Completed Challenges 2008

These are only the ones I've blogged about here. In addition to these I've completed another 20 challenges either on other blogs or on the ANovelChallenge YahooGroup.

• Medical Madness Challenge
• Unread Author Challenge
• Speculative Fiction Challenge
• Winter Reading Challenge
• Jewish Literature Challenge
• The Eponymous Challenge
• 2 New 2 U Challenge
• Themed Reading Challenge
• Numbers Challenge
• Spiritual Reading Challenge
• Spring Reading Thing 2008
• Book Binge
• Pub 2008
• Another Blooming Challenge
• Jane Austen Mini-Challenge
• 100+ Reading Challenge
• Short Story Challenge
• Herding Cats
• What an Animal
• I Heard it Through the Grapevine
• July Book Blowout
• The ARC Challenge
• In Their Shoes
• Nineteenth Century Women
• Non-fiction Five
• Orbis Terrarum
• The Whitcoulls Challenge
• Chick-Lit
• Summer Reading Challenge
• Casual Reading Challenge
• Romantic Reading Challenge
• Initials Reading Challenge
• First In a Series
• Reading Through The Decades
• Wind-Up Challenge
• Young Adult Challenge
• Chunkster Challenge
• Classics Challenge
• The 2nds Challenge - 2008
• Young Adult Romance Challenge
• Back To History
• TBR Challenge 2008
• Celebrate the Authors
• What's In A Name
• Fall Into Reading 2008
• The 888 Challenge

Fall Into Reading 2008 - Wrap Up

The Fall Into Reading 2008 officially ends today, so it's time to do my wrap-up post. I only read half the books for the challenge that I did last year, but you have to remember that last year I wasn't quite as addicted yet, so there weren't as many different challenges to read books for ;)

Anyway, to remind you, the books I read were:

• The Wrath of the Empress - Tamora Pierce
  
• The Spellcoats - Diana Wynne Jones
  
• A Jolly Good Fellow - Stephen Masse
  
• Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes
  
• The Death Committee - Noah Gordon
  
• The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan
  
• Dragonfly - Julia Golding
  

Out of those the best surprise was Last Chance Saloon. I expected a simple chick-lit and while it definitely belongs in that genre, Marian Keyes managed to add an extra something to it, making it a "deeper" book than I had expected.

My two favourites on the list were The Magician's Guild and Dragonfly - both of which blew me away though I hadn't expected them to.

The biggest disappointment was The Death Committee. I usually love Noah Gordon's books, but this one just wasn't up to snuff and I basically had to force myself to get through it.

My favourite thing about the Fall Into Reading challenge is the flexibility of it - I can make it as easy or as demanding as I'm motivated for. So I'll definitely be signing up for the Spring Reading Challenge once March rolls around! :-)