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All About You, Part One!
All About You Challenge 2012Start Date: February 1st, 2012
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 4: Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
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Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
Month 7February 2012
Read 4 books by favorite authors
1. Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon
2. Lord John And The Brotherhood Of The Blade by Diana Gabaldon
3. Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas
4. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
NBRC: All About You
Month 5
My Favorite Flower: • Daffodil
8/8 - Done!
D. - ✔ Daybreak, by Ellen Connor ★★★✩✩ Kindle 1/18 “buddy read”
A. - ✔ And Only to Deceive, by Tasha Alexander ★★★★✩ Kindle 1/30 “buddy read”
F. - ✔ Friday Harbor, #2 - Rainshadow Road, by Lisa Kleypas ★★★★★ PB-AVR 1/27
F. - ✔ Flavia de Luce Mystery #1 -
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley ★★★★★ OD audio 1/14
O. - ✔ The Other Guy's Bride, by Connie Brockway ★★★★½ audible.com 1/22
D. - ✔ Darynda Jones = Second Grave on the Left ★★★ ✩✩ OD audio 1/21
I. - ✔ Ilona Andrews = On the Edge ★★★★★ PB 1/21
L. - ✔ Lover Eternal, by J.R. Ward ★★★★✩ OneClickAudio 1/27 “buddy read”
NBRC: All About YouMonth 6
Country I'd Like to Visit: • Greece, Australia, Egypt, Brussels
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Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer (PB)
Hester Waring's Marriage, by Paula Marshall (PB)
The Curse of the Pharaohs, by Elizabeth Peters (OneClickAudio)
The Bride Wore Scarlet, by Liz Carlyle (PB)
All About You Challenge 2012Start Date: February 1st, 2012
Because this challenge is all about you, you can choose the order, you can trade out one monthly challenge for one you create, or you can substitute the sign or gem you wish you had for the one that is yours. Just let this challenge reflect the uniqueness of you, because this challenge is, after all, All About You.
This sounds like a fun challenge and I'm posting the challenge info/requirements in one place to help me keep better track of it.
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
N - ✔Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (02/05/12)
O - ✔One for the Money - Janet Evanovich (02/15/12)
V - ✔Vision in White - Nora Roberts (02/21/12)
E - ✔Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (05/17/12)
M - ✔Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (03/10/12)
B - ✔Beach Music - Pat Conroy (04/22/12)
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
T - ✔To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (05/08/12)
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P - ✔P.S. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern (04/22/12)
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Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge)
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Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
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Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with a child as a principal character.
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
✔The Wednesday Letters - Jason F. Wright (02/08/12)
✔11/22/63 - Stephen King (04/03/12)
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
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M - ✔Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction - Marni Mann (06/04/12)
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F - ✔The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon (08/14/12)
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P.S. If you want a specific part of the challenge to last longer than a month or shorter it's up to you. You decide. No pressure. It's just for fun:)
February: Month 12: Read your favorite Crush's name!READ: 11/11
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JANUARY: Read More than Usual 30/30 complete
DECEMBER: Favorite Authors - 3/3 complete
NOVEMBER: Young Adult - 4/4 complete
OCTOBER: 3 New Authors - 2/3 complete
SEPTEMBER: paranormal genre 4/4 COMPLETE
AUGUST: DRAGON 6/6 COMPLETE
JULY: Capricorn - 9/9 COMPLETE
JUNE: Garnet - 6/6 COMPLETE
MAY: January - 7/7 COMPLETE
All About You Challenge
Duration: August 2011 to July 2012
✔ MONTH 1: August, 2011 My Birthday Month - AUGUST
✔ MONTH 2: September, 2011 My Birthstone - PERIDOT
✔ MONTH 3: October, 2011 My Starsign - VIRGO
*BREAK IN NOVEMBER, 2011*
✔ MONTH 4: December, 2011 My Chinese Zodiac Sign - HORSE
✔ MONTH 5: January, 2012 Read 4 Books set in SCOTLAND
MONTH 6: February, 2012 Read 4 Books in Favourite Genre- PARANORMAL ROMANCE
1. Covet by J.R. Ward
2. Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
3. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
4. Queen of Dragons by Shana Abé
Completed Months:1-8, 10-12. Last month of this challenge. One of my favorites. Can't wait to start part duexMonth 9: (of my own devising because I have a new job this year and I cannot even come close to reading more than I have in the previous few months): Read at least 5 books from series already on progress.
1. Parasol protectorate Series:
2. Thursday Next Series:
3. Dark Swan Series:
4. Highlander Series:
5. Chronicles of Narnia Series:
6. Dark Hunter Series*: Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
7. Weather Warden Series: Heat Stroke by Rachel Caine
* I didn't know there was a book 0 when I started the series
Duration 1/1/12 to 12/31/12Month 1: Read your Birthday Month
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Month 2: Read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone (Diamond)
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Month 3: Read your sign
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Month 5: Read books set in a country you'd like to visit
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Month 6: Read books from your favorite genre
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Month 7: Read books with your child or a friend
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√ Month 8: Read books written by some of your favorite authors (January 2012)
Month 9: Exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month (February 2012)
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Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods
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Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
All About You Challenge
Duration: August 2011 to July 2012
MONTH 6: February, 2012 Read 4 Books in Favourite Genre- PARANORMAL ROMANCE
2/4 complete
2. Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
4. Queen of Dragons by Shana Abé
I have a question about this challenge which I'm gonna love but need to know something before I get too far into it. I have an excel schedule that I've set up books I want to read each month to meet several different challenges. Question is - if one of those books doesn't fit say the first month that I've started working on for this challenge but it will fit another month, can I put it there or do you just work on one month at a time.
Sharon wrote: "I have a question..."Sharon, I'll check with Lisarenee, who designed it. I believe she will be off-line this evening. However, someone will get back to you, alright?
Sharon you can do this one anyway you like. It's meant to be fun and not something you need to stress over for dates or do it in any particular order. Take as much time as you need and do it in any order you like. The only real rule is to have fun. So yes, you can hop around and fill in what you like when you like. Hopefully that answers your question. :)
Thanks so much for the quick reply. I started to question whether I should have started this one since I don't get to read as much as everyone else seems to in the group. My father, who is 87, had some medical issues in Jan and now into Feb. which makes my reading sporadic, along with working FT but this seemed like a cool challenge so I will concentrate on one month at a time unless something just won't fit and then sneak it in where it will work:) Thanks so much!! This is a really cool group.
Finally finished last months LOL I figure it's alright, since it is "all about me" :D Now, on to this month!NBRC - All About You Challenge
Duration Nov, 2011-Oct, 2012
Month 1 - November: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
5/5 completed!
MARCH
Read:
Month 2 - December: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
AQUAMARINE
There's no way I would be able to spell that out in a month, so I'm reading 3 or 4 books with that color cover :)
3/3 COMPLETED!!
Month 3 - January Read your sign (Spell it out challenge) Pisces
6/6 COMPLETED!
PThe Perfect Play by Jaci Burton
I in Death series #2 Glory in Death by JD Robb
S Sally MacKenzie - The Naked King
C Chase, Loretta - Lord of Scoundrels
E Elizabeth Hoyt - The Raven Prince
S Stolls, Amy - The Ninth Wife
Month 4 - February: Read your favorite color (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 with that color cover
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Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
I didn't even think of it, Lisa Kay! LOL
I may have to use it this month, and I only have four books! That is b/c I can't find one of them. Drat! Where did I put that book.
✔February 2012Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
✔March 2012
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Jenna's Cowboy: A Novel Buddy Read with Dena
Sarah's Key Buddy Read with Janice
The Nanny Diaries BOM
✔April 2012
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
✔May 2012
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge)
P Perfect
I It Could Happen Again
G- Glass
✔June 2012
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1. I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
2. Radianceby Alyson Noel
3. Can't Get There from Here byTodd Strasser
4. The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
✔July 2012
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
Covers that match color of birthstone- Peridot- various ugly shades of light green
1. Slumming
2. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: A Novel
3. Flutter
✔August 2012
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
T-Trapped
A-Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
C-Chains
O-Out of the Dust
S-Speak
✔September 2012
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
September- I have been reading about 27 books a month, but I am trying to get back to my norm of about 30-35. This month I read 30 (40 if you include the Dr.Suess books I had to read for a challenge in the CCC group)
✔October 2012
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
A-Amanda Hocking/Wisdom
U-Unleashed
G-Gayle Forman/Where She Went
U-Up a Road Slowly
S-Straight from the Heart
T-Turtle in Paradise
✔October 2012
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
L-Laini Taylor/Daughter of Smoke and Bone
E-Emergency Room
O-The Outsiders
✔October 2012
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
I am changing this one. Since joining GR I have started reading different genres and found some new favorites so I am going to read 3-4 books in some of my new favorite genres.
Time Travel
1. Kindred
2. Both Sides of Time
Steampunk
1. Dearly, Departed
✔October 2012
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
I don't have a favorite book crush so I am changing this one to read 3/4 books from my favorite holiday ☺
1. An Angel for Christmas
2. Fallen Angel: A Novel
3. The Christmas Wedding
✔October 2012
Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
R-Rumble Fish
O-Olive's Ocean
S-Shattering Glass
E-E. Lockhart/The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
February:Completed 2/2 DONE!
1. Read a book whose author lives in the state/county/province/country you were born in. Wisconsin
2. Read a book whose author lives in the state/county/province/country you are currently living in. Michigan
This completes the challenge for me!
March: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Historical Romance:
April: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Lisa Kleypas
1.When Strangers Marry 4/11/11
2. Only With Your Love 4/12/11
Candace Camp
3.The Wedding Challenge 4/4/11
4. An Affair Without End 4/13/11
May: Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge)
L-Lucky Streak : Carly Phillips 5/11/11
I-Ione, Larissa : Eternal Rider 5/17/11
L- A Little Harmless Sex : Melissa Schroeder 5/4/11
Y-You Slay Me : Katie MacAlister 5/9/11
June: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge) Completed 9/9
July: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
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4. Grace Burrowes - The Heir 8/4/11
August: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
Completed 11/11
September: Read your Birthday Month
Completed 3/3
DONE!
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October: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
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November: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Completed 6/6 DONE!
December: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge)
Completed 3/3 DONE!
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January: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit (England)
Completed 5/5 DONE!
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NBRC: All About YouMonth 6
Country I'd Like to Visit: • Greece, Australia, Egypt, Brussels
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✔ Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer ★★★★½ PB 2/18
Mistress for a Weekend, by Susan Napier (Kindle) - currently reading
The Curse of the Pharaohs, by Elizabeth Peters (OneClickAudio)
The Bride Wore Scarlet, by Liz Carlyle (PB)
NBRC - All About You ChallengeDuration Nov, 2011-Oct, 2012
Month 1 - November: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
5/5 completed!
MARCH
Read:
Month 2 - December: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
AQUAMARINE
There's no way I would be able to spell that out in a month, so I'm reading 3 or 4 books with that color cover :)
3/3 COMPLETED!!
Month 3 - January Read your sign (Spell it out challenge) Pisces
6/6 COMPLETED!
PThe Perfect Play by Jaci Burton
I in Death series #2 Glory in Death by JD Robb
S Sally MacKenzie - The Naked King
C Chase, Loretta - Lord of Scoundrels
E Elizabeth Hoyt - The Raven Prince
S Stolls, Amy - The Ninth Wife
Month 4 - February: Read your favorite color (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 with that color cover. My favorite color is RED
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Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
I somehow forgot to post January and February. JANUARY (Month 12): Read your favorite Book Crush's name
CURRAN 6/6 DONE!
FEBRUARY (Month 1): Read your Birthday MonthMAY 3/3 DONE!!
Thanks Lisa Kay. It was a short one this month.
Managed to finish, and ahead of schedule too!February (Month 12): Read your favorite Book Crush's name
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Completed
March (Month 1): Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge): Pearl
completed 5/5
April (Month 2): Read your sign (Spell it out challenge): Cancer
completed: 6/6
May (Month 3): Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge): Orchid
Completed: 5/6
June (Month 4): Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
completed 1/4
July (Month 5): Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Scotland ~
completed 1/3
August (Month 6): Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre: Romance
completed 5/5
September (Month 7): Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend - Buddy reads with Lisa & CaroB
Completed: 4/4
October (Month 8): Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
completed 3/3
November (Month 9): Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
completed: 1/4
December: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
GOAL: 15
completed 19/15
January (Month 11): Read one of your favorite foods ~ Dahl
completed: 4/4
Sans wrote: "Managed to finish, and ahead of schedule too!"Congrats, Sans!
Thanks, Lisa! I don't think I'm going to sign up for any new challenges in March. I need to get back into our buddy reads. I never did find my copy of Kiss of Fire. Must be in the garage somewhere. >_<
Sans wrote: "Thanks, Lisa! I don't think I'm going to sign up for any new challenges in March. I need to get back into our buddy reads. I never did find my copy of Kiss of Fire. Must be in the garage somewhere...."That's okay, Sans. (view spoiler)
Great, Jennifer! Welcome to the challenge.
NBRC - All About You ChallengeDuration Nov, 2011-Oct, 2012
Month 1 - November: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
5/5 completed!
MARCH
Read:
Month 2 - December: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
AQUAMARINE
There's no way I would be able to spell that out in a month, so I'm reading 3 or 4 books with that color cover :)
3/3 COMPLETED!!
Month 3 - January Read your sign (Spell it out challenge) Pisces
6/6 COMPLETED!
PThe Perfect Play by Jaci Burton
I in Death series #2 Glory in Death by JD Robb
S Sally MacKenzie - The Naked King
C Chase, Loretta - Lord of Scoundrels
E Elizabeth Hoyt - The Raven Prince
S Stolls, Amy - The Ninth Wife
Month 4 - February: Read your favorite color (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 with that color cover. My favorite color is RED
3/3 COMPLETED!!
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
Mini congrats, Susan! Another month down. ☺
All About You Challenge
Duration: August 2011 to July 2012
MONTH 6: February, 2012 Read 4 Books in Favourite Genre- PARANORMAL ROMANCE
3/4 complete
2. Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
Completed Months:1-8, 10-12. Last month of this challenge. One of my favorites. Can't wait to start part duexMonth 9: (of my own devising because I have a new job this year and I cannot even come close to reading more than I have in the previous few months): Read at least 5 books from series already on progress.
1. Parasol protectorate Series:
2. Thursday Next Series:
3. Dark Swan Series:
4. Highlander Series:
5. Chronicles of Narnia Series:
6. Dark Hunter Series*:
7. Weather Warden Series:
* I didn't know there was a book 0 when I started the series
Well the "O" worked out for you didn't, Amy? LOL! Well mini congrats, Amy! Another month down.
NBRC: All About YouCurrently working on: Month 6
NBRC: All About You
Month 6
Country I'd Like to Visit: • Greece, New Zealand, Egypt, France
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✔ Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer ★★★★½ PB 2/18
✔Mistress for a Weekend, by Susan Napier ★★★★★ Kindle 2/20
The Curse of the Pharaohs, by Elizabeth Peters (OneClickAudio)
✔ The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, by Lauren Willig ★★★★✩ audible.com 2/7 “buddy read”
I finished Month 8 and getting ready for a new month on the first : ) ....Is it March yet LOL
LOL! It will be soon enough, Robin. Don't hurry the month as I have a few holes in my challenges, LOL!
LOL I am feeling that with ya...I am still trying to finish some books for Feb challenges that I have in other groups LOL I think I am so anxious because I am lining up my March reads : )
Month 7February 2012
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Duration: August 2011 to July 2012
✔MONTH 5: January, 2012 Read 4 Books set in SCOTLAND
4/4 complete
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If You Deceive by Kresley Cole★★★ 16-01-122.
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley★★★★ 05-01-123.
Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning★★ 29-01-124.
One Night in Scotland by Karen Hawkins★★★ 27-01-12