Scavenger Hunt!

The Delighted Reader is hosting the Literary Pickers Challenge 2016, where she gives us a long list of items and we try to find them in the books we read. Only one item per book, so that's a lot of reading. Also, she limits the books to the Romance Genre, which is only part of what I read.

I think I'll note if I find something in a different book, even if it won't count towards the challenge. It will help me concentrate on finding the things.

I'll start out on the lowest level, Treasure Hunter In Training, which is 10 items.

My items:

1. Saddle: Pillars of the World, Anne Bishop 4/2/16 p. 405 (Work tools/weapons)
2. Bracelets: Havoc, Ann Aguirre 4/28/16 (cover) (Clothing/Accessories)
3. Male/Female: Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal 5/21/16  (Romantic Encounters
4. Older/Younger (5 years or more age difference) : Breakout, Ann Aguirre 5/30/16 (Romantic Encounters)
5. Male/Male or Female/Female The Magpie Lord, K.J. Charles 6/2/16 (Romantic Encounters)
6. Portrait: Only Beloved, Mary Balogh 6/18/16 (Household goods)
7. Window Shutters: Here There Be Monsters, Meljean Brook 6/24/16 (household goods)
8. Reunion or Second Chance: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold 6/28/16 (romantic encounters)
9. Romance before 1950: Only a Promise, Mary Balogh 6/29/16 (romantic encounters)
10. Belt: Fires of Winter, Roberta Gellis 7/4/16
11. Something: Mystic and Rider, Sharon Shinn 7/7/16 (transportation)
12. Dominant/submissive or Master/slave: Flight of Magpies, K.J. Charles 8/9/16 (romantic encounters)
13. Capture/captive Uncovering You: Contract,  Scarlett Edwards 8/17/16 (romantic encounters)
14. Measuring Tape/Ruler: Brown-Eyed Girl,  Lisa Kleypas 8/18/16 (work tools, weapons)
15. Fake Mates/Marriage of Convenience: Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer 8/24/16
16. Older Couple (over 50)/Winter Romance: Shifting Shadows, Patricia Briggs 9/3/16
17. Underwater: Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear 9/7/16 (Transportation/places)
18. Spain: Once a Soldier, Mary Jo Putney 10/6/16 (Transportation/places)
19. Fated Mate: Cross Your Heart, Michele Bardsley 11/26/16 (Romantic Encounters)

2016 LITERARY PICKERS CHALLENGE- SCAVENGER LIST

Household Goods

1. Ceiling Fan: A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler 4/30/16
2. House Plant: House Arrest, K.A. Holt 5/13/16
3. Pumpkin: Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris 5/28/16
4. Candelabra: A Court of Thorns and Roses, 8/3/16
5. Dead Bolt: The Walls Around Us, Nova Ren Suma 5/8/16
6. Grandfather Clock/Mantle Clock A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
7. Window Blinds: Left For Dead, J.A. Jance 6/8/16
8. Microwave Skim, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki 6/4/16
9. Table Cloth: The Darling Dahlia's and the Eleven O'Clock Lady, Susan Wittig Albert 6/29/6
10. Razor : Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholve 5/30/16
11. Nail Polish: Front Lines, Michael Grant 8/4/16
12. Hand/Purse Mirror: City's Son
13. Coffee Table: Coraline, Neil Gaiman 8/6/16
14. E-Reader: All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders 6/2/16
15. Earbuds: Islands of Rage and Hope, John Ringo 7/31/16
16. Sink The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King 4/17/16
17. Lawn Mower/Equipment: Magic Shifts, Ilona Andrews 6/20/16
18. Tile floor Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs 4/1/16

Clothing/Accessories

21. Hard Helmet: A Darker Shade of Magic, v.E. Schwab 6/12/16
22. Earring/s: Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
23. Head Band: The Time Traders, Andre Norton 7/8/16
24. Flip Flops: The Year of Living Dangerously, C.J. Koch 5/5/16
25. Motorcycle boots: Dog Warrior, Wen Spencer 7/13/16
26. Tattoo/Body Art: Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman 5/25/16
27. Evening Gown/Dress Tell the Wind and Fire, Sarah Rees Brennan 4/19/16
28. Business Suit: Twin Spica 9, Kou Yaginuma 6/16/16
29. Cuff Links: Hotel Ruby, Suzanne Young 7/5/16
30. Space Suit: Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson 5/12/16
31. Military Uniform The Soldier's Secret, Sheila Solomon Klass 4/12/16
32. Fisherman/Newsboy Cap: Over Sea Under Stone, Susan Cooper 7/12/16
33. Scarf: Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16
34. Mask: To Sail a Darkling Sea, John Ringo 7/5/16
35. Natty or Ugly Sweater: Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld 5/14/16
36. Sunglasses Under a Graveyard Sky, John Ringo 5/30/16
37. Business Card/s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo 4/3/16
38. Lingerie: Unnatural Causes, P.D. James 5/7/16

Work Tools/Weapons

41. Rifle: Tommy: The Gun that Changed America, Karen Blumenthal 4/5/16
42. Whip: Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16
43. Hammer: Full Cicada Moon, Marilyn Hilton 6/22/16
44. Tool Belt/Box: Death at Gills Rock, Patricia Skalka 7/15/16
45. Briefcase/bag: Twin Spica 8, Kou Yaginuma 5/20/16
46. File Folder: Lock In, John Scalzi 6/26/16
47. Work Gloves/Garden Gloves: Listen, Slowly, Trannha Lai 7/16/16
48. Cash Register: Spilling Clarence, Anne Ursu 6/9/16
49. Microscope: Death Cloud, Andrew Lane 7/1/16
50. Ingredients: Night Shift, Charlaine Harris 6/12/16
51. Sports Equipment Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telup 6/28/16
52. Silencer for a gun
53. Explosive Courage and Defiance, Deborah Hopkinson 3/31/16 
54. Lock Picks: A Case of Possession, KJ Charles 6/23/16
55. Safe: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham 6/2/16
56. Photocopier: Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinken
57. Stamps All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Sidney Taylor 6/26/16
58. Notebook/pad: Demigods and Magicians, Rick Riordan 7/6/16

Transportation/Places

61. European Sports Car: Lights Out! Donald Bain 8/24/16
62. American Muscle Car: Project Elfhome, Wen Spencer 9/18/16
63. Fighter Jet/Spacecraft : William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, Ian Doescher 5/7/16
64. Steam-Powered Vehicle: Bronze Gods, A.A. Aguirre 7/11/16
65. Ice Skate/s: Last Summer, Holly Chamberlin 10/4/16
66. Russia Symphony for the City of the Dead, M.T. Anderson 4/12/16
67. China: Starry River of the Sky, Grace Lin 6/29/16
68. India: Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das 6/14/16
69. Brazil
70. Another planet The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemison, 4/23/16
71. Another Dimension/Parallel Earth: Midnight Blue, Pauline Fisk 7/2/16
72. Desert: Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones 6/30/16
73. Tropical Island: Castaway Planet, Ryk E. Spoor  6/5/16
74. Place of Archeological Interest: The Man in the Brown Suit, Agathat Christie 8/18/16
75. War Zone The Secret Soldier, Ann McGovern 4/14/16
76. Cart/Wagon An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet 4/17/16
77. Camel/Donkey: Sweep in Peace, Ilona Andrews 8/19/16

Romantic Encounters

81. Alien/Alien or Alien/Human: Saga Vol 1, Brian Vaughan 8/5/16
82. With a Geek: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline 5/18/16
83. Menage or Poly: Bride's Story 8, Kaoru Mori 11/7/16
84. Love Triangle Airtight, David Rosenfelt 4/2/16
85. Arranged Marriage: Hamster Princess: Of Mice and Magic, Ursula Vernon 5/26/16
86. Blind Date/Dating Service
87. One Night Stand: The Last Wish, Andpzej Sapkowski 8/20/16
88. Highschool Sweethearts/Young Love: Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, Susan Vaught 7/12/16
89. Apocalyptic/Dystopian Romance: Jinian Star-Eye, Sheri Tepper 11/5/16
90. Enemies to Lovers: Star Nomad, Lindsay Buroker 7/29/16

March Madness!

This is the month of the American college basketball tournament, which my family does together for high stakes -- Barnes & Noble Gift Cards! Tragically it appears I do not have the magic touch when it comes to picking sports winners. I have precious few teams left on my grid. Oops.

On the other hand, my boys are both highly careless people and there is a good chance that I will score their winnings when I check pockets while doing the laundry. Yay!

This wasn't a good week for me to read things; I finished almost nothing and didn't get through many pages. Also, I've lost a library book -- I think the cats stole it. I was reading it one night and the next morning it was gone! Maybe a sleep walking incident? I need to probe my psyche to see where my sleeping self would have hidden a book...

I also spent some time at Norwescon, a biggish SF convention held in Seattle over Easter weekend. This year I got to bring my gregarious older son, and we had a good time listening to people, looking at people, chatting with people. There were some book acquisitions -- our convention bag had gifts in it, and one of the finalists for the Philip K Dick award (best paperback SF book) GAVE ME a copy of his book.


Windswept, Adam Rakunas. Rakunas gave this to me when I asked to see it at a panel he was on. Cool! I've leant it to my brother for a week since I can't read it until April, and it seems like it's something we would overlap on.

Discount Armageddon, Seanan McGuire. I've been meaning to try her InCryptids series so this was a nice gift. I had to trade around for it since we had gotten two copies of the other book.

Touched By an Alien, Gini Koch. I've actually read this, although I've fallen far behind on this series. I expect my son would enjoy it, although he'll find the romance bits tedious (if I found them dull, he hasn't got a chance). But I remember liking the alien bits.

The Book Date is collecting the roundups of what everyone is reading and talking about this week. I'll also look in with Teach Mentor Texts which does the same thing for kidlit, which I didn't read any of this week.

This week I finished only two books:



Grave Peril, Jim Butcher. I finished this and then missed the book club anyway since my nephew had a bank concent. Dresden did well enough that there is a fourth book (well, about twelve more).

Republic, Lindsay Buroker. Fun fantasy with fast talking, interesting characters and a plot that twirls around itself. I'm definitely sticking with this author.

* Books I started this week. Most books tend last for weeks on my lists, because I have this habit of reading dozens of things at once. But occasionally I keep focus for several days on end.

I started and am still reading three more books:



Archangel's Enigma, Nalini Singh. Well, I didn't get far because I've lost it. Cats, I'm looking at you.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo. I don't think I'm a magical kind of person.

Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma. The next in a manga series -- I'm enjoying this.


Bookmarks moved in several books:



Hild, Nicola Griffith. Hormones mess with logic sometimes.

Under a Graveyard Sky, John Ringo. The Navy helps out!

Crux, Ramez Naam. Enhanced people hunt each other.

Child of the Ghosts, Jonathan Moeller. The evil guy is about to unleash his evil weapon, and the child is an official Ghost now.

Airtight, David Rosenfelt. My next Library Quest book.

Blake, or the Huts of America, Martin Delaney. This is the first book on Nisi Shawl's Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, which I have commenced working my way through.

Courage & Defiance, Deborah Hopkinson. The Jews are in danger, and the country responds.

The next few books I'm not really reading, just dipping into between the books I'm trying to finish so that I can pretend that I'm going to read the books on my bookcases.




A Traitor To Memory, Elizabeth George.
Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das.
Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris.
Emerald Atlas, John Stephens. Who has magic in this story? Besides the bad guys.
Kenilworth, Walter Scott. We meet the mysterious lady, who seems to be in love.
Reading and Learning To Read, Jo Vacca. The value of SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) is high.

2016 Challenge Progress:

1. Cybils 2015: 16 out of 82. No change.
2. Reading My Library:  Continued Airtight. Still listening to Hild.
3. Where Am I Reading?: 19/50.  Illinois!
4. TBR Triple Dog Dare. My totals are 32 library books, 7 personal library, 5 e-book. I think there are 4 eligible library books left.
5. Full House Challenge: 24/25. I'm not done! I mistyped "2016" as "2015"; mainly because of the Triple Dog Dare I have not read a book from this year yet. Curses.
6. Library Challenge: I'm at 56. 
7. Diversity Challenge 2016: Kidlit: 10/12. Adult lit: 5/12. (no change). Tracking gender this month: 
8. Shelf Love Challenge 2016:  10! Finished first level.
9. Grown-Up Reading Challenge 2016: 15/20. 
10. Eclectic Reader Challenge 2016: 5/12. 
11. Surprise Me Challenge: I can't read any of them yet because of the dare. Humph.
12. Flash Bingo: No Bingos, but I'm close! I need a main character whose name starts with a B.

Spring Cleaning

This Triple Dog Dare has seven days left. One more week before I can start browsing library books. I'm really hoping this year that I can hold myself back and give myself a chance to read some of the books I buy as well as the books from the library. I mean, I must want to read them if I buy them, right?

I didn't get anything from the library today. It was a sad day. Next week I have a hope of a book club book, but it's a long shot. But the week after that -- look out!

I've currently got 22 things out from the library, including ebooks, books for me, and books for the kids (at least four).  This seems astonishingly low to me.

I'll go look at the Library Loot which is at The Captive Reader this week to see what everyone else is getting.  Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. 

Library Questing


I'm still reading Airtight by David Rosenfelt. The protagonist is gaining sympathy for the brother of the dead suspect, but I'm losing it. I still like this book though, even though I haven't been reading much.

Hild by Nicola Griffith continues to be a great story in my car. It's nineteen disks long and I'm on #15, so I've got another week or so. Hey, I can get a new audio book next week!

Literary Exploration Challenge

This is a challenge on Goodreads, where it is also a group, to encourage people to read all over the literary landscape, with a heavy concentration on fiction. They have categories ranging from Easy to Insane. I have signed up for Easy, but I'm also putting the Insane list as more of a long term goal. Some categories seem kind of nebulous, so I'll browse around the challenge to see what they are really talking about.

Per my usual policy, I'll start it from when I start writing this post, even thought it won't post for a week or so. But I'm not going back to see what I've already read this year, so I'm starting out behind. Looking at the Easy Challenge, I can see that Horror and Literary Fiction might be hard, so if I have to, in December I can go back and retroactively decide God Help the Child counted as literary.

Easy Challenge

Classics: Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16
Fantasy: Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16
Graphic Novels : Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16
Historical Fiction : The Bride's Story 7, Kaoru Mori 3/29/16
Horror : Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholve 5/30/16
Literary Fiction: Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
Mystery : The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King 4/17/16
Non Fiction : Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin 3/18/16
Romance : Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney 3/18/16
Science Fiction: Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews 4/7/16
Thriller : Airtight, David Rosenfelt 4/2/16
Young Adult : Paper Towns, John Green 3/17/16

12/12!

Insane Challenge

Action/Adventure The Six, Mark Alpert 4/23/16
Auto-Biography/Biography : Symphony for the City of the Dead, M.T. Anderson 4/12/16
Chick-Lit : Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld 5/14/16
Childrens Book : The Soldier's Secret, Sheila Solomon Klass 4/12/16
Classics : Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16
Contemporary/Drama : A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler 4/30/16
Cyberpunk/Steampunk : Crux, Namez Raam 6/2/16
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic : An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet 4/17/16
Epic: The Spider's War, Daniel Abraham 6/27/16
Erotica: Counterpunch, Aleksandr Voinov
Espionage 
Fantasy: Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16
Graphic Novels : Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16
Gothic 
Historical Fiction : The Bride's Story 7, Kaoru Mori 3/29/16
Horror : Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholve 5/30/16
Humour: Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas 7/25/16
Literary Fiction : Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
Magical Realism: Bone Gap, Laura Ruby 5/1/16
Mystery: The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King 4/17/16
Non Fiction : Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin 3/18/16
Paranormal/Supernatural : Pillars of the World, Anne Bishop 4/2/16
Philosophical : Spilling Clarence, Anne Ursu 6/9/16
Poetry : William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, Ian Doescher 5/7/16
Pulp – (Hard-Boiled or Noir) 
Romance : Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney 3/18/16
Science Fiction :Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews 4/7/16
Self Help/Educational : The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo 4/3/16
Short Stories: Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telup 6/28/16
Thriller : Airtight, David Rosenfelt
Travel: Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay 8/30/16
True Crime 
Urban Fantasy : Grave Peril, Jim Butcher 3/21/16
Victorian : Death Cloud, Andrew Lane 7/1/16
Western: Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman 5/25/16
Young Adult : Paper Towns, John Green 3/17/16

33/36

Mid-March Is All About Festivities

Mid-March is a time of much festivity. Of course it starts with my birthday, nerds out with Pi Day, goes classical with the Ides, and then parties on with St. Patricks, before bedecking itself for the first day of Spring, and this year, Easter! March is just the best month in general. Well, occasionally the weather kicks up a bit, but mostly it's all about flowers blooming and winter getting beat back. And girl scouts peddling cookies (mustn't forget that).

I've almost finished all the sweet things that came on my birthday, and my sons' discovered the 'Zaw cookies so those disappeared. I also successfully cooked calzones, or at least I think they were successful since tragically I had to go to a PTA meeting instead of staying home to sample them. I made some extras to stuff in lunch boxes, so I hope they work as cold pasties as well.

The Book Date is collecting the roundups of what everyone is reading and talking about this week. I'll also look in with Teach Mentor Texts which does the same thing for kidlit, which is again the majority of my reading this week.

This week I finished three books:



Paper Towns, John Green.  Spoiler -- this is the first John Green book I've read without a (literary) fatality, so great! Go Green! I laughed at the road trip, because I've done many of them so all the stressing seemed funny. I still hope my kids don't hang out with Green characters -- when the protagonist realizes how easy it is to lie to his parents and then can't figure out why he hasn't been doing this all along, I eye him sideways. Because you have a moral core? Because it's better to put healthier boundaries up between you and your parents by doing things on your own, not just by sneaking around? It's not like they would not have accepted "I don't want to talk about it" for almost everything he lied about.

Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney. I've managed to skip an entry in the Lost Lords series, but I'm clever enough to keep up. Two extremely accomplished people fall in love and get married, despite the endless surprises from her past that keep complicating things. (Her first husband abused her. Ack! Her next lover is a scoundrel out to ruin her. Eek! Also there's that pesky murder thing.) Luckily he's a doctor and a clergyman and a lord and trained in martial arts, so together they fight crime!

Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin. Cybils YA Nonfiction finalist. The Cybils comes through again with a great offering. This details the release of the Pentagon Papers in the 1970's through a biography of Daniel Ellsberg, the former war hawk who converted to a anti-war peace activist in time to copy the papers and then get them to all the newspapers. The focus stays mainly on Ellsberg, but veers off to examine what the politicians were doing at the same time. Another solid entry here.

* Books I started this week. Most books tend last for weeks on my lists, because I have this habit of reading dozens of things at once. But occasionally I keep focus for several days on end.

I found three picture books at the library:



My Friend Rabbit, Eric Rohman. I searched this out because I needed a Caldecott for a Bingo spot, and I enjoyed it tremendously. I loved the exuberant pictures and the deadpan way Rabbit goes off and instantly returns with an elephant or hippo or rhino. Also, a librarian taught me how to search inside the new picture book system, which is now organized by category instead of by author, so there are Animal Books and Issue Books and Holiday book, etc. Good luck to whoever is categorizing things, since I can think of several anthropomorphic books involving issues around holidays.

Lola at the Library, Anna McQuinn. Little girl likes going to the library. It's a cute story with pleasant pictures, but doesn't do anything special. I wouldn't have minded reading it to small children, but it wouldn't stick with me.

We're Going On a Book Hunt, Pat Miller. This book managed to miss me completely, despite working with a favorite old song and my beloved topic of libraries. Everything seemed forced, and the demand to find a book that isn't too easy or too hard left me cold. They did that "count mistakes on your fingers" thing that I loathe. I love many books that are too easy or too hard, and think that pleasure reading should center around interests, not reading level.

I started and am still reading three more books:



Archangel's Enigma, Nalini Singh. I think this entry to the series will focus on a new romance, only checking back into the main story line through our two romantic leads. The evil empress of evil just kidnapped the woman, so the man is on the hunt to get her back.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo. This is for a book club that may or may not feature this book, but since the library got it to me early I'm reading it just in case. I'm not going to try it, so I will not experience the magic, although I'll embrace the idea of throwing stuff out.

Courage & Defiance, Deborah Hopkinson. The next Cybils nonfiction for me. I've now got high expectations for these finalists, and I've always been interested in the Danish resistance to the Nazis in WWII, so this should be a good read.

Bookmarks moved in several books:


Republic, Lindsay Buroker. My heros are reunited again.

Hild, Nicola Griffith. Hild hits adolescence.

Under a Graveyard Sky, John Ringo.

Crux, Ramez Naam. Action packed action! Also kids getting beat up.

Child of the Ghosts, Jonathan Moeller. The child is now officially a ghost. And mostly grown up.

Grave Peril, Jim Butcher. Wow that was a strangely dubbed movie. Fun to watch with friends. Time to finish up this one and get a copy of the next book, Beekeeper's Apprentice.

Airtight, David Rosenfelt. My next Library Quest book. Can the bereaved older brother accept hard truths about his little sibling? Will the forced investigation make the detective less able to piece out the truth? This is interesting.

Blake, or the Huts of America, Martin Delaney. This is the first book on Nisi Shawl's Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, which I have commenced working my way through. The slaves are oppressed -- promises broken, families split.

The next few books I'm not really reading, just dipping into between the books I'm trying to finish so that I can pretend that I'm going to read the books on my bookcases.




A Traitor To Memory, Elizabeth George.
Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das. More hints on building a meditation routine.
Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris. Bobo is no longer a suspect in the murder.
Emerald Atlas, John Stephens.
Kenilworth, Walter Scott.
Reading and Learning To Read, Jo Vacca. Reading to younger students helps everyone.


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2016 Challenge Progress:

1. Cybils 2015: 16 out of 82. Enjoying the YA nonfiction much more than the fiction. I like my strategy of rating as I go.
2. Reading My Library:  Continued Airtight. Still listening to Hild.
3. Where Am I Reading?: 18/50.  Doubled up on Florida. Humph. Still ahead of schedule.
4. TBR Triple Dog Dare. My totals are 32 library books, 7 personal library, 4 e-book. I think there are 4 eligible library books left.
5. Full House Challenge: 24/25. I'm not done! I mistyped "2016" as "2015"; mainly because of the Triple Dog Dare I have not read a book from this year yet. Curses.
6. Library Challenge: I'm at 52. I have invented a new category. 
7. Diversity Challenge 2016: Kidlit: 10/12. Missing autism book & Holocaust book (I decided Book Thief didn't count).  Adult lit: 5/12. (no change). Tracking gender this month: My M/F rations are close to 50/50, both for main character and for author.
8. Shelf Love Challenge 2016:  Still 9. Not reading much from my own shelves.
9. Grown-Up Reading Challenge 2016: 15/20. 
10. Eclectic Reader Challenge 2016: 5/12. And I think Archangel's Enigma will give me another.
11. Surprise Me Challenge: I can't read any of them yet because of the dare. Humph.
12. Flash Bingo: Another Bingo Card, but this one to be finished in the next two months.