1st Quarter Challenge: Box Sets

[Maya]

Updated post 285 :) 4/12!

[Chantal]

Update message 266

[Kelly]

Updated #28.

The Silver Linings Playbook takes me to 11/12! :)

[Ultrajbk]

Stella Stars 1/3

Michelle de Krester - Questions of Travel
This was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and while it didn't win that award, it did go on to win the Miles Franklin. It's her fourth novel, and my first read of hers. I have come away disappointed....some of the themes it raises, which held such promise (like what people think constitutes a refugee) were to my mind superficially treated. Hopefully my next read in this space fairs better!

[Jane]

Updated message 58.

Box Set: Memories of Twenties Paris

Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco - 4 stars

For a total of 4/6 books done!

[Gretchen]

Edit Message #7
Read 5/6

[Blagica , Challenges]

all up to date!

[Delmy]

Done. Message #66

[Eggp]

February update:
Goal: 7/12

Complete: Lucky Lotto Numbers - 4/4
03. Fahrenheit 451 - 05 Feb 2016, 4/5
04. 14 - 21 Feb 2016, 4/5

At the Zoo - 2/4
02. The Cormorant - 25 Feb 2016, 4/5

[Susan C]

Updated message 33

5/6

[Emma]

Update to msg 47 - read 15/19

[Ultrajbk]

Stella Stars - 2/3

The Eye of the Sheep. Loved this, shortlisted for Stella award, but won Miles Franklin last year.

READ THIS BOOK IF YOU LOVED ROOM! Yes it has some dark moments...but there is much hope and joy too.

[Kadijah Michelle]

Updated message 22:
Edited
2/5 for one box set completed

[Sam F]

Updated Message 31

2nd box set done!

[Emma]

read 15/19

[Blagica , Challenges]

Congrats Delmy the first to finish this challenge! Sam I think I counted right with your update if not let me know. Everyone else is up to date awesome progress!

[Victoria]

I have now completed 2 more books one from each box set making me 4/6 books

Colours of the wind box set: Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield Completed 03.03.16 Rating 2 stars

Overload of senses box set: The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor Completed 29.02.16 Rating 2 stars

Message 90 updated

[Stephanie (Chinchillita)]

Update Message 40
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Allie Brosh
Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl - Paige McKenzie

3/5

[[deleted user]]

Finished 5 books:

Wildflower Hill - 5 stars
Cutting for Stone - 4 stars
Steal the Dragon - 2 stars
Night of Knives - 3 stars
The Web - 2 stars

[Susan]

I am finishing 2 more from:


Women Writing Pulp Novels
Laura
Women's Barracks

A total of 4/6 Read

[Natalie]

Jewish Fiction 3/3
1.The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
2. The Tenth Song
3. The Sisters Weiss

[Laurie]

Updated message 2

Almost done!!


7/8 read

Out of My World Authors
3/3 read

1 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun ✔ 2/13/16
2 Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits ✔ 2/23/16
3 The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami ✔ 3/6/16

My Name is ....
4/5 read

1 Heidi by Johanna Spyri ✔ 1/2/16
2 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
3 My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout ✔ 3/7/16
4 My Ántonia by Willa Cather ✔ 1/30/16
5 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ✔ 1/15/16

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished my 8th book (3rd from my I Put A Spell on You Set)- Ella Enchanted. I am now 8/15.

[Gabriella]

I won't have time to read 12 books, so I'll stick with nine. Already read 7, only 2 to go.

[Zita]

Update msg. 98 - 13/14. One boxset done :).

[Blagica , Challenges]

awesome job you guys putting me to shame! everything should be up to date

[Cassandra]

I swapped out one of the books for this set because my March reading isn't going well at all.

... In SPACE
Leviathan Wakes - January 24
Foundation and Empire - February 11
The Dispossessed - March 10

9/12

[Angela Jr.]

updated message 177
13/15

[Amanda]

Updated #76

Finished the first book from my Shattered Boxset

1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Completed 9/3/16 Rating 4 stars

4/6

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Part of my "I Put a Spell on You" Boxed Set. I now have 9/15.

[Janet]

Read 2 more books for my Around the World box set

Lord Jim - Oceania
Kim - Asia

4/6

[Beth]

I've read 2/7 now but may need to scale back.

I set up my box set but forgot to add the books to my spreadsheet as being due to finish in March, so January and February slipped by without reading any of them! Now I'm looking at 13 books to finish this month and only 20 days left... so will see how much progress I've made closer to the end of the month. :)

[Chelsea]

Updated post #134.

I have read 10 out of 12 books. TWO MORE TO GO!!!

[Blagica , Challenges]

Everyone is up to date! I been sick the last two weeks and haven't wanted to do anything but sleep. you guys are doing great.

[Stephanie]

Update: I finished "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende! This is my 10th book of the challenge (out of 15), but it also completes my "I Put A Spell on You" Boxed Set, which is exciting. Five more to go and more than half the month, I am feeling more confident :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

way to go!

[Stephanie]

Blagica wrote: "way to go!"

Thanks! Just finished another one :) "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf. It was only 97 pages, so it seemed imperative that I knock it out of the way. So, I am 11/15 now. I am going to do it. I was real worried about this challenge in February- now, not so much.

[Susan C]

Updated message 33

"Little" books
Books with the word "little" in the title
✓ 1. Little Lady, Big Apple read 1/3/2016
✓ 2. Little Night read 1/11/2016
✓ 3. The Little Paris Bookshop read 2/27/2016

First in the series
✓ 1. A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1 )read 1/1/2016
✓ 2. Up at Butternut Lake (The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #1) read 1/19/2016
✓ 3. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) read 3/10/2016

6/6
Challenge completed!

[Chelsea]

Edited post 134.

Read 11 out of 12. One more to go!!

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. It is my second book from my Treat Her Like a Lady set, and I now have a total of 12/15!

[Maya]

UPDATED 285,

5/12

[Amanda]

Updated #76

Shattered

Walking On Glass by Iain Banks Completed 14/3/16 Rating 3 stars

5/6
1/2

[Janet]

Read another for my Around the World box set

Africa Cry, the Beloved Country

5/6

[Cassandra]

Fantasy That Pokes Fun at Tropes
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice - January 26
Off to Be the Wizard - February 13
The Fairy Godmother - March 14
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib

10/12

[Blagica , Challenges]

way to go Susan on completing your challenge! Everyone else is up to date

[Kadijah Michelle]

Update message 22

4/6 complete

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood for my 3rd book from my "Treat Her Like A Lady" set and I am now 13/15!

[Trisha]

I updated post 272. Yikes! How did that time limit come so fast!

[Stephanie]

Update: I just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett for my Treat Her Like A Lady boxed set. I now have 14/15. Almost there!

[Katharine]

Updated/finished message 86