In 2010 I was like a kid in a candy store when it came to Challenges. I was so excited to be a joiner and I just knew I could complete them all!
Well…. such are the dreams of a rookie book blogger….
Life happens, shoot…. books happen, and before I knew it my reading went in other directions, books recommended by other bloggers (oh yes… you awesome book reviewers – I BLAME YOU, and of course new releases, and old titles I have always wanted to read, and impulse buys, and book sales – and of course back in January of 2010 I had not even dreamed I would go to BEA and of course I had no idea that if I did the books that would follow me home…to read…
to read…
to read…
So now I humbly come before you with the results of the Challenges and I said “OH YEAH!” too, and how I did. All the Challenge pictures are linked to the actual challenge page and lists the books that qualified.
This one was fun and I knew I could do this one as this counted for anything I read… anything I listened to on audio. I came out of this one with a total of 116 books/audio in 2010.
I am thankful for this challenge even if I did make my goal of 25 Library reads. This challenge actually caused me to sign up for a library card, which I have not done for almost 20 years. Its true… I did not use my library – but I did in 2010 and I plan to use it even more in 2011.
This one was exciting for me and my goal was 25 and that is what I read! YA has been an exciting genre for me and I really do enjoy reading these books.
Ok this would be one of those embarrassing Challenge fails… GAH. To me this was a no brainer challenge, even a little self-indulgent as I LOVE all things Potter. Yet… as I mentioned above, other books, other commitments… and I managed to hit 3 of the 7 I thought I could do.
I love Historical Fiction and I aced this challenge with a goal of 6 and read 7. I hope to read even more of this genre in 2011.
The Gilmore Girl Challenge is another one I failed miserably at and that surprises me. I really thought I would do well on this one and obviously… did not. GAH! Rory would shun me in public and I would not blame her one bit.
The Social Justice Challenge is one I wish I really would have done more with. I really thought this was a brilliant challenge and I had a few months I was strong in and then I tapered off.
The Christy Award Challenge I completes one read out of the 6 I meant to. Some of these books I even had checked out from the library… sadly I did not find the time to read them.
I do plan to join a few hopefully well-chosen Challenges this year, knowing now how a reading plan changes drastically throughout the year I will try to stick to ones that are more user-friendly for me, or stretch me to read into genres I wish I read more in any way.
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Oh challenges can be so hard to say no to! I’ve signed up for 6 this year with lots of over lapping so books can be counted for multiple challenges. Now to make sure I stay away from any more!
Good luck with any 2011 challenges!
Thanks Kylie – I am still choosing. 😀
Looks like you succeeded! Congrats!
Thanks Reagan – I did ok 🙂
You did pretty good considering how many you were in. I did the rookie thing too for this year , crossing fingers I can complete them all , alot can crossover so hopefully I can.
Good luck Donna!
I completed all of mine except one, but had no way of creating a “wrap-up,” since mine were at all different blog sites…and some of them were blogs I deleted when I lost patience with my compulsive blogging! At least I’d already linked to the host bloggers before deleting the sites.
I learned something important…keep all the challenges on one site, which I’m doing this year.
Good idea Laurel!
Great job on your challenges this year! So happy to hear you are using your library!!!
I too failed at the Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge. I didn’t read a single book for it and here I was planning to at least reach the Lorelai level. Oh, well.
I am happy about the library too Christina – that is a challenge I do want to succeed at this year.
You did really well! It’s amazing what challenges tell about our reading tastes. Here is my challenges wrap-up post.
http://libraryofcleanreads.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-year-challenges-wrap-up.html
Thanks Laura!
Challenges were hit or miss for me this year too, so I’ve only signed up for a few for 2011.
I still need to update my sidebars… then I hope to have a few this year too 🙂
Sheila, I think you did great! I joined two of those challenges, and failed in a way because I did read but did not reach my goals. The Library Challenge is so important….We hacve to promote libraries more…Thank you for sharing!
Sure Cristina I love my library!
love that you did the library challenge, because until this year I was like you: a person without a library card. The only reason I got one this year was to take my daughter and then I became a convert 🙂
I love my library!
I like that too Rebecca and it really made me appreciate my library again. 🙂
Congrats
Your reading speed is awesome. I wish I could do the same.
For library challenge, I suddenly remember my local library. They never update theor collection. 😦
Thanks Aleetha, I was thinking I did not read as much as I thought I had…LOL 😀
Congratulations Sheila! You did great! I decided not to do a challenge wrap-up post because I didn’t complete very many. If I don’t write it up, then my failures won’t stare me in the face! *L*
I’ve got a good feeling for 2010! Good luck to us all!
There are a couple I am not too proud of Alexia but I am clearing them off the sidebars not planning to do better in 2011 😀
I think you did great overall so you should be proud of yourself! I failed on one last year as well. For me, I do a lot of challenges that I have categories that I naturally read anyway and can overlap. Then I feel like I am accomplishing something while participating with others 🙂
That’s what I am looking for too – Challenges that overlap.
I think you did pretty darn good!
Thanks Angie, as I added them up it was better than I thought… but for he most part nothing I read was intentional… if I succeeded, it was random. 😀
I did 50/50 or so in my 2010 challenges, but chose quite a few year-long challenges with obtainable (I hope) goals for 2011 that will help me pare down my tottering TBR piles (I need the room for more books!)
I really need to work on my existing books too Julie. 😀