1st Quarter Challenge: Box Sets

[Tawallah]

update message #92 : 2/6

[Zita]

Update msg. 98 - 8/10 :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

think I got everyone up to date

[Chelsea]

Updated post 134.

Ten Thousand Skies Above You

5/12

[Carmen]

My Box Set for Quarter one in 2016 is called health:

Natural Solutions to PCos
Die fünf Sprachen der Liebe
Think and Grow Thin
The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
Fit for Life read January 9th 2016
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Arthrose

[Geri]

Update message 179
4/8

[Clare]

Updated message 63: one box set completed and started on the 2nd so now on 4/6

[Ceira]

4/6 read

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[Victoria]

January update I have completed 2 books

1 from the colours of the wind box set White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra

And 1 from the overload of senses box set The Listener by Tove Jansson

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here

[Cassandra]

... In SPACE
Leviathan Wakes - January 24
5 stars

3/12

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

Just updated message #136 with a finish of Green Darkness by Anya Seton.

2/12 as of 1/24/16

[Emma]

update to msg 47 - read 9/19

[Stephanie]

Update: I finally finished the first one! I will probably cruise through the others now that the monster is out of the way :) 824 pages is a lot. So, I am now 1/15

[Blagica , Challenges]

congrats what book did you read?

[Susan C]

Updated message 33


4/6

[[deleted user]]

Completed 2/9

The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan - 5 stars
It's the End of the World as We Knew It by Nick Cole - 4 stars

[Cynthia]

Edit to post 147

Now at 2/3 on boxed set #2
Just finished Inkheart which is the love of books!

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here please let me know if i have got it right

[Gabriella]

I'm up for 12.

Brave New Fantasy: 2/3
✴ The Mists of Avalon
A Game of Thrones
✴ The Metamorphosis

All About That Bass: 2/3
✴ Carry On
Americanah
✴ Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

You're So Vain: 3/3
✴ Odes Modernas
✴ O Barão
✴ Story of the Eye

✴ = read

[Maria]

4/9

Classics I should have read by now

The Grapes of Wrath 1-26-16

[Cheri]

Update: 1/6

I've read one book in the box set "Ladies First":
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (5 stars)

[Ariel]

I'm in! I think I'll go for 3 box sets.

[total completed: 0 of 11]

YA Fiction Addiction
[0 of 4 completed]
1. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
2. Winter by Marissa Meyer
3. The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
4. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

The Weather Outside
[0 of 4 completed]
1. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
2. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
3. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Get Shorty
[0 of 3 completed]
1. The Unfinished World: And Other Stories by Amber Sparks
2. Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams
3. Dog Run Moon: Stories by Callan Wink

[Blagica , Challenges]

Welcome Ariel and good luck.

[Cassandra]

Fantasy That Pokes Fun at Tropes
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice - January 26
Off to Be the Wizard
The Fairy Godmother
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib

4/12

[Karin]

1st Quarter Challenge: Box Sets
Jan 1 - March 31, 2016

Books set in England (will mark month and year for one and dates finished for others when done, but may add more):

1. England, England January 2016
2. Queen Lucia January 25, 2016
3. Lucia in London
4. Miss Mapp

Non-Human Characters

1. Paw and Order
2. Winter (Iko is the nonhuman character) January 2016
3.

[Karin]

Blagica wrote: "welcome everyone who joined recently. I have added everyone to here.

Emma I put yours in ass to be determined since I'm not sure how many books will be in your box."

Hi, I just joined today--is that okay?

[Blagica , Challenges]

yes of course i'm adding you now

[Zita]

Update and increase my goal msg. 98 - now 9/14 :).

[Sam F]

Updated Message 31

5 books done so far.

[Maria]

I love this!

0/6

Kid's Stuff
The Wind in the Willows
The Little Prince
Little House in the Big Woods

Big Shots
Wuthering Heights
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible

[Amanda]

Updated #76

2nd book completed

One City by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh Completed 29/1/16 Rating 3 stars

[[deleted user]]

I would like to join also! the theme I'm going to go with is Mythology meets Shakespeare.

Mythology meets Shakespeare
1. Such sweet sorrow by Jenny Trout (retelling)
2. Antigoddess by Kendare Blake
3. Mortal gods by Kendare Blake

[Stephanie]

Update: And I read my second one. I hope I can knock out the other space ones pretty quickly because I need to get working on witches in February. :) Thankfully, the other three aren't terribly long. Chugging now.

[Blagica , Challenges]

congrats

[Stephanie]

Evidence of chugging, finished the 3rd book. Omon Ra has been read. I am now 3/15. :)

[Caro]

Progress so far:

The challenge was to create a Box Set so I decide to create one with women around the world. To make it a real Challenge I exclude women from US and UK since most of my readings are from there. The second one is to force me to read more nonfiction books the second box is just a series of four books.

Women around the World

READ 1. Margaret Atwood with The Handmaid's Tale(Canada)
READ 2. Sonali Dev with The Bollywood Bride (India)
3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Americanah or Half of a Yellow Sun. I still do not know which one to read first (Nigeria)
4. Carla Guelfenbein with Contigo en la distancia (Chile)
5.Susana y Elvira with Lo entendimos todo mal (Colombia)

Let's get real

READ1.The Witches: Salem, 1692
2. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
3. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
READ4.What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

4/9

[Blagica , Challenges]

awesome progress ladies =) updated

[Blagica , Challenges]

Boxed Set Challenge
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016
8/15

it's all about the Kill

1Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion andMurder -done
2The Hillside Stranglers
3The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
4A Stolen Life
5Fatal Vision


My book Boyfriend
1Wicked Beat-done
2Finding Olivia-done
3Me Before You
4Naked
5Shades of Pearl-done
6Sweet Evil
7. Seven Years-done

Chunkie Monkey books over 500 pages
1. A Clash of Kings-done
2. Big Little Lies-done
3.Ashes to Ashes-done

[Cheri]

Update: 2/6

This book is in my "Ladies First" box set (books with feminist themes):
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik (5 stars)

[Eggp]

January update:
Goal: 4/12

A Game of Chess - 1/4
01. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 10 Jan 2016, 3/5

Lucky Lotto Numbers - 2/4
01. At Swim Two Birds - 08 Jan 2016, 1/5
02. Seveneves - 18 Jan 2016, 4/5

At the Zoo - 1/4
01. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) - 29 Jan 2016, 3/5

[Stephanie]

Got one more with "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Going to have to read "Gods of Mars" tomorrow to be on track, but I am not too worried about it, they are pretty short books. Almost one full set of books now :) Then I can move onto witches!

[Winter, Group Reads]

update: Winter 3/7

[Cheri]

Update: 3/6

This is the 3rd book, completing one of my box sets, Ladies First (books with feminist themes):
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz (5 stars)

[Gabriella]

Update: 2/12
Just finished Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer.

[Alison]

Hey count me out if this challenge. I totally forgot about it and have books planned out that I'll be reading in march

[Robyn]

In January I got through 1/3 books for this challenge so I am right on track! On to the month of February!

Progress: 1/3

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here sorry to see you leave Alison happy reading!

[Angela Jr.]

upped my goal to 14 and updated message 177!

8/14

[Stephanie]

I finished "The Gods of Mars"! I have finished my Space Case Boxed Set and am moving onto I Put A Spell on You. 5/15 now!