11 for 11 for TwilightBlue

I missed my 2010 challenge by four - not to shabby. We're going to try this again for this year and see how it goes. I'll consider it a success if I read 9 books in each category that's 99 in total. I reserve the right to include novellas and short stories in this listing, not just novels and epics.

I'll borrow categories from years past:
1. White Books - Have love, life, light or laugh (or variations) in the title for my bright side - DONE
2. Black Books - Have dead, death, night or dark (or variations) in the title for my dark side - DONE
3. Oldies - any book with a copyright before I was born - DONE
4. Pretty Pictures - any book with pictures ex. graphic novels, comic, manga - DONE
5. eBooks - electronic books - DONE
6. Facts - self explanatory - DONE
7. Paranormal - anything that's just not logical
8. Wired for Sound - audio-books - DONE
9. Next Please - any book that is part of a series - DONE
10. Inner Teen - young adult books- DONE
11. My Motley Crew - anything that doesn't fit above - DONE

Read 99/115 of 99/121

White Books - DONE

1. Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward (also Next Please and Paranormal)
2. Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
3. Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen (also Next Please and Paranormal)
4. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
5. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass (also Inner Teen)
6. Live Wire by Lora Leigh (also Next Please)
7. How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O'Neal
8. Love My Way by Bridget Midway (also eBooks)
9. A Big, Little Life by Dean Koontz (also Facts)

10. Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey (also Inner Teen and Paranormal)
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Black Books - DONE
1. Darkness Under the Sun by Dean Koontz (also eBook, Next Please)
2. Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole (also Next Please and Paranormal)
3. House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo (also Next Please, Paranormal, eBook, and Inner Teen)
4. Last to Die by Kate Brady (Also Next Please)
5. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke (also Next Please, Inner Teen, Wired for Sound, Paranormal)
6. The Dead Town by Dean Koontz (also Paranormal and Next Please)
7. In the Event of my Death by Carlene Thompson
8. Dark Life by Kat Falls (also Inner Teen, Paranormal, White Books and Next Please)
9. The Night Crew by John Sandford

10. Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr (also Paranormal, Inner Teen and Next Please)
11. The Death Cure by James Dashner (also Next Please, Paranormal and Inner Teen

Oldies - DONE
1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (also Wired for Sound)
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (also Wired for Sound)
3. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (also Wired for Sound)
4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (also Wired for Sound and Next Please)
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (also Wired for Sound)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (also Wired for Sound and Paranormal)
7. Some Buried Caeser by Rex Stout (also Wired for Sound and Next Please)
8. A Right to Die by Rex Stout (also Black Books, Wired for Sound and Next Please)
9. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (also Next Please and Wired for Sound)

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Pretty Pictures - DONE

1. The Littlest Bitch by David Quinn
2. Cartoon Marriage by Liza Donnelly
3. The Stuff of Legend: The Dark by Mark Riacht
4. The Exile by Diana Gabaldon (also Next Please, Paranormal)
5. The Family Circus is Very Keane by Bil Keane (also Next Please)
6. Mercury by Hope Larson (also Paranormal and Inner Teen)
7. Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel (also Paranormal And Inner Teen)
8. Mad with Wonder by Frank Beddor (also Paranormal, Inner Teen, and Next Please)
9. Nature of Wonder by Frank Beddow (also Paranormal, Inner Teen and Next Please)

10. Blood Work: An Original Hollows Graphic Novel by Kim Harrison (also Next Please and Paranormal)
11. True Blood: Volume One: All Together Now by Alan Ball (Also Paranormal)

eBooks - DONE
1. Angel's Master by Sandra Sookoo
2. The Darkest Secret by Gena Showalter (Also Next Please, Black Books, and Paranormal)
3. The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (also Paranormal, Next Please and Inner Teen)
4. Black Silk by Jan Gordon (also Paranormal)
5. The Wicked House of Rohan by Anne Stuart
6. Slave (The Cat Star Chronicles) #1 by Cheryl Brooks
7. The Demon Girl by Penelope Fletcher (also Inner Teen, Paranormal, and Next Please)
8. Seduce Me in Dreams by Jacquelyn Franks (also Next Please and Paranormal)
9. Lord of the Vampires by Gena Showalter (also Paranormal and Next Please)

10. 4th Wish by Ed Howesershelt (also Paranormal)
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Facts - DONE

1. A License to Steal by Walter T. Shaw (also Wired for Sound)
2. Super Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner (also Wired for Sound or Next Please)
3. On Bullshit by Harry G Frankfurt (also Wired for Sound)
4. F my Life by Maxime Valette
5. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection by Gordon Ramsay
6. All by My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and Me by Jeff Dunham (also Wired For Sound)
7. The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson (also Wired for Sound)
8. The Angel Inside by Chris Widener (also Wired for Sound)
9. In With the Devil by James Keene and Hillel Levin (also Wired for Sound)

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Paranormal - DONE
1. Pale Demon by Kim Harrison (also Next Please)
2. Crave by J.R. Ward (also Next Please)
3. Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione (also Next Please)
4. Hit List by Laurel K. Hamilton (also Next Please)
5. Wayfinder by C.E. Murphy (also Next Please)
6. Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon (also Next Please)
7. The Neon Graveyard by Vicki Pettersson (also Next Please)
8. Adam by Ted Dekker
9. Frostfire by Lynn Viehl (also Next Please)

10. Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr (also Next Please and Inner Teen)
11. Quinn by Iris Johansen (also Next Please)

Wired for Sound - DONE
1. Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver (also Next Please)
2. The 6 Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly (also Next Please)
3. Incarceron by Catherine FIsher (also Next Please, Paranormal, and Inner Teen)
4. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
5. Ever After by Nora Roberts (also Paranormal)
6. Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech (also Inner Teen)
7. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (also Inner Teen)
8. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (Also Black Books)
9. At Home by Bill Bryson (also Facts)

10. Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
11. Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly

Next Please - DONE
1. Eve by Iris Johansen
2. Wicked Pleasure by Lora Leigh
3. One was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
4. Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
5. Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
6. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
7. No Mercy by Gena Showalter
8. Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
9. Showdown by Ted Dekker (also Paranormal)

10. Defiance by Lili St Crowe (also Inner Teen and Paranormal)
11. Reckoning by Lili St Crowe (also Inner Teen and Paranormal)

Inner Teen - DONE
1. Unraveled by Gena Showalter (also Next Please, Paranormal, or eBook)
2. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (also Wired for Sound)
3. The Maze Runner by James Dashner (also Wired for Sound and Next Please)
4. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (also Wired for Sound and Next Please)
5. Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon (also Wired for Sound, Paranormal, and Next Please)
6. This Book is Not Good for You by Pseudonymous Bosch (Also Next Please)
7. I am Not Esther by Fleur Beale
8. Amulet: The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi (also Pretty Pictures, Next Please and Paranormal)
9. Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow (also Next Please and Paranormal)

10. Betrayals by Lili St Crowe (also Next Please and Paranormal)
11. Jealousy by Lili St. Crowe (also Next Please and Paranormal)

My Motley Crew - DONE
1. Creepiosity by David Bickel
2. Ape House by Sara Gruen
3. Storm Cycle by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen
4. Thr3e by Ted Dekker
5. Water by Elephants by Sara Gruen
6. Directive 51 by John Barnes
7. The Rebel by J.R. Ward
8. Less of a Stranger by Nora Roberts
9. BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker

10. Skin by Ted Dekker
11. Saint by Ted Dekker
12. Sinner by Ted Dekker
13. Tempest by Julie Cross

A License to Steal: a father's genius a son's revenge but payback has a price by Walter T. Shaw

An interesting perspective of a jewel thief's life. Guided in life by his hatred of the rich for the slights against his father, Walter T. Shaw took up a life a crime. In this book he explains how watching his genius father get robbed of his inventions ie: the conference call, Walter Shaw decided poverty was not the life for him, and joining up with mafia, became a wiseguy and a world class jewel thief.

Darkness Under the Sun by Dean Koontz

I was a lucky winner of a "What the Night Knows" ARC. And I thoroughly enjoyed that book. In this prequel to the story told in the book, we learn a little about Mr. Blackwood and a child's being drawn forcefully out of his innocence not only once but twice. This little novella was a very good set up for the story yet to come.

I am glad I am not the only one with an ebook category! I look forward to seeing your choices :)

Look at that, today I am one third of the way through my first goal. Yeah ME!

Half way through the year half way through the challenge, I feel good about this challenge I just may finish it...

Sounds like you are right on target to finish on time ;-)

By the Pricking of my Thumbs - by Agatha Christie

Interesting little story, Tuppence goes looking for the owner of a painting that was given to her husbands' aunt. She has a sense of dread something has happened to dear old Mrs. Lancaster.
Kept me guessing as to who the culprit was. 1st Christie novel I have read. Enjoyed it.

@19 - thank you very much, I do feel quite confident about finishing the challenge this year.

Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Took me little while to get into this one. When the book series and the TV series are so different, it takes time to move out of one and into the other.

In this book, Dexter has become a father and is trying to reform his Deadly Dark Dexter ways. Right as he is coming into a case that very well might need his Dark Passenger to figure out.
Brian, his brother, comes back and tries to move in on Dexters' territory with the family.
And the case of a missing person has a strange turn. All this sets Dexter on a new path of righteousness that may very well be his undoing.

The Rebel by J.R. Ward

Cute little love story. Frankie is a strong heroine, jumps to a lot of conclusions but otherwise likable.
Nate, the hero, has his car break down in the Adirondacks, and winds up on Frankie's doorstep. Seeing she is in need of help with her Bed and Breakfast, he offers his services as a chef until the end of the season.
Can they keep the heat in the kitchen, or is that pot going to boil over?

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Jeremy Fink has just received a box from his father, who has been dead for 5 years.
He is supposed to open this box on his 13th birthday, which is just months away. It has four keyholes but no keys.
With the help of his best friend Lizzy, he goes in search of the keys.
This is an interesting story, as it gets you thinking on what is most important to you. What is your meaning in your life? Written for young adults, it is a story any age group could get into.

Live Wire by Lora Leigh

The plot was good, the intrigue and that. The Special Ops unit Tehya and Jordan belong to haa run it's course and is being disbanded. Tehya on the run from her father for years before she killed him has finally started to feel safe, when she starts to feel as though she's being watched. Jordan who has tried to stay away from Tehya from the first day they met, finds that she is yet again in danger from her fathers' associates and runs to her rescue.
If you had read Lora Leigh before, you know she writes very in depth (no pun intended) sex scenes, those are no different in this book. Very hot and steamy, no holds barred, sex scenes.
The thing I had a problem with is all the typos and editing mistakes. I forgive a book one or two mistakes. I am usually skimming across the pages anyway and probably miss some that others would catch. But when I find myself having to re-skim a page because the errors make the fluid feel of a book all choppy, it gets annoying as hell. And I had to do this more than half a dozen times.

How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O'Neal

I quite enjoyed this book, the story held my interest even though it's not my usual flavor of story. I do wish they author had gone a little bit more in depth at the ending of the book, on how everything worked out for the bakery and such, but other than that a recommended read.

Only 22 more to go in the next 4 months.... I think I can, I think I can.

You definitely can!

I have added an author to my list of favorite authors - - - Ted Dekker is now one of my favorites.

DONE

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Thank You Everyone on the Congrats. Hope you all finished your goals as well.