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Six Month Update on Reading Challenges

on July 1, 2012

I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in four read­ing chal­lenges this year as well as a reader for the Iowa Children’s Choice Award. I’m pleased with my progress so far for all but one of the chal­lenges. Goodreads chal­lenge: 200 books. I’ve read 100. Right on track. This is really good because I don’t track  any of my […]

Fantasy Reading Challenge: False Prince

on May 14, 2012

After a ton of awe­some adult read­ing for my China trip, I was hav­ing a hard time get­ting back into kidlit land. Then along came The False Prince by Jen­nifer A. Nielsen and I’m back in the groove! What a fab­u­lous engag­ing story! Con­ner, a noble­man of Carthya, kid­naps four teen boys and plans to choose […]

YA/MG Fantasy Reading Challenge Update

on March 21, 2012

I signed up for three read­ing chal­lenges this year and this one has had the slow­est start. Per­haps because I nor­mally read a lot of kids’ and young adult fan­tasy I haven’t been as inten­tional about seek­ing out titles for this chal­lenge. Bet­ter fix that once my travel read­ing binge is over! Froi of the Exiles […]

MG/YA Fantasy Reading Challenge

on December 30, 2011

  Over the next cou­ple of days I’ll be sign­ing up for some 2012 Read­ing Chal­lenges. I like the broad ones that I have a good chance of com­plet­ing and,  like train routes in Ticket to Ride, I love it when chal­lenges over­lap. We’ll see how that works out this year. First up, the 2012 Young […]