2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I Spy Challenge:
1. Color: The White Tiger 2 stars
2. Number:Ready Player One 4 stars
3. Things that grow: Peony in Love 3 stars
4. Four seasons: The Summer Book 2 stars
5. First Name: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 2 stars
6. Place: Digging to America 2 stars
7. Body part:Eyes Wide Open 2 stars
8. Weapon: Blind Man with a Pistol 2 stars
9. Body of water: The Sea 3 stars
10. Form of water: The Art of Racing in the Rain 3 stars
11. Product of fire: A Trick of the Light 4 stars
12. Heavenly body: Half of a Yellow Sun 4 stars
13. Architecture:
14. Five senses:
15. Royal title: The Princess Bride 5 stars
16. Family members: The Sisters Brothers 3 stars
17. Four elements:
18. Time of Day:
19. Metal:
20. Emotion/ Feeling:
21. Animal/insect: The Tiger's Wife 4 stars
22. Something to read: The Lover's Dictionary 4 stars
23. Gender identifier: Little Women 3 stars
24. Paranormal being:
25. Occupation: The House of Doctor Dee. 2 stars

Finish the Series Challenge:

Inspector Sejer Series byKarin Fossum
Don't Look Back
He Who Fears the Wolf
When the Devil Holds the Candle
The Indian Bride
Black Seconds
The Water's Edge

John Madden Mysteries by Rennie Airth
River of Darkness -finished 7/9/2012 4 Stars
The Blood-Dimmed Tide - finished 9/3/2012 4 Stars
The Dead of Winter - finished 9/20 4 stars

List of books that I've finished this year. Not all have been for challenges, other than my goal of reading 35 books this year.


1. Things Fall Apart byChinua Achebe - 1/7 - 4 stars
2. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 1/5 - 4 stars
3. The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd - 1/23 - 2 stars
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - 2/12 - 3 stars
5. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - 3/10 - 3 stars
6. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams - 4/17 - 2 stars
7. Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe - 3/22 - 3 stars
8. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan - 4/24 - 4 stars
9. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer - 5/13 - 3 stars
10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - 5/20 - 3 stars
11. Peony in Love by Lisa See 6/7 3 stars
12. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht 6/5 4 stars
13. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 6/8 4 stars
14. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 6/10 3 stars
15. Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross 6/13 2 stars
16. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 6/26 4 stars
17. The Sea by John Banville 3 stars
18. The Pearl by John Steinbeck 7/1 4 stars
19. River of Darkness by Rennie Airth 7/9 4 stars
20. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson 7/12 2 stars
21. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 7/16 2 stars
22. Uncommon Bond by C.L. Gillmore 7/21 1 star
23. Still Life by Louise Penny 7/25 4 stars
24. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny 8/4 4 stars
25. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 8/10 5 stars
26. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes 8/15 2 stars
27. Digging to America by Anne Tyler 8/27 2 stars
28. The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth 9/3 4 stars
29. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor 9/7 4 stars
30. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9/16 4 stars
31. The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth 9/20/ 4 stars

Character Spell Out Challenge:

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OK - I've done a really bad job of keeping track of books/challenges here in my own little corner. I resolve to do better in 2013. :)

Any suggestions would be welcomed on how best to track what I'm doing.

haha, that's a great resolution, Toni!!

I keep track of mine by setting my corner up for the whole year right away: you'll see what I mean if you look at it: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

So I set up a post for each year challenge I'm involved in, and then one for each month so I can put the challenges for the month in that post.

I'm sure there are other ways to be organized without being as overboard about it as I am! haha. Just some suggestions. ;)

Trevor wrote: "haha, that's a great resolution, Toni!!

I keep track of mine by setting my corner up for the whole year right away: you'll see what I mean if you look at it: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/82..."

Wow Trevor - I'm impressed - I bow down to your mad organizational skillz! :) That is an awesome way to organize. I'm going to copy it - now I have a project for the weekend! Thanks for the help.

No problem!

I've got my next year corner all set up in a word document to post when the folder goes up. ;) I'm a little bit strange that way. haha