Lucky No. 14 Reading Challenge

more info here

And yet another challenge!  I'm still picking out my books....

The Categories:

1. Visit the Country:  Under the Tuscan Sun
2. Cover Lust:
3. Blame it on Bloggers:  The Happy Ending Book Club (hat tip to Shelleyrae from Book'd Out)
4. Bargain All the Way:
5. (Not so) Fresh From the Oven (2013):  Allegiant
6. First Letters Rule (Letter J):  The Joy Luck Club
7. Once Upon a Time (pre-me):  
8. Chunky Brick (500+ pages):  Winds of War
9. Favorite Author:
10. It's Been There Forever:
11. Movies vs Books: The Help
12.  Last Freebie:
13. Not My Cup of Tea:
14. Walking Down Memory Lane:

USA Fiction Challenge: State by State in 2014

Very excited about this one, folks!  The challenge is to read a work of fiction set in each of the states.  As I complete a book, I'll post it here with a link to my review.

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Washington DC
Delaware
Florida:  Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa:  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

2014 Ebook Reading Challenge

I've chosen to participate at the CD level which is 10 ebooks.

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The Color Coded Reading Challenge 2014

I had a hard time finding "brown" books.  I'm really eager to see what others have chosen for that color...

Blue:  Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall   my review
Red:  The Red Lory by Dave Newell
Yellow:  The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
Green:  Green: Book Zero by Ted Dekker
Brown:  The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd
Black:  Black by Ted Dekker
White:  White by Ted Dekker
Orange:  Five Quarters of an Orange by Joanne Harris
Stripes: Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

MOOC Addiction

I love to learn.  Yes, I know...I'm nerdy.  I just finished my third mooc and I'm addicted.  MOOC = Massive Online Open Course.  I've taken courses on Data Management for Clinical Trials, Diabetes Diagnosis and Management and Epidemics.  Here are some of my favorite places to look for moocs:



Coursera (by far my fave!)
iversity
edX
Canvas Network (some courses are not free)
OpenLearning
Udacity
FutureLearn

These are new sites I have yet to try.  I think Saylor and Alison offer self-paced courses.
Allversity
Saylor
Alison

If you know of other mooc sites, please let me know!

Full House Reading Challenge

Hosted by Book Date

• From the local library:
• Best read so far in 2014:
• From my wish list:
• Set in a different country:
• Published in 2014:
• Issue I think is important:
• Setting I would like to visit:
• Suspense/Crime:  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
• Contemporary:
• More than 400 pages:
• Reread:
• Review persuaded me to read it:
• Free Choice:
• Published before 2013:  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• Book with an animal in it:
• Won or borrowed:
• Historical Fiction:  Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
• Less than 200 pages:  Tinkers by Paul Harding
• Non Fiction:  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayer
• Author new to me:
• Book from a series:
• Free or very cheap:
• Published in 2013:
• Paranormal/SF/Dystopian:
• I love the cover:

Mental Illness Advocacy Reading Challenge 2014

I so appreciate this book challenge, seriously.  Addressing the stigma that people with mental illnesses face is important.  I have committed to the "Advocate" level of this challenge which is reading 12 books.

1. Darkness is My Only Companion by Kathyrn Greene-McCreight
2. Voluntary Madness: Lost
3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
4. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
5. My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me by Amanda Green
6. Devil in the Details: Scenes from am Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
7. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
8. Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD by Traci Foust
9. Bent, not Broken by William Potter
10. Compelled by Tim Blue
11. Is it Weird in Here, or is it Just Me? by Rod Whyte
12. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman

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Eclectic Reader Challenge 2014

This challenge should help pull me out of the dystopian young adult genre I seem to be stuck in....

Book List:

1.  Award Wining:   Tinkers by Paul Harding
2.  True Crime (Nonfiction):  Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
3.  Romantic Comedy:  The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister
4.  Alternate History (Fiction):  Without Warning by John Birmingham 
5. Graphic Novel:  Suggestions????
6. Cosy Mystery Fiction:  Brush with Death by Juliet Blackwell
7. Gothic Fiction:  Red Lory by Dave Newell
8. War/Military Fiction:  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Bowers
9. Anthology:  Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
10. Medical Thriller Fiction:  Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
11. Travel (Nonfiction):  Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
12. Published in 2014:  Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

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1. Tinkers
2. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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