Challenges

Pimping the Printz Project

June 23, 2010

Okay, it’s time to throw a little reminder out there to the blogosphere about the lovely perpetual challenge to read each of the eleven books (so far) that have won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. The Printz Award is a relatively new award that goes along with the Caldecott [...]

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May 2010 Summation

May 31, 2010

Here is an abstract of my literary doings in May. Books Read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer – 5/13/2010 Manhood for Amateurs, by Michael Chabon – 5/25/2010 Newspaper Blackout, by Austin Kleon – 5/27/2010 May Total = 3 Year-to-Date Total = 14 All of these are worthy selections, but Extremely Loud [...]

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April 2010 Summation

April 30, 2010

Here is an abstract of my literary doings in April. Books Read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum – 4/6/2010 When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead – 4/7/2010 The Queen of Palmyra, by Minrose Gwin – 4/20/2010 A Step from Heaven, by An Na – 4/21/2010 April Total = 4 Year-to-Date [...]

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2010 – Reading Deliberately

January 4, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I want to structure my reading in 2010. I primarily want to make progress on my own lists and goals and challenges.  I have felt swept away, at times, by the blogosphere and its contagious love for new books and challenges.  I love the recommendations and book hysteria [...]

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2009 Completed Challenges

December 30, 2009

Here’s a list of all of the challenges I completed this year. Click through to see each challenge’s requirements and the books I read to complete them. Casual Classics Challenge Elizabeth Gaskell Mini-Challenge Blog Improvement Project YA Challenge Read Your Own Books Challenge ARC Reading Challenge New Author Challenge 2009 Pub Challenge Book Awards III [...]

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Casual Classics Challenge Wrap-Up & Elizabeth Glaskell Mini-Challenge Wrap-Up

December 27, 2009

Casual Classics Challenge January 1 – December 31, 2009 Challenge: Read 4 Classics Status: 4/4 Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell – 4/5/2009 Persuasion, by Jane Austen – 4/17/2009 Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury – 8/1/2009 North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell – 12/23/2009 ___________________________________________ Elizabeth Gaskell Mini-Challenge January 1, 2009 – June 1, [...]

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Blog Improvement Project – Fourth Quarter & Wrap-Up

December 22, 2009

I’ve been following along with Sophisticated Dorkiness’s Blog Improvement Project since the beginning of the year, and I’ve enjoyed reading everyone else’s posts about their efforts to make their already great blogs better. Here’s my fourth quarterly recap: Project 19: Following Your Blog This task was to use some simple tips to keep up on [...]

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YA Challenge Wrap-Up & Read Your Own Books Challenge Wrap-Up

December 20, 2009

YA Challenge January 1 – December 31, 2009 Challenge: Read 12 YA Books Status: 14/12 North of Beautiful, by Justina Chen Headley The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart How I Live [...]

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