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[image error] Progressive Reading Challenge

Time Frame: One Year from Start Date

How This Works

1. Choose your first book. (Keep in mind one word titles probably are not going to work for you on this challenge.)
2. When choosing your second book, pick one word from Book 1’s title so that it appears in Book 2’s title.
3. Keep doing that until you reach the number of books for your level.

Note: Make sure you use the actual word found in the title and not a variation of it!

Example:

Book 1: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Book 2: A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn
Book 3: The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
Book 4: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Book 5: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Book 6: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

Levels:
Easy - 10 books
Medium - 15 books
Hard - 20+ books

Reserved


Yasmeen
Karen
Denise
Dawn
Melissa
Theo
Cindy
Rachael
JenniferJ
Bookwyrm
~Jennifer~
Jamie
Lacy
Nichole
Beth
Jennifer H.
Jenne
Kim M.
Sam
Juana
Kirsten
Kylie
Lizz
Sara

Reserved

This looks like fun, I'm in! I'll tentatively put 1 March as my start date, so I'll have some time to try to put together my list. :)

Progressive Reading Challenge
Time Span: 01 March 2012 - 28 February 2013
Level: Medium
Completed: 15/15 (Finished: 18 February 2013)

1. Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts (08 Mar 2012) ♥♥♥♥
2. One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire (09 Mar 2012) ♥♥♥♥♥
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (15 Apr 2012) ♥♥
4. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (22 Apr 2012) ♥♥♥♥♥
5. Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts (17 Jun 2012) ♥♥♥♥
6. Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard (19 Jun 2012) ♥♥♥♥
7. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (20 Jun 2012) ♥♥♥♥♥
8. Falling Under by Gwen Hayes (30 Jun 2012) ♥♥
9. Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson (16 Jul 2012) ♥♥♥♥
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (27 Jul 2012) ♥♥♥♥♥
11. Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire (19 Sep 2012) ♥♥♥♥♥
12. The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay (05 Feb 2013) ♥♥♥♥
13. Our Lady of Darkness by Peter Tremayne (10 Feb 2013) ♥♥♥♥
14. My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes (14 Feb 2013) ♥♥♥♥
15. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon (18 Feb 2013) ♥♥♥♥♥

This sounds fun!

Level: Easy (for now, I'll see how it goes)
Start Date: March 11

9/10
1. The Darkest Night; 3/16/12, 3 stars
2. Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night; 3/24/12, 4 stars
3. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things; 4/21/12, 4 stars
4. The Book of Lost Things; 6/11/12, 4 stars
5. The Last Book in the Universe; 7/2/12, 4 stars
6. The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell; 9/16/12, 3 stars
7. Story of a Girl; 4/27/12, 4 stars
8. Big Girl Small; 9/27/12, 3 stars
9. Hattie Big Sky; 2/17/13, 4 stars
10. The Floor of the Sky

•Progressive Reading Challenge•
Time Frame: 3.1.2012 - 2.28.2013

Level: Medium (15 books)
1/15

1: Crazy for Love 5.5 ♥♥♥♥
2: Crazy for You
3: Game for Anything
4: Changing the Game
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Haha! Now THIS is a challenge that will expose me to new unexpected books. Just by virtue of trying to find books whose titles qualify for each step! I'm definitely going to play!

Level: Easy
Start Date: March 1 2012 - February 28, 2013
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01.If We Kiss by Rachel Vail

02.Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

03.Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake

04.Blood Red Road by Moira Young

05.When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen

06.Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce

07.Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink

08.The Good Ghouls Guide to Getting Even by Julie Kenner

09.Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

10.A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies

My List!



01.: Heaven and Hell ♥♥♥♥ 02/13/12
02. : Heaven and Earth
03. : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ♥♥♥♥♥
04. : Secrets of a Summer Night
05. : The Summer I Turned Pretty
06. : Pretty When She Dies
07. :Where She Went ♥♥♥♥
08. : She Went All the Way
09. : All-American Girl
10. : An American Werewolf in London

Wow....this looks like fun. Count me in for easy. :o)

EASY

1/10

1 Halfway to the Grave by Jeanine Frost
2. Grave Dance by Kalayne Price
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I do have a couple of questions....

1. can it be a different version of the word. For example, if the word in one title was dark....would darkly, darker, darkest count?

2. And do compound words count....like if my word was cast...but could the next word be outcast?

It must be the exact word to count.

Progressive Reading Challenge
Time Span: February 13 2012 - February 12 2013
Level: Hard


Completed: 0/20

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6/15 Read
2/12/13-2/12/14

1. Moonlight Warrior
✘2. Blood Warrior
3. Blood Sin
4. The Wages of Sin
5. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
6. Up From the Grave
7. Silent In the Grave
8. A Match Made In Hell
✘9. Caressed by A Crimson Moon
✘10. Seduced By a Highlander
✘11. A Rush of Wings
12. The Better Part of Darkness
✘13. Fear the Darkness
✘15. The Reckoning

Yearly Challenge
Progressive Reading


Level Medium
15/15 Completed 1/8/2013

Start date Feb 1, 2012

1.The Forgotten Garden 3/3/12 ♥♥♥♥
2.Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 4/4/12 ♥♥♥♥
3.Eye of the World 2/20 ♥
4.The World We Found 11/8/12 ♥♥♥
5.We have always lived in the castle3/30/12 ♥♥♥♥
6.The Postman Always Rings Twice 1/9/13 ♥♥♥♥
7.The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel 3/15/12 ♥♥♥
8.Defending Jacob: A Novel 2/21/12 ♥♥♥♥♥
9.A Canticle for Leibowitz 8/16/12 ♥♥♥
10.Water for Elephants 2/25 ♥♥♥♥
11.Like Water for Chocolate 8/17/12 ♥♥♥♥
12.Peace Like a River 8/23/12 ♥♥♥♥
13.A River Runs through it 12/8/12 ♥♥♥♥
14.All Through the Night 12/4/12 ♥♥♥
15.The Night Circus 6/25/12♥♥♥♥♥

I'm in!

Level: Easy
Start date: May 20th 2012
End date: April 19th 2013

01) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
02) Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
03) The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
04) Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
05) The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
06) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
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Completed: 1/10

I started a list, but it'll likely change since I think I'll probably hit a wall! Still not sure of the start date though.

I'm in. I'll post as I go along. Can't promise they wont change though.


Progressive Reading Challenge

LEVEL: Hard

1. Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole 2/14/12

2. Cypress Nights by Stella Cameron

3. Night's Kiss by Amanda Ashley

4. The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter

5. That One Night in Vegas by Brindle Chase

6. One Night to be sinful by Samantha Garver

7. Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

8. The Night by Felicity Heaton

9. Awaiting the Night by Donna Lea Simpson

10. Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

11. Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas

12. Mine Tonight by Kathryn Smith

13. Night Sun by Lynne Ewing

14. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer 2/25/12

15. Night After Night by Kathryn Smith

16. Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole

17. Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 2/22/12

18. Dark Lover by Brenda Joyce

19. Dark Embrace by Brenda Joyce

20. The Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

21. The Darkest Fire by Gena Showalter

22. Dark Beginnings by Gena Showalter

23. The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter

24. The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter

25. The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter 3/3/12

26. The Darkest Prison by Gena Showalter

27. Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter

28. Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

29. The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

30. The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter

31. The Darkest Secret by Gena Showalter

32. Dark Seduction by Kathleen Korbel

33. Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

34. Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

35. Love a Dark Rider by Shirlee Busbee

36. Defeat the Darkness by Alexis Morgan

37. Dark Warrior Unleashed by Alexis Morgan

38. Darkness Revealed by Alexandra Ivy

39. A Dark Kiss of Rapture by Sylvia Day

40. A Kiss of Fate by Mary Jo Putney

41. Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

42. Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

43. Kiss of the Vampire by Nancy Baker

44. Vampire Dreams by Gabrielle Bisset

45. The Vampire and the Virgin by Kerrelyn Sparks

46. All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

47. The Vengeful Vampire by Marissa Farrar

48. Vampire Mine by Kerrelyn Sparks

49. Father Mine by J.R. Ward (CR)

50. Omega Mine by Aline Hunter

51. Lover Mine by J.R. Ward

52. Lycan Lover by S.K. Yule

53. Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

54. Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward

55. Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

56. Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward

57. Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward 3/1/12

Hey guys how do you underline the word that is the same in every title. I've tried but I can't make it work.

You'll have to retype the title and then use the html code to highlight the word.


to underline: <u>wordto strikethrough: <s>wordto bold: <b>wordto italicize: <i>word

Start: Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012
Level: Easy
Completed: 13/10

1. Waking Nightmare by Kylie Brant 1/15/12 ♥♥♥♥
2. Waking Evil by Kylie Brant 2/14/12 ♥♥♥♥
3. Waking Up In Charleston by Sherryl Woods 2/22/12 ♥♥♥♥
4. Waking the Dead by Kylie Brant 2/25/12 ♥♥♥♥
5. Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin 3/4/12 ♥♥♥♥
6. Dead Heat by Carolyn Carver 3/25/12 ♥♥♥
7. Stolen Heat by Elisabeth Naughton 4/1/12 ♥♥♥
8. Stolen Seduction by Elisabeth Naughton 4/3/12 ♥♥♥♥
9. The Stolen Heart: A Novel of Suspense by Lauren Kelly 4/18/12 ♥
10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 4/22/12 ♥♥
11. The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean 4/28/12 ♥♥♥
12. Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann 5/11/12 ♥♥♥♥♥
13. Darkness Bound by Stella Cameron 6/7/12 3♥

Thanks ~Jennifer~

Update: 1/15 Completed

3/10

im in and go with hard

17.03.12 - 16.03.13

2/20

1. "The Man in the Black Leather Mask" - 27.03
2. "Just the Sexiest Man Alive" - 03.05
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Can we add to a list as we go or do we have to have a list from the start.... I'm seriously thinking about this challenge but don't think I can come up with a list right off the bat.

Happy St Patricks Day

You can add to it as you go if that is easier for you.

Okay, i am in. Starting to get addicted to the challenges.

Progressive Reading Challenge
Time Span: 3/24/12-3/24/12
Level: Easy
Completed:5/10
1. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris ....... 3/25/12
2. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris....... 3/25/12
3. The good, the bad and the undead by Kim Harrison ....... 4/14/12
4. The girl in the steel corset by Kady Cross ....... 6/4/12
5.Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake.....8/19/2012





Still to read/next in line:

6. Heart of Steel by Meljean Brooks
7. Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster
8.Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
9. The dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
10. Trick of the Dark> by Val Mcdermid

Alexandra wrote: "Okay, i am in. Starting to get addicted to the challenges."

Haha I know the feeling! I have so many going right now!

Progressive Reading Challenge
March 25, 2012 - March 24, 2013

Level: Hard

1/20

1. Wondrous Strange 03.25.12
2. Strange Angels
3. If Angels Burn
4. Burn Bright
5. Bright Young Things
6. All Things Beautiful
7. Dead Beautiful
8. Dead on the Dance Floor
9. Grave Dance
10. Grave Secret
11. Secret Vampire
12. Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire
13. Sweet Talk
14. Sweet Surrender
15. A Night to Surrender
16. Night Life
17. My Life as a White Trash Zombie
18. The Down Home Zombie Blues
19. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
20. The Man Who Loved Children

This looks like fun...will be back later with a list!

I'll join! I'll start off with easy but then I'll progress through. And do they have to be read all in a row or can I pause until I find another book with the same word?

You may pause to find a book if you don't want to make a pre-set list.

Thanks Jennifer.

1. Vampire Rites
2. The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #3: The Craving
3. The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #4: The Ripper
4. The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #5: The Asylum

Okay, here goes:
Level 3 - hard
4/22/2012 - 4/22/2013
7/25 completed

1. The Secret Shopper's Revenge by Kate Harrison (5/1/2012)
2. The Secret of Everything by Barbara O'Neal
3. The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty (4/26/2012)
4. Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey
5. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
6. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
7. The Library of the Dead by Glen Cooper
8. Fundraising the Dead by Sheila Connolly (5/5/2012)
9. The Dead Travel Fast by Eric Nuzum
10. Food For The Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael Bell
11. On Folly Beach by Karen White
12. The Beach House by Jane Green
13. Iron House by John Hart
14. House of Dust and Dreams by Brenda Reid
15. The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse
16. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (5/17/2012)
17. A Good American by Alex George
18. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
19. The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
20. The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman (5/3/2012)
21. The Lost Hours by Karen White (5/6/2012)
22. Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D.J. Taylor (5/9/2012)
23. Bright Hair About the Bone by Barbara Cleverly
24. Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
25. Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

9/21 Complete

1.Kindling the MOON
2.Under a VAMPIRE MOON
3.SEXIEST VAMPIRE Alive
4.Just THE SEXIEST Man Alive
5.First GRAVE on THE Right
6.ONE GRAVE at a Time
7.ONE Silent NIGHT
8.SINS of the NIGHT
9.MIDNIGHT SINS
10.SHADES of MIDNIGHT
11.Fifty SHADES DARKER
12.DARKER AFTER Midnight
13.Dead AFTER DARK
14.DARK FROST
15.KISS of FROST
16.Night’s COLD KISS
17.COLD as ICE
18.BLACK ICE
19.The BLACK DRAGON
20.DRAGON BOUND
21.Shadow BOUND

Update: 11/20+. Post 28.

Progressive Reading Challenge
5.23.12-5.22.13
Level: Easy - Medium
Completed: 1/13

1.Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn 5.29.12
2.Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
3.Never Kiss a Stranger by Heather Grothaus 6.4.12
4.Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
5.Under Her Skin by Jeaniene Frost, Meljean Brooks, and Ilona Andrews
6.Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton
7.A Perfect Darkness by Jaime Rush
8.A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison
9.Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
10.Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison
11.Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter
12.Dragon Warrior by Shea MacLeod
13.Warrior by Kristina Douglas

Progressive Reading Challenge
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Duration: May 24/12 - May 23/13

Level: Easy - 10 books

10/10

1. Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson 05/29/12 ♥♥♥♥
2. Palace Beautiful by Sarah Deford Williams 06/02/12 ♥♥♥♥
3. Two Beautiful Daughters by Jaye McKitrick 06/02/12 ♥♥♥
4. Between Two Queens by Kate Emerson 06/02/12 ♥♥♥♥
5. The Queen of Water by Laura Resau 06/19/12 ♥♥♥♥♥
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 06/28/12 ♥♥♥♥
7. Chocolate Magic by Kayla Russo 07/07/12 ♥♥♥♥
8. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah 07/14/12 ♥♥♥♥
9. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 07/11/12 ♥♥♥
10. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho 06/30/12 ♥♥♥♥

This challenge is gonna be the death of me. With the nature of books and subsequently the titles, i am reading, i feel that i use the same word over and over. Thank goodness i have a year to complete it

I want to try. So let me start with easy.

Progressive Reading Challenge
10 books

Switched my level to Medium! :)

10/10

1. Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson 05/29/12 ♥♥♥♥
2. Palace Beautiful by Sarah Deford Williams 06/02/12 ♥♥♥♥
3. Two Beautiful Daughters by Jaye McKitrick 06/02/12 ♥♥♥
4. Between Two Queens by Kate Emerson 06/02/12 ♥♥♥♥
5. The Queen of Water by Laura Resau 06/19/12 ♥♥♥♥♥
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 06/28/12 ♥♥♥♥
7. Chocolate Magic by Kayla Russo 07/07/12 ♥♥♥♥
8. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah 07/14/12 ♥♥♥♥
9. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 07/11/12 ♥♥♥
10. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho 06/30/12 ♥♥♥♥

Finished my challenge, goodluck everyone and happy reading!!

WTG NayNay! ☻

post #39:

Revised my list, was not happy at all with it. Much better now.

Progressive Reading Challenge

July 15, 2012 - July 14, 2013
Level: Hard
1/20+

1.Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 7/19
2.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3.The Night Circus
4.A Son Of The Circus
5.The Son of Neptune
6.Neptune Crossing
7.The Crossing Places
8.Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother And Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey and France
9.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
10.Dark Rivers of the Heart
11.Dead Until Dark
12.Living Dead in Dallas
13.A Living Nightmare
14.Nightmare Academy
15.Vampire Academy
16.Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation
17.Desire Untamed
18.Obsession Untamed
19.The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
20.City of Bones



Link

Ok I am going to give this one a try!

Progressive Reading Challenge
Time Frame: September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013
Level: Hard

Total: 4/20+

1. Lovely Wicked by Kari Gregg - 9/14/12
2. Wicked to Love by Shayla Black
3. To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
4. In Bed With a Highlander by Maya Banks - 9/3/12
5. Never Love a Highlander by Maya Banks
6. Never Enough by Lauren Dane
7. Never Seduce a Scoundrel by Sabrina Jeffries
8. Midnight Pleasures With a Scoundrel by Lorraine Heath
9. Midnight Man by Lisa Marie Rice
10. Wild Man by Kristen Ashley - 9/10/12
11. To Wed a Wild Lord by Sabrina Jeffries

What a cool challenge!! I'd like to join in...but I'll just go with Easy for now...

Progressive Reading Challenge
Sept 1/12 - Aug 31/13
0/10

1. You Know Where to Find Me (Rachel Cohn)
2. No One You Know (Michelle Richmond)
3. One Breath Away (Heather Gudenkauf)
4. Never Look Away (Linwood Barclay)
5. All You Never Wanted (Adele Griffin)
6. What They Wanted (Donna Morrissey)
7. 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (Albert Brooks)
8. Until The Real Thing Comes Along (Elizabeth Berg)
9. The Next Thing On My List (Jill Smolinsky)
10. The Girl Next Door (Elizabeth Noble)

Ok, I'm going to try this challenge using books on my to-read shelf! Edit: Had to change my list since I lost my start book!

Progressive Reading Challenge
Sept 1, 2012 to Aug 31, 2013
Level: Easy (for now)

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1. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes – Diane Chamberlain
2. SECRET Lives of Husbands & Wives – Josie Brown
3. As HUSBANDS Go – Susan Issacs
4. AS if By Accident – Julie Johnston
5. The Next ACCIDENT – Lisa Gardiner
6. The NEXT Best Thing – Jennifer Weiner
7. BEST Friends Forever – Jennifer Weiner
8. Between FRIENDS - Kristy Kiernan
9. BETWEEN Sisters – Kristin Hannah
10. The Weird SISTERS – Eleanor Brown

This looks incredibly hard but so awesome I have to try. I'll start with the easy level and my first entry will be the very long titled book I read this morning. :D

Progressive Reading Challenge
August 29, 2012 - August 28, 2013
0/10

1. The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water by Daniel J. Boyne - 08/29/12 - 3 stars
2.