Friday, June 18, 2010

Challenges Update

I have recently finished a couple of challenges, and so wanted to do the wrap up posts for them.

The first challenge is the Once Upon a Time which I actually finished about nearly a month ago, but I don't think I have posted about yet. The books that I read for this challenge were:

The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop
When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason
The Fury by L J Smith

The second challenge that I have completed a couple of days ago is the Pub 2010 Challenge. The aim of this challenge is to read 10 books that are being published in 2010. Actually, now that I am getting this post together, I realise that I actually finished the challenge a while ago now, but because I can't count, I have now read 12 books for this challenge! Oh well.

The books that I read for this challenge are:

Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale
Roses by Leila Meacham
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
Within the Hollow Crown by Margaret Campbell Barnes
To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick
Uncertain Magic by Laura Kinsale
A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware
The Making of a Duchess by Shana Galen

The other challenge that I finished today is the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. I was actually all ready to declare that I had finished this challenge about 6 weeks ago, when I realised that I had only read 12 of the required 20 books, so I am not sure what I was thinking there. The books I read for this challenge were:

The Night They Stormed Eureka by Jackie French
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
Roses by Leila Meacham
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig
Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
The Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The King's Favorite by Susan Holloway Scott
The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
Within the Hollow Crown by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
Emma Vol 3 by Kaoru Mori
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey


Finally, I am going to make my participation in the Amy Einhorn perpetual challenge official. I don't usually follow specific imprints of books, but I have enjoyed the two that I have already read (The Postmistress and The Help) so I will give this challenge a go, which is being hosted over at Beth Fish Reads

8 comments:

  1. Congrats on finishing your challenges! I've fallen way behind on mine but oh well that's how it goes sometimes :)

    By the way, looking forward to your review of the Catherine Delors book. That book cover is gorgeous!

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  2. Wow, that's a lot of reading. Congrats on finishing all those challenges.

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  3. Congrats. on your challenges.

    I have an award for you here:

    http://laurelrainsnow.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/the-versatile-blogger-award/

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  4. Good heavens, are you trying to make the rest of us feel inadequate? LOL! Congrats!

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  5. Is it working Michele?

    Thanks Laurel, I will be over in a minute to check it out!

    Thanks Charley!

    Iliana, there are a couple that I am behind on, but for the most part I am going okay I think.

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  6. Congrats! I'm only halfway through the two challenges I signed up for, and I'm getting ready to sign up for another. I'm pretending to ignore how quickly the year seems to be flying by.

    --Anna

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  7. Congratulations, Marg! WOW! I'm so impressed with your success! I joined 12 reading challenges for 2010 and only completed one so far. The Once Upon a Time Challenge ... I posted a wrap up post for that one the other day, too. AND The Girl Who Chased the Moon was one of my books as well! Great minds. ;)

    Good luck with the rest of your challenges!

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  8. Congratulations, Marg! WOW! I'm so impressed with your success! I joined 12 reading challenges for 2010 and only completed one so far. The Once Upon a Time Challenge ... I posted a wrap up post for that one the other day, too. AND The Girl Who Chased the Moon was one of my books as well! Great minds. ;)

    Good luck with the rest of your challenges!

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