2012 Personal Challenge

[Catherine]

I am insane! I just increased my total to 150 for now...may change it again to 200!


currently 42/150

[Heather]

My personal challenge is 60 but might change my goal in a month or so.

[Varla Fiona]

Catherine wrote: "I am insane! I just increased my total to 150 for now...may change it again to 200!


currently 42/150"

Welcome to the club, my goal is also 150. Might increase later too...

[Catherine]

Varla Fiona wrote: "Catherine wrote: "I am insane! I just increased my total to 150 for now...may change it again to 200!


currently 42/150"

Welcome to the club, my goal is also 150. Might increase later too..."

Hehe! We can push each other! :) what are you up to now? I will have a couple more finished in the next day or 2!

[Catherine]

Varla Fiona wrote: "Catherine wrote: "I am insane! I just increased my total to 150 for now...may change it again to 200!


currently 42/150"

Welcome to the club, my goal is also 150. Might increase later too..."

Hehe! We can push each other! :) what are you up to now? I will have a couple more finished in the next day or 2!

[Nicolette]

I'm at 44/100! 11 books ahead so I may also up it to 150 since I have so much reading time in the summer!

[Ciska]

if 44 at 100 is already 11 books ahead I should surely up my goal as I got 40 books on a 75 challenge... but will wait until June

[Nicolette]

Ciska wrote: "if 44 at 100 is already 11 books ahead I should surely up my goal as I got 40 books on a 75 challenge... but will wait until June"
That's kinda of when I was thinking about deciding if I wanted to change mine too!

[Varla Fiona]

I have read 69 so far. Reading some long ones lately and been busy. Glad to encourage each other to reach the goal!

[Catherine]

well...I have read several Chunksters in the 42 that I have completed. I am doing a series challenge...in which I have already got to read close to my goal anyway, but I am reading other books as well!

I am insane! I need HELP!!!! :)

[Catherine]

update to post 77

45/150

[Nicolette]

Catherine wrote: "well...I have read several Chunksters in the 42 that I have completed. I am doing a series challenge...in which I have already got to read close to my goal anyway, but I am reading other books as..."

Chunksters... hehe... I'm going to start using that word.

[Catherine]

Nicolette wrote: "Catherine wrote: "well...I have read several Chunksters in the 42 that I have completed. I am doing a series challenge...in which I have already got to read close to my goal anyway, but I am read..."

Well...there is the Chunkster challenge too! All books must be over 450 pages! Already read 7!

[Carrie]

Update to post 7

[Catherine]

update to post 80

48/150!

[Catherine]

update to post 80

49/150

[Catherine]

update to post 77
50/150!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Part two of my 2012 challenge. Part one can be found at Post #20.

♥	=	350+ page books
✩	=	500+ page books
◈	=	750+ page books
☑	=	1,000+ page books
(Idea borrowed from Shay. ☺)

(view spoiler)[May 2012

101.Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (5/24)
102.Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (5/24)
103.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (5/26) ♥
104.Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (5/26)
105.Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (5/26)
106.The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria by Marlena De Blasi (5/26)
107.Plain Girl by Virginia Sorensen (5/27)
108.The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (5/27)
109.The Beduins' Gazelle by Frances Temple (5/27)
110.Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld (5/28)
111.The Samurai's Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard (5/28)
112.Seventeenth Swap by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (5/28)
113.Shoes for Everyone by Barbara Mitchell (5/28)
114.Hero Over Here by Kathleen V. Kudlinski (5/29)
115.Gale Force by Rachel Caine (5/31)

June 2012

116.Luther: Biography of a Reformer by Frederick Nohl (6/1)
117.The Story Of The Monitor And The Merrimac by R. Conrad Stein (6/1)
118.Simon Bolivar: The Liberator by Frank De Varona (6/1)
119.Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson (6/1)
120.The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Davidson (6/1)
121.Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (6/2)
122.Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (6/2)
123.A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg (6/2)
124.The Eagle Of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (6/2)
125.The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds (6/3)
126.Sing Down The Moon by Scott O'Dell (6/3)
127.The Second Mrs. Gioconda by E.L. Konigsburg (6/3)
128.Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick (6/4)
129.Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (6/4)
130.Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (6/5)
131.The False-Hearted Teddy by John J. Lamb (6/5)
132.The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (6/6)
133.The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (6/6)
134.Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (6/7)
135.Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (6/7)
136.The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn (6/8)
137.With the Enemy by Eva Gray (6/8)
138.Set Me Free by Eva Gray (6/9)
139.Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (6/9)
140.The Twenty-one Balloons by William Pène du Bois (6/10)
141.From the Mixed-Up Files... by E.L. Konigsburg (6/10)
142.Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich (6/12)
143.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (6/13) ♥
144.Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (6/14)
145.Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (6/14)
146.Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (6/15) ♥
147.Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (6/16)
148.The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (6/16)
149.Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Julius Lester (6/17)
150.The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (6/19)
151.The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (6/19)
152.The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (6/24)
153.Girls In Pants by Ann Brashares (6/25)
154.The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (6/25)
155.The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (6/26)
156.Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (6/26)
157.The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (6/26)
158.If You Ask Me by Betty White (6/26)
159.Kildee House by Rutherford George Montgomery (6/27)
160.A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (6/28) ◈
161.Savage Nature by Christine Feehan (6/28) ♥
162.Bossypants by Tina Fey (6/29)
163.Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card (6/30)

July 2012

164.When the Moon is Full by Stacia Ilyana St. Peter (7/1)
165.Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (7/3)
166.Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (7/4)
167.Article 5 by Kristen Simmons (7/4) ♥
168.Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (7/5)
169.Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (7/6)
170.Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton (7/7)
171.A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (7/7)
172.Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (7/7)
173....And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (7/8)
174.A Good American by Alex George (7/9) ♥
175.Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (7/10)
176.Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (7/10)
177.Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell (7/11)
178.The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (7/12)
179.Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (7/13)
180.The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (7/15) ◈
181.Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business by Daniel Defoe (7/16)
182.Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow (7/17)
183.Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (7/18)
184.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (7/18)
185.ElfQuest 1: Wolfrider by Richard Pini (7/19)
186.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (7/20)
187.The Time Traders by Andre Norton (7/21) ♥
188.Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card (7/22)
189.Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (7/23)
190.11/22/63 by Stephen King (7/24) ◈
191.The Secret of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (7/25)
192.Calico Bush by Rachel Field (7/26)
193.Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (7/26)
194.Oedipus Rex by Sophocles(7/27)
195.Summer by Edith Wharton (7/30)
196.Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (7/31)

August 2012

197. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (8/2)
198. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne (8/3)
199. A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill (8/4)
200. Queer Little Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe (8/5) (hide spoiler)]

[Catherine]

Update to post 80

51/150!

[Varla Fiona]

Update to Post 102:

80/150

I have read more than half of my goal in less than half the year. If I have read more than 100 by 30 June, I will up my goal to 200!!

[Theresa]

my personal challenge is to read 50 books im up to 35/50 read im 16 books ahead thinking about changing my goal but not quite sure yet.

[Anne (Booklady)]

My Personal Challenge is 105 Books in 2012.

Read in January:

1. Fearless Fourteen by *Janet Evanovich 1/3/2012
2. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 1/4/2012
3. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas 1/5/2012
4. Before I Go to Sleep by *S.J. Watson 1/7/2012
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1/9/2012
6. The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society by Beth Pattillo 1/14/2012
7. The Night Circus by *Erin Morgenstern 1/23/2012
8. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 1/30/2012
9. Nothing To Lose by Lee Child 1/27/2012
10. Ratking by Michael Dibdin 1/26/2012
11. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by *Erik Larson 1/12/2012

Read in February:

12. Gideon's War by Howard Gordon 2/12/2012
13.Duma Key by Stephen King 2/17/2012
14.Games to Play After Dark by Sarah Gardner Borden 2/22/2012

Read in March:


15.The Reversal by Michael Connelly 3/6/2012
16. Murder at The Washington Tribune by Margaret Truman 3/8/2012
17.Carry the One by *Carol Anshaw 3/11/2012
18. The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg 3/16/2012
19. Still Missing by *Chevy Stevens 3/17/2012
20. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3/19/2012
21. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 3/30/2012
22. American Gods by *Neil Gaiman 3/23/2012
23. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3/30/2012
24. Exodus by Leon Uris 3/29/2012
25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer 3/31/2012

Read in April:

26. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 4/4/2012
27. Ice Station by Matthew Reilly 4/17/2012
28. Snow Angels by *James Thompson 04/19/2012
29. The Insider by *Reece Hirsch 4/20/2012
30. Summer of Fire by Linda Jacobs 4/22/2012
31. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by *Aimee Bender 4/24/2012
32. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4/29/2012
33. Love Story by Erich Segal 4/30/2012

Read in May:

34. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 5/2/2012
35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 5/6/2012
36. Black Oil, Red Blood by *Diane Castle 5/12/2012
37. The Time Traveler's Wife by *Audrey Niffenegger 5/14/2012
38. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 5/12/2012
39. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 5/18/2012
40. Six Days of the Condor by *James Grady 5/18/2012
41. The Drop by *Michael Connelly 5/21/2012
42. The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean 5/23/2012
43. Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts 5/6/2012
44. Black Rose by Nora Roberts 5/18/2012
45. Red Lily by Nora Roberts 5/24/2012



Read thus far: 45/105

[Zeljka]

Update to post #152: read 29 of 70, not including the one I've already read before - pity GR doesn't allow adding the book more than once :(

[Lauren]

I'm a good few books ahead so if I hit 30 soon I'll up my goal to 50. I'd do it now but then I'm worried I may slow down or hit a rough patch :')

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Updated Post #172 = 135/200

[Varla Fiona]

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "Updated Post #172 = 135/200"

WoW, impressive. I am considering increasing my goal to 200... If I read 100 by 30 June, which means another 11 or so to go!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

:D Thanks!

[Catherine]

update to post 77

55/150...I kind of slackered off this past week....now I have some catch-up to do!

[Monica]

Rachel Skye wrote: "Participants

Rachel- 50
Ciska- 75
Matt-52
Sam 125
Carrie- 100
Jessa- 52
Jenny- 60
Kel- 50
Jennifer- 75
Katelyn-52
Vicky-65
Melissa-100
Laura-50
Chris Ann- 80
Chelsey- 60
Lauren- 50
Holly- 100
Denn..."

I pledged 50 books this year in this group. Can I please be included.

[Ciska]

I updated my Challenge from 75 to 120 books

[Teneal]

Yayyyyy! Go Ciska!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Updated Post #172 = 150/200

[Heather]

Update to post #156 - 58/60 just increased it to 75

[Heather]

Monica wrote: "Rachel Skye wrote: "Participants

Rachel- 50
Ciska- 75
Matt-52
Sam 125
Carrie- 100
Jessa- 52
Jenny- 60
Kel- 50
Jennifer- 75
Katelyn-52
Vicky-65
Melissa-100
Laura-50
Chris Ann- 80
Chelsey- 60
Lauren..."

Can you please include me in the list, also? Thanks!

[Lauren]

I updated my goal to 50 :') seeing as though I've hit 32 already.

[Hayley]

WELL! I've gotten about 15 books behind because of my classes... I did not anticipate being THIS consumed this summer. But I told myself to get back to being focused, so I'm going home tonight and finishing the book that I started... over a month ago. Lol.

I'll be back on track with my personal challenge in no time. :P

[Varla Fiona]

WooHoo, just finished the 100th book for the year. As a result, I will be increasing my goal to 200 for 2012!!!

[Varla Fiona]

WooHoo, just finished the 100th book for the year. As a result, I will be increasing my goal to 200 for 2012!!!

[Hayley]

I lied. I didn't go home and read last night. I WILL meet my goal...

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Updated Post #172 = 189/200

[Rach , Moderator]

This list keeps growing and it is hard to keep up!!

Continue to post here the books you will meet, but I am not going to list things (as you see I only have been listing nominations & who is reading what book for each month.. in most recent things)

BUT! Also please add it here:

http://www.goodreads.com/challenges/5...

as it is the official challenge page for the group!

:-)

[Catherine]

Don't feel bad Hayley...I got behind in my challenge...life sort of happened....and I've been extremely tired! I reduced my goal slightly(150 to 120)...but will try to catch up again, and go back up!

[Heather]

Heather wrote: "Update to post #156 - 58/60 just increased it to 75"

Update to post #156 - 78/100 just increased it to 100 about a week ago.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Completed: Updated Post #172 = 200/200

[Carrie]

I hit my goal of a 100 books! I never really counted how many books I have read before so next year I will up it.

[Carrie]

Wow Melissa Congrats

[Aoibhínn]

I'm at 47/52 books, 17214 pages and I'm 16 books ahead of schedule :)

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Carrie wrote: "Wow Melissa Congrats"

Thank you! =]

[Aoibhínn]

So far I'm at 50/52 books and 18484 pages :)

[Aoibhínn]

I'm at 55/60 books and 20886 pages!