1st Quarter Challenge: Box Sets

[Zita]

Update msg. 98 - now 10/14.

[Sam F]

Updated Message 31

[Jane]

Updated message 58

Writing the Right Way

2/3

A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement by Barbara Abercrombie - 4 stars

Very inspirational and encouraging for new and old writers alike!

[Adriana]

Stately Reads
Until Friday Night (Alabama)
The Sea of Tranquility (Florida)
Almost Home (Illinois)
That’s Not Hay in My Hair (Texas)
Nowhere But Here (Kentucky)

Running with Wolves
Once in a Full Moon
The Beginning: Born at Midnight and Awake at Dawn
Taken at Dusk

Princess Power!
Princess Academy
Dealing with Dragons
Princess Ben
Beyond the Hundred Kingdoms
Wisdom's Kiss

Living in the Past
My Faire Lady
Colonial Madness
Scarlet
Jane Eyre

6/17 books

I added one more book.

[Tawallah]

Updated message 92- 4/6 books read.

[Angela Jr.]

upped my goal (again) and updated message 177

9/15

[Meg]

I've completed 7/10


Counting
1. One Plus One
2. Second Shift: Order
3. Third Shift: Pact
4. Fourth of July Creek
5.Give Me Five

Exploring East Asia
1. Hardboiled and Hard Luck (Japan)
2. Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (China)
3. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (N Korea)
4. The Orphan Master's Son (N Korea)
5. A Wild Sheep Chase (Japan)

[Ornina]

updat to post #96
3/7 done

[Natalie]

Cooking Mysteries Boxed Set
3. Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles
3/3 completed

[Stephanie]

Update: Read my first book from my "I Put A Spell on You" box- The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison. That brings me up to 6/15.

[Cheri]

Update: 4/6
This book is in the "China Crost the Bay" (books translated from Chinese) box set.

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua (5 stars)

[Susan]

I would like to join in on this. I would like to start with two box sets and six books.

Beware the Missionary
(books where religious characters play a part in the development of Africa)
1. Things Fall Apart
2. The Poor Christ of Bomba
3. Two Thousand Seasons

Women Writing Pulp Novels
1. Laura
2. In a Lonely Place
3. Women's Barracks

I have so far read 2/6.

[Chantal]

5/12 ... better get reading from this list!!

Forget-me-not
1. See Jane Run by Joy Fielding
2. We Were Liars by e. Lockhart
3. The Memory Box by Eva Lesko Natiello

Specters
1. Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places, by Brad Steiger
2. The Witches, Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
3. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

Spectrum

1. Children with Starving Brains - A medical treatment guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jaquelyne Mccandleuss
2. Musique autiste - vivre et composer avec le syndrome Asperger, par Antoine Ouellette
3. M is for Autism , by Students of Limpsfield Grange School

Tell it Like it IS
1. The Wild Truth, by Carine Mccandleuss
2. It's a Long Story, by Willy Nelson
3. What I talk about when I Talk about Running, Haruki Murakami

[Candiss]

I updated message #14.

Read: 4/9

[Elsbeth]

Update message #157:
9/10

Roses are red
1. Rose by Rosita Steenbeek (10-1-2016)
2. Rode letters by Anne Bishop (14-1-2016)

John Doe
1. John Flanagan - De Ruïnes van GorlanThe Ruins of Gorlan (6-1-2016)
2. John Flanagan - De Brandende Brug/The Burning Bridge (8-1-2016)
3. John Flanagan - Het ijzige Land (2-2-2016)

Knights in Shining Armour
(about people fighting for something...)
1. Knights of the Square Table by Teri Kanefield (21-1-2016)
2. Rippler by Cidney Swanson (25-1-2016)
3. Die Eifelgräfin by Petra Schier (31-1-2016)
4. Ontsnapt aan de galg by Ton van Reen (5-2-2016)

[Cassandra]

Military Crime Thriller
Brilliance
Without Fail - January 1
First Family
The Heist - January 4
Zero Day - February 10

5/12

[Angela Jr.]

updated message 177
11/15

[Cassandra]

... In SPACE
Leviathan Wakes - January 24
Foundation and Empire - February 11
Old Man's War

6/12

[Trisha]

I want to play! Here are my boxed sets:
I Love Downton Abby
The American Heiress
The Fortune Hunter
Rutherford Park
Cavendon Hall
Daughters Of Fortune

Knitting Nerd
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Knit Two
Knit One Pearl One
Needles and Pearls
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club - FINISHED
The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

I Love Royal Intrigue
Memoirs of Cleopatra
I, Elizabeth
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
The Lady Elizabeth

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Trisha!

[Cassandra]

Fantasy That Pokes Fun at Tropes
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice - January 26
Off to Be the Wizard - February 13
The Fairy Godmother
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib

7/12

[Blagica , Challenges]

awesome job Cassandra your almost there!

[Cassandra]

Thank you! I hope to knock out the remaining ones next month. :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

I am sure you will

[Kelly]

Updated #28.

Child 44 ✔

8/12

[Blagica , Challenges]

that was an awesome book Kelly I read it last year.

[Laurie]

Updated message 2

4/8 complete

[Blagica , Challenges]

awesome Laurie all up to date =)

[Kelly]

Updated #28.

Bridget Jones's Diary ✔

9/12 complete.

[Maria]

5/9

Classics I should have already read by now.

1. And Then There None by Agatha Christie 1-7-16
2. Catcher in the Rye 1-14-16
3. David Copperfield
4. Little Women
5. The Grapes of Wrath 1-26-16

James Patterson books

1. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas 1-1-16
2. Kiss the Girls
3. Along Came a Spider 2-13-16
4. Jack & Jill

[Amanda]

Updated #76
First box set completed Overall rating 3 stars

Minis (less than 150 pages)

1.The Newton Letter by John Banville Completed 13/1/16 Rating 3 stars
2. The Laying on of Hands by Alan Bennett Completed 11/2/16 Rating 2 stars
3. One City by Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh Completed 29/1/16 Rating 3 stars



3/6
1/2

[Maya]

Yay! I'm in love with this challenge!!!!


4 box sets, 3 books each!
12 books total!

5/12

I Like Big Books, and I Cannot Lie!
War and Peace
Atlas Shrugged
City on Fire

0/3

Fantasy is the Best Medicine
Interesting Times
Rosemary and Rue
Uprooted

1/3

Young Adult for the Young at Heart
Fairest
Wither
Thirteen Reasons Why

2/3

Let's Go Back & Do It Again
The White Queen
In the Unlikely Event
Mistress of the Art of Death

2/3


update:: 2/24/2016 // FAIREST && MISTRESS OF THE ART OF DEATH. NEW TOTAL :: 4/12
update:: 3/16/2016 // THE WHITE QUEEN. NEW TOTAL :: 5/12



Since I'm new to the group (as of today), I put in a couple up there that I've read since the beginning of the year with a different reading challenge. If that's not okay, let me know & I'll reread them!

[Cheri]

Update: 5/6

from box set Out of China Crost the Bay
Books translated from Chinese
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (4 stars)

[Blagica , Challenges]

Maya wrote: "Yay! I'm in love with this challenge!!!!


4 box sets, 3 books each!
12 books total!

2/12

I Like Big Books, and I Cannot Lie!
War and Peace
Atlas Shrugged
[book:City on Fire..."


your fine darling welcome to the challange and the group

[Chelsea]

Edited post # 134.

Completed Clockwork Prince.

I have read 5 out of 12 books.

[Zita]

Update msg. 98 - 12/14 :).

[Clare]

Updated message 63

5/6 finished and started the last for my box sets

[Gretchen]

Edit Message #7
Read 4/6

[Chelsea]

Updated post # 134.

I've had to move some titles around due to not being able to get a hold of some previous selections. Still same categories though.

I have read 8 out of 12 books.

[Ultrajbk]

Ok I have come in late, so only one box set of three for me.

Stella Stars. (Three books that have been shortlisted or won the Stella Prize)

The Stella Prize is an Australian Female only literary award born in 2013, as a result of the under representation of female authors in review pages in Australia, and their under representation in literary awards. The irony is that our most famous literary award, the Miles Franklin Award, is the legacy of a female author...

I am really excited to do this one!

[Kelly]

Updated #28.

My first box is now fully complete!

Short But Sweet
Books 150 pages or less.

1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard ✔
2. The Little Prince ✔
3. Animal Farm ✔
4. The Grownup ✔
5. A Room of One's Own ✔
6. Under Milk Wood ✔

With the ones I've read for my other box set, my new total is:
10/12 :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

you guys are all up to date! Kelly you may be the first to finish this challenge!

[Sam F]

Updated Message 31

One box set done!

[Chelsea]

Updated post #134.

I have read 9 out of 12 books.

[Gabriella]

✴ O Barão by Branquinho da Fonseca
4/12

[Jane]

Updated message 58:

Box Set: Memories of Twenties Paris

1/3 Being Geniuses Together, 1920 1930 by Robert McAlmon - 2 stars

Total of 3/6 books read now.

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "A Discovery of Witches" for my 7/15. So, I am chugging. About halfway there, at about halfway. I will take it. Still, I've got lots of reading to catch up on at the end of February. It will be fun.

[Blagica , Challenges]

i will update everyone after work

[Blagica , Challenges]

if a made a mistake a please let me know everyone is fixed

[Geri]

Updated msg 179
5/8