Challenge Review 2009

Another year, another set of a challenges. Mostly successes and yet another chance to learn about my reading habits! Many thanks to all those who hosted these great challenges. May the next year be full of many more...

Challenges completed

Deweys's Reading Challenge:
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Looking For Alaska - John Green
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

RIP IV:
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Herding Cats II:
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Nation - Terry Pratchett

YA Challenge 2009:
The Black Tattoo - Sam Enthoven
Paper Towns - John Green
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
My Swordhand is Singing - Marcus Sedgewick
What I Was - Meg Rosoff
Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
The Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale
Nation - Terry Pratchett

Incompleted Challenges

Challenge with Rhinoa:
The Last Unicorn - Peter S Beagle
Piece by Piece - Tori Amos
The Happy Prince and other stories - Oscar Wilde
Moon Called - Patricia Briggs

I didn't get the chance to finish Lolita, but it will be one of my first books for 2010. And hopefully we'll carry the challenge over for another year!

Rhinoa's Manga Challenge (I failed miserably and didn't even start!)

Challenges for 2010

So far, I will be carrying over the Arthurian Challenge and Much Ado About Shakespeare Challenge, and will be very selective about others that I join!