Fantasy Reading Challenge 2011 Wrap-Up

Challenge Complete!!

December 12, 2011

Level Obsessed - 20 books

And the year is not over yet! More to come!

1) The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

2) The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

3) The Dream-Maker's Magic, Sharon Shinn (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

4) Troubled Waters, Sharon Shinn (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

5) Vanished: Books 1 & 2, Meg Cabot (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

6) Once in a Full Moon, Ellen Schreiber (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
7) Angelfire, Courtney Allison Moulton (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
8) Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
9) The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia A. McKillip (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
10) The Ghost and the Goth, Stacey Kade (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
11) Angel Burn, L.A. Weatherly (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
12) Warped, Maurissa Guibord (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
13) A Tale of Two Castles, Gail Carson Levine (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
14) Supernaturally, Kiersten White (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
15) Dead Beautiful, Yvonne Woon (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
16) Every Other Day, Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
17) The False Princess, Eilis O'Neal (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
18) Ripple, Mandy Hubbard (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
19) Angel Fire, L.A. Weatherly (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)
20) Wildefire, Karsten Knight (Review / Amazon / Goodreads)

Challenges 2012

2011 was the first year I participated in reading challenges, and I'm happy to say I'll be joining some for 2012 now!

I will be joining:

The 2012 YA Debut Author Challenge
 Hosted by The Story Siren

Witchy Books Reading Challenge 2012

Hosted by Pagan-Culture

Mystery and Suspense Reading Challenge 2012

Hosted by Book Chick City

 

Speculative Romance Challenge 2012

Hosted by Book Chick City

 The Dystopia Challenge

Hosted by Bookish Ardour

YA/MG Fantasy Challenge 2012
Hosted by The Book Cellar


I don't know how many books I'll be doing for each challenge - except YA Debut Authors, that's set at 12. Being that I'll have time in January, but then the next four months will be crazy busy (I'm taking 21 credits - call me crazy, I know I am), and I have no clue what I'll be doing in the summer or the rest of 2012 - whether I'll be working, or abroad, or what - so I have no idea how much time I'll have for this. But I plan on doing the minimum for each at the very least!

 

2011 Fantasy Reading Challenge

OK, so here's a challenge I should have no problem completing! It's a pretty broad category - any fantasy book - and I read so much fantasy that I might even finish this by June, forget about December!

The Fantasy Reading Challenge is hosted by Darlyn and Books this year. I'm joining as "Obsessed," committing to read 20 Fantasy Fiction novels.

I'll be listing the books I read that fulfill this challenge on the "Challenges" page of this blog, so check it out!

Debut Author 2011 Challenge

I've been thinking about joining the 2011 Debut YA Author Challenge, but I've been scared that with my crazy school schedule piling up, I won't have time to do it. Then I decided - what's wrong with me??? This is the perfect way to force myself to keep my head in the YA world, because even though I truly love the work I'm doing for school, every time I read a good YA book, I feel like I've come up for air and I'm so refreshed that I can dive back in and swim swim swim for a while - until the next break. And I love feeling like I know what's going on in the YA publishing world. So, so what if I don't complete the challenge? I'm joining!

So far I've read one book that qualifies for the challenge: Here Lies Bridget, by Paige Harbison. I've read other YA 2011 debuts, like Delirium, but they don't qualify because I read ARCs in 2010, and one of the rules of the DAC is that it has to be read in 2011. Which means that I'll have to read more - not a hardship!

Read about the DAC, hosted by the Story Siren.

Diana Wynne Jones Week!!

Thanks to Misty's Book Mess, I found Jenny's Books' exciting challenge: a week of reading and reviewing Diana Wynne Jones books! My problem, I think, will be finding a book of hers that I haven't read yet. But I'm up for the challenge and hope to participate.

Here's the original post from Jenny's Books:

Diana Wynne Jones Week: 1 August – 7 August 2010

Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite authors in all the land. In her long career as a writer, she has written around forty books (novels and short stories), mainly for children and young adults, and each one is new and weird and wonderful in its own particular way.  She has been compared to J.K. Rowling, in that her books are set in fantasy worlds and are full of humor and charm; she has inspired many writers over the years, including two of my favorites, Neil Gaiman and Megan Whalen Turner. If you’ve been reading here for a while you’ll know that I love Diana Wynne Jones, and once I get started shrieking about how great she is, it’s difficult to make me stop. I want everyone to read her books, which have given me so much joy over the (something like) ten years that I’ve been reading her books.
To that end, I will be hosting a Diana Wynne Jones week from 1 – 7 August. To participate, just read one of her books and post a review during that week! I will be collecting links and writing my own reviews and remarks about her too (failing some sort of alarming computer failure, which (knock wood) I don’t anticipate). If you haven’t read anything by Diana Wynne Jones before, I will be only too happy to recommend a good book to start your Diana Wynne Jones fandom. There are many to choose from.
The button for this event uses a particularly beautiful illustration of Howl’s Moving Castle, one of my favorite Jones books, in three pleasing sizes. I’m using it here by kind permission of the artist, Finnish illustrator Sami Saramäki – feel free to add it to your sidebar!

 You can get the button for the challenge from Jenny's site, linked at the beginning of this post. Happy reading! And happy blogging!