2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Midyear Challenge: Finish Those Series!

This challenge focuses on finishing series you've started. They can be series you started as a child and want to know what happened to your favorite childhood characters (for example, Lowry's The Giver or L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time), they can be series you would like to start and finish within the span of the rest of the year, or they can just be any series you started but never finished.


Rules:

- Challenge runs from July 1 through December 31

- For the purposes of this challenge, a series must have at least three books in it

- Identify how many and which series you plan to finish (like the Listopia Challenge)

- Books marked as x.5 in the series are optional (for example, Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades is #4.5 in the series so does not need to be read)

- No matter how many books you've read in the series prior to the start of this challenge (even if you've read four of the five books, say), it counts as long as you finish

- You can change your planned lists at any time

- Track your progress either here or your corner (if the latter, post here first so that we know you're participating)

- Progress will be tracked by completed series only--individual books will not count, but you can still use this thread to track them

- To count, you must finish the series through books published in 2012 (i.e., if a series has three books currently out but a fourth is coming out in 2013, you only need to finish the first three books to count it toward this challenge)

Trevor will be the leader for this challenge.

I'll start.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians
1. The Lightning Thief
2. Sea of Monsters
3. The Titan's Curse
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth
5. Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades

The Giver
1. The Giver
2. Gathering Blue
3. Messenger
4. Son

Alien Adventures
1. Aliens Ate My Homework
2. I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X
3. The Search for Snout
4. Aliens Stole My Body

Shabanu
1. Shabanu
2. Haveli
3. The House of Djinn

Taj Mahal
1. The Twentieth Wife
2. The Feast of Roses
3. Shadow Princess

Time
1. A Wrinkle in Time
2. A Wind in the Door
3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
4. Many Waters
5. An Acceptable Time
Note: I read the first three in middle school, but it's been so long that I plan to reread them.

COMPLETED: 0/6

Finish Those Series'!!
Goal: 4
Completed: 1

Doctor Who: Quick Reads by Various
I Am A Dalek
Made of Steel
Revenge of the Judoon
The Sontaran Games
Code of the Krillitanes
Magic of the Angels

Ender by Orson Scott Card
Mazer in Prison (0.4)
First Meetings in Ender's Universe (0.5)
Ender's Game
A War of Gifts (1.5)
Ender in Exile
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind

The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Messenger
Son - to be published October 2012

Rainbow Trilogy by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow Boys
Rainbow High
Rainbow Road

Participant List


Ashley: 0/2
Connieb: 0/2
Johanna: 1/3
Kara: 0/6
Kelsi: 0/5
Lilac: 1/7
Sapir: 0/2
Sarajayne: 0/2
Sharon: 0/3 or 4
Sheena: 1/3
SilverRaindrops: 0/11
Toni: 0/2
Trevor: 1/4

I am going to give it a shot. I have two series that are on my TBR list:

Inspector Sejer Series byKarin Fossum
Don't Look Back
He Who Fears the Wolf
When the Devil Holds the Candle
The Indian Bride
Black Seconds
The Water's Edge

John Madden Mysteries by Rennie Airth
River of Darkness - 7/9/2012 - 4 stars
The Blood-Dimmed Tide 9/3/2012 - 4 stars
The Dead of Winter 9/20/2012 - 4 stars

I've been trying to do this on my own.. let me get a list and see where I am.

I'm already doing this in another group as well, but I'm so proud of my progress that I want to brag here as well. So count me in :).

Midyear Finish Those Series!
July 1 - Dec 31, 2012
Progress: 0/22

I: Jostein Gaarder
This is not an official series, but some of the characters and sayings fit, and I'd like to read the two books together as a series.
#1: The Solitaire Mystery
#2: Maya

II) Laura Anne Gilman - Vineart War
#1: Flesh and Fire
#2: Weight of Stone
#3: The Shattered Vine

III) Alison Sinclair - Darkborn
#1: Darkborn
#2: Lightborn
#3: Shadowborn

IV) Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn
#1: The Final Empire
#2: The Well of Ascension
#3: The Hero of Ages

V) Daniel Abraham - Long Price Quartet
#1: Sommer der Zwietracht
#2: Winter des Verrats
#3: Herbst der Kriege
#4: Frühling der Vergeltung

VI) Brent Weeks - Night Angel
#1: The Way of Shadows
#2: Shadow's Edge
#3: Beyond the Shadows

VII) Brandon Mull - Fablehaven
#1: Fablehaven
#2: Rise of the Evening Star
#3: Grip of the Shadow Plague
#4: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
#5: Keys to the Demon Prison

VIII) Bernd Perplies - Tarean
#1: Sohn des Fluchbringers
#2: Erbe der Kristalldrachen
#3: Ritter des Ersten Lichts

IX) Bernd Perplies - Magierdämmerung
#1: Für die Krone
#2: Gegen die Zeit
#3: In den Abgrund

X) Greg Keyes - Bund der Alchemisten (Age of Unreason)
#1: Newtons Kanone
#2: Die Luftschiffe des Zaren
#3: Das verborgene Reich
#4: Der Schatten Gottes

XI) Torsten Fink - Tochter des Magiers
#1: Die Diebin: Die Tochter des Magiers
#2: Die Gefährtin
#3: Die Erwählte

I´m in as well! Here´s my plan number 1:


1. Fallen
2. Torment (read last year, will reread)
3. Passion
4. Rapture


Fifty Shades of Grey (read 2012)
Fifty Shades Darker (read 2012)
7. Fifty Shades Freed (finished July 2012)


8. Eragon (read, will reread)
9. Eldest (read, will reread)
10. Brisingr (read, will reread)
11. Inheritance


I will add more if I remember series I haven´t finished, but want to :)

I will start with two series. I have many more, but do not want to get overwhelmed, haha.

Iron Fey Series
The Iron King
The Iron Daughter Finished: 8/6/12
The Iron Queen
The Iron Knight

Anne Shirley Series
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside

I'm in but I'll probably change my goal at some point depending on how good they are and how many other books I'll need to read.

Maze Runner Started June 2012
The Kill Order (released 14 August)
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure

Maximum Ride Started 2009
The Angel Experiment
School's Out - Forever
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The Final Warning
Max
Fang
Angel
Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure (released 6 August)

Matched Started May 2012
Matched
Crossed
Reached (released 6 November)

Lord of the Rings Started 2009/2010
The Fellowship of the Ring (read half)
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Dave Pelzer Started August 2007
A Child Called "It"
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness

Inheritance Started 2009/2010
Eragon (to reread)
Eldest
Brisingr
Inheritance

Completed 0/13 Books
Completed 0/6 Series

I'm in.. Hope I haven't over done myself.

Fallen
Fallen (read 2012)
Torment (6/27/12)
Passion (10/21/12)
Rapture (12/7/12)

Mortal Instruments
City of Bones (7-19-12)
City of Ashes (8-20-12)
City of Glass (11-3-12)
City of Fallen Angels (11-22-12)
City of Lost Souls (12/10/12)

Sookie Stackhouse
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone
Dead in the Family
Dead Reckoning (read 2012)
DeadLocked (finished 7-7-12)

Completed 3 of 3

I hope I posted this right, Trevor let me know if I didn't...

Welcome to the challenge everybody!!

@Sheena, looks good! Just one thing, at the top of your post is a link that says "(some html is ok)", click that and you'll find out how to put lines through titles (it's where it says "strike text"). Right now, everything is crossed out! No big deal, you've just left out the "end" tag, which looks like this: < /s > (but without the spaces).

Oh, I have a ton of series, so many so that I'll never get them read, lol. I'll start off with a couple and see how many I can add after that, ok?

Graceling
Fire
Bitterblue

A Discovery of Witches
Shadow of Night

Trevor wrote: "Welcome to the challenge everybody!!

@Sheena, looks good! Just one thing, at the top of your post is a link that says "(some html is ok)", click that and you'll find out how to put lines through t..."

Thanks Trevor. I think I got it fixed..

Sheena wrote: "Thanks Trevor. I think I got it fixed.. "

Great! Thanks. :)

Connieb wrote: "Oh, I have a ton of series, so many so that I'll never get them read, lol. I'll start off with a couple and see how many I can add after that, ok?"

That's fine, Connieb! Good choices. I read Graceling a couple years ago and it was really good. I didn't finish the series though, so let me know how it is!

Will do! I'm double-dipping, so should be able to add at least a few more series by year's end. I'm definitely NOT adding any Pratchett though, there's way too many, lol.

I will finish the Alex Cross books!I'm on #10 of 18
**updated 11/15 I need to do a Cross Marathon!
Along Came a Spider
Kiss the Girls
Jack & Jill
Cat & Mouse
Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5) read in August 2012
Roses Are Red read out of order I hate that!
Violets Are Blue
Four Blind Mice
The Big Bad Wolf
London Bridges (Alex Cross #10)
Mary, Mary
Cross
Double Cross
Cross Country
Alex Cross's Trial
I, Alex Cross
Cross Fire
Kill Alex Cross

I'll continue this one ...
Matched
Crossed
Reached

and this one (house of night)...
Destined
Hiddencoming in October - I'll read this one if my library ever gets it!

maybe start this one ...
Divergent read in July 2012
Insurgent read in August 2012
done for now the next book doesn't come out until next September

Will have to see where I go.

Welcome, Sharon! I've put your number at 3 or 4, so when you decide to start Divergent or not let me know and I'll fix it. :)

I've updated my old post, and got 22 books to read now. :).
Went with Sara's suggestion of picking different series compared to my other challenges.

Great! Got you updated. :)

Yearly Read Challenge: Finish Those Series
Started in July 2012
Completed 2/5

Chronicles of Narnia
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance With Dragons

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Shopaholic and Sister
Shopaholic & Baby
Mini Shopaholic

Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Time Quintet
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time

Wow, Kelsi, that's a great list! I'll get you added to the participant list. :)

I'm going to be doing another series too so my goal is now 7 series' by the end of the year :) This is the other series I plan to finish.

Morganville Vampires Started spring 2011
Glass Houses
The Dead Girls' Dance
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss of Death
Ghost Town
Bite Club
Last Breath
Black Dawn
Bitter Blood (released 6 November)

Updated. :)

I have lots of series to finish, but I'll be choosing only two:
Vampire Academy including the spin-off Bloodliness by Richelle Mead:
Vampire Academy - read long ago, 5 stars
frostbite
shadow kiss
blood promise
spirit bound
last sacrifice
bloodliness
the golden lily

The Mortal Instuments and the prequel The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
city of bones - read long ago, 4.5 stars
city of ashes - read 8\4, 5 stars
city of glass
city of fallen angels
city of lost souls
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince

Welcome to the challenge, Sapir! I've got your name and number up in the participant list. :)

Looks like we are all making progress. Yay us!!!!

Oh, I didn't even notice you'd updated, Sheena! I'll fix that right now...

Everyone, please post when you complete a series!! I'm quite bad for updating unless a new post is made and GR emails me about it. Thanks, and keep reading everybody. :)

I completed my first series, the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. :)

Great job, Trevor!

Thanks. :)

I finished Fifty Shades last week! So it´s my first done for this challenge.

Excellent, Johanna! And how did you like it?

Oh I very much loved it!

I think that book is ones of those things that you either love or hate, there's not many people who I know who think it's just okay. BTW Johanna, is there an actual storyline/plot or is it just the MCs doing stuff over and over again? I want to know but am not prepared (or allowed) to read it to find out.

Yes it does have a proper plot. Otherwise I would not have read all three just for the erotic stuff. But I do know that some people think it´s poorly written. I myself don´t care of anything if I like the story.

Okay, thanks for latting me know

It has piqued my interest as well. It is a very polarizing book!

I have been listening to these women on another group talking about Fifty Shades for ages it seems and finally I gave in and ordered the books from amazon.

I read a few free erotic short stories before reading the books because I had no experience on erotica before so I didn´t want it to be too strange when I start reading the books.

It's an... interesting genre, that's for sure. Not one of my favorites but I dabble. ;P

I just finished my first series. I'm going to miss reading these books now that it's all over :(

Maximum Ride Started 2009
The Angel Experiment
School's Out - Forever
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The Final Warning
Max
Fang
Angel
Nevermore - ★★★★ - 09/08/12

Another one read, Fallen this time.

Congrats, Lilac! I feel that way too sometimes when I finish a series. It's bittersweet. :)

Johanna, have you finished the series, or just the first book? How did you like it?

Only the first book. It was a reread, I think it wasn´t as good as on the first time, but I still liked it a lot.

I've been rereading more books recently, and I'm finding the same: some of them just aren't as good on a second read. Still a favorite, but not as... impressive, I guess is the word.

Same thing for me, I am actually starting to think that maybe I should leave some books alone and never reread so they´ll stay amazing for good! :)

I agree 100%. I just reread A Wrinkle In Time, and it just didn't hold up to what I remembered.

Would a series count for this challege if it was going to have three books in it but the third isn't released until 2013?

Kara may disagree, haha, but I'll say that can count. I'm pretty flexible with the rules...