2019 Aussie Author Challenge

Challenge: 2019 Aussie Author Challenge

Hosted by: Booklover Book Reviews @ bookloverbookreviews.com

Time frame: January 1st, 2019, to December 31st, 2019

The class I'm going to be entering into will be WALLABY - 'Read and review 3 titles written by Australian authors, of which at least one of those authors are female, at least 1 of those authors are male, and at least 1 of those authors are new to you; fiction or non-fiction, any genre.' as they put it.

The books I have chosen are:

1. Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan ✔︎
2. Celtic Blood by James John Loftus
3. From the Wreck by Jane Rawson

I'm familiar with John Flanagan, but James John Loftus and Jane Rawson are new to me.

2019 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge - Author Edition

Challenge: 2019 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge – Author Edition
Hosted by: Dollycas @ escapewithdollycas.com
Time frame: January 1st to December 31st 2019

How this is going to work: I'll add '(finished)' to the end of each title to mark when I've read the book, because I have to write down each book I'm going to read for this challenge :)



A – Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat (finished)

B – Marie Brennan, Tropic of Serpents

C - C.E. Laureano, Oath of the Brotherhood

D - Deborah Underwood, Here Comes Santa Cat

E - Elizabeth Bear, The Stone in the Skull

F - Corinne Fenton, Bob the Railway Dog

G – Gilbert Morris (with Dan Meeks), The Frozen Space Pilot (finished)

H - Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

I - Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer, Honey & Co.: the Cookbook (finished)

J – John Flanagan, Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia (finished)

K – K.M. Weiland, Outlining Your Novel

L – James John Loftus, Celtic Blood

M – Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring

N - Brian Neil Roy, The Heart Island Anomaly

O - Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia's Colors

P - Jacob Peppers, A Sellsword's Compassion

Q – Philip C. Quaintrell, Rise of the Ranger

R – Sara C. Roethle, Tree of Ages

S – Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

T - Rachel Starr Thompson, Seeds

U - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea

V – Elizabeth Gray Vining, Adam of the Road (finished)

W – Gretchen Woelfle, Katje, the Windmill Cat

X - Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

Y - Yotam Ottolenghi, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipies from London's Ottolenghi (finished)

Z - Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes of Amber

My Library's Adult Summer Reading Challenge

I know that I said that I was going to continue talking about my internship, but I decided to, instead, write about the reading challenge my local library is hosting.

So, yeah, it's an interesting thing, a Monopoly-ish knock-off. But it's cute, and it's another excuse to let me read this summer. Both me and my mom are participating, since the prize for participating—if our names are picked out of the draw—is an iPad mini. I'm so hoping one of us wins, since then Mom could use the iPad mini to read books on the Kindle app.

My mom has become addicted to those Love Inspired/Harlequin novellas, but she can't afford to pay $4.99 a pop right now.

I'm so thrilled that she has found something she likes to do now that I'm out of the house for most of the day every day!

So the rules for this challenge are:

1. Complete each square and return to the library before 8pm on Friday, September 21st, 2018.
2. For each book you read, record the title and author. No duplication of titles; only one square per book.
3. Books must be read between June 21st and September 21st, 2018.

So the books I have to read are ones with:

• A colour in the title
• A book you can finish in a day
• An author you've (I've) never heard of
• A Graphic Novel
• A book published in 2018
• Read a biography/true story
• A book that everyone's read but you (me)
• Read a book that makes you (me) laugh
• Borrow an ebook from the library
• Read a book outside your (my) usual genre
• Read a book set in a country you (I) have never visited
• Read the first book in a series
• Listen to an audiobook/eAudiobook
• Read a book that was turned into a movie
• Read a library staff recommendation
• Read a book written by a Canadian author

I've already got a few books lined up. The one I've got for the 'Library Staff Recommendation' is The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. And I could probably use The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien for the 'Book Turned into a Movie' one. Once I've thought about it, I'll probably have more. Like Quietus by Tristan Palmgren for 'Book Published in 2018'.

I'm so excited. This challenge could help towards my Century of Books book challenge that I've been doing since January. I love reading, and I'm glad to have another excuse to read all the time (or when I can, lol).

Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge [edited]

I've signed up for another reading challenge, but this time it's Christmas themed!

It is hosted by The Christmas Spirit, and it runs from November 23rd to January 6 2016. Sign up here: http://truexmasspirit.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-6th-annual-christmas-spirit-reading.html

The levels I'm going to compete in are:
Mistletoe and Fa La La La Films.

Books read so far:
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3)
4)

Books I will read:
1) An Appalachian Christmas by Irene Brand
2) Once Upon A Christmas Eve by Anita Higman
3) Pending
4) Pending

Films watched so far:
Will You Merry Me?
Ice Sculpture Christmas
The Time of the Doctor