August's Build Your Own Challenge

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Welcome to August's Build Your Own Challenge

Duration: August 1st - 31st

The idea of this challenge is to make it work for you. Whatever books you read can qualify for this month so long as YOU make it qualify.

Examples:

Choose an August theme - vacations, beach trips, end of summer.

Books published in August.

Or just choose to clear off your TBR shelf.

If it works for you, it works for this challenge!

Sign up below!

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Participants


Lady Danielle----------------------24/16 - - -Done!
Laura-----------------5/6 - - - - Done!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

I'll join.

[Laura]

I'll participate. I'm not going to commit to a specific number, but they'll all be from my TBR read pile. Also, I likely won't be posting much at all because I'll be gone on vacation.

[Laura]

August Build Your Own Challenge- read books from my TBR pile including my monthly book club selection.

1 / X completed

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ^ completed 8/5
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
3.

^ Book club selection

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

For those of us who enjoy the longer challenges, I've just posted our first ever Back to School Challenge which runs September 1st thru June 30th.

Sign up here: Back to School Challenge!

[Laura]

August Build Your Own Challenge- read books from my TBR pile including my monthly book club selection.

3 / X completed

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ^ completed 8/5
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark completed 8/10
3. Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas completed 8/26
4. A Wolf at the Door by K.A. Stewart
5.

^ Book club selection

[Laura]

August Build Your Own Challenge- read books from my TBR pile including my monthly book club selection.

5 / 6 completed

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ^ completed 8/5
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark completed 8/10
3. Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas completed 8/26
4. A Wolf at the Door by K.A. Stewart completed 8/30
5. A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare completed 8/30
6. Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen

^ Book club selection

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Danielle's BYOC August
Goal: Read 16 books.
Completed: 8/30
Read: 24/16 books DONE!!

1. Whispering Cypress by BJ Robinson 8/2
2. Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan 8/3
3. A Spanish Awakening by Kim Lawrence 8/5
4. The Doppelganger Song by Caitlin Sumer 8/5
5. The Trophy Wife by Jannette Kenny 8/11
6. Ruthless Lover by Sarah Holland 8/11
7. The Girl that Love Forgot by Jennie Lucas 8/12
8. Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter 8/14
9. Protected by the Prince: The Weight of the Crown by Annie West 8/17
10. Knight's Possession by Carole Mortimer 8/17
11. Wild Lady by Ann Major 8/18
12. A Breathless Bride by Fiona Brand 8/18
13. Secrets in the Marriage Bed by Nalini Singh 8/18
14. Sweet Surrender with the Millionaire by Helen Brooks 8/18
15. Don't Play Games by Emma Darcy 8/19
16. Leap of Faith by Rachel Elliott
8/19
17. Lothaire by Kresley Cole 8/21
18. Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds 8/22
19. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley 8/24
20. Samurai Game by Christine Feehan 8/26
21. The Lone Wolfe by Kate Hewitt 8/27
22. The Elementals by Francesca Lia Block 8/28
23. Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly 8/29
24. Sleep No More by Iris Johansen 8/30

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Awesome, Lady D!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Certifiable St. Vinnie's Ninny]

Thanks, Dhestiny!

[Laura]

That's it for me...

August Build Your Own Challenge- read books from my TBR pile including my monthly book club selection.

5 / 6 completed

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ^ completed 8/5
2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark completed 8/10
3. Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas completed 8/26
4. A Wolf at the Door by K.A. Stewart completed 8/30
5. A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare completed 8/30
6. Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen

^ Book club selection

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Laura, the monthly book club... does that meet offline or online? Just curious! Great job, even though you didn't finish. Summer months are harder to fit in reading time, it seems.

[Laura]

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Laura, the monthly book club... does that meet offline or online? Just curious! Great job, even though you didn't finish. Summer months are harder to fit in reading time, it seems."

Offline...it's at my local library. The members nominate the books for each year and we decide as a group what to read each month. The person who nominated the book is then the leader for the discussion.

I could've read that last one in one day, but I had a lot going on this past weekend. I knew it would be a light month just because I was gone on vacation for two weeks.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

That sounds fun! Is it a large group? I've found with some of the smaller 'friend' group reads, people get offended (well, the same "certain" people anyway) when not everyone agrees on points of the story with them.

[Laura]

We started off reading Jane Austen and there were about six of us. We're now numbering around a dozen regulars. We do sometimes butt heads, but for the most part we agree to disagree. Since we do a lot of classics we try to also talk about what was happening politically, economically, socially, etc. to add more context. One lady is in love with critical essays so we get a lot of that, too.

[UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish, Your Humble Servant]

Thanks for the information, Laura. It sounds like a nice, eclectic group!