 All Year 2012 – Back to the Classics Challenge 2012Challenge: Read classic novels from certain categories Results: Mostly completed - A 19th century classic: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (review) - A 20th century classic: The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald (review to come) - Reread a classic of your choice: The Hobbit (review) - A classic play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (review) - A classic mystery / horror / crime: The Stand by Stephen King (review) - A classic romance: The Four Loves by CS Lewis (review) (yes, I’m fudging a bit here) - A classic that has been translated from its original language to your language: not achieved - A classic award winner: not achieved - A classic set in a country you will not visit during your lifetime: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (review to come) |
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 All Year 2012 – 2012 Audio Book ChallengeChallenge: “Lover” – Listen to at least 25 audio books this year Results: Complete! SMASHED. 36 audio books - 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) - The Stand by Stephen King (review) - Stiff by Mary Roach (review) - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (review) - Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (review) - Old Filth by Jane Gardham (review) - The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (review) - The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (review) - A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (review) - Delirium by Lauren Oliver (review) - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (review) - The Passage by Justin Cronin (review) - Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (review) - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (review) - Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer (review) - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (review) - Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (review) - Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (review to come) - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (review to come) - Drama: An Actor’s Education by John Lithgow (review to come) - The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (review to come) |
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 All Year 2012 – What’s in a Name 5Challenge: Read books with certain words in the title Results: Complete! - A book with a topographical feature in the title: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (review to come) - 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: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (review) - A book with a type of house in the title: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (review) - A book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Wine to Water by Doc Hendley (review) - A book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title: 11/22/63 by Stephen King (review) |
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 All Year 2012 – 2012 TBR Pile Reading ChallengeChallenge: “Love at First Sight” – Read 31-40 books off my TBR shelf Results: Not achieved, but close. Read 28 books off my TBR shelf - 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) - The Stand by Stephen King (review) - Stiff by Mary Roach (review) - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (review) - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (review) - Old Filth by Jane Gardam (review) - Wine to Water by Doc Hendley (review) - The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (review) - The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (review) - A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (review) - Delirium by Lauren Oliver (review) - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (review) - The Four Loves by CS Lewis (review) - The Passage by Justin Cronin (review) - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (review) - Wild by Cheryl Strayed (review) - Money Secrets of the Amish by Lorilee Craker (review to come) - Seven by Jen Hatmaker (review to come) - The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien (review to come) |
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 October 2011 – Dewey’s 24-Hour ReadathonChallenge: 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) |
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 September & October 2011 – R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril ChallengeChallenge: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) |
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 August 2011 – Read My Own Books MonthChallenge: 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) |
