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Challenge Wrap-Ups: BUCKET & WISH Lists
This is one of the challenges of which I am most proud of completing this year. Like Judith over at Leeswammes’ Blog, who hosted this challenge, I have a wishlist (what book blogger doesn’t?) My...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: BATTLE of the PRIZES
For several years now, Gilion at Rose City Reader has been hosting the Battle of the Prizes – both British and American. I’ve been meaning to hop on quite a few times and finally did for 2012. The...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: KID STUFF
At the beginning of this year (it seems so long ago), our four-year-old grandson and his mom were living with us. Steven and I tried to have reading time every day so I entered a couple of challenges...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: the ALPHABETS
I entered a couple of different A-Z (that’s EH – ZED for me, as a Canuck) in 2012. The object of Lindsey’s A-Z Reading Challenge was to read a book with a title starting with each letter of the...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: The LONG & the SHORT of it
THE SHORT Collections of short stories aren’t eligible for a lot of reading challenges so even though I had a large one on my 2012 Bucket List and another in mind for a prize-winners challenge, I...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: AWARD WINNERS (Sez Who?)
This is the time of year when all the “best of” lists are being published by everybody from bloggers to newspapers to booksellers. Last year at this time, I saw so-o-o-o many books that I’d missed in...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: CATEGORIES, SCATEGORIES!
I took on a couple of major category challenges in 2012, requiring me to read 12 & 13 different categories respectively. There were only eight overlapping categories, though, so I ended up reading...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: IT’S A MYSTERY
I love mysteries!So it should have been a cinch to finish the four mystery reading challenges I entered in 2012. Instead, I am batting .500. Bev at My Reader’s Block is a great fan of mysteries...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: ODDS & ENDS
A few of the shorter challenges I entered in 2012 are unique and are left now to be tied up in this mixed bad entry. Tomorrow I’ll post the overall and final reading challenge results for the year. * *...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
I’m sure there’s no question in your mind right now that I was out of my mind when I signed up for so many reading challenges in 2012. Here are the final three wrap-ups, including my overall count. * *...
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SUPER PASSWORD READING CHALLENGE Sign-Up
Bev at My Reader’s Block is hosting a brand-new challenge this year that I’d like to see become a great success. She’s called it the Super PassWord Challenge, modeled after the television show of the...
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Super Password Challenge – JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
Here we go …the first round of Super Password. Remember, January/February is a Famous Person. Here are the clues so far. Clue #1: Diligent River Daughter (Bruce Graham) Clue #2: Messenger of Athens...
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Semi-Charmed Summer 2016 Challenge
I haven’t officially entered any book challenges since 2012, when I entered 63 of them. You read that right: sixty-three challenges. As you might guess, that burned me out of reading lists for a while....
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Six Books in Six Categories: 2016’s 6 in 6
I’m joining in an annual link-up hosted by Jo at The Book Jotter. Now that we are halfway through the year, I quickly share the books I’ve read in those first 6 months: 6 books in each of 6 categories....
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Canadian Reading Challenge
This year, I’m doing something I’ve been meaning to do for years: joining the Canadian Reading Challenge. Hosted by John at the Book Mine Set, the goal is to read at least 13 Canadian books between...
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Semi-Charmed Summer 2016 Challenge: COMPLETE
Well, I’ve finished the Semi-Charmed’s Summer 2016 Challenge. Not in time to be in any of the winning spots, but well before the August 31st deadline. Here are the books I read: Categories: 5...
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The Semi-Charmed Winter 2016 Reading Challenge
As I’ve told you before, I haven’t officially entered any book challenges since 2012, when I entered 63 of them. You read that right: sixty-three challenges. As you might guess, that burned me out of...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: AWARD WINNERS (Sez Who?)
This is the time of year when all the “best of” lists are being published by everybody from bloggers to newspapers to booksellers. Last year at this time, I saw so-o-o-o many books that I’d missed in...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: CATEGORIES, SCATEGORIES!
I took on a couple of major category challenges in 2012, requiring me to read 12 & 13 different categories respectively. There were only eight overlapping categories, though, so I ended up reading...
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Challenge Wrap-Ups: IT’S A MYSTERY
I love mysteries!So it should have been a cinch to finish the four mystery reading challenges I entered in 2012. Instead, I am batting .500. Bev at My Reader’s Block is a great fan of mysteries...
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