Day: December 30, 2013

Reading challenges. I love them yet I hate them. I find it extremely difficult to resist signing up for challenges even though I know I will never complete them.

So for 2013 I tried to keep the number of challenges I joined down. (Easier said than done) I only signed up for 5 challenges.

 I always like the sound of this challenge. I participated in 2012 as well. And I still have yet to complete the darned thing! Oh well I still enjoy it!

I completed 5 out of 12 books for 42% done.

GENRES:
Translated Fiction
Historical Mystery –  A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins 
Romantic Suspense – The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton
Made Into a Movie
New Adult
Urban Fantasy
Dystopian
Memoir – We Were There by Allen Childs, MD 
LGBT
Action Adventure – Iceberg by Clive Cussler
Humor
Published in 2013 – The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon

 This one is the bane of my existence. I always have such good intentions when I join any type of TBR challenge. I mean, seriously … have you seen my shelves? Anyways, I didn’t do as well as I wanted, but I didn’t do too shabby either.

I completed 17 out of 30 books for 56% done.

1. Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath
2. Iceberg by Clive Cussler
3. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
4. Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
5. So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison
6. Motion to Suppress by Perri O’Shaughnessy
7. The Third Option by Vince Flynn
8. The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly 
9. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
10. Hour Game by David Baldacci
11. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 
12. Shadow Prey by John Sandford
13. 11th Hour by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
14. Hawke by Ted Bell
15. The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
16. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
17. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

 Okay so I’ve always seen this challenge every fall and for whatever reason I had never joined it. Stupid me. I had a lot of fun with this one and I look forward to it next year!!

I read 6 books, but was only required to finish 4 so I completed this challenge!

1. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
2. Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen
3. Darkness First by James Hayman
4. The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton
5. Shadow Prey by John Sandford
6. 11th Hour by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

 What a fun challenge. The idea is to read any book after the first book in a series. I used it mainly to read the second book (darn you “First in a Series” challenge that I did two years in a row!) but also read a couple of books that were later in the individual series.

I read 7 out of 7 books, thus completing this challenge.

1. Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath
2. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
3. The Third Option by Vince Flynn
4. Hour Game by David Baldacci
5. Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen
6. Shadow Prey by John Sandford
7. 11th Hour by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

 Why, why, why can I never seem to finish this challenge? I almost always have books that will fit the categories, but for whatever reason I never seem to complete it. *Sigh*

I read 3 of the required 6 books for 50% done.

1. Up or Down (Or equivalent)
2. Something found in a kitchen – Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath
3. Party or celebration
4. Fire (or equivalent) – Arctic Fire by Paul Byers
5. An emotion
6. Lost or Found (or equivalent) – Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight