2013 Challenges Wrap Up

16/12/2013, CelineNyx, Events, Updates , 6

2013 is closing to its end, and I think it’s time to look back and see how I did with this year’s challenges! I had to browse through quite some posts to find back the challenges I signed up for, and found almost none. Apparently I just never signed up for most of them. I still did sign up for three, one of which I completely forgot about!

Yup, competely forgot I pledged to read debuts this year. I’ve scoured my read shelf and found out I didn’t do *that* bad, considering I had no clue I was participating:

Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza
Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black
Broken by A.E. Rought
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross

On the other hand I’ve been doing great at The Classics Club challenge! I’m trying to read fifty classics from my list in three years, and so far I’ve read:

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Lancelot by Chrétien de Troyes
The Lais by Marie de France
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I’m really sad that I’m neglecting fantasy so much since I started blogging seriously. Most fantasy books just are too long and take too much time for me to fit them in a rather tight schedule of reading, blogging, studying and writing. Of my list of 101 books I’ve read: