Jenna Likes to Read

I finished my 2010 Challenge!  I am very excited about this.  A month ago, I really didn’t think it would be possible, but I am so glad I did it.  It was a huge challenge (for me at least) and I feel really accomplished.  It also pushed me to read things I wouldn’t normally pick [...]

In 2010, I read 14 Debut Authors.  I’m sure I can match that this year, so I am joining the 2011 Debut Author Challenge hosted by The Story Siren. Debuts Read: Across the Universe by Beth Revis Entangled by Cat Clarke XVI by Julia Karr So Shelly by Ty Roth Unearthly by Cynthia Hand Wither [...]

After a big 2010 YA Reading Challenge, I told myself that I was going to do something much smaller for 2011 and concentrate more on just reading the books I own.  But today I came across this and I can’t pass it up!  I love all (well most) things British and love reading books by [...]

The challenge is over!  I didn’t get to read as much this week because I have a big project for work that is taking up a lot of my time, but I still feel I did pretty okay.  Short books helped! :)  I can’t wait for my project to be over so I can read [...]

So Week 3 is done!  Only one week left.  Yay!  The Challenge has been fun, but I’m ready to just grab something off the shelf and read it and not worry about how long it is or how many points it is worth. :) Number of Books Read: 9 Number of Books Not Finished: 0 [...]

So this was week 2 of the Challenge.  I thought my total would be lower this week because Jane Eyre was a beast, but it helped that I read several shorter books around it.  (BTW, Jane Eyre was great!  I am glad I read it.)  Pretty Monsters just didn’t hold my attention, so I gave [...]

As I mentioned earlier this week, I am participating in a 4 week challenge on PaperBackSwap to read older books.  I’m still reading a little YA and will blog about that, but probably won’t blog about non YA stuff.  Here’s a recap of my Week 1! Number of Books Read: 9 Total Points: 3100 Books [...]