2011 New Books Challenge! Thank you whomever sent that gift!

Would you like to have a Tektek contest?

Yes! Sounds like fun.	32.8%	[ 143 ]
Yes. It would give me a break from all this reading.	5.0%	[ 22 ]
No. It would just distract me from reading.	10.3%	[ 45 ]
NO. Just... no.	9.4%	[ 41 ]
Click here for the obligatory gold earning option.	42.4%	[ 185 ]
Total Votes:			[ 436 ]

[michael j rox]

muffinkit

Name/Username: muffinkit
Goal: 50
Date Started: 3.10

currently reading -

finished reading -
1. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. Michael J. Fox
2. Under the Dome. Stephen King (started before the challenge but hey!)
3. I Am Number Four. Pittacus Lore
4. Mockingjay. Suzanne Collins

what's on the kindle -
The Second Ship. Richaed Phillips
Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card
Behemoth. Scott Westerfeld
Out of the Black. Lee Doty


4/50

[henred5]

Name/Username: henred5
Goal: 150 books
Date Started: 15th January

Currently Reading:
Textile designers at the cutting edge by Bradley Quinn
Old mistresses : women, art and ideology by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollo
The Art of Arts - rediscovering painting by Anita Albus
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox

Finished Reading:
The World house by Guy Adams
May Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde Book II) by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Bone by Jeff Smith
Ann McCaffrey - A life With Dragons (written/compiled by Robin Roberts)
Valhalla by Tom Holt
Collage - The unMonumental Picture
Dune by David Lynch
The Solaris Book of New Fantasy by George Mann Mass
The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design by Drusilla Cole

Total 11/150

[Freiflug]

Currently Reading: Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh
Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Bitten by Kelly Armstrong
Finished Reading: Lord Loss by Darren Shan
Total: (*/*): 11/50

[Mazzie Bell]

Name/Username: Mazzie Bell
Goal: 50 new books, at least 5 10 classics
Date Started: January 1, 2010

Currently Reading:
- What Is the What (Eggers)

Finished Reading
13. Zeitoun (Eggers) ✭✭✭✭✭
12. Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut) ✭✭✭✭✭
11. Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) ✭✭✭✭
March
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami) ✭✭✭✭1/2
9. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Levithan/Cohn) ✭ 1/2
8. The Lover's Dictionary (Levithan) ✭✭✭✭
7. Kafka on the Shore (Murakami) ✭✭✭
6. Dearly Devoted Dexter (Lindsay) ✭✭✭✭
February
5. Let The Right One In (Lindqvist) ✭✭✭✭✭
4. The Painted Boy (DeLint) ✭✭1/2
3. My Ántonia (Carther) ✭✭✭✭✭
2. A Farewell to Arms (Hemmingway) ✭✭✭
1. The Awakening (Chopin) ✭✭✭✭
January

Total: 13/50
Classics: 5/5 5/10

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 27 Books
Date Started: January 1, 2011


Currently Reading:
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
Once Upon a Quinceañera by Julia Alvarez

Finished Reading:
January
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin
Other People's Love Letters 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See edited by Bill Shapiro
The Virginity Club by Kate Brian
February
Killer Cruise by Laura Levine
March
How Not To Spend Your Senior Year by Cameron Dokey

Total: (5/27)

[Lily DArouet]

Username: Lily DArouet
Goal: 75 new books
Date Started: 27/3/11
⌇ with any symbol means "reread." A white pointer means "current" or "planned" reading. A black pointer means "completed" for this challenge. For the purposes of this challenge, I am not counting short stories on their own.

Currently Reading:
▻ The Purloined Poe
⌇▻ Scout's Progress — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
▻ Crown of Shadows — C.S. Friedman
⌇▻ Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller

Finished Reading:
► The Pale Blue Eye — Louis Bayard
► A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
► A Fistful of Charms — Kim Harrison
► For a Few Demons More — Kim Harrison
► The Beautiful Cigar Girl — Daniel Stashower
► The Wise Man's Fear — Patrick Rothfuss
► When True Night Falls — C.S. Friedman
► White Cat — Holly Black
► Proof — David Auburn
► Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen
► Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie
► Oleanna — David Mamet

Total: 12 / 75 {~16% completed}

⌇► Agent of Change — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Carpe Diem — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Plan B — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► I Dare — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Medea — Euripides
⌇► Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
⌇► Othello — William Shakespeare

Coming Up...
⌇▻ Local Custom — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
▻ The House of Yes — Wendy MacLeod
▻ Arcadia — Tom Stoppard
⌇▻ The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
⌇▻ The v****a Monologues — Eve Ensler
▻ The Poe Shadow — Matthew Pearl
▻ Tales of the Otherworld — Kelley Armstrong
▻ 4:50 from Paddington — Agatha Christie

[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

Name/Username: Psychotic Maniacal Sanity
Goal: 50
Date Started: 10/01/2011


Currently Reading:
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West.

Finished Reading:
January:
My Ántonia - Willa Cather.
The Human Stain - Philip Roth.
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser.
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt.
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
February:
Love - Toni Morrison.
Noir - Robert Coover.
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon.
Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton.
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton.
American Salvage - Bonnie Jo Campbell.
March:
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway.
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy.
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway.
Twilight of the Superheroes - Deborah Eisenberg.
Light in August - William Faulkner.
Point Omega - Don DeLillo.

Total: 17/50

[Nikomikiri]

Books I've read 2011

Username: Nikomikiri
Date Started: January 1, 2011
Goal: 50 books. I include manga volumes as books.


1. Storm Front- Jim Butcher
2. Fool Moon- Jim Butcher
3. Gunslinger Girl volume 5
4. Grave Peril- Jim Butcher
5. Bonshaker by Cherie Priest

[henred5]

Name/Username: henred5
Goal: 150 books
Date Started: 15th January

Currently Reading:
Old mistresses : women, art and ideology by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollo
The Art of Arts - rediscovering painting by Anita Albus
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox

Finished Reading:
The World house by Guy Adams
May Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
The Lady of the Sorrows (The Bitterbynde Book II) by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Bone by Jeff Smith
Ann McCaffrey - A life With Dragons (written/compiled by Robin Roberts)
Valhalla by Tom Holt
Collage - The unMonumental Picture
Dune by David Lynch
The Solaris Book of New Fantasy by George Mann Mass
The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design by Drusilla Cole
Textile designers at the cutting edge by Bradley Quinn

Total 12/150

[didisayh]

Username: Didisayh
Goal: 30 books
Date Started: 1/22/11


Currently Reading: Mad River Road by Joy Fielding

Finished Reading:
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Unfit to Practice by Perri O'Shaughnessy
The Client by John Grisham

Total: (3/30)

[Eternal Guardian Pluto]

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Why ℓive a {ℓife} that's ρainted
With ρity and ϛadness and ϛtrifeʔ
Why ɗream a ɗream that's ȶainted
With ȶrouble and ℓess than it ϛeemsʔ



Currently Reading:
Masquerade by Melissa DeLa Cruz

Finished Reading:
January
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Everything is Fine by Ann Dee Ellis
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Undone by Brooke Taylor
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
Dance with a Vampire by Ellen Schreiber
The Coffin Club by Ellen Schreiber
Royal Blood by Ellen Schreiber
Love Bites by Ellen Schreiber
February
Awakened by P.C. and Kristin Cast
Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Frostbite by Richelle Mead
Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
March
Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
Last Sacrifice Richelle Mead
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Blue Bloods by Melissa DeLa Cruz
April
Tester
May
Tester
June
Tester
July

August
Tester
September
Tester
October
Tester
November
Tester
December
Tester

Total
026/100

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[Winter_Kamiya]

Currently Reading: Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrik
Finished Reading: Ballad By Maggie Stiefvater
total: ( 14/108 )

[horror bull]

Name/Username: Annica
Goal: 52 books (total)
Date Started: January 1st, 2011

Currently Reading:
The Hound of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Finished Reading:
January:
01. Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (✭✭✭)
02. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (✭✭✭✭)
03. Looking for Alaska by John Green (✭✭✭✭✭)
04. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (✭✭✭✭)
February:
05. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (✭✭✭)
06. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (✭✭✭)
March:
07. Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson (✭✭✭✭✭)
08. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (✭✭✭✭)
09. Songs for a Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson (✭✭✭✭)
10. Anthem by Ayn Rand (✭✭✭✭)
11. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (✭✭✭✭✭)
12. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (✭✭✭✭✭)
13. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (✭✭✭✭)


Progress: x 13/52 xx 25%

[Lily DArouet]

⌇ with any symbol means "reread." A white pointer means "current" or "planned" reading. A black pointer means "completed" for this challenge. For the purposes of this challenge, I am not counting short stories on their own.

Currently Reading:
▻ Fledgling — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
▻ The Purloined Poe
▻ Crown of Shadows — C.S. Friedman
⌇▻ Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller

Finished Reading:
► The Pale Blue Eye — Louis Bayard
► A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
► A Fistful of Charms — Kim Harrison
► For a Few Demons More — Kim Harrison
► The Beautiful Cigar Girl — Daniel Stashower
► The Wise Man's Fear — Patrick Rothfuss
► When True Night Falls — C.S. Friedman
► White Cat — Holly Black
► Proof — David Auburn
► Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen
► Murder in Mesopotamia — Agatha Christie
► Oleanna — David Mamet

Total: 12 / 75 {~16% completed}

⌇► Agent of Change — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Carpe Diem — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Plan B — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► I Dare — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
⌇► Medea — Euripides
⌇► Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
⌇► Othello — William Shakespeare
⌇► Scout's Progress — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Coming Up...
⌇▻ Local Custom — Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
▻ The House of Yes — Wendy MacLeod
▻ Arcadia — Tom Stoppard
⌇▻ The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
⌇▻ The v****a Monologues — Eve Ensler
▻ The Poe Shadow — Matthew Pearl
▻ Tales of the Otherworld — Kelley Armstrong
▻ 4:50 from Paddington — Agatha Christie
▻ Book of a Thousand Days — Shannon Hale

[So Sick of the Hobos]

So Sick of the Hobos

Name/Username: So Sick of the Hobos
Goal: 30+14(from last year)
Date Started: January 1, 2011
Currently Reading:
Betwixt - Tara Bray Smith
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand - Carrie Vaughn
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Finished Reading:

Kitty Takes a Holiday - Carrie Vaughn (01.05.11)
Kitty and the Silver Bullet - Carrie Vaughn (01.18.11)
Night - Elie Wisel (04.28.11)

FINISHED 3/44
I'm having problems with school and personal issues, it's really effecting my time to read
*This does not include all the short stories, poems and journal entries in my English classes*