Crafts and Life

Okay first off my plans for 2015

1. Save at least £215 in my NISA

2. Save at least £215 in general savings

3. Pay off at least £1k

4. Read 215 books

5. Read first 10 Kathy Reichs books

6. Finish 2 colours on tapestry (at least!)

7. Stitch the Winnie the Pooh year

8. Knit 12 squares

9. Knit at least another 10 rows on the sweater

10. Learn Welsh

11. Lose 12 pounds in weight

12. Wear make-up 52 times

13. Do 4 recipes from cookbooks not used before

14. Do 13 new recipes

15. Make some mead

 

The Alphabet Soup Challenge means that by December 31, 2015
your bowls must be full of one book for each letter of the Alphabet.

Each Letter Counts As 1 Spoonful

Details

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2014 until December 31st, 2014.

You can join anytime. You do not have to review the book. Books can come from any genre.

You do not need to link up each spoonful.

Make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls. I keep track of mine on my Challenge Page.

Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.

You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles as shown below. For those pesky Q, X AND Z titles the word with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.

So there are two different ways you can set up your own A-Z Reading Challenge.

A – How I plan to do it: Make a list on your blog from A-Z. Throughout the year, as you go along, add the books you are reading to the list. Towards the end of the year, you can check and see which letters you are missing and find books to fit.

OR

B – Make a list now of 26 books, picking one for each letter of the alphabet. For example: A – All the President’s Menus by Julie Hyzy  B- Bushel Full of Murder by Paige Shelton  C – Criminal Confections by Collette London  D – Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay etc.

Books can be read in any order and all formats – print – e-book – audio – are acceptable for this challenge!

Ready to join??

Bloggers grab the image below and make a post about the challenge to encourage others to join!

Non-bloggers you can join too! Just keep track any way you wish and enter a link below if available or sign up in the comment section. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!

Need some help finding titles to match the alphabet – Jandy’s Reading Room has a wonderful list to get you started. X and Z were the toughest for me so this year I am going to try to take care of those two early.

Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book as there may be special announcements made about the challenge.

SIGN UP HERE TO ENTER THIS CHALLENGE!

Then when you complete the challenge copy and paste your completed list in a comment below and FILL OUT THIS FORM

 

Now obviously my Alphabet Soup challenge will help with the 215 book challenge! Also the Kathy Reichs part of the challenge – so here is my list

A – As Gouda as Dead

B – Bedevilled Eggs

C – Cross Bones

D – Death Comes to Pemberley

E – Eggs in a Casket

F – Fatal Voyage

G – Grave Secrets

H – The Homemaker

I – If Hooks Could Kill

J – The Joy of Being Disorganized

K – Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales

L – Liver Let Die

M – Monday Mourning

N – The Narrow Road to the Deep North

O – Old Filth

P – Police at the Funeral

Q – Queen of Sorcery

R – The Rosie Project

S – Summer in February

T – Tied up in Tinsel

U – Unnatural Death

V – Vintage Murder

W – We That Were Young

X – Xone of Contention

Y – You Better Knot Die

Z – Zombie Lover

I am NOT reading these in order as some of them are for the Book club and others if I am reading a series they are out of order of the series! Either way though I am looking forward to seeing how I do – now to add my list to the sign up!