Reading Challenge Update

Why do all my reads have the same letters?  Gameland, Going Home and Graduation Day! Independent Study, Into the Darkness, Infestation and Into the Mist! Royal Marriages, Rebel, The Remaining, Redfall and Red Headed Stepchild!

Update-Just one to go.

A) A Dance With Dragons
B) Booked 4 Murder
C) The Chalk Man
D) The Devil's Fingers
E) Ebola K
F) The Farm
G) Gameland
H) Hope's End
I) Independent Study
J) Jack and Jill
K) The King Is Dead
L) The Last Bastion Of The Living
M) The Mage in Black
N) No God Is Safe
O) Operation Antarctica
P) Premonitions
Q) Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault
R) Red Headed Stepchild
S) Secret Lives Of Rockstars
T) The Testing
U) Unexpected World
V) Victoria & Abdul
W) The War Mage
X)
Y) Yuma
Z) Zombies, Run!

This challenge is hosted over at https://www.escapewithdollycas.com/ . The idea is simple-read a book with an author first name or surname for each letter of the alphabet. Read any genre and format you want, any book length, and crossovers to other challenges are fine too. Join in by blog or use a Goodreads shelf. For more details check out the sign up post here.  https://www.escapewithdollycas.com/reading-challenges/2019-alphabet-soup-reading-challenge/

I used to do a challenge like this on my Goodreads Group but haven't really bothered since I closed it down. I've noticed a few blogging friends are taking part in this so it'll be fun to connect with them by taking part.  

Update-Making good progress with this one. I'm a bit concerned about X though!

A) A American-Going Home
B) Boyd Craven-Flirting With Death
C) Courtney Konstantin-Prepared
D) Diana Anderson-Premonitions
E) Eric S Brown-The Squad
F) Rhiannon Frater-The Last Bastion of the Dead
G) George RR Martin-A Dance With Dragons
H) Hunter Shea-Antarctic Ice Beasts
I) Mike Ingram-Bosworth 1485
J) Joelle Charbonneau-The Testing
K) Kealan Patrick Burke-Jack and Jill
L) Lee Murray-Into The Mist
M) Matt Shaw-Voyage To Hell
N) Nicholas Woode Smith-Cape Zero
O) Orlando A Sanchez-The War Mage
P) Peter Bramley-Henry VIII & His Six Wives
Q)
R) Nick Robinson-Election Notebook
S) Saul Tanpepper-Gameland
T) Harley Tate-Darkness Begins
U)
V) Jeff VanderMeer-Annihilation
W) William H Weber-Defiance
X)
Y)
Z)

Welcome to my ebook challenge! This year I plan to get as many books off the ereader and the tbr and free up space for other things. 

Here is my starting list of those I really want to deal with. I'll add to the list through the year.

Update-I hope to complete this by the end of December.

1) Bobby Akart-Axis of Evil (Lone Star #1) (DNF)
2) Bobby Akart-36 Hours (Blackout #1) (DNS)
3) Bobby Akart-The Loyal Nine (Boston Brahmin #1) (DNS)
4) WR Benton-Premonition of Death (Fall of America #1) (DNS)
5) Lee Murray-Into The Mist (read)
6) Lee Murray-Into The Sounds (DNS)
7) Donna Galanti-Joshua & The Lightning Road
8) Jeff VanderMeer-Annihilation (read)
9) Meg Collett-Fear University
10) Alex Hughes-Clean (DNF)
11) Adam J Wright-Lost Soul (DNF)
12) Norman Christof-Destination Lost (read)
13) Seth Skorkowsky-Damoren
14) Suzanne Lazerar-The Secret Life of Rock Stars (read)
15) Michael F Haspil-Graveyard Shift
16) Lisa Blackwood-Betrayal's Price (DNS)
17) Bobby Adair-Ebola K (read)
18) Ania Ahlborn-The Shuddering (read)
19) Saul Tanpepper-Gameland (read)
20) Hunter Shea-The Devil's Fingers (read)

This year, I really need to get a pile of paperbacks off the tbr and bookshelf, and out to the charity shops! Every month I'll be trying to tackle a few that I'm not sure I'm going to like based on gut feelings, reading tastes or Goodreads reviews. On this list I'll indicate what I managed to read, what was DNFed and if any of them are keepers! I'll be adding to the list through the year and the challenge will end in December.

Update-I reduced the numbers to 14 and I hope to complete it by December's end.

1) A American-Going Home (The Survivalist #1) (read-3 star)
2) Annie Berdel-Alpha Farm (Prepper Chick #1) (DNF)
3) Justin Somper-Allies & Assassins (Allies & Assassins #1) (read)
4) Michael J Sullivan-The Crown Tower (Riyria Chronicles #1)
5) Candace Robinson-Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault (Glass Vault #1) (read)
6) Candace Robinson-The Bride of Glass (Glass Vault #2) (DNS)
7) Conn Iggulden-Darien (Empire of Salt #1) (DNF)
8) Belinda Bauer-Snap
9) Boyd Craven-Breaking Point (read-2 star)
10) Mary Kubika-Every Last Lie
11) CJ Tudor-The Chalk Man (read-3.5 star)
12) DB Thorne-Troll
13) Seth C Adams-If You Go Down to the Woods (read)
14) Thomas E Sniegoski-The Demonists (DNF)

The idea is to read books with a royal theme ie Kings, Princesses, Queens, Dukes, Knights, Castles, Kingdoms, Quests etc. This challenge is hosted by Adriana Garcia over at https://shesgotbooksonhermind.blogspot.com/ .

Here are the books from my tbr that I hope to get read this year for the challenge. I've picked 15 to try and get Queen status but if I do well or DNF a few, more may be added!

Update-I've finished 14/15 books for the challenge so far. 

1) David Baldwin-Henry VIII's Last Love (read)
2) Shrabani Basu-Victoria and Abdul (read)
3) Jane Bingham-The Tudors (read)
4) Lady Colin Campbell-The Royal Marriages (read)
5) Lady Colin Campbell-Diana in Private (read)
6) Margaret Campbell Barnes-My Lady Of Cleves
7) Justin Somper-Allies & Assassins (read)
8) Laurien Gardner-Plain Jane (read)
9) Anna Pasternak-Princess In Love (read)
10) Diane Haeger-The Queen's Mistake (read)
11) Peter Bramley-Henry VIII & His Six Wives (read)
12) Kate Emerson-The Pleasure Palace (read)
13) Mike Ingram-Bosworth 1485 (read) 
14) Suzannah Lipscomb-The King Is Dead (read)
15) Dickie Arbiter-On Duty With The Queen (read)
 

I'm intending to catch up on quite a few series this year, starting with a few of the shorter series that have been lurking on my shelves for a while! If I can clear them it will help in the battle to reduce the never-ending tbr! 

The Plan is to start this year with a few series that I really must finish or catch up with. Once I've done them all I'll extend the challenge by adding more series on until I run out of days in the year. The challenge will run all year.

SERIES TO BE FULLY READ 
I'm hoping to get the DD Barant, MLN Hanover and Kelly Meding series fully finished. I plan to also complete Primordia, The Last Bastion and the Iron Druid series. I'm not going to get time to read the Christina Henry series so that might go to my Winter Reading List in January.

1) DD BARANT-BLOODHOUND FILES
1-Dying Bites
2-Death Blows
3-Killing Rocks
4-Better Off Undead
5-Back From The Undead
6-Undead To The World

2) JAYE WELLS-SABINA KANE 
1-Red Headed Stepchild (read)
2-The Mage In Black (read)
3-Green Eyed Demon (read)
4-Silver Tongued Devil (read)
5-Blue Blooded Vamp (read)
 -Fool's Gold #0.5 (read)
 -Violet Tendencies #2.5 (read)
 -Rusted Veins #5.5 (read)

3) MLN HANOVER-BLACK SUN'S DAUGHTER 
1-Unclean Spirits
2-Darker Angels
3-Vicious Grace
4-Killing Rites
5-Graveyard Child 

4) CHRISTINA HENRY-BLACK WINGS
1-Black Wings
2-Black Night
3-Black Howl
4-Black Lament
5-Black City
6-Black Heart
7-Black Spring 

5) KELLY MEDING-DREG CITY 
1-Three Days to Dead
2-As Lie the Dead
3-Another Kind of Dead
4-Wrong Side of Dead
5-Requiem For the Dead
6-The Night Before Dead 

6) JOELLE CHARBONNEAU-THE TESTING 
1-The Testing (read-5 star)
2-Independent Study (read-4 star)
3-Graduation Day (read-4 star)

7) JR TATE-DAMAGED CLIMATE
1-Tornado Warning (read)
2-Drought Warning (read)
3-Blizzard Warning (read)

8) RHIANNON FRATER-AS THE WORLD DIES 
1-The First Days (read) 
2-Fighting To Survive (read) 
3-Siege (read)
-Untold Tales vol 1 (read)
-Untold Tales vol 2 (read)
-Untold Tales vol 3 (read)
-Untold Tales Deadly Night (read)
-Untold Tales A Very Fort Christmas (read)

9) DIANA ANDERSON-PREMONITIONS
1-The Farm (read)
2-War (read)

10) GREIG BECK-PRIMORDIA
1-In Search Of The Lost World (read)
2-Return To The Lost World (read)
3-Re-Evolution

11) RHIANNON FRATER-THE LAST BASTION
1-The Last Bastion Of The Living (read)
2-The Last Mission Of The Living
3-Escape To The Last Bastion

These are individual books that I've read to either complete a series I've been reading or to catch up with what has been published so far in an ongoing series.

1) George RR Martin-A Dance With Dragons part 2 (read) 
2) SM Wilson-Extinction Trials 3: Rebel (read)
3) Kevin Hearne-Scourged (Iron Druid #9)