Year-End 2011 Reading Challenges Update

Challenges signed up for: 53
Challenges Completed: 13 (25%)
Will be cutting back for next year. I came close on some but just couldn’t finish the books. I’m hoping now that I’ve discovered ebooks that I can read on my iPad that it will help for next year.
2011 Challenges
100+ Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 94/100
2011 Audiobook Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 21/12 – COMPLETED

2011 Chick Lit Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 1/12
2011 E-Book Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 15/12 – COMPLETED
2011 Foodies Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 1/3
2011 Read-n-Review (Jan – Dec 2011) 53/100
2011 Romance Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 6/12
2011 Romantic Suspense Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 0/12
2011 Sexy Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 12/12
2011 Show Me The Free Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 8/12
2011 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 46/50
2011 War Through the Generations Challenge: U.S. Civil War (Jan – Dec 2011) 2/5
2011 YA Romance Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 0/12
50 States Challenge in 2011 (Jan – Dec 2011) 12/50
A to Z challenge (Jan-Dec 2011) 21/26
A-Z Mystery Author Challenge (A-I) (Jan – Dec 2011) 3/12
Books Won Challenge 2011 (Jan-Dec 2011) 0/??
Buy One Book and Read It Challenge 2011 (Jan-Dec 2011) 3/1

Celebrate the Author (Jan-Dec 2011) 0/12
Comicbook Challenge (Jan-Dec 2011) 2/15
Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge 2011 (Jan – Dec 2011) 13/12 COMPLETED
Cruisin' thru the Cozies (Jan – Dec 2011) 5/12
Harlequin/Silhouette 2011 Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 0/12
Just For Fun Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 7/12
Memorable Memoirs Reading Challenge, 2011 Edition (Jan – Dec 2011) 2/1 COMPLETED
Nicholas Sparks Reading Challenge (Jan-Dec 2011) 1/4
Off Your Shelf Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 0/5
Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge 2011 (Jan-Dec 2011) 13/6 (more than 81)
Pages Read Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 10,657/20,000
Reading from My Shelves Project 2011 (Jan – Dec 2011) 6/12
Romance Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 3/5
Series Challenge Season 5 (Jan – Dec 2011) 2/3
The Page to Screen Reading Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 3/5
Whats In a Name Challenge 4 (Jan – Dec 2011) 0/6
Whisper In My Ears Audio Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 30/12 COMPLETED
Young Readers Challenge (Jan – Dec 2011) 13/12


2010 – 2011 Cross Over Challenges
What An Animal III Challenge (March 1, 2010 to February 28, 2011) 13/12 - COMPLETED
Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens Challenge - EXPIRED

Read, Remember, Recommend Fiction Challenge – EXPIRED



Perpetual
To Be Continued…Challenge (October 20, 2008 – April 10, 2011) 66/52 COMPLETED
Book Around the States Challenge (October 22, 2008 - ????) 25/50
US Presidents Reading Project (November 5, 2008 - ???) 5/44
1001 Childrens book Before I Grow Up (June 1, 2010 - ???) 43/1001
101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge (September 28, 2010 – June 23, 2013) 97/101
The Naming Convention Challenge (October 20, 2008 - ???) 5/9


OnThePorchSwing (Yahoo Group)
1. Read a book with a one word title (if it has The or A in it), leave that out and just count the one word after it.... Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark
2. Read a book with a number in the title.
3. Read a young adult book FROM the science fiction genre.
4. Read a mystery by an author whose last name starts with a "K"
5. Read a book with orange or pink in the title
For a fun extra - pick a book on a subject in history you are interested in, or a travel book on a place you have always wanted to visit, or an artist you are interested in, and share your experience with us.
MysteryReaderCafe (YahooGroup)
1. Read a mystery set in your state (one you live in now or one where you are originally from)
2. Read a mystery where the amateur sleuth has a craft or a hobby or a specific type of job (like working in a shop of some sort) – The Chocolate Snowman Murder by JoAnna Carl(Chocolate Shop)
3. Read a mystery with the word dark or black in the title
4. Read a mystery from the young adult section of your library
5. Read a mystery by an author whose last name starts with "M"
For a fun extra, read a mystery whose title has the first letter of your first and last name in it - like for me - I would have to have read one that had an L and an H in it (in either order) - like the Last Hollow of the Dark, or Hateful Crimes of the Lowlands (I made these titles up..