Token Female Gamer

The March Reading Challenge:

Stand-alone Books (3) (Finish a story in one single book)
Anthologies (3) (Test new authors by reading novella collections)
Trilogy (3) (Wrap a storyline with three books)
Read one whose order in the series matches your rank among your sibling

After I started the challenge of reading nine to ten books a month it became obvious rather quickly that buying them every month just wouldn’t work. Then along came the library to save my pocket book (and my shelf space!!) Actually the library is quite ingenious as I can go online and request books through their online catalog. Then when the book has arrived at my desired library they send me an email and I go pick it up.

Its all been so easy that I have been somewhat enthusiastic in ordering books from the library. But it also means I have far too many books that don’t fit into this months challenge. Meaning its doubtful I will actually complete it.

By no means does that mean I will not be reading!! Its time to get through this huge stack of library books that I just can’t bring myself to send back unread. Doubly important I manage this feat before the library sends goons after me to come collect.

Happy reading!

January was a rousing success! Read all ten of my books, plus three more, and a few manga thrown in for good measure!

I finished early in Jan, mainly because of the moving. Now I’m into February (three days in already), ten books in a paltry 28 days, and I cant even find my books. Oh they are here somewhere, in a box. Should have been more worried about Feb. Going to have to cram to finish this month. Oh well.

Read a book by the following:
1. A Favorite Author – Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh
2. An Author that is “new” to you – Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
3. An Author you had given up before but willing to give a second chance – Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
4. A GoodReads Author – Light my Fire by Katie MacAlister
5. An Author born/died in the same year as you – (1977) Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter
6. An Author whose first or last name starts with the initial of your first name – (D) Undead and Unreturnable by Mary Janice Davidson
7. An Author whose first or last name starts with the initial of your last name – (B) The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
8. A male Author – Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
9. A female Author – Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
10. With more than one Author (anthologies included). – The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

November completed with flying colors (okay I actually finished the last page on the last the thirtieth, but I still finished!), its time for a brand new reading challenge in the wonderfully cold month of December! Should be interesting to see how much I actually get to reading with all the holidays and events this month is filled with.

So here are the rules for Dec ‘09:

December’s challenge is called To Be Read (TBR) Clean-up Challenge.
DURATION: Dec. 1, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009

Here are the rules:
1. Pick 9 books from your current physical TBR pile (preferably books that have been there for quite some time). Also pick 6 more books as ‘alternate’ reads just in case.

Unlike previous challenges, once you put up this list, you CANNOT CHANGE it. However, you can drop down to an alternate book, if you really cannot finish a book that you have selected in your original list. Fair enough?

Excellent Challenge as my bookshelf is starting to overflow. Here are my picks (only the most cultured literary list to be found anywhere ~snort~):

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The outside of the house we live in is being painted, which means there is a huge mess of scaffolding covering the entire front. This includes our front stairs with five feet of clearance, and two treacherous low hanging bars to duck underneath.

Its the second bar that got me. Jumped me while I was just minding my own business, walking up the stairs to my front door and WHAM!

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Its time for the November Challenge!

November’s Challenge is a hybrid version of the popular A-Z challenge format. This month’s challenge is called Characters Alphabet Parade Challenge.
I have divided the alphabet into 9 groups and your goal is to match characters from your chosen books whose first or last names start with one of the given letters.

1. A/B 2. C/D/E 3. F/G/H 4. I/J/K 5. L/M/N 6. O/P/Q 7. R/S/T 8. U/V/W 9. X/Y/Z

Token Female Gamer’s favorite books »

Definitely harder to find character names out of books I haven’t read, but after some juggling I managed an acceptable list to match. Looking forward to reading them all.
Now that I’m four months into this, I’m finding it easier and easier to finish the books on time. I finished the October list with two days to spare! =)

<3 TFG

Even though it might like to disguise this fact, Goodreads.com is still very much a social networking site. Oh it might hide its overall intention with books, but without a community to rate and discuss the books, it would be one very dry site indeed.

I recently joined a group – a far more actively social section of the site. Groups are essentially forums that link into the Goodreads database allowing for easy book linking and displaying. They provide a place to discuss and share about the group topic.

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It’s been two weeks and I can’t seem to get anything done for the site. I sit and sit and stare at the computer and play WoW. (Of course I’m still playing World of Warcraft!)

But really I can’t blame WoW for my lack of posting, because I was in full throttle WoW mode long before my writer’s block showed up. (In fact it’s taken me five days just to write this little blurb.)

I blame Sookie and Elf Porn.

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This arrived in the mail today from Bri over at Random Access Babble.

A while back she reaped the benefit of a ‘pay it forward’ blog contest and thus had to pony up and spread the goodness to others. Well I was one of those lucky others that responded in time. And wonderful person that she is, she deigned to send me something sweet even though I was pretty sure that my site wasn’t really one of those type of blogs.

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