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October's Build Your Own Challenge - No Restrictions!
Congrats, Suzanne! I'm so proud! *sniffle sniffle*
Oooh, are you going to try and match Suzanne, Leah?
Yeah! I'm going to try really hard. I'm starting a new one today and am reading another book already. So maybe I can beat her! :D LOL
We'll keep it a secret, Leah. That way she won't find out what you're up to and try and beat you! Shhhhhh.... we won't tell a soul....
Thanks, D.G.!Okay, Dhes, thanks for your support! Here's to hoping I can do it before tomorrow night! LOL
THanks everyoee : )You can do it Leah!
Suzanne wrote: "THanks everyoee : )You can do it Leah!"
**gasp** She found out!
Oh no! Eh, it's okay. She's supportive of me ;)
Leah, get off the internet and get back to those books!
I'm trying! I was going to do a status update and then I got distracted!
Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "Leah, get off the internet and get back to those books!"LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, yes Leah, you don't have long to go! I need to finish "Hot Target" by Suzanne Brockmann by the end of the day so I can complete my last Oct challenge! But like Leah said, this site is very distracting!
So what are you doing online, Suzanne? Get back to it, it's certainly worth reading.
I am very sad to say that I will probably not finish my book today! Took much going on with Halloween. *SIGH!* Plus it's over 500 pages and I'm only on like 150, LOL. I appreciate all your faith in me, though! Next month, I am going to read 21 books if it kills me! Because, if memory serves, Suzanne is doing 20 again, right? LOL ;P
It's ok, Leah! You did grrreat!!! I've finished the month with 14, maybe 15 books. You're both way better than I am!
Well you've done great, too, Dhes! Reading 15 books a month is quite the accomplishment :D
Thanks, Leah. I always stress that I won't finish a challenge, but I usually manage and have time to read more.
Here's my final tally:BUILD-YOUR-OWN CHALLENGE
October 1-31
6/6 + 8 bonus
I'm calling this my "Read At Least..." Challenge:
Read at least 3 new-to-me authors
√ 1. Carrie Vaughn: Kitty and the Midnight Hour - Oct 2 (3*)
√ 2. Barbara O'Neal: The Lost Recipe for Happiness - Oct 3 (4*)
√ 3. Gena Showalter: Heart of Darkness - Oct 6 (2.5*)
√ Bonus: Chris Cleave: Little Bee - Oct 16 (3*)
√ Bonus: Cassandra Clare: City of Bones - Oct 19 (3*)
√ Bonus: M.T. Anderson: The Pox Party:The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing - Oct 16 (4*)
√ Bonus: Cynthia Baxter: Dead Canaries Don't Sing} - Oct 30 (3.5*)
Reread at least 2 favorites:
√ 1. [book:It Happened One Autumn - Oct 17 (4*)
√ 2. Simply Unforgettable - Oct 23 (5*)
√ Bonus: Only His - Oct 20 (4*)
Read at least one Big Book (500+ pp.)
√ 1. The Name of the Rose - (611 pp) - Oct 18 (3.5*)
√ Bonus: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - (734 pp) - Oct 28 (4*)
√ Bonus: The Kingdom on the Waves - (561 pp) - Oct 30 (4*)
√ Bonus: Matthew Flinders' Cat - (560 pp) - Oct 31 (4*)
UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Thanks, Leah. I always stress that I won't finish a challenge, but I usually manage and have time to read more."Same here, which I why I rarely do challenges where I have to make specific lists of books because I never know what I'm going to be in the mood for reading either.
Excellent, BJ!!!!
Leah, which is why I try to create flexible challenges, because I'm the same way... I am an emotional/moody/fickle reader. Once I start a book, I have to finish it. It's not in my DNA to be able to put it down. LOL So I need flexibility.I know that SOME of these challenges are harder, and that's because I had gotten PMs from people asking for harder challenges. That's why I offer the BYO, so that they can make them as difficult as they want. More power to 'em! LOL
October challenge no restrictions I'm just going to list my books as I read them since I have no idea where my list is and it probably has changed by now. My criteria is: new authors, to continue or finish a series and to read at least 10 books.
9/10
1)Staccato - New to me author finished 4*
2)The Screwtape Letters finished 3* bookclub read
3)Seduce Me At Sunrisefinished 4* series cont.
4)Wicked Appetite 4* new release
5)Northanger Abbeyfinished 3* book group read
6)Tempt Me at Twilightfinished 4*finished series
7)Key of Knowledge finished 3* finished series
8)Cravefinished 4*
9)Then Comes Seduction finished 3*
Fell one book short. Going to take today off and gear up for November challenges. Congratulations to all of you.
Great job, Katherine!!
W♥LK - Oct. BYOC 7/7 READ plus (8) Bonus
REALLY, REALLY WANT (3/3)
1. Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins - 10/3 √
2. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean - 10/7 √
3. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen - 10/29 √
MALE AUTHORS (2/2)
1. God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Soulless Leagues, and Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (And How We Can Get It Back) by Will Leitch - 10/12 √
2. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 10/22 √
C-1P Shelf (2/2)
1. Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster - 10/3 √
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 10/15 √
BONUS (8)
1. A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson - 10/8 √
2. Any Way You Want It by Kathy Love - 10/9 √
3. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - 10/19 √
4. Untraceable by Laura Griffin - 10/25 √
5. One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare - 10/27 √
6. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss - 10/27 √
7. Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton - 10/30 √
8. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost - 10/31 √
My last update...ended up with 8 bonus. :)
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Excellent, DG!!!!!!!! You ladies are amazing!!!
Thanks, Dhes. :)I just decided to fit in a few shorter works that I'm always meaning to read but I've been leaving for later. It really rounded out my reading for this month!
Great idea!!!
I hit post before I was through.. LOLI've been stocking up on Harlequins at the Friends of the Library sales for 20cents each. They made great fillers for challenges.
Too bad I'm not much of a Harlequin reader anymore! Sometimes I'm in the mood for something short but most of my books are 300+ pages.Although I've been reading some Classics in short spurts because I have them on my iPod. This year I read the unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo which is over 1000+ pgs. by fitting in a few chapters a day. :)
I'm planning to do the same next year with a few other classics. :)
Sounds like a great plan, DG. Have you come up with a NYR Challenge, yet?
Finish a book I started months ago:Books I own on my TBR pile:
New releases to currently reading series
Daring a Duke by Claudia Dain
Begin a new series:
Try a new author:
7/8
FROM MY TBR SHELF7 DONE!!!!
WTG, Carolyn!!!
Well done everyone : )!Yep I am doing 20 again next month Leah, mwhahaha you will never beat me ; ) Although I only finished "Hot Target" today so I didn't quite finish my challenge in time : (
You just wait, Suzanne. I am going to read 21 books this month and beat you and you are going to eat your words! Mwhahahah! ;P
Ha we will see! My challange goal has changed to beating you mwhahaha may the best woman (me ofcourse) win!
Mother-! I am so going to beat your ass, Suzanne! THE GAME IS ON! MWHAHAHA!
Like I said, I am gonna READ YOU UNDER THE TABLE! MWhHAhaHA!
LMAO! What's with the some uppercase, some lowercase "Mwhahahah"? LAME-O!
Cat fight!!!
UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Sounds like a great plan, DG. Have you come up with a NYR Challenge, yet?"Yes! Here's what I have in mind. :)
- Read 30 Books that have been in my TBR for over a year (0/30)
- Read 6 Books in Spanish (0/6)
- Read 4 Classics (0/4)
- Read 1 Book of Dominican History (0/1)
WOW! That sounds like a great challenge!!!! I can't wait to watch you plow through them! And this was for the November challenge? ;)
UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Cat fight!!! "LMAO! All in good fun, of course. Suzanne knows I lurve her ;)
Well, that's for the whole year not January.This year's challenges were actually more challenging...but I'm taking it easier the next year!
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