for Hunting 14/3/21
✔T - The Tiny Seed 3/7/20
✔U - The Ugly Duckling 5/7/22
✔S - Stinky Winky Silly Willy Off-key Donkey: A Fun Rhyming Animal Bedtime Book For Kids 24/4/20

Y (3/3)
✔Y - Yurayura, Yureru 20/2/19
✔A - A Piglet Named Mercy 16/6/20
✔K - Kidnapped 15/6/20

Z (3/3)
✔Z - The Zoo 6/4/20
✔E - The Emerald City of Oz 20/4/20
✔N - Norwegian by Night 29/6/20

I will use some manga for this, but I will only add one volume per series (probably the first or last).

I would like to try and read 12 books from the list over the next year. These will be ones that are already on my TBR list so it would actually help me read some.

Challenge dates:
7th October 2018 - 6th October 2019

My List:
1. Life of Pi (Finished 16/10/18)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Finished 16/9/19)
3. Little Women (Finished 19/9/19)
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Animal Farm
7. Great Expectations
8. Catch-22
9. Oliver Twist
10. The War of the Worlds
11. Lady Chatterley's Lover
12. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
13. The Handmaid's Tale
14. Les Misérables

I finally finished a book on my list that I worked so hard to finish this year. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia is one that I started reading a few years ago but then life got in the way and I forgot about it, but I vowed to finish it this year and I did. This now marks my 15th book completed off my list.

I should finish A Clash of Kings either today or tomorrow with was another one on my list I've worked hard to finish. I should easily reach my goal of 20 books this year, but there will be some on my list that get carried over to next year.

I just finished book 12 The Fault in Our Stars. I hadn’t originally planned to read it this year, but it’s another book off my TBR list nonetheless.

I finished book 11 yesterday which was Crazy as Chocolate by Elisabeth Hyde which was different from what I was expecting, but not necessarily in a bad way.
I have now read most of the shorter books on my list so the rest may take a while to get through, but I still hope to reach my goal of 20.

Last night I finished Kings and Queens of England which I have been reading for at least 3 years (on and off of course) so I am very glad to have finished it. I also have another big history book that I've been reading for years and plan to finish this year, but that won't be till much later this year. Book 10 finished and off my list.

I finished 2 books on my list today. The first was The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook which I was reading on my phone through the Kindle app. I really enjoyed this one and gave it 4 stars.
The second book was Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. Now this one I actually started in 2013, but got fed up with it and also uni was happening so I put it down half read and only just picked it up again. I gave it 3 stars only because it had me interested for the last 100-150 pages. I initially wasn't planning on reading Breaking Dawn this year, but I think I will just to get the series finished.

I've fallen back into old habits and I now have about 7 books on the go at once. I rotate what I read depending on how I feel that day or depending on the circumstances. For instance, I have a couple of history books that I will read a topic or two of most days and on my kindle app on my phone I have The Life of Pi which I will read if I'm out and about or find myself bored at work with some free time.
Hopefully I will finish serveral books very close together. I am planning to finish one or two (maybe three) before I go away at the end of the month.

So far I have completed 2 books this month. About a week ago I finished A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which I gave 3 stars to and today I finished The Secret by Kathryn Hughes which I gave 5 stars to.
I have also changed my challenge to 20 books (originally it was 10) as I have now finished 5 books on my TBR list which was half of my original goal and we aren't even halfway through March yet!

I was unable to read as much as I wanted to this month as I was abroad and due to the unexpected misfortune of missing a flight, I had to stay there a few days extra (which wasn't too bad in the end) and then being busy at work since I got back. I made progress on a few books and just finished one, however it seems unlikely that I will finish another this month.

The book I just finished was The Cats of Moon Cottage by Marilyn Edwards and I gave it 4 stars (if I could it would be 4 1/2 stars).

I finished my second book a few days ago, but now is the only time I've had to make this post. I finished The Hobbit earlier this month which I really hoped I would enjoy, but honestly, I didnt.
The book I finished a few days ago was 1984 which I enjoyed overall, I found the middle dragged a little.

I really like the idea of this challenge and after having looked at my TBR and the amount of books I added when I first joined, I feel like I really need to do this. I'm only going to go with books I have access to and initially challenge myself to 10. These will be books I added in 2012.
*Edit*
I'm changing my goal to 20 as not even halfway through March, I had completed 5 books and I know that a couple of books on my list will not take very long to read at all.

26/20

1. Pride and Prejudice
✔2. The Diary of a Young Girl (Finished 12/12/18)
3. Catch-22
4. A Small Part of Me
5. Angels & Demons
6. Little Women
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray
8. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
✔9. The Tempest (Finished 22/4/18)
✔10. Othello (Finished 18/11/18)



✔11. A Christmas Carol (Finished 6/3/18)
✔12. The Kite Runner (Finished 9/11/18)
✔13. Nineteen Eighty-Four (Finished 30/1/18)
✔14. The Hobbit (Finished 12/1/18)
✔15. Life of Pi (Finished 16/10/18)
✔16. The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (Finished 28/5/18)
✔17. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (Finished 17/9/18)
18. The Lightning Thief
✔19. How to Train Your Dragon (Finished 27/8/18)
✔20. Eclipse (Finished 17/4/18)
✔21. Breaking Dawn (Finished 9/10/18)
✔22. Crazy as Chocolate (Fininshed 1/6/18)
✔23. The Book of Dragons (Finished 5/12/18)
✔24. Northern Lights (Finished 27/12/18)



Originally I was going to keep this to just the books I had added in 2012, but I think I am going to read a couple added later.

2013:
1. City of Ashes
✔2. Fifty Shades of Grey (Finished 12/11/18)
✔3. The Fault in Our Stars (Finished 17/6/18)


2014:
✔1. A Clash of Kings (Finished 18/9/18)
✔2. The Book of Nature Myths (Finished 17/4/18)


2015:
✔1. The Cats of Moon Cottage (Finished 25/2/18)
✔2. Readerotica 50 - A Compilation of 50 Erotic Stories for Your eReader (Finished 21/6/18)


2016:
✔1. The Secret (Finished 11/3/18)


2017:
✔1. The Miserable Mill (Finished 25/4/18)
✔2. The Austere Academy (Finished 24/11/18)
✔3. The Ersatz Elevator (Finished 10/12/18)
4. Voices from the Holocaust: First-hand Accounts from the Frontline of History