Reading Challenges

So in 2012 I did this challenge - 50 Movies and 50 books in a year. I didn't quite make it (see below) but I was oh so close. And I enjoyed the challenge, so I'm doing it again this year. I find that when I'm keeping track, I'm a lot more motivated to take time to read and sit down to enjoy movies. So here we go. You can follow my progress here or on Pinterest. And if you'd like to sign up yourself, there are details here.

I'm also doing the Dusty Bookshelf Challenge to start working on those books sitting on my shelves. You can info about that challenge here. I won't make a separate list but will mark the books that qualify for the Dusty Bookshelf challenge (put on shelf between 2009-2012) with an * in the list. The goal is to have at least twenty read.

I'm keeping track of both of these with photos via Pinterest:

The 2013 List 

BOOKS I've Read

1. Enslaved by Shoshanna Evers

2. Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught *

3. On Her Side by Beth Andrews

4. Rush by Maya Banks

5. Moonglow by Kristen Callihan

6. Painted Faces by L.H. Cosway

7. Jackson Hole Valentine by Cindy Kirk

8. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

9. Miracle in New Hope by Kaki Warner

10. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

11. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

12. A Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux

13. Sinful by Charlotte Featherstone *

14. A Taste of You by Sorcha Grace

15. The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

16. Fever by Maya Banks

17. Perfect by Judith McNaught

18. The Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell

19. After Hours by Cara McKenna

20. Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross and Mark Perrini (ARC read for endorsement quote)

21. All of You by Christina Lee (ARC read for endorsement quote)

22. Ours to Love by Shayla Black

23. My Story Can Beat Up Your Story by Jeffrey Alan Schechter

24. Secret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality by Suzy Spencer

25.

MOVIES I've Watched

1. Warm Bodies

2. Horrible Bosses

3. Identity Theif

4. Catfish

5. Side Effects

6. Pretty In Pink

7. The Walking Dead - Season 1 (I'm counting a full season of a show as a movie.)

8. The Walking Dead - Season 2

9. The Walking Dead - Season 3

10.

My List for the 2012 Challenge

BOOKS I've Read

1. Dark Citadel by Cherise Sinclair

2. Desire's Edge by Eve Berlin

3. The Principal's Office by Jasmine Haynes

4. Immersed in Pleasure by Tiffany Reisz

5. Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors by Alexandra Sokoloff

6. Saddled and Spurred by Lorelei James

7. An Ordinary Girl by Barbara Elsborg

8. Cowboys Down by Barbara Elsborg

9. The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker

10. Bared to You by Sylvia Day

11. The Reason Is You by Sharla Lovelace

12. The Dark Garden by Eden Bradley

13. Sheltered by Charlotte Stein

14. Willing Victim by Cara McKenna

15. The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

16. Mine to Hold by Shayla Black

17. Restraint by Charlotte Stein

18. Sweet Addiction by Maya Banks

19. Yours to Take by Joely Sue Burkhart

20. The Theory of Attraction by Delphine Dryden

21. Collision Course by K.A. Mitchell

22. Hot Head by Damon Suede

23. Wife for Hire by Christine Bell

24. Defying the Odds by Kele Moon

25. Because You Are Mine (serial) by Beth Kery

26. More Like Her by Liza Palmer

27. What Happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles

28. On Dublin Street by Samantha Young

29. Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha

30. Laid Open by Lauren Dane

31. Ten by Gretchen McNeil

32. Easy by Tammara Webber

33. Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein

34. The Angel by Tiffany Reisz

35. Captive in the Dark by C. J. Roberts

36. Seduced in the Dark by C. J. Roberts

37. Losing It by Cora Carmack

38. The Prince by Tiffany Reisz

39. Between by Jessica Warman

40. Reflected in You by Sylvia Day

41. Flat Out Love by Jessica Park

42. Breath on Embers by Anne Calhoun 

MOVIES I've Watched

1. Pearl Jam Twenty

2. Super 8

3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

4. The Change-Up

5. Friends With Benefits

6. Chronicle

7. Foo Fighters: Back and Forth

8. This Means War

9. Project X

10. The Proposal

11. The Hunger Games

12. American Reunion

13. The Five Year Engagement

14. Dark Shadows

15. Star Wars - original

16. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

17. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

18. Snow White and the Huntsman

19. Magic Mike

20. The Campaign

21. Woman in Black

22. Inception (2nd time but I'm still counting it)

23. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (also 2nd time)

24. Pitch Perfect

25. Argo

26. The Cabin in the Woods

27. Breaking Dawn Part 2

28. Silver Linings Playbook

29. Wreck-It Ralph

30-32. Pride and Prejudice (counting it as three since it was a 6 hour mini-series)

33. This is 40