All Done!

I know I'm probably very premature for most of us, but I wanted to start a FINISHED thread. No pressure though! This is supposed to be fun! Take as long as you need! Post here with a link to your thread when you are done!

I'll start - I finished today, 5/8/10, and here's my link to my thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/86033

Congratulations Cindy!!

Thanks! :D

Congratulations indeed. I may not have commented on your thread but that doesn't mean to say I didn't find it an interesting one. I'll be following your next challenge as well.

Congrats Cindy! You know I will be making a note of any new mysteries that you find!

Congrats on finishing, Cindy!! I'll also be following your 1010 x 2 thread.

Congratulations! Looks like you had a good selection of books.

Thanks! It was a lot of fun, although I started to get a little overwhelmed near the end. I need to remember to pace myself better so that I don't leave all the more serious stuff for the end.

Congrats :)

Bumping this, as I know we have several more folks who have finished. Post here, and let us all cheer for you!

First challenge all done!

Second, shorter challenge underway.

Way to go, Pamela! I knew you were close.

Congratulations, Pamela!

Wow, Cindy and Pamela, you are like some east african long distance runners... Bronze medal still up for grabs, it seems?

14: Do I get the bronze medal, GingerbreadMan? :-)

I'm all done, as well! My thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/72070.

Congratulations mathgirl!

Congrats to pamelad and mathgirl.

Congrats to all that have completed their challenges! Impressive!

Way to go, Mathgirl!

Cindy are you going to put a ticker in the OP to show how many have finished? I'm hoping to get there before the end of the year.

My plan was to have a full 10 x 10 challenge for fiction in English and stepped challenges for non-fiction in English and books read in German.

I have finished the stepped nonfiction challenge, so I think I'd like to make it a full one. So far it is in one message of my English challenge, but I'd better give it its own topic.

Congrats to all who have finished! :) If you want to get moving on the 2011 challenge, there's now a group here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/the11in11categorycha.

Hurrah!! Finished my 1010 Challenge today. Already looking forward to the 11 in 11 Challenge next year. I plan on continuing to post about the books I am reading so please drop on by!

Congrats, Delta! Well Done. See you at 11/11

Congratulations DeltaQueen!

Congratulations, DeltaQueen! Glad you'll be continuing in the 11 in 11 challenge.

Good job, DeltaQueen!!

I'm thinking I will join you around Thanksgiving or so, unless I get distracted by all those non-1010 books I want to read.

#23 Congratulations Judy! I will probably join the finishers maybe at the end of October. We'll see how it goes. I too am distracted by other books, they taunt me!

Finished! I did start in October though. I have already started planning for the 11 in 11!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/73192#1498977

#29 - soffitta1: Congrats! Glad to see you are already thinking about next year's challenge!

Congratulations Soffitta! How you going to amuse yourself till year-end? Planning on a mini-challenge or anything?

Nice job, soffitta!

Well done Soffitta!

Thanks all! Such a fun challenge, and it had never felt like a chore. Actually I have enjoyed trying to slot books in.

re 31
I am also doing some challenges with Bookcrossing. 52 1001 books in 2010 and 50 Olympic Challenge books in 2010. In both I still have a long way to go, especially as now I am away from home and at the mercy of the selection of books in book exchanges.
I am also having fun trying to work out the categories for next year.

Finished a stepped challenge of books read in German.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/79212

Congratulations, sofitta and MarthaJeanne!

Good on you, MarthaJeanne!.

Congrats to all the finishers!!

Congratulations, Soffita and Martha!

I finished my 1010 step challenge. This was great fun with all the group reads this year!
--BJ

Way to go, BJ! That's great! I love the group reads.

Congratulations to all who finished, and I want to add myself to the list,

I started on 10-10-2009, and finished 23-09-2010. My thread is here.. I read 10 books in 10 categories. A lot of fun, but it did get a lot harder in the end, because I just was reading what I wanted to and trying to fit that in my categories.
Next year I have to go on a book buying diet (due to budgeting) so maybe next years challenge will help me to rediscover my TBR pile.

Good job, divinenanny.

Congrats on finishing!

Yay! More finishers. Congratulations to all.

Congratulations, divinenanny.

I'm done with the challenge! There were times I thought I couldn't stand being as restricted as I needed to be to get through it, and curses passed my lips more than once, but I'm so glad I did this. Some of the books I read, such as Herodotus, the Presidential bios, and some of the prize winners and science titles, were books I might have let slide except for plodding on for this challenge. Now I'm pumped for the 2011 challenge and will probably start in November, after I have a chance to catch up on some TBR which won't make it onto next year's list. Hope to see you all in 2011!

2010 Challenge: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=71775
2011 Challenge: http://www.librarything.com/topic/96707

Great job! I know what you mean about feeling restricted. I'm reading at whim now because I know in January I'll be back to reading by list, although I left myself more wiggle room this time, I hope.

Everyday I see more are finishing with this challenge. Congratulations to all, and hope you had (and are continuing to have) a good reading year.

I'm done with the challenge! I finished my final book this evening, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo. I've read some great books during the challenge as well as some not so great books. I'm glad I ended with one of the better ones!

I'm not starting the 11/11 challenge until January. I have a few categories I'll be focusing on for the rest of this year, but I'm not setting a goal for the number of books in each category. We'll see what happens.

#50 Congrats on finishing 1010. Great job!!

>51 lindapanzo: Thanks!

Congratulations, cbl!

Well done cbl_tn!

Great job on finishing!

congrats, CBL!

I have now finished my fiction challenge.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/79211#1667146

Congratulations MarthaJeanne. Looks as though you've read way more than 100 books this year.

Yes, Congrats MarthaJeanne. I think you did this Challenge in 3 ways - Fiction, Non-Fiction and German. Well done!

Congratulations, MarthaJeanne!

So far I only have the German and Nonfiction as stepped challenges, so I'm still working on those. But I still have two months.

I'm done too! :) http://www.librarything.com/topic/71710
Now I can concentrate on my 11 in 11 challenge...

Congratulations MarthaJeanne and Laura.

Congrats to the recent finishers!

Congratulations Laura.

It was merely a humble stepped challenge, but on saturday I wrapped it up! My thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/92440#2009264

I plan to stick around to fill up my bonus category (six books to go there), and very likely beyond that too.

Congratulations GingerbreadMan!

I've finished my 1010 challenge (10 books in each of 10 categories plus a 20-book "next in the series" bonus).

Next up will be a lot of dabbling, trying to read some holiday fiction, get caught up on ER books etc. All organized into a bit of a mini-challenge to myself.

Well done Linda! It will be fun to follow your mini-challenge!

Congrats Linda!

Yay for Linda! Congratulations!

Thanks everyone. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Good on you Linda.

Hurra for Linda!

Congrats, Linda!

Congratulations!

Congrats to GMan and to Linda!

I made it! Is there any cake left?

And I finished also.

>78 VictoriaPL: Congratulations! I hope so, because I do feel I earned it this year!

Victoria - Well done and I am sure we can always order more cake! ;-)

ivyd - second congrats - first was posted to your now completed thread.

Congratulations Victoria and Ivy.

Horrah for Victoria and ivy!

Congrats Ivy!!

Well done Victoria & Ivy.

Thanks, everyone!

Congratulations, Victoria and Ivy!

Oooohhh! how exciting! Congrats to Ivy and Victoria! I hope to finish in a few weeks just before the deadline (new years)

I've just completed my challenge for this year!

Congratulations Wolfy!

Congrats!

Well done Wolfy!

Congrats to Ivy, Victoria and Wolfy!

Congratulations to all the finishers! I can finally count myself among you...I finished my last book for the challenge today! :) Here are my threads: http://www.librarything.com/topic/70787 (part 1) and http://www.librarything.com/topic/89955 (part 2). I look forward to seeing you all at the 11 in 11!

(Edited to attempt hyperlinks, but apparently they're beyond me!)

Congrats Christina!

Congratulations.

Thanks! :)

Congrats to all the 1010 finishers!!

Congrats to all!!!!! I may even be able to join you by the end of the year - if I get left alone for a while! :)

Three cheers for everyone who has finished!

Congratulations to everyone who's finished!

I've just read my 100th qualifying book and finally crossed the line - although I confess to resorting to a few sneaky novellas (and even some that are borderline short story length) in the final stages just to get the there.

Congratulations Christina and Caty.

Congrats, you two especially, and anyone else that I may have missed! We keep closing in. :)

Yay, I finished my last book this morning. Completed 10 books in 10 categories with some bonus reads. I had to substitute a category along the way as I found I had no desire to read historical novels this year!
Congratulations to everyone who finished and I wish good reading time over the holidays to those still to complete the challenge.

And special congratulations to squeakychu who finished the challenge yesterday and is still doing her happy dance.

Congratulations, avatiakh and squeakychu!

Finished my last book this afternoon and can now breath a sigh of relief and sit back and enjoy the feeling of accomplishment that I actually did it.

Congrats to all that are finished and belated congrats to any that I may have missed!

Big congratulations to lkernagh, avatiakh and SqueakyChu!

Congrats to all - I hope to join you as soon as I get more than a minute to post my last 2 books to my thread.

Congratulations! We may need to order more cake!

I'm actually a couple of days late because I started last Christmas, but I have now finished my nonfiction challenge http://www.librarything.com/topic/96643.

I have also wound up my German challenge. I either did 10 books each in 8 categories or 8 books each in 10 categories. http://www.librarything.com/topic/79212.

I'd like to try to balance these a bit better next year so that I'm not madly trying to fill certain categories at the last minute.

Very impressive! Congratulations!

Congratulations MarthaJeanne!

Congratulations on finishing your challenge MarthaJeanne!

Congrats to all the finishers!! I have now managed to join you all with 4 whole days to spare! :)

My 2010 thread is over here.

Congratulations MarthaJeanne and bookoholic13!

I've finished my challenge and look forward to 11 in 11. My challenge was at least 2 books in each category. I ended up with 4 books in most of the categories and I am very happy with what I acomplished. This next year I am going for 4 books in each category. Thanks to everyone who commented on my thread. It was a lot of fun!

I finished and forgot to jump over here to post. I'm so behind and catching up with threads and starting new threads. But I'm done and ready to go for next year. I think I'll just stop and count anything this week for next year.

Congratulations dudes22 and craso!

Congrats on finishing Caroline and Betty!

Congratulations to all those who finished their challenges since I last visited this thread (quite a number, it seems)!

I finished the second part of my challenge today and can move on to my 1111 challenge now!

Congrats to everyone on finishing! It looks like several of us have been busy reading over the holidays. Can't wait for next year!

I finished! Actually ended up doing 101010, can't believe it! Feel a sense of accomplishment!

Congrats!!!!!

I finished two days ago (I think?) -
http://www.librarything.com/topic/80488
http://www.librarything.com/topic/100295
(yes, 2x100 books... uh ^^;)

Congrats everyone!!!

Congrats everybody! I just finished, with a day to spare! And good luck with the 11x11 challenge for those who are doing that as well.

Congrats to everyone!

I think we can all be very proud of ourselves. We read, and we tried to keep our reading from being totally one-sided.

Congrats to everyone. I just managed to finish my stepped version.

Congratulations everybody!

Yes, Congratulations everyone!

Congrats prezzey, Elizabeth22 and calm!

Congrats everyone!!! Hope to see you next year - that's in a little less than 14 hours for me... Still time to read!! :)

Congrats to everyone who finished!

I'm finishing up my last 10 in 10 for the 1010 Challenge but I will fall one book short of my +20 bonus category. Oh, well... at least I'll finish the main challenge. on to 11 in 11!

Quick - grab a picture book and read and count it!

Congrats on the finish!

Well it took me till the last day but I did it!Looking forward to seeing all of you in the 1111 challenge!
Congrats to everyone who made it!

Can I count the two ½books I abandoned?

Two halves make a whole!

Although I haven't yet finished my last book for the challenge ( about halfway through The Voyage of the Beagle which is 500 slow pages) I do feel that this was a successful year for reading as I read a variety of nonfiction as well as a lot of my favorite genre fiction (35 bonus fiction plus lots of rereads). I'll be starting my "11 in 11" thread soon!

Congratulations to everyone who finished and to all the participants who feel they accomplished a lot of what they entered the challenge hoping to do. After all, the journey is the important thing.

Congrats to everyone!

I finished on 29th December and am just adding my updated list to my post. Congrats everyone else who finished. Looking forward to 11 11 11 :)

I finished my 100th on December 30, while I was out of town.

Now I just have to get my 11-11-11 challenge sorted out.

More congratulations are in order it seems. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to everyone that finished and to all the participants that tried. This was my first challenge but not my last! I enjoyed reading everyone's thread even though I don't comment that often. See you all in the 11 in 11 Challenge.