October's Build Your Own Challenge - No Restrictions!

[Leah]

You're welcome, Dhes. :)

[Cheryl]

Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "Cheryl, thank you for including your rating of the book. I appreciate that."


Your welcome! I find it very helpful when others do it as well! :)

[Cheryl]

1/6 Completed

Read 2 books that have been sitting on my shelf for quite some time:
1. -has been sitting on my shelf since Aug. 31, 2009! Currently Reading
2.

Read 2 books that I have recently purchased:
1. -Read, 3 stars
2.

Read 1 ebook:
1.

Read 1 borrowed book:
1.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

I agree with you, Cheryl and Mollie, it's very helpful when people include the star rating. Thank you for doing that!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Ladies, from time to time I stop getting updates for some of the threads. If you don't see your stats being updated, please let me know so I can do that.

Thanks!

[Catherine]

Should we be including star ratings? I didn't think anyone would care, so I didn't.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

It's up to you, Catherine. For me, I don't always know what star rating a book is going to get until I've written the review and really reflected on how the book affected me, know what I mean?

[Catherine]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'll include the ratings after I've written reviews for them. :)

[Cheryl]

I find it helpful seeing what someone rated a book in these challenges just for a quick reference of what that person thought of the book. If I see that they gave 5 stars to a book I'm likely going to look into that book, if they gave it 3 stars I may ignore it for the time being.. just a thought! :)

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

That makes sense, too, Cheryl.

[Cheryl]

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "That makes sense, too, Cheryl."

I'm glad to hear that I'm making sense. Tonight anyway.

[Mollie *scoutrmom*]

D.G. wrote: "W♥LK - Oct. BYOC
- Read 3 Books I REALLY Want To Read (0/3)
- Read 2 Books from Male Authors (0/2)
- Read 2 Books from my C-1p Shelf (1/2)..."

D.G. I vote you go for Skin Game and The Hunger Games among those on your lists… these were very good. I've not read anything on your Male Authors list, but I liked what I have read by Piers A.

[Bekah, Fellow Kleypasaholic]

I don't need a star rating or review but a quick "done, this was great" or "done, didn't really like" that would be nice!

[D.G.]

W♥LK - Oct. BYOC
- Read 3 Books I REALLY Want To Read (1/3)
- Read 2 Books from Male Authors (0/2)
- Read 2 Books from my C-1p Shelf (1/2)

REALLY, REALLY WANT: (3 of these)
√ Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins - 10/3
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne
Skin Game by Ava Gray
Charmed, I'm Sure by Liz Ireland

MALE AUTHORS: (2 of these)
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
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
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

C-1P Shelf: (2 of these)
√ 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
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez

[D.G.]

Bekah wrote: "I don't need a star rating or review but a quick "done, this was great" or "done, didn't really like" that would be nice!"

I usually do that in the 'what are you reading?' thread...

[D.G.]

Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "D.G. I vote you go for Skin Game ..."

Thanks, Mollie! I'll definitely read The Hunger Games because it was one of the suggestions in the Pick It For Me challenge at the RRRC. I've been wanting to read Skin Game for a while...let's see if I can fit this month!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Danielle's October Build Your Own Challenge
Update 10/4: Completed 1/6

1. Read an anthology of classic horror stories:
Tales from a Gaslit Graveyard by Hugh Lamb

2.Read a short story collection by a new author: The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens

3.Read the next book in an ongoing series: Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

4.Read a historical-set YA book: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

5.Finally read one of the Hellboy novels you've been collecting: Unnatural Selection by Tim Lebbon

6.Finally read an Oscar Wilde story: The Picture of Dorian Gray 10/2

[Cheryl]

Danielle, how was The Picture of Dorian Gray? I just watched the 2009 movie with Colin Firth over the weekend.

[Mollie *scoutrmom*]

Cheryl wrote: "Danielle, how was The Picture of Dorian Gray? I just watched the 2009 movie with Colin Firth over the weekend."

Yes, enquiring minds want to know, and so do I.

[Katherine]

What other Oscar Wilde book would you suggest? I really want to read another.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I thought it was very good. It's not a feel-good book, but the writing was entrancing. An interesting story that gets you thinking.

Katherine, it's my first OW book. I'm eager to read The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde. I'm not fond of reading plays, but I heard his plays are good:

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays.

Cheryl, I'm almost afraid to watch a modern version of this novel. I think they will show too many of Dorian Gray's sins. I'd rather that be left to my imagination. :)

[Katherine]

The importance of Being Earnest is good too. It's a comedy of sorts. I saw the movie with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon.

[Suzanne (Under the Covers Book blog)]

Read 20 Books This Month

1: Black and White by Jackie Kessler & Caitlin Kittredge- Finished 03 Oct
2: Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas- Finished 04 Oct

[D.G.]

Katherine wrote: "The importance of Being Earnest is good too. It's a comedy of sorts. I saw the movie with Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon."

The Importance of Being Earnest is hilarious! I own a copy and have read it many times but it's in Spanish...maybe I should get myself on in English!

[Cheryl]

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Cheryl, I'm almost afraid to watch a modern version of this novel. I think they will show too many of Dorian Gray's sins. I'd rather that be left to my imagination. :)
"

Well, after seeing the movie and knowing what his many sins are, it was done more tastefully than it could have been done. It was rated R but it wasn't as graphic as it could have been. I can't imagine reading the book, the movie left me feeling a little sad so I know the book would leave me feeling even more so.

[Katherine]

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.

1/10



1)Staccato - New to me author finished 4*

[BJ Rose]

BUILD-YOUR-OWN CHALLENGE
October 1-31
2/6

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
√ 2. Barbara O'Neal: The Lost Recipe for Happiness - Oct 3
3. Gena Showalter: Heart of Darkness

Reread at least 2 favorites:
1. It Happened One Autumn
2.

Read at least one Big Book (500+ pp.)
1.

[Mollie *scoutrmom*]

@ Cheryl, Katherine, and Lady D... I found it interesting that I'm reading a bio of Bram Stoker and find out that he was friends with Oscar Wilde and with his parents.

[Catherine]

Spell the word HALLOWEEN using the first letter of the title of the book or the author's first or last name.

Completed - 2/9

H - Linda Howard - Mackenzie's Legacy: Mackenzie's Mountain\Mackenzie's Mission

A - Kelley Armstrong - Dime Store Magic

L - Leanna Renee Hieber - The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker (Strangely Beautiful, #2)

L - The Lover - Robin Schone

O - One Moonlit Night - Samantha James

W - What Isabella Desires - Anne Mallory - Finished 10/2 (*4.5 Stars*)

E - Eileen Wilks - Tempting Danger - Finished 10/4 (*4.5 Stars*)

E - Emma Wildes - My Lord Scandal

N - Naked Truth - Amy J. Fetzer

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

pssssssst - that's 2/9 LOL

[Becky]

Finish a book I started months ago:
Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss

Books I own on my TBR pile:
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Ransom by Julie Garwood

New releases to currently reading series
Sinful in Satin by Madeline Hunter 10/4
A Hellion in Her Bed by Sabrin a Jeffries
Daring a Duke by Claudia Dain

Begin a new series:
Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt

Try a new author:
A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James

1/8

[Catherine]

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "pssssssst - that's 2/9 LOL"

Oops! Thanks!

[Katherine]

Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "@ Cheryl, Katherine, and Lady D... I found it interesting that I'm reading a bio of Bram Stoker and find out that he was friends with Oscar Wilde and with his parents."

Mollie that is quite funny how that happens sometimes. You will be talking about something and it will appear. Did you read anything interesting about them?

[Cheryl]

Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "@ Cheryl, Katherine, and Lady D... I found it interesting that I'm reading a bio of Bram Stoker and find out that he was friends with Oscar Wilde and with his parents."

Funny coincidence!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Cheryl wrote: "Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Cheryl, I'm almost afraid to watch a modern version of this novel. I think they will show too many of Dorian Gray's sins. I'd rather that be left to my ima..."

Oh, thanks, Cheryl. I do want to see it because I love Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. The book is a little sad, but it's worth reading, if you like gothic horror.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: "@ Cheryl, Katherine, and Lady D... I found it interesting that I'm reading a bio of Bram Stoker and find out that he was friends with Oscar Wilde and with his parents."

Small world!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Good idea to spell Halloween, Catherine.

[Laura]

I took The Picture of Dorian Gray with me when I went to Ireland in May partly because I had always wanted to read it and partly because it was the book for the Dublin read program. I haven't been able to get into it, but I'm not completely giving up on it either.

I also recently watched the movie with Colin Firth and wasn't impressed...they seemed a little too intent on showing all of the sins and vices instead of concentrating on the story itself.

[Cheryl]

Laura wrote: "I also recently watched the movie with Colin Firth and wasn't impressed...they seemed a little too intent on showing all of the sins and vices instead of concentrating on the story itself."


I thought it was interesting to see Colin Firth playing that role... he usually plays such a good guy!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

That is what I'm concerned about, Laura. I like the idea of not seeing what he did, and having unspeakable things in your imagination to guess about.

Don't give up, Laura. It's worth reading!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Cheryl, I assume Firth is playing Lord Henry?

[Katherine]

I was wondering that also, since he is much to old to play Dorian.

[Laura]

Colin Firth is indeed Lord Henry, Ben Barnes is Dorian, and Ben Chaplin plays the artist Basil.

[Cheryl]

Laura wrote: "Colin Firth is indeed Lord Henry, Ben Barnes is Dorian, and Ben Chaplin plays the artist Basil."

I thought they did a great job with the casting!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

It sounds like great casting.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Danielle's October Build Your Own Challenge
Update 10/6: Completed 2/6

1. Read an anthology of classic horror stories:
Tales from a Gaslit Graveyard by Hugh Lamb 10/5

2.Read a short story collection by a new author: The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens

3.Read the next book in an ongoing series: Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

4.Read a historical-set YA book: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

5.Finally read one of the Hellboy novels you've been collecting: Unnatural Selection by Tim Lebbon

6.Finally read an Oscar Wilde story: The Picture of Dorian Gray 10/2

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

October Build Your Own Challenge. I'm reading these in conjunction with the Build Your Own Challenge PNR Edition, and adding that I'm going to catch up with the Carpathians and read the first 2 Demonica series books, and read 3 other books from this list, for a total of 7 books.

Demons - Pleasure Unbound& Desire Unchained
Zombies - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Vampires - Dark Slayer& Dark Peril - 1/2
Witches- A Witch's Beauty
Ghosts - Unholy Ghosts
Dragons – Dragon Actually
Shifters - Pride Mates
Monsters - Frankenstein

[Cheryl]

2/6 Completed

Read 2 books that have been sitting on my shelf for quite some time:
1. -has been sitting on my shelf since Aug. 31, 2009! Read, 4 1/2 stars
2.

Read 2 books that I have recently purchased:
1. -Read, 3 stars
2.

Read 1 ebook:
1.

Read 1 borrowed book:
1.

[Mollie *scoutrmom*]

Katherine wrote: "Mollie *scoutrmom* wrote: " ... I'm reading a bio of Bram Stoker and find out that he was friends with Oscar Wilde and with his parents."

Mollie that is quite funny how that happens sometimes. You will be talking about something and it will appear. Did you read anything interesting about them?"

I have been putting that book aside to read fiction, but I'll pick it back up again soon. I'll have to return it to the library, and I've already renewed it the maximum number of times.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Dhestiny, Frankenstein is on my to read list. I will probably try to read it early next year.