Reading challenge check-in

[colls]

So, how did you all do in the Coffee, Tea and Thee Challenge?

TELL US ALL ABOUT IT
+ Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one?
+ Did you finish the challenge with one from each?
+ What books did you read?
+ Where they any good?
+ Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month?
+ What else did you read?
+ What are you currently reading?
+ Anything else to share?

P.S. Answer as many or as few of those questions as you'd like.

REMINDER
Please feel free to post in April. ♥
You can check out our slots so far if you'd like. I won't be around for the first couple of weeks of April, so if I don't reply right away to your comment signing up, feel free to go ahead and post whenever. :)

Comments

[colls]

+ Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one?
nope. I'm a slacker
+ Did you finish the challenge with one from each?
yes, although I'm loosely interpreting 'coffee' and invite everyone else to do the same.
+ What books did you read?
Coffee == The Last Policeman by Ben Winters ((they seem to have coffee frequently))
Tea == The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, ((Australia and England))
Thee == Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky ((S))
+ Where they any good?
yes! I enjoyed everything I read this month for varying reasons.
+ Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month?
no, I'm still planning on reading The Coffee Trader and will definitely read The Dervish House in April (it's a book club selection).
+ What else did you read?
Blood Rites (Dresden Files #something) by Jim Butcher, Star Wars: Scoundrels,
+ What are you currently reading?
The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa by Margaret McCord
+ Anything else to share?
I have two VERY long flights in front of me, so I expect lots of reading to take place in the near future. YAY BOOKS!!

[brisus]

I can't answer the questions for the challenge b/c I don't read many books (I know, I know, I sound pretty stupid--but I read a lot of things online.)

And I'll be happy to host-a-post, so whatever someone else doesn't do, I can fill in. Books probably would be the only one I'd suck at b/c I don't do much, but I'll still host that topic and think of something. Just put me whereever or I'll just post randomly. ;)

[colls]

haha -- it's okay. Books aren't everyone's thing. :)

Sounds good - I'll leave it open and let you all do whatever comes up or whatever strikes your muse. Thank you for continuing to keep chatter and activities going - you're a peach!! :)

While I'm on vacation, I'll see if I can come up with some more random post topic ideas, i'm kinda fresh out of brain-power at the moment - LOL!

and Happy Easter to you!! I hope you had a great day. :D

[brisus]

:) Ty.

No problem! :)

No worries; I knew the feeling! I've been crazy busy and I'd liek to do something fun that hasn't been done before or just nontraditional. :)

:) Ty. I did! Hope you did too!

[skieswideopen]

+ Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one?
Yes. Because apparently I don't read that many books set in Canada.

+ Did you finish the challenge with one from each?
Nope. Last night I read a book that I was sure would feature coffee heavily, but it featured alcohol instead.

+ What books did you read?
All tea:

The Minority Council by Kate Griffin (London)
Busting Vega$ by Ben Mezrich (various parts of the U.S. and Europe)
An Officer's Duty by Jean Johnson (Spaceships!!!)
City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster (Fictional fantasy land)

+ Where they any good?
I liked Minority Council quite a lot. The rest were okay.

+ Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month?
I don't really plan most of the time. They were all books I happened to stumble across at the library.

+ What else did you read?
Lots of stuff about how to do logistic regression with a focus on how to standardize coefficients.

+ What are you currently reading?
Standardizing coefficients. I don't have any novels on the go.

+ Anything else to share?

[snowynight]

I finished Stealing Cthulhu for thee challenge in March and I enjoy it a lot.

[mierke]

Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one?
Nope, I read one from each category.

Did you finish the challenge with one from each?
Yep :D

What books did you read?
I read Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Games series, The Summoning, the first book in Kelley Armstrong's Darkest Powers Trilogy and Coffeehouse angel.

Where they any good?
Not really. I thought Mockingjay was quite a disappointing end to the trilogy that started off so well, and I had expected more of both The Summoning and Coffeehouse Angel. (Click on the titles for book reviews!)

Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month?
These were the ones I was planning on reading.

What else did you read?
Lots of fanfic, but these were the only actual books I read.

What are you currently reading?
Nothing at the moment; I'm actually planning on looking for another book reading challenge, because I love those!

Anything else to share?
LOVED the idea of this challenge, so thank you! <3

[turnerwolf]

+ Did you finish the challenge in one of the categories? If so, which one? Yes. All three.
+ Did you finish the challenge with one from each? Yes, with two additional.
+ What books did you read?
Coffee - Dan Breen and the IRA (Ambrose), Fordlandia (Grandin), Damascus Count Down (Rosenberg)
Tea - The Tehran Initiative (Rosenberg), Unlikely Rebels: The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom (Clare), Ice Forged (Martin)
Thee - Ethan of Athos (Bujold), Allegiance in Exile (George), Accidental Time Machine (Haldeman)
+ Where they any good? They were all very good. The only problem I had was with the Rosenberg books- it was a trilogy (the first being The Twelfth Imam) but it ruined the political thriller aspect with some preaching and attempts at conversion. Prior to picking up the first novel, I was unaware of the fact that Rosenberg is an evangelical author with an agenda. That being said, the trilogy was good and not as bad as the Left Behind series.
+ Where they the books you had planned to read, or did things shift mid-month? They were ones that I had planned to read.
+ What else did you read? The Twelfth Imam (Rosenberg), Cetaganda (Bujold), The Templar Cross (Christopher), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser), and Sons of Fortune (Archer)
+ What are you currently reading? The House Girl (Conklin), The Fort (Cornwell), The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Smith), Martian war (Anderson), Michael Collins, Himself (Osborne), Templar Throne (Christopher), House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Shadid), The Alyesford Skull (Blaylock).
+ Anything else to share? No, but I need more coffee :P