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Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2015August-December 2015. No counting books for more than one challenge at a time!
A: ✔ Ben Aaronovitch - Foxglove Summer
B: ✔ Rick Bragg - My Southern Journey
C: ✔ Cassandra Clare - City of Ashes
D: ✔ Eva Darrows - The Awesome
E: ✔ Edward M. Erdelac - Andersonville
F: ✔ Dawn Finch - Brotherhood of Shades
G: ✔ Lev Grossman - Codex
H: ✔ Charlie N. Holmberg - The Master Magician
I: ✔ Armand Inezian - VampCon
J: ✔ Steven James - Blur
K: ✔ Greg Keyes - The Waterborn
L: ✔ Robin LaFevers - Grave Mercy
M: ✔ China Miéville - Three Moments of an Explosion
N: ✔ Chloe Neill - The Veil
O: ✔ Terry O'Reilly - The Dragon
P: ✔ Cherie Priest - Those Who Went Remain There Still
Q: ✔ Kate Karyus Quinn - Another Little Piece
R: ✔ Diana Rowland - White Trash Zombie Apocalypse
S: ✔ Gabriel Squailia - Dead Boys
T: ✔ Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
U: ✔ Anne Ursu - The Real Boy
V: ✔ Gore Vidal - The City and the Pillar
W: ✔ Rysa Walker - Time's Edge
X: ✔ Sulayman X - Adventures of a Bird-Shit Foreigner
Y: ✔ Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
Z: ✔ Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber
Total: 26 books
Complete!
July: Book-Pictionary 2015OPTION #1: Guess it!
Sketch ✐ 16 - 20 books
Word Card: ✔
A Murder of MagesWord #1:
C: ✔ Carniepunk
R: ✔ The Resurrectionist
O: ✔ On the Line
S: ✔ Skinwalker
S: ✔ Some Fine Day
B: ✔ The Brass Giant
O: ✔ Outside
W: ✔ The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Word #2:
C: ✔ The Crown Tower
A: ✔ The Art of the Con
N: ✔ Nevermor
D: ✔ Definitely Dead
L: ✔ The Library at Mount Char
E: ✔ Empire of Ivory
S: ✔ The Subtle Knife
Total: 16 books
Complete!
August End of Summer Beach Blast Reading Challenge 2015Level: Moderate (5-7 books)
S: ✔ Sandman Slim
U: ✔ Unmade
R: ✔ The Rose and the Thorn
F: ✔ Falling in Love with Hominids
+
Beach Cover: ✔ California Demon
Total: 5 books
Complete!
Make Your Own Pizza September 2015Level: MARINARA ⇉ 16 - 20 books
Spinach & Prosciutto!
S: ✔ The Secret Fire
P: ✔ Paradigm
I: ✔ I Wish
N: ✔ Nightfall
A: ✔ Alive
C: ✔ Clementine
H: ✔ The House of the Four Winds
&
P: ✔ Paranormalcy
R: ✔ The Ruins Of Lace
O: ✔ Orange Is the New Black
S: ✔ Soundless
C: ✔ Cobweb Bride
I: ✔ The Infernals
U: ✔ Unknown Unknowns
T: ✔ Thief's Magic
T: ✔ A Trail Through Time
O: ✔ The Only Gold
Total: 17 books
Complete!
Antonym Challenge One year: 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2016Level: Masters (32 – 40 books)
Black/White
✔ Black Rabbit Hall
✔ White Cat
Angel/Demon
✔ The Incubus and the Angel
✔ Mark of the Demon
Mortal/Immortal
✔ Mere Mortals
✔ The Immortal Circus
Dark/Light
✔ A Darker Shade of Magic
✔ A Sudden Light
Day/Night
✔ Better Days and Other Stories
✔ The Night Clock
Sleep/Wake
✔ Before You Sleep
✔ Awaken
Life/Death
✔ My Life as a Pornographer
✔ From Dead to Worse
Rise/Fall
✔ Rise of Heroes
✔ City of Fallen Angels
Beginning/End
✔ The Bad Beginning
✔ The End of the Sentence
Lost/Found
✔ The Lost Boys Symphony
✔ Finder
Heaven/Hell
✔ The Ghosts of Heaven
✔ Lord of the White Hell
Vicious/Kind
✔ Vicious Circle
✔ Some Kind of Happiness
Chaos/Order
✔ The Alchemy of Chaos
✔ The New Order
Sweet/Bitter
✔ Home Sweet Horror
✔ Bitterwood
Wise/Foolish
✔ The Wise Man's Fear
✔ Fool Moon
First/Last
✔ The Very First Damned Thing
✔ The Last Dragonslayer
Total: 32 books
Complete!
October's Creature Feature Reading Challenge 2015Level: Moderate (5 - 8 books)
S: ✔ Sorcerer to the Crown
U: ✔ Until We Meet Again
C: ✔ City of Stairs
C: ✔ The Case of the Missing Servant
U: ✔ Unspeakable Things
B: ✔ Beastly Bones
U: ✔ Unfettered
S: ✔ Shiver
Total: 8 books
Complete!
November's Feast of Flavor Reading Challenge 2015Level: Moderate (5-8 books)
G: ✔ The Golem and the Jinni
R: ✔ Rosemary and Rue
A: ✔ Alice
V: ✔ Victory of Eagles
Y: ✔ You're Never Weird on the Internet
H: ✔ A History of Glitter and Blood
A: ✔ The Amber Spyglass
M: ✔ Mayhem at Grant-Williams High
Total: 8 books
Complete!
Singing in the Snow: December's Reading Challenge 2015Level: Hard (9+ carols)
✔ 1) Carol: "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
Book: Midnight Thief
Why?: The word "midnight" in the title
✔ 2) Carol: "White Christmas"
Book: How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back
Why?: The word "white" in the title
✔ 3) Carol: "Angels We Have Heard on High"
Book: The High King's Golden Tongue
Why?: The word "high" in the title
✔ 4) Carol: "O Come All Ye Faithful"
Book: All Together Dead
Why?: The word "all" in the title
✔ 5) Carol: "Joy to the World"
Book: The Young World
Why?: The word "world" in the title
✔ 6) Carol: "Home for the Holidays"
Book: The Children's Home
Why?: The word "home" in the title
✔ 7) Carol: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
Book: The God Engines
Why?: The word "god" in the title
✔ 8) Carol: "Last Christmas"
Book: The Last Ever After
Why?: The word "last" in the title
✔ 9) Carol: "O Holy Night"
Book: Becoming the Night
Why?: The word "night" in the title
✔ 10) Carol: "Deck the Hall"
Book: Hex Hall
Why? The word "hall" in the title
Total: 10 books
Complete!
Read the AlphabetOne year: January-December 2016. (Not counting books for more than one challenge at a time!)
✔ A: Arm of the Sphinx
✔ B: Black Dog Blues
✔ C: City of Heavenly Fire
✔ D: Darkness Brutal
✔ E: The Executioness
✔ F: For the Love of Wine
✔ G: Green but for a Season
✔ H: Hollow World
✔ I: The Immortals
✔ J: Junk
✔ K: Krabat
✔ L: Lady of Devices
✔ M: Magic Burns
✔ N: Nice Dragons Finish Last
✔ O: Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
✔ P: Phoenix Rising
✔ Q: Qualify
✔ R: Raelia
✔ S: Sanctuary Bay
✔ T: A Touch of Dead
✔ U: Unhappenings
✔ V: Vampire Sun
✔ W: The Wolf Gift
✔ X: XOM-B
✔ Y: The Year of Shadows
✔ Z: Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Total: 26 books
Complete!
Time for Tea January 2016
Gift card #1 of 3: extending challenge thru Feb 2016
Level: Tea Party (11 or more books)
Step 1 - Boil the water
Read books... where the author or title begins with B, O, I, or L
Step 2 - Choose your tea
Read books with a color on the cover to match the type of tea you choose (e.g., red or black)
Step 3 - Steep the tea
Read books with page counts to indicate how strong you like your tea (e.g., Medium = 151 to 300 pages; Strong = 301 pages or more)
Step 4 - Sweet?
Read books to indicate how sweet you like your tea (e.g., No sugar = Stand-Alone novel; two spoonfuls of sugar = Book Two in a series; honey = Book Three in a series)
First Cuppa:
✔ Step 1: B / O / I / L: B: Erin Bow - The Scorpion Rules
✔ Step 2: Black: The Poison Eaters
✔ Step 3: Strong: Perfect Ruin
✔ Step 4: Two spoonfuls of sugar: City of Blades
Second Cuppa:
✔ Step 1: B / O / I / L: O: Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
✔ Step 2: Red: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
✔ Step 3: Strong: Charming
✔ Step 4: Honey: Sisters' Fate
Third Cuppa:
✔ Step 1: B / O / I / L: L: Jessica Lourey - Seven Daughters
✔ Step 2: Black: Limbus, Inc.
✔ Step 3: Strong: Waistcoats & Weaponry
✔ Step 4: Honey: Kings Rising
Fourth Cuppa:
✔ Step 1: B / O / I / L: B: Paolo Bacigalupi - The Alchemist
✔ Step 2: Green: The Wild Wood
✔ Step 3: Medium: The Seventh Bride
✔ Step 4: No sugar: Scardust
Total: 16 books
Complete!
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2016January-December 2016. (Not counting books for more than one challenge at a time!)
Round 1:
✔ A: M.T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party
✔ B: Emily Butler - The Case of the Devil's Interval
✔ C: Cassandra Clare - City of Glass
✔ D: Megan Derr - Tournament of Losers
✔ E: Jennifer Estep - Dark Heart of Magic
✔ F: Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
✔ G: William Goldman - The Princess Bride
✔ H: Kevin Hearne - Hounded
✔ I: Eva Ibbotson - The Haunting of Granite Falls
✔ J: N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
✔ K: A.R. Kahler - Shades of Darkness
✔ L: Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
✔ M: Cynthea Masson - The Alchemists' Council
✔ N: Naomi Novik - Tongues of Serpents
✔ O: Megan E. O'Keefe - Steal the Sky
✔ P: Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair
✔ Q: C.S. Quinn - Death Magic
✔ R: William Ritter - The Map
✔ S: Scott Sigler - Alight
✔ T: Tristan J. Tarwater - Self-Made Scoundrel
✔ U: Anne Ursu - Breadcrumbs
✔ V: J. S. Volpe - Into the Woods
✔ W: Patrick Weekes - The Prophecy Con
✔ X: Sulayman X - Bilal's Bread
✔ Y: Hester Young - The Gates of Evangeline
✔ Z: Dima Zales - Oasis
Round 1 Total: 26 books
Complete!
Round 2:
✔ A: Margaret Atwood - Hag-Seed
✔ B: Pete Begler - The Fearless Travelers' Guide to Wicked Places
✔ C: Emma Cline - The Girls
✔ D: James Dashner - The Maze Runner
✔ E: Susan Ee - Angelfall
✔ F: Kim Fielding- Flux
✔ G: Neil Gaiman - The Sleeper and the Spindle
✔ H: James R. Hannibal - The Lost Property Office
✔ I: Eva Ibbotson - Dial-a-Ghost
✔ J: Maureen Johnson - The Boy in the Smoke
✔ K: Jessica Khoury - The Forbidden Wish
✔ L: Lois Lowry - The Giver
✔ M: Seanan McGuire - Reflections
✔ N: Naomi Novik - Blood of Tyrants
✔ O: Megan E. O'Keefe - Break the Chains
✔ P: Tom Pollock - The City's Son
✔ Q: Susan Kaye Quinn - Faery Swap
✔ R: Kat Ross - The Daemoniac
✔ S: B.R. Sanders - Ariah
✔ T: Jodi Taylor - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
✔ U: Tania Unsworth - Brightwood
✔ V: Vincent Virga - Gaywyck
✔ W: Jaye Wells - Dirty Magic
✔ X: Sulayman X - Tears of a Dragon
✔ Y: Jane Yolen - Sister Light, Sister Dark
✔ Z: Jeff Zentner - The Serpent King
Round 2 Total: 26 books
Complete!
Grand Total: 52 books
Complete!
Marvelous March 2016Gift card #2 of 3: extending challenge thru April 2016
Level: Luck of the Irish: 8+ books
◄ March is Women’s History Month. Read a book by a new-to-you female author.
✔ Madeline Ashby - Company Town
✔ Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
✔ Heidi Heilig - The Girl from Everywhere
✔ Virginia McClain - Blade's Edge
◄ The flower of March is the daffodil. Read a book... where the first letter of the title can be found in DAFFODIL.
✔ Dead and Gone
✔ The Deavys
✔ A Demon's Wrath: Part I
✔ Downfall of the Gods
✔ Fight Club
✔ Fires of Invention
✔ Indexing
✔ The Infinite Sea
✔ The Land of Laughs
✔ Leviathan
◄ March splits Pisces and Aries for zodiac signs. Read ... the final book in a series.
✔ Manners & Mutiny
✔ The Poet and the Prophecy
◄ March 17th is Saint Patrick’s Day. Read a book written by an author named Patrick.
✔ Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Total: 17 books
Complete!
May: Mostly May Idioms 2016Gift card #3 of 3: extending challenge thru June 2016
Level: Heavy Gusts : 13-24 books
• “April showers bring May flowers.” Read a book with flowers... on the cover.
✔︎ The Sandman: Overture
• “Be that as it may.” Read a book with a title that starts with the letter “B”.
✔︎ Blood Bound
✔︎ Burning Midnight
• “Cinco de Mayo.” Read a book that is fifth in a series.
✔︎ City of Lost Souls
✔︎ White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
• “Come what may!” Read a book with a futuristic setting.
✔︎ Catching Fire
✔︎ Scarlet
• “If I may be so bold...” Reader’s Choice.
✔︎ Ganymede
✔︎ Paper and Fire
• Mae West. Read a book with a black & white cover.
✔︎ Sweeney Todd & Other Stories
• “May Day!” Read a book that is first in a series.
✔︎ Rot & Ruin
✔︎ Swordspoint
• “May he rest in peace.” Read a book with ghosts.
✔︎ Ghostly Echoes
• “Seven Days in May.” Read a book that is seventh in a series.
✔︎ Crucible of Gold
• “Terms & conditions may apply.” Read a book that fits another challenge.
◄ Marvelous March Challenge: The flower of March is the daffodil. Read a book... where the first letter of the title can be found in DAFFODIL.
✔︎ The Death of Dulgath
✔︎ The Devourers
✔︎ Down and Out in Purgatory
✔︎ The Alchemist
✔︎ If It Ain't Love
✔︎ The Language of Dying
• “Try as I may.” Read a book that was published any day in May, of any year.
✔︎ Possession
✔︎ The Riddle of the Labyrinth
Total: 22 books
Complete!
Summer: Camp Gottaread 2016 21 June - 21 September 2016Level: Book Addict (15+ Books)
Camp Gottaread Activities:
☀Climb the intimidating heights of Mount TBR
✔︎ Axiom
✔︎ Behemoth
✔︎ Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Core
✔︎ Darkness Fair
✔︎ Dead in the Family
✔ Harmonic
✔ Her Own Devices
✔︎ Ottoline Goes to School
✔︎ Poison Dance
✔︎ The Reptile Room
✔︎ Rivers of London: Body Work
✔︎ This Census-Taker
✔︎ Time's Mirror
✔ The Wide Window
☀ Swim the seas of series you've always meant to finish but never have
✔ Acceptance (Southern Reach, Book 3)
✔︎ Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)
✔︎ Bright Blaze of Magic (Black Blade, Book 3)
✔︎ Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
✔︎ The Revival (The Young World, Book 3)
☀ Explore the tales of new named authors
✔︎ The Reader (Chee)
✔︎ The Invisible Library (Cogman)
✔︎ Poe (Fenn)
✔︎ Stasis (Fielding)
✔︎ Heirs of Grace (Pratt)
☀ Listen to Campfire tales
✔︎ Seize the Night
✔ The Monstrous
Total: 26 books
Complete!
NetGalley Challenge July 2016Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 60
Feedback ratio: 79%
Read:
Bitterwood (my review)
Blood Moon (my review)
A Density of Souls (my review)
Followed by Frost (my review)
Hope & Red (my review)
Nightshades (my review)
The Pirate of Fathoms Deep (my review)
Sorting the Beef from the Bull (my review)
Summoned (my review)
Tell the Wind and Fire (my review)
DNF:
Fire Catcher (my review)
The Snow Garden (my review)
Ticker (my review)
Wytchfire (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 50
Feedback ratio: 83%
I'm over 80%! Yay!
Hunger Games Challenge: Escape the Capitol Open-Ended
Started in September 2016. Finished in July 2018.
Level:
➛ Victor Plus (6+ books in each district, in order starting with District 1)
✔︎ District 1: Precious Gems: DIAMONDS - completed on 25 Oct 2016
✔︎ District 2: Masonry and Weapons: BRICKS - completed on 29 Dec 2016
✔︎ District 3: Technology: HARD DRIVE - completed on 12 Feb 2017
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✔︎ District 4: Fishing: FISHERY - completed on 25 March 2017
✔︎ District 5: Power/Electricity: ELECTRIC - completed on 30 Aug 2017
✔︎ District 6: Transportation: TRUCKS - completed on 18 Sept 2017
✔︎ District 7: Lumber: FLITCH - completed on 9 Nov 2017
✔︎ District 8: Textiles/Clothing: GINGHAM - completed on 4 Dec 2017
✔︎ District 9: Grain/Harvest: GRAINS - completed on 5 Feb 2018
✔︎ District 10: Livestock: HERDING - completed on 9 March 2018
✔︎ District 11: Agriculture: SHARECROPPING - completed on 4 April 2018
✔︎ District 12: Mining: SHAFTS - completed on 18 April 2018
✔︎ Bonus! District 13: Nuclear Weaponry: FUSION
Total: 95 books
Complete!
Baby Got Book✦ Rules: Read fat books! Books over 450 pages.
✦ Duration: 1 year (starting 17 October 2016, ending 16 October 2017)
✦ Level: Bakers dozen: 13+
✔︎ Seraphina 467 p
✔︎ Red Sister 477 p
✔︎ The Trees 496 p
✔︎ Clockwork Angel 500 p
✔︎ The Shadow Land 504 p
✔︎ No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished 498 p
✔︎ Arcadia 510 p
✔︎ The Final Empire 541 p
✔︎ Time's Divide 543 p
✔︎ The Casquette Girls 576 p
✔︎ The Wine of Angels 630 p
✔︎ The Republic of Thieves 650 p
✔︎ The Passage 766 p
✔︎ The Witching Hour 1,038 p
Total: 14 books
Complete!
January: New Year's Extravaganza 2017Level: Moderate (5 - 7 books)
☀ Read an equal number of books from Old/Favorite authors and New/Never before read authors.
✔︎ Old/Favorite Author: Neil Gaiman - A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff
✔︎ New/Never before read author: Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
☀ Read... books that have been on your TBR list for a long time.
✔︎ A Great and Terrible Beauty
✔︎ Just a Geek
✔︎ The Madness Underneath
✔ Magic in the Mirrorstone
✔︎ The Shepherd's Tale
Total: 7 books
Complete!
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2017January - December 2017
✔︎ A: Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale
✔︎ B: Erin Bow - The Swan Riders
✔︎ C: Cressida Cowell - How to Be a Pirate
✔︎ D: N.S. Dolkart - Silent Hall
✔︎ E: Susan Ee - World After
✔︎ F: Rhys Ford - Mad Lizard Mambo
✔︎ G: Neil Gaiman - The Monarch of the Glen
✔︎ H: Faith Hunter - Blood Cross
✔︎ I: Eddie Izzard - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
✔︎ J: Caleb James - Haffling
✔︎ K: Tal M. Klein - The Punch Escrow
✔︎ L: Forrest Leo - The Gentleman
✔︎ M: Sarah Maine - The House Between Tides
✔︎ N: Naomi Novik - League of Dragons
✔︎ O: Erica O'Rourke - Resonance
✔︎ P: C.S. Pacat - The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant
✔︎ Q: Jamie Quatro - I Want to Show You More
✔︎ R: J.R. Rain - Moon Dragon
✔︎ S: Lemony Snicket - The Hostile Hospital
✔︎ T: Lisa Tuttle - The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist & the Psychic Thief
✔︎ U: Lyudmila Ulitskaya - The Funeral Party
✔︎ V: J. S. Volpe - Chain of Desire
✔︎ W: Jeff Wheeler - The Wretched of Muirwood
✔︎ X: Garth Nix - Sabriel *
✔︎ Y: Hester Young - The Shimmering Road
✔︎ Z: Roger Zelazny - A Night in the Lonesome October
*Not being an "X" purist this year!
Total: 26 books
Complete!
1 Amethyst Coin
NetGalley Challenge February 2017Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 64
Feedback ratio: 82%
Read:
City of Miracles (my review)
Dead Souls (my review)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (my review)
Final Girls (my review)
Murder Once Seen (my review)
The Weird Wild West (my review)
DNF:
The Book of the Damned (my review)
Extracted (my review)
The Mesmerist (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 59
Feedback ratio: 83%
May: Tea Time Reading Challenge 2017Gift cards #1-3: extending challenge thru Aug 2017
Level: Teatotaler - Read 10 or more books
Spell-It-Out: ENGLISH BREAKFAST
✔︎ E: Every Mountain Made Low
✔︎ N: The NEAR
✔︎ G: Golden Age and Other Stories
✔︎ L: Liquor for Christmas
✔︎ I: Iron & Blood
✔ S: Salvage and Demolition︎
✔ H: How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
✔︎ B: Beyond the Pale
✔︎ R: A Rare Book of Cunning Device
✔︎ E: The Edge of the Woods
✔︎ A: Amberlough
✔︎ K: Kittatinny
✔︎ F: The Front Runner
✔︎ A: The Apothecary's Curse
✔︎ S: Simon Says
✔︎ T: Travel Light
︎
Total: 16 books
Complete!
NetGalley Challenge March 2018Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 50
Feedback ratio: 87%
Read:
Mask of Shadows (my review)
Nyxia (my review)
The Girl in the Tower (my review)
The Ship (my review)
Himself (my review)
Acid West (my review)
River's Edge (my review)
Scion of the Fox (my review)
Redder Than Blood (my review)
The Precious Dreadful (my review)
A City Dreaming (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 44
Feedback ratio: 89%
NetGalley Challenge April 2018Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 44
Feedback ratio: 89%
Read:
Proof of Lies (my review)
I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land (my review)
Gilded Cage (my review)
A Short History of Drunkenness (my review)
The Atrocities (my review)
Draekora (my review)
Magicians Impossible (my review)
Timekeeper (my review)
Rare Books Uncovered (my review)
Black Dahlia, Red Rose (my review)
Wintersong (my review)
Foundryside (my review)
DNF:
Snakewood (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 36
Feedback ratio: 91%
Choose Your Own Adventure: Cat in the Hat June 2018Option 1: Build Your Own Nonsensical Story
Level: Frolicsome (11-15 books)
Personal Rule: Using only books both started & finished in June
In a Tarnished City live The Perfume Collector and The Transfigured Hart. They usually Compete to spill the Blood of the Earth, but now they declare an Armistice in this Age of Swords. Together, they are Mr. Flood's Last Resort, and they watch as he blows a Shadow Kiss to The Ordinary Princess from his Web of Lies, but he just gives her The Creeps.
Total: 12 books
Complete!
Ice Cream Challenge Summer 2018[Two months from start date; so 16 July - 16 Sept]
Option #2: Spell-It-Out
Level: One Scoop (7 books)
✔︎ V: Vampire Requiem
✔︎ A: As You Wish
✔︎ N: Nyxia Unleashed
✔︎ I: In the Night Wood
✔︎ L: The Lost Plot
✔︎ L: Lady Henterman’s Wardrobe
✔︎ A: The Alienist
Total: 7 books
Complete!
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2018Started in Late Aug, runs through 31 Dec.
Read
Magebound
The Temple
Twinmaker
Black Orchid
Afterlife
Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
The Master of Seacliff
My Man Jeeves
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram
The Outsiders
Stranger Things Happen
Venus in Furs
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
The Handmaid's Tale
Naked Lunch
Ghost Talkers
DNF
The Burning Land
Ghost Hand
Complete!
Didn't start with a stated goal; just did what I could manage!
September: There be Treasure 2018“Letters in the title (including subtitle), the authors first name, the authors last name or any combination of the above” must add up to 100.
Level:
◆ Sea dog: 5-8 books
✔︎ A Torch Against the Night (21)
+
✔︎ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (33)
+
✔︎ Cobweb Empire (12)
+
✔︎ The Raging Ones (13)
+
✔︎ The Book of the Unwinding (21)
= 100
Complete!
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2019Read
Dreams of the Compass Rose
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair...
Hollow Earth
The Westing Game
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
The Arctic Incident
The Immortal Rules
Possess
Massacre at Lonesome Ridge
Lizard Radio
The Shadow of the Wind
The Awakening
Sunset Rising
Guilty Pleasures
The Edible Woman
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Shadow Sight
Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf
Under the Lake
The Song of Achilles
Storm
The Paladin Caper
Balthazar
Petals on the Wind
Thorn
The Bane Chronicles
Kei's Gift
Delilah Dirk and the King's Shilling
The Winner's Curse
Challenge Complete!
30 books as of 8/23/19
1 Emerald Coin
Additional old TBRs read, after initial goal met
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Fairy, Texas
Night's Master
The Flood
Interpreter of Maladies
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Yes, Chef
Revenge of the Witch
Belligerent
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The Pillars of the Earth
Feed
Inked
The Steel Seraglio
The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter
The Wee Free Men
Fan Phenomena: Supernatural
NetGalley Challenge March 2019Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 42
Feedback ratio: 90%
Read:
The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (my review)
Lizard Radio (my review)
The Way of the Shield (my review)
The Truffle Underground (my review)
The Facefaker's Game (my review)
The Sisters Mederos (my review)
The Nightmarchers (my review)
Dreaming Death (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 39 (including 5 new)
Feedback ratio: 91%
April: Rain or Shine Reading Challenge April-June 2019April-
Gift Card #1 of 3 extends challenge thru June!
Option 4: Combine Options 1-3
Level: Calm before the storm: 41 + books
🌦 Weather Words in Title:
The Winter of the Witch
Sunset Rising
Snow in May: Stories
The Cold Is in Her Bones
Snow Falling
Off the Ice
Sky Without Stars
Storm
Winter Oranges
Cold Waters
🌦 Weather Words on Cover:
fog
cumulus [cloud]
sky
stratocumulus [cloud]
spring [Paris in May]
vapor
mist
fog bank
altocumulus [cloud]
cloudy
lightning
🌦 Spell-It-Out:
BLACK ICE
B: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
L: Lab Girl
A: Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz
C: Craig Schaefer, Ghosts of Gotham
K: Kelley Armstrong, The Awakening
I: Into the Drowning Deep
C: J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
E: Every Heart a Doorway
CLIMATE
C: Clockwork Princess
L: Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
I: Rachel Ingalls: Mrs. Caliban
M: Maja Lunde, The History of Bees
A: Allen R. Brady, The Fruithandler Time Engine
T: T.J. Klune, Withered + Sere
E: The Edible Woman
STEAM
S: Shadow Sight
T: Jean Thesman, The Other Ones
E: Exit Strategy
A: Alex Wells, Hunger Makes the Wolf
M: Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
RAIN SHADOWS
R: Riots I Have Known
A: And Now For Something Completely Different
I: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
N: Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
S: Seven Blades in Black
H: J.D. Horn, Jilo
A: Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man
D: Kelly deVos, Fat Girl on a Plane
O: Once Upon a River
W: Kris Waldherr, The Lost History of Dreams
S: Sex Object: A Memoir
WARMTH
W: Wilder Girls
A: Rachel Aaron, A Dragon of a Different Color
R: Rysa Walker, The Delphi Resistance
M: Lisa Maxwell, The Devil's Thief
T: This Is How You Lose the Time War
H: The Heart of the Circle
Total books: 58 books
Complete!
1 Citrine Coin
NetGalley Challenge April 2019Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 39
Feedback ratio: 91%
Read
The Winter of the Witch (my review)
Sunset Rising (my review)
Ghosts of Gotham (my review)
The Cold Is in Her Bones (my review)
Witchmark (my review)
The Night Tiger (my review)
Withered + Sere (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 37
Feedback ratio: 91%
DEAR Day 2019Drop-Everything-And-Read Day!
Read for at least 2 hours on 12 April 2019, and check in on challenge page :)
Read during DEAR Day 2019:
1 Tourmaline Coin
Decades Challenge 2019 Jan 9, 2019-Feb 20, 2020
Note: for "year published" I am going with original publication date, where it differs from edition date. (Exceptions for first English language editions where applicable.)
Level V:
Read corresponding ending number for six (6) years of your choice (2010 to 2019) then one (1) book for others.
2019 ✔︎
19 books
2018 ✔︎
18 books
2017 ✔︎
1 book
2016 ✔︎
16 books
2015 ✔︎
15 books
2014 ✔︎
1 book
2013 ✔︎
13 books
2012 ✔︎
12 books
2011 ✔︎
1 book
2010 ✔︎
1 book
Challenge Complete!
1 Diamond Coin
NetGalley Challenge May 2019Beginning of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 37
Feedback ratio: 91%
Read
Sky Without Stars (my review)
Jilo (my review)
Hunger Makes the Wolf (my review)
Seven Blades in Black (my review)
The October Man (my review)
In the Shadow of Spindrift House (my review)
Once Upon a River (my review)
The Heart of the Circle (my review)
Riots I Have Known (my review)
The Lost History of Dreams (my review)
End of month
Books on my NetGalley To-Read shelf: 34 (including 6 new)
Feedback ratio: 92%
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2020Targeting books on TBR since 2015 or before.
Read
Challenge Complete!
30 books as of 8/29/20
1 Emerald Coin
Additional eligible books...
Ended with 41 / 30
🙂
Decades Challenge 2020 2 Feb 2020 - 21 Feb 2021Level L-9 = 55 books
Read one book (1) for 2011, then two (2) for 2012, etc., on through the corresponding ending number to 2020
Note: for "year published" I am going with original publication date, where it differs from edition date. (Exceptions for first English Language editions where applicable.)
✔︎ 2020
10 books
✔︎ 2019
9 books
✔︎ 2018
8 books
✔︎ 2017
7 books
✔︎ 2016
6 books
✔︎ 2015
5 books
✔︎ 2014
4 books
✔︎ 2013
3 books
✔︎ 2012
2 books
✔︎ 2011
1 book
Challenge complete!
28 Dec 2020
1 Diamond Coin
DEAR Day 2020Drop-Everything-And-Read Day!
Read for at least 2 hours on 12 April 2020, and check in on challenge page :)
Read during DEAR Day 2020:
1 Tourmaline Coin
May: Wear Purple for Peace Day May-Gift card #1 of 3: extending challenge thru July 2020!
Level: Extraterrestrial (26+ books)
Option #5: Mix & Match
Spell out the words "Peace" and "Alien";
Read books with purple objects on the covers;
Read books about peace or books that come to a peaceful conclusion from a conflict;
Read books about aliens
✔︎ P - Nation by Terry Pratchett
✔︎ E - Tremontaine: The Complete Season Two by Ellen Kushner
✔︎ A - False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
✔︎ C - The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey
✔︎ E - character Eletra, Network Effect
✔︎ A - Sinful Cinderella by Anita Valle
✔︎ L - Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood
✔︎ I - character Isabelle, Memory and Dream
✔︎ E - character Gideon Eames, Things in Jars
✔︎ N - character Neil, Kate's Crew
✔︎ P - character Pen, An Unsuitable Heir
✔︎ E - character Esmeralda, Tommy Nightmare
✔︎ A - character Ann, Rebel Angels
✔︎ C - character Colton, Firestarter
✔︎ E - character Edith, Mages & Mechanisms
✔︎ A - Trade Deadline by Avon Gale
✔︎ L - character Lurio, Perfiditas
✔︎ I - character Isaac, An Eye for Murder
✔︎ E - character Elijah, Shivaree
✔︎ N - character Nigel, Taking the Titanic
✔︎ A - character Alma, The Sun Down Motel
✔︎ L - Lucky
✔︎ I - character Irys, Poison Study
✔︎ E - character Elizabeth, The Testaments
✔︎ N - character Nina, The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Purple Objects on cover:
✔︎
: purple dart✔︎
: purple mist(drug)✔︎
: purple bottlePeaceful end to a conflict:
✔︎ A Wizard of Earthsea
29 books
Complete!
1 Citrine Coin
New 2 U Authors 2020 May-Dec 2020Level: Devil May Care (20+ books)
Round 1:
Jayne Rylon : Kate's Crew
Kathryn Littlewood : Bliss
James Patterson : Taking the Titanic
Susan Harper : An Eye for Murder
Anita Valle : Sinful Cinderella
Sarah Kendzior : Hiding in Plain Sight
Amor Towles : You Have Arrived at Your Destination
Robin DiAngelo : White Fragility
Annabel Chase : Outcast
Devin Harnois : Mages & Mechanisms
Maria V. Snyder : Poison Study
Simone St. James : The Sun Down Motel
Bakari Sellers : My Vanishing Country
Rachel E. Carter : First Year
Sarah Perlmutter : The Blast
Sam Burns : Blackbird in the Reeds
Yvette Bostic : Magister's Bane
Douglas Adams : The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ava Richardson : The Dragon Tamer
Meredith McCardle : The Eighth Guardian
20 books
Complete!
4 Aug 2020
1 Amethyst Coin
Round 2:
Alastair Reynolds : Slow Bullets
Tom Standage : An Edible History of Humanity
A.G. Howard : Splintered
Karen Marie Moning : Darkfever
Tabitha Suzuma : Forbidden
Emily M. Danforth : Plain Bad Heroines
Jordan Ifueko : Raybearer
Mychal Denzel Smith : Stakes Is High
Rebecca Roanhorse : Black Sun
Adrienne Young : Fable
Adam Mars-Jones : Box Hill
Megan Campisi : Sin Eater
Connor Towne O'Neill : Down Along with That Devil's Bones
Natalie Zina Walschots : Hench
Bob Holmes : Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense
Hanna Dare : Machine Metal Magic
Kate M. Colby : The Cogsmith's Daughter
Eldritch Black : The Book of Kindly Deaths
Ayize Jama-Everett : The Liminal People
Alex Bell : Frozen Charlotte
20 books
Complete!
6 Dec 2020
1 Amethyst Coin
NetGalley Challenge Sept 2020Beginning of month:
46 books
Feedback ratio 91%
Read:
Plain Bad Heroines (my review)
Raybearer (my review)
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream (my review)
Black Sun (my review)
Daddy: Stories (my review)
Fable (my review)
The Secret of White Stone Gate (my review)
The Trials of Koli (my review)
DNF:
The Zoo (my review)
End of month:
38 books -- not including 4 books read but still lacking reviews
Feedback ratio 92%
NetGalley Challenge Oct 2020Beginning of month:
38 books -- not including 4 books read but still lacking reviews (not pictured)
Feedback ratio 92%
Read:
Box Hill (my review)
Sin Eater (my review coming soon)
Down Along with That Devil's Bones (my review)
Hench (my review coming soon)
DNF:
A Man of Shadows (my review)
End of month:
35 books (including 3 new ones, ugh)
Feedback ratio 93%
Choose Your Own Adventure: Harry Potter 12/12/2020 - 3/15/2021 (ystp)Duration: Aiming for about 3 months. Starting 12/12/2020, so my target is... let's say 3/15/2021.
Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
Book Level: Cursed Child : 25+ books
Scavenger Hunt Level: Harris : 121+ words
Books Read:
Words:
(view spoiler)
Complete! 3/9/2021
29 books, 129 words
2 Sapphire Coins
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2021Read:
Complete!
33/30 books as of 12 December 2021
(hit 30 in late Oct)
1 Emerald Coin
New 2 U Authors 2021Level: Devil May Care (20+ books)
Round 1
Read:
Max Brooks : World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Lindsay Buroker : The Emperor's Edge
Patrick Wong : Balancer
Jordan Castillo Price : Among the Living
Elizabeth George Speare : The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Oliver Pötzsch : The Hangman's Daughter
L.J. Smith : The Awakening
Katherine Paterson : Bridge to Terabithia
Caroline Criado Pérez : Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Mia Marshall : Broken Elements
Natasha Ngan : Girls of Paper and Fire
Annette Marie : Chase the Dark
Victor LaValle : The Ballad of Black Tom
Bob Proehl : The Nobody People
Wesley Chu : The Lives of Tao
Fiona King Foster : The Captive
Barry Estabrook : Just Eat: One Reporter's Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen that Works
Gayle Forman : The Wickeds
Krystal Sutherland : House of Hollow
Allison Saft : Down Comes the Night
20/20
Round 1 complete!
3/28/2021
1 Amethyst Coin
Round 2
Read:
S.B. Divya : Machinehood
Cate Simon : Courting Anna
Amie Kaufman : Aurora Rising (co-author Jay Kristoff not new to me)
Steve Turnbull : Murder Out of the Blue
C.E. Murphy : Easy Pickings (co-author Faith Hunter not new to me)
Stacey Halls : The Lost Orphan
Jeremy Robert Johnson : The Loop
Robert Kurson : Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Frances Hardinge : Cuckoo Song
Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James : Winging It (both authors new to me)
Kenzie Cade : Prickly Business (co-author Piper Vaughn not new to me)
Stephanie Diaz : Extraction
Edward W. Robertson : The Red Sea
Micaiah Johnson : The Space Between Worlds
Megg Jensen : Hidden
Ryan Douglass : The Taking of Jake Livingston
David Grann : The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Kara Jorgensen : The Earl of Brass
Susi Hawke : Pumpkin Spiced Omega
20/20
Round 2 complete!
7/15/2021
1 Amethyst Coin
Round 3
J.A. Sutherland : Into the Dark
Brian Jay Jones : Jim Henson: The Biography
Dev Bentham : August Ice
Camilla Sten : The Lost Village
Ginny Myers Sain : Dark and Shallow Lies
Mikel Jollett : Hollywood Park
Cassandra Khaw : The All-Consuming World
Robin Wall Kimmerer : Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Rose Szabo : What Big Teeth
Nicole Glover : The Conductors
Catriona Ward : The Last House on Needless Street
Nic Stone : Hazel and Gray
N.J. Rayner : The Time Table
Megan Crewe : Ruthless Magic
David John Griffin : The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb
Alison Goodman : The Dark Days Club
B.A. Shapiro : The Art Forger
Christopher Paolini : To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Evangeline Walton : She Walks in Darkness
C.J. Abedi : Fae
20/20
Round 3 complete!
12/12/2021
1 Amethyst Coin
Decades Challenge 20211 Feb 2021 - 21 Feb 2022 [but completed very late!]
Full Version - Level V : 87-115 books
(might move up to Level VI; we'll see how it goes)
Read corresponding ending number for six (6) years of your choice (2012 to 2021) then one (1) book for others.
✔︎ 2021: 21/21
✔︎ 2020: 20/20
✔︎ 2019: 19/19
✔︎ 2018: 1/1
✔︎ 2017: 1/1
✔︎ 2016: 1/1
✔︎ 2015: 15/15
✔︎ 2014: 14/14
✔︎ 2013: 13/13
✔︎ 2012: 1/1
Total: 106
Completed late — no gem coin award!
DEAR Day 2021Drop-Everything-And-Read Day! 12 April 2021
Mini-Challenges Completed:
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
Done twice, among other more intermittent reading
12:30AM - 3:30AM UTC, 5:15PM - 8:30PM UTC
(8:30PM - 11:30PM EST, 1:15PM - 4:30PM EST)
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Read A Stranger in Olondria, published 12 April 2013
1 Tourmaline Coin
November 2021: Remember, RememberLevel 1: Damp Squib
Spell-It-Out:
T :
✔︎R : The Art Forger - CLN: Roth. Read 11/19
E :
✔︎ A : The Cousins - CFN Aubrey. Read 11/13
✔︎ S : The Secret Chapter Read 11/12
✔︎ O : The Only Good Indians Read 11/6
✔︎ N : Mutineer - CLN: Neals. 11/15
DID NOT FINISH!
For next time I do a month-long NG challenge...TBR:
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Books mentioned in this topic
Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers (other topics)The Awakening (other topics)
Parable of the Sower (other topics)
The Ballad of Black Tom (other topics)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
C.J. Abedi (other topics)Christopher Paolini (other topics)
Evangeline Walton (other topics)
B.A. Shapiro (other topics)
Alison Goodman (other topics)
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July: Book-Pictionary 2015 ✔
August End of Summer Beach Blast Reading Challenge 2015 ✔
Make Your Own Pizza September 2015 ✔
October's Creature Feature Reading Challenge 2015 ✔
November's Feast of Flavor Reading Challenge 2015 ✔
Singing in the Snow: December's Reading Challenge 2015 ✔
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2015 ✔
Time for Tea January 2016 (+ February w/Gift Card extension) ✔
Marvelous March 2016 (+ April w/Gift Card extension) ✔
May: Mostly May Idioms 2016 (+ June w/Gift Card extension) ✔
NetGalley Challenge July 2016 ✔
Summer: Camp Gottaread 2016 21 June - 21 September 2016 ✔
Antonym Challenge One year: 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2016 ✔
Read the Alphabet One year: 2016 ✔
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2016 (Rounds 1 and 2) ✔
January: New Year's Extravaganza 2017 ✔
NetGalley Challenge February 2017 ✔
May: Tea Time Reading Challenge May 2017 (+ June-August w/Gift Card extensions) ✔︎
Baby Got Book One year: 17 October 2016 - 16 October 2017 ✔︎
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge: 2017 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge March 2018 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge April 2018 ✔︎
Choose Your Own Adventure: Cat in the Hat June 2018 ✔︎
Hunger Games Challenge: Escape the Capitol 2016-2018 ✔︎
Ice Cream Challenge Summer 2018 ✔︎
September: There be Treasure 2018 ✔︎
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2018 Late Aug-Dec 2018 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge March 2019 ✔︎
DEAR Day 2019 (12 April) ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge April 2019 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge May 2019 ✔︎
April: Rain or Shine Reading Challenge April-May 2019 (+ June w/Gift Card extension) ✔︎
Decades Challenge 2019 9 Jan 2019-25 Sept 2019 ✔︎
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2019 ✔︎
DEAR Day 2020 (12 April) ✔︎
May: Wear Purple for Peace Day May 2020 (+ June-July w/Gift Card extensions) ✔︎
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2020 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge Sept 2020 ✔︎
NetGalley Challenge Oct 2020 ✔︎
New 2 U Authors 2020 May-Dec [Round 1 completed 8/20, Round 2 completed 12/20] ✔︎
Decades Challenge 2020 2 Feb 2020 - 28 Dec 2020 ✔︎
Choose Your Own Adventure: Harry Potter 12/12/2020 - 3/15/2021 ✔︎
DEAR Day 2021 (12 April) ✔︎
Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2021 ✔︎
New 2 U Authors 2021 [Round 1 completed 3/21, Round 2 completed 7/21, Round 3 completed 12/20] ✔︎
November 2021: Remember, Remember
Decades Challenge 2021 1 Feb 2021 - 21 Feb 2022
(My Gem Coins)