March 2010 Reading Challenge

[Shay]

I'm IN!
though i hate Anthologies...
:)

Stand Alone:
1. Beautiful Creatures
2. Devoured
3. Tiger by the Tail: On the Prowl

Anthologies:
4. Love Bites: The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2
5. Hot Nights, Dark Desires
6. Weddings From Hell

A Trilogy:
7. If You Dare
8. If You Deceive
9. If You Desire

First in a series for a first born:
10. If Angels Burn or Eternal Seduction

[♥Lynn ♥]

Here is what I have so far. I will fill the rest in as I know it.

Stand Alones:
1.Tantalize By Cynthia Leitich Smith
2.Animal Instincts By Gena Showalter
3.Sharp Teeth By Toby Barlow



Anthologies:
4.Dead After Dark (Includes: Dark-Hunter, Related Books #10)
5.Stroke of Midnight
6.Men of the Otherworld




Trilogy:
The Circle Trilogy: Black / Red / White: The Complete Trilogy in One Epic Edition
7.Black By Ted Dekker
8.Red By Ted Dekker
9.White By Ted Dekker


First Born:
10.Darkfever By Karen Marie Moning

[Mel]

I'm officially in though this is a very hard challenge indeed. And not only because I don't really like anthologies but because they are so damn expensive! I for one don't have the luxury of PNR/UF English books in the library.
Anyway, I usually read about only 6-8 of my challenge books so I'll be smart planning this ;)
I'm shamelessly copying Shay on the trilogy cause I already bought #1.


List for now

Stand Alone:
1.
2.
3.

Anthologies:
4. Strange Brew by P.N. Elrod and more
5.
6.

A Trilogy: (Kresley Cole, MacCarrick Brothers)
7. If You Dare
8. If You Desire
9. If You Deceive

First in a series for a first born:
10. Dark Lover by J.R. Ward, re-read

??? ??

Question: Anyone knows if the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy has PNR influences?

[Gemma]

I'll add strange brew to my list too! :) I need to read this one. ITs been sitting on my shelf for an age!

[[deleted user]]

I've decided to sit out of this one. I've got too many books on my TBR list that I'm dying to read. But I'll be checking back here to see what everyone is reading (so I can add more books to my TBR list) and watching for the April challenge! Have fun!

[Mel]

Does anyone know if the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy has PNR influences?

Gemmi, we're going to start re-reading the BDB in March. One book per week. So be sure to add Dark Lover to your list, or have it as an extra book :)
Tara knows the exact date but I believe we're starting half March.

[Yz the Whyz]

Mel wrote: "Does anyone know if the MacCarrick Brothers trilogy has PNR influences?

..."

Nope, they don't. They are standard historical romance. Hated the first one, enjoyed the second, and loved the third.

In a post I made in February's challenge thread, I mentioned that you can include up to 3 books that are non-PNR, if you really want to read it for the month. So I'm making that an official rule.

[Mel]

Thans Yz. I might be reading the Eve series though (Eve of Destruction, etc.) by Sj Day. I'm pretty sure it's a trilogy.

[Mel W]

Awesomevegan wrote: "I have a question... For the trilogy one... Are we supposed to read all 3 books in the same trilogy or the 3rd book in a trilogy? I am just wondering. :)..."

Not sure if your question was answered, Jen, but it is all 3 books from the same trilogy :)

[Arcadia]

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Standalones:
1. Makers by Cory Doctorow (ARC) (Non-Paranormal)
2. Venus by Ben Bova (Non-Paranormal)
3. Shadow's Kiss by Joan Hohl (Re-read)

Anthologies:
1. The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire by Trisha Telep (Editor) (Re-read)
2. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, et al.
3. TBD

Trilogy:
1. Beyond the Night by Joss Ware
2. Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware
3. Abandon the Night by Joss Ware

First Born:
1. Stray by Rachel Vincent
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[Jason]

Could I make a suggestion that we simply edit our original post to cross off the books read rather than making a new post each time? It would keep the thread from becoming so huge and also keep from getting so many notifications about this thread in email. :)

[Yz the Whyz]

Jason wrote: "Could I make a suggestion that we simply edit our original post to cross off the books read rather than making a new post each time? It would keep the thread from becoming so huge and also keep fro..."

Unfortunately, that would put too much work for Mel W, who is doing the updates, for her to keep scrolling back to dig out old posts.

Furthermore, we don't get alerted over a post that was edited, so we would have no idea how many times we have go back to check someone's entry where they are in the challenge.

Plus some people just hangout in the thread to discuss and review books that have been read.

[Charlotte (Buried in Books)]

I'm out this month - just don't have the books to cover it.

I'll just have to make do with the 2 quarterly and 1 monthly challenge i've gotten myself into over in the RRR group. March is gonna be a busy month!!!

[Nita]

I am in. Before I post my list, though, can anyone tell me if Molly Harper's Jane Jameson series is considered a trilogy? There are three books published, but do not know if author is planning more. Does anyone who has read this series consider it a trilogy?

[Sandy]

Nita wrote: "I am in. Before I post my list, though, can anyone tell me if Molly Harper's Jane Jameson series is considered a trilogy? There are three books published, but do not know if author is planning mo..."

I think that it would count as a trilogy. There are three books with a continuing storyline and characters.

[Sandy]

I'm in - even though I'm not crazy about anthologies. Here's a partial list.

Stand Alone

1. Gil's All Fright Diner by A.Lee Martinez
2. Once Bitten by Willis
3. The Demon's Librarian by Lilith Saintcrow

Anthologies

1. Bitten by Cupid
2. Vampire Detectives
3. Bite

Trilogy

1. Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey
2. Children of Night by Mercedes Lackey
3. Jinx High by Mercedes Lackey

Sibling Order - 2nd Child

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

[Arcadia]

0 of 10

Standalones:
1. Makers by Cory Doctorow (ARC) (Non-Paranormal)
2. Venus by Ben Bova (Non-Paranormal)
3. Shadow's Kiss by Joan Hohl (Re-read)

Anthologies:
1. The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire by Trisha Telep (Editor) (Re-read)
2. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, et al.
3. A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)

Trilogy:
1. Beyond the Night by Joss Ware
2. Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware
3. Abandon the Night by Joss Ware

First Born:
1. Stray by Rachel Vincent
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Got all the categories covered, finally!

[Stacie]

I am in as well! (as always, list will probably change)

Stand Alones:
1. Three Days to Dead by Kelley Meding
2. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
3. The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister

Anthologies:
1. Dates from Hell
2. Holidays are Hell
3. Hotter than Hell

Trilogy:
Midnighters trilogy by Scott Westerfield
1. The Secret Hour
2. Touching Darkness
3. Blue Noon

3rd child:
1. Light My Fire (Aisling Gray #3)by Katie MacAlister

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[Arcadia]

Three Days to Dead isn't a standalone, Stacie. It's the first book in the series Dreg City.

[Yz the Whyz]

I've created a listopia category for PNR/UF Stand-Alone books.

Please drop by and add books that you know belong to this category.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/44...

[Jaime]

So we are considering The Host as a stand alone. I was going to use that as one of my book til I went to "the host" page on here and it says she has two more coming. This challenge has me so confused hehe

[[deleted user]]

I had no clue that there was going to be a sequel to The Host. I was the one who added it to the stand-alone list. Finding stand-alone PNR books is difficult. Especially for someone like me who LOVES series books because I never want a good story to end.

[Awesomevegan (AKA JenReads)]

Shannen wrote: "I had no clue that there was going to be a sequel to The Host. I was the one who added it to the stand-alone list. Finding stand-alone PNR books is difficult. Especially for someone like me who ..."

I am just like you! I don't like stand alones much at all or anthologies! I want to continue the Host series since I have now heard she is continuing it :) I think I am going to sit this one out or wait and see if I have enough books. I don't want to buy any for this challenge my TBR pile of books I actually own is too big. I also have books I have started and never finished. I think I will be focusing on the "Personal Challenge" that Archer started for a while.

[Kelley Anne]

Jaime wrote: "So we are considering The Host as a stand alone. I was going to use that as one of my book til I went to "the host" page on here and it says she has two more coming. This challenge has me so confus..."

I say we count The Host as a stand alone. There have been rumors that she will be coming out with sequals to it for a few years, but nothing for certain has ever been announced as far as I know. I'm planning on it as one of my alternate books incase I just can't get into the ones that I currently have listed!

[Jo]

0/10


Stand Alone Books
1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
3.



Anthologies
4. Many Bloody Returns
5. Bite
6. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon



The Circle Trilogy
7. Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts
8. Dance of the Gods by Nora Roberts
9. Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts



Only Child
10.

I'm missing a couple but I'll see what books I have left over from febs reading challenge and I'll finish my list then.

[Jaime]

Amy wrote: "There is a sequel to Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick coming later this year, Crescendo or so I heard it is the sequel. Also, there might be a sequel to The Magic Knot by Helen Scott Taylor, The Phoe..."

Lets all admit that no PNR book should be considered stand alone! I took the host off my list and now it looks like I will have to take Hush Hush off. I say if it is not a mass paperpack and the first book with rumors of a sequel, we should count it! That was I can read two books I have been craving!

[Mel]

Scraping post #54. On second thought: I'm out of the challenge. It's too hard to fit my TBR pile in this challenge.
You girls have fun.

[Stacie]

Thanks Ahrcadia! I will change it to The Magicians by Lev Grossman then! Or, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark...hmm....decisions decisions...=)

[Tracy]

I'm in!! Below are the books I'm planning to read – so far…still a few to work out.

Stand-alone Books
1.) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2.) Sunshine by Robin McKinley
3.) TBD



Anthologies
1.) My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
2.) No Rest for the Witches
3.) TBD



Trilogy (3)
1.) If You Dare by Kresley Cole
2.) If You Deceive by Kresley Cole
3.) If You Desire by Kresley Cole



Your rank among your siblings (#1)
1.) Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

[Yz the Whyz]

A word for the Stand-Alone category....

If there is no working cover, official title or announcement of a second book...we will consider a book as a Stand-Alone.

[[deleted user]]

Here are a few I noticed that aren't stand-alones.

Hush, Hush - sequel Crescendo releases 9/30/10

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker - sequel The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker (Strangely Beautiful, #2) releases 5/27/10

Three Days to Dead - sequel As Lie the Dead releases summer 2010

[Shannon]

Mel wrote: "Scraping post #54. On second thought: I'm out of the challenge. It's too hard to fit my TBR pile in this challenge.
You girls have fun."

Same here. This would be an awesome challenge if I had the time to fit the books in, but not right now with school!

Here's my stand alone shelf though if anyone needs some suggestions!

Stand-Alone Shelf

[Michelle B]

I'm in and will try to finish as many as possible. Lucky for me all the books are at my library this time!

Stand Alone Books
1. Ain't Myth-Behaving
2. Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
3. A Babe in Ghostland

Anthologies
1. The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire
2. Dead After Dark (Includes: Dark-Hunter, Related Books #10)
3. No Rest for the Witches

Triology
1. Amaryllis
2. Zinnia
3. Orchid

Rank Among Siblings #3
Because Your Vampire Said So

[Laura]

Jaime wrote: "So we are considering The Host as a stand alone. I was going to use that as one of my book til I went to "the host" page on here and it says she has two more coming. This challenge has me so confus..."

Stepheniey Meyers homepage doesn't list anything new with the Host...I'm not sure if that can give you a loophole to read it as a stand-alone book? Plus, I don't know how she'll sequel that unless she's starting a series...I'd never heard that either...weird

[Shannon]

Laurie wrote: "Stepheniey Meyers homepage doesn't list anything new with the Host...I'm not sure if that can give you a loophole to read it as a stand-alone book? Plus, I don't know how she'll sequel that unless she's starting a series...I'd never heard that either...weird "

Out of morbid curiosity I googled it and found out that she said in an interview that she's planned it as a trilogy. It's also on the Wikipedia page for The Host.

[Laura]

weird...wonder if she'll follow through? maybe for the 3 couples at the end?

[Tara]

She seems to have stopped writing and is just riding the Twilight movie craze. I mean her last 2 books came out in 2008 and there hasn't been any indication that she's working on anything, despite the fact that she has said the books would be coming out...

[Barbara ★]

Stand Alones
1. The Alchemy Of Stone - Ekaterina Sedia 3/11
2. Breath of Fire - Tammy Kane
3. The Phoenix Charm - Helen Scott Taylor



Anthologies
1. An Enchanted Season - Maggie Shayne/Nalini Singh
2. Irish Magic - Karen Chance/Eileen Wilks 3/5
3. Never After - Laurell K. Hamilton/Sharon Shinn 3/28

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Trilogy
1. Desire Untamed - Pamela Palmer
2. Obsession Untamed - Pamela Palmer
3. Passion Untamed - Pamela Palmer

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Sibling Rank (#2)
The Dead Girls' Dance - Rachel Caine 3/4



I realized this month that I'm not so hot on the stand-alones. Every paranormal book I read was part of a series, go figure. Not going to be able to finish this challenge.

[Nita]

OK, I have my books picked out. I am going to use Molly Harper's series as a trilogy. Thanks Sandy for the reply.

Stand Alones
1. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
2. Steamed
3. Addicted

Anthologies
1. Playing Easy to Get
2. Hot Nights, Dark Desires
3. Wild Thing

Trilogy
1. Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
2. Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
3. Nice Girls Don't Live Forever

Sibling Rank #1
1. Shadow Blade

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[Lily]

Paranormal Romance March Challenge:
Stand Alones
1. Horns (Joe Hill)
2. Blood Vice (Keith Melton)
3. Three Days to Dead (Kelly Meding)
Anthologies
1. Love Bites: The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2
2. The Living Dead
3. The Inked Anthology

Trilogy
1. Personal Demons (Stacia Kane)
2. Demon Inside
3. Demon Possessed
Sibling Rank #1
Unholy Ghosts Stacia Kane
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[Carolyn F.]

Okay my stand alones are stand alones right now - the other books aren't out yet. Please forgive me.

STAND ALONE BOOKS:
1. Rosemary and Rue
2. Gentlemen Prefer Succubi
3. Awaiting the Moon

ANTHOLOGIES:
1. Weddings From Hell
2. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
3. Dates From Hell

TRILOGY:
1. Magic Bites
2. Magic Strikes
3. Magic Burns

[Shannon]

Carolyn F. wrote: "Okay my stand alones are stand alones right now - the other books aren't out yet. Please forgive me.

The second October Daye book is out - I've got a friend on here reading it already and I know that my store has it in stock, I just haven't gone to get it yet. The second Succubus book came out in January as well. The werewolf book I'm not familiar with but I looked and it's part of a series so I'm not sure if that counts? Also, the Kate Daniels books aren't a trilogy, the fourth one comes out in a few months so the overarching storyline hasn't been finished either.

Sorry, I don't mean to rain on your parade and tear apart your list! Just thought I'd point those things out. At least you picked some good books!

[Tara]

PNR- Not Your Usual Series Challenge March Challenge
as of 2/26:
0/10 complete (Click title for review)

3 Stand-alone Books
1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen
3. Ain't Myth-behaving by Katie MacAlister

3 Anthologies (I have a bunch on my shelf, I'll make decisions later)
4. Weddings From Hell by Maggie Shayne, Jeaniene Frost, Terri Garey, Kathryn Smith
5. Night's Edge by Maggie Shayne, Charlaine Harris, Barbara Hambly
6. Midnight Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Ronda Thompson, Amanda Ashley

Trilogy The Secret Circle by L.J. Smith- Ok, so my library is missing the 2nd book in the series BUT they have the trilogy compiled into 2 books, so I'm reading from that.
7. The Initiation
8. The Captive
9. The Power
The Initiation and The Captive, Part I (The Secret Circle, #1-2)
The Captive, Part II and The Power (The Secret Circle, #2-3)

I'm kid # 5
10. Roadkill by Rob Thurman

TO READ


Read all my reviews: Tara's read and reviewed

[Ann aka Iftcan]

lol Tara--really? Well, depending on how you count it--I'm either #2 of 4, #3 of 5, #3 of 6 #2 of 5 or #3 of 7. (lots of premmies/still births in the family.) Counting only those who lived past their 6 month birthday, I'm #2 of 4--or #2 of 5, depending on if you count my half-brother--who is only 2 years older than my daughter (which makes him 5 years younger than the oldest nephew and 3 year younger than the oldest niece. I tend to count him more as another nephew than a brother. (Shrugging) ah well, I'm just going to go as #2--since that's really how I think of myself.

[Jo]

0/10


Stand Alone Books
1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
3.



Anthologies
4. Night's Edge
5. Bite
6. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon



The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
7. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
8. Rebel Angelsby Libba Bray
9. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray




Only Child
10. Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog



I need 1 more standalone book and I'm done.

[Toni]

0/10

3 Stand Alone Books
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
- The Brass Bed by Jennifer Stevenson
- Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson



3 Anthologies
- Suite 606 by J.D. Robb, et al
- Dead of Night by J.D. Robb, et al
- Immortal: Love Stories with Bite by P.C. Cast



Trilogy - Diana Tregarde by Mercedes Lackey
- Burning Water
- Jinx High
- Children of the Night



Rank of Birth - 1st Born
- Storm Glass by Maria V. Synder

[Yz the Whyz]

Toni,

Enchanted, Inc. is not a stand-alone. It has 3 other books following it.

It's a fun read, so I would recommend it. :)

[Eva]

I am going to play along. :O) Still figuring out my stand alone books.

Stand Alone Books
1.
2.
3.

Anthologies
Bite
Cravings
Must Love Hellhounds

Trilogy
The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness

Birth Order - 2nd born
Sex and the Single Vampire

[Laura]

Stand-alone Books:
1.Steelflower by Lilith Saintcrow
2.Dracula by Bram Stoker
3.
Anthologies:
4. No Rest for the Witches
5. Dead After Dark
6. Tapestry
OR Charmed
Trilogy: Three Sisters Island Trilogy by Nora Roberts
7. Dance Upon the Air
8. Heaven and Earth
9. Face the Fire
Rank in order of siblings: #1
10. The Chief by Monica McCarty

[Mandy]

Is it ok if I just list them as I go in the month?

0/10
Stand Alone:
1.
2.
3.

Anthologies:
1. Hot for the holidays
2. On the Prowl by Crystal Jordan
3.

Trilogy:
1.
2.
3.

Rank of siblings #3:
Caressed by ice by Nalini Singh