Archive for the ‘2009’ Category

Over-Challenged

June 17, 2010 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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I’ve come to the conclusion that I overdid it on the challenges at the beginning of the year. As great as all of them sounded, as much as I wanted to participate. I’m going to excuse myself from the following challenges: E-Book ChallengeTBR Challenge10-10-10 Challenge451 Challenge Debut Author Challenge Take Another Chance Which Leaves me [...]

10-10-10 Challenge

January 17, 2010 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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Here are the basic “rules”–which are free to be modified in any manner that works for you. To me, this challenge is about branching out in reading, not a checklist of do and don’t. 1. Choose 10 different categories or genres. 2. Start reading books from these categories, with a goal to read 10 books [...]

451 Challenge

January 17, 2010 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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As if I need more challenges. I’m adding at least one more, if not 2. Here is how it will work: between January 1, 2010 and November 30, 2010, participants are challenged to read books on the 451 master list. There will be several levels of participation: Spark – read 1-2 books from the master [...]

TwentyTen Reading Challenge

December 31, 2009 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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Read 2 books from each category, making a requirement of 20 books total. 1. Young Adult Any book classified as young adult or featuring a teenage protagonist counts for this category. 2. T.B.R. ** Intended to help reduce the old T.B.R. pile. Books for this category must be already residents of your bookshelves as of [...]

Update Time

November 20, 2009 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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Since finishing the DystopYA Challenges, I’ve gone on to read Have A Little Faith from Mitch Albom and the first 3 Vampire Diaries books from L. J. Smith. I have the 4th book, as well as several others that I want to read. Sometimes, I feel like my to-read shelf on Goodreads gets longer every [...]

DystopYA Update and other Books

October 31, 2009 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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I’ve finished 5 books in the DystopYA challenges. I’ve made 2 changes to the list, as I’ve found that I can’t motivate myself to read two of the books that I originally chose. One of them being A Wrinkle in Time and the other being Bridge to Terabithia. I’m sure that I’ll eventually get to [...]

DystopYA Official Book List

October 10, 2009 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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Books:1) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (100%)2) The Giver by Lois Lowry (100%)3) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (100%)Books:4) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (100%)5) The Dead and the gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (100%)6) Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (100%)Extra:7) Lord of the Flies by William Golding

I Read

October 10, 2009 by Margaret · Leave a Comment
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I read, a lot. I also listen to a lot of audio books.What I don’t seem to get is why people think that audio books aren’t as time consuming as ‘real’ books. You spend just as much time listening to it as you would reading it, because it’s not being read any faster than a [...]