Bizarre, Crazy, Silly, & Unique Holidays Year Long Reading Challenge - 2014

[Marla]

Good for you April, I don't ever let challenge dates restrict me. I finish in my own time.

[April]

10 books to go!!

June 9- Donald Duck Day
D- Dark Wolf 3/20/14
O- Orlando Figes Crimea 2/14/2015
N- Nora Roberts The Collector 3/13/15
A- Andersen, Laura The Boleyn Deceit 5/16/14
L- The Lightning Thief 4/15/14
D- Divergent 6/6/14

D- Deborah Harkness The Book of Life 7/26/14
U- Uglies 4/27/14
C- Catching Fire 4/14/14
K- The King 4/10/14

[❀Tea❀]

Looking good April! ☺

You can alway use one (or more) of gift cards if you need more time to finish challenge. :)
(not that anyone is really going to held it against you if you take your own time to finish challenge ;))

[April]

Thanks Tea, but I started teaching again in the fall and just don't read as fast as I used too.

I'll just keep trucking on

[❀Tea❀]

No problem. Just finish it at your speed. :)

[April]

Only 6 books to go!

Finished May (Star Wars Day) with The Empire Striketh Back.
Seems appropriate.

May 4- Star Wars Day
S- Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 4/7/14
T- That Summer 7/15/14
A- Andersen The Boleyn King 2/25/14
R- Ruff, Matt The Mirage 1/25/14

W- William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back 4/3/15
A- Allegiant 3/10/14
R- Rowling, JK Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 5/20/14
S- Succubus on Top 5/3/14

[❀Tea❀]

You can do it April! :)

[April]

One more month completed and only 5 books left!

July 17- Yellow Pig Day
Y- The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles 2/3/14
E- Elwes, Cary As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 3/2/2015
L- Lost States 10/4/14
L- The Lost Hero 10/20/14
O- Othello 3/9/2015
W- Ward, JR The Shadows 4/14/15

P- Percy Jackson's Greek Gods 8/26/14
I- Inferno 4/24/14
G- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 5/27/14

[April]

I FINISHED!!!!

Jan 1- Dec 31 (I hope)
Party Animal: Read 37 or more books in a year

I will also not include Day



Completed- A-9 (0), B-2 (0), C-1 (0), D-6 (0), E-9 (0), F-3 (0), G-4 (0), H-2 (0), I-5 (0), J-0, K-3 (0), L-5 (0), M-3 (0), N-5 (0), O-7 (0), P-4 (0), Q-0, R-6 (0), S-7 (0), T-6 (0), U-5 (0), V-0, W-5 (0), X-0 Y-3 (0), Z-0

96 (0 left)

Jan 25- Opposite Day
O- Ozma, Alice The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared 1/20/14
P- Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 2/22/14
P- Pavane 3/31/14
O- Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language 10/28/14
S- Susann, J Valley of the Dolls 1/13/14
I- Ian Doescher William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope 2/4/14
T- Taft 2012 4/5/14
E- Ella Minnow Pea 4/17/14

Feb 12- Tennis Day
T- Tom Stoppard The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays 5/5/14
E- Ella Enchanted 4/23/14
N- Northanger Abbey 1/3/14
N- The Night Circus 6/11/14
I- The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln 2/10/14
S- Shiver 2/4/14

March 25- Waffle Day
W- Willig, Lauren The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla 8/14/14
A- American Gods 1/10/14
F- The Fairy Godmother 2/28/14
F- Fatherland 3/5/14
L- The Ladies Auxiliary 2/13/14
E- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World 6/19/14

April 25- World Penguin Day
W- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 3/3/2015
O- The Odd Couple 12/29/14
R- The Red Chamber 3/17/14
L- Lynsay Sands Vampire Most Wanted 3/12/14
D- Dark Lycan 1/16/14

P- Pretties 5/11/14
E- Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales 12/7/14
G- Goliath 3/26/14
U- Untold Story 1/5/14
I- Insurgent 3/8/14
N- Nez, Chester Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII 10/14/14

May 4- Star Wars Day
S- Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 4/7/14
T- That Summer 7/15/14
A- Andersen The Boleyn King 2/25/14
R- Ruff, Matt The Mirage 1/25/14

W- William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back 4/3/15
A- Allegiant 3/10/14
R- Rowling, JK Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 5/20/14
S- Succubus on Top 5/3/14

June 9- Donald Duck Day
D- Dark Wolf 3/20/14
O- Orlando Figes Crimea 2/14/2015
N- Nora Roberts The Collector 3/13/15
A- Andersen, Laura The Boleyn Deceit 5/16/14
L- The Lightning Thief 4/15/14
D- Divergent 6/6/14

D- Deborah Harkness The Book of Life 7/26/14
U- Uglies 4/27/14
C- Catching Fire 4/14/14
K- The King 4/10/14

July 17- Yellow Pig Day
Y- The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles 2/3/14
E- Elwes, Cary As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 3/2/2015
L- Lost States 10/4/14
L- The Lost Hero 10/20/14
O- Othello 3/9/2015
W- Ward, JR The Shadows 4/14/15

P- Percy Jackson's Greek Gods 8/26/14
I- Inferno 4/24/14
G- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 5/27/14

August 3- Sisters' Day
S- Shelley, Bruce Church History in Plain Language 5/17/14
I- Inherit the Wind 6/2/14
S- Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret 6/13/14
T- The Titan's Curse 7/24/14
E- Edith Wharton Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 3/10/15
R- Rick Riordan The Battle of the Labyrinth 8/13/14
'S- Skin Game 6/24/14

September 6- Read a Book Day
R- Roth, Veronica Four: A Divergent Story Collection 8/6/14
E- Edith Wharton The House of Mirth 3/20/15
A- The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 6/30/14
D- Doctorow, EL The March 7/31/14

A- Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Everyday Words 7/22/14

B- Behemoth 3/24/14
O- Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World 4/2/15
O- Once Upon a Rhyme 5/2/15
K- Kingdom Come 6/8/14

October 6- Mad Hatter Day
M- M.J. Rose The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense 7/9/14
A- Assassin's Accomplice 8/31/2014
D- Dark Blood 2/23/2015

H- Hollow City 3/6/14
A- Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet 10/1/14
T- 33 A.D. 11/23/14
T- The Third Witch 6/11/15
E- Edward Rutherfurd París 5/5/15
R- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 8/25/14

November 5- Guy Fawkes Day (My Birthday)
G- Galbraith, Robert The Cuckoo's Calling 10/24/14
U- UnWholly 5/8/14
Y- Yellow Crocus 3/17/15

F- Fey, Tina Bossypants 7/17/14
A- Anne Rice Prince Lestat 11/1/14
W- Wilson, G. Willow Alif the Unseen 4/19/15
K- The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy 8/12/14
E- Ehrman, B Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 5/20/15
S- The Sea of Monsters 6/25/14

December 21- Humbug Day
H- How the States Got Their Shapes 3/28/14
U- UnSouled 11/16/14
M- Moore, Christopher Island of the Sequined Love Nun 7/5/14
B- Brian Jay Jones Jim Henson: The Biography 4/7/14
U- Undivided 1/10/15
G- Gone with the Windsors 2/18/2015

[❀Tea❀]

Congrats April :)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Gabi!

Your challenge post is updated HERE