Opinions of a Wolf

Hello my lovely readers!

Because life is so incredibly busy, I hadn’t been planning on participating in any of the many wonderful reading challenges in existence around the book blogosphere.  (Beyond hosting my own, the Mental Illness Advocacy Reading Challenge, of course.)  But when I received a GoodReads invitation to Socrates’ Finishing the Series Reading Challenge, I couldn’t resist because it fits in so well with my already established (in my head) reading goals for 2013.  It’s incredibly simple. Choose a single (or multiple) book series you’ve previously started to finally finish reading during 2013.  I already have a GoogleDoc of all the series I’m reading and was saying to myself, “Amanda, finish at least a few of these in 2013,” and doing that in the context of the fun that is a book blog reading challenge just makes me happy.

I’m currently reading 26 series. I know, I know.  I’m not going to challenge myself to all of those, because then I’d only be reading series books all year. 😛  But I am signing up for the highest level of the challenge: Level 3: 3 or more series.

So what am I pledging to finish?

1. Georgina Kincaid series by Richelle Mead
   #3 Succubus Dreams review 1/31/13, 5 stars
   #4 Succubus Heat review 12/25/13, 4 stars
   #5 Succubus Shadows
   #6 Succubus Revealed
2. Y: The Last Man series by Brian K. Vaughan
   #8 Kimono Dragons
   #9 Motherland
   #10 Whys and Wherefores
3. Riders of the Apocalypse series by Jackie Morse Kessler
   #3 Loss
   #4 Breath
4. John Cleaver series by Dan Wells
   #3 I Don’t Want to Kill You review , 3/2/13 3.5 stars
5. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
   #2 Children of God
6. Katherine “Kitty” Katt series by Gini Koch I will not be finishing this series, due to severe dislike of the third book. It’s a permanent dnf.
   #3 Alien in the Family review, 10/3/13 2 stars
   #4 Alien Proliferation
   #5 Alien Diplomacy
   #6 Alien vs. Alien
   #7 Alien in the House
   #8 Alien Research

For the Katherine “Kitty” Katt series, it is not yet finished, so I’m only pledging to books that are projected to be published before the end of 2013.

I also reserve the right to give up on a series if it starts nose-diving before the end. 😉

Phew! That’s a lot of books…but it would also make a serious dent into my series list.  So fingers crossed that I have good luck with it.

If the challenge sounds like a good match for you, be sure to check out the official challenge page!