One More Challenge for 2010 and update on two for 2009

MizB's Reading Challenges is hosting the TBR (To Be Read Challenge)


Here are the instructions for her challenge.


** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read (that have been on your “To Be Read” list) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to.

** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” (books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that a particular one doesn’t grab you at the time)

** Then, starting January 1, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31. )

For more information, and to sign up please read the challenge FAQs on her site.



List

1. Go Big or Go Home - Will Hobbs
2. Eyes of Kid Midas - Neal Shusterman
3. Exoduds - Julie Bertagna
4. Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman
5. Tenth City - Patrick Carman
6. Speeding Bullet - Neal Shusterman
7. Time For Andrew - Mary Downing Hahn 
8. Dragon Slipperes - Jessica Day George
9. Runaway - Wendelin Van Draanen
10. Deadline - Chris Crutcher
11. Misadventures of Maude March - Audrey Couloumbis
12. Maude March on the Run - Audrey Couloumbis

Alternate List

1. Seal of Solomon - Rick Yancey
2. First Light - Rebecca stead
3. Smiles to Go - Jerry Spinelli
4. Book of Time - Guillaume Prevost
5. Gate of Days - Guillaume Prevost
6. Disney at Dawn - Ridley Pearson
7. Out of Patience - Brian Meehl
8. Schooled - Gordon Korman
9. The Diamond of Darkhold - Jeanne DuPrau
10. Darkside - Tom Becker
11. Chasing Lincoln's Killer - James L. Swanson
12. North of Beautiful - Justin Chen Headley

Update on 2 other challenges for 2009. I participated in J. Kaye's 1st in Series Challenge and 2nds Challenge. I was unable to complete these challenges as I worked up until the 25th reading books for Cybils. These happened to be the only two Challenges I did not finish. I feel very good abut all of this because I started my very first reading challenge in June and joined the others after that. I feel I accomplished a lot in 2009. I don't have an exact count but I know that I read close to 300 books if not more. I look forward to the challenges I have entered in 2010 because they are geared to getting my TBR pile down. I hope to purchase very few books until I have most of these gone. I also plan on working more on my writing. This is my last post for 2009 and I have enjoyed all of this. See you in the new year