The Sunday Salon – June 21, 2009 (The Spring Reading Thing Wrap-up Post)
Posted By CarrieK on June 21, 2009
The Spring Reading Thing Challenge ends today, so I thought I’d do my wrap-up post for today’s Sunday Salon.
For The Audiobook Challenge and The Outlander Challenge:
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon – done
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich – done
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
I would have finished all three of these if I hadn’t stupidly skipped disc 26 when ripping Drums of Autumn to my computer. I’m still waiting for my name to come to the top of the hold list so I can get the missing disc, and am listening to other things in the meantime.
For The Art History Reading Challenge:
Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex – done
For The Essay Reading Challenge:
Finish Essays of the Masters – done
For The Graphic Novels Challenge:
Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies – done
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – done
For The TBR Challenge and The Classics Challenge:
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy – done
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather – in progress
For ARC and review commitments:
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth – did not finish
The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks – done
I did better than I’d expected on the Spring Reading Challenge, especially with the number of books I’ve been checking out from the library and the number of ARCs I’m reading. Thanks to Katrina for hosting!
My other reading related posts this week:
~ Favorite contemporary fiction, part three
~ Book review: Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted
~ Book review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
~ I’ve been blurbed!
~ Book review: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
~ Glyde.com – new site (plus a coupon)
I noticed with this challenge and the summer reading challenge that you’ve broken them down into mini-challenges. Are you signed up with all these different ones somewhere? Or did you just set up your seasonal challenge that way on your own? I may be thinking about possibly joining a challenge or two, instead of just willy-nilly grabbing books at random to read. Maybe a system would improve my reading… I am the world’s worst organizer!
You did great! I signed up for 2 challenges last year and bombed both of them. I just signed up for 2 more – we’ll see how I do.
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The Spring Reading Thing was my first failed challenge. I read way more than the number of books I listed. I just didn’t read very many of the ones I planned to! Oh well.
Kool-Aid Mom – I am already signed up for all of those challenges! I went kind of challenge-crazy at the beginning of the year, and then promptly read whatever I wanted. The Spring Reading Challenge helped me focus on reading one or two titles for each challenge, and it reallly helped. I’m doing the same thing for the Summer Reading Challenge.
Kathy – the cool thing is that challenges are fun to try, but there’s no harm done if we don’t complete them.
Beth – I usually do that, too! Good thing no one’s grading us or anything.
You did well with this challenge, Carrie! Congratulations on completing it. What a headache that must have been to be missing a disc in a a book you are listening to. Hopefully you won’t have to wait to long to get it. Have a great week!
LF – Yes, I was so bummed. I was sure it was somewhere on my laptop, simply mislabeled, but it isn’t, so I wait for my name to come to the top of the hold list again…
Wow, what a great list. You did a great job. Those weren’t easy books to read, at least in my opinion. Bummer about the book on CD. Some of the one I listened to were so scratched up I couldn’t listen to it all.
Mimi – I’ve had that happen, too – the discs were too scratched. It’s very frustrating – especially if you’re in the middle of the book!
Good job, Carrie! Looks like you got in a great variety of reading this spring. Thanks again for being part of the challenge!
Great job with the challenge! Such an interesting mix.
I’m waiting for The Voyager on CDs from the library. I’ve had to wait for every book other must be loving Jamie and Claire too.