2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion
ARCHIVE 2016
>
Elizabeth's 2016 Reading Corner
date
newest »
newest »
The Life of a Book AddictReading Group Challenge 2016
12+4 alternates
13/16 books read
✔️ 1:Tarzan of the Apes1/7/16-1/12/16 three half stars
✔️ 2Bitten 1/13/16-1/14/16 five stars
✔️3: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 1/14/16-1/17/16 4.5 stars
✔️4:Field of Mars: Episode 1 1/26/16-1/27/16 2 stars
✔️5:Twilight Guardians 2/1/16-2/2/16 3.5 stars
✔️6:Frostborn: The First Quest 4 stars
✔️7:The Judas Strain: A Sigma Force Novel 4/1/16-4/4/16 five stars
8:Magnificence
✔️ 9:Tales From the 1001 Nights2/9/16-2/11-16 4.5 stars
✔️10:The Wind in the Willowsfive stars 7/19/16
11:The Express Diaries
12:Stormbreaker(reread)
4 alternates
✔1:The Stand(reread)1/1/16-1/9/16 five stars
✔2:CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Killing Jar five stars 1/19/16-1/22/16
✔️3:Brisingr
✔️4:Inheritance 7/14/16 five stars
also update:
Individual Reading Goals 2016
Elizabeth's 2016 Reading Corner Goals
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
WACKY READING CHALLENGESYearly Challenges > 2016 Bucket List
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 Bucket List 8/12 books
✔January:Gowns Of The Haunted five stars 1/4/16
✔February:Twilight Guardians2/1/16-2/2/16 3.5 stars
✔March: The Skin Collector3/2/16-3/9/16
✔️April:The Judas Strain 4/1/16-4/4/16
✔May: Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin5/1/16
✔June:East River Trust6/14/16
✔July:Inheritance 7/14/16
✔️August:The Tuskegee Airmen: The History and Legacy of America's First Black Fighter Pilots in World War II8/2/18
✔September:The Midnight Watch9/18/16
✔October:Ten Days in a Mad-House10/4/16
✔November:The Enigma Strain11/8/16
December: Magnificence
The Life of a Book AddictBooks and More Books > Big Books - 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016
I went a head and listed my big books so I won't forget which ones.
read
39
Ones need to read:
:Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
:Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
:Oliver Twist
:The Secret Of Excalibur
:Body Double
:The Amulet of Samarkand
:Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Ones I already read from January - March
1:The Stand 1,141 pages 1/1/16-1/9/16 ,
2:Brisingr 763 pages 1/31/16-2/8/16
3:The Wolf's Hour 605 pages ,
3/15/16-3/23/164:The Sea Hunters446 pages
3/10/16-3/16/165:Tales From the 1001 Nights2/9/16-2/11/16 469 pages
6:Twilight Guardians 400 pages 2/1/16-2/16
7:Sharcano 420 pages 1/4/16-1/6/16
8:The Tiger Warrior12/29/15-1/6/16 502 pages
9:The Skin Collector 575 pages
10:Mr. Mercedes1/10/16-1/13/16 437 pages
11:Circle of Bones 562 pages 1/13/16-1/19/16
12:Dragon's Triangle 496 pages
2/3/16-2/4/16
13:Knight's Cross501 pages 2/11/16-2/17/16
14:The Burnt House: A Decker/Lazarus Novel544 pages 2/15/16-2/19/16
April 's Big Books
15::The Judas Strain
543 pages 4/1/16-4/4/1616:
Freedom of the Mask 528 pages 4/6/16-4/8/1617::
Finders Keepers: A Novel 544 pages 3/30/16-4/9/1618:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 451 pages 4/20/16-4/28/16 ( a must read)19:
Criminal4/30/16 562 pagesMay
20:
Havana Storm 453 pages 5/3/1521:
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History5/10/16 514 pages22:
Desperation5/14/16 69323:
I, Ripper: A Novel5/20/16 402 pagesJune:
24:
Rose Madder 6/5/16-6/8/16 643 pages25:
Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation 422 pages 6/7/1626:
Blood Infernal561 pages 6/12/1627:
Tripwire6/21/16 581 pages28:
Elysium Dreams6/24/16 413 pages29:
447 pages 7/5/16July
30:
7/14/16 860 pages31:
7/20/16 460 pagesAugust
32:
414 pages 8/26/16September
33:
9/3/16 44934:
9/11/16 464 pages35:
9/23/16 462 pagesOctober
36
10/15/16 975 pages37
10/3/16 864 pages38:
10/9/16 48039:
10/17/16 624 pages
PNR/UF Addicts & Newbies * COMPLETED*https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Monthly Challenges > February 2016 - Back to the Basics
Duration: February 1st, 2016 – February 29th, 2016
Easy (4 books) – Read any 4 options
4/4
✔1. Vampire: Twilight Guardians
( finished 2/2/165. Witch/Warlock/Wizard:Frostborn: The First Quest
( finished 2/25/16)✔8. Magic: Brisingr ( finished 2/8/16)
10. All the Rest!:Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising
finished 2/24/16
The Lost Challenges* COMPLETED*February Judge a book by its cover
February 1st ~ 29th Completed
Conceited read 6-6 books
✔️1:Twilight Guardians( read) 3 stars
✔️2:Love Me Anyway( read) 5 stars
✔️3:Blood Forestfive stars
✔4:On His Watchfive stars
✔️5:Never Never( read)2.5 to 3 stars ( on the fence about this on)
✔️6:The Contestant( DNF/deleted) read 40 pages of it
,
,
,
,
,
'Judge a Book by Its Cover' Monthly Challenge * Completed*From: March 1st ~ 31st
Conceited read 5-6 books
1:
3/2/16-3/6/162:
3/6/16-3/8/16-3/8/163:
3/1/16-3/2/164:
3/2/16-3/9/165;
6;
3/10/16-3/12/16
The Challenge Factory * Completed*♦Mini Challenges♦ > Attack of Your TBR Challenge
Duration: March 9,2016 to June 30,2016
Level:Easy – 3 books
✔1. Could Never Make it Fit: * Pick a book for this category that you’ve been wanting to read, but could never make it fit into a challenge:
The Wolf's Hour 3/15/16-3/23/16✔2. The Right Time:* Pick a book for this category that you’ve been waiting for the right time to read…which is now!
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness by Brian Murphy3. 6 Months: *Pick a book that has been on your shelf for 6 months:
4. 1 Year: *Pick a book that has been on your shelf for a year.
5. 1 + Year: *Pick a book that has been on your shelf for over a year
✔6. Redo!: *Pick a book that you started, put down (for whatever reason) and didn’t finish.
The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler
'Judge a Book by Its Cover' Monthly Challenge April 1st-30, 2016 *Completed*
1:
3,5 stars2:
5 stars3:
five stars4:
5 stars5:
5 stars6:
half a star
'Judge a Book by Its Cover' Monthly Challenge ( COMPLETED)https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
5/6 books read
1:
5/1/162:
5/1/163;
Mammoth5/1/16 4;
Havana Storm 5/3/165;
All the Missing Girls 5/7/166;
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History5/10/16
The Lost Challengeshttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
June 'Judge a Book By It's Cover' Monthly
From: June 1st ~ 30th
Conceited read 5-6 books
1:
6/7/16 five stars2:
6/5/16 five stars3:
1 star 6/2/164:
6/4/16 five stars5:
6/12/16 five stars 6:
6/7/16 4 stars
Nothing But Reading Challenges: CompltetedSerious Readers Challenge > Level 2 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 Reading Challenges
100 plus books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
WACKY READING CHALLENGES ( complete)https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
JULY 2016 MINI CHALLENGE
DATE: 07/01/16 - 07/31/16
TASKS: 4
1. JULY:
Read a book published in July.:
( july 5th)7/4/16 2. Seventh Month:
Read the 7th book from your TBR or a Series Book #7.
( 7th book on Kindle TBR)7/8/163. Larkspur/Water Lily:
Read a book with water found on the cover, or a book with a purple cover.
The Wind in the Willows ( water on the cover) 7/19/164. Zodiac:
Zodiac signs for July are Cancer (through July 21st) and Leo (July 22 and forward.
Read a book with the letters LEO found in the title (any order), or a book in which the author's first or last initial can be found in CANCER.
Deeply Odd ( has LOE in the title )7/17/16
The Lost ChallengesMonthly > July 'Judge a Book By It's Cover' Monthly
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
From: July 1st ~ 31st
Conceited read 5-6 books
1:
7/13/16 five stars2:
7/5/16 five stars 3:
7/4/16 5 stars ( NetGalley)4:
4.5 stars 7/1/16 ( netgalley)5:
7/17/16 4 stars6:
7/8/16 five stars
https://www.youtube.com/user/BookTube...BookTube A Thon
7/18/16-7/26/17
7/7 done
,
,
,
,
,
,
challenges:
✔1' Read a book with yellow on the cover:Who is the King of Dinosaurs? - Fun Fact Dinosaur Quiz book for Kids aged 9 to 12 7/22/16 five stars
✔2: Read a book only after sunset:Dawn of the Spiders: Special Edition five stars 7/24/16
✔3:Read a book you discovered through booktube:The Princess Diaries 2 stars 7/18/16
✔4:Read a book by one of your favourite authors:77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz five stars 7/20/16
✔️ 5:Read a book that is older than you:The Wind in the Willows 7/19/16
✔6/ Read and watch a book-to-movie adaptation:King Solomon's Mines 7/21/16
✔7:Read seven books:The Sultan's Toy: Book One: Captured ( this one was a short one so I went and read it) 7/20/16 five stars
2016 ARC August Read A Thon ( 8/1/16-8/31/16)to find out more about here is the link:http://www.readsleeprepeat.org/2016-a...
8/19/16 4 stars
8/2/16
8/6/16
8/12/16
4 stars 8/29/16
DNF 100 % 8/17/16
8/4/16
DNF 8/6/16
WACKY READING CHALLENGEShttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
AUGUST 2016 MINI CHALLENGE
DATE: 08/01/16 - 08/31/16
Completed
Stress Free Reading ChallengesLocal News Station (Tracking) > Elizabeth's Must Watch Station
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nothing But Reading ChallengesNetGalley Challenge > NetGalley August 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
completed
The Lost Challenges ( Completed)August Judge A Book By It's Cover
Aug 1, 2016-Aug 31, 2016
Conceited read 5-6 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message : 8
WACKY READING CHALLENGES * Competed*Monthly Challenges > September 2016 Mini Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Message 19
WACKY READING CHALLENGESSeries/TBR Challenges > Scary TBR Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Lost Challenges CompletedSeptember Judge A Book By It's Cover
Conceited read 5-6 books
September 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message:
Nothing But Reading Challenge ( Completed)NetGalley Challenge > NetGalley September 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
NetGalley Readers2016 Challenges > Books read in 2016 - Target 50,000
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Crazy Challenge ConnectionMisfit Challenges > A Clean(er) Slate
DURATION: October 1 – December 31, 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
WACKY READING CHALLENGES discussionMonthly Challenges > October 2016 Mini Challenge
DATE: 10/01/16 - 10/31/16
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message:12
total done:COMPLETED
The Lost Challenges discussion ( Completed)Monthly Challenges > October Judge A Book By It's Cover
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
October Judge A Book By It's Cover
September 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016
Conceited read 5-6 books
total books done:
Nothing But Reading Challenges discussionMonthly/Seasonal Challenges > October: Sarcastic Awareness Month
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message 18
Completed
The Life of a Book Addict ( completed)Books and More Books > October Spooktacular Halloween Fun 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
rest of October and though out November 2016 TBRMystery/Thriller Reading Friends
Elizabeth's October 21st though November 2016 TBR & Reads
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nothing But Reading ChallengesSerious Readers Challenge Level 3 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2016
goal is for 300 books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2016 Reading Challenges
100 plus books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Challenge Factory Monthly Challenge:November I❤audio books
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
WACKY READING CHALLENGESSeries/TBR Challenges > Scary TBR Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Books mentioned in this topic
Relic (other topics)The Big Book of Jack the Ripper (other topics)
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (other topics)
The Tommyknockers (other topics)
Assassin's Apprentice (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Dean Koontz (other topics)Brian Murphy (other topics)
Clive Cussler (other topics)


top find out what I thought of the books you can find my reviews here:
my book blog: https://spookyshouseofbooks.blogspot....
My Reading Goals for 2016My Reading Goals for 2016
✔️#1 goal is just have fun reading ,( because last year even though I read a lot I started to not enjoy it from the mid of October to December, so this year I'm only doing 3 Goodread Challenge and making some changes..And they are my goals which are
✔️2: Read 50 books ( maybe more) ( this way I won't feel like I got to read to keep ahead of my Goodreads goal, and I can read at my own paste, and enjoy it wither it's a huge book or a some one, spend time doing stuff with my family, watching old. Black and white movies ( 20s,30s,40s,50s, and 60s type movies) and play with my puppies.
3: Finish or trying to finish my 3 Goodread Challenges which are The Life of The Book Addict 12 + 4 Alternatives, Around The Year in 52 Books,
✔️4:Wither or not I cut down my Kindle,Nook,Apple IBOOKS,Bookshout ,or paper or hardback book TBR ,I'm not going to worry about it, because this year it's all about Enjoy Reading and not how many books is on my TBR.
5:Finish my 2 DNF Nook Books TBR ( not going to worry about how long this take
✔️6:Reread one of my all time favorite Stephen King Books.
✔️7:Read more large books with pages over 800 and up( basically I love read the big books with pages over 800 and up ,like the Stand by Stephen King which is 1,141 pages ,last year was the first year I got back into read and I only read 3 big books ,this time I want to enjoy doing it and not have to worry)
8:Read more of my all time favorite series.
9:Read More Classic novels.(Classical Literature is one of my all time favorite book to read ,so this year I want to get back in to doing that by doing Rereads of ones I've read a long time ago and also read ones I've been afraid to do so like Les Misérables.
10:Finishing DNF Kindle books that I've started and kept
11:Finish,start or get caught up in series, duology, trilogy or saga that I have all the books to.( even if I finish,or get caught up in a series I'll be happy)
12:Read more short stories:
✔️13:Start New series that I have a few books in.( even if I just read the first book then I'm happy)
✔️14:star listening to audio books ( even if it's just free classics that I love to reread over or over)
✔️15:Read books by authors that I should have read by now
My Mid Year Reading Goals Check Up
✔️#1 goal is just have fun reading
Goal 2 had 4 parts to it:
✔️1: read 50 books ( 131 read of 200 books =22 books ahead of schedule)
2:spend time doing stuff with my family :some what: both my Mom and sister works so they don't always have the same days off, then there's the days where I just don't feel like doing anything.)
✔️3; play with my dogs,
4: watching old. Black and white movies ( 20s,30s,40s,50s, and 60s type movies) so far I've watched a total of 5
goal 3 has 3 parts to it: finish or try to finish my Goodreads group challenges:
1: The Life of A Book Addict : reading challenge 12 + 4
Total done: 12 Not Done: 3
2: A Round A Year in 52 Books:
Total challenges Done: 30 Total Not done: 22
✔️goal 4 whiter I cut down on my kindle, nook, bookshout, iBooks, paper and hardback TBRs I'm not going to worry about it .
Goal Five : finish my 2 DNF Nook book: some what done
✔️goal 6: re read one of my all time favorite Stephen King Books ( read 2 all time favorite Stephen King Books :
goal 7 read more big books that are over 800 + pages: some what : read so far only 2 which is
Goal 8 read more of my all time series: need to double check for this one
goal 9: read more classic novels: some what : total so far is : 10
goal 10: Finish DNF kindle books that I've started and kept:
goal 11:finish or get caught up in series ,duology , trilogy and so on,
series finish: 2 caught up in: 7
12: read more short stories:
total so far:1
13: start new series:
total: about 24 ( give or take)
goal 14: listen to audio books:
total : 3( classics )
goal 15:read books by authors I should have already read:
total: 3