Shave your list

[Nathan]

To follow up on the 2011 Spring Quaterly, I am challenging all YA enthusiasts to shave the hairy legs off their to-read list.
Commencing June 01st and running for 2 months, to August 01st, all participants will try to shave 10% of the books from their to-read list, moving most, if not all of the offcuts to your read list, maybe even a few into your trash can.

Now this will be a big challenge for those with big lists, and vice versa. But it is not as hard as it sounds :)

You might find that after finishing the first few books in a series, you have not enjoyed it so far, and remove the whole series from your list.

To add a bit of spice, not only will you be challenged to read those few extra books, but those books will have to meet these guidelines:

1)All books should be Young Adult. Let's just hope you have enough YA books on your shelf.

2) Read 2 full series. (Trashing a series half-way through is acceptable)

3) Read a book from a genre you do not often dwell upon.

4) Read a book from a best-selling author.

Should a proportion of the participants find this too easy, they may find that a brand-new challenge will be released to follow up the follow-up.

Happy reading everyone!

[Jess]

Great idea

[Angie, YA lovin mod!!]

Fabulous... now let me see if I can get started on this!

[Karis]

Oh hell! This should be interesting... I have 203 on my TRL, but at least a third aren't out yet.

Question. If we add to out TRL, do we have to add to our challenge list?

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[Deborah]

Wow...Do we absolutely have to start in June??? Fortunately in the category of finishing a series in my to-read list one series consists of two books, unfortunately they're each about 500 pages....

Anyhow, like Karis I have over 200 books, over 80 are YA. Twenty books for me as well.

[Nathan]

Question. If we add to out TRL, do we have to add to our challenge list?

That is up to you :) It would really depend on how much time you had to read...

[Nathan]

Deborah wrote: "Wow...Do we absolutely have to start in June??? Fortunately in the category of finishing a series in my to-read list one series consists of two books, unfortunately they're each about 500 pages......."

You can start as early as you like :) Right now, though, the challenge will be officially starting in June, though 5 weeks is a very short space of time to read 20 books. If anyone requests it, I'll extend the challenge to start 1 or 2 weeks earlier, or to finish 1-2 weeks later.

[Bethany]

okay...I've been working on my TBR list...step 1 go back and review books and remove those that I'm not really interested in....this took forever...lol...I started out with 425 books on my list and I've gotten it down to 366....and then step 2 was to find books on my list that are available at my local library...so far I've got a list of 24...that's a pretty good start since I've gotta read like 36 1/2 books!! lol....now I just have to make sure my books meet the challenge requirements...lol...this should be fun....but I'll probably need to get started...36 books is a lot!!

Okay...so I think I'm making some progress and with this but then I keep adding more to read!! It's a never ending cycle!! lol....but I've got it down to 320....so 32 books....that's do able...right?!?

I've got my TBR list down to 225 books! That gets my challenge down to 22 1/2 books!! At this rate I'll have my list shaved before June!! lol

[D]

Oh good Lord. I'd have to read 43 books, which is SO not happening, given that I finish maybe a book a week normally. I think I need to go trim my TBR list, too.

[Cassie]

wow! I only have to read 5 books! hahaha! I'm sure I'll read WAY more than that, though! And I'll probably add a lot of books before June!

[Nathan]

Haha guys, you might want to go through and delete the books you are no longer interested in from your TRL before the challenge starts.

As for you, Cassie, I feel you should ADD more books! :)

Also, Because so many people seem to have huge lists, ill make the challenge from June 1st to August 1st. From June 1st, a discussion will be opened for you to talk about the books you have read so far - this is only optional.

[Julia]

Whichever challenge I'm doing, I try to take most, if not all, the books from my TBR shelves, boxes etc. Two books on my current YA challenge are library books, the rest are books I've owned for some time. But I don't count how many books are on my TBR list, that'd be entirely too depressing. I have 99 or something here listed on Goodreads.

So ten? No sweat.

[Tatiana]

I have over 300 (!) books on my TBR. It will be tough for me...

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[Amy]

Whoa! This is intense! That makes about30 27 for me.

[Stephanie]

I can't believe there was ever a time when I didn't know what to read. I keep adding to my list, but I have learned to be a little more discerning. there are some types of books that just don't click with me, so I think it's getting easier to shave the list down.
Good idea for a challenge!

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Stephanie wrote: "I can't believe there was ever a time when I didn't know what to read. I keep adding to my list, but I have learned to be a little more discerning. there are some types of books that just don't cli..."

I totally agree! And also I'm at 70 books now on my TRL list!

[Kimberly]

This is a great challenge. I'll start near the beginning of summer break, and I hope to arrive back at my library with at least 20 new titles to recommend.

[Teresa]

371 books, 37 books. WOW

[D]

I trimmed my TBR list down from 432 to 352, but 35 books is still way too many for me to read in a couple months. No matter what I'll be happy to shave the list down though, even if it's not a full 10%.

[Kritika]

I automatically start trimming my to-read when it hits 50. I like to keep it small so that I can find books I actually want to read instead of ones that look kinda-sorta-interesting (which I will forget about in a few days and never actually read). Right now my list has 30 books, so the challenge will be really easy for me!

[Deborah]

Because of this challenge I decided to pick up some books that have been on my TBR list awhile...the result was that my list is now longer. Curse it all. GRRR

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Now I'm at 119 I'll pretend that's 120

[Jennifer]

I just recently started using my goodreads account, so there's not much on my to read list. I managed to get it up to 68 books, so I guess that means I have to read seven? And I just realized that one of the series I was planning on reading isn't technically YA. Drat. Guess I'll go with the Gone series and the Blue Bloods series then. Divergent is a bit out of my usual genre, so I'll use it for that requirement. I'll read Supernaturally for a best selling author.

[Teresa]

After. Reviewing. My. List, I. Managed. To. Get. To. 144. From. A. High. Of. 374.

[Teresa]

Ya. List
morganville vampires. 1 book
Heist. Society. Current 2 books 7/28
Kristin. Cashore. Current
House. Of. Night 5. Books
Moral. Instruments. 1. Book
Matched. Current
Body. Finder. Current
Dark divine. 1 book
Perfect. Chemistry. Q. Book
Hush. Current
If. I. Stay. Current
Caster. Chronicles. Current
Ghost. Huntress. 1 book
Dark. Guardian. 2. Books
Hex. Hall. 1. Book
Wicked. 1. Book
Megan. Berry. Current
Need. 3 books
Vampire. Academy. 2. Books
Twilight. 3. Books
Mark. Current
Immortals. 4 books. Quitting the series
Kingdom. Keepers. 2. Books
Wings. 2. Books
Percy jackson. Current
Kane. Chronicles. 1. Bookb
Forest. Of. Hands 1 book
Cirque. De. Freak. 6. Books
Tantalize. 2. Bookss
Uglies. 1. Book
Paranormalcy. Current
Mockingbirds. Current
De d. Beautfil. Current
Blue bloods current 6/26
Vampire diaries current 7l6 on orginial 4 books. Done with this series

35. Series. Current. On. 10

Need. To. Re d. 14.5. Books

[Teresa]

Going to work on house of night, morganville vampires,blue bloods and. Dark divine as. Series. To. Get current.

Wicked, mortal instruments, forest. Of. Hands, uglies, as. Series to ax or not.

I. Am. Making. Breaking dawn and vampire #4. Determation reads

[Teresa]

I made the decision. NOT to start any new series. I need to read some stand alones or I am heading for a book burn out. Any suggestions?

As for the challange I read
Misguided angel Blue. Bloods. Now. Current eith this series 6/26
Hunted by pc cast. House of night series 5th in series
Shadowland. By. Alyson noel. Imortal series 4th in series
Believing. By. Wendi. Staub. Lily dale series 1st in series
Crescendo. By. Becki. Fitzpatrick. Hush. Hush. Series 2nd in series current
Vampire dairies#4 current july 3 done with series
Entice carrie jones. Current july 15
Uncommon criminals ally carter current july 28

Adult series
Fallen. Karin slaughter. Current july 2
Misery bay steve hamilton current july3
Without consent kathryn fox 2nd in series
Smokin seventeen janet evanovich current July 9
Bitter end christine kling. Book 3
Damaged alex kava. Book 5
Wreckers key. Current. Series may be done by author

[Julia]

Books that I'm finally going to get around to this summer that've been on my TBR shelf for awhile:

1. Q & A by Vikas Swarup
2. Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories & Poems of the Borderlands ed. by Holly Black & Ellen Kushner A challenge book, but it's only been out three weeks... But it is really good
3. Bayou Moon
4. Magic Bleeds
5. The Golden Compass
6. The Second Summoning
7. Chalice
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray
9. Jasmine Nights
10.Imaro
11. Wereling Because #2 is cheating.

[Bitteronion]

JULIA : ^;^
secret of mine - bad addicted reading - but no time search VOC <<< local friend even complains why u ask all HEAVY WORDS --- :((( ----
hihihi - novel here uses word (english not my 1st lang but TIPS: eng can be given many syn words but mean just 1 or 2 means - in other hand- my 1st 1 word = 1000 means ) train that IMAGINE --- oopsss -- shhh keep that secret for me - thats why never is SMART

please exlain vocabularies below- plz plz -
* bayou << ???
* bleed never be a magic to me ---- i did get BT couple weeks ago --- need to eat more to supply again - need DIET times larrrrrrrrrrrr
* Chalice ---???
* Dorian ??? why gray ??? >>> old grrrrrrrrrr KILL U
* Jasmine 9 ???
* Imaro ???
* wereling ??? but when i cheat --- then SORRY friend - always mean

[Bitteronion]

Angie wrote: "Fabulous... now let me see if I can get started on this!"
??? still Game --- i pass -- i mean quit -- but i think u already have ur decision--- travel to that SHOPPING CITY but need a prettie tour-guide lady shave for u -- safe her if she did have that many years experience - and u r nice and she nice either - reasonable to keep - highly recomend -
what i never dare to wish for me any treatment - cuz never deserve to have one - just make anyone waste times -
what i was given up 1 to 1 to 1 and this lastest 1 -
in my country - there is an idiom : no- chance is more than 3 times - see i tried till 4th -
end-up for my life is - be that 5th - 6th- 7th ---- etc --- still a NOPE , can say that is LOST only -