James Patterson Challenge – COMPLETE

Yvonne at Scorates’ Book Reviews is hosting the James Patterson Reading Challenge. She writes:

Since I love James Patterson’s books so much – even books other than the Women’s Murder Club series – I decided to host one more challenge. This is for anything written by James Patterson. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have quite a few of his books in my TBR.

The goal was to read at least 10 books by this author from August 15, 09 – August 15, 10.

Of course the challenge time frame is not up yet but I have joined so many other challenges that I didn’t want to have to remember to keep reading Patterson books (even though I know there will still be plenty more).

MY LIST:

1. Big Bad Wolf
2. London Bridges
3. Mary Mary
4. Cross
5. Murder of King Tut
6. Double Cross
7. Cross Country
8. Dangerous Days of Daniel X
9. Daniel X: Watch the Skies
10. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Everything Austen Challenge – COMPLETE

The challenge ran from July 1, 09 – Jan 1, 10, hosted by Stephanie’s Written Word, and involves reading or watching six related pieces of work pertaining to Jane Austen or her stories. I ran out of time and ended up watching more Austen movies than reading. I still have quite a few on my list (Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) and finished another after the deadline (Dear Jane Austen). I’m not sure if the Bridget Jones sequel really counts but I did anyway.

My LIST:

1. Emma – finished NOV 23, 09
2. Pride, Prejudice and Zombies – finished JULY 24, 09
3. Sense and Sensibility (movie) – watched DEC 31, 09
4. Persuasion (1995 movie) – watched JAN 1, 10
   
5. Bridget Jones’s Diary (movie) – watched DEC 31, 09
6. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason (movie) – watched DEC 31, 09

100+ Challenge – Completed

Hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog

I loved this challenge. I definitely made it to 100 and just in time too because I ended up getting busy and my reading slowed down after August. I am joining next year for sure and hopefully match or increase my reading. I’d be happy just to pass 100 again.

1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
2. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
3. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
4. You Know You’re a Writer When by Adair Lara
5. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
6. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
7. Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide by Holly Black
8. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison
9. Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
12. The Witches by Roald Dahl
13. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
14. If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
15. Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi
16. The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Seeing Stone by Holly Black
17. C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
18. The Spiderwick Chronicles: Lucinda’s Secret by Holly Black
19. The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree by Holly Black
20. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
21. Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison
22. The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wrath of Mulgarath by Holly Black
23. Matilda by Roald Dahl
24. Have You Seen…? by David Thomson
25. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
26. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
27. Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
28. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
29. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
30. Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
31. Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
32. Maus by Art Spiegelman
33. The 1996 What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
34. Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson
35. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
36. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
37. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
38. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
39. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
40. The Writer’s Idea Book by Jack Heffron
41. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
42. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
43. Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (Vol. 1) by Frank Miller
44. Fool by Christopher Moore
45. Roses are Red by James Patterson
46. Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
47. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
48. Sex and the City: the Movie by Amy Sohn
49. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
50. Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
51. Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
52. The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
53. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
54. 300 by Frank Miller
55. Love Letters of Great Men Vol 1 by John C. Kirkland
56. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
57. 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
58. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
59. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
60. Violets are Blue by James Patterson
61. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich
62. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
63. 8th Confession by James Patterson
64. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Vol. 2) by Frank Miller
65. Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (Vol. 3) by Frank Miller
66. The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea Buchanan
67. Sin City: That Yellow Bastard (Vol. 4) by Frank Miller
68. The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
69. Mommywood by Tori Spelling
70. Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
71. Step on a Crack by James Patterson
72. Daniel X: Alien Hunter by James Patterson
73. Watchmen by Alan Moore
74. Sin City: Family Values (Vol. 5) by Frank Miller
75. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
76. Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
77. Atonement by Ian McEwan
78. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
79. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
80. The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
81. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
82. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
83. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
84. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
85. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
86. Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges
87. The Horse and the Boy by C.S. Lewis
88. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
89. Swimsuit by James Patterson
90. Take Your Shirt Off and Cry by Nancy Balbirer
91. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
92. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
93. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
94. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
95. Sin City: Booze, Bullets and Broads (Vol. 6) by Frank Miller
96. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
97. Marley and Me by John Grogan
98. Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
99. Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
100. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
101. Run For Your Life by James Patterson
102. Decked by Carol Higgins Clark
103. Strengths Finder by Tom Rath
104. The Noticer by Andy Andrews
105. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
106. Sin City: Hell and Back (Vol. 7) by Frank Miller
107. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
108. Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
109. London Bridges by James Patterson
110. Mary Mary by James Patterson
111. Cross by James Patterson
112. As Man Thinketh by James Allen
113. High Five by Janet Evanovich
114. D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
115. Smile and Move by Sam Parker
116. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
117. Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
118. Free Stallion by Amber Tamblyn
119. Generation Kill by Evan Wright
120. Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
121. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
122. Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn
123. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
124. Double Cross by James Patterson
125. Cross Country by James Patterson
126. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
127. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
128. Emma by Jane Austen
129. Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
130. Tik Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
131. Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
132. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
133. Power Ambition Glory by Steve Forbes
134. The Shack by William P. Young
135. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
136. Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson
137. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? by Louise Rennison
138. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
139. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
140. The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

A-Z Challenge 2009 – DNF

Hosted by Becky

Another year I didn’t manage to finish this challenge. I’m not too distressed about it because it is just fun trying to make my books fit. I joined again for 2010 and I will make an effort to plan ahead with some of the harder letters towards the end. I think I may have even did better this year than last year – only 1 left on the titles (and that book is already in progress).

A-Z (Authors)

• A – Aesopus
• B – Byrne, Rhonda
• C – Connelly, Michael
• D – DiTerlizzi, Tony and Holly Black
• E – Eugenides, Jeffrey
• F – Follett, Ken
• G – Grafton, Sue
• H – Hardy, Thomas
• I –
• J – Jacobs, Kate
• K – Kidd, Sue Monk
• L – Lara, Adair
• M – Melville, Herman
• N –
• O – Ondaatje, Michael
• P – Patterson, James
• Q –
• R – Rennison, Louise
• S – Schlink, Bernhard
• T – Thomson, David
• U – Ueland, Brenda
• V –
• W – Westerfeld, Scott
• X –
• Y – Young, William P.
• Z –

A-Z (Titles)

• A – Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
• B – Booze, Broads & Bullets (Sin City Volume 6) by Frank Miller
• C – C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
• D – Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• E – East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• F – The Field Guide by Holly Black
• G – Generation Kill by Evan Wright
• H – Have You Seen…?
• I – If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
• J – James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• K – Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
• L – Lucinda’s Secret by Holly Black
• M – Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• N – Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
• O – One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
• P – Persepolis I by Marjane Satrapi
• Q –
• R – Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• S – The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• T – Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
• U – Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• V – Violets are Blue by James Patterson
• W – the Witches by Roald Dahl
• X – Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
• Y – You Know You’re a Writer When by Adair Lara
• Z – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

2009 YA Challenge – Complete

Hosted by J. Kaye

This was a fun challenge, breaking me out of my boundaries and introducing me to new authors and series that have been very fun to read. I’m looking forward to the challenge next year to continue with these series and find some new ones.

1. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
2. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
3. Daniel X: Alien Hunter by James Patterson
4. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison 
5. Startled by His Fury Shorts by Louise Rennison
6. Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
7. Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison
8. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me by Louise Rennison
9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
10. Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
11. Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson
12. The Angel Experiment by James Patterson