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Sara's 13x13

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1saraslibrary
Edited: Jan 1, 2013, 4:39 am

By tradition, the goal is to reach 156 books (yeah, yeah, stop laughing), but if I can read at least one to three books in each category, I'll be happy. (I'm also doing the 75 Books Challenge for 2013.)

I | Fiction
II | Juvenile/YA
III | Part of a Series
IV | Horror/Urban Fantasy
V | Suspense/Mysteries/Thrillers
VI | Romance/Erotica
VII | Humor
VIII | Vampires
IX | Fantasy/Fairy Tales
X | Nonfiction
XI | Picture Book
XII | Graphic Novel/Manga/Comics
XIII | Checked Out from Work

14saraslibrary
Edited: Nov 5, 2013, 10:23 pm

XIII | Checked Out from Work

1. Having a Picnic by Sarah Garland
2. How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
3. Who's Hatching? by Charles Reasoner
4. Maybe A Bear Ate It! by Robie H. Harris
5. The Sartorialist: Closer by Scott Schuman
6. If You Give a Kid a Cookie, Will He Shut the F**k Up?: A Parody for Adults by Marcy Roznick
7. Hot Guys and Baby Animals by Audrey Khuner & Carolyn Newman
8. It's Useful to Have a Duck by Isol
9. Scarum Fair by Jessica Swaim
10. Best in Show by David Catrow
11. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell
12. I Am A Pole (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
13. My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend by The Oatmeal
14. Prudence Wants a Pet by Cathleen Daly
15. Vampirina Ballerina by Anne Marie Pace
16. Goodnight Bush: A Parody by Erich Origen & Gan Golan
17. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
18. I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano
19. Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
20. Again! by Emily Gravett
21. Puss Jekyll Cat Hyde by Joyce Dunbar
22. Nighty Night, ZooBorns by Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland
23. Red Dog/Blue Dog: When Pooches Get Political by Chuck Sambuchino
24. Sam's Pet by Charnan Simon
25. Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
26. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by The Oatmeal
27. Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex
28. That Is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems
29. Fly Guy and the Frankenfly by Tedd Arnold
30. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
31. Too Much Glue by Jason Lefebvre
32. Your Skeleton is Showing: Rhymes of Blunder From Six Feet Under by Kurt Cyrus
33. Vader's Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown
34. A Halloween Treat by Edward Gorey
35. Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat by William Braden

15BookLizard
Jan 1, 2013, 10:55 am

Welcome to the challenge! Have fun with it!

16lkernagh
Jan 1, 2013, 1:31 pm

Great to see you joining the challenge, Sara!

17mamzel
Jan 1, 2013, 6:09 pm

Have a great reading year!

18christina_reads
Jan 1, 2013, 10:58 pm

Love the ambitious goal of 156 -- good luck to you! :)

19saraslibrary
Jan 1, 2013, 11:29 pm

#17: Thanks, mamzel! :)

#18: Overly ambitious, I think. ;) But thanks!

20LauraBrook
Jan 2, 2013, 12:52 pm

SARA!!!! I'm so happy to see you here! Good luck, you can do it - especially if you work on the kids books in your library. :) YAY YOU!!!!!!

21saraslibrary
Jan 2, 2013, 9:14 pm

I'm happy to see you here, too! :) For some strange reason, I almost never check out books from work (I'd rather buy them than borrow them). That's why I added the "Checked Out from Work" category, to put a fire under my butt.

And good luck to you! I'm almost certain you'll reach the 13 x 13 quota. :)

22BookLizard
Jan 2, 2013, 9:31 pm

21> I work at a library but borrow most of my books from a different library. LOL.

23-Eva-
Jan 3, 2013, 10:32 pm

Welcome!! Looking forward to seeing how you fill your categories! I'm certainly not laughing at 156 - that would be a very respectable total for the year!

24saraslibrary
Jan 3, 2013, 10:50 pm

#22: I completely understand. :) I used to work part-time at two different library systems. One used to fine staff for late items; another one didn't. Needless to say, I rarely checked items out at the one that would charge us.

#23: Thanks, Eva! :) I think I did the math right (13x13=169-13 for overlaps=156), but for me, it's very unlikely I'll reach that number. But still, it's fun to try. :)

25AHS-Wolfy
Jan 4, 2013, 7:01 am

Plenty of categories here for me to keep an eye on. Good luck with your challenge.

26mamzel
Jan 4, 2013, 4:24 pm

I almost never check out books from work
I regularly read books from my work library. However, if a student wants to borrow it I will leave a sticky note on my page and let him/her check it out instead. I've discovered a lot of little treasures hiding on the shelves. Shelving books invariably takes longer than necessary since I find some book I somehow never noticed before or that I forgot we had.

27madhatter22
Jan 4, 2013, 7:53 pm

Hey Sara! Hm. You may have inspired me to also do this challenge along with 75. I don't know why it never occurred to me to do both.
Categories flying through my brain ...

28DeltaQueen50
Jan 5, 2013, 5:11 pm

Hi Sara, welcome to the challenge. I read and enjoy most of the categories you have listed so I will be dropping by to see what you are reading.

29saraslibrary
Jan 6, 2013, 1:32 am

#25: Thank you; I'm going to need it! :)

#26: That's nice of you to let others check out books before you. :) And I know how that goes--finding "little treasures hiding on the shelves." I guess fear of getting in trouble at work for reading when I'm supposed to be shelving has kept me from really even looking at some of our books. I just mentally file them away for when I'm at the bookstore.

#27: I hope that's a good thing. I thought the same thing when I stumbled across this group, but then I remembered how hard it was for me in years back to do both. But I'm sure you'll be able to manage it. Best of luck getting your categories organized. That's one of the fun parts of this challenge. :)

#28: Thanks, DeltaQueen! :) Glad to see we have similar reading tastes. Hope to see you around.

30sandragon
Jan 6, 2013, 11:36 pm

Hi. Just stopping by to check out your challenge.

Just like I'm in awe of people who can read 100+ books a year, I'm in awe of people who can take part in more than 1 challenge. I don't think I'd be able to do the 75er challenge as well as the 13 in 13. This group is pretty active and I'm having enough trouble keeping up with the threads here.

Good luck with your challenge. I look forward to your reading thoughts.

31saraslibrary
Jan 7, 2013, 12:52 am

Hi sandragon! :) I'm totally in awe of people who can multitask like that, too. I'm definitely not one of those people. I've tried doing a couple of these 10x10 and 11x11 challenges and failed miserably, so I'm pretty sure I won't make it this year. But it's still fun. :)

As for threads...yikes! I'm really behind on those. Sometimes I wish reading threads went towards our challenges.