Mishmash Challenge 2012 (Offical Thread)

[Barbara]

Not with the summer we're having. We had a very few confusing days where one was very hot and the next cold and windy and rainy. And the last week we have been relatively nice weather but you know how it gets when it is summer and there is a storm coming in? You know the really sweaty sticky kind of weather, where it isn't hot, but even getting up from the couch to get a cold drink is making you sweat, even though the temperature is only 22 C. Well we have been having that kind of weather for the last week. I have been waiting for that thunderstorm and it just isn't coming. It is hard to sleep at night and during the days you just don't know what to do with yourself, because as we say in Dutch: "je zit jezelf in de weg" Like you are bothering yourself, like when you're doing something and someone is in the way only now you are the one that is in your way. Very annoying!
But you're right at least it isn't flu season. I am very bad at being sick. I always get tired of it after a couple of hours and then I just get really annoying.
I hope you at least had fun at the arts festival!

[Carolien]

Completed 22 - Ratking. New author and 1st in series for me.

4/30

[Barbara]

Read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for task 9.

total finished tasks: 20

[Barbara]

Ok, I had a dumb moment here. That is what sometimes happens when I plan books for one challenge and then suddenly read a book for another challenge. I forget to check if that book for another challenge can replace a planned book. So I updated earlier today because I had read 2 books. One for this challenge and one for the Choose wisely challenge. All of a sudden I had a lightbulb moment and remembered that I paid good money for the book for the Choose wisely challenge and that that was a task I still had to complete in this one and I could use that book also for this challenge.
So I read Secrets of the highlander for task 21.

Total completed tasks: 21

[Lauren]

Completed task no.14: 6/30

[Lauren]

Completed task 2: 7/30

[Liezel]

Completed #6 - Annie on my mind, #13 Body & Soul and #14 White Witch

total 5/30

[Lu]

Updated

[Carolien]

Completed Task 23. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Total 5/30

[Varla Fiona]

task 23: James Potter 2

9/31

[Liezel]

completed #19 Shine & #27 Cinder

7/30

[Lauren]

Finished task 21: 8/30

[Liezel]

Finished #21 A Monster Calls

8/30

[Barbara]

Read the Night Circus for task 27.

Total completed tasks: 22

[Lauren]

Completed task 22: 9/30

[Riana]

Done with task 18.

1/30

[Lu]

Updated

[Varla Fiona]

Task 18: Fifty Shades Darker

10/31

[Carolien]

Completed Task 19: Plugged

6/30

[Barbara]

Read Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin for task 29

Total completed tasks: 23

[Riana]

Done with task 1

2/30

[Barbara]

I read the Fetch for task 4.

Total completed tasks: 24

[Varla Fiona]

Task 3: Sandstorm

11/31

[Carolien]

Completed Task 13. The Unlikely Secret Agent

7/30

[Lu]

Updated

[Barbara]

Read Decked for task 11.

Total completed tasks: 25

[Riana]

Done with task 10

3/30

[Varla Fiona]

Task 10:

12/31

[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Finished 6, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24 and 28

Total 22

[Wendi]

Read To My daughter in France for task 1; Trackers for task 3; I'll Walk Alone for taks 6; Something in the Sea for task 11 4/30

[Wendi]

Read Lone Wolf for task 13 5/30 Read Prophet for task 19 and The Secret Between Us for task 21 7/30

[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Finished 9, 13 and 27
25/31

[Barbara]

I finished Mary Queen of France, Prophecy of the Sisters, Guardian of the Gate and Dark Side of the sun for tasks 7, 15, 22 and 22.

Total completed task: 29

And with that I will admit "defeat".
Since I have a snowball's chance in Hell to get an ARC, I will have to wait till it is 2013 to read a book published in 2013 and with reading that book complete this challenge.
Those of you who have a blog will get an ARC and will complete this challenge before me.
Not that it is a competition, but I enjoyed the "race" and I hope I gave at least some of you a run for their money. :)
Enjoy the Challenge and see you again in 2013!

[Varla Fiona]

Congrats Barbara. You definitely won Stage 1! And you won't be alone finishing next year... I will have at least 2 that must wait!

[Barbara]

Thanks!
Yeah me too. I mean task 25 and the bonus task. No shame in that, since after all it isn't a competition, but it is always nice to complete the challenge first.

[Lu]

Even if I get a ARC for 2013 I still have to read all the other challenges, and we all know I'm slow :)
So you still have a chance!

Updating now

[Barbara]

I don't think so. Lauren F is right on my heels. So if she gets an ARC...
But it doesn't matter. I just wanted to scare everyone by reading fast.

[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Well done! Awesome job :)

[Barbara]

Thanks. You made it touch and go at the end though and you probably win by reading an ARC, but it was exciting. And more importantly I had fun trying to beat you to 29 tasks.

[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Hi guys I'm having a hard time with No. 10 - Read a book where a word or words in the title is pictured in the cover image. Maybe it is a mental block but I am stumped. Any ideas??

[Lauren]

The first thing that came to mind was Joanne Harris. She has several books that could work:
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[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Haha were you hungry when you came up with this list? :)

[Lauren]

Lol, no :) I just came across the Peaches book in an article recently, so I thought of it now, and then remembered that she has a bunch of books foods in the title, and they're pictured on the covers.

[Liezel]

Finished #8Fitzwilliam Darcy Rockstar and #3 Anna Karenina

10/30

[Varla Fiona]

Task 16: Falling Sideways

13/31

[Carolien]

Task 20: The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30)

8/30

[Lu]

Finished

1. Tree(s) - Dark Companion
23. Person's name - Anna Karenina

5/30

[Varla Fiona]

Task 15: The Last Light of the Sun

14/31

[Lauren (Sugar & Snark)]

Finished the last 5 books for the challenge
No. 25 (Thank you netgalley)

No.29 /

I have swopped around the other books/challenges so much that it is just confusing so here are the books I read, feel free to check my original post to see where they fit.





30/31

I am moving on to the bonus!

[Varla Fiona]

Congrats Lauren! Nearly there...