Sci-Fi Experience Completed!!!!

I always, always enjoy myself when participating in one of Carl’s challenges. I loved the Sci-Fi Experience challenge. Everyone’s reviews can be found here. My favorites this time around include Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov and The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman. I chose those two as favorites because they were both by [...]

D.E.A.R. Challenge (Hosted by me at Becky’s Book Reviews)

Last year, D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Day caught me unawares. I found out about it only a few days in advance. This year, I want to do something BIG to celebrate. I’ll be hosting the D.E.A.R reading challenge with four levels of participation! Here is the official site.
What is National D.E.A.R. Day?
D.E.A.R. stands [...]

#4 is done! Hometown Challenge Completed

I read White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer. Meyer lived in Denton for around five years. And this book is inspired by the community’s history.
Though fictional in nature, the book tells the all-too-real story of Quakertown in Denton, Texas. In the early 1920s, the African Americans of Quakertown were forced to sell their land so that [...]

That makes 3 so far…Winter RC is DONE!

Some of you may be shaking your heads and thinking, “What on earth is Becky doing joining another challenge when she has so so so so so much to do????” My answer, well, I’m going to be reading these books anyway, I might as well lump them together and say they’re challenge reads. (The challenge [...]

Second Reading Challenge Completed!!!!

Kailana of Written World hosted a challenge, the Four-Legged Friends Reading Challenge. It officially began on September 20, 2007 and it ends February 26, 2007.
There are–if I recall–no set number of books we had to have read. So far, I’ve read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and Babe by Dick King-Smith. I’ve also read Animals [...]

42nd Reading Challenge: 100+ Reading Challenge

The 100+ Reading Challenge has its own blog, its own yahoo group, and its own shelfari group. The goal is to read 100 or more books in a given year.
This one is so compatible with other challenges and my own reading habits in general, that I’d be crazy not to join in.

40 or 41 Reading Full Circle Challenge

Thoughts of Joy is hosting the Reading Full Circle 2008 Challenge. I’m not exactly sure on the dates. The NovelChallenge group says it’s a year-long challenge. The original post doesn’t say. And the Mr. Linky post says through March. The goal is to read six “linked” books. The rules are on the sign up [...]

Eponymous Reading Challenge (39 or 40???)

Hosted by Coversgirl, the Eponymous Reading Challenge can be found here.
Here’s how it works:
The challenge will run from 1 March to 31 May, 2008.
During that time your mission should you choose to accept it is to read 4 books whose titles are the name of one or more of the characters (e.g. Evelina, [...]