October - December 2011 Challenge

[Stacy]

Happy Black Friday! Who's been shopping? I sort of tried at Toys R Us last night but saw the line to get in and decided it wasn't worth it. I'm working today so I can't (unless I want to go out into the mall), but my fiance went to Best Buy this morning and got is PS3 that he's been talking non-stop about for the last couple of weeks.

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 130
Nicole - 120
Kristin - 110
Jules - 80
Nancy - 80
Stacy - 75
Kourtney - 65
Jencey - 60
Meghan - 35
Melanie - 25
Ashley - 15
Suzanne - 10

[Butterflycager]

Tasks completed:

5.7 Stars In My Eyes: Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood by Ice-T

25.2 Make Your Own Boxed Set: Vampire Books With Adult Characters
Nocturne by Syrie James
The Watchtower by Lee Carroll
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

15/45 Books
110/350 Points

[Jencey/]

Stacy wrote: "Happy Black Friday! Who's been shopping? I sort of tried at Toys R Us last night but saw the line to get in and decided it wasn't worth it. I'm working today so I can't (unless I want to go out int..."

We went out earlier today and were pleasantly surprised with traffic not being as bad as we thought.

[Stacy]

Jencey/ wrote: "We went out earlier today and were pleasantly surprised with traffic not being as bad as we thought."

I noticed that too as I was on my way into work this morning. I think it's because so many stores opened at midnight last night.

[Kristin (Kritters Ramblings)]

Task Completed 10.10 It's Starting to Get Chilly - Inseparable, Dora Heldt

16/45 Books
120/350 Points

[Nancy]

Task completed:
5.3: I – Quinn – Iris Johansen

11/45 Books
85/350 Points

[★Meghan★]

Task Completed:

25.1 Get Involved- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (read by the Seasonal Reading Challenge group), Delirium by Lauren Oliver (read by Paper Crown Society Group), The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (read by the Barnes & Noble Nook group)

7/45 Books
60/350 Points

[Jencey/]

Task completed 5.10 Lend Me an Ear – Growing Up Beautiful by Lori Jones

points 65/350

books 13/45

[Jencey/]

Task Completed 5.3 I – From This Day Forward by Irene Hannon

points 70/350

books 14/45

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

25.3: Happy Holidays- Halloween Night - RL Stine; Thanksgiving - Janet Evanovich; The Christmas Wedding - James Patterson

14/45 Books
110/350 Points

[Melanie]

Finally another task completed - I can't believe how freaking BUSY I am right now!! But I'm so happy to take a minute to check in here...

5.5 U – The Unseen - T.L. Hines

8/45 books
30/350 Points

[★Meghan★]

Task Completed:

25.2-Make Your Own Boxed Set- Coupling Covers -
(all have couples on the cover)

10/45 books
85/350 points

[Stacy]

Task Completed:
25.2 Make Your Own Boxed Set – Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - The Summer Before - Ann M. Martin, Fins are Forever – Tara Lynn Childs, Belle of the Brawl – Lisi Harrison

13/45 Books
100/350 Points

[Alicia]

TASK COMPLETED

25.5 Through the Decades: B is for Burglar, Sue Grafton (’85 11/21/11; Rum and Razors, Donald Bain (’95) 11/25/11; The Next Thing On My List, Jill Smolinski(’07) 12/1/11

22/45 Books
155/350 Points

[Suzanne]

Task completed

15.5 What Once Was – It's Not Summer Without You, We'll Always Have Summer

I really liked this trilogy. It was much better than I expected. I still think Belly is an awful nickname, though!

15 pts
Total: 25 pts

[Stacy]

Wow, December 2nd already. Guess I should start working on the next challenge. :) I think I'm going to do a covers based challenge again, the last one was fun. :)

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 155
Kristin - 120
Nicole - 120
Jules - 110
Nancy - 110
Stacy - 100
Meghan - 85
Jencey - 70
Kourtney - 65
Melanie - 30
Suzanne - 25
Ashley - 15

[Suzanne]

I'd love another covers challenge! I love participating in these challenges even though I always fail. ha

[Stacy]

Suzanne wrote: "I'd love another covers challenge! I love participating in these challenges even though I always fail. ha"

No, you never fail! You're still reading books on your TBR list, right? ;)

[★Meghan★]

Task Completed:

10.7-K-I-S-S-I-N-G-Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols

11/45 Books
95/350 Points

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

10.8: OND – SecOND Chance – Jane Green

15/45 Books
120/350 Points

[Kourtney]

Why is it whenever I get halfway through a challenge all of my other books not chosen for the challenge start looking so shiny and alluring that I am steered away? So odd...

[★Meghan★]

I have that same problem at times Kourtney! It isn't like I can't fit books in. I just want to read different ones that don't fit...

[Stacy]

I have that problem too sometimes. Usually though - especially during the summer with all the new releases that come out then - I try to look ahead at what's coming out and figure out a way to fit new releases in.
I think it's because the ones we read first are the ones we really wanted to read, then we get to the ones that we want to read but not as bad as others and they worked better to fit the challenge. (How's that for a run-on sentence? LOL!)

[Stacy]

I spent my work day yesterday coming up with tasks for the next challenge (another cover challenge) so I'll be posting that soon. :)

[Suzanne]

Task completed
15.2 Silver & Gold – PLL #6 Killer (necklace), How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls (gold bikini)

15 pts.
Total: 40 pts.

[★Meghan★]

Task Completed
5.10 Completely Smitten by Susan Mallery

12/45 Books
100/350 Points

[Alicia]

TASK COMPLETED

15.2 Silver & Gold –
Silver: Silver Wedding, Maeve Binchy 12/5/11
Gold: Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich 11/7/11

23/45 Books
170/350 Points

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

5.2: E- Explosive Eighteen – Janet Evanovich

I read most of the book Saturday while waiting in line for Janet to sign the book....took 6 hours of waiting, but I got all eighteen of my books in the series signed!

16/45 books
125/350 points

[Alicia]

TASK COMPLETED

15.1 Help Me! – Coffe, Tea, Or Murder, Donald Bain 11/29/11, True Lies Of A Drama Queen, Lee Nichols 12/6/11

24/45 Books
185/350 Points

Shout out to Stacy!! I mooched the True Lies book from her. LOVED IT!! Thank you!

[Stacy]

Alicia wrote: "TASK COMPLETED

15.1 Help Me! – Coffe, Tea, Or Murder, Donald Bain 11/29/11, True Lies Of A Drama Queen, Lee Nichols 12/6/11

24/45 Books
185/350 Points

Shout out to Stacy!! I mooched the True L..."

:) Glad you liked it! I haven't read that one yet but it's at my library so I figured I should get it off my bookshelf. :)

[Kristin (Kritters Ramblings)]

Task Completed 25.4 Black, White and Red All Over: Cancelled, Elizabeth Ann West; Cobwebs of Time, Tessa Jones; Georgia's Kitchen, Jenny Nelson

19/45 Books
145/350 Points

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

25.2: Boxed Set-[multi author books] No Rest for the Dead: 26 authors-one mystery; Home Improvement: Undead Version - Charlaine Harris & others; The Unquiet - J.D. Robb & others

19/45 Books
150/350 Points

[Nicole]

5.4: Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
15.1: (read all the RDI books) The Year of Living Famously by Laura Caldwell and Jack with a Twist by Brenda Janowitz

140/350

[Stacy]

Only a few more weeks left! Do you have your Christmas shopping done? I don't. :(

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 185
Nancy - 150
Kristin - 145
Nicole - 140
Jules - 110
Meghan - 100
Stacy - 100
Jencey - 70
Kourtney - 65
Suzanne - 40
Melanie - 30
Ashley - 15

[Suzanne]

Task completed:
25.5 Through the Decades – The Ten Cupcake Romance (1986), Someone Like You (1998), PLL #5 Wicked (2008)

25 pts.
Total: 65 pts

[Stacy]

Suzanne wrote: "Task completed:
25.5 Through the Decades – The Ten Cupcake Romance (1986), Someone Like You (1998), PLL #5 Wicked (2008)

25 pts.
Total: 65 pts"

Ooh, good one Suzanne. Could you tell a difference in the writing from one decade to the next?

[Suzanne]

Stacy-Yes, I could definitely tell a difference! The book from 1986 was not good. ha. But it did remind me of this one series I used to love when I was younger, called Sweet Dreams. So I liked it for the nostalgia factor. The descriptions of clothes and the dialog were pretty awful. With the Sarah Dessen book, I could definitely tell it was one of her first books. It wasn't bad, I just feel her writing has gotten so much better over the years. Oh & it was kinda weird thinking that the character was 16 in the book (in 1998) so she'd be like 30 now! (if she was a real person, haha) The Pretty Little Liars book used lots of current stuff, brand names of things, etc. (as all her books do) which definitely set it apart from the other two.

[Stacy]

Suzanne wrote: "Stacy-Yes, I could definitely tell a difference! The book from 1986 was not good. ha. But it did remind me of this one series I used to love when I was younger, called Sweet Dreams. So I liked it f..."

I so want to do that task, but I'm afraid I won't be able to stick with the older books. I have a hard time reading anything pre-2004.

[Suzanne]

I probably wouldn't have done it except that my sister gave me that cupcake book. She found it at a used book sale and got it for me as a joke, since we both love cupcakes. ha. Honestly, I'm not really into books before around 2004 either. Glad I'm not the only one! It's funny because that other book I'm struggling to get through, English as a Second Language, is from 2004.

[Stacy]

Suzanne wrote: "I probably wouldn't have done it except that my sister gave me that cupcake book. She found it at a used book sale and got it for me as a joke, since we both love cupcakes. ha. Honestly, I'm not re..."

LOL, that might be why then! I absolutely will not read it if it's before 2000. Anything between then and, basically, 2005 is iffy for me. There are a lot out there that I want to read, but I try to stick with newer ones. Some older ones I will try because they're RDI or on that ultimate chick lit list...or authors that I like. But beyond that, not so much.
Glad to know I'm not the only newer chic lit snob. ;)

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

25.4: Black and White and Red All Over (Jen’s task)- Back in Black - Lori Foster; The Last Days of Daniel Hayes- Marcus Sakey; Happy Birthday - Danielle Steel

22/45 Books
175/350 Points

[Stacy]

Task Completed:
5.3 I – Ink Exchange – Melissa Marr

14/45 Books
105/350 Points

Good series, I'm curious to see what the next book is about....

[Nancy]

Task Completed:

5.7: Stars: Shockaholic - Carrie Fisher

23/45 Books
180/350 Points

[Stacy]

Wow, a lot of close points!

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 185
Nancy - 180
Kristin - 145
Nicole - 140
Jules - 110
Stacy - 105
Meghan - 100
Jencey - 70
Kourtney - 65
Suzanne - 65
Melanie - 30
Ashley - 15

[Kourtney]

Stacy wrote: "Wow, a lot of close points!

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 185
Nancy - 180
Kristin - 145
Nicole - 140
Jules - 110
Stacy - 105
Meghan - 100
Jencey - 70
Kourtney - 65
Suzanne - 65
Mela..."

Hee hee I'm right on Alicia's tail!!! Oh wait...that's not me :)

[Alicia]

Kourtney wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Wow, a lot of close points!

LEADERBOARD
Alicia - 185
Nancy - 180
Kristin - 145
Nicole - 140
Jules - 110
Stacy - 105
Meghan - 100
Jencey - 70
Kourtney - 65
Suzan..."


Hahaha. I am in it to win it. I have my son's 1st birthday party tomorrow, maybe I will play an audio book in the background so it as not to waste any reading time. Jk It's all about Jack and cupcakes tomorrow :-)

[Jencey/]

Task Completed! 10.3 Will it Be Your Favorite? – Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin

books 17/45

points 80/350

[Stacy]

Alicia wrote: "Hahaha. I am in it to win it. I have my son's 1st birthday party tomorrow, maybe I will play an audio book in the background so it as not to waste any reading time. Jk It's all about Jack and cupcakes tomorrow :-)"

LOL, hope the party went well! 1 year already!!!! It flies, doesn't it?

[Stacy]

5.2 E – Explosive Eighteen – Janet Evanovich

15/45 Books
110/350 Points

I love this series. Every time a new book comes out, I try so hard to not devour it in one sitting. :)

[Alicia]

TASK COMPLETED

25.3 Happy Holidays –
Halloween: Dead As A Doornail, Charlaine Harris 12/19/11
Thanksgiving: 11/22/63, Stephen King 12/15/11
Christmas: The Christmas Bus, Melody Carlson 12/16/11


27/45 Books
210/350 Points