2012 Challenges

Another year, another challenge page! Here you’ll see all the challenges I will be joining this year and how I am doing. Encouragements welcome, questions will be answered, if you have any. :)

2012 Reading Goals:

  • 5 Classic Books
  • 20 Filipino Books (written by a Filipino author)
  • 2-digit TBR pile – an attempt to end the year with a 2-digit TBR pile. :D

Chunkster Challenge:

* Chubby Chunkster – read FOUR chunkster books in the year

5 Classics in 2012:

  1. 1984 by George Orwell

20 Filipino Books in 2012:

  1. Astigirl: A Grown Girl Living on Her Own Terms by Tweet Sering
  2. Interim Goddess of Love by Mina V. Esguerra

The Reread Factor:

Re-read old favorites and see if I still like them. :)

  1. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Required Reading:

January:
Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

February:
The Enemy by Charlie Higson

Books read in 2012:

  1. Astigirl: A Grown Girl Living on Her Own Terms by Tweet Sering (Non-fiction, Filipino, 4 stars)
  2. Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park (Contemporary, 4 stars)
  3. The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde (YA Fantasy, 3 stars)
  4. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (YA Contemporary, 4 stars) [reread]
  5. Saving June by Hannah Harrington (YA Contemporary, 4 stars)
  6. Angelfall by Susan Ee (YA Paranormal/Dystopia, 4 stars)
  7. Interim Goddess of Love by Mina V. Esguerra (YA Contemporary/Fantasy, Filipino, 5 stars)
  8. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (YA Fantasy, 4 stars)
  9. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (YA Paranormal/Horror, 4 stars)
  10. 1984 by George Orwell (Classic, Dystopia, 3 stars)
  11. How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr (YA Contemporary, 5 stars)
  12. Wanderlove by Kristen Hubbard (YA Contemporary, 4 stars)
  13. Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler (YA Contemporary, 4 stars)
  14. The Enemy by Charlie Higson (YA Post Apocalyptic/Dystopia, 3 stars)
  15. What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes (YA Contemporary, Verse, 4 stars)
  16. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (YA Contemporary, 3 stars)
  17. Smitten by Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter and Diann Hunt (Christian romance, 3 stars)
  18. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Classic, Middle Grade, 4 stars)