Challenges — A Quarterly Update

I signed up for four different reading challenges this year. Now that we’re a quarter of the way through (!!!), let’s see how I’m doing!

Back to the Classics Challenge 2012 – 12.5% complete 

- A 20th century classic:
- Reread a classic of your choice:
- A classic play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (review)
- A classic mystery / horror / crime:
- A classic romance:
- A classic that has been translated from its original language to your language:
- A classic award winner:
- A classic set in a country you will not visit during your lifetime:

2012 Audio Book Challenge (listen to 25 audiobooks) – 36% complete

- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King (review)
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (review)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (review)
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (review)
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King (review)
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (review)

What’s in a Name 5 – 33% complete

- A book with a topographical feature in the title:
- A book with something you’d see in the sky in the title: The Fault in Our Starsby John Green (review)
- A book with a creepy crawly in the title:
- A book with a type of house in the title:
- A book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title:
- A book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title: 11/22/63 by Stephen King (review)

2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge (read 40 currently owned books, not including review copies) – 12.5% complete
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (review)
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (review)
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (review)

Looks like I’m doing well on two challenges, and not-so-well on two others. Totaled, I’m 21.5% finished with the challenges. That’s almost a quarter, so I’m going to call January through March a success!