2ND QUARTER UPDATE | 2015 AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE

If you’re an audiobook fan and would like to take up the challenge, hop over to The Book Nympho or Hot Listens for the Reading Challenge details and levels. I’ve gone for the Marathoner (50+) The challenge runs from Jan 1st 2015 until Dec 31st 2015 and you can join in anytime.

Audiobooks are great for those times you can’t read a book for whatever reason and if you find a great narrator they can make the story so much better.  Here are the books that I've listened to from April - June 2015.

April:

The Nightingale By: Kristen Hannah

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything By: Steven Levitt

May: 

Super Freakonomics By: Steven Levitt

The Girls of Mischief Bay By: Susan Mallery

June:

The Beekeeper's Daughter By: Santa Montefiore

Garden of Lies By: Amanda Quick

A Spool of Blue Thread By: Anne Tyler

Brain on Fire: My month of Madness By: Susannah Cahalan

The Sound of Glass By: Karen White

Sign Up For The Challenge HERE

1ST QUARTER UPDATE | 2015 AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE

If you’re an audiobook fan and would like to take up the challenge, hop over to The Book Nympho or Hot Listens for the Reading Challenge details and levels. I’ve gone for the Marathoner (50+) The challenge runs from Jan 1st 2015 until Dec 31st 2015 and you can join in anytime.

Audiobooks are great for those times you can’t read a book for whatever reason and if you find a great narrator they can make the story so much better.  Here are the books that I've listened to from April - June 2015.

January:

The Magician's Lie By: Greer MacCallister

Dragonfly in Amber #2: By: Diana Gabaldon

Room By: Emma Donoghue

Garden Spells #1 By: Sarah Addison Allen

Defending Jacob By: William Landry

February: 

The Paying Guests By: Sarah Walters

First Frost By: Sarah Addison Allen

Moriarty By: Anthony Horowitz

Station Eleven By: Emily St. John Mandel

The Boston Girl By: Anita Diamant

The Miniaturist By: Jessie Burton

March:

I Heart My Little A-Holes By: Karen Alpert

Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are By: Carlin Flora

The Fortune Hunter By: Daisy Goodwin

Red Queen By: Victoria Aveyard

The Kitchen House By: Kathleen Grissom

Sign Up For The Challenge HERE

Summer 2014 Book Challenge!

Megan, over at semi-charmed kind of life, leads some super fun reading challenges.  I have never done a book challenge - but I am ready, since I have recently dived head first into my love for books.  Go check out her blog and read the introduction post (including the rules for the challenge) right here! 

I really enjoy these challenges because they tend to make me read books that I normally wouldn't choose!  It's fun to branch out a little and read some new books!  

Here are the categories for this challenge:

5 points: Freebie!  Read any book that is at least 200 pages long.

10 points: Read a book that was written before you were born.

10 points: Finish reading a book you couldn't finish the first time around.  (You must have at least 150 pages left in the book to use it for this category.)

10 points: Read a book from the children's section of the library or bookstore.

15 points: Read a book that is on The New York Times' Best Sellers List when you began reading it.

15 points: Read a historical fiction book that does not take place in Europe.

15 points: Read a book another blogger has already read for the challenge.  (Yes, you will have to wait until the first check-in to choose this book!  So no one will be able to finish this challenge in only one month; sorry!)

20 points: Read a book with "son(s)," "daughter(s)" or "children(ren)" in the title.  No other words will count -- including kids, offspring, etc. -- so please don't ask.  :)

20 points: Read a book that was/will be adapted to film in 2014.  (Here are 16 ideas to get you started, but I know there are plenty more options.)

25 points: Read a book written by a blogger.  (Submitted by Jessica of The Tangerine.)

25 points: Read a biography, autobiography or memoir.

30 points: Read a pair of books with antonyms in the titles.

Here are the books that I have chosen for my preliminary list of books to read for the challenge.  Some of these books may change as I progress through this challenge, but this is what I'm thinking I'll read right now!

5 points: Freebie: Where'd You Go, Bernadette By:  Maria Semple

10 points: Written before you were born:  Pride and Prejudice By: Jane Austen

10 points: Finish book from before: Safe Haven By: Nicholas Sparks

10 points: Children's section: The One and Only Ivan By: Applegate

15 points: New York Times' Best Seller: Husband's Secret

15 points: Historical fiction: Sarah's Key

15 points: Book another blogger has read for challenge: Gone Girl

20 points: "Son(s)," "daughter(s)," or "child(ren)" in title: The Housemaid's Daughter By: Barbara Much

20 points: Book adapted to film in 2014: Winter's Tale By: Mark Helprin

25 points: Written by blogger: ?

25 points: Biography, autobiography, or memoir: ? Finding Me

30 points: Pair of books with antonyms in titles: One Thousand White Women and The One and Only

Hopefully things go well with this.  I am excited about my list so far!