Spoilers and Nuts: Challenges 2012

Outdo Yourself - Off the Shelf - Why Buy the Cow? - What's in a Name - Book Bingo - Fairy Tales Retold

2012 Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge
hosted by The Book Vixen

Goal: Read 96 books (10 more than in 2011)

Books Read: 23 1 96

Entwined by Heather Dixon
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Restoration by Carol Berg
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories edited by John Joseph Adams
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber
Caravana by Rui Manuel Amaral
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 7 by Hiromu Arakawa
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times by James Finn Garner
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer

Off The Shelf 2012
hosted by Bookish Ardour

Goal: Read 75 books acquired before 2012

Books Read: 11 0 75

Entwined by Heather Dixon
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Restoration by Carol Berg
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories edited by John Joseph Adams
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Caravana by Rui Manuel Amaral
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Dune by Frank Herbert
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg

Why Buy the Cow? Reading Challenge 2012
hosted by Reading the Paranormal and The Unread Reader

Goal: Read 12 Free Ebooks (and legal)

Books Read: 1 0 12

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells

What's in a Name 5
hosted by Beth Fish Reads

Goal: 1 book from each category (out of 6)

Books Read: 4 0 6

A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title:
Dune by Frank Herbert
A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title:
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
A book with a creepy crawly in the title:
A book with a type of house in the title:
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title:
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title:
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas

Book Bingo
Book Bingo is exactly what the name says - a book bingo. I'm doing this with some friends over at GoodReads, but's a private sort of thing. Anyway, here is my card (in Portuguese):

Goal: 1 line (vertical, horizontal or diagonal), a book for each category.
Strategy: None whatsoever - although column G is calling me.

YA: House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Noutra língua [foreign language]: Restoration by Carol Berg
Audio-livro [Audio Book]: The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fantasia [Fantasy]: The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
Ficção Científica [Science Fiction]: The Eye of the Heron [Expulsos da Terra] by Ursula K. Le Guin
Romance: Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Livre [Free]: The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Sugerido por alguém [Suggested by someone]: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Contos[Short-Stories]: Caravana by Rui Manuel Amaral
Horror: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Autor começa por vogal [Author stars with a vowel]: Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 7 by Hiromu Arakawa
Adaptado ao Cinema/TV [Made into Movie/TV]: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Mais de 500 pag.[More than 500 pages]: Dune by Frank Herbert
Novela gráfica [Graphic Novel]: Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Ficção Histórica [Historical Fiction]: I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer