Challenges


All Year 2012 – Back to the Classics Challenge 2012
Challenge: Read classic novels from certain categories
Results
: Ongoing
- A 19th century classic:
- 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:
 
All Year 2012 – 2012 Audio Book Challenge
Challenge: “Lover” – Listen to at least 25 audio books this year
Results: Ongoing
- 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)
- Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- Leviathan by Scott Westfeld (review)
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (review)
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (review)
- Wonder by RJ Palacio (review)
- The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (review)
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (review)
- Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (review)
 
All Year 2012 – What’s in a Name 5
Challenge: Read books with certain words in the title
Results: Ongoing
- 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 Stars by 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)

All Year 2012 – 2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge
Challenge: “Love at First Sight” – Read 31-40 books of my TBR shelf at home (I’m aiming for 40).
Results: Ongoing
- 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)
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (review)
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan (review)
- Love Does by Bob Goff (review)
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (review)
 
October 2011 – Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon
Challenge: Read as many books as possible in a 24-hour period!
Results: 2.75 books read!- Perelandra by CS Lewis (review)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Rigs (review)
- A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engel (review)
 
September & October 2011 – R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge
Challenge:Peril The Second: Read two books from the following categories: mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, and supernatural.
Results: Complete!- Storm Front by Jim Butcher (review)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (review)
 
August 2011 – Read My Own Books Month
Challenge: Read as many books off my personal TBR shelf as possible. No review or library books.
Results: Of the ten books I read, nine of them were off my personal TBR shelf!- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (review)
- Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis (review)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (review)
- Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller (review)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Isiguro (review)
- Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams (review)
- A Game of Thrones by George RR Marting (review)
- The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (review)
- Empire by Orson Scott Card (review)

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