Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

Post your reporting for the August/September mini-challenges here

1. Chunkster tremor: Read one 700+ page book. - 5 pts.
I Know This Much is True

2. Fight Procrastination Day (on TBR for more than a year) - 2 pts.
The Magicians
Honolulu


3. Country spotlight: Brazil - 2 pts.

4. Monthly specials: romance shelf - 2 pts.
Fifty Shades Freed
Delirium

5. Tracey’s challenge idea - read any book that you got for free - 2 pts.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy
Skulduggery Pleasant
Anna Dressed in Blood
Deadlocked
Iron House
The Eleventh Plague
The Search
Wilson
Kill Me If You Can
Cat Paradise, Vol. 1
City of Glass
Headhunters
Slaughterhouse-Five
Fahrenheit 451
Toys

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 pts. or 4 pts for J, Q, X or Z
T - Takedown by Brad Thor
G - You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz

Total points: 49

Chunkster Tremor - 5pts

Fight Procrastination Day - 2pts
Confessions of a Shopaholic (GR TBR Nov. 2010)
Dead Reckoning (GR TBR Mar. 2011)

Country Spotlight - 2pts

Monthly Special - 2 pts 8 points
Hollowmen
I've Got Your Number
Matched
Slumber


Clean out the Freebies - 2pts 2 points
Elemental

The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie - 3/4pts 10 points
M. Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
J. Looking for Alaska by John Green
E. Angelfall by Susan Ee

Total Points: 20

1. Chunkster tremor - 5 pts.
It - 1090 pages

2. Fight Procrastination Day (on TBR for more than a year) - 2 pts.
It
Odd Thomas - 446 pages
The Shack - 250 pages
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - 406 pages

3. Country spotlight: Brazil - 2 pts.

4. Monthly specials: romance shelf - 2 pts.
Club Dead - 292 pages
Inside Lady Miranda - 35 pages
The Killing Club - 290 pages
Living Dead in Dallas - 288 pages

5. Tracey’s challenge idea - read any book that you got for free - 2 pts.
The Amulet of Samarkand - 462 pages
Ballet Shoes - 233 pages
Fahrenheit 451 - 163 pages
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - 196 pages
Flowers in the Attic - 132/389 - Couldn't finish it; waaaaaaaaay out of my comfort zone for reading. I don't want to escape into this book at all.
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back - 163 pages
Of Mice and Men - 107 pages
Rage - 131 pages
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - 93 pages
Wuthering Heights - 233 pages
The Yellow Wall-Paper - 63 pages

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 pts. or 4 pts for J, Q, X or Z
J - Nemesis - 474 pages
S - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - 315 pages
U - The Mad Science Book: 100 Amazing Experiments from the History of Science - 287 pages

Total Points: 51
Total Pages: 6149

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie C K F

An Honest Love 3pts
A Hand to Hold 3pts
Treasuring Emma 3pts
A Gift of Grace 3pts
A Promise of Hope 3pts
A Place of Peace 3pts
The Choice 3pts
The Waiting 3pts
The Search 3pts

Total: 27pts

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie D

The Christmas Quilt 3pts



Total: 30pts

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.

Total: 6 points

Chunkster Tremor (750+ pages) - 5pts


Fight Procrastination Day (On TBR for a year) - 2pts



Country Spotlight (Brazil) - 2pts


Monthly Special (Romance shelf) - 2 pts

The Final Warning
Max

Clean out the Freebies - 2pts


The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie - 3/4pts (J,Q,X,Z)

Total Points: 4

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.

Total: 8 points

Here's my latest update:

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
X - Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.
E - The Lost Gardens - Anthony Eglin - 3 pts.


Total: 11 points

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie A E S G

The Memory Keeper's Daughter 3pts
A Season of Love 3pts
The Caregiver 3pts
Attic Treasures 3pts

Total: 42pts

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie C

A Life of Joy 3pts


Total: 45pts

Here's my latest update:

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.
Some Like It Hot - Louisa Edwards - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points
The Poisonwood Bible - 2 pts.
Maus II - 2 pts.
Water for Elephants - 2 pts.
Ghetto Cowboy - 2 pts.

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
X - Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.
E - The Lost Gardens - Anthony Eglin - 3 pts.


Total: 21 points

August /September Challenge

5. Tracy's challenge 2 points

Rapture
DIES IRAE
Sweet Blood of Mine


6. Traditional TBR 3/4 points

Robert B. Parker's Lullaby
I, Michael Bennett
Nevermore
The Reversal
Eleventh Hour
Gone

Total points: 24

1. Chunkster Tremor
Gargantua and Pantagruel - 5pts

2. Fight Procrastination Day

3. Country spotlight (Brazil)
The War of the End of the World - 2pts

4. Monthly specials (Romance)
Mansfield Park - 2pts
Love and Freindship [sic] - 2pts
The Great Gatsby - 2pts
Northanger Abbey - 2pts

5. Tracey's challenge (Clean out freebies)
Out of Africa - 2pts
Gantz Vol. 1 through Vol. 12 - 24pts
The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Series #2) - 2pts

6. Non-traditional fortune

Total Points: 43pts

Fight Procrastination Day

Briar Rose 2pts

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie

A Christmas to Remember 3pts


Total: 50pts

5. Tracy's challenge 2 points

The Moon Dwellers
The Mind Readers

6. Traditional TBR 3/4 points

Supernaturally
Dead Watch
Resolution
Under the Never Sky

Total points 40

Tried reading "The Historian", after a week and a half I couldn't take it anymore. I only made to chapter 9. Picked up another book, finished it in a day!

Fight Procratination

Briar Rose 2pts

Monthly Specials

Divine Intervention 2pts


Total: 54pts

Here's my latest update:

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.
Some Like It Hot - Louisa Edwards - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points
The Poisonwood Bible - 2 pts.
Maus II - 2 pts.
Water for Elephants - 2 pts.
Ghetto Cowboy - 2 pts.
Crunch Time -2 pts.
Fat-free and Fatal - 2 pts.

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
X - Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.
E - The Lost Gardens - Anthony Eglin - 3 pts.
O - Farewell to the Flesh - Gemma O'Connor - 3 pts.

Total: 28 points

5. Tracy's challenge

Frost

Traditional TBR

Moonlight Mile

Total points for August is 45

Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie P

The Kingmakers Daughter 3pts
The Year of the Jubilo 3pts


Total: 60pts

Monthly Specials

My Life Next Door 2pts


Total: 62pts

Here's my latest update:

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.
Some Like It Hot - Louisa Edwards - 2 pts.
Catching Jordan - Miranda Keneally - 2 pts.
Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich - 2 pts.
Goliath - Scott Westerfeld - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points
The Poisonwood Bible - 2 pts.
Maus II - 2 pts.
Water for Elephants - 2 pts.
Ghetto Cowboy - 2 pts.
Crunch Time -2 pts.
Fat-free and Fatal - 2 pts.
Red Velvet Revenge - 2 pts.

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
X - Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.
E - The Lost Gardens - Anthony Eglin - 3 pts.
O - Farewell to the Flesh - Gemma O'Connor - 3 pts.
H - Death Comes Softly - Carolyn Hart - 3 pts.
J - Popped Off - Jeffrey Allen - 4 pts.

Total: 43 points

1. Chunkster
2. Fight procrastination day
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Lullaby
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
3. Country spotlight
4. Monthly special
5. Freebies
6. Fortune cookie

Total points: 6

September

5: Tracy's challenge
The Mayfair Moon
Captive in the Dark

6: Fortune cookie

Endlessly by Kiersten White
After Dark by Jayne Castle
Shadows by Jennifer Armentrout
onyx by Jennifer Armentrout
Judgement Call by Jan Jance
The Innocent by David Baldaccii
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
One Summer by David Baldaccii
Cruel Intent by J A Jance
Afraid to Die by Lisa Jackson
Undead and Undermined by MaryJanice Davidson
Captive in the Dark by C J Roberts
Undead and Unstable by MaryJanice Davidson
Zero Day by David Baldaccii
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

5) Tracy's challenge
Blood Warrior by H.D.Gordon

Points for September :48

Total Points: 93

1. Chunkster
Towers of Midnight (1219 pages)

Total points: 11

4. Monthly Special: Romance

The Reader

Total Points: 13

Here's my latest update:

1.Chunkster tremor: 5 points

2.Fight Procrastination Day -2 points
Bloody Kin - Margaret Maron (c.1985 - definitely been on my shelf for a while!) - 2 pts.

3.Country spotlight: 2 points

4.Monthly specials: 2 points
Unravel Me - Christie Ridgway - 2 pts.
Some Like It Hot - Louisa Edwards - 2 pts.
Catching Jordan - Miranda Keneally - 2 pts.
Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich - 2 pts.
Goliath - Scott Westerfeld - 2 pts.

5.Tracey’s challenge idea 2 points
The Poisonwood Bible - 2 pts.
Maus II - 2 pts.
Water for Elephants - 2 pts.
Ghetto Cowboy - 2 pts.
Crunch Time -2 pts.
Fat-free and Fatal - 2 pts.
Red Velvet Revenge - 2 pts.
Books Can Be Deceiving - 2 pts.

6. The Non-Traditional Fortune cookie: 3 points, unless you draw an J, Q, X or a Z, - 4 points
X - Come To Be Killed by E.X. Ferrars - 4 pts.
E - The Lost Gardens - Anthony Eglin - 3 pts.
O - Farewell to the Flesh - Gemma O'Connor - 3 pts.
H - Death Comes Softly - Carolyn Hart - 3 pts.
J - Popped Off - Jeffrey Allen - 4 pts.
V - Cookie Dough or Die - Virginia Lowell - 3 pts.
A - In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews - 3 pts.
Q - Deception - by Amanda Quick - 4 pts.
K - Vows, Vendettas, and a Little Black Dress by Kyra Davis - 3 pts.
F - Home Free by Fern Michaels - 3 pts.

I was really getting into this alphabet thing - in fact, I figured out by doing the Random thing 26 times what order I would have to read in order to do the whole alphabet! (Unfortunately, two months isn't quite long enough to do that!)

Total: 61 points

Total points = 20

I really didn't get many books read the last couple months. Since I'm falling behind on all my challenges, I'll definitely need to do better for the rest of the year.

Romance

Elegy for Iris 2 pts


Non-Traditional Fortune Cookie

The Inn at Rose Harbor 3pts
The Amish Gathering 3pts
The Amish Bride 3pts

Total: 71pts

Chunkster

Voyager 5pts


Total: 76pts