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lar_laughs ([personal profile] lar_laughs) wrote2012-12-25 08:03 pm
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The 12 in 12 challenge

Okay, so I'm going to do the 12 in 12 challenge at Library Thing. I most definitely want to concentrate my reading list this year so that I'm not staring at my bookshelves for days at a time between books.

These are the categories I've decided on this year:
1. Historical Data Comes in Handy (history)
...Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences 1 - Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris) 10/19
...The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Smith & Annie Barrows) 10/24
2. The Funny Man Always Gets the Girl (humor)
...Something Rotten (Thursday Next 4 - Jasper Fforde) 3/10
3. Never Too Old For This (YA)
...Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater) 1/10
...The Shifter (The Healing Wars Book 1 - Janice Hardy) 5/12
4. All Pixelated (ebooks on my Kindle)
...Anathema (The Causal Enchantment 1 - K.A. Tucker) 3/10
...Shadow Unit #1 (Will Shetterly and others) 4/6
...Defying Pack Law (Eve Langlais) 5/1
...Snow White and Her Seven Lovers (Jenna Ives) 4/28
...500 Ways to Be a Better Writer (Chuck Wendig) 4/21
...The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern) 10/8
...Brotherhood of the Rose (David Morrell) 11/5
...The Geek Job (Eve Langlais) 11/12
...Lady of Devices (Book 1 - Shelley Adina) 11/20
...Tumbler (Brand Gamblin) 11/29
...Her Own Devices (Book 2 - Shelley Adina) 12/3
...Magnificent Devices (Book 3 - Shelley Adina) 12/8
5. Need to See the Movie (books that have movies)
...Alice in Wonderland (online course - Lewis Carroll) 7/27
...Through the Looking Glass (online course - Lewis Carroll) 8/3
6. The Pharm Girl's Book Club (work book club)
...Archangel's Blade (Guild Hunter 5 - Nalini Singh) 3/23
...Bayou Moon (Edge Book 2 - Ilona Andrews) 5/25
...Fate's Edge (Edge Book 3 - Ilona Andrews) 6/4
...Chasing Fire (Nora Roberts) 6/20
...Blood Oath (The President's Vampire Book 1 - Christopher Farnsworth) 6/28
...The Electric Church (book 1 - Jeff Somers) 8/15
...Crave (book 2 - J.R. Ward) 9/17
7. She Knows What I Like (female authors)
...Graceling (Book 1 - Kristin Cashore) 5/26
...Fire (Book 2 - Kristin Cashore) 6/10
...The Iron Duke (Book 1 - Meljean Brook) 7/6
...Bitterblue (Book 3 - Kristin Cashore) 7/8
...Kiss of Steel (Bec McMaster) 9/10
...The Iron Wyrm Affair (Lilith Saintcrow - Book 1) 12/27
8. RIP, Dear One (dead authors)
...The Girl Who Played With Fire (Book 2 - Stieg Larsson) 7/15
9. Never Eat What the Fairies Offer (Fairy Tales, both old and new)
...The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For A Little While (short story - Catherynne M. Valente) 4/10
...Cinder (book 1 - Marissa Meyer) 5/20
10. I Already Picked That (from my 100 books list)
...The Gunslinger (Book 1 - Stephen King) 5/3
11. Ooh, I Liked That One (rereads)
...Cry Wolf (Patricia Briggs) 2/14
...Hunting Grounds (Patricia Briggs) 2/16
...Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life (Terry Brooks) 4/3
...The Beekeepers Assistant (*audiobook* Laurie R King) 5/30
...Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (*ebook* JK Rowling) 5/30
...A Monstrous Regiment of Women (*audiobook* Laurie R King) 6/3
12. On the Cutting Edge (new books out in 2012)
...All Things Wicked (Karina Cooper) 2/27
...Born to Darkness (Suzanne Brockman) 9/4
...The Map of Time (Felix J. Palma) 8/29
...Unraveling (Elizabeth Norris) 11/14
...Precinct 13 (Tate Hallaway) 12/11

[identity profile] blythe025.livejournal.com 2011-12-27 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Should be fun. :)
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I can't wait to start!

[identity profile] mierke.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
I love reading challenges and I definitely want to do some of these in 2012. This challenge kinda seems to broad for me, though... *ponders* I wouldn't know which categories to pick!
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It took me a couple days to come up with my categories. I had an idea of some of my books that I wanted to read so I used that to help me figure out what to use.

[identity profile] hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I love Illona Daniels! Their Kate Daniels series is a whole lot of fun.

God I need to start reading full-length novels again. *peruses list*
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
If you like Kate Daniels, have you read the Edge novels? The second novel, Bayou Moon, is SO GOOD!

Also, if you haven't already, check out Patricia Briggs. The Mercy Thompson series is good but the Alpha & Omega stuff is FANTASTIC!

[identity profile] hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Weirdly I couldn't get into the first edge novel when I've literally devoured all the rest, but other than that, yes. I loved Bayou Moon.

The whole idea of Alpha and Omegas makes me side-eye, but maybe I'm prejudiced by bad fanfiction. Will have to check it out.
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
This is alpha & omegas, wolf style. It's still about dominance but it's more about the order in the pack.
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you read J.R. Ward (a different sort of vampire story... with hot guys) or Nalini Singh (we really, really like her archangel books)? I haven't read any of his books this year (which is a pity) but I love LOVE Charles de Lint. He's my inspiration for starting to write urban fantasy which sort of segued into a steampunk sort of thing.

[identity profile] hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I read the kindle preview for a Singh book and her writing style didn't click. I'll have to give it another go. As for Ward and de Lint I'll have to check 'em out.

My sister and I are half-plotting an urban fantasy novel together (spoiler alert: it will never get written).
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
CdL is the grandfather of urban fantasy! You need to read him!

Also, rather randomly but not really, have you read any of the Bordertown books? An interesting take on urban fantasy and one of the only shared universes that has stood the test of time!

[identity profile] hufflepuffsneak.livejournal.com 2012-09-23 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*adds to booklist* Thank god for kindle, otherwise I would have quite a pile to carry next time I'm at the bookstore!
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[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com 2012-09-24 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I usually have a haul from the bookstore whenever I go. And Amazon... they should send me a thank you note for all that I've bought from them! I wish there were more local bookstores around me so I could support them.