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The (Never-Ending) Ben & Jerry's Challenge
woohoo finished one more! Late Night Snack (14)
14/14-DONE
L-Light on Snow-6/21/13
A-Alexandra Bracken-The Darkest Minds-12/10/13
T-Ted Dekker-Sovereign-7/26/13
E-The Edge of Never-5/26/15-★ ★
N-Nina Sankovitch-Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading-7/31/14
I-Ishiguro, Kazuo-Never Let Me Go-8/1/14
G-The Goldfinch-4/21/14
H-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets-10/26/13
T-Tartt, Donna-The Goldfinch-4/21/14
SSprinkle with Murder-3/27/13
N-Never Let Me Go-8/1/14
A-Alexandra Bracken-Never Fade-12/31/13
C-Cress-03/09/14
K-Klassen, Julie-The Tutor's Daughter-5/27/13
Running out of room, so moving completed flavors here.Banana Split: 11/11
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Boston Cream Pie: 14/14
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Cake Batter: 10/10
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Cheesecake Brownie: 17/17
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Cherry Garcia: 12/12
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Chocolate: 9/9
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough: 24/24
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Chocolate Fudge Brownie: 21/21
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Chocolate Nougat Crunch: 21/21
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Chocolate Therapy: 16/16
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Chubby Hubby: 11/11
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Cinnamon Buns: 12/12
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Coffee Caramel Buzz: 17/17
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Dublin Mudslide: 14/14
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Half Baked: 9/9
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Karamel Sutra: 12/12
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Late Night Snack: 14/14
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Mud Pie: 6/6
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Peach Cobbler: 12/12
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gee totally missed your comments. Thanks ladies! :)
Finished a flavour:Cake Batter (10/10)
C - Stephen Chbosky/The Perks of Being a Wallflower (01/30)
A - Andy Weir/The Martian (04/06)
K - Karen Marie Moning/Faefever (01/11)
E - Erik Larson/In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (03/21)
B - The Book of Strange New Things/Michel Faber (03/15)
A - Anna Freeman/The Fair Fight (05/07)
T - Rob Thomas/Mr. Kiss and Tell (03/29)
T - This Side of Home/Renée Watson (04/04)
E - E.M. Forster/A Room with a View (07/09)
R - Patrick Rothfuss/The Name of the Wind (02/03)
Congrats, Joanne!And now I will join you with a finished flavor m'self~
Milk & Cookies1 (11/11)
M – The Maynard Girls by Mary Beth Young 6/25/15
I – Ian Thomas Healy – Upon a Midnight Clear 6/25/15
L – The Lingering Remains by Scott Kaelen 7/2/15
K – Kaelen, Scott – The Lingering Remains 7/2/15
C – Connolly, Sheila – Under the Hill 7/3/15
O – Off Course by Simon Haynes 7/2/15
O – Of Man, Sun, and Stars by Vasileios Kalampakas 7/2/15
K – Kalampakas, Vasileios – Of Man, Sun, and Stars 7/2/15
I – Idee Fixe by Erik Handy 1/29/15
E – Erik Handy – Idee Fixe 1/29/15
S – Simon Haynes – Off Course 7/2/15
And I've finished a flavor too :)
CHOCOLATE ORANGE FUDGE - COMPLETED 6/30/15
C – Bonnie S. Calhoun - Cooking the Books, finished 10/28
H – Jack Higgins - Thunder Point, finished 11/26
O – The Owl Keeper, by Christine Brodien-Jones, finished 5/3
C – Judy Clemens - Till the Cows Come Home, finished 11/26
O – Out of Circulation, by Miranda James, finished 5/15
L – Gaston Leroux - The Mystery of the Yellow Room, finished 7/26
A – The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, by Melanie Benjamin, finished 1/3
T – Nancy Thayer - A Nantucket Christmas, finished 11/12
E – Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett, finished 3/25 ★★★
O – One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, by Agatha Christie, finished 5/27
R – The Ragtime Kid, by Larry Karp, finished 1/30
A – Along Came A Demon, by Linda Welch, finished 1/16
N – Nancy Horan - Under the Wide and Starry Sky, finished 4/15
G – Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers, finished 4/24
E – Elly Griffiths – The Ghost Fields, finished 3/31
F – The Fortune Quilt, by Lani Diane Rich, finished 5/16
U – Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, finished 6/30
D – The Dog Park Club, by Cynthia Robinson, finished 5/14
G – Guns Will Keep Us Together, by Leslie Langtry, finished 3/17
E – Elizabeth Peters – The Mummy Case, finished 4/2
So just a question for everyone still doing this challenge ( I'm not sure if I asked this already, so if I have sorry)Are any of you using shorter books? I looked in the "rules" section although there are no rules so I was just wondering. For instance I'm going to be reading Of Mice and Men this month, which is only 100 pages, but it is an "O" book....I feel like a challenge this big can have a few short books thrown in but....just wondering what everyone else thought. I don't want to "cheat" lol! ;)
Angie H wrote: "So just a question for everyone still doing this challenge ( I'm not sure if I asked this already, so if I have sorry)Are any of you using shorter books?"
Since the rules don't say anything about a minimum page length, yes, I'm using shorter books if they fit any of the spots I have left :)
Angie H wrote: "So just a question for everyone still doing this challenge ( I'm not sure if I asked this already, so if I have sorry)Are any of you using shorter books? I looked in the "rules" section although t..."
Heck yes.... :)
Lol Thanks ladies! I will count it then once I am done! :)
Thanks, Barb and Angie, and congrats on the finished flavor, Barb :DRe: shorter books, I'm with Ruth, Angie - heck yes. Especially for some of the harder/more plentiful letters (U's, I's, and Y's, I'ma looking at you).
And on a personal note, Of Mice and Men is one of only a few high school lit books that I reread of my own volition. It's one of my favorite classics. Hope you enjoy it :)
Candyland wrote: "And on a personal note, Of Mice and Men is one of only a few high school lit books that I reread of my own volition. It's one of my favorite classics. Hope you enjoy it :) ..."
I did enjoy it! =)
I can't believe such a short book could bring up so emotions! Definitely made me want to read more by John Steinbeck!
I'm sure I've read others over the years, but the Steinbeck book I remember most is The Pearl. I must have read it in 5th or 6th grade (a long, LONG time ago!).
Barb wrote: "I'm sure I've read others over the years, but the Steinbeck book I remember most is The Pearl. I must have read it in 5th or 6th grade (a long, LONG time ago!)."LOL! I've heard a couple people mention that one. I've added it to my TBR!
The only other one I read was for High School The Grapes of Wrath ( not THAT long ago, but long enough lol)=)
...And that "O" helped me finish one more flavour! =)Pistachio Pistachio (18)
18/18-Complete
P-Picoult,Jodi-The Storyteller-4/25/13
I-Invisible Man-9/22/14
S-Sherryl Woods-The Inn At Eagle Point-4/8/13
T-Taherah Mafi-Shatter Me-4/1/14
A-Anna and the French Kiss-2/24/14
C-A Clash of Kings-5/14/14
H-Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone-10/12/13
I-If I Stay-12/3/14
O-Oliveira, RobinMy Name Is Mary Sutter-5/31/15--★ ★ ★ ★
P-Penny,Louise-Still Life-11/26/13
I-In Between-4/7/15-★ ★ ★ ★
S-The Storyteller-4/25/13
T-Taherah Mafi-Unravel Me-4/5/14
A-Attachments-4/16/14
C-Campbell -Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores-5/15/14
H-A Heart Revealed-1/11/14
I-In The Afterlight-1/11/15
O-Of Mice and Men-7/15/15-★ ★ ★ ★
Yay, Angie! Glad you liked it, and congrats on the finished flavor :DAs much as I loved Of Mice and Men, I'm not so much a fan of The Grapes of Wrath. That might be because my Lit teacher gave a class full of seniors the book two weeks before our high school graduation and told us we were going to read and test on it before we graduated. Spoiler: it's not a "read in two weeks and test on it" kind of book. Ah, well =P
So I've been a busy little bee the last couple of weeks :)Coffee Heath Bar Crunch (20/20)
C – A Curse Affecting Only Girls by Eiji Otsuka 2/26/15
O – On Call by Brooklyn Hudson 2/27/15
F – Flight 279 by Rob Hecht 7/12/15
F – Finn, Domino – Nothing but the Black 7/14/15
E – Escaping the Matrix by Edwin Harkness Spina 2/25/15
E – Edwin Harkness Spina – Escaping the Matrix 2/25/15
H – Hudson, Brooklyn – On Call 2/27/15
E – Eiji Otsuka – A Curse Affecting Only Girls 2/26/15
A – Awaken Spirit by Barbara Watkins 3/22/15
T – A Text from the Dead by Stella Dark 3/26/15
H – Haynes, Simon – Updown 2/27/15
B – Brooke, Sara – Ghost Swim 7/14/15
A – Anne Frasier – Pale Boy 3/26/15
R – Rowe, Brian – Human: A Ghost Story 1/29/15
C – Coraline by Neil Gaiman 3/9/15
R – Rob Volver – Bible Camp 7/22/15
U – Updown by Simon Haynes 2/27/15
N – Neil Gaiman – Coraline 3/19/15
C – Chandler, Randy – Hellbent House 3/22/15
H – Hecht, Rob – Flight 279 7/12/15
Late Night Snack (14/14)
L – Loughan, Nicole – To Murder a Saint 9/28/14
A – A.R. Winter – Innocent in Las Vegas 1/27/15
T – Truant, Johnny – The Universe Doesn’t Give a Flying Fuck About You 9/28/14
E – E.J. Copperman – Old Haunts 9/4/14
N – Nelson Lowhim – Run 7/12/15
I – I am a Pole (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert 1/29/15
G – Ghost Swim by Sara Brooke 7/14/15
H – Harris, R.A. – Shadows 7/14/15
T – Troy McCombs – Rag Doll 3/26/15
S – Shadows by R.A. Harris 7/14/15
N – Nothing but the Black by Domino Finn 7/14/15
A – Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey 2/14/15
C – Colbert, Stephen – I am a Pole (And So Can You!) 1/29/15
K – Krisch, Glen – Commitment and Other Tales of Madness 7/21/15
Interestingly, while I was going through getting links together for this post, I found that five of the books apparently vanished from my "Read" shelf, and I think some of my ratings for other books disappeared as well. The heck?
You *have been busy, good for you!I've had weird things happening with some of my books too. Some have gone from To-Read to Read, and I haven't read them yet. None of them have even a star rating, let alone a completion date or genre shelves, so I know I didn't mark them as read.
My total page count for the year has DROPPED over 1,000 pages since this time last month (after accounting for the books I read in July). Since I'm doing a page-based challenge for 2015, that's NOT a good thing :(
I don't want to look too hard at other potential problems; I'm afraid of what I might find!
Thanks ladies!Look at you go Candyland. Great job! :)
Thanks, Angie!Barb, I'm kind of relieved to see it's not just me. If it were just one book I'd put it off to my own silliness, but five? Most of which were in one series? I'm a goof, but not that bad =P
I'm actually almost done with the current flavors - like...only a handful of books away. I'm very resolutely Not Thinking About all the E's I'll have to read when I hop into the Flavor Graveyard :)
...I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but...The current flavors. I finished them.
Holy buckets Batman.
...FLAVOR GRAVEYARD YOU ARE MINE *fist shake*
First ListBanana Split
B:
10/15/14A:
9/27/14N:
9/30/14A:
1/15/15N:
12/10/14A:
3/23/15S:
10/22/14P:
1/19/15L:
12/2/14I:
10/18/14T:
10/2/14Boston Cream Pie
B:
1/28/15O: Of Light and Darkness: The Vampire's Daughter by Shayne Leighton
10/28/14S:
1/10/15T:
1/3/15O:
12/3/14N:
1/8/15C:
1/12/15R:
10/10/14E:
12/18/14A:
5/1/15M:
10/8/14P:
7/1/15I:
10/21/14E:
2/9/15Second List
Apple Crumble
A: Anne Marsh-
6/21/15P: Prussing, Scott-
3/14/15P: Petru Popescu-
4/1/15L: Lynsay Sands-
10/18/14E: Enoch, Suzanne-
9/27/14C: Chase, Loretta-
1/22/15R: Rebecca Gober-
12/10/14U: Uner, T.A.-
2/7/15M: Marie Force-
1/22/15B: Beth Nimmon, Darrall Scott, Steve Raby-
10/17/14L: Lindsey, Johanna-
2/14/15E: Eileen Wilks-
10/2/14
CHALLENGE START DATE: 1/1/13CURRENT FLAVORS: 1/1/13 – 8/3/15
FLAVOR GRAVEYARD: 8/3/15 - ?
FLAVORS DONE: 46/93
LETTERS DONE: 830/1428
Part 2: Retired Flavors
3/50 Flavors
213/811 Letters
Aloha Macadamia (6/14)
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Apple Crumble (12)
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Banana Ice Cream (14)
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Blackberry Cobbler (12/17)
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Blueberry Ice Cream (10/17)(view spoiler)
Bovinity Divinity (16)
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Chocolate Chocolate Cookie (24)
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Chocolate Orange Fudge (20)
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough (32)(view spoiler)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffle (28)
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Chocolate Raspberry Truffle (25)
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Cinnamon Ice Cream (16)
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Concession Obsession (19)(view spoiler)
Cool Britannia (13)
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Dastardly Mash (12/13)
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Deep Dark Chocolate (17)
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Egg Nog (6)
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Fresh Georgia Peach (14/17)(view spoiler)
From Russia With Buzz (18)
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Giant Chocolate Chunk (19)
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Gingerbread Cookie (17)
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Holy Cannoli (7/11)(view spoiler)
Honey Apple Raisin Chocolate Cookie (26/31)
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Island Paradise (14)
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Jerry's Jubilee (13)
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KaBerry KABOOM (13)(view spoiler)
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Makin' Whoopie Pie (15)
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Monkey Wrench (4/12)
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Nutty Waffle Cone (15)
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Orange and Cream (9/14)(view spoiler)
Peanut Butter and Jelly (20)
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk (26)
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Peanuts! Popcorn! (14)
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Peppermint Schtick (15/17)(view spoiler)
Pulp Addiction (13)
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Rainforest Crunch (7/16)
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Reverse Chocolate Chunk (21)
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Rootbeer Float My Boat (17/19)(view spoiler)
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S.N.A.F.U. (4/5)
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Southern Pecan Pie (16)
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Sugar Plum (6/9)
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The Full VerMonty (15)(view spoiler)
Totally Nuts (6/11)
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Urban Jumble (7/11)
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Vanilla Chocolate Chunk (21)
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Wavy Gravy (9)
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White Russian (7/12)
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Yay Candyland for finishing your first list *throws confetti*
Congrats, Juana for finishing more flavours!!!
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