2012 Challenges Wrap-Up

Hello there everyone! I know I said that I was going to get back at the blog once we got the internetzz, but I have still been totally MIA. Sorry about that. I have been crazy busy working extra shifts at my part time job, and trying to get the house ready for my parents who are staying with us over Christmas, and I have been crafting like a lunatic! Not much time for reading, and even less for blogging!

My mom and dad just got in last night, and they are here until December 30th so I feel like I won't be posting at all for the rest of 2012! So, I'm going to wrap up the three challenges I participated in this year today. Only one of which I actually finished... (shame shame on me!) But, this was the first year I tried to do any, and I think I'm going to sign up for even more this year, because as much as I strayed from them, I do sort of like having the organization and the goals to work towards, even if I may not complete them.

The first, and only challenge I finished, is the one from Goodreads! I signed up to read 50 books this year, and I am currently at 58! So, obviously I'm going to up the anti for 2013 and try and hit 75!

2012 GOODREADS READING CHALLENGE

2012 Reading Challenge

Jessica has completed her goal of reading 50 books in 2012!

58 of 50 (115%)

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The second challenge I signed up for, and I hope someone does this one again for 2013 is the '2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge' I had wrote an initial challenge list when I signed up (it's below) with 40 books on it. Throughout the challenge, I deviated from this list A LOT and ended up having blogged about 43 books that fell into this challenge, which is great! But, from this list I only managed to read 17/40.. which is pretty terrible. It's extra terrible because a lot of these books I REALLY Want to read! Some I ended up skipping with good reason - such as number 3, I didn't know this was sort of a second series to Vampire Academy, so I did read the first 2 VA books instead, and am not going to start Bloodlines until I'm done those. If this challenge gets done again, you will definitely see some of these turn up on my list for next year!



You can get all the reading challenge details here:
My (un-official) Challenge List
1) Love The One You're With - Emily Giffin 2) The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen (I started this a few days ago, but I'm only about 25 pages in) 3) Bloodline - Richelle Mead 4) Marked - P.C. Cast 5) The Struggle - L.J. Smith 6) Divergent - Veronica Roth 7) Under the Dome - Stephen King (I will be done this book before the end of December, so I'm counting it. I'm on page 900 of 1062). 8) Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins 9) The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer 10) Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer 11) Matched - Ally Condie 12) Bumped - Megan McCafferty 13) Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisburger 14) Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater 15) Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster 16) A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin 17) Club Dead - Charlaine Harris 18) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 19) Slash - Slash 20) The Carrie Diaries - Candace Bushnell 21) Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella 22) Beauty Queens - Libba Bray 23) Uglies - Scott Westerfeld 24) Forever - Judy Blume 25) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk 26) Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin 27) Bad Taste in Boys - Carrie Harris 28) The Nannie Diaries - Emma McLaughlin 29) The Debutante Divorcee - Plum Sykes 30) Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs 31) The Life of Pi - Yann Martel 32) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 33) The Guernsey Literacy and Potato Peel Society - Annie Barrows 34) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls 35) The Color Purple - Alice Walker 36) The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 37) Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann 38) Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen 39) Bossypants - Tina Fey 40) Then He Ate My Boy Enhancers - Louise Rennison
The final challenge I was participating in I don't really know where it came from, but I saw it on someone elses blog and made a list too :) It was based on the characters in books and the alphabet. I missed 8 letters: I, K, N, O, Q, U, X, and Y. I had made a list with books with these characters, but I never got around to them :( But I had fun with this challenge, and hope to find something similar next year :) 

2012 A-Z Character Challenge

Duration: January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012

Read 26 different books having the main character begin with a letter of the alphabet. (if the story goes around more than one character you can pick only one of them for the challenge)

You can sign up anytime, and you can backdate books if you know when you finished them, as long as it was done in the year 2012.

A- Adina

B- Bree

C- Carrie

D- Damon

E- Eve

F- Four

G- Ginny

H- Hana

I-

J- Jessica

K-

L- Lola

M- Magdelena (Lena)

N-

O-

P- Puck

Q-

R- Rose

S- Stefan

T- Tessa

U-

V- Vasilisa

W- Wanderer

X-

Y-

Z- Zen

Anyway, That's my challenges in a wrap for the year! I;m on the hunt for some new ones to sign up for for 2013 that I can pick away at for the year! So, if you knwo of any, leave me a comment!

I hope that everyone has a fantastic holiday season, and I will get back to you in the New Year!!