Updating Reading Challenges

Okay, so I’ve sort of failed on my reading challenges this year.  Especially the part where I review the books…  Anyways, while I might not do reviews for these (I honestly haven’t decided yet) I wanted to list the remaining books that I’ve read but not reviewed with the ratings I feel they deserve.  I will, at the very least, still do posts of best/worst even if I don’t include anything else.  Also, since the remaining 19.5 books were from three authors, I’m splitting them up by author.

Books from Jim Butcher:

• Furies of Calderon
• Academ’s Fury
• Cursor’s Fury
• Captain’s Fury
• Princeps’s Fury
• First Lord’s Fury

Books from Orson Scott Card:

• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
• Ender in Exile
• Ender’s Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant
• First Meetings: In Ender’s Universe

Books from Christopher Paolini:

• Eragon
• Eldest
• Brisingr
• Inheritance
  –  Okay, I haven’t finished this one, but I’m over halfway done…  The holidays really screw up my reading time.  :-(

Failed

Anyways, my only resolution for this coming year to review one book a week.  Granted, I’m likely to read more than one book a week, but I’m going to do a decent review on one book every week.  Every Friday there will be a new book review.  In fact, I’m hoping to have a Monday-Wednesday-Friday thing going at some point, but for now we’re shooting for Friday book reviews.  ^_^

For this first week of the new year, though, I’m going to wrap-up my mostly failed challenges from 2011 and finish up “Inheritance” so I can review it this Friday, the 6th.  Also, I will pick two challenges – and only two challenges – to complete this year.  I know that I had previously said I was just going to continue the 2011 challenges until I finished them all, but some of them just really didn’t appeal to me.  I chose them strictly to force myself to read a few books that I didn’t really want to read and it didn’t work out so well.  Therefore, my challenge choices are:

• All the Books of Pern Challenge 2012
• Chunkster Challenge 2012
• Read the Bible

Okay, you’re confused.  I said “two challenges” and it looks like there are three in that list, huh?  Well, I’m not really considering the “read the Bible” a challenge and it’s just for me, not with a challenge hosted on someone’s site.  I’ve been meaning to reread it for a while and I figure since my aunt gave me a beautiful edition when Jaime and I got married that it’s only right that I read it.

I’ll be posting some wrap-up and entry posts over the next couple days.  :-)  Happy new year!