Friday, April 11, 2014

Branigan Adult Reading Challenge finished!

5 Point Challenges
April Fool's Day Challenge (humorous book)
Bossypants by Tina Fey

Valentine's Day Challenge (red or pink cover)
Confessions of a Serial Kisser by Wendelin Van Draanen

Pi Day Challenge (page count that has digits from the first 10 digits of pi)
Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton (359 pages)

Daylight Savings Challenge (book about time travel)
Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm by Christopher Cooper

Arbor Day Challenge (tree on the cover)
Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier

Family Day Challenge (family or type of family word in title)
Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

Earth Day Challenge (green cover)
Dead Is a Killer Tune by Marlene Perez

10 Point Challenges
St. Patrick's Day Challenge (character from Ireland)
Hexed by Kevin Hearne

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Challenge (book about civil rights)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

President's Day Challenge (book about a leader)
The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

Double Duty Challenge (all words in title start with same letter)
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich

Chinese New Year Challenge (word horse in title)
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

Religion and Sacrifice Challenge (book about sacrifice)
Delirium by Lauren Oliver

See Yourself in the Title Challenge (title includes all letters in your first, middle, or last name)
Awake at Dawn by C.C. Hunter

15 Point Challenges
Spring Equinox Challenge (two books with the same number of characters in the title)
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
Teen Spirit by Francesca Lia Block

Thinking Outside the Box Challenge (one book written in style other than prose and one book with graphics included)
Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Literature Map Challenge (one book by a closer author on literature map, one book by author farthest on map)
used Kim Harrison as author (www.literature-map.com)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

Follow the Leader Challenge (two books with same word in title)
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

Books & More Books Challenge (book about books, book from that book)
A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan (eds.)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Old and the New Challenge (book by an old favorite author and book by a new to me author)
Beka Cooper: Terrier by Tamora Pierce
It Takes a Witch by Heather Blake

Spring Break Challenge (book set in a time period would have liked to live in, book set in a place where I'd like to go on vacation)
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion by Simon Guerrier (ancient Greece)
Affliction by Laurell K. Hamilton (Colorado)

20 Point Challenges
Birthday Routes Challenge (March--romance genre; 11-15--two or more authors)
Cupid Cats by Katie MacAlister, Vicki Lewis Thompson, & Connie Brockway (romance)
Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper (2 authors)

Synonym Streaming Challenge (two books with words that are synonyms in the titles)
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

25 Point Challenges
1, 2, 3 Ready, Set, Go Challenge (3 consecutive books in a series/trilogy)
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Broken by Kelley Armstrong

1, 2, 3 Count Your Titles Challenge (book with 3 word title, book with 4 word title, book with 5 word title)
Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter
Kitty Rocks the House by Carrie Vaughn
The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde

1, 2, 3 Use Your Initials Challenge (3 books that start with the initials of my name)
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
Mastiff by Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce

50 Point Challenge
Randomness for Chaos Sake Challenge (book with one word title, book with 12 or more words in title, book with a number in title, book with a color in title, book with proper noun in title)
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
White Night by Jim Butcher
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

375 points!  Woot!

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