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January
1. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 1.7.13 ★★★★
2. Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive" by Jen Yates 1.9.13 ★★★
3. Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione 1.9.13 ★★★★
4. Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers by Nancy Pearl 1.16.13 ★★★★
5. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison 1.17.13 ★★★★
6. Delicious by Shayla Black 1.19.13 ★
7. The Selection by Kiera Cass 1.21.13 ★★★
8. Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day 1.23.13 ★★
9. The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 1.27.13 ★★★
10. Fantasy by Lori Foster 1.28.13 ★★★
February
1. This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman 2.7.13 ★★★★
2. The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works by Charles Van Doren 2.9.13 ★★★
3. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong 2.11.13 ★★
4. The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin 2.12.13 ★★★
5. Sex Lounge by Rachelle Chase 2.20.13 ★★
6. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud 2.21.13 ★★★★
7. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2.22.13 ★★★★★
8. Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major by John Feinstein 2.26.13 ★★
9. Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione 2.28.13 ★★
March
1. More Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby 3.3.13 ★★★
2. At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost 3.5.13 ★★★
3. Storm Front by Jim Butcher 3.8.13 ★★★
4. How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 3.10.13 ★★
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 3.11.13 ★★★★★
6. With My Body by Nikki Gemmell 3.13.13 ★★★
7. The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott 3.16.13 ★★
8. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport by Carl Hiaasen 3.17.13 ★★★
9. Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost 3.18.13 ★★★
10. The Firm by John Grisham 3.19.13 ★★★
11. Unfinished Business by Nora Roberts 3.20.13 ★★★
12. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton 3.23.13 ★★★★
13. It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips 3.27.13 ★
14. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 3.30.13 ★★★★
April
1. Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr 4.2.13 ★★★
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.6.13 ★★★★
3. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 4.9.13 ★★★
Nerdy Non-Fiction 2013Level:
Nerd: 15+ books in 8+ categories
11 books, 9 categories
Categories:
Animals
Anthropology, Archaeology
Art, Photography, Architecture
- Making Comics by Scott McCloud 2.21.13 ★★★★
Autobiography, Biography, Memoir
- The Downhill Lie by Carl Hiaasen 3.17.13 ★★★
Business, Finance, Management
Crafts
Crime, Law
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.6.13 ★★★★
Cultural Studies
Family, Relationships
Food
- Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive" by Jen Yates 1.9.13 ★★★
Health, Medicine, Wellness
History
Home, Garden
Literary Criticism/Theory
- Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl 1.16.13 ★★★★
- The Joy of Reading by Charles Van Doren 2.9.13 ★★★
- More Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby 3.3.13 ★★★
Music, Film, TV
Poetry, Theatre
-Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr 4.2.13 ★★★
Politics, Government, Current Affairs
Religion, Philosophy
Science
- This Explains Everything by John Brockman 2.7.13 ★★★★
Self Improvement, Self Help, How To
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 2.12.13 ★★★
Sports, Adventure
- Tales from Q School by John Feinstein 2.26.13 ★★
Technology, Engineering
Travel
Literary Exploration Reading ChallengeLevel:
Insane: 36 books
20/36 complete
Categories:
Adventure
Auto-Biography/Biography - The Downhill Lie by Carl Hiaasen 3.17.13 ★★★
Chick-Lit - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott 3.16.13 ★★
Childrens Book
Classics - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 3.11.13 ★★★★★
Cyberpunk
Drama
Dystopian - The Selection by Kiera Cass 1.21.13 ★★★
Educational - This Explains Everything by John Brockman 2.7.13 ★★★★
Erotica - Delicious by Shayla Black 1.19.13 ★
Espionage
Fantasy - Storm Front by Jim Butcher 3.8.13 ★★★
Graphic Novels - Making Comics by Scott McCloud 2.21.13 ★★★★
Gothic - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 3.30.13 ★★★★
Hard-Boiled
Historical Fiction - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 2.22.13 ★★★★★
Horror
Humor - Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive" by Jen Yates 1.9.13 ★★★
Literary Fiction - The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 4.9.13 ★★★
Magical Realism
Mystery
Noir
Non-Fiction - Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl 1.16.13 ★★★★
Paranormal - Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione 1.9.13 ★★★★
Philosophical
Poetry - Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr 4.2.13 ★★★
Post-Apocalyptic
Romance - Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day 1.23.13 ★★
Science Fiction
Steampunk
Supernatural - Bitten by Kelley Armstrong 2.11.13 ★★
Thriller - The Firm by John Grisham 3.19.13 ★★★
True Crime - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 4.6.13 ★★★★
Urban Fantasy - Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison 1.17.13 ★★★★
Victorian
Young Adult
Space for another 2013 challenge... I'm sure there will be one!
Hearts and TearsNovember 28, 2012 - March 31, 2013
Gameboard | Particpant | Die | Movement
Progress:
1. Square 4 - Historical Romance - A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James 12.3.12 ★★★
2. Square 7 - Free Read - Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward 11.30.12 ★★★
3. Square 8 - Young Adult - Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli 12.17.12 ★★★
4. Square 11 - Urban Fantasy - Insurgent by Veronica Roth 12.13.12 ★★★
5. Square 12 - >6 months on TBR list - Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 12.26.12 ★★★★
6. Square 15 - kick-ass-heroine - Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione 12.25.12 ★★★★
7. Square 19 (to 55) - 400+ page TBR - Lover Awakened by JR Ward 12.28.12 ★★★★
8. Square 57 - friends-to-lovers ~rolled back~
8v2. Square 55 - 400+ page TBR - Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione 1.9.13 ★★★★
9. Square 61 (to 109) - BDSM - Delicious by Shayla Black 1.19.13 ★
10. Square 114 - free read - Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl 1.16.13 ★★★★
11. Square 118 - mythology ~rolled back~
11v2. Square 114 - free read - Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison 1.17.13 ★★★★
12. Square 115 - interracial romance - ~rolled back~
12v2. Square 114 - free read - The Selection by Kiera Cass 1.21.13 ★★★
13. Square 115 - interracial romance - ~rolled back~
13v2. Square 109 - BDSM - Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day 1.23.13 ★★
14. Square 110 - highlander - TBD
15. Square 112 to 135 - unrequited love - TBD
Reading with Style Winter 12/13 ChallengeDecember 1, 2012 - February 28, 2013
Home | Tasks | Readerboard
Points as of 2.24 - 290
10.1 - Year in Review
10.2 - January is Yours, Mine and Ours Month
10.3 - Library Lover's Month
10.4 - Fairy Tales
10.5 - World Thinking Day
10.6 - Nobel Prize
10.7 - Isabell's Task - Buy Nothing Christmas (x2)
10.8 - Deedee's Task - Historical Reading
10.9 - Cory Bigler's task - NOT a Random Penguin
10.10 - Group reads
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Oystercatchers by Susan Fletcher
- Thurber's Dogs: A Collection of the Master's Dogs, - Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Legends All by James Thurber
- Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
- I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish
15.1 - 15.10 – Location, location, location
20.1 – If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
20.2 – The Winter War
20.3 – Winter's Tale
20.4 – Winter Trees (x6)
20.5 – Winter in Madrid
20.6 – The Winter of Our Discontent
20.7 - Sara Grace's Task - Notable
20.8 – Kate S's task - Informed
20.9 – Elizabeth (Alaska)'s task - Penned
20.10 – Liz M's task - Undaunted
Reading with Style Spring 2013 ChallengeMarch 1, 2013 - May 31, 2013
Home | Tasks | Style | 20 C
Points as of 4.9: 395
RwS: 8/20 complete
20th C: 4/10 complete
10.1 – Square peg
10.2 – Memoir/Autobiography
10.3 – The Plus
10.4 – Author born in Ireland
10.5 – This or that prize
10.6 – Murder, not mystery
10.7 – Real Nurses
10.8 – MarchAprilMay
10.9 – Time for Dinner
10.10 – Group read - The Phantom of the Opera
15.1 - 15.10 – That's So 20th Century – Chronologician
1991 The Firm
1992 Unfinished Business
1993 Guilty Pleasures
1994 It Had to Be You
1995 Blindness
1996 The Runaway Jury, Anyone But You
1997 Naked, A Walk in the Woods, The Killing Dance
1998 I'm a Stranger Here Myself, The Professor and the Madman
1999 Beyond the Highland Mist
2000 Kitchen Confidential, Me Talk Pretty One Day
20.1 – Author lived during 1776-1817
20.2 – Book that was made into a TV series or movie by BBC
20.3 – Book that has more than 100,000 ratings and an average rating over 3.99
20.4 – Hardscrabble life (top 25) or the underclass (top 50)
20.5 – Book written by a woman with a female narrator/main character (x3)
20.6 – Parody or a book by one of these satirists
20.7 – Novel that was published posthumously
20.8 – Harry or Truman
20.9 – Index Librorum Prohibitorum
20.10 – Author whose given names are usually published as initials only
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- July - December
2013 Challenges
- Nerdy Non-Fiction Challenge
- Literary Exploration Reading Challenge
Ongoing/Other Challenges
- Reading with Style, Spring 2013
Completed/Finished Challenges
- Hearts & Tears (Participant Post)
- Reading with Style, Winter 12/13 (Tasks)