Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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2010

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Perpetual Challenges
and other long-range goals









copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2011

Blog Roll Tweak

I would love to have a list of the blogs I read but don't want it to always be there! I'm trying to tweak things in the background so I have a page of the blogs I read, along with the last post title/date, just like I do with the page element.

Any one know how to do this?






Some of My Blogging Friends

Some of the blogs I follow have buttons. I don't have all of them here but I'm working on it ;-)

Photobucket Melissa's Bookshelf Bloody Bad blogdesign Today's Adventure Trying To Stay Calm

All My Perpetual Challenges?

Welcome to my Perpetual Challenge page
Each name is a link to my post about the challenge. That is where you'll find where it is hosted, what the requirements are, the time frame and my progress/list of books. Or a link to wherever my book list is. I'm sure I'm missing one but this is a good start.

100 Best Novels, actually, there are 208 if you use all three lists

101 Fantasy Reading Challenge

The Christy Awards Challenge

Cardathon Orson Scott Card

Disney Literature, read the originals

I Read Banned Books, banned and challenged books

Magic Kingdom of Landover, Terry Brooks

One Million Pages Read

Brian Jacques' Redwall

PB&J Picture Books & Juvenile

Prey Challenge, John Sandford's Prey series

Welcome to Cedar Cove, Debbie Macomber

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Review Books

Books Sent for Review
author, publisher, publicist, LibraryThing, GoodReads
fiction, non-fiction, print and pdf



Soft Spots - reviewed // The Noticer - reviewed // The Hole in Our Gospel // Falling into the Sun - started // Only in New York, Darling! - started // Benny & Shimp - read // the Lie // Water Witch - read // Possible Futures // Dirty Little Angels // Whiskey Gulf // The Recipe Club





Soft Spots - reviewed
The Noticer - reviewed
The Hole in Our Gospel
Falling into the Sun - started
Only in New York, Darling! - started
Benny & Shimp - read
the Lie
Water Witch - read
Possible Futures
Dirty Little Angels
Whiskey Gulf
The Recipe Club

About Me & About this Blog

~About Me~
I'm a 40-something SAHM of adult children who loves to read and hates housework. I have five "children" but my husband only claims two of them as the other three are furry (two cats and a bunny).

I've learned about me in my journey though blog space and while the above says something, it isn't all I am.

I love Marg's about me: "My adventures through time and place, all without leaving the pages of my book. Reading is what I do to relax and escape, and talking about reading is my favourite hobby. You might find me immersed in historical fiction or romance, young adult, a mystery or a fantasy, but you can be sure that where ever I am, I will have a book with me!"

You'll rarely find me anywhere without a book!

All comments are emailed to me but if you want you can send me an email: bookdragonslair at gmail dot com. Don't forget to put something book related in the subject so I don't delete you.

~About the Blog~
I'm trying to keep this blog all about books and things book related. An odd off-topic post will pop up but I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

Once the "Library" link at the top is working, it will take you to a different blog. I'm going to post my library, by author or series, as well as books I'd like to read. I'm a little anal and if I like an author/series I tend to want to read/own them all.

Another link will take you to a third blog because there's more to life than books. Shocking isn't it. :-) Not sure what to name the link though, Other Stuff?

Welcome to Cedar Cove Reading Challenge sign-ups

Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book Reading Challenge Sign-ups

Magic Kingdom of Landover Reading Challenge sign-ups

Redwall Reading Challenge sign-ups

Fairlee? I can't visit you!

Followers

Stats

New blog goal for 2010. I'm going to try keeping a running total of the following. We'll see how long it lasts... well, let's try this again for 2011! Just remember, anything with an ISBN counts, even the short stories.
Up to date as of December 18 (to the best of my knowledge)

Books read, new: 231
Books read, re-read: 27
New to me authors: 64
Pages: 19,841 plus 168 ebooks
Reviews posted: 29


Nonfiction: 10
Picture Books to Young Adult: 34
Banned/Challenged Books: none? fix this next year!

books left to read in 2012

Don't know if this will work or not but will give it a try. . .

As of May 25, early a.m., I have the following books left to read to complete all of my open challenges.

68 separate ISBNs
22 21 specific states
1-6 :: 0-5 :: 0-4 cozy mysteries
1 Mystery/Suspense with a weapon in title (Poison)
4 3 Dystopia
1 Fairy Tale
1 from 100 Best list
1 Science Fiction
1 Literary Fiction
1 Classic (Hound of the Baskervilles)
3 Memoirs
1 Fae
?? The Unread Book
7 Harry Potter
7 Narnia
3 by Dean Koontz
5 Song of Fire and Ice series - Game of Thrones
7 free ebooks
Redwall
Easy Prey
Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold
1 Disney Lit
311 Pelican Court
5 specific colors
1 foodie
12 11 specific...Summer Book Challenge
8-10 8-9 specific...Summer Reading Challenge
5 specific..Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book
1 AlA's Top Ten/2011
"x" title
review 2+ personal books
review 8 already read ARCs
review 15 ARCs
Room
11 Shelf Discovery books


Some of these can/will overlap but it is still a HUGE list.