Location Specific Reading Challenges

Where Are You Reading Challenge hosted by Book Journey

Challenge Details:

• Timeline: Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012
• Must set up a Map under Google Maps - see host site for details
• Blog not necessary to participate
• You can just list the states if you don't want to/can't figure out how to use Google Maps
• Goal is to read a book set in each of the 50 states.  Anyone who does will go in a drawing at the end of the year.  Locations outside the 50 states are bonus and anyone reading from 10 or more locations will also go into a drawing.
• Here is a link to my map.

Books:

1.  Come Back to Me by Melissa Foster - Maryland/Iraq
2.  Airel by Aaron Patterson, Chris White - Idaho/Arabia
3.  More than Words Can Say by Robert Barclay - New York
4. In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault - Connecticutt
5.  Lovesick by Spencer Seidel - Maine
6. The Jerk Magnet by Melody Carlson - California
7. The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy - Iowa
8. What Happened to Hannah  by Mary Kay McComas - Virginia
9. Not in the Heart by Chris Fabry - Florida
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Georgia
11.  Sykosa by Justin Ordonez - Washington
12. Banana Split by Josi Kilpack - Hawaii
13. A Grand Murder by Stacy Verdick Case - Minnesota
14. Night Sky by Jolene Perry - Nevada

Southern Literature Challenge hosted by The Introverted Reader

Challenge Details:

• Timeline: Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012
• Levels:
• C'mon in the house - 1 book
• Pull up a seat and stay awhile - 2 books
• Have a glass of sweet iced tea, honey - 3 books
• Y'all come back now, y'hear? - 4 books (My Level)
• Books can be any genre, but must be set in the South and written by a southern author
• South Carolina
• Georgia
• Alabama
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• Tennessee
• Mississippi
• Louisiana
• Kentucky
• West Virginia
• Texas
• Arkansas
• Florida - as long as you find a book by a Florida author and/or set in Florida that feels Southern
• Do not need a blog to participate
• Host has listed some Reading suggestions - Goodreads - Best Southern Literature 
• Each review linked will get one entry into prize drawing

Books:

1. What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas
2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Reading the Winter Olympics hosted by GIRLxoxo

Challenge Details:

• Timeline: March 1, 2010 - Feb 6, 2014
• Levels:
• Gold - Read a book from every country that won a medal
• Silver - Read a book from every country that won a Gold medal
• Bronze - Read a book from every country that won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals (My Level - this would be 15 books)
• Book lists for other countries - BiblioTravel - Books Set In
• Below is a List of the 26 Countries with Medals from the 2010 Winter Olympics(* means the country got gold, silver and bronze medals).
  • Australia - Gold & Silver (no Bronze)
  • Austria *
  • Belarus *
  • Canada *
  • China *
  • Croatia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
  • Czech Republic - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
  • Estonia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
  • Finland - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
  • France *
  • Germany *
  • Great Britain - Gold (no Silver or Bronze)
  • Italy *
  • Japan - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
  • Kazakhstan - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
  • Latvia - Silver (no Gold or Bronze)
  • Netherlands *
  • Norway *
  • Poland *
  • Russia *
  • Slovakia *
  • Slovenia - Silver & Bronze (no Gold)
  • South Korea *
  • Sweden *
  • Switzerland - Gold & Bronze (no Silver)
  • United States *

Books:

1.  Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard - Germany
2.  A Place to Die by Dorothy James - Austria
3.  Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw - United States
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