2011 Challenge Wrap-Up
Let’s see how I did on the 2011 challenges I entered:
Twenty Eleven
I need to read two books in nine of the categories and one book in two of the categories.
To YA or not YA (YA)
1. Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
2. Avalon High by Meg Cabot
With a Twist (Read a sub-genre you don’t normally read)
1. Soulless by Gail Carriger (steampunk)
2. The Man In the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal (true-crime)
Hot off the Presses (Read a book published in 2011)
1. The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead by Paul Elwork
2. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
It Wasn’t Me! (Read a book chosen because of a bloggers recommendation)
1. Feed by Mira Grant
2. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
Show It’s Who’s Boss (Read a book from TBR pile as of 12/31/2010)
1. Lover Awakened by JR Ward
2. Lover Revealed by JR Ward
Bablefish (Read a translated book)
1. The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
Will-Power? What Will-Power? (Read a book bought in 2011)
1. Room by Emma Donoghue
Mind the Gap (Read a book needed to finish a series)
1. Runaway by Meg Cabot
2. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
Back in the Day (Reread a favorite book)
1. Dark Lover by JR Ward
2. Lover Eternal by JR Ward
Way Back When (Read a book published before I was born)
Slim-Pickings (Read a book between 90-150 pages)
1. Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (144 pages)
2. We, Robots by Sue Lange
The Vampire Chronicles Reading Challenge 2011
There are ten books in the Vampire Chronicles series.
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2nds Challenge 2011
This challenge is to read a second book by an author you’ve read before. I signed up for three books.
1. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2. My Fair Lazy by Jen Lancaster
3. A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
What’s In a Name 4
1. A book with a number in the title – Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
2. A book with jewelry or a gem in the title – Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
3. A book with size in the title – Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot
4. A book with travel or movement in the title – The Art of in the Rain by Garth Stein
5. A book with evil in the title – The Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
6. A book with a life stage in the title – An Accidental Athlete: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Middle Age by John Bingham
Amy Einhorn Books Perpetual Challenge
Read books published by the Amy Einhorn Imprint.
Read in 2010:
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2. The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
Read in 2011:
1. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
2.The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead by Paul Elwork
3. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
4. If Jack’s In Love by Stephen Wetta
2011 Audio Book Challenge
I signed up to listen to six audio books in 2011.
1. Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
2. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
3. Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
4. Runaway by Meg Cabot
5. Earth (the book) by Jon Stewart
6. Blind Your Ponies by Stanley West
2011 E-Book Reading Challenge
I signed up to read six e-books in 2011.
1. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2. Calling Home by Janna McMahan
3. We, Robots by Sue Lange
4. Across Eternity by Aris Whittier
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South Asian Challenge 2011
I signed up to read five books in the 2011 South Asian Challenge.
1. Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee
2. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3. The Wandering Falcon by Jahmil Ahmad
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I think I did pretty well. Obviously I flunked The Vampire Chronicles challenge but I either completed or came really close to completing the other challenges. Now I just need to decide which challenges I’d like to sign up for for 2012!
