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Challenge Title: Clear Off the GR TBRDuration: 1/1/10 to 12/31/10
Number of Books: 10
Challenge Description: Read the 10 oldest books on my GR TBR list.
List of Books:
Completed 10/10
Challenge Title:Series K.O.Duration:12/2/10-12/2/11 one year
Number of Books: 108 books or 12 series(one for each month in the year)
Challenge Description:The goal is to complete all the series I have started in the past and start this year or at least complete one series per calender month. Rereads are allowed. The books can be read as part of other challenges. The books in the series can be read in any order just as long as it is completed. A series does not have to be completed by the end of each month as long as there are twelve series or 108 books that are part of series' completed by the end of the challenge duration. I can read more then these numbers but no less.
Note: The reason I decided that 108 books would be a decent number as a substitute to just the number of series is because the average number in the series' I read is nine books and 9x12=108.
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Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward
1.Dark Lover
2.Lover Eternal
3.Lover Awakened
4.Lover Revealed
5.Lover Unbound
6.Lover Enshrined
6.5Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story
7.Lover Avenged
8.Lover Mine
9.Lover Unleashed
Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs
1.Moon Called
2.Blood Bound
3.Iron Kissed
4.Bone Crossed
5.Silver Borne
Midnight Breed by Lara Adrian
1.Kiss of Midnight
2.Kiss of Crimson
3.Midnight Awakening
4.Midnight Rising
5.Veil of Midnight
6.Ashes of Midnight
7.Shades of Midnight
8.Taken by Midnight
9.Deeper Than Midnight
Highlander Series by Karen Marie Moning
1.Beyond the Highland Mist completd 9/20/10
2.To Tame a Highland Warrior
3.The Highlander's Touch
4.Kiss of the Highlander
5.The Dark Highlander
6.The Immortal Highlander
7.Spell of the Highlander
8.Into the Dreaming
Undead Series by Maryjanice Davidson
1.Undead and Unwed
2.Undead and Unemployed
3.Undead and Unappreciated
4.Undead and Unreturnable
5.Undead and Unpopular
6.Undead and Uneasy
7.Undead and Unworthy
8.Undead and Unwelcome
9.Undead and Unfinished
Dirk & Steele by Marjorie Liu
1.Tiger Eye
2.Shadow Touch
3.The Red Heart of Jade
4.Dark Dreamers
5.Eye of Heaven
6.Soul Song
7.The Last Twilight
8.The Wild Road
9.The Fire King
More Books TBA :)
Yz the Whyz wrote: "Well done, Julie!"Thanks, Yz!:-)
Challenge Title: 2010 - 1001 Books ChallengeDuration: 1/1/10 to 12/31/10
Number of Books: 50
Challenge Description: Read 50 books this calendar year from the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall
Current status: 44 of 50 completed
List of Books:
1.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1/2/10
2.Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 1/3/10
3.The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor 1/4/10
4.Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor 1/11/10
5.Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 1/14/10
6.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1/18/10
7.The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 1/27/10
8.The Third Man by Graham Greene 1/27/10
9.The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 2/10/10
10.The Quiet American by Graham Greene 2/23/10
11.Shame by Salman Rushdie 2/28/10
12.Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 3/2/10
13.Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 3/15/10
14.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/1/10
15.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 4/28/10
16.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 5/10/10
17.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 5/13/10
18.The Awakening by Kate Chopin 5/13/10
19.Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 5/14/10
20.The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 5/15/10
21.Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 5/15/10
22.Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant 5/16/10
23.Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 5/17/10
24.The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth 6/12/10
25.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 6/15/10
26.The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 7/17/10
27.Pamela by Samuel Richardson 8/12/10
28.The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9/8/10
29.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 9/8/10
30.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/12/10
31.Ulysses by James Joyce 9/22/10
32.The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9/25/10
33.Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 9/26/10
34. The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati 10/7/10
35. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10/11/10
36. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis 10/15/10
37. Fanny Hill by John Cleland 10/16/10
38. She by H. Rider Haggard 11/9/10
39. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 11/10/10
40. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 11/11/10
41. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini 11/30/10
42. Erewhon by Samuel Butler 12/1/10
43. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 12/2/10
44. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 12/3/10
STATUS: 21/53 completeList of Books:
Acts of Mercy - Mariah Stewart
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beg for Mercy - Toni Andrews
Be Still My Vampire Heart - Kerrilyn Sparks
Bloodring - Faith Hunter
Born of Fire - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Ice - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Born of Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Breaking Midnight - Emma Holly
Burning Alive - Shannon Butcher
Covet - J.R. Ward
Dark Hunger - Rita Herron
Dark Slayer - Christine Feehan
Dawnbreaker - Jocelyn Drake
The Demon You Know - Christine Warren
If He's Wicked - Hannah Howell
The Immortal Hunter - Lynsay Sands
Lord of Sin - Susan Krinard
Passion Untamed - Pamela Palmer
Possess Me at Midnight - Shayla Black
The Renegade Hunter - Lynsay Sands
A Scotsman in Love - Karen Ranney
Sea Lord - Virginia Kantra
Seduce Me in Shadow - Shayla Black
Shifting Plains - Jean Johnson
Skin Trade - Laurell K. Hamilton
Skykeepers - Jessica Andersen
Sold to a Laird - Karen Ranney
So Still the Night - Kim Lenox
Storm Born - Richelle Mead
Storm of Shadows - Christina Dodd
Storm of Visions - Christina Dodd
Undead Next Door - Kerrilyn Sparks
Vamps and the City - Kerrilyn Sparks
Walk on the Wild Side - Christine Warren
God help me but this is less than half of what's on this triple deep shelf.
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Challenge Title: 2010 - 1001 Books ChallengeDuration: 1/1/10 to 12/31/10
Number of Books: 50
Challenge Description: Read 50 books this calendar year from the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall
Current status: 47 of 50 completed
List of Books:
1.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1/2/10
2.Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 1/3/10
3.The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor 1/4/10
4.Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor 1/11/10
5.Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 1/14/10
6.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1/18/10
7.The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 1/27/10
8.The Third Man by Graham Greene 1/27/10
9.The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 2/10/10
10.The Quiet American by Graham Greene 2/23/10
11.Shame by Salman Rushdie 2/28/10
12.Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 3/2/10
13.Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 3/15/10
14.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/1/10
15.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 4/28/10
16.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 5/10/10
17.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 5/13/10
18.The Awakening by Kate Chopin 5/13/10
19.Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 5/14/10
20.The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 5/15/10
21.Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 5/15/10
22.Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant 5/16/10
23.Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 5/17/10
24.The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth 6/12/10
25.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 6/15/10
26.The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 7/17/10
27.Pamela by Samuel Richardson 8/12/10
28.The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9/8/10
29.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 9/8/10
30.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/12/10
31.Ulysses by James Joyce 9/22/10
32.The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9/25/10
33.Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 9/26/10
34. The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati 10/7/10
35. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10/11/10
36. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis 10/15/10
37. Fanny Hill by John Cleland 10/16/10
38. She by H. Rider Haggard 11/9/10
39. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 11/10/10
40. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 11/11/10
41. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini 11/30/10
42. Erewhon by Samuel Butler 12/1/10
43. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 12/2/10
44. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 12/3/10
45. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 12/4/10
46. The Inferno by Henri Barbusse 12/7/10
47. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho 12/7/10
Challenge Title: 2010 - 1001 Books ChallengeDuration: 1/1/10 to 12/31/10
Number of Books: 50
Challenge Description: Read 50 books this calendar year from the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall
Current status: Finished! 50 of 50 completed!
List of Books:
1.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1/2/10
2.Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 1/3/10
3.The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor 1/4/10
4.Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor 1/11/10
5.Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 1/14/10
6.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1/18/10
7.The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 1/27/10
8.The Third Man by Graham Greene 1/27/10
9.The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 2/10/10
10.The Quiet American by Graham Greene 2/23/10
11.Shame by Salman Rushdie 2/28/10
12.Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 3/2/10
13.Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 3/15/10
14.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/1/10
15.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 4/28/10
16.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 5/10/10
17.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 5/13/10
18.The Awakening by Kate Chopin 5/13/10
19.Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 5/14/10
20.The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 5/15/10
21.Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 5/15/10
22.Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant 5/16/10
23.Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 5/17/10
24.The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth 6/12/10
25.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 6/15/10
26.The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 7/17/10
27.Pamela by Samuel Richardson 8/12/10
28.The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9/8/10
29.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 9/8/10
30.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/12/10
31.Ulysses by James Joyce 9/22/10
32.The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9/25/10
33.Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 9/26/10
34. The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati 10/7/10
35. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10/11/10
36. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis 10/15/10
37. Fanny Hill by John Cleland 10/16/10
38. She by H. Rider Haggard 11/9/10
39. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 11/10/10
40. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 11/11/10
41. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini 11/30/10
42. Erewhon by Samuel Butler 12/1/10
43. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 12/2/10
44. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami 12/3/10
45. The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 12/4/10
46. The Inferno by Henri Barbusse 12/7/10
47. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho 12/7/10
48. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 12/9/10
49. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 12/11/10
50. Jazz by Toni Morrison 12/20/10
Wow...great job, colleen!
Yz the Whyz wrote: "Wow...great job, colleen!"Thanks, Yz!
I think this is going to have to be it for me. Almost finished, only 10 left. I don't think I can fit anymore in before the end of the year. Great challenge Yz! Loved trying to get it done!Challenge: Val's stolen from LibraryLass & tweaked
Span: 1/1/10 - 12/31/10
52/62 Done
Detail: Books I need to finish!
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1. Wolf Tales 1-8 by K Douglas 8/27
Clean Off My Category Shelf Challenge Challenge Title: Clean off the Category Romances On Your Shelf
Duration: 1/1/2010-12/31/2010
Number of Books: 60 (minimum)
Challenge Description: Read at least five category romances on my bookshelf a month. I have a backlog of category romances that I have accumulated over the years. They must be books that I owned as of January 1, 2010. Any category romances I read that are new will not count towards my challenge goal.
January
1.A Bride for His Majesty's Pleasure by Penny Jordan 1/18
2.The Oilman's Baby Bargain by Michelle Celmer 1/18
3.Marriage on the Rebound by Michelle Reid 1/18
4.The Desert King's Bejewelled Bride 1/18
5. Second-Best Bride by Sara Wood 1/18
February
6. Pure Princess, Bartered Bride by Caitlin Crews 2/7
7.The Brazillian's Blackmailed Bride by Michelle Reid 2/20
8.The Outback Bridal Rescue by Emma Darcy 2/21
9.The Greek's Innocent Virgin by Lucy Monroe 2/21
10.Mr. Strictly Business by Day Leclaire 2/21
10/60 completed. Monthly goal: 5/5 completed (January and February).
11.Reluctant Mistress, Blackmailed Wife by Lynne Graham 2/28 11/60 completed, 6/5 completed February
March
12.Secret Baby, Convenient Wife by Kim Lawrence 3/2
13.Ruthlessely Bedded, Forcibly Wedded by Abby Green 3/6
14.Blackmailed into Marriage by Lucy Monroe 3/6
15.Rafe Sinclair's Revenge by Gayle Wilson 3/6
16.Saints and Sinners by Olivia Rupprecht 3/14
16/60 completed, 5/5 completed monthly goal March
Update 4/22/10
17.Against the Rules by Linda Howard 4/11
18.A Tough Man to Tame by Iris Johansen 4/11
19.She's Got it Bad by Sarah Mayberry 4/17
20.The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress by Sandra Marton 4/20
21.The Cowboy and the Lady by Diana Palmer 4/22
21/60 completed. Monthly goal 5/5 April.
Update 5/19/10
22.The French Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress by Abby Green 5/15
23.Night Rescuer by Cindy Dees 5/15
24.On Thin Ice by Debra Lee Brown 5/17
25.The Greek's Forced Bride by Michelle Reid 5/17
26.Blackmailed Bride, Inexperienced Wife by Annie West 5/18
26/60 Completed. Monthly Goal 5/5
2 More Completed for May
27.Pregnant by the Greek Tycoon by Kim Lawrence 5/29
28.Capelli's Captive Virgin by Sarah Monroe 5/29
Monthly Goal 7/5 28/60 Completed
June Update (6/21)
29.Just a Normal Marriage by Leigh Michaels 6/6
30.Bossman Millionaire by Kathy DeNosky 6/13
31.Hostage by Madeleine Ker 6/13
32.Rich, Ruggged, Ruthless by Jennifer Mikels 6/16
33.Mr. Temptation by Cait London 6/19
34.Instinctive Male by Cait London 6/19
Monthly Goal 6/5 34/60 Completed
July Update (7/7/10)
35.House of Glass by Michelle Reid (7/5/10)
36.Substitute Wife by Rachel Lindsay (7/5/10)
37.Shotgun Marriage by Day Leclaire (7/5/10)
38.The Bedroom Barter by Sara Craven (7/6/10)
39.Newlyweds of Convenience by Jessica Hart (7/6/10)
Monthly Goal 5/5 39/60 Completed
August Update (8/23/10)
40.Public Scandal, Private Mistress by Susan Napier (8/8/10)
41.Destined to Meet by Jessica Steele (8/21/10)
42.The Greek Tycoon's Disobedient Bride by Lynne Graham (8/21/10)
43.The Italian's Demand by Sara Wood (8/21/10)
44.Just Friends...To Just Married by Renee Roszel (8/21/10)
45.Island of Dolphins by Lillian Cheatham (8/22/10)
46.In McGillivray's Bed by Anne McCallister (8/22/10)
Monthly Goal 7/5 46/60 Completed
September Update
47. Ruthless Awakening by Sara Craven (9/5/10)
48. Sold into Marriage by Ann Major (9/6/10)
49. The Greek Tycoon's Virgin Wife by Helen Bianchin (9/6/10)
50. The Ruthless Marriage Proposal by Miranda Lee (9/6/10)
51.The Italian Boss's Mistress by Lynne Graham (9/6/10)
52.Substitute Bride by Margaret Pargeter (9/11/10)
52.Cry Wolf by Amanda Carpenter (9/16/10)
53.First Time Forever Cara Coulter (9/26/10)
54.Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue by Ally Blake (9/28/10)
55.The Maverick's Greek Island Mistress by Kelly Hunter (9/28/10)
Monthly Goal 11/5 55/60 Completed
October Reading
56. Claiming His Runaway Bride by Yvonne Lindsay 10/10
57. Millionaire's Marriage Bargain by Leanne Banks 10/23
58. Public Wife, Private Mistress by Sarah Morgan 10/23
59. Inherited: One Child by Leanne Banks 10/24
60. Scandalous by Charlotte Lamb 10/24
Monthly goal: 5/5 60/60 completed
November Reads
61. Private Maneuvers by Catherine Mann 11/20
December Reads
62. Millionaire Under the Mistletoe by Tessa Radley 12/11
63. Italian Doctor, Sleigh Bell Bride by Sarah Morgan 12/15
64. Lone Star Seduction by Day Leclaire 12/18
65. Home for the Holidays by Sarah Mayberry 12/24
66. Snowbound by Janice Kay Johnson 12/25
Final Update: 12/27 Goal Completed! 66/60
Great job, Danielle, and even exceeding your target goal.
Too ambitious on this one:CREATE YOUR OWN READING CHALLENGE
Challenge Title:Author Challenge: Jayne Krentz/Jayne Castle/Amanda Quick
Duration: May 1st to Dec 31st 2010
Number of Books: Minimum of 50
Challenge Description: Read books by Jayne Ann Krentz, and her other pen names Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle. These will be books I know are at the library or I own. None of these books will be re-reads. I can include any of these books on other challenges as well.
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Not bad, Vanessa. I love her writing style. She is the author I ran to when I don't feel good. : )
I know, she's so really easy to read. Great comfort style on a cold winter evening with the fire going.
Melissa wrote: "26/100 completedChallenge Title:Books I Had to Buy Because Goodreads Said So
Duration:January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010
Number of Books:100"
Well...it's the end of the year, and boy did it go quick, and I didn't get anywhere close to finishing this challenge! Congrats to all that finished!
RRRC Series Completion Challenge
Duration: 01/01/10 - 12/31/10
Series Completion Challenge - Part I
Duration: Jan 1, 2010 - Dec 31, 2010
Number of Books:150
Description:My goal is to complete as many of those series as I can (through publication).
List: Will post as I go.
Bakery Sisters/Susan Mallery - Completed 03/31/10
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Knight Miscellany/Gaelen Foley - Completed 05/02/10
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Mercenary Trilogy/Lucy Monroe - Completed 01/04/10
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I-Team/Pamela Clare - Thru Publication 04/01/10
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Black Daggar Brotherhood/J.R. Ward - Thru Publication 07/06/10
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Highland Pleasures/Jennifer Ashley - Thru Publication 07/10/10
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Hold Trilogy/Stephanie Tyler - Completed 03/22/10
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Neville Family/Liz Carlyle - Completed 11/07/10
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Chesapeake Bay Saga/Nora Roberts - Completed 05/21/10
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The Bridgerton's/Julia Quinn - Completed 07/30/10
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Bodyguard/Cindy Gerard - Completed 09/30/10
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Goddard Project Trilogy/Lucy Monroe - Completed 07/18/10
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Temptation Brothers/Lori Foster - Completed 04/29/10
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Tall, Dark & Dangerous/Suzanne Brockmann - Completed 09/23/10
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Firefigher/Jill Shalvis - Completed 08/05/10
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Wilder/Jill Shalvis - Completed 11/08/10
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RRRC Series Completion Challenge - Part II
Duration: 01/01/10 - 12/31/10
Luxe/Anna Godbersen - Completed 07/13/10
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Chandler Brothers by Carly Phillips - Completed 08/07/10
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Sky High Air by Jill Shalvis - Completed 07/06/10
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Tumble Creek by Victoria Dahl - Completed 08/30/10
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Pacific Heat by Jill Shalvis
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Notorious Gentlemen by Suzanne Enoch - Completed 10/08/10
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SBC Fighters by Lori Foster - Completed 11/05/10
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Lessons in Love by Suzanne Enoch - Completed 11/22/10
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Sins, Lies, and Secrets by Liz Carlyle - Completed 12/09/10
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Wallflowers by Lisa Kleypas - Completed 12/27/10
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Mackenzie Family by Linda Howard Completed 12/24/10
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The Hathaways by Lisa Kleypas - Completed 12/29/10
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Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts - Completed 12/31/10
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Elite Ops by Lora Leigh Thru Publication 12.28.10
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I didn't reach my goal on this challenge, but still made alot of progress.
2010 Create-Your-Own Reading ChallengeChallenge title: A Book a Day (Keeps the Doctor Away)
Duration: January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Number of Books: 365
Challenge Description: Read (at least) a book a day throughout the year. Read books in romance category (no "regular" fiction or non-fiction books). Re-reads and DNFs do NOT count!
11th (LAST!) update (January 1, 2011)
books read in January 2010: 32 (book list)
books read in February 2010: 31 (book list)
books read in March 2010: 35 (book list I., book list II.)
books read in April 2010: 30 (book list)
books read in May 2010: 18 (book list)
books read in June 2010: 39 (book list)
books read in July 2010: 47 (book list I., book list II.)
books read in August 2010: 17 (book list)
books read in September 2010: 70 (book list I., book list II.)
books read in October 2010: 28 (book list)
books read in November 2010: 17 (book list)
books read in December 2010: 27 (book list)
total books read in 2010: 391 (107%)
Goal reached (and surpassed). Yay me!
2010 Create-Your-Own Reading ChallengeChallenge Title: Read the Books I Own Challenge
Challenge Duration: Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2010
Goal: 24 books
Challenge Description: Read 2 books each month that I personally owned. This is to cure my tendency to prioritize library books all the time, while my personal TBR shelf grows out-of-proportion.
1. Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione 1/13
2. Cold As Ice by Anne Stuart 1/31
3. Obsidian Prey by Jayne Castle 2/3
4. Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh 2/22
5. Burning Alive by Shannon K. Butcher 2/27
6. Wild Thing(anthology) 3/9
7. Say You Love Me by Johanna Lindsey 3/12
8. Bloodline by Maggie Shayne 3/16
9. Harvard's Education by Suzanne Brockmann 3/19
10. Over the Edge by Suzanne Brockmann 3/28
11. Eternal Lover (anthology) 3/31
12. Ask For It by Sylvia Day 4/30
13. Lover Mine by JR Ward 5/5
14. Street Game by Christine Feehan 5/9
15. Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole 5/21
16. The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister 5/28
17. Soulless by Gail Carriger 5/31
18. Tanner's Scheme by Lora Leigh 6/13
19. Out of Control by Suzanne Brockmann 6/27
20. Midnight Embrace by Amanda Ashley 6/30
21. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 7/4
22. Wings in the Night by Maggie Shayne 7/14
23. Breath of Magic by Teresa Medeiros 7/30
24. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 7/31
25. Dead After Dark (anthology) 8/16
26. Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas 9/12
27. Lily and the Major by Linda Lael Miller 9/28
28. Demon from the Dark by Kresley Cole 10/2
29. Kill and Tell by Linda Howard 10/10
30. Crave by JR Ward 11/2
31. Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare 11/6
32. Truly, Madly Viking by Sandra Hill 11/17
33. Open Season by Linda Howard 11/19
34. Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas 12/12
35. Captive Dreams by Angela Knight and Diane Whiteside 12/15
36. Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh 12/30
Finished more books that I expected, so I'm pretty please. :)
Good Job, Yz! I think I might have to try this challenge your way in 2011.
Mojca wrote: "I already had a personal challenge planned for 2010, so this is a perfect opportunity for me…Challenge title: A Book a Day (Keeps the Doctor Away)
Duration: January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010..."
I'm wondering how this challenge turned out...my eyes would be hanging from teh sockets if I read an entire book every day.
Wow,can't imagine where i would get the time to do any of these challenges.Maybe if i had a cook,maid and i didn't have to work i could!Maybe i could read 10 to 15 per month?...or so many series in a year?What do you guys think?Any suggestions?...and please be gentle!!!lol!!
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Congratulations to all those who met their goals and Thank You to everyone who participated.
Romance Readers Reading Challenges
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Duration: 1/1/10 to 12/31/10
Number of Books: 50
Challenge Description: Read 50 books this calendar year from the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die edited by Peter Boxall
Current status: 42 of 50 completed
List of Books:
1.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 1/2/10
2.Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 1/3/10
3.The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor 1/4/10
4.Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor 1/11/10
5.Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 1/14/10
6.The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 1/18/10
7.The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 1/27/10
8.The Third Man by Graham Greene 1/27/10
9.The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 2/10/10
10.The Quiet American by Graham Greene 2/23/10
11.Shame by Salman Rushdie 2/28/10
12.Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal 3/2/10
13.Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 3/15/10
14.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4/1/10
15.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 4/28/10
16.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 5/10/10
17.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 5/13/10
18.The Awakening by Kate Chopin 5/13/10
19.Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 5/14/10
20.The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 5/15/10
21.Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 5/15/10
22.Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant 5/16/10
23.Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 5/17/10
24.The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth 6/12/10
25.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 6/15/10
26.The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 7/17/10
27.Pamela by Samuel Richardson 8/12/10
28.The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9/8/10
29.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 9/8/10
30.In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 9/12/10
31.Ulysses by James Joyce 9/22/10
32.The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 9/25/10
33.Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 9/26/10
34. The God of Small Things by Roy Arundhati 10/7/10
35. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 10/11/10
36. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis 10/15/10
37. Fanny Hill by John Cleland 10/16/10
38. She by H. Rider Haggard 11/9/10
39. Hunger by Knut Hamsun 11/10/10
40. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 11/11/10
41. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini 11/30/10
42. Erewhon by Samuel Butler 12/1/10