One of the great things about the holidays is the way that we take the time out from busy lives and schedules to celebrate and appreciate our family and friends. Dinner parties are a time honored way of sharing good food with good friends. I am so pleased to present the complete collection of the [...]
What’s In A Name 3 Challenge ~ 2010
There is a new host for this challenge in 2010. Beth at Beth Fish Reads will be hosting What’s In A Name 3 Challenge with a few changes. Here’s how it works: Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories: A book with a food in the title: A book [...]
Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge
C.B. James at Rady When You Are, CB is hosting the Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge. He writes: The Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge is based on a simple idea–read a book, see a movie based on the book, include both in your review. Whether yours is a book blog or a [...]
The Chunkster Challenge ~ 2010
February 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011 Definition of a Chunkster: A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) … A chunkster should be a challenge. If you read large type books your book will need to be 525 pages or more … The average large type book is [...]
The Debutante Ball Challenge – Past & 2010
Jen and Swapna are jointly hosting The Debutante Ball Challenge. You can join in an read Deb books from 2010 or you can join to read the past Deb boor, or you can do both. I am signing up for both, but at low levels because my self imposed rule of challenges is to use books [...]
Audio Book Challenge ~ 2010
Audiobooks have become my latest addiction and I acquire them with almost the same frightening speed that I require my other books. Given entire year (January -December, 2010) I should be able to complete the Audio Book Challenge at the Obsessed Level by listening to 20 books. Challenge Guidelines: 1. Anyone can join. You don’t need [...]
451 Fridays Challenge ~ 2010
451 Fridays is based on an idea from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In his novel, a group of people (Bradbury calls them Book People) are trying to keep the ideas found in books alive. Instead of actually saving the books, the Book People each “become” a book – memorizing it, word for word, and [...]
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge ~ 2010
I read a lot of historical fiction. I don’t know how it works that way and I don’t even really seek out the genre purposefully but I guess my interest in other countries combined with my love of history makes it only a given that I should try and complete the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge at [...]
Winter Reading Challenge ~ 2010
I am signing up to do the Winter Reading Challenge hosted at The Royal Reviews. For this one I have to read 6 books. It runs from December 1st, 2009 through February 28th, 2010 which is very exciting to me since it means that I can use books that I am reading right now. I know [...]
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