Vampire & Love Bites Challenges Completed

I’m on a role for completing challenges as of late, and Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris helped me complete two more.

When I signed up, I had different ideas as to what I would read, and never did I expect that it could consist mainly of the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Vampire Challenge List:

1. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
2. 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
3. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
4. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
5. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

Love Bites List:

1. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris – finished May 24
2. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris – finished June 4
3. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris – finished June 7

Dead to the World

Title: Dead to the World
Author: Charlaine Harris
Finished: June 7, 2009
Pages: 310
Published: 2004

Book 4 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. This may be my favorite so far, which happens every time, but I truly loved this adventure.

Sookie comes across a half-naked Eric running down the street on her way home and comes to find his memory has been erased and he has no idea who he is, let alone Sookie.

Of course, having read the past three books, it was inevitable that Harris would search for a way to pair Sookie and Eric without the issues faced in previous books, and I found it very enjoyable. After book 2, I started to drift to being more of an Eric fan, than Bill, and this book was exactly what I needed. Now if only it could stay that way forever.

I’m anxiously looking forward to book 5, Dead as a Doornail, but I have other pressing reading but it keeps staring. There is a good chance I will be starting it before the week is over, just in time to get sucked into Season 2 of True Blood.

Challenges: 100+ Challenge, RYOB Challenge, Vampire Challenge, Love Bites Challenge, 999×2 Challenge

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2nds Challenge – COMPLETE

I completed another challenge. Somehow I missed posting about it awhile back, but here it is!

I read all 12 books before the December 31, 2009 deadline and it was a lot of fun. Sometimes I wished it had the 2nd in series aspect with it, but I still managed.

My Final List:

1. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
2. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 
3. Mommywood by Tori Spelling
4. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane 
5. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 
6. The Witches by Roald Dahl 
7. Spiderwick Chronicles: the Seeing Stone by Holly Black 
8. Persepolis 2 byMarjane Satrapis 
9. Maus II by Art Spiegelman 
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
11. Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
12. 300 by Frank Miller

Create a Colorful Summer

Photo Courtesy of: Boise Public Library

My local library is doing this fun program for the summer, the adult version called “Create a Colorful Summer @ Your Library”. It runs June 1 – July 31, and the only rule is you keep track of the books you read, complete an entry form, and enter as many times as you would like. Seems like another fun quick idea, and since I’m keeping track for the library I might as well add it here.

My List:

1. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
2. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
3. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
4. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
5. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
6. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
7. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
8. Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
9. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
10. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
11. Swimsuit by James Patterson
12. Take Your Shirt Off and Cry by Nancy Balbirer
13. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
15. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
16. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
17. Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets (Vol. 6) by Frank Miller
18. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
19. Marley and Me by John Grogan
20. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller