In Death Wiki

A wiki for everything you ever wanted to know about J. D. Robb's In Death series.  Good if I decide to start the series again (only 20something books to go! :)).

2011 Reading Challenge Round-up

Well, it's hard to believe it, but 2011 is almost over, so that means it's time to look over all my challenges and see how I've done.  Here are all the challenges and my (soon to be) final numbers.

Total Number of Books Read in 2011: 131

Challenges I Completed in 2011:
TBR Pile: 40/40 Challenge completed
What's in a name challenge: 12/12 Challenge completed
Highlander Romance Challenge: 12/12 Challenge completed
Paranormal Romance Challenge: 12/12 Challenge completed
Romantic Suspense Challenge: 12/12 Challenge completed
New Author Reading Challenge: 30/30 Challenge completed
First in a Series Challenge: 24/24 Challenge completed
ROR Summer Challenge: 15/15 Challenge completed

Challenges I didn't Complete (but some were thisclose):
ROR Spring Challenge: 14/15 not completed
ROR Fall Challange: 14/15 not completed
Support Your Local Library Challenge: 45/50 completed x level not y level
11 in 11 Challenge: 27/33 no completed
Back to the Future Challenge:
I Spy Reading Challenge:
Read the Alphabet Challenge: 22/24
E-book Challenge: 27/30

Booksfree = Netflix for Books

Just learned about Booksfree which is like Netflix, but for books.  So cool!  Definitely a possibility for those books I want to read, but don't want to keep.

Books to Read in December

To Be Read:

MADIOAS Out with the Old Challenge (pick the oldest book from your Shelfari "Plan to Read" shelf):
Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

Group Reads/Authors of the Month:
Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
No Man's Mistress by Mary Balogh
Black Ice by Anne Stuart

Library Books:
Fool for Love by Eloisa James
For the Roses by Julie Garwood
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Knight of a Trillion Stars by Dara Joy
Last Call by Daniel Okrent
Nothing But Trouble by Rachel Gibson
Rules of Surrender by Christina Dodd

Next in Series:
Love Bites by Lynsay Sands
Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt
Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt
No Man's Mistress by Mary Balogh

End of Year Series Catch-up (MADIOAS):
The Dudley (Mistress) Series by Mary Balogh (No Man's Mistress)
Arcane Society: Looking Glass Trilogy by Krentz/Quick/Castle (Canyons of Night)
The Star Series by Susan Grant (The Star King)
Lakeshore Chronicles by Susan Wiggs (Marrying Daisy Belamy)
Maiden Lane Series by Elizabeth Hoyt
Sisterhood Diaries Series by Susan Anderson (Playing Dirty)

Historical Romance Challenge:

1.) Governess - Rules of Surrender by Christina Dodd

2.) Widow- Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt
3.) Working Women - Anything for Love by Connie Brockway
4.) Women in the Arts - Captives of Night by Loretta Chase
5.) Second Chance at Love - A Fool for Love by Eloisa James

Currently Reading:

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Angel: After the Fall Vol. 3 by Joss Whedon & Brian Lynch

Don't You Forget About Me edited by Jamie Clarke

Read:

Anything for Love by Connie Brockway 

Storming the Castle by Eloisa James

Brianna by Judy Mays
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James

A Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught

Canyons of Night by Jayne Castle

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (listening :-))

Rules of Surrender by Christina Dodd
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
No Man's Mistress by Mary Balogh