Friday, January 09, 2009

Series Challenge Season 3

So, I haven't blogged in months, I'm afraid. Sorry about that, but life kept me busy until about two weeks ago.

Anyways, I will be hosting the 3rd season of the Series Challenge. The past two challenges, I never managed to finish all the series I had planned to read, so I hope I'll have more luck this time around.

I still have many, many series to read, so it'll be a tough decision I won't make tonight.
This time around, the challenge will take an entire year to give everyone a better chance to finish up the series and to make it easier to keep track of when the challenge starts and ends.



The challenge starts December 1st, 2008 and goes until November 30th, 2009.

The rules are easy:

1) Pick a couple series you already started and now want to finish (meaning, you'll be all up to date with the series when it ends).

2) Read at least 4 books, more are also okay, of course!

3) Post your review of the books on your blog or in the comment section, no matter how long. If you post the review on your blog, please post a link to the review in the comment section so that everyone else can check out your review.

4) Have fun!

Please post a link to your reviews here and I'll add it to the link list!

As Mr. Linky has given up on me for some reason, here's the list of participants as far as I could reconstruct it. If you don't find your name on the list, please leave a comment and I'll add you!

The participants are:
1) Kathrin
2) kim in ohio-25
3) Ms. Bookish
4) Diane (bookinhand)
5) Kailana
6) Jenny
7) Sam
8) Laza
9) Lauren
10) Sue (Books, Books, magical)
11) Lindy
12) Violette
13) J. Kaye's Book Blog
14) Samantha"
15) Mytwoblessings
16) Kucki68
17) Christina (Babbling Book Reviews)
18) Kris (not enough books)
19) Kelly
20) Shonda
21) Kristi (Books and Needlepoint)
22) Sherrie
23) emmegail
24) (Judy) Intergalactic Bookworm
25) Lissa
26) Yvonne (Socrates' Book Reviews)
27) Judy (Intergalactic Bookworm)
28) DeSeRt RoSe
29) phamie
30) drey
31) Kara
32) Nessa
33) Lisa L
34) Rakisha
35) alisonwonderland
36) bigorangemichael
37) Kisha
38) Audra
39) Jaye
49) rickandlena
50) Rasberrywrlgirl

47 comments:

Jenny said...

This sounds fun. I'm working on a perpetual series challenge but this will help me move it along.

I want to finish J.A. Jance Joanna Brady series. I'm only on #7.

I would also like to finish Harry Potter series. I am ready to start #4.

SueFitz said...

Great have several series I'd like to read

Grilsgood said...

I do like this challenge, but i sure hate to write reviews. No blog of course, so I will post here. Lindy

Anonymous said...

I found a couple of new authors in 2008 that I liked so I will be choosing among them for this challenge. Tess Gerritsen is one of them.

Anonymous said...

I am definitely in for this one. We don't have to decide our books ahead of time, do we? Either way, I'll give it some thought.

Unknown said...

I'm in! I posted a list of the books/series I would like to try and catch up on with this challenge...let's hope I do well!

Sherrie said...

Hi!
Would love to do this challenge. I have started the ABC series by Sue Grafton. Would like to finish it this year. Thanks.

Sherrie

Grilsgood said...

I am finished and since I have to write reviews whicdh I don't enjoy doing, I will only read the requried 4. Dong' have a blog and want to get onto my 2009 challenges.


1. Patterson, James Cross Country
Alex cross goes after a serial killer called the Tiger who has been operating in both this country and Africa. The Tiger kills Alex's girfriend from college and her entire family. This is when the nvel stops being pretty and because sick .He flies to Nigeria, and then goes to Sierra Leon and tells us of he atrocities being committed there.

2. MacDonald, John D he Long hLavendar Look When a young lady steps in front of McGee's car, he lands in a swamp.While trying to get back to civilizationhe finds himself and his friend Meyer shot at. Arriving in civilization he gets the go to jail card. Now there is no choice but to solver the mystery.

3. Clark, Mary Jane Do You Promise Not to Tell?
Farrell Slater, the producer of the New York-based news show KEY Evening Headlines is about to get fired and she has to come up iwth a big story to hopefully save her job. She has a dull assignment to cover the auction of the famed Faberg? Moon Egg, lost for decades following the Russian Revolution and now mysteriously rediscovered. Will this be what saves her?

4. Cornwell, Patricia Scarpetta Cornwell only gets worse with each book she writes. The plot is slow, there are more than 100 unneeded pages. Scarpate moves from Charleston to NYC where she has to examine a man who might have killed his girlfriend. He wants Scarpetta to interview him and he has a bizarre story to offer. He claims the killer is stalking him. The stalker knows where he is at all times. This is a turning point in the series. All of Scarpetta colleagues have shown up for this one. Lucy looks to be hooking up with Berger. Marino has gotten sober and is giving up on Scarpetta. Scarpetta has married Bentley.

Unknown said...

I have a few series going and one that would be impossible to finish is all of the Doctor Who books I own! But I have a few that I fell will qualify for this challenge.

Lissa said...

This sounds like fun. I have so much trouble finishing series on my own (always something new to read) =D Thanks for hosting...

Yvonne said...

Sounds like fun1 I'm in!

Unknown said...

I forgot that I already signed up for this challenge. Remove the 2nd time that I signed up for it. Are you the same Kathrin P from ARMies?

Judy

Sherrie said...

Hi!
I have finished my first book of the series challenge. It is posted on my blog here: http://sherriesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/cape-refuge-book-1-of-4.html

If that doesn't work here is another link to my post:
JUST BOOKS: CAPE REFUGE - BOOK 1 OF 4

Sherrie

Lisalit said...

Can I still sign up for this challenge? I have a million series that I want to read.

Desert Rose said...

I would like to finish the Sookie Stackhouse series :)

Paula Marie Valles said...

Im very excited to participate in the challenges

drey said...

I'm in, but won't start till January, since it's almost '09 anyway. I'm going to read Karen Miller's Godspeaker & Karen Marie Moning's Fever books.

Reviews aren't my thing, but I was going to give it a shot in '09 anyway, so please do comment on them when I get started. =) Thanks for hosting!

Lisalit said...

I have a lot of series I hope to read this year. Do rereads count for this challenge?

Keesh said...

I plan on finishing up the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. I like the In Death series by J.D. Robb, but don't think I can finish that up in one year (not with all the other challenges I signed up for, lol).

Kristi said...

Hello,

Finished a book for this challenge - Watcher in the Woods (2nd book in Dreamhouse Kings series by Robert Liparulo) - Find my review here: http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/01/watcher-in-woods-by-robert-liparulo.html

Kristi said...

Hello - Was able to get through book 3 in the Dreamhouse Kings series today also - my review is here: http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/01/gatekeepers-by-robert-liparulo.html

alisonwonderland said...

hi, kathrin! i'm going to give this challenge another try; my initial post is here.

Unknown said...

@ Jenny: I'll be curious to read your thoughts on the Joanna Brady books! I only know the Alison Reynolds series by J.A. Jance and I absolutely love it! Don't want to start any other series before I have at least finished a couple ones of those I'm currently working on... And enjoy Harry Potter!

@ Sue Fitz: Have fun reading the series book and let us know what you think, yes?

@ Lindy: Feel free to just add your thoughts as a comment. It doesn't have to be a real review, just a couple lines whether you liked it! No worries, I am also rather bad at riting reviews - though I'm trying to get better!

Unknown said...

@ Violette: I just love Gerritsen's books.

@ J. Kaye: No need to figure out your books for the challenge early. I'm bad at sticking to lists, therefore go ahead and read what you like. If you make a list and change it later on, that's also okay :)

@ Kucki68: You chose two series I enjoy a lot - but I'm not far enough in to have a realistic chance to finish one of them... :)

@ Kris: Wow, you have a huge list there! Have fun crossing them off :)

Unknown said...

@ Sherrie: Enjoy the Alphabet Series :) How far into the series are you?

@ Lindy: Considering that you don't like reviews at all, I love your blurbs! And wow, you already finished that challenge? That's absolutely awesome!!!

@ Judy: Well, just pick one or two series that you know you can finish. I know how it is with series. I have about 60-70 series going right now - it's impossible to finish them all, a few of the series alone would be difficult to finish within a year...

Unknown said...

@ Lissa: I'm also having a hard time finishing series on my own, so I created this challenge. So far, I haven't finished a challenge myself, but I've finished a series or two, which, IMHO, is a step ahead...

@ Yvonne: Glad you're in!

@ Lisalit: Sure you can still sign up! I think I'll leave sign ups open for a while longer. After all, as long as someone finishes a series within the time frame, that still fulfills the challenge requirements.

Unknown said...

@ DeSeRt RoSe: Oh, I'll be curious to read what you think about the Sookie Stackhouse books!

@ Paula: I'm also very excited about all the challenges. No wonder I signed up for so many LOL

@ drey: I don't know the series you're reading, but I'll definitely read your reviews! One of my teachers at university said to keep in mind what one expected of the book before reading it, when you're writing a review. Maybe that helps you for the first reviews?

@ Lisalit: I never excluded re-reads, so feel free to decided that for yourself!

Unknown said...

@ Keesh: I just bought my first Mitch Rapp book (Transfer Of Power, I believe) a few weeks ago. Maybe we can get a separate challege for the In Death series? A perpetual one, to give us enough time to finish it. Let me know what you think!

@ Kristi: Wow, two books in the challenge already? Congrats! :) I have to admit,I haven't even started my first book for this challenge... *sigh*

Unknown said...

@ alisonwonderland: I'll add you right away :)

Unknown said...

@ bigorangemichael: Welcome to the challenge! I'll add you right away :)

Kisha said...

Forgive me if this shows up multiple times. Since I have a self hosted wordpress, it's not letting me do the wordpress option for comment as, and now I'm trying google since I realized I wasn't logged in oops. Signing up, and hoping this works finally.

http://kishasworld.com/2009/01/series-challenge-season-3

Unknown said...

@ Kisha: Welcome to the Series Challenge :) Your post showed up only once, so no worries! And I already added you to the participants.

Audra Marie said...

What a great motivator to finish those series I've been ignoring, but wanting to read. :) I hope I'm not too late. Here is my page for the challenge, and I'll add the book titles soon. :)

http://www.audrasilva.com/blog/?page_id=82

eel said...

Hi! I'd love to join this challenge even if I'm late, is that okay?
Here's my challenge page:
http://wing-heart.org/books/challenges_09series.php

Anonymous said...

Here's my link to Dicey's Song:

http://khager.vox.com/library/post/8.html

Unknown said...

@ Audra: There's no "too late", so welcome! As long as you think you can complete a series, you can join :)

@ Jaye: Sure you can still join in! Glad you're in!

@ Kelly: I'll create an extra post for the reviews and will add your link right away :)

Lena said...

I have finished all of my series, but would like to start a new one (Women's Murder Club).

rickandlena.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

@ rickandlenamedina: Sure, go ahead :)

Unknown said...

@ Rasberrywrlgirl: Welcome to the challenge!

Unknown said...

Sherrie, feel free to add another series :-) I think I added all links now to the post!

samantha.1020 said...

Here is the link to the 3rd book in the series I am working on:

http://samsbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/kitty-takes-holiday-by-carrie-vaughn.html

Sherrie said...

Hi!
I have finished this reading challenge. You can see my wrap up of this challenge here: Just Books.
http://sherriesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-lioness-rampant.html

Sherrie

Yvonne said...

I just finished another book in the Cedar Cove series by Debbie Macomber. My review is here

http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/8-sandpiper-way-by-debbie-macomber.html

Unknown said...

Yvonne, I added your link to the review list :-)

Yvonne said...

I just finished this challenge :)

http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/series-challenge-season-3.html

Unknown said...

Yvonne, I added your link to the list.

alisonwonderland said...

My wrap-up post is here.