Mini-Challenge Reporting - January

[Dee]

for you guys participating in the mini-challenges, at the end of the read-a-thon, please take a moment to provide an update of your points ;)

many thanks

[LynnB]

My January Cover2Cover mini-challenge:

I. Resolution Frenzy - 5 pts/book
1. The Pillars of the Earth (Chunkster to read from TBR)
2. The Sparrow (long-time on TBR)
3. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (a Hive challenge task)
4. Trouble in the Brasses (a Hive challenge task)
5. The Merlot Murders (a Hive challenge task)
6. Gun Games (a Hive challenge task)
7. An Irish Country Christmas (a Hive challenge task)
8. Fifth Avenue, 5:00 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Dawn of the Modern Woman (a Hive challenge task)

II. Best-of Madness - 1 pt/book

III. Country Spotlight - North Korea - 2 pts/book
1. In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family

IV. Fortune Cookie - 4 pts/book
1. Jar City (#138 of 382 on current TBR)

Points completed: 46
Resolution Frenzy - 40
Best-Of Madness - 0
Country Spotlight - 2
Fortune Cookie - 4

[Carlie]

January Minichallenge Points Tally


RESOLUTION FRENZY
Josephine B. Trilogy 5 points
The Help 5 points
The Hobbit 5 points
Special Topics in Calamity Physics 5 points
Holy Bible: NIV 5 points

Total Points: 25

[★Meghan★]

Minichallenge Point Total...

Resolution Frenzy 5pts/bk
Home at Rose Cottage: Three Down the Aisle\What's Cooking?
Fools Rush In
Pam of Babylon
Wish
The Awakening
Call Me Mrs. Miracle
Revolution

Total Points: 35

[Nancy H]

Here is my final list for the January mini-challenges:


1. Resolution-frenzy 5 points per book
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (1/2/12)
Grace Interrupted by Julie Hyzy (1/6/12)
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris (1/13/12)
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris (1/17/12)
Now Is the Time for Running by Michael Williams (1/17/12)
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore (1/21/12)
Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani (12/28/12)

2.Best-of madness 1 point per book
PostSecret:Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (1/2/12)
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (1/8/12) - Wow! What a great book!
The Year of Living Scandalously by Julia London (1/15/12)
Joanne Fluke's Lake Eden Cookbook by Joanne Fluke - (1/24/12)

3. Country Spotlight 2 points per book
The Orphan Master's Son (1/27/12)

4. Fortune Cookie 4 points per book
The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls

Total points: 50

I really enjoy the mini-challenges, and I try to do as many as I can to 'broaden my reading horizons'! I'm looking forward to the next set.

[Tracy]

1. Resolution Frenzy 5 pts

77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz
Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman


4. Fortune Cookie 4 pts

Son Of Stone by Stuart Woods
Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
The Moonlit Mind: A Tale of Suspense by Dean Koontz
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Evil Star by Anthony Horowitz

Total points 49

[Stephanie]

Resolution Frenzy - 5 pts per book
(12x12 Challenge)

1. Dead to the World
2. Fallen in Love
3. Outside In
4. The Awakening
5. Leviathan
6. The Amulet of Samarkand
7. Slide
8. Matched
9. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides
10. Double
11. The Reckoning
12. Dust Girl


Best-of Madness-1 pt

1.

Fortune Cookie-2 pts

1.

Country Spotlight - 4 pts

1.



Total Points: 60

[Anne]

Resolution Frenzy: (A-Z challenge)
1.Xtreme Houses
2.Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
3.Oliver Twist
4.Midnight Riot
5.The Name of the Wind
6.The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 16: 1981-1982
7.V is for Vengeance
8.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Total points: 40