Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Shelf Love Challenge 2016

Shelf Love Challenge 2016Second Run Reviews is hosting the Shelf Love Challenge 2016. This challenge is all about reading what you've got. Read what you've bought, received, found on the street or in a Magic Book Box, or which spontaneously appeared in your TBR bookcases. (What, it happens!)

The rules are:
  1. Read what you started the year with
  2. Control your acquisitions
  3. Library books don't count for this challenge
My goal for this challenge is to watch and see how I'm doing -- if I'm reading books from my shelves and whether I'm acquiring books faster than I read them. I'm also hoping that just being aware of this will encourage me to read more from my shelves.

I'm hoping to reach level 3 -- "a warm friendly hug."

I made it! I'm working on Level 5 "my books are my bff" now! 8/26

And now onto Level 6! (10/24)




  • 1-10 books: shake hands with your shelves

    1. Prisoner, Lia Silver
    2. Waiting For the Party, Ann Thwaite 1/20/16
    3. Mercenary Instinct, Ruby Lionsdrake 1/30/16 (e-book)
    4. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand (Hooker) 2/1/16
    5. Parallax, Alan Hirshfeld 2/4/16
    6. A Stranger's Gift, Anna Schmidt 2/16/16 (e-book)
    7. Cupcakes Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic, Meghan Ciana Doidge 2/25/16 (e-book)
    8. Rob Roy, Walter Scott 2/27/16
    9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak 3/1/16
    10. Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16 (e-book)
    11-20 books: pat your shelves on the back
    1. Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
    2. Anna of Byzantium, Tracy Barrett 4/23/16
    3. Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen PreJean 4/23/16
    4. Child of the Ghosts, Jonathan Moeller 4/22/16 (e-book)
    5. Havoc, Ann Aguirre 4/28/16
    6. Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal 5/21/16 (e-book)
    7. Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris 5/28/16
    8. Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das 6/14/16
    9. Five Thousand Years of Slavery, Marjorie Gann & Janet Willen
    10. Lock In, John Scalzi 6/26/16
    21-30 books: give your shelves a warm friendly hug
    1. All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Sidney Taylor 6/26/16
    2. Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin 6/29/16
    3. Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones 6/30/16
    4. Midnight Blue, Pauline Fisk 7/2/16
    5. Mystic and Rider, Sharon Shinn 7/7/16
    6. Bronze Gods, A.A. Aguirre 7/11/16
    7. Whisper of Magic, Patricia Rice 7/26/16 (e-book)
    8. The Thirteenth Unicorn, W. Newman 7/26/16 (e-book)
    9. Cruel Miracles, Orson Scott Card 7/31/16
    10. Find Me, Rosie O'Donnell 8/1/16



  • 31-40 books: regular date night with your shelves

    1. 101 Famous Poems, ed. Roy Cook 8/4/16
    2. The Ordeal of Change, Eric Hoffer 8/5/16
    3. Coraline, Neil Gaiman 8/6/16
    4. I Could Do Anything...  Barbara Shere 8/11/16
    5. One False Note, Gordon Korman 8/12/16
    6. Galactic Derelict, Andre Norton 8/22/16
    7. Moonshiner's Son, Carolyn Reeder 8/26/16
    8. Firewing, Kenneth Oppel 8/27/16
    9. World of Ptavvs, Larry Niven 8/27/16
    10. Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay 8/30/16



  • 41-50 books: my shelves are now my bff
    1. Flowers of Adonis, Rosemary Sutcliff 9/12/16
    2. Flag in Exile, David Weber 9/20/16 (reread)
    3. Child of Fire, Harry Connolly 9/27/16 (reread)
    4. Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs 9/28/16 (reread)
    5. Game of Cages, Harry Connolly 9/29/16 (reread)
    6. Little Plum, Rumer Godden 10/7/16
    7. Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (10/16/16)
    8. Under the Same Stars, Dean Hughes 10/16/16
    9. Iron Kissed, Patricia Briggs 10/21/16 (reread)
    10. Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs 10/22/16 (reread)
  • 51+ books: my shelves and I are going steady

    1. Here Lies the Librarian, Richard Peck 10/24/16
    2. But Can the Phoenix Sing?, Christa Laird 10/27/16
    3. Comrade Don Camillo, Giovannanino Guareschi 10/26/16
    4. Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey 10/27/16
    5. Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny 10/29/16
    6. The Ruins of Karzelek, Ruby Lionsdrake 11/2/16
    7. Out of the Cold, Norah McClintock 11/4/16
    8. Jinian Star-Eye, Sheri Tepper 11/6/16
    9. The Assassin's Salvation, Ruby Lionsdrake (Lindsay Buroker) 11/13/16 


    Control Acquisitions:
    This part will probably be harder. I'll make a list of the books I've bought or otherwise acquired this year, separated by the ones I've read and the ones added to my TBR bookcases:

    Bought/Acquired and Read:
    1. Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs
    2. The Secret Soldier, Ann McGovern. I'll probably donate this to an elementary school.
    3. Tell the Wind and Fire, Sarah Rees Brennan 4/19/16
    4. Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16 
    5. Breakout, Ann Aguirre 5/30/16
    6. Spilling Clarence, Anne Ursu 6/9/16
    7. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold 6/28/16
    8. The Time Traders, Andre Norton 7/8/16
    9. Penric and the Demon, Lois McMaster Bujold 7/26/16
    10. Star Nomad, Lindsay Buroker
    11. Castaway Planet, Ryk E. Spoor  6/5/16
    12. Friendly Gables, Hilda Van Stockum 7/30/16
    13. Uncovering You: Contract, Scarlett Edwards 8/17/16
    14. White Night, Jim Dresden 8/21/16.
    15. Sweep in Peace, Ilona Andrews
    16. In the Black, Sheryl Nantus 9/2/16
    17. Three on the Run, Nina Bawden 9/4/16
    18. Project Elfhome, Wen Spencer 9/17/16,  9/18/16
    19. Bet Me, Jennifer Cruisie 10/11/16, 10/12/16
    20. Day Shift, Charlaine Harris 5/30/16,  10/28/16
    21. The War the Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 6/5/16, 10/28/16
    22. Penric's Mission, Lois McMaster Bujold 11/6/16, 11/6/16
    23. I Go By Sea, I Go By Land, P.L. Travers 9/28/16, 11/10/16
    24. Bearly Cooking, Moxie North 11/16/16
    Bought/Acquired and Unread:
    1. Captive Prince trilogy
    2. Discount Armageddon
    3. Legend of Eli Monpress, Rachel Aaron. My prize for March Madness! (1/3)
    4. Windswept, Adam Rakunas
    5. Tortall and Other Lands, Tamora Pierce 6/5/16 (hey, I've read this before!)
    6. The Hairdresser of Harare, Tendai Huchu 6/14/16
    7. The Shiksa Goddess, Wendy Wasserstein 6/20/16
    8. Dark Angel & Lord Carew's Bride Mary Balogh 7/7/16 (read half - 9/12/16)
    9. Night of the Jaguar, Merline Lovelace 7/7/16
    10. Strands of Sorrow, John Ringo 7/25/16
    11. Book Smugglers 8/28/16
    12. Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemison 8/28/16
    13. Someplace to Be Flying, Charles de Lint 9/25/16
    14. Doctor Doolitte's Puddleby Adventures, Hugh Lofting 9/30/16 (read before)
    15. Mary Poppins in the Park, P.L. Tavers 9/30/16 (read before)
    16. Mary Poppins Opens the Door, P.L. Travers 9/30/16 (read before)
    17. The Launching Years, Laura Kastner & Jennifer Wyatt 9/30/16
    18. Whose Body, Dorothy Sayers 9/30/16 (read before)
    19. Cheerfulness Breaks In, Angela Thirkell 9/30/16
    20. Herland, Charlotte Gilman 9/30/16
    21. One Good Dragon Deserves Another, Rachel Aaron 10/12 (for my son)
    22. No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished, Rachel Aaron 10/12 (at son's urging)
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