Wheel of Fortune Spin and R.I.P. VIII Lists

We are doing what is called a "Wheel of Fortune Spin" in my Fantasy Project challenge (thanks, Classics Club for the idea!). We make a list of 15 books from our lists and I will draw a number randomly tomorrow. Here is my list:

1. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, Amanda Grange
2. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
3. Sunshine, Robin McKinley
4. Season of the Witch, Natasha Mostert  My spin selection
5. Prophecy of the Sisters, Michelle Zink
6. The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong
7. Marked, P.C. Cast/Kristin Cast
8. Blue Bloods, Melissa De La Cruz
9. Nightwalker, Jocelynn Drake
10. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
11. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
12. Dead Witch Walking, Kim Harrison
13. Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klaus
14. Evermore, Alyson Noel
15. Book of Lost Things, John Connolly

Check out my entire list for The Fantasy Project HERE. Check out the The Fantasy Project challenge HERE.

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R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril, VIII

Read two books of any length that you believe fit within the R.I.P. categories.

I'm going to read at least two (plus the group read):

• Joyland, Stephen King
• Wheel of Fortune Spin selection- Season of the Witch, Natasha Mostert (curious? Look here)

This is for those of us that like to watch suitably scary, eerie, mysterious gothic fare during this time of year. It may be something on the small screen or large. It might be a television show, like Dark Shadows or Midsomer Murders, or your favorite film. If you are so inclined, please post links to any R.I.P.-related viewing you do on to the Review Site as well.

Insidious 2, anyone? I'll be seeing it the first weekend it's out. I can't wait! I'm also hoping to see a film called We Are What We Are. See the trailer HERE. It looks off the hook! I'm sure I will be watching more scary, as I LOVE horror films and anything remotely scary or creepy.

Finally, there's this...

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. This will be a re-read for me, but it's one of my favorite books and I've often thought I would read it again someday. Why not join in with others in reading it this time? Too right!

This goes perfectly with my Gothic September and Season of the Witch over at Castle Macabre this Fall!

Thanks to Carl for hosting once again. I look forward to his "challenges" every year!

PROUD READING CHALLENGE ADDICT/2011 READING CHALLENGES

Finally, I think I've signed up for my last reading challenge for this year. *fingers crossed and willpower armed* LOL!

I've signed up for 20 challenges for 2011 and I'm involved in 4 perpetual challenges.  Each challenge on the list can be clicked to my original post (all posts have sign-up info) on my challenge blog or you can visit my challenge blog HERE.

First of all, I'm a Reading Challenge Addict! I'm signing up for Cheryl (CMash Loves to Read) and Gina's (Hott Books) Reading Challenge Addict challenge under the Out of this World-16+ challenges level.  (Click the button at the top of the post to find out more and for sign up)

2011 Reading Challenges

Alphabet Challenge
What an Animal Reading Challenge IV
Classics Challenge 2011
2011 Fairy Tale Challenge
Monthly Mix-Up Mania Reading Challenge (this one lasts until March of 2013!)
A-Z Mystery Author Challenge
Historical Fiction Challenge 2011
Chunkster Challenge 2011
The Dewey Decimal Challenge
Public Domain E-Book Challenge
Valley of the Kings Reading Challenge 2011
2011 Fantasy Reading Challenge
2011 Book Blogger Recommendation Challenge
2011 Audio Book Challenge
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
GLBT Challenge 2011
Historical Tour De Genre
Horror and Urban Fantasy Reading Challenge
2011 Stephen King Challenge
Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge 2011

Perpetual Challenges

Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
The Stephen King-Richard Bachman Perpetual Challenge

I am also the host of the following perpetual challenges.  If you would like more info and/or would like to sign up, visit the dedicated blogs...

The Michener Challenge HERE
101 Fantasy Reading Challenge HERE

Personal Challenges

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (on goodreads)
Reading Deliberately...My Way

So...how's your challenge addiction?

A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS

Halloween Horror Month at TuesBookTalk (on Twitter) starts this Tuesday.  It's not too late to join us.  We are reading Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne Du Maurier.   

Reading/Discussion schedule is as follows:

October 5, Stories 1-3, pp. 1-128
October 12, Stories 4-6, pp. 129-226
October 19, Stories 7-9, pp. 227-325
 (pages may vary depending on what edition you are reading)

The final week we are reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 

Discussion will take place on October 26.

TuesBookTalk meets on Tuesday nights on Twitter at 10:30pm ET  To join the chat, use hashtag #tuesbooktalk.  If you have any questions, please contact me at truebookaddictATgmailDOTcom

My second announcement is regarding one of the challenges I host, the 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge.  I have decided (with input from participants) to make the challenge a perpetual challenge.  Also, I will be doing quarterly mini-challenges for incentive.  We all know how hard it is to stick to a perpetual challenge without incentive...raise of hands please! My hand is perhaps raised the highest...haha!  Anyway, for full   details about the challenge and mini-challenge...and for sign up, visit the dedicated challenge blog HERE.  Hope to see you there!

Announcements

First of all, I wanted to take a moment to recognize that I passed 150 followers on Friday! Thank you so much to all of my followers.  I really appreciate that you read what I write and leave such great comments!

Now, on to the next bit of news.  For those of you who know Bella of A Bibliophile's Bookshelf, you probably have heard that she is going to give up her blog and will no longer be blogging.  What you may not have known (or maybe you did) was that Bella was hosting the 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge.  When I found out she was leaving, I asked her if she would like me to take over the challenge and she was very glad for me to do it.  So, without further ado, I am now the official host of the 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge!  I have created a dedicated blog for the challenge here.  If you already signed up on Bella's blog, you will need to sign up again there (could not transfer the original Mr. Linky).  And if you haven't signed up and would like to, please join us...the more the merrier! Also, please be sure to follow the blog as there will be a challenge meme and I'm thinking about hosting a giveaway this summer.

I sure will miss blogging with Bella, as I'm sure we all will.  But I'm so glad that I was able to carry on this excellent challenge she created.  Thanks Bella!

Stress? What Stress.....

Am I crazy or did I really sign up for my first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)?  As if I don't have enough on my plate! I have been very neglectful of my reading of late due to reading overload for my 'History of England before 1700' class.  My midterm is Friday (yuck, the day after my birthday) so I'm cramming for it too (isn't procrastination just lovely).  I was also struggling with a College Algebra class (I'm talking sweating blood here) that I have since dropped.  I have determined that I cannot take a math class online so will take it at a later date...on campus.  I have also decided to participate in Dewey's 24 hour Read-A-Thon.  Still have to come up with my list of reads.  Hope I can overlap with the RIP Challenge as I'm behind on that as well.  I've also joined Bella's (A Bibliophile's Bookshelf) 101 Best Fantasy Challenge, but at least that goes for a whole year! Should be manageable, huh?  I've got a blog tour coming up for Random Magic by Sasha Soren...will be posting the schedule later.  I've got a review of Frank Beddor's Seeing Redd in the works and I'm reading and reviewing his newest book, Arch Enemy.  I'll also be doing an interview with Mr. Beddor (hopefully).  With my Christmas Reading Challenge starting on Thanksgiving and with Christmas being my most busy time of year AND with the recent decision to transfer my Christmas MySpace page to a Christmas blog, it's just going to get worse! Still...I shall prevail, as I thrive on deadlines (I guess I really am crazy)!

In honor of my birthday tomorrow (October 15), I decided to host my first giveaway.  It's going to be a book from my own very crowded shelves so be sure to stop by and enter!

Bear with me people...there is always a light at the end of the tunnel =o)

And, as always, Happy Reading!

101 Fantasy Reading Challenge

I've decided to take on Bella's, at A Bibliophile's Bookshelf, 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge.  I'm going to follow her lead and pick 30 books (of which I already own)...15 from the actual 101 and 15 from the rest of the list. 

Addendum:  I'm adding one more book to the latter 15...I recently acquired The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss so I'm adding it to the list.  This brings my total to 31 books!
So here are the rules:

1. Pick the number of books you want to read. It can be a mixture of the top 101, and/or the whole list. For example, you might want to aim to read 5 from the top 101 and 5 from the rest of the list.
2. Create a list of the books you want to tackle. You can create a list now, or add them as you go. Completely up to you.
3. The challenge runs from 10/10/09 to 10/10/10.
4. Please post the direct link to your 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge post. (so that other participants can visit and see what you are reading)

Click on Bella's blog title above to go to the Mr. Linky and sign up.  Be sure to do your post first and then link it there.

Here is the PDF version of the entire list of the 101 of the Best Fantasy Books.

Now, on to my list!

From the top 101:

1. New Moon--Stephenie Meyer
2. Eclipse--Stephenie Meyer
3. Dead Until Dark--Charlaine Harris
4. Living Dead in Dallas--Charlaine Harris
5. Club Dead--Charlaine Harris
6. Stardust--Neil Gaiman
7. The Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman
8. Good Omens--Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--Lewis Carroll
10. Guilty Pleasures--Laurell K. Hamilton
11. Beauty--Robin McKinley
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--J.K. Rowling
13. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
14. A Wrinkle in Time--Madeline L'Engle
15. Ella Enchanted--Gail Carson Levine

From the rest of the list:

1. The Sword of Shannara--Terry Brooks
2. Elfstones of Shannara--Terry Brooks
3. The Wishsong of Shannara--Terry Brooks
4. A Song for Arbonne--Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Drawing of the Three--Stephen King
6. A Wizard of Earthsea--Ursual K. Le Guin
7. Wicked--Gregory Maguire
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire
9. Daughters of the Forest--Juliet Mariller
10. Ombria in Shadow--Patricia McKillip
11. Eragon--Christopher Paolini
12. The Vampire Armand--Anne Rice
13. Dragonsbane--Patricia C. Wrede
14. The Smoke Thief--Shana Abe
15. Prophecy of the Sisters--Michelle Zink
16. The Name of the Wind--Patrick Rothfuss

Wish me luck!

Happy Reading!