2016 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

In 2015, I finally completed this challenge!! So I will once again be signing up for the lowest level, Pike's Peak, which only requires me to read 12 books from Mount TBR. Since going back to college my reading time has been sadly limited (it's December and I'm sitting at 39 for 2015... still hoping to go nuts and hit 50!). Also, I recently started working at a library: awesome for me, bad for my TBR pile!

I'll list the books I read for this challenge below, and link to reviews as I publish them.

1. No Humans Involved (Women of the Otherworld #7) by Kelley Armstrong
2. Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth
3. Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson
4. The Attack (Animorphs #26) by K.A. Applegate
5. Spike Omnibus by various authors
6. The Girlfriend by R.L. Stine
7. The Prairie Dog Conspiracy by Eric Wilson
8. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs
9. Startled by His Furry Shorts (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #7) by Louise Rennison
10. Love Is a Many Trousered Thing (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #8) by Louise Rennison
11. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
12. The Exposed (Animorphs #27) by K.A. Applegate
13. The Experiment (Animorphs #28) by K.A. Applegate
14. The Elite (The Selection #2) by Kiera Cass
15. The Sickness (Animorphs #29) by K.A. Applegate
16. Stop in the Name of Pants! (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #9) by Louise Rennison
17. The New Girl (Fear Street #1) by R.L. Stine
18. Stars in Her Eyes (Sparkstone Saga #1) by Clare C. Marshall

2016 Anne Rice Challenge - My Challenge Goals

This is my sign-up post for the 2016 Anne Rice Challenge. If you want to join the challenge, sign up here!

I'm signing up for this challenge at the level of Lestat de Lioncourt, which means I want to read 6 to 10 Anne Rice books. I currently own 10 of her books that I haven't read yet, so I plan to keep reading those in publishing order and see how many of them I can fit into 2016. These are the 10 books I have (though it's unlikely I'll get to all 10 of them):

• Servant of the Bones
• Violin
• Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires #1)
• Vittorio the Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires #2)
• Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles #7)
• Blood and Gold (The Vampire Chronicles #8)
• Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9)
• Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles #10)
• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
• Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana

2016 Anne Rice Challenge - Sign Up Post

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It's back!!! In 2012 and 2013 I ran the Anne Rice Reading Challenge, but then I went back to school and haven't had time to set it up since. I'm still in school, but I missed it so much I decided to bring it back anyway! The challenge is simple: read Anne Rice books! Set a goal for how many you want to read, and then go for it.

Rules:

• Ebooks and audiobooks count.
• Rereads and crossovers with other challenges are likewise just fine.
• You can change your level at any time.
• The challenge goes from January 1 to December 31, 2016.
• If you read, for example, the edition that has the first 3 Vampire Chronicles books together in one volume, that still counts as 3. We're going by how the books were originally published.
• All books written by Anne Rice count, including those written under a pseudonym.
• You can sign up at any time from now until November 30, 2016.

Levels:

• Louis de Pointe du Lac (1 to 5 books)
• Lestat de Lioncourt (6 to 10 books)
• Armand (11 to 15 books)
• Marius de Romanus (16 to 20 books)
• Maharet (21 to 25 books)
• Akasha (26 or more books)

(Because I've been asked in the past, I'll just clarify that these levels are indeed named according to the ages of various vampires, and are in no way meant to indicate my preference for them or anything like that.)

To sign up, please leave a comment on this post and include a link to your sign up post (not just the main page of your blog). If you're not a blogger, feel free to link to your Goodreads profile or wherever you'll post about the challenge. I'll edit this post with the list of participants. Once the challenge starts I'll make a post with a review link-up.

Participants

1. Lianne @ The Towering Pile
2. Carol @ Open Page

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: The End!

It's over!! I am so ready for sleep. I read a total of 955 pages! Here's my closing survey:

1) Which hour was most daunting for you? I had a few tough spots, but I think the last few hours were toughest this time.

2) Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? The Animorphs books never let me down!

3) Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? Nope!

4) What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? I was on the computer so little today that I didn't even keep up with the hourly blog posts, so I really couldn't say!

5) How many books did you read? 5 and a bit

6) What were the names of the books you read? The Discovery (Animorphs #20) by K.A. Applegate, The Threat (Animorphs #21) by K.A. Applegate, The Snowman by R.L. Stine, The Solution (Animorphs #22) by K.A. Applegate, The Babysitter II by R.L. Stine, and part of The Scorch Trials by James Dashner.

7) Which book did you enjoy most? The 3 Animorphs books were a trilogy and sort of blended together; I think I enjoyed reading them the most.

8) Which did you enjoy least? The Snowman was a bit disappointing compared to the other Point Horror books I've read.

9) If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? I wasn't a cheerleader, but appreciated the comments they left for me on my blog posts!

10) How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? I'll continue to participate as a reader.

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Middle of the Night

So, it's now past midnight, and the late evening hours did not go as well as I'd hoped! I've been reading The Scorch Trials, and it's good, but I'm just feeling bogged down and I keep dozing off and reading the same page 20 times.

Time to switch books! I'm gonna finish off that Animorphs trilogy I started this morning, and come back to The Scorch Trials later.

Total pages read so far: 639

Books Completed:

1) The Discovery (Animorphs #20) by K.A. Applegate
2) The Threat (Animorphs #21) by K.A. Applegate
3) The Snowman by R.L. Stine
3.5) A good chunk of The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Half Way!

1. What are you reading right now? The Snowman by R.L. Stine

2. How many books have you read so far? I'm on my third book.

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? The first two books I read (Animorphs books) turned out to be two parts of a trilogy, so I've added the third book to my pile and am looking forward to seeing how it ends!

4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? Only the expected, pleasant interruptions. (I had a friend over for the afternoon so much less reading was done than in the other hours.) But the second half is gonna be non-stop reading!

5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? I think I've done enough of these (this is my 9th!) to be beyond surprises, to be honest. And I haven't really been online much so it's just been me and the books.

The first half has gone pretty well! Even with friend time in there, I've read 2.5 books so far, with a total of 441 pages. Since I expect to read more pages in the second half, I'll probably hit 1000 pages! And make some good progress on my reading challenges, too.

Happy reading, all!

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Begin!

It's time for Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon!!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, which I included because I want to read the book before I see the movie.

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Thai coconut soup. Mmmm...

4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I love Halloween! (I feel like I'm running out of new things to say about myself for these memes.)

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? One thing I'll be doing differently this time around is that I haven't set up posts for updates every 2 hours. I'll just be updating whenever I feel like it.

Are you read-a-thoning today? Let me know in the comments so I can follow your progress too! Happy reading! :)