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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Catch Up Post

I've been super busy and honestly forgot that I was even trying to post here.  So, here's a quick update on life and my Project 99:

First and foremost...I have completed a goal!!  # 23-- Donate blood!  And here's the proof...

#81  BEST Nurse Program--ditching this goal because I think the effort I have to put into this is crazy.  May possibly check it out at a later date, but as of now....it's being replaced by another goal yet to be determined.

#91  Take a MOOC -- Just finishing up "Data Management for Clinical Research" at Coursera.  Last week started another course:  "Epidemics".    I'm addicted.

#1  Changed cookbooks because the one I was using was no longer inspiring.  I switched to one of the Biggest Loser cookbooks--have no idea which one it is but I made "Loser Fish Tacos" with "Orange Cilantro Coleslaw"...yummy, yummy!

 #35  Read 125 books -- Just checked this out on my kindle:

Need to recheck this out.  (I want this book for Christmas..hint, hint)

Need to recheck this one out too.  

Joined other ladies in the latest (in)courage Bloom book club . We'll be reading "A Million Little Ways" by Emily Freemen.

And then there's this stuff:

Jack finally decided the Diva Dog Bed was ok...

Belle made me a TARDIS cake for my birthday.  The center did not get done so she filled it with icing!

Pinkie Pie aka Bella Donna (named by a patient's mom) holding down the Beta Blocker cheat sheet because she cares. 

Belle and I folded a bazillion neon cootie catchers for an 80's party.

Done for now.