The 2009 ARC Reading Challenge
Now through December 31, 2009
I decided to make this a year long challenge this time. My hope is that it will help us better manage are ARC's.
Here are the rules:
1. To sign up, leave a comment and a direct link to your blog post about this challenge that includes your list from rule #2.
2. List all of the ARC's that you have to read right now. Then throughout the year, you must continue updating that list as you receive more ARC's. (This is important). You should also strike out the ones that you finish.
3. a. All of us who have or will have more than 12 ARC's must read and review 12.
b. All of us who have or will have less than 12 ARC's must read all of the ARC's we have. Note, that if you have 11 ARC's and then receive a 12th one you will be bumped up to catagory a.
4. You don't have to make a list of which ARC's you plan to read, but you can if you want.
5. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and Audio-books are allowed as long as they are ARC's.
6. Read the books and review them on your blog. If you don't have a blog, you can post your review on sites like Powells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. Leave a comment on this post with a link to each of your reviews.
7. Please subscribe to my blog, as I will be posting updates to the challenge periodically.
8. Enjoy!
Up-Date:
Here is level 2 of the challenge. For those of you who have or will finish 12 books, read another 12 books for a total of 24 books.
Level 3 of the challenge is for the ARC Obsessed and is over 25 books.
Level 3 of the challenge is for the ARC Obsessed and is over 25 books.
Note of clarification: I guess I use the term ARC loosely. I consider anything sent from a publisher or author as an ARC because they are sent to us with the expectation that we will review them.
This is the list of ARC's that I currently have:
1. Blood Harvest by Brant Randall
2. Testimony by Anita Shreve
4. Rainbows End by Peter Webb
5. The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
8. Now the Drum of War by Robert Roper
9. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
10. The Lost City of z by David Grann
13. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
14. Rocket Man by William Elliot Hazlegrove
18. Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
19. People of the Book by Gerldine Brooks
20. Bedlam South by Mark Grisham and David Donaldson
21. An Obsolete Honor by Helena P. Schrader
25. My Little Red Book Edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
30.The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
31.The G Free Diet: A Gluten -Free Survival Guide by Elisabeth Hasselbeck
32.My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse
33.The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
34.Drood by Dan Simmons-Audiobook
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37.Dragon House by John Shors
38.Davey Bighead: Dream Big by Peter J. Hayden
39.The Tudor Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York by Margaret Campbell Barnes
40.Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
41.Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
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These are the participants for this challenge, so far:
Alea:
Level one Completed- Congratulations Alea!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2: Over Achiever:
15.The Makedown by Gitty Daneshvari
16.The Season by Sara MacLean
17.Everything is Fine by Ann Dee Allis
18.Taken By Storm by Angela Morrison
19.Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
20.The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
21.Sophomore Switch by Abby McDonald
22.Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
23.The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
24.Willow by Julia Hoban
25.Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Alea!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
26.If I Stay by Gayle Forman
27.Chasing Boys by Karen Tayleur
28.Hottie by Jonathan Bernstein
29.Super in the City by Daphne Uviller
30.My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
31.The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti
32.The Diamonds by Ted Michael
33.Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell
34.TMI by Sarah Quigley
35.Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
36.Heartbreak River by Tricia Mills
37.Say the Word by Jeannine Garsee
38.B as in Beauty by Alberto Ferreras
39.Deep in the Heart of High School by Veronica Goldbach
40.Busy Woman Seeks Wife by Annie Sanders
41.The Sleepaway Girls by Jen Calonita
42.Destroy All Cars by Blake Nelson
43.Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Alyce:
1. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell2.
2.The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
3. I Choose to Be Happy by Missy Jenkins
Level one Completed- Congratulations Alyce!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Alyce!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
Amy:
bookroomreviews(pending)
Dar:
Level one Completed- Congratulations Dar!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2 completed-Congratulations Dar!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
1.The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
2.Surviving High Society - Lots of Love Trumps Lots of Money by Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland
2.Surviving High Society - Lots of Love Trumps Lots of Money by Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland
Level one Completed- Congratulations Gaby!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
5.The Quarter Horse Foal (Saddle Wise) by Inda Schaenen
Level one Completed- Congratulations Kristi!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Kristi!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
Level one Completed- Congratulations Wendy!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Literate Housewife
Lori:
Level one Completed- Congratulations Nicola
Level 2: Over Achiever:
25.Drood by Dan Simmons
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Nicola!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Nicola!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
32.The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by e.l. konigsburg
33. The Glister by John Burnside
34.Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
33. The Glister by John Burnside
34.Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
42.Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter by R.J. Anderson
43.The Dragon of Trelian by Michelle Knudsen
44.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
43.The Dragon of Trelian by Michelle Knudsen
44.The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Rima:
Level one Completed- Congratulations Rima!
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2 completed, cogratulations Rima!
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
Level 3: ARC Obsessed! LOL!:
7.Still I Rise by Roland Laird with Tanesha Nash Laird, Illustrated by Elihu "Adofo" Bey
8.King's Fool: by Margaret Campbell Barnes
8.King's Fool: by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Level one Completed
Level 2: Over Achiever:
Level 2: Over Achiever:
14.The G Free Diet: A Gluten -Free Survival Guide by Elisabeth Hasselbeck
15.My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse
16.The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
15.My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse
16.The Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
20.Dragon House by John Shors
21. Davey Bighead: Dream Big by Peter J. Hayden
22. The Tudor Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York by Margaret Campbell Barnes
21. Davey Bighead: Dream Big by Peter J. Hayden
22. The Tudor Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York by Margaret Campbell Barnes
23.Etta by Gerald Kolpan
24 Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
25. Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
26.The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
24 Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
25. Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
26.The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
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