Reading University Challenge

[Sanskriti]

Starting my way to the Associate Degree...

26 Aug '13

[Anima]

Bachelors completed :D

Bachelors Degree:
Major: Science
1. Dystopia The Selection ✔ 08/16/13 ****
2. SF First Shift: Legacy ✔ 08/25/13 *****
3. Dystopia Divergent ✔ 08/12/13 *****
4. Dystopia Insurgent ✔ 08/13/13 ****
5. Fantasy/paranormal The Gunslinger ✔ 08/15/13 ****
6. SF/paranormal Gameboard of the Gods ✔ 08/20/13 ****
7. Paranormal The Kingdom ✔ 08/24/13 ***
8. Dystopia Pure ✔ 08/12/13 ****
9. Fantasy Shadow and Bone ✔ 08/07/13 ****
10.Paranormal The Restorer ✔ 08/22/13 ***

Minor: History
1. Alternative history Goliath ✔ 08/25/13 ****
2. Alternative history Behemoth ✔ 08/21/13 ***
3. US history The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America ✔ 08/08/13 ****



And now I'm heading to Masters :)

[❀Tea❀]

Can I use midwife for Applied Science?

[Kristie]

Wow! Congrats Anima!! You completed that whole Bachelors in less than 3 weeks!! That's some power reading!

[Anima]

Thanks Kristie, I've been reading mainly for this challenge lately and some of the books were really quick reads, moreover I still have a holiday break, so I have some extra time to read. In October though the pace will definitely slow down as I start my studies and I will read more scheduled reads for the courses most probably. :) That is why I try to read as much as possible this month LOL

[Jex]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Can I use midwife for Applied Science?"

Yes

[Jex]

I've updated the done thread up to this point. Congrats to everyone that has completed a degree!

[Kirsten]

Sophie wrote: "I've finished my Bachelors degree!
Level: Masters Degree
Completed 20/45

Did you start right off with Bitten or did you read all the short stories/novellas that come before it?

[Laurie]

Associates Degree (7 books in all)
► Read 1 book from each core subject (7 books)

After completing your Associates, move on to get your Bachelors degree...

Bachelors Degree: (20 books in all)
► Choose a Major (read 10 books from any 1 subject)
► Choose a Minor (read 3 books from any 1 subject, not the same as your major)

After completing your Bachelor's Degree, you may decide you want to Master a specific topic...

Masters Degree: (35 books in all)
► Choose 1 core subject to master - read 3 books from each subcategory, read 3 books mixed and matched (any subcategory from that core group) (15 books)
♦ Note: Can choose the same or a different category from your bachelors degree

Already a Master? Why not get a Doctorate?

PHD: (45 books in all)
► Choose 1 subcategory from your Masters and read 10 books from that subcategory.


I'll start September 1st.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Finished my Associates Degree, but I think I will finish some other challenges before I move on!

[Anima]

Congrats, Karen :)

[Lisa Kay]

Welcome, Sanz and Laurie!

[Lisa Kay]

Congrats, Anima and Karen!

[Anima]

Thank you, Lisa Kay :)

[Midu]

Science:

Literature:
American Novel - ✔
European Novel
World Novel - literature genre set outside of North America and Europe or by an author from outside of North America and Europe
Graphic Novel/Manga - graphic novel or manga genre & at least 200 pages in length

History:

Social Science:

Art:
Fine Arts
Visual Arts - fiction or non-fiction book where a visual art piece(s) or a visual artist(s) plays a major role in the plot (if not obvious state how); visual art is defined here as dance, theater, and film
Music - fiction or non-fiction book where a musical piece(s) or a musician plays a major role in the plot (if not obvious state how)
Art History - fiction or non-fiction book set in ancient Greece or Rome

Language:

Athletics:
Baseball - fiction or non-fiction book about baseball or baseball player
Olympics
Cricket
Sports History - fiction or non-fiction historical book about any sport

[Sophie]

Kirsten wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I've finished my Bachelors degree!
Level: Masters Degree
Completed 20/45

Did you start right off with Bitten or did you read all the short stories/novellas that come before it?"

I started right off with Bitten!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Thanks ladies!

[Midu]

woohoo,Allison!

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo is right! Congrats, Allison!

[Riya]

Update from post 97!! I forgot to mention this, but I've finished both my Associates and my Bachelors degree! And I'm 7 books into reading the 15 books for my Masters.

[Lisa Kay]

Congrats times two then, Riya!

[Riya]

Haha thanks!! My Masters is definitely going to be a tough one, but hopefully I'll finish!!

[Lisa Kay]

I have every faith that you will, Riya.

[Riya]

Thanks Lisa!!

[Esther]

Start: 2013-08.28

Associates Degree
Science: Cold Days
Literature : The Golem and the Jinni
History : Jaune de Naples
Social Sciences:Child 44
Art:The Painted Girls
Language:La Nostalgie heureuse
Athletics:Murder at Fenway Park

[Lisa Kay]

Welcome to the challenge, Esther!

[❀Tea❀]

Jex wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "Can I use midwife for Applied Science?"

Yes"

Thanks. :D

Another one: shapeshifters for Life Science?

[Barbara ★]

I finished my Bachelors Degree...now onto the Masters.

Bachelors Degree: 13/13 COMPLETE

Major: History
1. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith (alternate history) 8/4
2. The Well of Shades - Juliet Marillier (set in Ireland/Scotland) 8/7
3. Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan (set in England) 8/8
4. The Temptation of Your Touch - Teresa Medeiros (set in England) 8/11
5. The Ugly Duchess - Eloisa James (set in England) 8/13
6. Scoundrel - Zoe Archer (set in Greece) 8/18
7. Unwanted - Kristina Ohlsson (set in Sweden) 8/21
8. Sandstorm - James Rollins (set in Oman) 8/26
9. The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters (set in Italy) 8/28
10. River of Eden - Glenna McReynolds (set in Brazil) 8/29


Minor: Language
1. Last Man Standing - Cindy Gerard (set in Africa/Sierra Leone) 8/5
2. Mutiny on the Bounty - John Boyne (set in Oceania/Tahiti) 8/20
3. The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog - Elizabeth Peters (set in Egypt) 8/13

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Congrats, Barbara★!

[[deleted user]]

Associates Degree Completed

Science: Timeline (science fiction) 14/07/13
Literature: Case Closed, Vol. 1 (graphic novel) 25/05/13
History: The Secret Keeper (European History) 17/05/13
Social Sciences: The Alienist (Psychology) 05/05/13
Art: My Story by Marilyn Monroe (Visual Arts) 05/05/13
Language: East of the Sun (indo-european - India) 21/08/13
Athletics: Olympic Follies: The Madness and Mayhem of the 1908 London Games: A Cautionary Tale (Olympics) 19/05/13

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Congrats to you, Pigletto!

[Kristina]

Started July 2013

Total: 37/45 complete

Associates Degree
Science:Insurgent COMPLETED July 8, 2013
Literature:Wuthering Heights COMPLETED August 19, 2013
History:Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln COMPLETED July 7, 2013
Social Sciences: The Bible of Unspeakable Truths COMPLETED August 3, 2013
Art: Selected Poems and Letters COMPLETED August 21, 2013
Language: Memoirs of a Geisha COMPLETED September 8, 2013
Athletics: The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal? COMPLETED August 30, 2013

Bachelors Degree:
Major: Literature
1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - COMPLETED 07/24/2014
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - COMPLETED 08/01/2014
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - COMPLETED 08/09/2014
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen - COMPLETED 08/16/2014
5. Light In August by William Faulkner -COMPLETED 08/25/2014
6. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - COMPLETED 9/10/2014
7. Watership Down by Richard Adams - COMPLETED 9/14/2014
8. The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton - COMPLETED 11/02/2014
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - COMPLETED 11/12/2014
10. Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James - COMPLETED 07/27/2014

Minor: History
1. Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit/ by Guy C. Fraker - COMPLETED 06/14/2014
2. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg - COMPLETED 07/19/2014
3.The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert - COMPLETED 07/24/2014

Master's Degree - Literature
American Novel:
1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - COMPLETED 05/07/2016
2. Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather - COMPLETED 01/22/2016
3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville - COMPLETED 02/10/2016

European Novel:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - COMPLETED 01/15/2016
2. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - COMPLETED 03/28/2016
3. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens - COMPLETED 02/26/2016

Graphic Novel:
1. One Punch Man by Yusuke Murata - COMPLETED 02/26/2016
2. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman - COMPLETED 12/30/2015
3. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki - COMPLETED 01/01/2016

World Novel:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - COMPLETED 12/23/2015
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - COMPLETED 06/01/2016
3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - COMPLETED 08/15/2016

Random:
1. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - COMPLETED 06/13/2016
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - COMPLETED 05/27/2016
3. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell - COMPLETED 08/29/2016

PHD - British Literature
1. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - COMPLETED 11/15/2016
3. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
5. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
6. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. Howards End by E.M. Forester
9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
10. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers - COMPLETED 09/11/2016

[Sophie]

I've finished my masters!
Level: PhD
Completed 45/45

Associates Degree 7/7
Science: The 5th Wave Science fiction (read 8/03)
Literature:Peter Pan (read 8/05)
History: The White Princess(read 7/27)
Social Science: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (read 8/03)
Art: The Sea of Tranquility(read 8/02)
Language: Stolen: A Letter to My Captor (read 7/29)
Athletics: Stealing Parker (read 8/05)

Bachelors Degree (13/13)

Major: Science (10/10)
1. Angelfall (read 8/23)
2. Seraphina (read 8/06)
3. Succubus Blues (read 8/08)
4. Son of the Shadows (read 8/06)
5. Obsession (read 8/07)
6. Bitten (read 8/11)
7. Omens (read 8/24)
8. The False Prince (read 8/11)
9. The Eternity Cure (read 8/08)
10. Eve and Adam (read 8/10)

Minor: History (3/3)
1. Belle Epoque (read 8/10)
2. The Garden Intrigue (read 8/09)
3. Changeless (read 8/17)

Masters Degree (15/15)

Earth Science: (3/3)
1. Elegy (read 8/26)
2. The Assassin's Curse (read 8/31)
3. The Pirate's Wish (read 9/1)

Science Fiction: (3/3)
1. Crown of Midnight (read 8/29)
2. Prodigy (read 9/3)
3. My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century read 9/5

Life Science: (3/3)
1. Briar's Book (read 8/26)
2. Poison (read 8/30)
3. Stolen (read 8/26)

Applied Science: (3/3)
1. Shadows Cast By Stars (read 9/7)
2. Defiance (read 9/6)
3. Partials (read 8/29)

Mix & Match: (3/3)
1. The Bitter Kingdom (read 8/31)
2. Iced (Dani O'Malley, #1) (read 8/31)
3. Renegade (read 9/7)

PhD Science Fiction (10/10)
1. Once We Were (read 10/25)
2. The Outside (read 9/13)
3. Sweet Legacy (read 9/8)
4. The Dream Thieves(read 9/19)
5. The Burning Sky (read 10/24)
6. Sea Glass (read 9/11)
7. Spy Glass (read 10/3)
8. Across a Star-Swept Sea (read 10/28)
9. Emerald Green (read 11/7)
10. Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories (read 11/10)

[Ashley Marie]

Congrats, Sophie!

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Big Congrats to you, Sophie!

[Jex]

Caught up to here with the list. Congrats on everyone that finished a degree@!

[Jex]

❀Tea❀ wrote: Another one: shapeshifters for Life Science?"

I'll say yes, but their animal form has to be a prominent part of the book

[Deedee]

finished associates degree: Post 156
now onwards to the bachelor's degree!

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Congrats, Deedee!

[Marianne]

Finished Bachelor's!
Bachelors Degree-

Major: Literature
1. The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (8/25/13) (American setting)
2. O Pioneers! (9/1/13) (American setting)
3. The Black Echo (9/3/13) (American setting)
4. A Separate Peace (9/1/13) (American Setting)
5. The Great Gatsby (9/9/13) (American setting)
6. Breakfast of Champions (9/17/13) (American setting)
7. Fever 1793 (9/20/13) (American setting)
8. Dauntless (9/21/13) (American author)
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God (9/22/13) (American setting)
10. Eternal (9/25/13)(American setting)

Minor: Science
1. Point Pleasant (9/1/13) (Paranormal)
2. Storm Front (9/5/13) (Paranormal)
3. The Host (9/11/13) (Science fiction)

[Marianne]

Masters Degree-
(Start: 9/25/13)

Science Fiction-
1.
2.
3.
Earth Science-
1. Volcano Watch (Currently reading)
2.
3.
Life Science-
1.
2.
3.
Applied Science-
1.
2.
3. Blood and Guts (Currently reading)
Random-
1.
2.
3.

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Congrats, Marianne!

[Scarlett]

I'll start with an associate's degree - this is how far I've got!

Science:Kiss of Steel✔
Literature: To Kill a Mockingbird✔
History: A Question of Lust✔
Social Sciences: The Sweethearts' Knitting Club✔
Art: Chateau d'Eternite
Language: Friend-zoned✔
Athletics: Maurice✔

[Lisa Kay]

Looking good, Scarlett!

[Scarlett]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Looking good, Scarlett!"

Why, thank you Lisa!

[Jex]

Congrats Deedee and Marianne! I added you to the finished list.

[Anima]

I've finished my masters, woohoo!! *grin*

Master's Degree
Social Sciences

Anthropology (country of origin: Poland)
✔ 1.The Husband's Secret(Australia) 09/17/13 **
✔ 2.The Cuckoo's Calling (the UK) 09/10/13 ****
✔ 3.The Mysterious Affair at Styles (the UK) 08/28/13 ****

Psychology
✔ 1.Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 09/26/13 ****
✔ 2.Before I Go To Sleep 09/11/13 ****
✔ 3.The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business 09/21/13 ****

Education
✔ 1.Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 09/16/13 ****
✔ 2.Vampire Academy 09/20/13 ****
✔ 3.The Pale Blue Eye 09/02/13 ***

Political science
✔ 1.The Book Thief(the power state - Germany) 09/22/13 *****
✔ 2.Dust (the power state - the US) 09/18/13 ****
✔ 3.The Passage (the power state - the US) 09/16/13 *****

Random:
✔ 1.The Prophet anthropology (the US, NC, Charlestone) 08/29/13 **
✔ 2.Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed psychology 09/22/13 **
✔ 3.Unnatural Causes anthropology (UK) 09/27/13 ****




Of to PHD!

[Lisa Kay]

Woohoo! Congratulations, Anima!

[Anima]

So my first book from PHD level is done :), in this pace I may still finish before the end of the year LOL

[Ashley Marie]

Congrats, Anima! That's awesome :)