Showing posts with label yearly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yearly. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2012

2012 Book Challenges Wrap Up

2012 Challenges
My A-Z Book Challenge

A - Aurelia
B - Bless Your Heart Tramp, Becoming Sister Wives, Brain Matters
C - Cairo
D - Death By Petticoat, The Darkening Dream, A Dance with Dragons
E - The Enchantress of Florence, Envy
F - Four Thousand Year of Uppity Women, The Fault In Our Stars
G - The Garden Intrigue, The Goddess Test, A Great & Terrible Beauty
H - The Hunger Games
I - If I Have a Wicked Stepmother..., The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Indian Captive
J - The Jinx
K - A Kingdom's Possession, The King's Mistress
L - The Last Boleyn, The Lady of the Rivers, Let's Pretend this Never Happened, Life with Lily, Literacy for the 21st Century
M - Mistress of Rome, The Magician's Nephew, The Magic Warble, The Mermaid Chair, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Murderer's Daughters
N
O - Oh My Gods!
P - Peter and the Starcatchers
Q
R - Reluctant Disciplinarian, Rebel Angels, 
S - Scary School, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Sister Wife, Salem Witch Tryouts, Saving CeeCee Honeycut, Special Education for Today's Teachers
T - A Treasury of Royal Scandals, To Marry an English Lord
U - Unending Devotion
V
W - The Wedding Dress
X
Y - Your Best Birth
Z

As you can see I didn't finish my own challenge. For shame. Let me hang my head..... Ok I'm back. I think that since I only read 50 books this year, I actually did quite well. The only ones I didn't do were N, Q, V, X, and Z. Not sure how I didn't manage to find and N or a V, but Q, X, and Z are excusable. :) Better luck next year. PS. Sign ups are up for the 2012 A to Z Challenge.

Picture Book Challenge - Level 3 : 24 books (Finished June 6th!)

Current Tally - 27

Mr Brown Can Moo, 1 Moose 20 Mice, Dear Zoo, Star Wars ABC, One Two Buckle My Shoe, Old Hat New Hat, Jamberry, Hop on Pop, Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet, The Sea of Bath, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Are You my Mother?, Eyes & Nose Fingers & Toes, I am a Bunny, Barney's Book of Opposites, Sesame Street Who am I?, Moo Baa LaLaLa, RS' Cars and Trucks From A to Z, Almost Bedtime, On the Track...There and Back, How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight?, Sharing is Caring, Night Night Blessings, 10 Minutes Til Bedtime

I managed to finish this one back in June. It wasn't surprising since CJ and I read at least two books a night. He's turning into quite a bookworm and it makes me so proud. :)


Eclectic Reader Challenge

Genres
  1. Literary Fiction - The Enchantress of Florence
  2. Crime/Mystery Fiction - Aurelia by Anne Osterlund (there was a mystery in it, so it counts!)
  3. Romantic Fiction : The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig
  4. Historical Fiction : Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
  5. Young Adult : If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where is My Prince?
  6. Fantasy : The Jinx
  7. Science Fiction - A Kingdom's Possession by Nicole Persun
  8. Non Fiction : Death By Petticoat
  9. Horror : The Darkening Dream
  10. Thriller /Suspense - Rebel Angels 
  11. Classic : The Magician's Nephew
  12. Your favourite genre - Historical Fiction : The Last Boleyn 
This one was a toughie, I'll admit. I didn't think I was going to be able to finish it, but I did. I just don't like crime/mystery fiction all that much, so it was hard for me to find one. But I snuck one in there at the last second. So woohoo. 

I also just barely finished 50 books this year. That is crazy for me. I'm more like a 75 books per year kind of gal. I don't even have excuses like I read Game of Thrones or big books like that again. I did re-read the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, but those aren't too crazy long. 

2012 Reading Challenge

2012 Reading Challenge
Lindsey has completed her goal of reading 50 books in 2012!
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I actually signed up for about 5 more challenges, but as the year went on, it became quite obvious I wasn't going to finish them, so I just deleted them from my challenge page. Oh well. I do have my 2013 challenges ready to go. That page will be up soon. 
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Top Ten of 2011 Blog Hop Sign-Ups


Hop on over to Fiktshun to sign up for the Top 10 of 2011 Blog Hop.

For the last week of December, myself and (currently) 78 other bloggers will be rounding up our favorites of 2011. I've changed one thing on the topics. I haven't really found many book boyfriends this year. Sad face. So instead, I'm doing CJ (my 1-year-old)'s favorite books of 2011. We read about five books a day, so he has quite a few that he loves. Hope you'll join the fun!

The schedule will be as follows:

Monday 12/26 – Top 10 Books I’ve read in 2011
Tuesday 12/27 – Top 10 Book Covers of 2011
Wednesday 12/28 – Top 10 Book Boyfriends in 2011  CJ's Top 10 Books of 2011 today
Thursday 12/29 – Top 10 Characters in 2011 
Friday 12/30 – Top 10 Books I’m looking forward to in 2012 (Also on this day, we’ll each be adding some kind of a recap of the total number of books read, pages read, etc.)
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