What’s In a Name 4 Wrap Up / What’s In a Name 5 Sign Up

2011 was the second year I participated in the What’s In a Name challenge hosted by Beth Fish Reads. I am happy to announce that I covered each of the five categories at least twice over (some by the skin of my teeth, but covered nonetheless). Here is how it played out this year: Evil [...]

The 2012 TBR Pile Challenge

I want to read more books off of my shelf this year. Those types of goals are easy to forget, so I’ve decided to use a challenge as a way of keeping that goal in mind. Since Adam from Roof Beam Reader extended his deadline, I took that as a sign that this was the [...]

Where Are You Reading 2011

I can’t say what rock I’ve been hiding under, but I just this week discovered Shelia from Book Journey‘s Where Are  You Reading challenge.  The goal for this challenge is to plot the main setting of the books you read on a Google Map you create and maintain.  While there are prizes for reading at [...]

What’s In A Name Challenge Recap and Looking Ahead to 2011

One of the things that spruced up my reading in 2010 and generally just made things fun was the What’s in a Name 3 Challenge hosted by Candace from Beth Fish Reads. As I write this post, I still have one last category to fulfill – Food. Luckily, the novel Salting Roses, which I mentioned over [...]

April, The Month of ROOB

Earlier this month or late last month, I was fortunate to be on Twitter at just the  right time to insinuate myself in a conversation about a really fun challenge that was being figured out: ROOB, or Reading Our Own Books.  I was so happy to  have been at the right place at the right [...]