Read Your Name Challenge

[Ruth Noemi]

Bolos read: 1/9
R-Ruthless
U-Unbelievable
T-Twisted
H-Heartless

R-Fire from the Rock-FINISHED
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J-An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
A-Ali's Pretty Little Lies
S-Someone Like You

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[Patti]

This sounds really fun! This is my list:
P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A: Arthur & George
T: The Fault in Our Stars
R: Rebecca
I: The Invisible Ones
C: The Side of Brightness - Colum McCann
I: It's Kind of a Funny Story
A: A Discovery of Witches

[Linda]

We'll see how far I get with this one! Unread books are possibilities that may be changed if I read other qualifying books over the course of the year.


L - Living The Savvy Life: The Savvy Woman's Guide to Smart Spending and Rich Living
I - Initiation
N - NATHANIEL Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter
D - Dear Mr. Henshaw
A - Anna Karenina - January 2013

J - Jane Eyre
O - The One and Only Ivan

M - MARY MacLane wrote The Story of Mary Maclane - March 10, 2013
A - ARUNDHATI Roy wrote The God of Small Things
R - RAND, Ayn wrote The Fountainhead
T - TURNAGE, Sheila wrote Three Times Lucky
I - Inside Out & Back Again
N - NEVILLE, Emily Cheney wrote It's Like This, Cat

[Book Concierge]

Didn't realize until now that I haven't been recording my progress here, because I'm definitely doing this again in 2013!

CHALLENGE COMPLETED - 01May2013

B - BRIAN Selznick wrote book:Wonderstruck|10128428] ✔ 10Feb13
O - On Chesil Beach ✔ 04Feb13
O - Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love ✔ 23Feb13
K - KING, Stephen wrote 11/22/63 ✔ 09March13
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C - CURTIS, Christopher Paul wrote Bud, Not Buddy ✔ 14Feb13
O - On the Banks of Plum Creek ✔ 08March13
N - NEVADA Barr wrote A Superior Death ✔ 01May13
C - CHRISTIE, Agatha wrote Hickory Dickory Dock ✔ 07April13
I - The Island ✔ 15March13
E - ELIZABETH Berg wrote The Year of Pleasures ✔ 04March13
R - The Red House Mystery ✔ 02March13
G - GUADALUPE Garcia McCall wrote Under the Mesquite ✔ 03March13
E - EVA Rice wrote The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ✔ 20March13

[Petra]

I want to do this again this year, too. I still need to read a book that begins with "R" to finish last year's challenge, though. Seems that I don't read books that begin with "R"! :D

[Book Concierge]

Petra wrote: "I want to do this again this year, too. I still need to read a book that begins with "R" to finish last year's challenge, though. Seems that I don't read books that begin with "R"! :D"

Don't forget that you can use the AUTHOR'S NAME for the "R" ... you aren't limited to titles.

[Dorcas]

My name is too short so I'll do my username and my real name.

D - Dreamland
O - Of Mice and Men
R - Room
C - Cinder
A - Atonement
S - Safe Haven

L - The Legacy
U - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
L - The Lord of the Rings
U - Unwind

[Petra]

Book Concierge wrote: "Don't forget that you can use the AUTHOR'S NAME for the "R" ... you aren't limited to titles. ..."

I had forgotten that! ....off to check my recently read books.......
Thanks, Book Concierge!

[Petra]

Done! I finished reading my name from 2012. Now to start for 2013!

I will use my name and the first name of the Province I live in:

Completed: 12/12

P - The Passage (Jan 24)
E - Stanley Evans - Seaweed on the Rocks (May 26)
T - The Twelve (Feb 18)
R - Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Mar17)
A - American Gods (April 6)

B - The Bluest Eye (Mar 21)
R - Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast (May 11)
I - Infinite Jest (Mar 15)
T - Tan Twan Eng - The Gift of Rain (Mar 8)
I - I Am Not A Serial Killer (May 21)
S - Son (Jan 5)
H - Half of a Yellow Sun (Mar 24)

[Maya]

M - The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
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H - Hamlet (Shakespeare)
L - Les mains sales (Jeal-Paul Sartre)
A - A midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare)
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N - Nature Ethics (Marti Kheel)

[Book Concierge]

Update to Message 57 -
CHALLENGE COMPLETED - 01May2013

B - BRIAN Selznick wrote book:Wonderstruck|10128428] ✔ 10Feb13
O - On Chesil Beach ✔ 04Feb13
O - Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love ✔ 23Feb13
K - KING, Stephen wrote 11/22/63 ✔ 09March13
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C - CURTIS, Christopher Paul wrote Bud, Not Buddy ✔ 14Feb13
O - On the Banks of Plum Creek ✔ 08March13
N - NEVADA Barr wrote A Superior Death ✔ 01May13
C - CHRISTIE, Agatha wrote Hickory Dickory Dock ✔ 07April13
I - The Island ✔ 15March13
E - ELIZABETH Berg wrote The Year of Pleasures ✔ 04March13
R - The Red House Mystery ✔ 02March13
G - GUADALUPE Garcia McCall wrote Under the Mesquite ✔ 03March13
E - EVA Rice wrote The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ✔ 20March13

[Adria]

4/9

A-Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green
D>(A)Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
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A-Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher

F-First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
AAloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey
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[Michelle]

With no time limit, this is so gonna work! I love the idea.
started 6/26/13
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[Ana]

Read Your Name Challenge
1/6 Read

A: The Keeper of Lost Causes - Jussi Adler-Olsen 8/1/13 - 3 stars
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[Jordyn]

J- Jodi Picoult wrote: Nineteen Minutes ✔
O- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
R- Room by Emma Donoghue✔
D- Dreamland by Sarah Dessen ✔
Y- Yann Martel wrote: Life of Pi ✔
N- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

[Marci]

I'll jump in...

Complete! Might do another round since my name is so short...
M- Matched
A-An Abundance of Katherines
R- Running with Scissors
C- City of Secrets
I - It's Kind of A Funny Story

[Melanie]

Coffee & Books: Read Your Name Challenge


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L - Looking for Alaska
A - Animal Farm
N - The Night Circus
I -
E - The English Patient

[Annabel]

Name challenge
2013 -

A All's Fair in love & Seduction by Beverley Kendall (Jan 2013)
N The Novice (The Black Magician's series) by Trudi Canavan (Mar 2013)
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B Before I met you by Lisa Jewell. (Aug 2013)
E Emergency: wife lost and found by Carol Marinelli (Aug 2013)
L The light between oceans by M.L. Stedman (Aug 2013)

H The High Lord (The Black Magician's series) by Trudi Canavan (Apr 2013)
U The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Aug 2013)
G Girl in the Mirror by Cecelia Ahern (Sept 2013)
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S Speak by Laurie Anderson (Sept 2013)

[[deleted user]]

This looks like a great challenge for me for 2014. I'll be pulling books off my own library shelf to complete this challenge. Thanks for the great ideas for how to meet this challenge head on!!

[Rach , Moderator]

Great! Excited to see you start up for 2014!