Just Another Reader

I've been reading a lot more and have picked back up the pace. It's a combination of getting back into making reading a priority, the SOS Bookshelf Bingo, and I need to finish up a bunch of yearly challenges...

 

*I've decided to change this a bit to a bimonthly update, on the 1st and 15th of each month. But I'm keeping the name, since I really like the word fortnight.

 

Books finished in 2014 since last update:

• Inuyasha: Volume 3: Good Intentions by Rumiko Takahashi
• Inuyasha: Volume 4: Lost and Alone by Rumiko Takahashi
• Pride & Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret by Vera Nazarian
• Burden of the Soul by Kate Grace
• Serpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison
• Undivided by Neal Shusterman
• Inuyasha: Volume 5: Flesh and Bone by Rumiko Takahashi
• Inuyasha: Volume 6: Wounded Souls by Rumiko Takahashi
• The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
• How to Twist a Dragon's Tale by Cressida Cowell
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• Stronger by Jeff Bauman
• Snowpiercer Volume 2: The Explorers by Jacques Lob
• The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
• Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

 

In the middle of:

• Classical Mythology taught by Elizabeth Vandiver

 

Books Read in 2014:

236/250

 

On Track?

19 books ahead of schedule

 

Reviews to write:

1

 

Challenges completed:

Eight

 

Yearly:

Recommended by Readers Challenge: 7 out of 10

Randomizer Challenge: 6 out of 12

The String Theory Challenge: 7 out of 12

The Monopoly Genre Challenge: 21 out of 22

The Seasons of Love Challenge: 19 out of 27

 

Quarterly:

BWB TBR Challenge Q1: 7 out of 7

Rated YA-MA New, New, and New Challenge: 6 out of 6

2014 Reading Challenge Chinese Zodiac Challenge: 12 out of 12

BWB TBR Challenge Q2: 7 out of 7

Rated YA-MA Scavenger Hunt Challenge: 12 out of 6

2014 Reading Challenge Series Finish Challenge: 17 out of 18

BWB TBR Challenge Q3: 9 out of 9

Rated YA-MA AcronyMANIA: 7 out of 7

BWB TBR Challenge Q4: 2 out of 8

Rated YA-MA Finish What You Started: 1 out of 6

SOS 2014 TBR Clean-up Challenge: 6 out of 15

 

Monthly:

February Personal Challenge: 5 out of 9

-Did not finish either random pick

-Did not read a paperback book that I already own

-Only read one book published in 2014

January Personal Challenge: 5 out of 7

-Did not finish the random pick of The Blade Itself

-Did not read a paperback book that I already own.

 

Pages read in 2014 (to be added monthly):

69,000

 

Favorite Reads:

January: The Little Android by Marissa Meyer

February: Cress by Marissa Meyer

March: World After by Susan Ee

April: Saga Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

May: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, narrated by Edward Hermann

June: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

July: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 12 by Naoko Takeuchi; translated by William Flanagan

August: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and narrated by Gerard Doyle

September: The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski

October: Matterhorn: A Novel of Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes, narrated by Bronson Pinchot

November:

December:

 

Favorite book of 2014 thus far:

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, narrated by Edward Hermann