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Awesome, Susan!
Ladies - I've gone ahead and posted the All Things Summer Challenge! so you can sign up and start planning now if you'd like to!
June's Spell it Out! Challenge and June's Build Your Own Challenge are also posted.
Finito!May Build Your Own Challenge- read books from my TBR pile including my monthly book club selection.
9 / 9 completed
1. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan ^ completed 5/4
2. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson completed 5/6
3. Untamed: Maverick Hearts with Heather Graham Pozzessere * completed 5/9
4. The Dressmaker: A Novel by Posie Graeme-Evans completed 5/13
5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See completed 5/19
6. The Husband Trap by Tracy Anne Warren completed 5/20
7. The Wife Trap by Tracy Anne Warren completed 5/21
8. The Wedding Trap by Tracy Anne Warren completed 5/23
9. Ride with the Devil by Daniel Woodrell completed 5/28
^ Book club selection
* Anthology book
Congrats, Laura!!!
Catch up or stay even with my challenges:12/15
HEAC: Over in a Flash-May - red cover
NBRC: What Animal Are You? Reading Challenge. Read one (1) book to stay even.
W♥LK: 2012 Lisa's Ladies' Favorites List Challenge. Read one (1) book to stay even.
✔ Seduce Me at Sunrise, by Lisa Kleypas ★★★★½ OCD 5/16 pub “re-read via audio”
HEAC: Brides Challenge, one (1) book to stay on target.
NBRC: Celebrate a Featured Movie Star's Birthday
✔ Frontier Bride, by Ann Carberry ★★★½✩ PB 5/6
✔ Duncan's Bride, by Linda Howard ★★★★★ PB 5/8 “re-read”
✔ First Comes Marriage, by Mary Balogh ★★★★✩ODA 5/20 “re-read via audio”
Bride by Mistake, by Anne Gracie (PB)
The Wedding Bargain, by Victoria Alexander (C’s-CDs)
HEAC: The 50 States & Capitals Points Challenge
NBRC: 50 States
Read two (2) books from the remaining states:
Alabama, Arkansas,
RRRC: Build Your Own Challenge. A-Z Pet NamesRead two (2) books with pets.
RRRC: Lifetime in Books Challenge; read one (1) book from the fifties, one (1) from the sixties.
Rhode Island: The Ghost and Mrs. McClure, by Alice Kimberly (Library e-Book)
Rhode Island: Georgia On My Mind, by Marie Force
✔ Wisconsin: Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock ★★★★★ Library-PB 5/9
✿ Judgment in Death, by J.D. Robb ★★★★★ & a Wow! ODA 5/19
Southern States: Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck (Library-CDs - need to burn)
HP: Harlequin Presents Yearly Reading Challenge. Ahead in this one, but read (2) two HPs to count toward June.
Read a book by Penny Jordan to work on M.A.N.Y. M.O.R.E. C.H.I.C.K.S.
Marriage: To Claim his Twins, by Penny Jordan (PB)
TLC: Group Scavenger Hunt-anthology
An Heir for the Millionaire: The Greek and the Single Mom\The Millionaire's Contract Bride, by Julia James (PB)
NBRC: Finish off "Y" author (Yasmine Galenorn) in Ten Author Train Challenge.
Legend of the Jade Dragon, by Yasmine Galenorn (Library-PB need to request)
NBRC: Animals and Books - Man's Best Friends Challenge. Read one (1) to stay even.
✔ Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen ★★★✩✩ Library-CDs 5/4
NBRC: Disney Princesses Reading Challenge
Bel Ria: Dog of War, by Sheila Burnford(OCD)
RLftCI: Finish Prophecy: Child of Earth, by Elizabeth Haydon to catch up in series.
RLftCI: Just Desserts. Read one (1) to stay even.
✔ Sugar Rush, by Donna Kauffman ★★★½✩ PB 5/2
RRRC: Build Your Own Challenge. Read four (4) In Death series to catch up! Yikes! Way behind.
✔ Witness in Death, by J.D. Robb ★★★★★ & a Wow! ODA 5/11
✔ Judgment in Death, by J.D. Robb ★★★★★ & a Wow! ODA 5/19
Betrayal in Death, by J.D. Robb (ODA)
Interlude in Death, by J.D. Robb (ODA)
Seduction in Death, by J.D. Robb (ODA)
SOS: Read 2nd in a series to stay even.
SOS: Read two (2) books with dragons in them, to catch up.
✔ Dragon Bound, by Thea Harrison ★★★★★ audible.com 5/5 “re-read” via audio
Fire Me Up, by Katie MacAlister (OCD & PB)
SOS: Read one (1) book for the Psy-Changeling series to stay ahead.
✔ Hostage to Pleasure, by Nalini Singh ★★★★★ & a Wow! 5/24 audible.com “buddy read”
SOS: Luck of the Irish - finish it!
HEAC: Over in a Flash-May
RRRC: Lifetime in Books (80's)
✔ Amazon Lily, by Theresa Weir ★★★★★ Kindle 5/30 pub
I probably won't make all 15 books; however, I am quite pleased with the progress I've made in many of my challenges. This one helped me to focus. ☺
Lisa Kay wrote: "I probably won't make all 15 books; however, I am quite pleased with the progress I've made in many of my challenges. This one helped me to focus. ☺"I'm glad to hear that, Lisa Kay! When I came up with these challenges a couple years ago, my goal was to create something that each lady to use to challenge themselves, in whatever way they needed challenging. Maybe clean off a shelf, try a new author, etc.... so to hear that this helped you, makes me very happy!!
It really did, Dhes. I caught up in all my challenges except one, and I couldn't get the books from the library for that one. So, not my fault! I didn't get ahead in one and I didn't finish another, but they are yearly and I have tons of time... well... 7 months. LOL!
Edited the above post. I didn't change the book total, just forgot that I crossed off another of the 50 states.
So do I have your stats right, LK?
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7/7 completed
F ~ Foley, Galen My Irresistible Earl-completed 5/5/2012
L ~ Laurens, Stephanie In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster-completed 5/17/2012
O ~ On The Way to the Wedding J Quinn--Audio--completed 5/5/2012
W ~ Walters, EB, Slow Burn-completed 5/11
E ~ E James, Much Ado About You-completed 5/4/2012
R ~ Roses in Winter- Leslie Stuart--completed 5/8/2012
S ~ Stephanie Laurens The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae completed 5/25/2012