Read Your Own Books Marathon!

I'm joining The Bibliophilic Book Blog's Read Your Own Books Read-A-Thon! This is a great way to read all of those books you have once bought, but never got to because you have all these review copies piling up. As I probably own about a hundred books that I haven't read yet, I'm definitely in for this challenge!

My Goals:

• Finish 2 books
• Read 750 pages
• Be very proud of myself
• Post about my progress at least once every day

The Read-A-Thon will run from Thursday the 15th till Sunday 18th. That means it is starting today! However, you can still sign up and win pretty awesome stuff. Just hop over to The Bibliophilic Book Blog and join the fun. If you're participating, feel free to leave me a comment. I love checking on others to see how they're doing (:

Challenge Updates (January)

This year I've started to participate in reading challenges for the first time, and I didn't start by joining just one, no, I had to start by joining five. I've been rather lazy in updating the lists of these challenges (some don't even have a page), so here is a summarizing post of what I've read since the beginning of this year!

The Wordsworth Classics Reading Challenge

• Oh boy... I haven't even read a classic this year. Definitely not a good start.

Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge

• The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
• A Treasure Worth Seeking by Sandra Brown
• Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
• Sleepy Hollow Dreams by Taryn Kincaid
• Slawter by Darren Shan
• House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo

Horror & Urban Fantasy Reading Challenge

• Slawter by Darren Shan

Vampire Challenge

• The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

Shifter Challenge

• I guess The Killing Dance features shifters.. But that would be cheating. No shifters yet!

The list looks rather sad. I hope February will be a more productive month!

2011 Reading Challenge: Wordsworth Classics

One of my resolutions for next year is that I want to read more of all those literary classics out there, those books everyone should read at least once. And to help me with that I'm joining this Classics Reading Challenge hosted by The Deranged Book Lovers!

The Rules:

• You can read any classic novels which are included in list of Wordsworth Classics. You don't need to read wordsworth edition, you can pick any publisher releases as long as those releases are unabridged.
• It’s okay to re-read. You can put the book you’ve read in the past in your list as long as you’re going to read it again in 2011. Set your target and list the book you want to read along with the challenge button in your blog and fill the form.
• You don't have to review those books but if you want you can link them
• This is a year-long challenge (Jan 1, 2011 - Dec 23, 2011) so you can still commit to it in the middle of year 2011. All you need to do is fill the form. 

The Levels:

• Peasant: 1-4 books
  Bourgeois: 5-8 books
  Knight: 9 – 12 books
  Noble: more than 12 books

For 2011 I'm going for Knight. Let's see if I can reach my goal!

2011 Reading Challenge: Horror and Urban Fantasy

Book Chick City is hosting a new reading challenge combining her two favourite genres; and luckily, those are my favourite genres also! So I will take the challenge to read 24 urban fantasy or horror books in the year of 2011. I love she included horror books, now I have a great motivation to read some of my Stephen King's that have been sitting on my shelf for over a year.

 

Challenge Details

• Timeline: 01 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011

• Rules: To read TWENTY FOUR (24) horror & urban fantasy novels in 2011 (24 is the minimum but you can read more if you wish!)

• You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.

• You can join anytime between now and the later part of next year.

• At the beginning of Jan 2011, you will find a link to add your reviews.

2011 Reading Challenge: Outdo Yourself

My goal for 2010 was to read 50 books. I'm now at 43, so with some luck I might even make it. But I still want to try to read more next year, that's why I'm joining The Book Vixen's 2011 challenge, and will try to read 10 books more next year. 

Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge
hosted by The Book Vixen

Details:

• Runs January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 (books read prior to 1/1/11 do not count towards the challenge). You can join at anytime. You can sign up on The Book Vixen’s blog.
• The goal is to outdo yourself by reading more books in 2011 than you did in 2010. See the different levels below and pick the one that works best for you. Nothing is set in stone; you can change levels at any time during the challenge.
• Books can be any format (bound, eBook, audio).
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are fine.
• You can list your books in advance or list them as you read them. It is not required that you review the books you read for this challenge but feel free to do so.
• Post this reading challenge on your blog so you can keep a list of the books you’ve read for this challenge. Please include a link back to this post so readers can join the challenge too.
• You do not have to be a book blogger to participate. You can keep tabs on books you’ve read for this challenge on Goodreads or LibraryThing if you’d like (maybe make a shelf for “Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge”). If you are not on either of those sites then you can list the books you read for this challenge in the comments on my wrap-up post, which will be up at the end of 2011.

Levels:
     Getting my heart rate up – Read 1–5 more books
     Out of breath – Read 6–10 more books
     Breaking a sweat – Read 11–15 more books
     I’m on fire! – Read 16+ more books

I will be trying for Breaking a sweat, but I'll probably end up with Out of breath.