2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hello Everyone!

I've had librarything, shelfari and goodreads accounts for several years but I'm somewhat ashamed to say I've done very little with my good reads account since I opened it several years ago. I've only just come to realize the awesomeness that is good reads so now that I've started updating my books I'm going to join the 2012 reading challenge.

I'm going to try and read 75 books this year and I will be participating in the I Spy Challenge, The Door Stoppers Challenge and the String Theory Challenge.

I will keep track of all my smaller challenges in this thread and the 75 book goal on the personal challenge thread. My ratings on the books and mini-reviews will be kept in by 75 book thread here http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

I Spy Challenge



1. Color: The Red Wolf Conspiracy Robert V.S. Redick
Start Date: February 20, 2012
Completed: February 25, 2012

2. Number: 10 Ways To Steal Your Lover Dee Tenorio
Start Date: March 23. 2012
Completed: March 24, 2012

3. Things That Grow: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenRansom Riggs
Completed January 30, 2012

4. Seasons: Summer of Night Dan Simmons
Date Started: June 12, 2012
Date Completed: June 19, 2012

5. First Name: Sunshine Robin McKinley
Date Started: March 16, 2012
Completed: March 23, 2012

6. Places: That Thing at the ZooJames R. Tuck
Started: May 4, 2012
Completed: May 4, 2012

7. Body Part: City of BonesCassandra Clare
Start Date: May 5, 2012
Completed: May 7, 2012

8. Weapon:

9. Body of Water: Magnolia Creek Jill Marie Landis
Start Date: June 7, 2012
Completed: June 11, 2012

10. Form of Water: Ice Storm Anne Stuart
Start Date: May 9, 2012
Completed: May 16, 2012

11. Product of Fire: CinderMarissa Meyer
Completed December 6

12. Heavenly Body: The Scorpio RacesMaggie Stiefvater
Start Date: August 10, 2012
Completed: August 16, 2012

13. Architecture: Bridge to TerabithiaKatherine Paterson
Start Date: July 1 , 2012
Completed: July 3, 2012

14. 5 Senses: Too Hot To Touch Louisa Edwards
Start Date: July 25, 2012
Completed: July 29, 2012

15. Royal Title: A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin
Start Date: April 15, 2012
Completed: May 4, 2012

16. Family Member: The Horsemaster's Daughter Susan Wiggs
Started: January 4, 2012
Completed:January 5, 2012

17. 4 Elements:

18. Time of Day: White Night Jim Butcher

19. Metal: The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons
Start Date: January 16, 2011
Completed: January 27, 2011

20. Emotion/Feeling: Haunting Beauty Erin Quinn
Start Date: March 11, 2012
Completed: March 16, 2012

21. Animal/Insect: The Leopard Prince Elizabeth Hoyt
Start Date: February 7, 2012
Completed: February 8, 2012

22. Something to Read: The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Date Started: January 6, 2012
Date Completed: January 11, 2012

23. Gender Identifier: Somebody Killed His Editor Josh Lanyon

24. Paranormal Being: Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore
Started: February 8, 2012
Completed: February 12, 2012

25. Occupation:The Monstrumologist Rick Yancey
Started: July 18, 2012
Completed: July 24, 2012

String Theory _ COMPLETED


1. The Charm SchoolSusan Wiggs
Subject: The Sea
Started: January 1, 2012
Completed: January 3, 2012
2. The Red Wolf Conspiracy Robert V.S. Redick
Started: February 20, 2012
Completed: February 25, 2012
Topic from previous book - Sea
3. Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live Ben Thompson
Start Date: March 3, 2012
Compeleted: March 16, 2012
Thread from previous book - Pirates
4. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
Start Date: April 2, 2012
Completed: April 13, 2012
Thread from previous book: Military Commanders/Epic Battles
5. Feed Mira Grant
Start Date: May 17, 2012
Completed: May 22, 2012
Thread from previous book - zombies
6. Summer of Night Dan Simmons
Start Date: June 12, 2012
Completed: June 19, 2012
Thread from previous book - supernatural beasties
7. Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
Started: July 1, 2012
Completed: July 3, 2012
Thread from previous book - coming of age book
8.My Dearest Enemy Connie Brockway
Start Date: August 16, 2012
Completed: August 19, 2012
Thread from previous book - unconventional female characters
9. Deadline
Start Date: September 2, 2012
Completed: September 24, 2012
Thread from previous book - episolitory novel
10. White Night Jim Butcher
Start Date: September 3
Completed: October 8
Thread from previous book - sibling relationships
11. NecropolisTim Waggoner
Start Date: November 15/12
Completed: November 29/12
Thread - Private Investigator
12.Sweet as Sin Inez Kelley
Start Date: December 3, 2012
Completed: December 6, 2012
Thread - Tortured Hero

Door Stoppers

1. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver - 546 Pages
Started January 6, 2012
Completed: January 11, 2012
This was an e-book so I didn't realize this even qualified until it just kept going and going and going....

2. The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons
Start Date: January 16, 2012
Completed: January 27, 2012
Pages: 894 pages
3. The Red Wolf Conspiracy Robert V.S. Redick
Start Date: February 20, 2012
Completed: February 25, 2012
Pages: 544
4. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
Start Date: April 2, 2012
Completed: April 13, 2012
Pages: 674
5. A Clash of Kings George R. R. Martin
Start Date: April 14, 2012
Completed: May 4, 2012
Pages: 1009

Listopia Challenge


Magic, Adventure, Romance
1. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Start Date: May 5, 2012
Completed: May 7, 2012
2. Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
3. Sunshine - Robin McKinley
Started: March 16, 2012
Completed: March 23, 2012
Rating:

Best Steampunk Books

1.The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume 2 - Gordon Dahlquist
2. Perdido Street Station China Mieville
3. Soulless - Gail Carriger
Start Date: May 22, 2012
Completed: May 26, 2012

Favourite Gay Couples
1.Cut & Run - Abigail Roux
Started: June 1, 2012
Completed June 4, 2012
2.Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
3.Somebody Killed His Editor


Books that Made You Cry
1.Cry No More - Linda Howard
Start Date: July 9, 2012
Completed: July 10, 2012
2.Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Start Date: July 1, 2012
Completed: July 3, 2012
3.The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Books with Heroes/Heroines who are Assassins

1. Graceling - Kristin Cashore
2. The Way of Shadows - Brent Weeks
3. Spider's Bite - Jennifer Estep

Quarterly Challenge.

Mini-reviews will be posted in my 50 - 100 challenge thread.

G A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
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I - Ice Storm Anne Stuart
A - Animal Magnetism
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B - By Design Madeline Hunter Completed April 1, 2012
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Three cheers for July Challenge!

3. Read a book with an image of food on the cover, a book where food plays an important part in the plot

Too Hot To Touch Louisa Edwards

4. The 4th of July isn't the only thing that's happening in July, it's also National Ice Cream Month! Read a book that has a cover that's the color of your favorite ice cream flavor. - My favourite Ice Cream flavour is sugar shack maple which equals beige - kinda boring but I have a book that's all different shades of beige :)-

Animal Magnetism Jill Shalvis

5.Read a book that involves one of your favorite summer pastimes - Camping - need to find a book that features camping.

Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann


6. Read a book that has a red cover

Cry No More by Linda Howard

Lots of great summer reads for me in here to soak up the sun with!

August Cover Hunt Challenge

August should be a slow month work-wise for me so I'm going to try and push for all 8.

1. Read a book with a mostly pink cover or one that has flowers on it.



2. Read a book with a mostly brown cover or one with an animal on it.



3. Read a book with a mostly blue cover or one with water (in any form) on it.



4. Read a book with a mostly black cover or one with a moon on it.



5. Read a book with a mostly green cover or one with trees on it.



6. Read a book with a mostly white cover or one with a dress on it.



7. Read a book with mostly yellow cover or one with a sun on it.



8. Read a book with a mostly purple cover or one with food/drink on it.

October Halloween Challenge

1. Witch: Read a book that contains magic OR read a non-fiction book about witches or alchemy



2. Vampire: Read a book about vampires OR read a book written over 20 years ago that is still popular today



3. Ghost: Read a spooky book OR read a book in which someone important to the main character has died



4. Skeleton: Read a book in which lots of people die OR read a book by an author who has passed away



5. Devil: Read a book that's the 6th in a series OR read a book from this banned books list: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/b...



6. Mummy: Read a historical fiction book OR read a book published at least 100 years ago



7. Alien: Read a science fiction book OR read a non-fiction book about a subject completely alien to you



8. Murderer: Read murder mystery novel OR read a book in which the main characters dreams are killed in some way