2009 Challenges

This is my record of the challenges I participated in during 2009




Stephenie Meyer Mini Challenge
End January 30 2009






NaJuReMoNoMo

Medieval Challenge

Ends February 9 2009

Sci Fi Experience

Ends February 28 2009





Bang Bang Book ChallengeEnds 28 February 2009.




Historical Fiction Reading Challenge







Once Upon a Time III
Finishes 20 June 2009

Book Awards IIEnds June 30 2009





Library Challenge





Chunkster Challenge Ends November 15 2009






Love Bites Reading Challenge
Finishes 30 June 2009

Victorian Challenge
. Ends 30 June 2008










I Suck at Challenges


Ends July 1 2009








Pub 09 Reading Challenge





100+ Reading Challenge









RIP IV Reading Challenge

Ends 31 October 2009







Books Alive Reading Challenge






War Through the Generations: WWII







Reliquiae

Ends January 15 2010

Art History

2010 - Incomplete Challenges

Tudor Challenge

Ends 31 December 2010





In Death Reading Challenge

Ends 31 December 2010

Art History Reading Challenge

Finishes December 31 2010

Ireland Reading Challenge

Finishes November 30 2010

Ongoing Challenges

The Pulitzer Project

The Complete Booker

The Orange Prize Project







The Michener Challenge

Amy Einhorn Challenge

2010 - Completed Challenges

NaJuReMoNoMo 2010

Reading Our Own Books





2010 Chunkster Challenge

From 1 February 2010 to 31 January 2011



Tournament of Reading

Ends December 31 2010

Once Upon a Time IV


Finishes June 20 2010.




2010 Pub Challenge



Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2010

Ends 31 December 2010






Period Drama Challenge

Ends 30 June 2010




Vampire Series Challenge



Harry Potter Reading Challenge

Ends July 31 2010



2010 Romance Challenge

Ends December 31 2010




LJ Smith Reading Challenge

Ends 31 August 2010

RIP V Challenge







2010 100+ Reading Challenge




French Historical Reading Challenge: Oh-La-La!

Ends 15 December 2010




Year of the Historical

Ends 31 December 2010






2010 Support Your Local Library Challenge

Ends 31 December 2010



Aussie Authors Challenge

Ends 31 December 2010

Library Loot

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and me that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!

It was my intention to go to the library last night, but instead I spent my evening waiting in the doctor's surgery because my son has an infected toe. Luckily I had my book. The boy wasn't quite so fortunate who was very bored during the wait.

Given that the library had only been open one day since the last time I went that meant that I didn't get to pick up any books this week.

How about you? Did you pick up any books from the library this week? Leave your link in Mr Linky so we can all see what loot you got.

Teaser Tuesday: The Sharing Knife: Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I am all out of sync in terms of days of the week. I had forgotten it was Tuesday today until I was just about to go to bed. And then, I found a teaser, but then closed the book again. Maybe I should have done Teaser Wednesday instead.

My teaser this week comes from The Sharing Knife: Passage, the third book in the the Sharing Knife books.

"'Course if you ain't beguiled, it's hard to see how it is that you couldn't get away before this. Seems to me a man who just wanted to escape, and didn't care about no treasure, could've swum out in the night and set himself on a bit of wrack and floated away most anytime this past summer."