koalamom's extra 999

I will start this extra bit to my 999 challenge as soon as I finish all but one of the nine categories in my regular 999.

On this date I finished my sixth category - Civil War and have at the ready the last book I need for my Classics category and the second to last for Fantasy and the last for that category is also the third to a trilogy that the penultimate one is a part of - so that category is close to being finished.

My final category - Religious- has three books to go, which I will read by the end of 2009, but I felt the need to categorize what I am reading beyond the original 999 - I am like that and I was tired of marking by 100 Challenge with "here but not in 999"!!!

So by the end of the month I should be starting this - if not sooner.

Oh my only rule for this "extra" is that I read one book in each category and no restrictions after that and I am changing the ninth category to Biography.

This thread will only run until the end of the year and then I will do something new unless there is a new group like this for 2010 - then maybe I'll join that one.

Civil War
1) Murder Most Confederate - 7/21/09
2) March Geraldine Brooks - 10/3/09

General Non-fiction
1) What in The Word? Wordplay, Lore - 8/7/09
2) Have a Little Faith - 9/13/09
3) The Eliade Guide to World Religions - 10/24/09
4) The Most They Ever Had - 12/7/09
5) The Truth About Santa - 12/7/09

Biography
1) Julie and Julia - 8/9/09
2) My Life in France - 8/20/09
3) Journal of a Soul - 9/3/09
4) Simple Gifts June Sprigg - 10/20/09
5) Singing God's Work - 11/22/09
6) The Singular Mark Twain - 12/12/09

Classics

1) Lord Jim - 8/25/09
2) The Bible According to Mark Twain - 9/18/09
3) Frankenstein - 9/20/09
4) The Acts of King Arthur - 12/6/09

Children/Young Adult

1) Series of Unfortunate Events The End - 7/26/09
2) The Story Girl - 9/22/09
3) Emily of New Moon - 10/11/09
4) Where The Wild Things Are - 10/09
5) Bluestar's Prophecy - 10/31/09

Mystery/Crime
1) Finger Lickin Fifteen - 7/17/09
2) Strawberry Shortcake Murder - 7/17/09
3) Loitering With Intent - 7/19/09
4) Last Known Address - 8/1/09
5) Cat in a Topaz Tango - 8/16/09
6) Under Orders - 8/23/09
7) 206 Bones - 8/25/09
8) Murder Most Celtic - 9/4/09
9) Two Little Girls in Blue - 9/15/09
10) Hothouse Orchid - 9/27/09
11) The List of 7 - 10/1/09
12) Arctic Drift - 10/7/09
13) The Broker - 10/17/09
14) All Around the Town - 10/27/09
15) Dead Days of Summer - 11/8/09
16) Cat Striking Back - 11/20/09
17) Blueberry Muffin Murder - 11/21/09
18) Murder Most Romantic: Passionate Tales - 11/27/09
19) U is for Undertow - 12/3/09
*20) Death Walked In - 12/18/09
*21) Murder Most Medieval - 12/21/09
*22) The Cradle Will Fall - 12/28/09
*23) Tough Cookie - 12/30/09

Science Fiction

1) Mere Mortals - 7/29/09
2) Star Trek Lost Souls - 8/7/09
3) Star Trek: SCE: Wounds - 8/28/09
4) Star Trek Pantheon - 9/8/09
5) A Singular Destiny - 9/18/09
6) Star Wars Omen - 10/04/09
7) Star Trek Log One - 10/8/09
8) Star Trek Log Two - 10/18/09
9) Over a Torrent Sea - 10/24/09
10) Star Trek Log Three - 10/28/09
11) Star Wars Abyss - 11/6/09
12) Star Trek Log Four - 11/14/09
13) Star Trek Full Circle - 11/19/09
14) Star Trek Log Five - 11/26/09
15) Star Trek Losing the Peace - 11/29/09
16) Star Trek The Soul Key - 12/9/09
*17) Star Trek Unworthy - 12/14/09
*18) Star Trek Log Six - 12/21/09
*19) The Never-ending Sacrifice - 12/26/09
*20) Star Trek Log Seven - 12/29/09

Fantasy

1) The Winds of Dune - 8/19/09
2) The Butlerian Jihad - 9/12/09

General Fiction

1) Summer on Blossom Street - 7/20/09
2) Silver and Gold David Sakmyster- 7/25/09
3) Before Green Gables - 7/30/09
4) The Street Lawyer - 8/4/09
5) Portrait of an Unknown Woman - 8/12/09
6) The 13th Warrior - 9/2/09
7) The Lost Symbol - 9/25/09
8) A Christmas Secret - 9/28/09
9) Home for Christmas Andrew Greeley - 10/22/09
10) Changing Habits - 10/30/09
11) Metro Girl - 11/12/09
12) At First Sight - 11/15/09
13) Playing for Pizza - 12/11/09
*14) A Wallflower Christmas - 12/14/09
*15) Pirate Latitudes - 12/23/09

I started this thread on 7/17/09 with only one book left on my original 999 and that one is sitting on my table to be read along with others - it's that kind of book, but there should be at least three books here before I finish that. They are easier to read and more fun, but I should be here exclusively by the end of the month.

How was Finger Lickin' Fifteen? I was very tempted to pick it up at the bookstore the other day but I was trying to be good and not buy more than the 4 books I had gone to the store to pick up.

I liked it - see my review on the books page - but then I have liked this series since I discovered it.

Looks like I managed to pick books of the same genre for the first three in this extra 999 challenge. I didn't plan it that way. These were all books that I had had on hold at the library for a while and they all came in at the same time - as did the fourth book entered here which is (will be) in the general fiction category. I say will be because at the time I wrote this note, I hadn't read it yet!

Here it is 7/22 and I have already added my fifth book to this thread. I am also about halfway through the last book of my original 999 Challenge. I shall have to start diversifying my reading, too.

I have 12 books here! I have almost finished a book for my General Non-fiction category but it got usurped by my daughter who wanted to read it while here visiting and since she has to go back next week, I can wait. I also have chosen the three books that will fill out the other three categories that are as yet filled with at least one book (as of this date), so I will soon meet this small challenge too - then I'll just keep adding here and see where I end up at the end of the year.

On my table as of this date are the two books that will complete the requirements for this challenge - one book in each category, but I will continue filling in here as appropriate to see how many I read. It is interesting to see which categories I lean toward - my comfort zone, as it were, but I do feel that I am getting out of that zone, at least just a little.

interesting how the two in biography as of 8/21 go together

I have now (as of 8/25/09) read at least one book in each of these nine categories. Now let's see how many others I will fit in here and will I get more than one in each category?

Definitely have a thing for Mystery/Crime novels!

as of today I also have an extra 100 thread

Book number 24 entered this day.

25 books here as of 9/4 - 25 in less than two months

Do I read too fast or too much????

Oh, well, I enjoy reading and am not looking for knowledge.

maybe I should change of my 1010 challenge categories for next year to sci-fi that's not Star Trek, but I have so much of it on my book shelf right now - I could do a whole category of just that!

You're zipping along!

I always do. I always seem to have a book in hand. Like my mom - and my son.

I see that all my sci-fi is Star Trek and I know there are other sci-fi authors to read! But then I put the Dune books in fantasy.

I need to read another Chldren's and Civil War book to make this look more rounded.

I have 32 books as of this date here.

I only seem to have one Civil War related book and it may stay that way until I start the 1010 in January. I have a few books but want to save them for the new year - not sure why, but ...

35 books read to date for this thread of mine, my extra 100 is up to 13

I have read at least two books in each of these categories and at this point I just plan on reading what I want. I'll save filling out categories for January and the 1010.

definitely a fiction person, especially mystery and sci-fi with 60m titles here on this date

Sci-Fi, with one exception, is all Star Trek - trying to catch up to my son on these and I am getting close but there is a new one due this month - wonder if he'll ask for it?

well this sure shows where my comfort zone is, though I did manage to read at least 2 books in each category for this extra edition of my 999

and then there were only five - with three (again) on my table and 25 days to the end of the year

didn't think I'd get to 5 general non-fiction titles in this extra 999 and never on one day!

66 books listed here in 9 categories, each of which has at least 2 books in it

this is part of the 150 books that I have completed for 2009 - 66 beyond the original 999 challenge of 81 (9 in 9 categories) (the original 100 challenge didn't start until February while the 999 did)

I have read a lot - I always knew I read a lot, though at times it seemed I couldn't get through a book and to think I started readingin the lowest reading group in the first grade!

books marked by a * are those read after I completed 150 on the 100 Challenge