Completed Reading Challenges: 2009 ~ 2010

 

A bit of blog-keeping to keep track of completed challenges. Most challenge badges link to internal posts within Layers of Thought Where the hosting site for each challenge should be accessible.

Goodreads Seasonal Challenges

Spring 2010

5 Point Tasks:

• 5.3 Initials GS - Gary Stelzer The Cost of Dreams
• 5.9 Read in Bed - Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200:: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories by Lisa Lillian
• 5.10 Victorian Read - The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

10 Point Tasks:

• 10.4 Reuse and Recycle - Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America by Rich Benjamin
• 10.6 And the Oscar goes to - The film UP with the book Keeper by Kathi Appelt.
  The main character (a child) of the book and movie take a dangerous trip.
• 10.10 Fashion Fades - How Not to Look Fat Ever Again: Over 1,000 Ways to Dress Thinner--Without Dieting by Charla Krupp (The word Dress)

15 Point Tasks:

• 15.10 Personal Philosophy - The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Oschner - One of my personal philosophies is that it is possible to access one's creativity via dreams and writing.

20 Point Tasks:

• 20.2 Clean Sweep - Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder - The main character is a "scrub" and cleans pipes in this young adult dystopian sci fi novel.
• 20.3 Mental Heath - Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp - The main character is a recovering alcoholic. I did not learn anything new regarding alcoholism through this quirky and fun character.

25 Point Tasks:

• 25.1 Future Aspirations - I would like a new home. It would be great if it was fun too. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Allison Bechdel
• 25.5 Spring Cleaning - read 850 plus pages. I read the Moon Trilogy by Susan Beth Pfeffer  Life As We Knew It,The Dead and the Gone, and This World We Live In for a total of 1012 pages.

Summary:

• I read a total of 13 books for this challenge.
• My total number of points are 150.

Winter 2009 – 2010

1. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
2. Nibble & Kuhn by David Schmahmann
3. Defining Twilight by Brian Leaf
4. The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
5. Soulless by Gail Carrigan
6. The Stupidest Angel - by Christopher Moore
7. The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
8. Release by Nicole Hadaway
9. The Magic Warble

Total Points: 145 /1100
Completed Tasks: 8/58
Books Read for Completed Tasks: 9
Pages Read for Completed Tasks: 2808

Fall 2009

1. Stepmonster by Wednesday Martin PhD (11/23/09)
2. Soul Survivor by Bruce and Andrea Leninger (read 10/1)
3. A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar – (finished 11/22/09)
4. Playing House by Fredrica Wagman; (completed 10/1)
5. The World According to Twitter by David Pogue (completed 10/1)
6. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett (posted Nov 6)
7. The Superstress Solution by Roberta Lee MD  (10/20)
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (10/9/09)
9. Serena by Ron Rash (10/08)
10. Three Seed by Gabriel Madison (10/15)
11. Health Beyond Medicine by Scott Paton – not reviewed
12. Now What: 90 Days to a New Life Direction by Laura Berman
13. Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker (finished 9/10)

This challenge was completed with 13 books.

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The RIP Challenge

Fall 2009:

This challenge was completed with 2 books.

1. Something Wicked this way Comes - Ray Bradbury (audio) finished review link
2. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (audio)complete - review link

 

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Once Upon a Time

Spring 2010

Read at least one Fantasy, Myth, or Fairytale related book:

1. Keeper by Kathi Appelt (young adult/tween, mythic - slipstream)
2. The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner (slip stream, literary)

Read any number short stories of the same:

1. “Antickes and Frets” by Susanna Clarke

2. “The Goosle” by Margo Lanagan

Complete!

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The Sci Fi Reading Challenge – August 28, 2009 to August 8, 2010

The Goal is 3.14 books. (pi)

The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley

1. Life As We Knew It
2. The Dead and The Gone
3. This World We Live In (all linked here in one post)
4. Post-Human by David Simpson

Inside Out by Maria Snyder

This Challenge is complete

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The GLBT Challenge

2009:

This challenge was 50% completed with 3 books listed below:

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Frankenstein
3. A Map of Home

 

 

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