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Castles of the World (2012)
ParticipantsAhlaam
Ashley
Barb COMPLETE
Barbara ★ COMPLETE
Bree
Brianna
Catherine
Chaitra COMPLETE
Chelsea
Cherie
Joanne♥
Kari
Kathryn
Martha COMPLETE
Meghan
Melanie
Natalia
NayNay - COMPLETE
SilverRaindrops
Thomas
I didn't join CCC till after this one had already started, so I'll give it a shot now. I think I'll try to do Cinderella's Castle, at DisneyWorld, but I won't officially start till Wednesday, just to make it easier to keep track of the date :) 
CASTLE CHALLENGE, 8/15-11/15
PROGRESS: 17/17
C - Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII, by Chester Nez, finished 8/29
I - The Inn at Rose Harbor, by Debbie Macomber, finished 8/27
N - author Noah Boyd - The Bricklayer (Steve Vail series #1), finished 10/28
D - Don't Ever Get Old, by Daniel Feldman, finished 8/20
E - Eye Of The Storm (Sean Dillon series #1), by Jack Higgins, finished 8/27
R - author Michael Robertson - The Baker Street Letters, finished 9/3
E - author E.R. Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love, finished 9/1
L - author Lois Leveen - The Secrets of Mary Bowser, finished 8/18
L - author Leslie Langtry - 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy, (Bombay Assassins #1), finished 8/31
A - author Abraham B. Yehoshua - A Woman in Jerusalem, finished 8/29
S - Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Bakery series #1), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 8/31
C - Candy Apple Dead (Candy Shop series #1), by Sammi Carter, finished 9/7
A - author Raymond L. Atkins - The Front Porch Prophet, finished 8/15
S - Shoofly Pie (Bug Man series #1), by Tim Downs, finished 9/4
T - author William G Tapply and Philip R Craig - Second Sight, Second Sight (Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson series #2), finished 9/12
L - author Linda C. Wright - One Clown Short, finished 9/7
E - Eyewall, by H.W. “Buzz” Bernard, finished 9/20
***** COMPLETED 10/28 *****
Sounds good, Barb! I missed this one the first time around too. I'm going to join you with this one very soon.
I in for Casa Loma castle in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...I had been there a couple of times.CASTLE CHALLENGE
duration: 8/14/12-11/14/12
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I'll do one I've been to... this is where they filmed Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner!Castles of the World
duration: 8/13/12-11/13/12
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I'm in as well. I'll choose Versailles - I want to go there at least once before I die (preferably much sooner). CASTLES OF THE WORLD
Duration: Aug 13, 2012 - Nov 12, 2012
Completed: 10/10
✓ V - The Dream of the Celt: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa ★ (08/19)
✓ E - A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (08/23)
✓ R - The Red House: A Novel | Mark Haddon ★★★★ (08/14)
✓ S - The Kissing List | Stephanie Reents ★★★★ (08/20)
✓ A - The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker ★★★★★ (08/15)
✓ I - In One Person | John Irving ★★★ (08/22)
✓ L - The Lifeboat | Charlotte Rogan ★★★ (08/21)
✓ L - Lord of the Flies | William Golding ★★★★★ (08/28)
✓ E - The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau ★★★ (08/28)
✓ S - Saturday | Ian McEwan ★ (08/24)
*** Completed (08/28) ***
Welcome to the challenge Kari!Me too, Chaitra! Welcome to the challenge.
I'll add you both to the participants list.
I find castles absolutely fascinating and this monstrosity in Germany has always fascinated me.
Neuschwanstein Castle
DURATION: August 15 - November 14, 2012
READ: 20/20
✔N: No Safe Place - JoAnn Ross 8/20
✔E: Eyes Of Crow - Jeri Smith-Ready 8/13
✔U: Unchained - Sharon Ashwood 8/18
✔S: Don't Look Down - Suzanne Enoch 8/16
✔C: Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang - Katie MacAlister 9/4
✔H: The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey - Linda Greenlaw 8/13
✔W: David Wiltse - Heartland: A Novel 9/16
✔A: Demons Prefer Blondes - Sidney Ayers 8/14
✔N: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake - Sarah MacLean 9/9
✔S: Shadow Fires - Catherine Spangler 8/24
✔T: Thursday's Child - Sandra Brown 8/30
✔E: Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child 9/12
✔I: I Don't Want to Kill You - Dan Wells 8/27
✔N: N.K. Jemisin - The Broken Kingdoms 9/8
✔C: The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett 8/21
✔A: Ascension - Felicity Heaton 8/29
✔S: Susan Squires - One With the Darkness 8/22
✔T: Tess Gerritsen - Under The Knife 8/29
✔L: Derek Landy - Dark Days 8/26
✔E: Eve Silver - Sins of the Soul 9/2
CHALLENGE COMPLETE
Barbara ★ wrote: "I find castles absolutely fascinating and this monstrosity in Germany has always fascinated me.That is beautiful! Welcome to the challenge.
I'm going to join this one and I'm going to go with Connecticut's own Gillette Castle. Maybe not quite as grand as those in Europe but it's still a neat place.
I'm also going to date my for Wednesday.
8/15 - 11/15
G: Kathleen Grissom / The Kitchen House = 8/26/12
I: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti = 8/21/12
L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
L: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith = 8/24/12
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S: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater = 9/3/12
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I will do the only castle I've been to...Chapultepec in Mexico City...
SCC Castles of the World Challenge
Aug 15 - Nov 14
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Welcome to the challenge Bree and Brianna!
I did this challenge in CCC and loved it. Of course, I completed it late, but who cares!! LOL I did Gleiburg Castle which is one we visited while living there in the mid-70s. This time I'll do another one we visited. It was just a small cozy palace! LOL King Ludwig built this one and 2 others, including Neuschwanstein.
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Welcome to the challenge Martha! There sure are some beautiful places in that part of the world. Someday....
Can I do KIRKSTALL ABBEY it is not technically a castle, it is the ruin of an abbey near where I grew up that I spent a lot of time at when young? Backdated to Start date 12 Aug 2012Castles of the World challenge
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I: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti = 8/21/12
L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
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I've made a little progress! :-)I did this challenge in CCC and loved it. Of course, I completed it late, but who cares!! LOL I did Gleiburg Castle which is one we visited while living there in the mid-70s. This time I'll do another one we visited.
It was just a small cozy palace! LOL King Ludwig built this one and 2 others, including Neuschwanstein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linderho...
2/9 completed
L - Lucifer's Tears
I - Ireland 8/21/12
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E - Every Dead Thing
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I'm new to this group but thought I would give this one a go, being from South West England I thought I would pick something close by that I have visited so am going to go for Tintagel in cornwall. Its not really a castle any more only ruin but was once so I guess that counts. www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/p...
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It counts! Welcome to the group and the challenge Thomas!
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L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
L: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith = 8/24/12
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Thank you very much! I am looking forward to it especially since the group isn't huge. :-)
Update:Castles of the World
August 15 - Nov 15
G: Kathleen Grissom / The Kitchen House = 8/26/12
I: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti = 8/21/12
L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
L: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith = 8/24/12
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Your reading speed is very fast. :-) As I get older, I have noticed mine has slowed down a little bit. I still enjoy reading, though, and I think it keeps my mind sharper than otherwise.
I'm finished. Yaay! If only I could get to Versailles this quickly! CASTLES OF THE WORLD
Duration: Aug 13, 2012 - Nov 12, 2012
Completed: 10/10
✓ V - The Dream of the Celt: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa ★ (08/19)
✓ E - A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (08/23)
✓ R - The Red House: A Novel | Mark Haddon ★★★★ (08/14)
✓ S - The Kissing List | Stephanie Reents ★★★★ (08/20)
✓ A - The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker ★★★★★ (08/15)
✓ I - In One Person | John Irving ★★★ (08/22)
✓ L - The Lifeboat | Charlotte Rogan ★★★ (08/21)
✓ L - Lord of the Flies | William Golding ★★★★★ (08/28)
✓ E - The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau ★★★ (08/28)
✓ S - Saturday | Ian McEwan ★ (08/24)
*** Completed (08/28) ***
Count me in! I will start with the AMBRAS in Austria. I will also backdate to the beginning of the month.AMBRAS (6/6)
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ANIF (4/4)
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BITTENBURG (5/10)
B Bunn, Davis; The Centurion's Wife 3/13/2013
I Insurgent 5/12/2013
T Taylor, Laini: Blackbringer 7/5/2013
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N Naked in Death 7/26/2013
B The Body Finder 4/9/2013
U Undead and Unwed 7/26/2013
R Ray, Michelle: Falling for Hamlet 6/11/2013
G Grisham, John: Calico Joe 3/24/2013
Well, Neuschwanstein is my favorite castle, but someone else is already doing it and there are so many great castles out there so I am going to go with another castle... LichtensteinDates: September 1 - December 1
L- Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty - 9/6/12 ****
I- Insurgent - 4/29/13 *****
C- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - 9/3/12 **
H- The Hunger Games - 10/8/12 *****
T- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 11/18/12 *****
E- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan 2/6/13 *****
N- New Spring - 8/18/13 ****
S-The Son of Neptune - 9/5/12 *****
T-Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone 9/10/12 *****
E-The Elite - 9/25/2013 *****
I-If I Stay - 8/22/13 ***
N-The Name of the Star - 10/3/2013 *****
Updating:
CASTLE CHALLENGE, 8/15-11/15
PROGRESS: 12/17
C - Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII, by Chester Nez, finished 8/29
I - The Inn at Rose Harbor, by Debbie Macomber, finished 8/27
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D - Don't Ever Get Old, by Daniel Feldman, finished 8/20
E - Eye Of The Storm (Sean Dillon series #1), by Jack Higgins, finished 8/27
R - author Michael Robertson - The Baker Street Letters, finished 9/3
E - author E.R. Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love, finished 9/1
L - author Leslie Langtry - 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy, (Bombay Assassins #1),
finished 8/31
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A - author Abraham B. Yehoshua - A Woman in Jerusalem, finished 8/29
S - Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Bakery series #1), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 8/31
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S - Shoofly Pie (Bug Man series #1), by Tim Downs, finished 9/4
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I already did this challenge in CCC, but I want to try again, haha.Castles of the World
Duration: 9/6/12 - 12/6/12
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Update:G: Kathleen Grissom / The Kitchen House = 8/26/12
I: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti = 8/21/12
L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
L: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith = 8/24/12
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I did not join CCC before this challenge happened, so I'm glad it is here :). I'm backdating to the beginning of this month to help me organizing :).SCC: Castles of the World
Sept 01 - Nov 31, 2012
Progress: 6/21
I have quite a lot of castles to choose from, and since I also have to read quite a lot of books, I'm going to honour my home state of Saxony, which has tourist adverts saying it's a "Schlösserland" (land of castles), by picking two castles :).
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E ***** Erin Morgenstern / The Night Circus, Sep 05
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I am in! I have chosen Bojnice Castle in Slovakia. It's one of our greatest tourist attractions. 
SCC: CASTLES OF THE WORLD
Sept 01 - Nov 30, 2012
Completed: 1/13
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Welcome to the challenge Silver and Natalia!
Update:G: Kathleen Grissom / The Kitchen House = 8/26/12
I: Illuminate by Aimee Agresti = 8/21/12
L: Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver = 8/17/12
L: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith = 8/24/12
E: Ernest Cline / Ready Player One = 9/9/12
T: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger = 9/6/12
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This challenge was originally posted in Crazy Challenge Connection
Challenge Creator: southpaw285
Duration: 3 months from start date
1. Choose a castle. Choose any castle in the world that strikes your fancy. This site might help you choose.
2. Spell it out. Read a book for each letter in the castle's name.
● Use title or author first or last name.
● All book formats are acceptable
☼ BONUS: Read a book about the castle you've chosen.