2010 Reading Challenges

For now, these are the challenges that I'm going to participate in this year. If I make really good progress on them, I may pick up another challenge or two before the year is out.

The Finish That Series Challenge is hosted by Alaine and the ladies at Royal Reviews

I have tons of books that are part of ongoing and/or completed series, so this challenge is necessary (and helpful) for me.

Guidelines:

With this challenge you count series completed, not books read. Any genre counts. Challenge begins January 1st thru December, 2010.

There are four levels:

1. Curious – Finish 2 series.
2. Fascinated – Finish 3 series.
3. Addicted – Finish 5 series.
4. Obsessed – Finish 10 series.

At this point, I'm aiming for Fascinated. The series that I've picked are:

The Bridgertons series by Julia Quinn (Books 6-8)
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead (Books 3-6)
Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole (Books 3-9)
Total # of series: 3
Total # of books: 14

I chose series that I'm absolutely sure that I want to continue reading and that I have at least 3 more books to read in order to catch up. I'm including in the count books that are to be published later this year.

The RYOB (Read Your Own Books) Challenge is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading

Guidelines:

Pick a number of books you’d like to read in one year.
Choose those books from your OWN collection.
Read them between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010.
Re-Reads are NOT allowed (the challenge is to get more of your own books read that have been sitting there waiting!)
Audiobooks & e-books ARE allowed

I've decided to aim for 9 which is, theoretically, one per month from my starting point of April.

I'll post about my progress monthly, starting at the end of April, and I'll keep a regularly updated page (with links to each review) that's accessible via my menu. Wish me luck!!