projects progress...2013 update 5...

Run. Run away fast.

Lots of "progress" this past week.

*The unofficial-for-me reading challenges:

Anya's Ghost fills holes for:
the Mount TBR Reading Challenge (6/60),
the Genre Variety Reading Challenge--fantasy (4/18),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 224 pages (5/20+),
the Graphic Novels 2013 Reading Challenge (1/24),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (4/20)

Chiggers fills holes for:
the What an Animal 6 (2/6),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 176 pages (6/20+),
the Graphic Novels 2013 Reading Challenge (2/24),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (5/20)

The Pigman fills holes for:
the Mount TBR Reading Challenge (7/60),
the What an Animal 6 (3/6),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 166 pages (7/20+),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (6/20)

French Milk fills holes for:
the Mount TBR Reading Challenge (8/60),
the Genre Variety Reading Challenge--memoir (5/18),
the Foodies Read Challenge (1/3),
the What's in a Name 6 Reading Challenge--something you'd find in your kitchen category (1/6),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 208 pages (8/20+),
and the Graphic Novels 2013 Reading Challenge (3/24)

The Night Watch fills holes for:
the Mount TBR Reading Challenge (9/60),
the Genre Variety Reading Challenge--historical fiction ((6/18),
and the Mammoth Book Challenge--coming in at 524 pages (1/3)

Same Difference fills holes for:
the What an Animal 6--fish on cover (4/6),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 90 pages (9/20+),
the Graphic Novels 2013 Reading Challenge (4/24),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (7/20)

The Dead of the Night fills holes for:
the Mount TBR Reading Challenge (10/60),
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 271 pages (10/20+),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (8/20)

Friends With Boys fills in holes for:
the Quick Fix Reading Challenge--coming in at 224 pages (11/20+),
the Graphic Novels 2013 Reading Challenge (5/24),
and the Young Adult Reading Challenge (9/20)


*Personal read-the-world challenge:

French Milk is filling the slot for a French setting in a non-fiction work.

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters is filling the slot for a Welsh author.

Friend With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks is filling the slot for a Canadian author.


*50x50:

#23. Give 50 "happy unexpected gifts." I made the gang February love notes. Each day Rich, Gray, Annie, and Max each get a new personal little note giving one thing I love about him/her, along with a little treat (usually a piece of candy). Of course, this was only "unexpected" on the first day. :P (5/50)

#29. Upcycle 50 things. One day Gray decided to make himself a sheath for his plastic sword. He made it out of newprint, so yeah, it didn't last long. So I asked him if he wanted to make one out of fabric instead. We went to the fabric stash, which includes clothes that have outlived their usefulness as clothes. He chose a pair of his old pjs, which worked out rather nicely. One of the legs was hole-less, so we just chopped it off, sewed the bottom closed, hemmed the top and sewed in a couple large buttonholes through which he could slide his belt. (10/50)

#37. Read 50 books I never heard of before buying/borrowing from the library. Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim fills this slot, though I have a feeling I really should have heard of it before. (6/50)

#40. Read a book set in each of the 50 states. Chiggers by Hope Larson is set in North Carolina. (16/50)

#42. Read 50 memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, etc. French Milk by Lucy Knisley. (6/50)

#43. Read 50 award-winning books. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters won the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction. (9/50)

My "progress" seems to be feast or famine (usually famine)...but I sure ate well this week. :)