I feel like it’s entirely too early in the year to be saying this, but I’ve completed my first reading challenge of 2010. Considering it straddled the end of 2009, it’s not surprising, but here I am, surprised. The challenge was to read at least one book written before 1600 anytime between 11/1/09 to 2/28/10. […]
Really Old Classics Challenge 11/1/2009 – 2/28/2010 Read More »
It’s time for my first year end wrap up post. Since I only have one challenge pending, which ends in 2010, it’s time to recap the reading challenges I completed this year, and clean out my sidebar so I can start signing up for all the cool looking challenges going on next year. YA Challange
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With Christmas quickly approaching, which will inevitably bring a drain on my reading time, I’m going to call it a day on the Vampire Reading Challenge. The goal was to read two vampire books in 2009. I finished that so quickly that I decided to see how many I could read this year. I managed
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. Victoria Grantworth is a typical eighteen-year old member of the aristocracy in 19th-century England – concerned with making her debut, and finding a husband. However, she’s also a member of the Gardella family, where one member in every generation is called upon to fight vampires. Victoria answers the calling
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Another challenge down! For this challenge, I decided to go the Devotee route, which was to read six books in six categories and watch one movie. I read/watched: With the exception of Coraline, I had all of these books lying about the house, as my BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I was actually
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. The illustrated script to the movie Mirrormask features Dave McKean’s storyboards for the movie alongside the script. There’s also a forward by Neil Gaiman, as well as an appendix containing the original back and forth conversations between the two that formed the basis for the movie idea. The movie
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Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. I’ll admit I was actually more than a little pleased when Paperspine inexplicably leapt my queue and sent me the next Blood Ties book. Due to certain events that happened in the last book, I was quite curious to see what would happen next in the Vicki/Fitzroy/Cellucci saga. I’m
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I’m done with the 2009 YA Reading Challenge, slightly ahead of schedule. I read: In the group were one regular fiction, three historical fiction, one historical fiction/fantasy hybrid, one post-apocalyptic/sci fi book, one urban fantasy, and five fantasy books. If someone hosts this challenge again next year, I think I’m going to challenge myself to
YA Challange 2009 (1/1/09-12/31/09) Read More »
Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Most of Donna Jo Napoli’s books draw from fairy tale or folklore backgrounds, but Daughter of Venice is a straight historical fiction story, something I tend not to run into as often in my young adult reading. Donata, with her twin sister Laura, is the second oldest daughter
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In the Twelve Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to be the Chrestomanci – an enchanter charged with making sure magic isn’t misused among the different worlds. This book is an omnibus of two of the Chrestomanci books. In the first (Charmed Life), when
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