The Books About TV Reading Challenge

I'm participating in another of my own challenges. If you haven't checked out The Books About TV Reading Challenge you're missing out!

The aim is to read books ABOUT television whether it's nonfiction about it or fictional tales using the characters from TV.

The goal is at least 2 books.

I've read:

1. LOST's Buried Treasures 3rd Edition by Lynnette Porter & David Lavery (review coming soon)

Man's Best Friend Reading Challenge

 

DelGal's Book Reviews is hosting the Man's Best Friend Reading Challenge.

She says:

From Jan. to Dec. of 2010 participants will read any type of book, from adult to children, long or short, fiction, nonfiction or even memoir. The only requirement is that it must be about dogs of course. Feel free to post your list below in the comment section, or post a link below to your blog where the list will be posted.

So it doesn't look like there is a certain number. So I'll keep track of dog books I read here.

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Challenge 2010

Caitlin from Chaotic Compendiums is hosting the Truth is Stranger than Fiction Challenge


It's all about reading nonfiction which I do normally so this should be easy for me.

The level I'm choosing:
Nothing But the Truth - Read eight (or more) non-fiction books.

1. Your Name Here: Guide to Life by Michael Rosenbaum
2. The N.D.D. Book by Dr. William Sears
3. The Man's Book by Thomas Fink
4. We Know What You're Thinking by Darrell Bricker & John Wright
5. Temperament Tools by Helen Neville and Diane Clark Johnson
6. Till Sex Do Us Part by Dr. Trina Read
7. Nasty, Brutish and Short by Pat Senson
8. Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss by Sharlene Azam


*I'm only counting the first 8 nonfiction I read for this challenge.

2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge

 

So in light of my personal goal to read more YA fiction books I thought it made sense to join the YA Reading Challenge. I did this one in 2008 but skipped 2009.  Thanks to Christa @ Mental Foodie for the idea.

I'll be doing: --The Mini YA Reading Challenge – Read 12 Young Adult novels. 

Exact novels are To Be Determined but I'll be choosing from my post linked above for some of them at least.

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Women Unbound Challenge

I meant to join this challenge when it first started 2 months ago but sort of forgot. The Women Unbound Challenge is about books on Women's studies. The blog is a wonderful resource too with guest posts and articles and other of interest posts. - goes till November 2010

I'm committing to this level: Philogynist: read at least two books, including at least one nonfiction one.

1. I am Nujood by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
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2010 World Religion Challenge

Any reader of this blog has probably figured out that I like to read books on a wide variety of religions.

For all of 2010 I'll be doing the World Religion Challenge. I'm taking this path:

The Unshepherded Path (Also Known As: The Don't Tell Me What to Do Path): Read as many books as you would like about whatever religions you want.

1. Sex, Drugs and Gefilte Fish ed. by Shana Liebman
2. God is Not One by Stephen Prothero

2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge

I love reading books about books!

For all of 2010. I'll be trying for the bookworm level (Bookworm: Read three books) but will be reading some picture books about books and reading too which will be extra, they won't count towards those three.

Books Read for Challenge:
The Book of Knowledge by David Michael Slater


Picture Books Already Read:
Born to Read by Judy Sierra
That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Too Many Books by Gilles Tibo
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind


EDIT Jan 23/2010 - I'm adding a list of possibilities. I don't own ANY of these, they are all ones I found recommended by other bloggers

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Leave me alone, I'm reading by Maureen Corrigan
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monore
The Camel Bookmobile by Marsha Hamilton
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafrsi
A Year of Reading by Elizabeth Ellington
1001 books to read before you die
Why We Read What We Read by John Heath and Lisa Adams
Every book its reader : the power of the written word to stir the world By Nicholas Basbanes
The book that changed my life : 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them by Nicholas Basbanes
A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz
Book by Book by Michael Dirda
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
An Alphabetical Life: Living it Up in the World of Books by Wendy Warris
Reading in Bed by Steven Gilbar
A Passion for Books edited by Dale Salwak
The Reading Zone by Nancie Atwell
The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac

ARC Reading Challenge 2010

Teddy Rose from So Many Precious Books, So Little Time is holding the ARC Reading Challenge again. I'm still hopelessly behind as you'll see when you see my enormous list but anyway....

So there are three different levels:

Level Bronze: .[I fall into b] b. All of us who have or will have more than 12 ARC's must read and review 12.

Level Silver: Read 24 ARC's
Level Gold: Read 25 or more ARC's

I'm going for level Gold because I NEED to get through these books!


Books that are linked are linked to my review


Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry
Life Against All Odds by Alfred Cave
Millionaire Babies or Bankrupt Brats by Jim Fay & Kristen Leatherman
Straight from the Horse's Heart by R.T Fitch
Stuffed by Hank Cardello
Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry
The Angry Smile by Jody E.Long, Nicholas J. Long and Signe Whitson
Chanda's Wars by Allan Stratton
My Goodness: My Kids by Nesta A. Aharoni
My Buddy Butch by Jeff Marginean
Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
Till Sex Do Us Part by Dr. Trina Read
The Side-Yard Superhero by Rick D. Niece
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Man's Book by Thomas Fink
In Ectasy by Kate McCaffrey
Nibbling on Einstein's Brain by Diane Swanson
What is Your Self Worth? by Cheryl Saban, Ph.D.
The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew Pinsky
Without Sin by J. Tomas
The Circle of Friends Book III by L. Diane Wolf
Finding Anyone, Anywhere, Anywhen by Noel Montgomery Elliot
The End of Overeating by David A. Kesller, MD
The G Free Diet by Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Two to Six by James P. Cornelio
The Shifter by Janice Hardy
Secret Society by Tom Dolby
The Amanda Project: invisible i by Stella Lennon
The NDD Book by Dr. William Sears
Do the Web Write by Dan Furman
Daughter of Dust by Wendy Wallace
Obsession by Gloria Vanderbilt
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
Healthy Child, Whole Child by Stuart H. Ditchek, M.D. & Russell H. Greenfield, M.D.
Daughters of the Sea: Hannah by Kathryn Lasky
The Book of Knowledge by David Michael Slater
Famous Figures of Ancient Times by Cathy Diez-Luckie
Dinosaurs on the Move by Cathy Diez-Luckie
Runaway Devil by Robert Remington
Stolen Voices by Ellen Dee Davidson
Ruined by Paula Morris
Sea Change by Aimee Friedman
And Then Everything Unraveled by Jennifer Sturman
When the Sun Goes Down by Betty Breuhaus
The Sibley Guide to Trees by David Allen Sibley
My Ambulance Education by Joseph F. Clark
Gifts From the Child Within by Barbara Sinor, PhD
Addiction by Deborah McCloskey, CADC and Barbara Sinor, PhD
Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder by Amy Friedman (AUDIO)
Move Over, Rover by Kyra Kirkwood
Kidding Around the Kitchen by Lisa Elaina
Awakening Consciousness - A Boy's Guide by Robin Marvel
How to Be a Mentsh (and not a Shmuck) by Michael Wex (started but not finished)
Oral Sex is the new Goodnight Kiss by Sharlene Azam
Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish edited by Shana Liebman
Musical Chairs by Jen Knox
The Great Behaviour Breakdown by B. Bryan Post
Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway
The Psychiatrist Who Cured the Scientologist by Aaron David Gottfried
Nasty, Brutish and Short by Pat Senson
Mia the Magnificient by Eileen Boggess
The Talking Baby by Jeremy and Karina Sweet
How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman
Leaving the Bellweathers by Kristin Clark Venuti
I May Frustrate You, But I'm a Keeper! by Ray W. Lincoln
The SuperStress Solution by Roberta Lee, M.D.
I Am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
Growing a Garden by Mari Schuh
Duck Goes Potty by Michael Dahl
Bunny Eats Lunch by Michael Dahl
Camouflage Clues by Megan Cooley Peterson
Birthday Parties and Celebrations by Sarah L. Schuette
Hip Hop Dancing by Kathryn Clay
Big Mouths by Catherine Ipcizade
A Polar Bear's World by Caroline Arnolds
Giant Pandas by Lyn A. Sirota
You Can't Afford to Break Up by Stacey Nelkin and Paul Schienberg, Ph.D.
Critical Care by Theresa Brown
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
Obesity Free Forever by Georgene Dana Collins
Step on a Crack: Overcoming Depression - a memoir by Jill Byrne with Michael Ransom
At Home With Laurie Ann by Laurie AnnMcMillin Ray
An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
Sewing a Friendship by Natalie Tinti
Horrid Henry's Joke Book by Francesca Simon
Is There a Monster Over There? by Sally O. Lee
Sexaholics by Pynk
The Tighty Whitey Spider by Kenn Nesbitt
WOW: A Handbook for Living by Zen Ohashi and ZonoKurazono
No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
How Do You Read to a Rabbit?
Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Purple Problem
God is Not One by Stephen Prothero
Hailey Twitch is Not a Snitch by Lauren Barnholdt
The S.T.A.R. Powered Twins by Dorothy A. Lecours
Animal Snoops by Peter Christie
Our Days are Numbered by Jason I. Brown
Mr. Choli's River Trip by Chris Wardle
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
C'mon Papa by Ryan Knighton
HYPERtheticals by Chuck Klosterman (not really a book)
U.N.I.Q.U.E. by Debra J. Slover
U.N.I.Q.U.E. Kids by Debra J. Slover
The Triumphant Child byy Dr. Olson Huff and Nicole Rawson-Huff
Anger Busting 101 by Newton Hightower
Plus-Sized Yoga by Donald Keith Stanley
Jamie's America by Jamie Oliver

Books Won Reading Challenge 2010

Teddy Rose is hosting the Books Won Reading Challenge to help us read those books we won in giveaways. I stopped entering most giveaways because I haven't read any of the ones I've won. It's not that I didn't really want them and just took them away from others, it's more like now that I own it I don't have to rush to read it so it keeps getting bumped by other books. I even have a book I won at Teddy Rose's blog!

This is an all year challenge (Jan-Dec) and I am doing the Honourable Mention level meaning I must read 1-3 books.

Some of what I may read:

Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris (Won at My Friend Amy)

Lost & Found by Carolyn Parkhurst (Won at So Many Books, So Little Time)

In Tongues of the Dead by Brad Kelln (Won at The Book Mine Set)

Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith (Won at Musings of a Bookish Kitty)

The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine (Won at Printed Page)

Do Over! by Robin Hemley and The Nine Lessons by Kevin Alan Milne (Won at Book Dads)

Memorable Memoir Reading Challenge 2010

Read at least four Memoirs from January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010.

I love memoirs and read them all the time. In fact I have a few on my TBR pile so this shouldn't be a problem.

More rules and join up here: The Betty and Book Chronicles.

1. I am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
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Reading My Name Challenge 2010

I decided to host this one again this year with a small change and I intend to actually COMPLETE it this time.

When: January 15, 2010 - June 15, 2010

Read at least two books by authors that share your name or part of your name OR book titles with your name in them.


Check out the Reading My Name challenge Blog for clarification on what counts.


My possible list: (although you don't have to make one)


 - as finished you'll find it linked to my review.



The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps and Triumphs in the life of L. Frank Baum by Kathleen Krull
The Book of Rock Stars by Kathleen Krull
Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

2010 100+ Reading Challenge

J. Kaye of J. Kaye's Book Blog is hosting the 100+ Reading Challenge again.

Reading 100 books is NOT a problem for me so I figure why not do it again.

I'll link to my book reviews after I read them.

Cybils Awards Challenge 2010

Michelle from GalleySmith is holding the Cybils Award Challenge in 2010. As much as I'd love to read all the books from one nominee category and be entered for the prize, I can't commit to that much.

So I'll be reading at least 1/4 of the Nonfiction Picture books. It all depends on what's available at my library or what I already have. I will list the books I've read as I read them.

Change in How I Do Challenges

When I started January 2009 I was signing up for so many challenges it was crowding my blog out so I started a separate blog for my challenges. Then I went through a few times where I lost interest in reading or blogging for a short while plus I'm so behind in review books I haven't been able to read books that fit most of the challenges I signed up for. So of the 35+ challenges I signed up for I'll finish perhaps 1-3 this year.

So for the rest of 2009 and all of 2010 I plan on only signing up for a few challenges, ones I can for sure do. As such I'll be putting them on this blog again as it's easier to keep track.

Any challenge I have or will finish by Dec. 31 or any that I did finish on time will be posted about here and the other blog will be deleted. Any future challenges will be posted here and you can expect a few posts about that in the next few months.

Book Bloggers/Challenge Takers... How do you keep track of challenges? Main blog, other blog, just on paper.....