2025 Reading Challenge discussion

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013

We will be focusing on different decades over this three month period. We will be able to learn a little history while reading.

The objective of this challenge is to either read a book from each decade or choose something that occured during the decade to read about. Here are our decades and some specific examples for reading...

1900-1909: NAACP founded, Boxer Rebellion, Model T car introduced, etc.
1910-1919: Titanic sinks, World War I, Spanish flu, etc.
1920-1929: Women's Sufferage, Stock Market Crash, First talking movie, etc.
1930-1939: Amelia Earhart, March of Dimes founded, King Edward VIII abdicates throne, etc.
1940-1949: World War II, United Nations founded, Polaroid Camera invented, etc.
1950-1959: First organ transplant, Soviet Satellite Sputnik, Antarctica becomes Scientific preserve, etc.
1960-1969: Biggest earthquake in history hits Chile, Berlin Wall built, Manson Murders, First Man on the Moon, etc.
1970-1979: Watergate Scandal, Civil War in Lebanon, North and South Vietnam form Socialist Republic of Vietnam, etc.
1980-1989: Michael Jackson's Thriller album released, First American Woman in Space, China's Tienanmen Square, etc.
1990-1999: Collapse of Soviet Union, Internet becomes popular, Mad Cow Disease, etc.
2000-2009: 9/11, First Black President (US)
2010-present: read anything you want from 2010-present

Here is a website to help you decide what you might want to read for each decade. Decade Reading

This challenge is open for you to read pretty much anything you'd like between 1900-2013. I gave some examples, but these do not have to be used. Have fun with this challenge and make it your own.

Have fun and Happy Reading....

Craig will be leading this challenge. Thanks so much, Craig!

I really like this one! I'll do 8.

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013
8/12


1900-1909: Edge of Sight by Roxanne St. Claire Apr. 3 in 1912 Fenway Park opened in Boston which is the setting of this book

1910-1919:

1920-1929:

1930-1939: It Had to Be You April 30 takes place in Chicago where the World's Fair was held in 1934

1940-1949:

1950-1959: In 1950 the US entered the Korean War, that same year Nora Roberts was born Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts May 10

1960-1969:

1970-1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy April 10 The first interplanetary space flight was in 1971

1980-1989: Presumed Innocent May 13 In 1986 when this book was published, The Soviet Union launced the Mir Space Station

1990-1999: Blame Canada!: South Park and Contemporary Culture April 7 In 1997 Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term

2000-2009: A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages April 7 in 2003 Wicked opened on Broadway

2010-present: read anything you want from 2010- Truly, Madly, Deeply April 8

My goal is 3.
(Since I am also Shelly, I can be Shelly M)

Would anyone like the role of leading this challenge? :)

I too will be trying for all 12!

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013

Completed 8/8

1) 1900-1909: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton published 1905 Completed 5/28 ****
2) 1920-1929: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf published 1929 Completed 6/18 ****
3) 1930-1939: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck published 1935 Completed 6/19 ***
4) 1960-1969:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey published 1962 Completed 6/9 *****
5) 1980-1989: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez published 1985 Completed 4/30 *****
6) 1990-1999: The Te Of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff published 1992 Completed 4/8 ***
7) 2000-2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel published 2009 Completed 5/19 *
8) 2010-present: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney Completed 4/14 *****

Definitely in! :P I'm gonna try for all of them too! :)

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013

Completed 0/12

Put me down for 4 maybe 5!

1920 - 1929 The Great Gatsby, Published 1925 **Read 4.3.13**
1950 - 1959 Doctor Zhivago, Published in English 1958
1980 - 1989 The Flames of Rome, Published 1981
2000 - 2009 The Kite Runner, Published 2003
2010-present Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Published 2010


Completed 1/4

I'm in for 10. Fun challenge idea.

Well I didn't complete my first quarter challenge. I will try for 6 books.

Can I count my current book Cinder as the 2010-present?

This is my first challenge. I think I'll go for 4.
3/4 read.

1: 1990-1999 Angela's Ashes (1996)
2: 1930-1939 A Brave New World (1932)
3: 1950-1959 A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
4: 1940-1949 Rena's Promise (took place 1940's/published 1995)

My goal will be 4. I need to keep my challenge aspirations under control :)

Jodi wrote: "Well I didn't complete my first quarter challenge. I will try for 6 books.

Can I count my current book Cinder as the 2010-present?"

Jodi, was the book completed on or after April 1? If so, then yes you can count it. :)

We still need a leader for this challenge. If you would like to lead let me know! Thanks! :)

Yay!! Thank you, Craig. :)

I am going to attempt to do 6 for this challenge.

Craig, I'm in. I am gonna have to look at my list of books. but put me down for 3. Ill try and read one a month. If I decide to up it, Ill let you know.

Ill try this one, put me down for 4 books so far :)

I'll try for ten.

I'm in for 10. To make it more interesting, I chose all American classics. Thanks for leading Craig.

Currently 10/10

1900: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1905) --READ, 4/13, 4 stars
1910: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911) --READ, 4/13, 3 stars
1920: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) --READ, 4/13, 3 stars
1930: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (1935) --READ, 4/13, 3 stars
1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway (1940)--READ 6/13, 4 stars
1950: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cleever (1957) --READ 6/13, 3 stars
1960: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969) -- READ, 5/13, 5 stars
1970: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970) READ, 5/13, 5 stars
1980: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980) READ, 4/13, 5 stars
1990: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991) READ, 5/13, 3 stars

I will join in ... since it is a quarterly challenge I should be able to get 12, but I'm only going to start with a goal of 6

I'm also in. I am going to set a goal of 6. Will have to think about what the specific books will be. I failed horribly in the 1st Quarter Challenge, so here's to better reading in the 2nd Quarter!

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013

Completed 4/8

1) 1900-1909:
2) 1920-1929:
3) 1930-1939: Brave New World READ published 1930's
4) 1940-1949: The Diary of a Young GirlREAD
4) 1960-1969:
5) 1980-1989:
6) 1990-1999:
7) 2000-2009: An Unquiet American READ
8) 2010-present: Past LifeREAD

I finished The Great Gatsby Published in 1925
1/4

Sounds very interesting, I'm in!

DECADES QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2013
Completed 0/8

1) 1900-1909:
2) 1920-1929:
3) 1930-1939:
4) 1960-1969:
5) 1980-1989:
6) 1990-1999:
7) 2000-2009:
8) 2010-present:

Count me in for six.

Count me in. I'll make my goal for six, but I am going to try and read more than that.
Completed 1/6

1)1950-1959 Night by Elie Wiesel

Up above I said I was going to go for six books. I am not sure which decades I will read, so I just wrote them all down and see where I end up.

Updated June 8

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929: The Blue Castle Published 1926
1930-1939: The Waves
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969: Slaughterhouse-Five
1970-1979: Unforgiving Years
1980-1989:
1990-1999: Interpreter of Maladies
2000-2009: Published 2009 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2010-Present: Published 2012 Cinder

7/6 Done! Done! Done! Beat my goal!

oooh this sounds like fun!

I'm going to go for 6 but I'd love to hit all 12.

I will come back later and start to add in some of the books sat on my shelf waiting to be read!

I just have a clarifying question. Can we read a book that is recently published but the setting takes place in the past and count it as the decade of the past? Or is this to only read books published in a particular decade or read about historical events from a specific time?

Thanks Craig. That was what I thought but just wanted to check in. It is so hard to pick books. I have downloaded so many books from the early 1900s that I never would have even thought to read. I think I am going to like this.

I'll try for 5, at the moment. :)

I'll keep track of them on this Thread & here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

I'd like to join in - I think I could do 8.

March was a bit of a write-off for me but I think I'm back on track here. I'm going to try for 6 books for this Quarterly Challenge.

(3/6)

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (WWII)
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:
2000-2009: Marvel 1602 (originally published: 2003)
2010-present: Vader's Little Princess (published: 2013)

I finished "Angela's Ashes" pub in 1996.

Book 2 down. A Brave New World. Published in 1930's.

Craig wrote: "Nicole wrote: "I'll try for 5, at the moment. :)

I'll keep track of them on this Thread & here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1..."

Good l..."

Thanks, but I doubt I will (even though I want to!). :P I'm a Slow Reader. Plus, I'm going to be very busy with Tests, homework, projects, & studying for the next couple of months, so I'm not going to have that much free time on my hands. :(

*UPDATE*

(Not really sure if this counts for this Decade because although this particular version was published in 1921, the original English version was privately published in 1901 & re-published commercially in 1902. Either way, it counts for something. :) )

1920-1929:

Progress Made So Far: 1/5

Nicole wrote: "
*UPDATE*


(Not really sure if this counts for this Decade because although this particular version was published in 1921, the original English version was privately published in 1901 & re-publi..."

*UPDATE*

1990-1999:

Progress Made So Far: 2/5

As of today I'm 3/8!

Craig wrote: "Good going Nicole and Chelsea - I'll get an updated progress list posted this week. How is everyone else getting on?"

Thank You! :)

I actually have another Update:

1960-1969:

Progress Made So Far: 3/5

Finished book # 3
"A Kiss Before Dying" by Ira Levin 1953

Hi Craig,

I am actually 2/6 right now. I finished my second book last night for this challenge. I updated my post this morning. Thank you :)

I'm up to 7/10, glad I signed up for the challenge because it has resulted in some damn good reads!

I've met my goal...4/4 books read!
1: 1990-1999 Angela's Ashes (1996)
2: 1930-1939 A Brave New World (1932)
3: 1950-1959 A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
4: 1940-1949 Rena's Promise (took place 1940's/published 1995)

I highly recommend "Rena's Promise". Very few books actually move me to actual or near tears or just in general get my emotions all riled up (probably because a good old mystery novel is my book of choice) however this one did all of the above. Check it out!

4/4 Complete

1. 1990-1999 Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)
2. 1960-1969 The Bell Jar (1962)
3. 2010-present Entreleadership (2011)
4. 1970-1979 See You at the Top (1974)

Success!

Jessica's update as of 5/30

Goal 10 Books
Read 9 Books


Books Read
1900's:: Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge selfridge secured investors for his retail store in London in 1906, the store opened in 1909
1910's:
1920's: The House At Riverton
1930's:
1940's:The Storyteller much of the story takes place in concentration camps during the 1940's
1950's: The Reader (5/6) Hanna and Michael begin their relationship in 1958
1960's: Tigers in Red Weather much of the story takes place in the 60's
1970's: The Westing Game published 1976
1980's:
1990's: Escape from Sobibor published 1995
2000's:Murphy's Law (published 2002
2010's: Matched published in 2010

I'm 5/8 now! Only one flew over the cuckoo's nest and two short novels left.

I'm 6/8 as of today!