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Here are my challenges for groups other than the 2017 Reading Challenge groupChallenges carried forward from last year
Wacky Reading Challenges group:
TBR Challenge: What to Read Next (end date 3/21/17)
Let's Go to Disneyland! (until completion)
Here Comes 2017 - A New Year of Lists (end date 11/30/17)
RISK (until completion)
Historical Landmarks of Italy (4th quarter 2016) Challenge completed 3/13/2017
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
SCRABBLE, ANYONE? (ongoing)
HELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE (end date 3/31/17)
SCHOOL DAYS (until completion)
SHRINK THAT TBR ( end date 6/30/17) Challenge completed! 5/28/2017
New challenges for 2017
Crazy Challenge Connection group
1-2-3 CHALLENGE, REVISITED (1/1/17 - until completion)
2017 NAMEDROPPERS (2/1/17-1/31/18)
Let's track my TBR - 2017Last year, I had a personal challenge to read at least 50 books that had been on my TBR over a year. Although I may still track that statistic too, this year I'm going to focus on the raw numbers. I haven't quite decided if having a lot of books on my TBR is a good thing or a bad thing :-)
January
TBR - beginning of month: 375 (2 books currently reading)
# books added: 9
# books read: 7
TBR - end of month: 378 (1 book currently reading)
February
Wacky Reading Challenges groupTBR Challenge: What to Read Next
3/22/16 to 3/21/17
Level One: Just Need a Little Help (10-20 Books)
Level Two: Point Me in the Right Direction (20-40 Books)
Level Three: Help! I'm Completely Lost (40-60 Books)
I'm going for Level Three and I'm using two dice.
Link to the Challenge
Roll dice
✓ 1. Rolled 2 & 4 - #204 You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz read 3/25/2016
✓ 2. Rolled 5 & 1 - #351 Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore read 3/30/2016
✓ 3. Rolled 2 & 6 - #269 A Sudden Light by Garth Stein read 4/14/2016
✓ 4. Rolled 1 & 1 - #181 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra read 4/22/2016
✓ 5. Rolled 4 & 2 - #243 Astray by Emma Donoghue read 4/26/2016
✓ 6. Rolled 6 & 4 - #246 NOS4A2 by Joe Hill read 6/11/2016
✓ 7. Rolled 2 & 4 - #324 The King of Taksim Square by Emrah Serbes read 6/18/2016
✓ 8. Rolled 4 & 5 - #145 By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham read 7/9/2016
✓ 9. Rolled 2 & 2 - #292 The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney read 7/23/2016
✓ 10. Rolled 5 & 4 - #254 Not My Father's Son read 8/8/2016
✓ 11. Rolled 3 & 5 - #357 Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church read 8/14/2016
✓ 12. Rolled 5 & 6 - #365 The Last Girls read 8/28/2016
✓ 13. Rolled 4 & 1 - #41 Amity & Sorrow read 9/13/2016
✓ 14. Rolled 1 & 6 - #165 Frog Music read 9/27/2016
✓ 15. Rolled 5 & 3 - #135 The Borrower read 10/3/2016
✓ 16. Rolled 4 & 1 - #134 A Good Hard Look read 10/16/2016
✓ 17. Rolled 3 & 2 - #323 All I Love and Know read 11/16/2016
✓ 18. Rolled 4 & 2 - #224 Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City read 11/24/2016
✓ 19. Rolled 2 & 6 - #362 The Opposite of Everyone read 11/26/2016
✓ 20. Rolled 4 & 1 - #341 The Underdogs read 12/19/2016
✓ 21. Rolled 1 & 4 - #142 Just What Kind of Mother Are You? read 12/25/2016
✓ 22. Rolled 5 & 2 - #251 Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town read 1/8/2017
✓ 23. Rolled 3 & 5 - #3 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families read 1/19/2017
✓ 24. Rolled 2 & 3 - #362 Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017
✓ 25. Rolled 3 & 5 - #53 Torch read 3/13/2017
✓ 26. Rolled 5 & 6 - #156 The Free read 4/5/2017
✓ 27. Rolled 1 & 4 - #114 Triptych read 5/5/2017
✓ 28. Rolled 5 & 6 - #156 The Signature of All Things read 5/21/2017
✓ 29. Rolled 4 & 4 - #8 Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love read 6/7/2017
✓ 30. Rolled 5 & 5 - Welcome to Braggsville read 6/23/2017
Crazy Challenge Connection groupSCRABBLE, ANYONE?
Begins February 1, 2014
No deadline
You may use the first letter of the first word of the book's title (do NOT count A, An or The), or the first or last initial of the author to complete each letter.
Link to the Challenge
Scrabble word helper
Set #1: E, A, I, I, O, N, L finished 6/27/2016
✓ E - How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng read 3/26/2016
✓ A - Astray by Emma Donoghue read 4/26/2016
✓ I - In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway read 3/29/2016
✓ I - The Improbability of Love by Hannah Mary Rothschild read 5/28/2016
✓ O - The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay read 6/27/2016
✓ N - NOS4A2 by Joe Hill read 6/11/2016
✓ L - Lunch with Buddha by Roland Merullo read 4/3/2016
Word for set #1 - on On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life by Amy Purdyread 4/7/2016
Set #2: A, O, T, N, T, C, T Finished 12/21/2016
✓ A - Ali in Wonderland read 8/14/2016
✓ O - The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics read 11/20/2016
✓ T - A Tale for the Time Being read 7/17/2016
✓ N - No Biking in the House Without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene read 7/3/2016
✓ T - The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer read 10/14/2016
✓ C - The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness read 9/21/2016
✓ T The Tree of Hands read 12/21/2016
Word for set #2: Not Not My Father's Son read 8/8/2016
Set #3: T, M, R, N, U, O, G
✓ T - Twelve Years a Slave read 12/31/2016
✓ M - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town read 1/8/2017
✓ R - Riversong696] read 2/12/2017
✓ N - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/2/2017
✓ U - Us read 5/7/2017
✓ O - Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
✓ G - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo read 2/12/2017
Word for set #3: On I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago read 4/26/2017
Set #4: C, L, R, I, Q, T, A finished 12/18/2017
✓ C - Commonwealth read 12/6/2017
✓ L - Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love read 6/7/2017
✓ R - Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017
✓ I - Inescapable read 6/8/2017
✓ Q - The Quilter's Daughter read 12/18/2017
✓ T - Turbo Twenty-Three read 6/21/2017
✓ A - Addicted read 5/28/2017
Word for set #4: At Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant read 5/21/2017
Set #5: S, Y, O, W, A, D, R
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✓ Y - You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures read 12/25/2017
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✓ A - Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS read 12/27/2017
✓ D - The Divorce Papers read 12/30/2017
✓ R - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend read 12/18/2017
Word for set #5: Way - Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Wacky Reading Challenge groupLet's Go to Disneyland!
April 1, 2016 - Completion
Disneyland is in the midst of celebrating their 60th Year Anniversary. Let's join the fun and visit the happiest place in the world together!
*You must complete tasks A-D for each land.
*Task E (the spell out task) is OPTIONAL - its up to you if you want to complete it. But be sure to save an additional post if you plan on doing the spell out!
Challenge Rules:
We will observe the 125 page limit but you may combine books to reach the page limit but all combined books must meet the challenge requirement. All formats are acceptable. Re-reads are fine but please be sure to re-read the entire book. When updating your challenge with books you've read, please include a link to the book title, the author's name, and the date you finished reading the book. Please post cover when a cover item has been asked for.
Link to the Challenge
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Disney "Lands"
✓ Main Street USA 17/17
✓ A. Read a book that takes place in a small town in the US. Nobody's Fool read 9/10/2016
✓ B. Read a book with a vehicle or street scene on the cover.
read 10/3/2016✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in MAIN STREET ARCADE. The King of Taksim Square by Emrah Serbes read 6/18/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in DISNEYLAND RAILROAD (3 Word Minimum), A Sudden Light read 4/14/2016
✓ E. Spell Out MAIN STREET USA.
✓ M - March Violets by Philip Kerr read 4/18/2016
✓ A - Astray by Emma Donoghue read 4/26/2016
✓ I - Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai read 12/22/2016
✓ N - No Biking in the House Without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene read 7/3/2016
✓ S - Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai read 4/5/2016
✓ T - The Tilted World by Tom Franklin read 4/29/2016 read 1/18/2017
✓ R - Riversong by Tess Thompson
✓ E - The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan read 5/1/2016
✓ E - The Echo Maker read 12/9/2016
✓ T - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki read 7/17/2016
✓ U - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce read 7/22/2016
✓ S - Summer Island by Kristin Hannah read 6/1/2016
✓ A - Ali in Wonderland read 8/14/2016
Adventureland 16/17
✓ A. Read a book that is tagged Adventure on its GR Homepage. You may use this link to help find a book but the book you choose does NOT have to be listed here:Adventure. The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon read 12/10/2017
✓ B. Read a book you think has an exciting cover. Please explain what made the cover exciting to you. Lucky Us read 8/22/2016 - The zebra balancing on the lion, walking on a tightrope
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in JUNGLE CRUISE.
My Story by Elizabeth Smart read 5/26/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in INDIANA JONES ADVENTURE (3 Word Minimum). Standing in the Rainbow read 5/9/2016
E. Spell out ADVENTURELAND.
✓ A - Amity & Sorrow read 9/13/2016
✓ D - Delicious! read 6/25/2016
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✓ E - Eleanor & Park read 12/20/2016
✓ N - Not My Father's Son read 8/8/2016
✓ T - The Tender Bar read 10/14/2016
✓ U - Us read 5/7/2017
✓ R - Range Of Motion read 4/2/2017
✓ E - The Expatriates read 4/7/2017
✓ L - Lunch with Buddha read 4/3/2016
✓ A - All I Love and Know read 11/16/2016
✓ N - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/2/2017
✓ D - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant read 5/21/2017
✓ Frontierland 16/16
✓ A. Read a book that is tagged Historical Fiction on its GR Homepage AND takes place after 1800 in the US. Worthy Brown's Daughter by Phillip Margolin read 5/5/2016
✓ B. Read a book that has either a cowboy or a horse on the cover Inescapable read 6/8/2017
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in TOM SAWYER'S ISLAND. The Road from Gap Creek by Robert Morgan read 6/10/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in MARK TWAIN RAILROAD (3 Word Minimum). Reading Lolita in Tehran reead 9/5/2016
✓ E. Spell out FRONTIERLAND.
✓ F - Frog Music read 9/27/2016
✓ R - The Red House read 4/20/2017
✓ O - On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life by Amy Purdy read 4/7/2016
✓ N - The Nest read 4/24/2017
✓ T - Twelve Years a Slave read 12/31/2016
✓ I - I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago read 4/26/2017
✓ E - Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ R - Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017
✓ L - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier read 6/9/2016
✓ A - The Angry Woman Suite read 12/19/2016
✓ N - No Opportunity Wasted: Creating a Life List read 7/23/2017
✓ D - Dreams of Joy read 7/19/2017
Fantasyland 14/15
✓ A. Read a retelling of a fairy tale or a book that is tagged Fantasy on its GR Homepage. Son (fantasy) read 4/6/2016
✓ B. Read a book with a castle, knight or a woman in a beautiful dress on the cover. My Brilliant Friend (woman in beautiful dress) read 10/18/2016
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in MATTERHORN The Improbability of Love by Hannah Mary Rothschild read 5/28/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE (3 Word Minimum). The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics by Barton Swaim read 6/19/2016
E. Spell out FANTASYLAND.
✓ F - The Free read 4/5/2017
✓ A - Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons read 1/23/2017
✓ N - Nora Webster read 8/10/2017
✓ T - Torch read 3/13/2017
✓ A - Addicted read 5/28/2017
✓ S - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith read 7/20/2016
✓ Y - You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures read 12/25/2017
✓ L - Life Among Giants read 6/25/2016
✓ A - The Aviator's Wife read 11/17/2017
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✓ D - The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection read 12/8/2017
Disneyland, cont'dLink to the Challenge
Tomorrowland 15/16
✓ A. Read a book that is tagged Dystopia or Science Fiction or a book that takes place in the future. A Wrinkle in Time read 8/24/2016
✓ B. Read a book with a planet or stars on the cover. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra read 4/22/2016
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in AUTOPIA.
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler read 4/10/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in SPACE MOUNTAIN (3 Word Minimum). The Other Story by Tatiana de Rosnay read 6/27/2016
E. Spell out TOMORROWLAND.
✓ T - The Tree of Hands read 12/21/2016
✓ O - The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics read 11/19/2016
✓ M - Moth Smoke read 11/24/2016
✓ O - The Opposite of Everyone read 11/24/2016
✓ R - The Rithmatist read 12/7/2017
✓ R - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend read 12/18/2017
✓ O - Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
✓ W - Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox read 4/7/2016
✓ L - The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney read 7/23/2016
✓ A - The Almost Sisters read 11/19/2017
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✓ D - The Divorce Papers read 12/30/2017
New Orleans Square 16/20
✓ A. Read a book that is set in New Orleans or a book that is tagged Paranormal. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (paranormal) read 6/11/2016
✓ B. Read a book with a ship, statue or graveyard on the cover. Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune read 11/25/2017
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in HAUNTED MANSION.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield read 5/6/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (3 Word Minimum). Crazy Rich Asians read 12/17/2016
E. Spell Out NEW ORLEANS SQUARE.
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✓ E - Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
✓ W - What Alice Forgot read 9/17/2016
✓ O - Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain read 4/29/2017
✓ R - The Red Tent read 12/27/2017
✓ L - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal read 8/11/2016
✓ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language read 12/22/2017
✓ A - Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS read 12/27/2017
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✓ S - Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson read 7/24/2016
✓ S - Someone read 8/15/2016
✓ Q - The Quilter's Daughter read 12/18/2017
✓ U - The Underdogs read 12/19/2016
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✓ E - Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother read 12/22/2017
Critter Country: Formerly Known as Bear Country 13/18
✓ A. Read a book that has a nature or wilderness setting. Destroyer Angel read 9/17/2016
✓ B. Read a book with an animal on the cover. Bettyville by George Hodgman read 5/22/2016
✓ C. Read a book in which the author's first AND last initial can be found in SPLASH MOUNTAIN.
Fashion, Lies, and Murder by Sibel Hodge read 7/31/2016
✓ D. Read a book in which the first letter of EVERY word in the title (include a,an,the) may be found in DAVY CROCKETT'S EXPLORER CANOES (3 Word Minimum). The Shelter Cycle by Peter Rock read 4/24/2016
E. Spell out CRITTER COUNTRY.
✓ C - Coincidence read 8/15/2016
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✓ I - The Infatuations read 6/26/2017
✓ T - Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017
✓ T - Triptych read 5/5/2017
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✓ C - The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness read 9/21/2016
✓ O - The Other Widow read 11/23/2017
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✓ N - No Land's Man read 10/29/2017
✓ T - Trajectory read 7/10/2017
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✓ Y - The Year of Magical Thinking read 4/20/2017
Crazy Challenge Connection groupHELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE
DURATION: April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017
Please use this shelf: Pick 4 Me book shelf
Link to the Challenge
Round 2: Apr 16 - Picked by: Allie
✓ The Thirteenth Tale read 5/6/2016
Also recommended by Allie:
The Silkworm read 7/20/2016
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
Round 3: Apr 30 - Picked by: Amanda K
✓ A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier read 6/9/2016
Also recommended by Amanda K
Dark Places, The Hundred-Foot Journey
Round 4: May 14 - Picked by: Amelia
✓ My Story read 5/26/2016
Also recommended by Amelia:
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, The Hundred-Foot Journey, The Rithmatist
Round 5: May 28 - Picked by: Angie H.
✓ A Fine Balance read 7/9/2016
Also recommended by Angie H.
Love the One You're With, The Storyteller, Fly Away
Round 6: Jun 11 - Picked by Chelsi
✓ The Master's Muse read 8/3/2016
Also recommended by Chelsi
The Storyteller, The Paris Architect, Lab Girl
Round 7: Jun 25 - Picked by Debbie (Doc)
✓ Someone Else's Love Story read 7/24/2016
Also recommended by Debbie (Doc)
Dream Man, The Bookseller
Round 8: Jul 9 - Picked by Nadine
✓ What Alice Forgot read 9/17/2016
Also recommended by Nadine
Not My Father's Son, The Rithmatist
Round 9: Jul 23 - Picked by Megalion
✓ Not My Father's Son read 8/8/2016
Also recommended by Megalion
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Round 10: Aug 6 - Picked by Kelly
✓ Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church read 8/14/2016
Also recommended by Kelly
Lab Girl, Hide
Round 11: Aug 20 - picked by Nadine
✓ A Wrinkle in Time read 8/24/2016
Also recommended by Nadine
The Storyteller, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Round 12: Sep 3 - picked by Barb
✓ The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness read 9/21/2016
Also recommended by Barb
The Janus Stone, Songs in Ordinary Time
Round 13: Sep 17 - picked by Bonita
✓ Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art read 9/25/2016
Also recommended
The Round House, Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
Round 14: Oct 1 - picked by Ashley Marie
✓ The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics read 11/19/2016
Also recommended by Ashley Marie
Dark Places, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Round 15: Oct 15 - Agnieszka picks for Susan
✓ The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't read 11/12/2016
Also recommended by Agnieszka:
The Husband's Secret, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy,
The Echo Maker
Round 16: Oct 29 - Kris picks for Susan
✓ Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness read 11/4/2016
Also recommended by Kris
Dark Places, All the Lasting Things
Round 17: Nov 12 - picked by PepperP0t
✓ Moth Smoke read 11/24/2016
Also recommended by PepperP0t
Twelve Years a Slave, Inescapable, All the Lasting Things
Round 18: Nov 26 - picked by Linda C
✓ The Museum of Extraordinary Things read 12/10/2016
Also recommended: Hamilton: The Revolution,
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Round 19: Dec 10 - picked by Taleisin
✓ Inside Out & Back Again read 12/22/2016
Also recommended: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon, The Paris Architect
Round 20: Dec 24 - picked by Cat
✓ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy read 1/2/2017
Also recommended: The Husband's Secret, Self Storage, Moonlight on Butternut Lake
Round 21: Jan 7 - picked by Suzanne
✓ Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons 1/23/2017
Also recommended: Midwives, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Round 22: Jan 21 - picked by Joanne
✓ When Breath Becomes Air read 1/30/2017
Also recommended: Fates and Furies, Truly Madly Guilty, A Little Life
Round 23: Feb 4 - picked by Karin
✓ Range Of Motion read 4/2/2017
Also recommended: The Widow, House Rules
Round 24: Feb 18 - picked by Diane L.
✓ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales read 3/14/2017
Also recommended: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary, The Husband's Secret
Round 25: Mar 4 - picked by Connie N.
✓ Triptych read 5/5/2017
Also recommended: Midwives, House Rules
Round 26: Mar 18 - picked by Chaitra
✓ Fly Away read 4/8/2017
Also recommended: The Husband's Secret, Us, Possession
Crazy Challenge Connection groupSCHOOL DAYS, no deadline
Link to the Challenge
✓ KINDERGARTEN
extended families
phone number/address
colors/numbers
✓ Read a book by an author who shares a first name with someone in your family. My husband's name is Tom, so I read The Tilted World by Tom Franklin read 4/29/2016
✓ Read a book with one number from your street address in the total number of pages (Ex.: If your street address is 467 Main Street, you would need a 4, 6 or 7 in the number of pages) A Sudden Light read 4/14/2016 My house number is 1643 - Goodreads says that this book is 416 pages; the actual book is 396 pages. Either way, it works.
✓ Read a book whose cover is more than 75% your favorite color; post the cover. My favorite color is purple
The Shelter Cycle by Peter Rock read 4/24/2016
✓ 1st GRADE:
capital letters
count beyond 100
recess
✓ Read a book by an author who uses an initial instead of a first name The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan read 5/1/2016
✓ Read a book from a series with more than 15 books; tell us where it falls in the series Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr #18 in the Anna Pigeon series read 9/17/2016
✓ Read a book just for fun The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson read 8/21/2016
✓ 2nd GRADE:
basic fractions
different types of sentences
rhymes
✓ Read a book whose cover is divided into (relatively even) halves, thirds or quarters; post the cover We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families read 1/19/2017
(Ex: Next to Love by Ellen Feldman)
✓ Read a book whose title is a question Just What Kind of Mother Are You? read 12/25/2016
✓ Read a book whose title contains at least two words that rhyme Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis read 1/16/2017
✓ 3rd GRADE:
multiplication/division
chapter books & non-fiction, cursive writing
geography
✓ Read a book whose original year of publication is evenly divisible by 3 (for 3rd grade); tell us the year When Breath Becomes Air published in 2016 read 1/30/2017
✓ Read a book whose title is written in cursive writing; post the cover Career of Evil read 3/30/2017
✓ Read a book set in a place you've never visited; tell us the setting Paradise of the Blind (takes place in Viet Nam) read 2/18/2017
✓ 4th GRADE:
lines/angles
punctuation
home state history/geography
✓ Read a book with a straight line that runs the entire length or width of the cover; post the cover Soldier Dogs read 4/16/2017
✓ Read a book with some sort of punctuation in its title Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/2/2017
✓ Read a book set in your home state or, for our international friends, read a book set in your home country; tell us the setting Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (set in Clarkston, GA) read 4/23/2017
✓ 5th GRADE:
book reports
geometric shapes
government & its branches
art
✓ Read a book from this list:
Popular Book Report Books and write at least a 3-sentence review of it; tell us its position on the list Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (#477) read 7/14/2017
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift — an absolute sense of smell. He becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. One day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume" — the scent of a beautiful young virgin.
✓ Read a book with a basic geometric shape on its cover (square, triangle, circle, etc.); post the cover Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017
✓ Read a book in which a character works for the government of his/her town/state/country Triptych Will Trent is a GBI agent read 5/5/2017
✓ Read a book with what you consider an artistic cover; post the cover The Infatuations read 6/26/2017
✓ 6th GRADE:
current events
ancient civilizations
lab science
keyboarding, music
✓ Read a book set in the current day The Other Widow read 11/23/2017
✓ Read a book set in an ancient civilization The Red Tent read 12/27/2017
✓ Read a book with a character who works in a lab Lab Girl read 11/23/2017
✓ Read a book in which music is important to the plot; tell us how OR a book with a character who is a writer/author/journalist; tell us the career Commonwealth Leon Posen (Franny's boyfriend) is a writer read 12/6/2017
7th GRADE:
natural world
human body
American history
family & consumer science
* Read a book with a cover that shows only "nature" -- no buildings, no people, no roads, only wild animals/plants; post the cover The Purchase
* Read a book with an entire human body on the cover; post the cover Maine
* Read any historical fiction book OR a non-fiction book about some aspect of American history; tell us the subject Before We Were Yours
* Read a book in which a character earns his/her living by cooking/baking or sewing/quilting; tell us the career The Hundred-Foot Journey
8th GRADE:
guidance counselor
heredity
phys ed
organization
* Read a book in which a character benefits from the guidance of another character
* Read a book with a parent and his/her child as two of the main characters
* Read a book with a character who works out regularly
* Go through your TBR list/pile, weed out the books you are no longer interested in, then read one of the hidden gems you found while you were weeding; tell us where it was hiding on your list :)
9th GRADE:
algebra
world history
earth science
sports
* Read a book with an X somewhere in the title or the author's name The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
* Read a book set somewhere other than in the country where you live; tell us the setting and where you live
* Read a book with a moon or planet (other than Earth) on the cover; post the cover Ripper
* Read a book with a character who is an athlete; tell us the sport
10th GRADE:
after school job
foreign language
geometry
European history
* Read a book whose title begins with J, O or B (disregard A, An or The)
* Read a book whose title contains a foreign word (possible words: du jour, déjà vu, mea culpa, quiche, aloha, macaron, geisha
NOTE: If the title is in English, the word must be a language other than English. If the title is in another language, the word must be a different language
* Read a book in which a character must prove that s/he is not guilty of an accusation (proofs in geometry)
* Read a book set in Europe; tell us which country
11th GRADE:
SATs
driver's ed
chemistry
world cultures
* Read a book in which a character takes a test or exam of some sort
* Read a book with a motorized, wheeled vehicle on the cover; post the cover
* Read a book with a lot of explosions (chem lab gone bad!)
* Read a book set in a country you'd like to visit; tell us where
12th GRADE:
National Honor Society
swimming
grad(uation) project
prom
* Read a book with a very intelligent character
* Read a book whose cover shows a body of water in which you could swim; post the cover
* Read a coming-of-age book ( OR you can change this to a book with YA on its main GR page )
* Read a book in which a once-in-a-lifetime event happens OR a book with a tuxedo or a pretty dress on the cover; post the cover
CCC School Days, cont'dCongratulations! You’ve graduated from high school :) Now you must choose whether to go to college or to vocational school and start your career sooner. Tasks for either option must be completed in the order posted here!
COLLEGE :
FRESHMAN:
gen ed classes, orientation
* Read two books from any genre/s you choose; tell us the genres
SOPHOMORE:
* Read two books from one of those two genres (your college major); tell us which genre you chose
JUNIOR:
* Read two books within that same genre that were originally published in the same year; tell us the year
SENIOR:
* Read two books by the same author within the genre you chose for your sophomore year
MASTERS DEGREE:
* Read four books from ONE sub-genre within the genre you chose for your sophomore year
PhD - dissertation:
* Read six books by the same author from within the genre you chose for your sophomore year
Ex: For your Freshman year, you choose one historical fiction book and one mystery book.
For your Sophomore year, you narrow it down to two mystery books.
For your Junior year, you read two mystery books published in the same year.
For your Senior year, you read two mystery books by the same author.
For your Masters degree, you read four historical mystery books.
For your PhD, you read six historical mystery books by Elizabeth Peters
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VOCATIONAL SCHOOL:
* Read four books with a main character in a "blue collar" job - each job must be different; tell us the occupation for each book
STARTING OUT:
* Read two books with NEW ADULT on their main GR pages
NEW JOB:
* Read two books in which a main character is starting or training for a new (permanent) job
FIRST APARTMENT/HOME:
* Read one book in which a main character moves from one home to another AND one book with the exterior of a residential building on the cover; post the cover
FURNISH APARTMENT:
* Read two books with "home-style" furniture on the cover (not office furniture); post the covers
PUBLIC TRANSPORT OR PERSONAL VEHICLE - choose one!
* Read two books with a character who owns his/her own transportation vehicle OR
**OR**
* Read two books with a character who does not
BILLS/CHORES:
* Read two books with a character who struggles financially, physically or emotionally; struggle must be significant, not just being unable to afford eating out
SOCIAL LIFE:
* Read two books with a character in a new friendly or romantic relationship
Crazy Challenge Connection groupSHRINK THAT TBR
DURATION: July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017
We all have TBR lists, and while some are miles long, others aren’t quite so bad. This challenge is intended to help us reduce our Goodreads TBR list; if you complete all of the tasks, you will have read 40 books. For this challenge, only books that are on your Goodreads TBR list will count. If you have multiple GR TBR lists, you may use any of those lists -- but you must use just one list for the entire challenge! Otherwise, the usual rules apply.
You can do the tasks in any order, but remember: your TBR list will change as the year progresses, so do NOT plan out all of your books at the beginning of the challenge. Wait until just before you're ready to complete a task to choose which book/s you'll read!
PLEASE NOTE: Each task asks you to sort your TBR list in a different way. Please read carefully!
Link to the Challenge
✓ 1. Read three books from series on your Goodreads TBR list that you have started and not finished. Books can be from the same series or from different series. Tell us the series.
✓ Destroyer Angel Anna Pigeon series read 9/17/2016
✓ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Harold Fry series read 1/2/2017
✓ The Secret Place Dublin Murder Squad series read 3/5/2017
✓ 2. Read two books from your TBR list that you own – print books only please!
NOTE: If you don't own ANY print books, you may use e-books, audiobooks or library books that are on your TBR for this task.
✓ Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City read 11/24/2016
✓ The Echo Maker read 12/9/2016
✓ 3. Read two books from your TBR list that will help with two different, difficult-to-finish challenges. (Like an ABC challenge for which you still need Q, U, & X). Tell us which challenge.
✓ The Underdogs read 12/19/2016 Let's Go To Disneyland challenge - need to spell out "New Orleans Square"
✓ Us read 5/7/2017 Scrabble, Anyone? challenge - There are not a lot of "U" books, and 2 days after I read my first "U" book, I finished a round of scrabble. When I got new letters for the next round, there was another "U"!
✓ 4. Read three books from your TBR list that are by new-to-you authors.
✓ The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz read 9/24/2016
✓ A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano read 10/16/2016
✓ My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante read 10/18/2016
✓ 5. Read two books from your TBR list that a friend, co-worker or family member has recommended to you. Tell us who recommended them.
✓ Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons recommended by Donna read 1/23/2017
✓ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie recommended by Jamile read 2/12/2017
✓ 6. Open your TBR list and sort by date added. Make a note of the number of books on your to-read list. Divide that number in half (if you come up with a fraction, round up), and read the book that corresponds to that number.
EXAMPLE: If I have 450 books on my to-read list, the halfway point would be book #225, so I would read book #225 on my to-read list.
Note: If your "halfway" book is in the middle of a series and you’re a read-in-order person (like me!), you may read the next book from that series instead of your halfway book. Also, if you aren’t able to obtain a copy of your halfway book, you may read one up or one down from your halfway point.
✓ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (188 out of 377) read 5/21/2017
✓ 7. Set your TBR list to show 75 books per page, and sort by Date Added, newest to oldest. Read two books from the first page of that list. Tell us when they were added.
✓ Page 1 - The Last Girls added 6/26/16 read 8/28/2016
✓ Page 1 - Reading Lolita in Tehran added 4/10/16 read 9/5/2016
✓ 8. Set your TBR list to show 20 books per page, and sort by Date Added, oldest to newest. Read one book from the first page of that list. Tell us when it was added.
✓ Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art added 4/9/2012 read 9/25/2016
✓ 9. Set your TBR list to show 30 books per page, and sort by author, A-Z. Read one book from the first page of that list.
✓ Lucky Us read 8/22/2016
✓ 10. Set your TBR list to show 40 books per page, and sort by author, Z-A. Read one book from the first page of that list.
✓ Ali in Wonderland read 8/14/2016
✓ 11. Set your TBR list to show 50 books per page, and sort by number of pages, shortest to longest. (If Goodreads does not list the number of pages for some of your books, you can use the page count found elsewhere – the author’s or publisher’s website, B&N, amazon, etc.) Read two books from the first page of that list (must be over 150 pages long). Tell us how many pages.
✓ Someone 232 pages read 8/15/2016
✓ A Wrinkle in Time 211 pages read 8/24/2016
✓ 12. Set your Goodreads TBR list to show 100 books per page. Sort by publication date, newest to oldest.
Read two books from the first page AND one book from the last page of that list (or last two pages, if there are less than 30 books on the last page). Tell us when they were published.
✓ Page 1 - The Long and Faraway Gone published 2/10/15 read 7/23/2016
✓ Page 1 - Someone Else's Love Story published 11/19/2013 read 7/24/2016
✓ Last page - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal published 3/1/2002 read 8/11/2016
✓ 13. Set your TBR to show 75 books per page, and sort by average rating, high to low. Read two books from the first page of that list. Tell us the ratings.
✓ Nobody's Fool average rating 4.13 read 9/10/2016
✓ The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness average rating 4.38 read 9/21/2016
✓ 14. Set your Goodreads TBR list to show 100 books per page and sort by number of ratings. Read two books from the first page AND two books from the last page of that list.
✓ Page 1 - Not My Father's Son 17,202 ratings read 8/8/2016
✓ Page 1 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden read 8/21/2016
✓ Last page - The Master's Muse read 8/3/2016
✓ Last page - Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality read 9/30/2016
✓ 15. Set your Goodreads TBR list to show 50 books per page, then choose Random in the Sort menu. Read Read two books from the first page AND two books from the last page of that list.
✓ Page 1 The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics read 11/19/2016
✓ Page 1 Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge read 12/4/2016
✓ Last page - The Fashion Police read 7/31/2016
✓ Last page - What Alice Forgot read 9/17/2016
✓ 16. Set your TBR list to show 30 books per page, and sort by title, A-Z. Read one book from each of the first two pages of that list. (In other words, read one book from page 1, and another book from page 2.)
✓ Page 1 Amity & Sorrow read 9/13/2016
✓ Page 2 The Borrower read 10/3/2016
✓ 17. Set your TBR list to show 40 books per page, and sort by title, Z-A. Read one book from each of the first two pages of that list. (In other words, read one book from page 1, and another book from page 2.)
✓ Page 1 Twelve Years a Slave read 12/31/2016
✓ Page 2 - The Tender Bar read 10/13/2016
18. After you have completed the rest of the challenge, read any three books from your TBR list that were on your list when this challenge began and are still hanging around :)
✓ The Signature of All Things read 5/21/2017
✓ Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
✓ Addicted read 5/28/2017
40/40 Challenge completed! 5/28/2017
Wacky Reading Challenges groupHere Comes 2017 - A New Year of Lists
December 1, 2016 - November 30, 2017
Link to my post on the challenge
Here's how it works:
Step One: Pick one of your favorite books and go to the Homepage of that book.
Step Two: Scroll Down to "LISTS WITH THIS BOOK" and click on the link. It will display all the lists that your favorite book is found on. If no Lists are listed, you may need to choose a different starting book.
Step Three: Explore the lists and find a new book from one of the lists to read, noting what list you found it on and the number on the list.
Step Four: Read that book then go to its Homepage and start all over again.
Step Five: Continue the chain until you complete your level.
Special Circumstances
*If you find a series book on one of the lists you may read any number in the series.
*If one of your chosen books is only on the one list you found it on, you can choose another book from that list OR add the book you read to another appropriate list making sure it meets the criteria of the list and choose your next book from that list.
Level One: Complete 12 Books following the chain.
Level Two: Complete 24 Books following the chain.
Level Three: Complete 36 Books following the chain.
12/12 Challenge completed! 12/18/2017
Starting Book: The Rosie Project
✓ 1. List: Goodreads Picks For Tournament of Books 2016 #43 The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy read 1/2/2017
✓ 2. List: Anticipated 2015 Literary Fiction #69 Fates and Furies read 2/24/2017
✓ 3. List: Delicious Reads Possible Book Club Picks 2016 #71 Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/1/2017
✓ 4. List: 2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016 #112 A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy read 4/21/2017
✓ 5. List: Book of the Month Club Picks #9 The Nest read 4/24/2017
✓ 6. List: Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017 #71 Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ 7. List: Best Books of the Decade: 2010's #148 House Rules read 5/18/2017
✓ 8. List: Best Books Ever #146 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer read /14/2017
✓ 9. List: The Most Disturbing Book Every Written #36 The Wasp Factory read 8/28/2017
✓ 10. List: Best Books of the Decade: 1980's #34 Midnight's Children read 12/4/2017
✓ 11. List: Booker Prize Winners #9 Possession read 12/12/2017
✓ 12. List: Stories for Book Lovers #305 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend read 12/18/2017
Wacky Reading Challenges groupRISK
Date: 12/01/16 - 00/00/00
Link to my post on the challenge
Roll dice
First roll: 1
Territories: Alaska, Greenland, Argentina, Northern Europe, Egypt and Libya, Kazakhstan, Southeast Asia
How to Play the Game
Now that you have your territories and have decided which mission to complete, it is time to start capturing new territories. To do this you once more roll the dice.
•If you roll a 1, 2, or 3 you must complete BOTH tasks to claim the country.
•If you roll a 4, 5, or 6 you only have to complete ONE task (you can select either the top or bottom choices).
Roll #2: 4
Iceland- Captured 12/4/2016
✓ Read a book between 200-300 pages. Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge 208 pages read 12/4/2016
Roll #3: 5
Indonesia Captured 12/4/2016
✓ Read a book written from multiple characters point of view. House of Rumour, The: A Novel read 12/4/2016
Roll #4: 4
Western Australia Captured 12/9/2016
✓ Read a book published in a year ending in 4 or 6 (ex.: 2004, 1986). The Echo Maker published in 2006 read 12/9/2016
Roll #5: 3
Eastern Europe Captured 12/14/2016
✓ Read a book with a one-word title. George read 12/14/2016
✓ Read a standalone novel. The Museum of Extraordinary Things read 12/10/2016
Roll #6: 5
Ural Captured 12/17/2016
✓ Read a book that is published in 2013. Crazy Rich Asians published in 2013 read 12/17/2016
Roll #7: 1
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Captured 12/19/2016
✓ Read a book by a female author. The Underdogs by Melissa Fay Greene read 12/19/2016
✓ Read a book with a multi-generational family story line. The Angry Woman Suite read 12/19/2016
Roll #8: 2
Middle East Captured 12/20/2016
✓ Read a book that is tagged YA on its GR home page. Eleanor & Park read 12/20/2016
✓ Read a book by a male author. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks read 12/20/2016
Roll 9: 3
Kamchatka Captured 12/22/2016
✓ Read a book on your TBR with more than 4.00 star rating on Goodreads. Inside Out & Back Again average rating is 4.07 - read 12/22/2016
✓ Read a book that has been on your TRL for more than a year The Tree of Hands On my To-Read List since 4/30/2015 read 12/21/2016
Roll 10: 5
Venezuela Captured 12/25/2016
✓ Read a book that is tagged Mystery on its GR home page. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? - Mystery - read 12/25/2016
Roll 11: 1
Eastern United States Captured 1/2/2017
✓ Read a book where the author’s first AND last initials can be found in “EASTERN”. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup read 12/31/2016
✓ Read the 2nd or the 6th book in a series. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2nd book in series) read 1/2/2017
Roll 12: 5
Western Europe Captured 1/8/2017
✓ Read a book that starts with the letter ‘C’, ‘M’, or ‘D’. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town read 1/8/2017
Roll 13: 1
Quebec Captured 2/18/2017
✓ Read a book that has been translated. Paradise of the Blind (translated from Vietnamese) read 2/18/2017
✓ Read a book with water on the cover. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons read 1/23/2017
Roll 14: 4
Mongolia Captured 2/24/2017
✓ Read a book where 3 and 0 can be found in the total page count. Fates and Furies 390 pages - read 2/24/2017
Roll #15: 6
North Africa Captured 3/5/2017
✓ Read a book that starts with the letter ‘S’ or ‘G’. The Secret Place read 3/5/2017
Roll #16: 3
Southern Africa Captured 4/4/2017
✓ Read book that 7 & 8 can be found in the total page number (ex.: 278 or 187). Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour Of--And Escape From--Healthcareland 287 pages read 4/4/2017
✓ Read a book by an author who writes under a Pseudonym (ex.:Robert Galbraith/ J.K. Rowling). Career of Evil by Robert Galbraithread 3/30/2017
Roll #17: 4
Ontario Captured 4/5/2017
✓ Read a book that was published in a year ending in 4 or 0 (ex.: 2010 or 1994). The Free published 4/4/2014 read 4/5/2017
Roll #18: 3
Irkutsk Captured 4/21/2017
✓ Read a book where the word “valley” can be found in the text. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy pg 210 "...and I loved the shots the photographer took of Dylan looking relaxed and happy among the pink rocks in the valley not far from our home." read 4/21/2017
✓ Read a book with a colorful cover. Fly Away read 4/8/2017
Roll #19: 4
Madagascar Captured 4/23/2017
✓ Read a book where the title begins with either the letter I or O. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
Roll #20: 5
Scandinavia Captured 4/24/2017
✓ Read a book with the word “lights”, “museum” or “bridges” found in the text. The Nest page 37 "I heard you checked into Bridges." read 4/24/2017
Roll #21: 3
Brazil Captured 5/14/2017
✓ Read a book with an animal on the cover. Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ Read a book with the word “river” found in the text. I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago page 265 "From both sides of the river rise gentle slopes terraced by vineyards." read 4/26/2017
Roll #22: 6
Siberia Captured 5/18/2017
✓ Read a book where the title is either 2 or 7 words long. House Rules read 5/18/2017
Roll #23: 4
New Guinea Captured 5/21/2017
✓ Read a book where you find the word “sea”, “strait” or “coral” in the text The Signature of All Things page 367 (ebook) "We will start later than usual this evening, for I have spent the day out in the coral, you see, and I have lost track of time" read 5/21/2017
Roll #24: 3
Alberta Captured 6/19/2017
✓ Read the 4th book in a series. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) read 6/19/2017
✓ Read book with at least 50% yellow cover. Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
Roll #25: 5
Northwest Territory Captured 6/20/2017
✓ Read a book set in a small town. Off Season (takes place in a small town in Maine) read 6/20/2017
Roll #26: 4
Yakutsk Captured 7/4/2017
✓ Read a book in which the title begins or ends with the letter “Y” or “K.” Kind of Kin read 7/4/2017
Roll #27: 1
East Africa Captured 10/2/2017
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “MOUNT KILIMANJARO” (3 word minimum) My Reading Life read 10/2/2017
✓ Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found in “LAKE VICTORIA.” Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick read 7/30/2017
Roll #28: 4
Peru Captured 10/12/2017
✓ Read a book that starts with an article (A, An or The). The Widow read 10/12/2017
Roll #29: 5
Central Africa Captured 11/15/2017
✓ Read a book where the letters L, A, K, & E can be found in the title (in any order). Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel read 11/15/2017
Roll #30: 3
Western United States Captured 12/4/2017
✓ Read the 3rd book in a series. Moonlight on Butternut Lake (3rd book in the Butternut Lake trilogy) read 12/4/2017
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “ROCKY MOUNTAINS” (3 word minimum. The Almost Sisters read 11/19/2017
Roll #31: 6
Central America Captured 12/6/2017
✓ Read a book that starts with the letter ‘P’ or ‘C’. Commonwealth read 12/6/2017
Roll #32: 3
Great Britain & Ireland Captured 12/17/2017
✓ Read a book set in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Possession - takes place in England read 12/12/2017
✓ Read a book with a sunny cover. Chestnut Street read 12/17/2017
Roll #33: 3
Eastern Australia Captured 12/24/2017
✓ Read a book with a title that begins with the letter ‘Q’ or ‘U’ or the author's first or last initial is a ‘Q’ or ‘U’. The Quilter's Daughter read 12/18/2017
✓ Read a book set in Australia. The Hypnotist's Love Story read 12/24/2017
Roll #34: 6
China Captured 12/27/2017
✓ Read a book where science plays important role in the book. Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS read 12/27/2017
Roll #35: 1
Roll #36: 6
RISK - ContinuedNorth America
• Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “THE LAST FRONTIER” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book set in a small town.
• Read a book that is more than 400 pages OR Read a book that 5 & 9 can be found in the total page number (ex.: 259 or 195).
Captured 6/19/2017
✓ Read the 4th book in a series OR Read a book from your TBR that contains the number 4 (ex.: 4, 47, and 104). The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) read 6/19/2017
✓ Read book with at least 50% yellow cover OR Read a book with a dessert on the cover. Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
Captured 12/6/2017
✓ Read a book between 125-200 pages OR Read a book that starts with the letter ‘P’ or ‘C’. Commonwealth read 12/6/2017
• Read a book about time travel OR Read a book that is tagged Science Fiction on its GR home page.
Captured 1/2/2017
✓ Read a book where the author’s first AND last initials can be found in “EASTERN” OR Read a book about a road trip. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup read 12/31/2016
✓ Read the 2nd or the 6th book in a series OR Read a book from page 2 or 6 or your GR TBR. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (2nd book in series) read 1/2/2017
• Read a book from a new to you author OR Read a book you find on a friend's bookshelf.
• Read a book with vehicle on the cover (ex.:car, train, airplane, or ship) OR Read a book the takes place on an island.
Captured 6/20/2017
• Read a book that has stars, moon or sun on the cover OR Read a book that is tagged Adventure on its GR home page.
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “BEAUTIFUL LAND” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book set in a small town. Off Season (takes place in a small town in Maine) read 6/20/2017
Captured 4/5/2017
✓ Read a book from this list Oh Canada OR Read a book that was published in a year ending in 4 or 0 (ex.: 2010 or 1994). The Free published 4/4/2014 read 4/5/2017
• Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “GREAT LAKE” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book with the word “lake” found in the text.
Captured 2/18/2017
✓ Read a book published by a Canadian author OR Read a book that has been translated>. Paradise of the Blind read 2/18/2017
✓ Read a book with water on the cover OR Read a book with a beverage on the cover. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons read 1/23/2017
Captured 12/4/2017
✓ Read a book where the author’s first AND last initials can be found in “WESTERN” OR Read the 3rd book in a series. Moonlight on Butternut Lake read 12/4/2017
✓ Read a book with mountains on the cover OR Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “ROCKY MOUNTAINS” (3 word minimum. The Almost Sisters read 11/19/2017
South America
• Read book with at least 50% silver cover OR read book that 4 & 7 can be found in the total page number (ex.: 274 or 437).
• Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found in “JORGE LUIS BORGES” OR Read a book of poems (*The 125 page limit can be ignored for the book of poems.).
Captured 5/14/2017
✓ Read a book that begins with the letter ‘A’ or ‘R’ OR Read a book with an animal on the cover. Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “RIVER OF DOUBT” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book with the word “river” found in the text. I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago page 265 "From both sides of the river rise gentle slopes terraced by vineyards." read 4/26/2017
Captured 10/12/2017
• Read a book with a season in the title OR Read a book that from this list White as the Driven Snow.
On TBR: Thinking, Fast and Slow
✓ Read a book that starts with an article (A, An or The) OR Read a book with a flag on the cover. The Widow read 10/12/2017
Captured 12/25/2016
✓ Read a book that is tagged Mystery on its GR home page OR Read a book published between 2000- 2010. Just What Kind of Mother Are You? - Mystery - read 12/25/2016
• Read a book where the letter ‘V’ or ‘Z’ is found ANYWHERE in the title OR Read a book where the letter "V" or "Z" is found ANYWHERE in the author's first or last name.
RISK - ContinuedEurope
Captured 12/17/2017
✓ Read a book set in England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland OR Read the 9th book in a series. Possession - takes place in England read 12/12/2017
✓ Read a book with a sunny cover OR Read a book from this list The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire. Chestnut Street read 12/17/2017
• Read a book that has an animal as the main character OR Read a book where the author’s first AND last initials can be found in “ARTIC FOX”.
✓ Read a book that is tagged Non-fiction on its GR home page OR Read a book between 200-300 pages. Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge 208 pages read 12/4/2016
• Read a book that is tagged Historical Fiction on its GR home page OR Read a book where the title or author letters are printed in red.
• Read a book with mountains or a castle on the cover OR Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “BALTIC SEA” (2 word minimum).
Captured 4/24/2017
• Read a book with a warrior or ship on the cover OR Read the 8th, 9th, or 10th book in a series.
✓ Read a book with the word “lights”, “museum” or “bridges” found in the text OR Read a book that page counts ends in either 14 or 50 (ex. 214 or 250). The Nest page 37 "I heard you checked into Bridges." read 4/24/2017
5. Southern Europe (for this challenge will be based upon Italy, Austria, Hungary, & Greece)– Democracy began in the Greece city-state of Athens around 5th century B.C. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia. The declaration of war on June 28, 1914 began World War I.
• Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found in “RENAISSANCE” OR Read a book set in Italy, Austria, Hungary, or Greece.
• Read a book that is tagged War on its GR home page OR Read the 5th book in a series.
✓ Read a book written by an indie or self-published author OR Read a book with a one-word title. George read 12/14/2016
✓ Read a book published in March or August OR Read a standalone novel. The Museum of Extraordinary Things read 12/10/2016
✓ Read a book that starts with the letter ‘C’, ‘M’, or ‘D’ OR Read a book with at least two people on the cover. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town read 1/8/2017
• Read a book where a main character sings OR Read a book that is tagged Science Fiction on its GR home page.
Africa
Captured 11/15/2017
• Read a book from this list Africa OR Read a book where the word “farming”, “herding” or “fishing” can be found in the text.
✓ Read a book by an African author OR Read a book where the letters L, A, K, & E can be found in the title (in any order). Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel read 11/15/2017
Captured 10/2/2017
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “MOUNT KILIMANJARO” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found in “MOUNT KENYA.” My Reading Life read 10/2/2017
✓ Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “LAKE TANGANYIKA” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found in “LAKE VICTORIA.” Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick read 7/30/2017
• Read a book over 500 pages OR Read a book with a pyramid on the cover or the word “pyramid” found in the text.
• Read the 3rd book in a series OR Read a book with an author whose publishing name has three words initials count as a word (ex.: Patricia C. Wrede, J.K. Rowling or Robert Louis Stevenson).
Captured 4/23/2017
• Read a book with a compound word found in the title OR Read the 4th book in a series.
✓ Read a book with flowers on the cover OR Read a book where the title begins with either the letter I or O. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
Captured 3/5/2017
✓ Read a book with “desert” found in the text OR Read a book that starts with the letter ‘S’ or ‘G’. The Secret Place read 3/5/2017
• Read a book with a star on the cover OR Read a book with an antonym in the title (ex: Big, Little Lies).
✓ Read a book where the main character travels OR Read book that 7 & 8 can be found in the total page number (ex.: 278 or 187). Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour Of--And Escape From--Healthcareland 287 pages read 4/4/2017
✓ Read a book by an author who writes under a Pseudonym (ex.:Robert Galbraith/ J.K. Rowling) OR Read a book the word ‘cape’ can be found in the text. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraithread 3/30/2017
RISK - ContinuedAsia
• Read a book where the characters take a trip OR Read a book written by two authors.
• Read a book between 161-180 pages OR Read a book by a new to you author.
Captured 12/27/2017
✓ Read a book where science plays important role in the book OR Read a book with some kind of futuristic technology in the story. Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS read 12/27/2017
• Read a book where characters write letters OR Read a book with a wall, stones, or bricks on the cover.
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✓ Read a book by a female author OR Read a book with a strong female character. The Underdogs by Melissa Fay Greene read 12/19/2016
✓ Read a book with a multi-generational family story line OR Read a book that switches between multiple time periods. The Angry Woman Suite read 12/19/2016
Captured 4/21/2017
✓ Read a book whose author’s first AND last initials can be found the “VALENTIN RASPUTIN” OR Read a book where the word “valley” can be found in the text. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy pg 210 "...and I loved the shots the photographer took of Dylan looking relaxed and happy among the pink rocks in the valley not far from our home." read 4/21/2017
✓ Read a book with the word garden in the title (any variation of garden is ok) OR Read a book with a colorful cover. Fly Away read 4/8/2017
5. Japan-The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Japan has received the most science Nobel prizes in Asia and ranked 8th in the world.
• Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “PACIFIC RING OF FIRE” (3 word minimum) OR Read a book with a fire on the cover.
• Read the 8th book in a series OR Read a book published in August.
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✓ Read a book on your TBR with more than 4.00 star rating on Goodreads OR Read a book that is tagged Contemporary on its GR home page. Inside Out & Back Again average rating is 4.07 - read 12/22/2016
✓ Read a book that has been on your TRL for more than a year OR Read a book where the author’s first or last initial can be found in “KLYUCHEVSKAYA SOPKA” The Tree of Hands On my To-Read List since 4/30/2015 read 12/21/2016
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✓ Read a book where religion plays an important role in the story (fiction or non-fiction) OR Read a book that is tagged YA on its GR home page. Eleanor & Park read 12/20/2016
✓ Read a book by a male author OR Read a book with a number in the title. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks read 12/20/2016
Captured 2/24/2017
✓ Read a book with a horse on the cover OR Read a book where 3 and 0 can be found in the total page count. Fates and Furies 390 pages - read 2/24/2017
• Read the 3rd book in a series OR Read any book that is part of a trilogy.
• Read a book from this list Best South Asian Fiction OR Read a book where all the letters “A” “S” “I” and “A” can be found in the title.
• Read a book that is tagged Romance on its GR home page OR Read a book with a subtitle.
Captured 5/18/2017
• Read a book published between 1891- 1916 OR Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in “TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY” (3 word minimum).
✓ Read a book that is tagged Classic on its GR home page OR Read a book where the title is either 2 or 7 words long. House Rules read 5/18/2017
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✓ Read a book that is published in 2013 OR Read a book published in February. Crazy Rich Asians published in 2013 read 12/17/2016
• Read a book where a natural disaster takes place (either fiction or non-fiction) OR Read a book where the word “meteor” can be found in the text.
Captured 7/4/2017
• Read a book from this list Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling OR Read a book with a white cover.
✓ Read a short book 125-200 pages OR Read a book in which the title begins or ends with the letter “Y” or “K.” Kind of Kin read 7/4/2017
Australia
Captured 12/24/2017
✓ Read a book with a title that begins with the letter ‘Q’ or ‘U’ or the author's first or last initial is a ‘Q’ or ‘U’ OR Read a book from this list Prison Books. The Quilter's Daughter read 12/18/2017
✓ Read a book set in Australia OR Read a book published between 1770-1901. The Hypnotist's Love Story read 12/24/2017
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✓ Read a book series 13 or higher OR Read a book written from multiple characters point of view. House of Rumour, The: A Novel read 12/4/2016
• Read a book that is tagged non-fiction on its GR home page OR Read a book that takes places in a large city.
Captured 5/21/2017
• Read a book with a number in the title OR Read a book where a battle takes place (fiction or non-fiction).
✓ Read a book where you find the word “sea”, “strait” or “coral” in the text OR Read a book where you can find the author’s first and last initial in “PAPUA.” The Signature of All Things page 367 (ebook) "We will start later than usual this evening, for I have spent the day out in the coral, you see, and I have lost track of time" read 5/21/2017
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• Read a book by an Australian author OR Read the 1st or 2nd book in a series.
✓ Read a book in which the total page count ends in a 0 or Read a book published in a year ending in 4 or 6 (ex.: 2004, 1986). The Echo Maker published in 2006 read 12/9/2016
Crazy Challenge Connection group1-2-3 CHALLENGE, REVISITED
Begins January 1, 2017 / no deadline to complete
This challenge is all about counting ... sort of :) Some of you may have joined this challenge when we first introduced it several years ago, but we have a lot of new folks in the group, so we decided to bring it back -- with a twist, of course.
To complete this challenge, you will need to read a specified number of books from each of 20 categories. Instead of the mods making the choices, though, this time, you get to choose your categories from the list below, AND choose which number to assign to each category. There are more than 20 categories listed, so you don't have to do them all, but you certainly may complete all 25 categories if you'd like, adding another 115 books to the challenge :)
Link to my post on the challenge
110/210
✓ 1 Books from a genre you rarely read - Magical Realism
✓ Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie read 12/4/2017
✓ 2 New releases (books published less than six months before you read them)
Tell us the release date for each book
✓ 2.1 A Piece of the World published 2/21/2017 read 5/22/2017
✓ 2.2 The Mutual Admiration Society published 2/1/17 read 6/9/2017
✓ 3 Books that are #1 in a series
Tell us each series name
✓ 3.1 Riversong (River Valley series) read 1/18/2017
✓ 3.2 Inescapable (Road to Kingdom series) read 6/8/2017
✓ 3.3 Triptych (Will Trent series) read 5/5/2017
4 Books by debut authors – publishing his/her first book since you joined this challenge
Post a link to each author's Goodreads page
✓ 5 Books in your favorite genre – choose just ONE genre - Memoir
✓ 5.1 Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier read 1/2/2017
✓ 5.2 When Breath Becomes Air read 1/30/2017
✓ 5.3 The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo read 2/12/2017
✓ 5.4 Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood read 6/17/2017
✓ 5.5 You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures read 12/25/2017
6 Books by one of your favorite authors – must all be the same name - Richard Russo
Post a link to the author's Goodreads page https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
✓ 6.1 Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ 6.2 Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
✓ 6.3 Trajectory read 7/10/2017
7 Books of your choice
8 Books that were free (gift, library book, etc.)
✓ 8.1 Chestnut Street library book read 12/17/2017
9 Books that have been recommended by a friend / family member / co-worker -- NOT a magazine/newspaper, etc.
Tell us who recommended each book
✓ 9.1 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis recommended by Jamile read 1/16/2017
✓ 9.2 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons recommended by Donna and Suzanne read 1/23/2017
✓ 9.3 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie recommended by Jamile read 2/12/2017
✓ 9.4 Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier recommended by Diane read 3/19/2017
✓ 9.5 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress recommended by Cheryl read 7/8/2017
✓ 9.6 No Opportunity Wasted : Creating a List for Life recommended by Karla read 7/30/2017
✓ 9.7 Dear Bob and Sue recommended by Donna read 8/23/2017
✓ 9.8 Family Life recommended by Barb read 12/28/2017
10 Books that are more than 500 pages; tell us how many pages
✓ 10.1 House Rules 532 pages read 5/18/2017
✓ 10.2 Possession 555 pages read 12/12/2017
11 Non-fiction books
✓ 11.1 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales read 3/14/2017
✓ 11.2 Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour Of--And Escape From--Healthcareland read 4/4/2017
✓ 11.3 Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
✓ 11.4 The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection read 12/8/2017
✓ 11.5 The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language read 12/22/2017
12 Books with one-word titles
✓ 12.1 Us read 5/7/2017
✓ 12.2 Commonwealth read 12/6/2017
✓ 12.3 Midwives read 12/29/2017
13 Books that are part of a series but NOT #1
Tell us the series name and the book's position in the series
✓ 13.1 The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Harold Fry series #2 read 1/2/2017
✓ 13.2 The Secret Place Dublin Murder Squad series #5 read 3/5/2017
✓ 13.3 Fly Away Firefly Lane series #2 read 4/8/2017
✓ 13.4 The Girl in the Spider's Web Millenium series #4 read 6/19/2017
✓ 13.5 Turbo Twenty-Three Stephanie Plum series #23 read 6/21/2017
✓ 13.6 The Story of a New Name The Neopolitan Novels series #2 read 7/3/2017
✓ 13.7 Dreams of Joy Shanghai Girls #2 read 7/19/2017
✓ 13.8 Moonlight on Butternut Lake Butternut Lake #3 read 12/4/2017
✓ 13.9 The Quilter's Daughter Daughters of Lancaster County #2 read 12/18/2017
14 Books with LESS Than 1000 ratings on Goodreads
Tell us how many ratings
✓ 14.1 Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain 460 ratings read 4/29/2017
✓ 14.2 The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt 107 ratings read 5/23/2017
✓ 14.3 Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy 319 ratings read 6/12/2017
✓ 14.4 Kind of Kin 803 ratings read 7/4/2017
✓ 14.5 Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune 16 ratings read 11/25/2017
✓ 14.6 Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas 698 ratings read 12/2/2017
✓ 14.7 The King Who Made Paper Flowers: A Novel 105 ratings read 12/16/2017
✓ 14.8 The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy 823 ratings read 12/17/2017
✓ 14.9 Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother 198 ratings read 12/22/2017
✓ 14.10 Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS 172 ratings read 12/27/2017
15 Books originally published prior to the year 2000
Tell us the year each was published
✓ 15.1 Paradise of the Blind (published 1993) read 2/18/2017
✓ 15.2 Range Of Motion (published 1994) read 4/2/2017
✓ 15.3 Strange Fits of Passion (published 1991) read 4/25/2017
✓ 15.4 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (published 1982) read 5/21/2017
✓ 15.5 Midnight Champagne (published 1999) read 12/15/2017
16 Books from CCC group members’ bookshelves – mix and match as you wish
Tell us the group member AND the shelf for each book
Suzanne, Sugar Snap
17 Books whose titles start with A, An, or The
✓ 17.1 The Red House read 4/20/2017
✓ 17.2 The Wasp Factory read 8/28/2017
✓ 17.3 The Widow read 10/12/2017
✓ 17.4 The Aviator's Wife read 11/17/2017
✓ 17.5 The Other Widow read 11/23/2017
✓ 17.6 The Rithmatist read 12/7/2017
✓ 17.7 The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon read 12/10/2017
✓ 17.8 The Hypnotist's Love Story read 12/24/2017
✓ The Divorce Papers read 12/30/2017
18 Audiobooks
✓ 18.1 Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer read 1/8/2017
✓ 18.2 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families read 1/19/2017
✓ 18.3 Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017
✓ 18.4 Fates and Furies read 2/24/2017
✓ 18.5 Torch read 3/13/2017
✓ 18.6 Career of Evil read 3/30/2017
✓ 18.7 The Expatriates read 4/7/2017
✓ 18.8 Soldier Dogs read 4/16/2017
✓ 18.9 The Year of Magical Thinking read 4/20/2017
✓ 18.10 The Signature of All Things read 5/21/2017
✓ 18.11 Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love read 6/7/2017
✓ 18.12 Off Season read 6/20/2017
✓ 18.13 Brooklyn read 6/30/2017
✓ 18.14 Scrappy Little Nobody 7/30/2017
✓ 18.15 Nora Webster read 8/10/2017
✓ 18.16 Dark Places read 8/24/2017
✓ 18.17 My Name Is Lucy Barton read 10/27/2017
19 Books by new-to-you authors
✓ 19.1 Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon read 4/1/2017
✓ 19.2 The Free by Willy Vlautin read 4/5/2017
✓ 19.3 The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney read 4/24/2017
✓ 19.4 Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson read 6/23/2017
✓ 19.5 The Infatuations by Javier Marías read 6/26/2017
✓ 19.6 No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi read 10/29/2017
✓ 19.7 Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand read 11/2/2017
✓ 19.8 Lum by Libby Ware read 11/11/2017
✓ 19.9 Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel Jason Padgett read 11/15/2017
✓ 19.10 Raw: A Love Story Mark Haskell Smith read 11/20/2017
✓ 19.11 Lab Girl by Hope Jahren read 11/23/2017
✓ 19.12 Self Storage by Gayle Brandeis read 12/10/2017
✓ 19.13 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald read 12/18/2017
20 Books with an average Goodreads rating of 3.75 or higher
Tell us the rating for each book
✓ 20.1 A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy 4.14 rating read 4/21/2017
✓ 20.2 I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago 3.94 rating read 4/26/2017
✓ 20.3 Addicted 4.26 rating read 5/28/2017
✓ 20.4 A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life 4.35 rating read 6/28/2017
✓ 20.5 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 4.00 rating read 7/14/2017
✓ 20.6 Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League 4.04 rating read 8/2/2017
✓ 20.7 A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary 4.30 rating read 8/10/2017
✓ 20.8 The Husband's Secret 3.92 rating read 8/17/2017
✓ 20.9 South of Broad 3.78 rating read 9/13/2017
✓ 20.10 My Reading Life 3.94 rating read 10/2/2017
✓ 20.11 The Summer Before the War 3.79 rating read 10/24/2017
✓ 20.12 The Almost Sisters 4.07 rating read 11/19/2017
✓ 20.13 The Wright Brothers 4.15 rating read 12/13/2017
✓ 20.14 The Red Tent 4.16 rating read 12/27/2017
Wacky Reading Challenges groupHISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF ITALY
4TH QUARTER TASK, 2016
DATE: 10/01/16 - 12/31/16
Link to the Challenge
✓ 1. Tower of Pisa:
The Tower of Pisa is the freestanding bell tower known worldwide for its unintended tilt. It's height is 183 feet on the low side, and 185 feet on the high side.
☀Read a book with the number 3 or 5 found in the total number of pages. The Borrower 324 pages read 10/3/2016
✓ 2. St. Peter's Basilica:
An Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, it is one of the largest churches in the world.
☀Read a book over 400 pages, or a book in which religion plays a part. The Tender Bar 432 pages read 10/14/2016
✓ 3. Colosseum:
The Colosseum (also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre) is an oval amphitheatre located in the center of Rome, Italy.
☀Read a book set in Italy, or a book with a beautiful building on the cover. My Brilliant Friend (set in Italy) read 10/18/2016
✓ 4. Sistine Chapel:
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace (official residence of the Pope) in Vatican City. It was restored by Pope Sixtus IV between 1477 and 1480.
☀Read a book whose title has either 4 or 7 words (all words count). A Good Hard Look read 10/16/2016
✓ 5. Pompeii:
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town near Naples. Pompeii, Herculaneum and many other surrounding areas were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
☀Read a book tagged historical fiction or one by an author whose first or last name begins with "P", "H" or "V". Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner read 12/4/2016
✓ 6. Dolomites:
The Dolomites are a mountain range in northern Italy. Most peaks are higher than 10,000 feet. It is very popular with skiers and snowboarders in the winter, and hikers, climbers and mountain bikers in the summer.
☀Read a book with a winter or summer scene on the cover. The Echo Maker read 12/9/2016
✓ 7. Pantheon:
One of Rome's best preserved monuments is the Pantheon. Originally built to be a pagan temple, it was later converted to a church.
☀Read a book in which the first letter of each title word (all words count) can be found in PANTHEON. Torch read 3/13/2017
✓ 8. Galleria Borghese:
A beautiful art gallery that houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The villa was built by architect Flaminio Ponzio, using sketches by Scipione Borghese. Scipione Borghese used it as a party villa at the edge of Rome. The Borghese villa was eventually sold to the Italian government in 1902, along with the entire Borghese estate, surrounding gardens and parkland.
☀Read a book in which the story takes place after 1902, or a book found on your TBR between #1 and #19. Moth Smoke takes place in the 21st century (exact year, unknown) read 11/24/2016
✓ 9. Vatican Museums:
The Vatican Museums are the museums of the Vatican City and are located with the city's boundaries. Founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century, is the sixth most visited art museum in the world.
☀Read a book whose title begins with "V" or ends with "N", or a series book #1 or #6. Inside Out & Back Again read 12/22/2016
✓ 10. Florence Cathedral:
The Florence Cathedral was begun in 1296 and structurally completed in 1436. The Gothic interior is vast and gives an empty impression. Above the main door is the colossal clock face with fresco portraits of four Prophets by Paolo Uccello. The clock shows the 24 hours of Italian time, a period of time ending with sunset at 24 hours. This was the timetable used until the 18th century.
☀Read a book with a clock shown on the cover, or one in which the number 1, 2, 9 or 6 is found in the total number of pages. Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness 256 pages read 11/4/2016
10/10 Challenge Completed!
1st quarterJanuary reading plans
Book clubs:
Not the NY Times book club -
Sagamore Hills - Theme is Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos
*** Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương (DeKalb)
Personal challenges:
9 books for 104 book personal reading goal
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
1 book for Around the World Through Language (0/5)
1 book for Listopia Challenge (0/12)
Quarterly:
1 book for 2016 Goodreads Choice Award Winners (0/3)
Other Group Challenges:
WRC TBR Challenge: What to Read Next (21/40 - end date 3/21/17)
2 books for WRC Here Comes 2017 - A New Year of Lists (0/12 - end date 11/30/17) The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
CCC HELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE (end date 3/31/17)
2 books for CCC SHRINK THAT TBR (30/40 - end date 6/30/17)
Wacky Reading Challenges group:
Let's Go to Disneyland! (until completion)
RISK (until completion)
1 book for Historical Landmarks of Italy (9/10 - 4th quarter 2016)
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
SCRABBLE, ANYONE? (ongoing)
SCHOOL DAYS (until completion)
CCC: 1-2-3 CHALLENGE, REVISITED (1/1/17 - until completion) Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier
Books to read next:
Brilliant Blunders
Paris Architect or Hide
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
January reading1. Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier by Noah Galloway read 1/2/2017 ★★★☆☆
2. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce read 1/2/2016 ★★★★☆
3. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town read 1/8/2017 ★★★★★
4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis read 1/16/2017 ★★★★☆
5. Riversong by Tess Thompson read 1/18/2017 ★★★☆☆
6. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch read 1/19/2017 ★★★★☆
7. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons read 1/23/2017 ★★★★☆
8. When Breath Becomes Air read 1/30/2017 ★★★★★
Crazy Challenge Connection groupDOLLARS AND SENSE
Duration: November 1, 2016 - October 31, 2017
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
25/25 Challenge completed 12/22/2017
CHALLENGE TASKS:
✓ 1 – Read a book originally published in the year you joined Goodreads.
2011
Riversong by Tess Thompson published 3/30/2011 read 1/18/2017
✓ 2 – Add the numbers in the average cost of a new house; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
$202,100 =5
Read a book with this number in the total number of reviews on Goodreads. Tell us how many reviews.
Ex: The average cost of a new house in 2012 was $263,200: 2 + 6 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 = 13, then add those numbers together: 1 + 3 = 4. You would read a book with a 4 in the number of reviews.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver 2,254 reviews - read 11/12/2016
✓ 3 – Add the numbers in the average yearly wages; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
40,925 =2
Read a series book that matches that number. Tell us the series position.
Ex: If your digit is TWO, you must read book #2 of any series.
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce Harold Fry #2 - read 1/2/2017
✓ 4 – Add the numbers in the cost of a gallon of gas; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
3.89 =2 = T
Read a book by an author whose LAST name starts with the same letter as that number.
Ex: If your digit is ONE, your author’s last name must begin with O.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler read 5/21/2017
✓ 5 – Add the numbers in the cost of a gallon of milk; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
3.39 =6
Read a book with that number in the original year of publication. Tell us the publication year.
When Breath Becomes Air publication year 2016, read 1/30/2017
✓ 6 – Add the numbers in the average cost of a frozen pizza; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
3.00 =3
Read a book with that number in its average rating on Goodreads. Tell us the rating.
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell average rating 3.91 - read 12/21/2016
✓ 7 – Multiply all three numbers in the cost of a pound of bacon, then divide by three. If you get an uneven number, round up to the next closest whole number.
3.98 =72
Read a book with that number in its total number of pages. Tell us how many pages.
Ex: The price for 2012 is 4.48. Multiply 4 x 4 x 8 = 128; divide by 3 = 42.666. Round that up to 43, then read a book with a “43,” intact, in its total number of pages.
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai 272 pages - read 12/22/2016
✓ 8 – Subtract the number to the left of the decimal point in the price of a 5-lb. bag of sugar from the number to the right of the decimal point. If necessary, add these numbers together to get a "reasonable" number.
2.92 =90 /9
Read a book by an author with that number of letters in his/her name (first name OR last name OR first, middle and last combined)
Ex: The price of a bag of sugar in 2008 was $2.68. Subtract 2 from 68 = 66. Since 66 is a LOT of letters for an author's name, add 6 + 6 = 12. Read a book by an author with 12 letters in his/her name.
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly read 12/25/2016
✓ 9 – Add the numbers in the cost of a dozen eggs; keep adding until you get down to a one-digit number. Set your TBR to display 30 books per page, sorted in whatever way you choose.
1.25 =8
Read a book from the page number that corresponds to the number you generated.
Strange Fits of Passion read 4/25/2017
If you don’t have that many pages, reduce the number of books per page to 20, or even 10. If you still don’t have that many pages, pick a page at random and choose a book from that page.
✓ 10 – Add the numbers in the cost of a box of Cornflakes; keep adding until you get down to a one- or two-digit number. Sort your TBR list by date added, newest to oldest.
3.50 =8
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
No Opportunity Wasted : Creating a List for Life read 7/23/2017
✓ 11 – Add the numbers in the cost of a loaf of bread; keep adding until you get down to a one-digit number.
1.98 =9
Read a book from your TBR list, sorted in any way you’d like, with that number in the first place of its position on your list. Tell us the book's position on your list.
Ex: If you get the number 1, you could read book #1, #11, or any book in the #100s.
The Infatuations #95 sorted by Date Added read 6/26/2017
✓ 12 – Multiply the two largest numbers in the price of a pound of ground beef, then divide by the remaining number. If necessary, round up to the next highest number.
3.78 =19
Read a book whose title begins with the same letter as that number; disregard A, An and The.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/1/2017
✓ 13 – Remove the decimal point from the price of a pound of potatoes. Sort your TBR list by author, Z-A.
.60 =60
Read the book in this number’s position on your TBR list.
Ex: For 2011, the price is 60¢. Read book #60 on your list.
Triptych read 5/5/2017
✓ 14 – Remove the decimal point from the price of a 12-pack water. Sort your TBR list by title, whichever way you choose.
2.63 =263
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017
✓ 15 – Add the numbers in the cost of a can of chicken soup. Sort your TBR list by date added, oldest to newest.
2.10 =3
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother read 12/22/2017
✓ 16 – Add the numbers in the cost of a 5-lb. bag of flour; keep adding until you get down to a one-digit number. Sort your TBR list by average rating, highest to lowest.
3.12 =6
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life read 6/28/2017
✓ 17 – Remove the decimal point from the price of Folgers coffee. Sort your TBR list by date published, whichever way you choose.
12.98 =1298
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
A Piece of the World read 5/22/2017
✓ 18 – Add the numbers in the cost of Tide soap powder; keep adding until you get down to a number no greater than 12.
10.55 =11
Read a book originally published in the month that corresponds to that number, with 1 = January, 2 = February, 3 = March, etc. Tell us the original publication date.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind Published 11/1985 read 7/14/2017
✓ 19 – Add together the two numbers to the left of the decimal point in the cost of a KW hour of electricity. Add together the two numbers to the right of the decimal point. Subtract the smaller of these two numbers from the larger. If necessary, add these numbers together to get a "reasonable" number.
12.35 =5
Read a book with that number of words in the title.
Ex: The price for 2011 is 12.35. Add together 1+2 = 3, and 3+5 = 8. Subtract 3 from 8 = 5. Read a book with a 5-word title.
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman read 12/10/2016
✓ 20 – Add together the numbers in the price of a movie ticket, until you get a one- or two-digit number.
8.20 =10
Read a book from your TBR list with that number in the last two digits (or the last digit if you have a one-digit number) in its position on your TBR list, sorted in whichever way you choose. Tell us the book's position on your list.
Ex: If your number is 12, you may read book #12, #112, #2012, etc..
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love #10 sorted by Date Added read 6/7/2017
✓ 21 – Add the numbers in the cost of a US postage stamp; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit. Sort your TBR list by author, A-Z.
.44 =8
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
Ex: If your digit is EIGHT, you must read book #8 on your TBR list.
Midnight Champagne read 12/15/2017
✓ 22 – Add together the numbers to the left of the decimal point in the price of an ounce of gold; add together the numbers to the right of the decimal point. Subtract the smaller of these numbers from the larger number. Sort your TBR list by title, A-Z.
1,559.95 =6
Read the book that falls into the position corresponding to the number you reached.
Addicted read 5/28/2017
✓ 23 – Multiply the total number of books on your TBR list by the number to the right of the decimal point in the unemployment figure for your year (INCLUDE the decimal point!); divide by the number to the left of the decimal point. If you get an uneven number, drop the numbers after the decimal point. Add the numbers together until you get down to a one-digit number.
9.2% = (375*.2)/9 = 8.33 = 8
Read a book with that number in its ISBN number
(NOT the ISBN 13 number). You can find this number in most Goodreads records. Tell us the ISBN number.
Ex: The unemployment rate for 2012 is 8.1%, and Member A has 2966 books on her TBR list.
2966 x .1 = 296.6, divide by 8 = 37.075. Drop the .075 = 37. 3+7 = 10, add 1+0 = 1 Read a book with an 1 in its ISBN number.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer ISBN 0385538731 - read 1/8/2017
✓ 24 – Multiply the total number of books on your TBR list by the number to the right of the decimal point in the inflation rate for your year (INCLUDE the decimal point!); subtract the number to the left of the decimal point. Round up to the next whole number. Sort your TBR by Random.
3.1% = (375*.1)-3 =35
Read the book on your TBR list that matches that number.
The King Who Made Paper Flowers: A Novel read 12/16/2017
Ex: For 2008, the inflation rate was 3.8%, and Member B has 564 books on his TBR list. Multiply 564 by .8 = 454.4, subtract 3 = 451.4, rounded up = 452. Sort your list by Random and read book #452.
✓ 25 – Add the numbers in the cost of college tuition; keep adding until you get down to just one single digit.
7,605.00 =9 = N
Read a book by an author whose FIRST name starts with the same letter as that number.
Ex: If your digit is SIX, your author’s first name must begin with S.
Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier by Noah Galloway Published 8/23/2016 - read 1/2/2017
I read your list, and I can tell I bought 2 of the books listed: Dinner at The Holmesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, and Songs in an Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris. Very good, believe me ;))
Suzanne wrote: "I read your list, and I can tell I bought 2 of the books listed: Dinner at The Holmesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, and Songs in an Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris. Very good, believe me ;))"That's so good to hear! I'm looking forward to reading them. I'm not sure when I'll get around to them - so many books, so little time!
just what I think ... little time big books ... but a life without books is no real life!
Crazy Challenge Connection group2017 NAMEDROPPERS
DURATION: 2/1/17 - 1/31/18
Yes, we're bringing back the spell-a-name challenge this year, but with a couple of options. Pick the names of your favorite family members or friends, your favorite authors, musicians, actors, athletes, any names you'd like. All we ask is that, since you have an entire year to complete the challenge, the letters in your chosen name/s equal a minimum of 35 letters.
Spell out your chosen names using the first letter of the first word in the book’s title – excluding A, An and The – or the author’s first or last initial (middle names or initials can NOT be used).
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I'm going with the name generators...
✓ Cat Name generator - Bartholomeow
✓ B - Brooklyn read 6/30/2017
✓ A - Addicted read 5/28/2017
✓ R - Range Of Motion read 4/2/2017
✓ T - Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017
✓ H - House Rules read 5/18/2017
✓ O - Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017
✓ L - Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love read 6/7/2017
✓ O - Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain read 4/29/2017
✓ M - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales read 3/14/2017
✓ E - The Expatriates read 4/7/2017
✓ O - Off Season read 6/20/2017
✓ W - Welcome to Braggsville read 6/23/2017
✓ Elf Name generator - Glorfiwien
✓ G - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo read 2/12/2017
✓ L - A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life read 6/28/2017
✓ O - The Other Widow read 11/23/2017
✓ R - The Red House read 4/20/2017
✓ F - Fates and Furies read 2/24/2017
✓ I - I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago read 4/26/2017
✓ W - A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary read 8/10/2017
✓ I - Inescapable read 6/8/2017
✓ E - Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017
✓ N - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/1/2017
✓ Fairy Name generator - Juniper Catglitter (my personal favorite)
✓ J - The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt read 5/23/2017
✓ U - Us read 5/7/2017
✓ N - The Nest read 4/24/2017
✓ I - The Infatuations read 6/26/2017
✓ P - Paradise of the Blind read 2/18/2017
✓ E - Elsewhere read 5/25/2017
✓ R - Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017
✓ C - Career of Evil read 3/30/2017
✓ A - The Aviator's Wife read 11/17/2017
✓ T - Torch read 3/13/2017
✓ G - The Girl in the Spider's Web read 6/19/2017
✓ L - Lum read 11/11/2017
✓ I - Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas read 12/2/2017
✓ T - Triptych read 5/5/2017
✓ T - Turbo Twenty-Three read 6/21/2017
✓ E - Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother read 12/22/2017
✓ R - The Rithmatist read 12/7/2017
Challenge completed!
January wrap-upPersonal challenges:
104 book reading goal: 7/104 = 12.1%
Yearly challenges:
The Dewey Decimal Challenge 1/10 = 10%
The TBR Randomiser Challenge 1/12 = 8.33%
Around the World Through Language 0/5 = 0%
The Listopia Challenge 2/12 = 16.67%
Genre Bingo Challenge 3 books 0/2 bingos
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2017 2/10 = 20%
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge 3/12 = 25%
Quarterly Challenges:
1st Quarter - 2016 Goodreads Choice Award Winners 1/3 = 33%
Challenges carried forward from 2016
Wacky Reading Challenges group:
TBR Challenge: What to Read Next (ends 3/21/17) 23/40 = 57.5%
Let's Go to Disneyland! 66/119 = 55.46%
A New Year of Lists (ends 11/30/17) 1/12 = 8.33%
Historical Landmarks of Italy (ends 12/31/2016) 9/10 = 90%
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
SHRINK THAT TBR ( ends 6/30/17) 32/40 = 80%
2017 challenges - other groups
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1-2-3 Challenge 7/210 = 3.33%
Dollars and Sense (ends 10/31/2017) 10/25
February reading9. Truly Madly Guilty read 2/2/2017 ★★★☆☆
10. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie read 2/12/2017 ★★★☆☆
11. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo read 2/12/2017 ★★★★☆
12. Paradise of the Blind read 2/18/2018 ★★★☆☆
13. Fates and Furies read 2/24/2017 ★★★☆☆
Wacky Reading ChallengesI ♥ Audiobooks Challenge
Open Ended
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 1: 250 hours of listening
Level 2: 500 hours of listening
Level 3: 750 hours of listening
Level 4: 1000 hours of listening
1. Truly Madly Guilty 17 hours - 2/2/2017
2. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo 8 hours - 2/12/2017
3. Fates and Furies 14 hours - 2/24/2017
4. Torch 17 hours - 3/13/2017
5. Career of Evil 18 hours - 3/30/2017
6. The Expatriates 13 hours - 4/7/2017
7. Soldier Dogs 7 hours - 4/16/2017
8. The Year of Magical Thinking 5 hours - 4/20/2017
9. Triptych 13 hours - 5/5/2017
10. The Signature of All Things 21.75 hours - 5/21/2017
11. Elsewhere 7.5 hours - 5/25/2017
12. Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love 9 hours - 6/7/2017
13. The Girl in the Spider's Web 13 hours - 6/19/2017
14. Off Season 11.5 hours - 6/20/2017
15. Turbo Twenty-Three 6 hours - 6/21/2017
16. Brooklyn 7.5 hours - 6/30/2017
17. The Story of a New Name 18 hours - 7/3/2017
18. Trajectory 8 hours - 7/10/2017
19. Dreams of Joy 15.5 hours - 7/19/2017
20. Scrappy Little Nobody 6 hours - 7/30/2017
21. Nora Webster 12 hours - 8/10/2017
22. Dark Places 13.75 hours - 8/24/2017
23. South of Broad 20 hours - 9/13/2017
24. My Reading Life 8 hours - 10/2/2017
25. The Widow 10.25 hours - 10/12/2017
26. The Summer Before the War 16 hours - 10/24/2017
27. My Name Is Lucy Barton 4 hours - 10/27/2017
28. Here's to Us 12.5 hours - 11/2/2017
29. The Aviator's Wife 16 hours - 11/17/2017
30. The Almost Sisters 12.75 hours - 11/19/2017
31. The Wright Brothers 10 hours - 12/13/2017
371 hrs /250 hrs Challenge completed!
March reading14. The Secret Place read 3/5/2017 ★★★☆☆
15. Torch read 3/13/2017 ★★★☆☆
16. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales read 3/14/2017 ★★☆☆☆
17. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier read 3/19/2017 ★★★★☆
18. Career of Evil read 3/30/2017 ★★★★☆
I'm in "Pomegrante and the Maiden", to read on weekends. Only for fun and between working challenges: Southern Sisters Mysteries. While eating in a restaurant: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. As a woman: America's Women - 400 years of ...
I feel the need of 100 years life only for reading!
April reading19. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg read 4/2/2017 ★★★★☆
20. Range Of Motion read 4/2/2017 ★★★★☆
21. Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour of -And Escape From- Healthcareland read 4/4/2017 ★★★☆☆
22. The Free read 4/5/2017 ★★★☆☆
23. The Expatriates read 4/7/2017 ★★★★☆
24. Fly Away read 4/8/2017 ★★★☆☆
25. Soldier Dogs read 4/16/2017 ★★★★☆
26. The Red House read 4/20/2017 ★★★☆☆
27. The Year of Magical Thinking read 4/20/2017 ★★★★☆
28. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy read 4/21/2017 ★★★★★
29. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town read 4/23/2017 ★★★★★
30. The Nest read 4/24/2017 ★★★★☆
31. Strange Fits of Passion read 4/25/2017 ★★★☆☆
32. I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago read 4/26/2017 ★★★☆☆
33. Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain read 4/29/2017 ★★★☆☆
Crazy Challenge ConnectionHELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE
DURATION: April 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Please use this shelf: Pick 4 Me book shelf
Link to the Challenge
Round 1: Apr 1 - Melissa (ladybug) picks for Susan
✓ The Red House read 4/20/2017
Other suggestions: The Story of a New Name, The Wasp Factory, The Free
Round 2: Apr 15 - Melissa (ladybug) picks for Susan
✓ House Rules read 5/18/2017
Other suggestions: Dark Places, Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Round 3: Apr 29 - Barb picks for Susan
✓ Us read 5/7/2017
Also recommended: Inescapable, Off Season
Round 4: May 13 - Chelsi picks for Susan
✓ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant read 5/21/2017
Also recommended: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Midwives
Round 5: May 27 - Amelia picks for Susan
✓ No Opportunity Wasted: Creating a Life List read 7/23/2017
Also suggested: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary, Inescapable
Round 6: Jun 10 - picked by Suzanne
✓ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood read 6/17/2017
Also suggested Midwives, Dark Places
Round 7: Jun 24 - Picked by Gina
What Is an American Muslim?: Embracing Faith and Citizenship Did not finish
✓ The Widow read 10/12/2017
Also suggested: The Husband's Secret, Dark Places
Round 8: Jul 8 - picked by Kris
✓ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer read 7/14/2017
Also suggested: A Little Life, Dark Places, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Round 9: Jul 22 - picked by Jimena
✓ A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary 8/10/2017
Also recommended: The Husband's Secret, Midnight's Children, Dark Places
Round 10: Aug 5 - picked by Chaitra
✓ Dark Places read 8/24/2017
Also recommended: Midnight's Children, All My Puny Sorrows, A Little Life
Round 11: Aug 19 - picked by Sunshine
✓ Midnight's Children read 12/4/2017
Also recommended: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Round 12: Sep 2 - post your suggestions by Sep 5 - sit out
Round 13: Sep 16 - post your suggestions by Sep 19 - sit out
Round 14: Sep 30 - post your suggestions by Oct 3 - sit out
Round 15: Oct 14 - post your suggestions by Oct 17 - sit out
Round 16: Oct 29 - post your suggestions by Oct 31 - sit out
Round 17: Nov 11 - picked by Bonita
✓ Moonlight on Butternut Lake read 12/4/2017
Also recommended: The Quilter's Daughter, A Little Life
Round 18: Nov 25 - picked by Kait
✓ Commonwealth read 12/6/2017
Also recommended: The Rithmatist, You, The Sweetness of Tears
Round 19: Dec 9 - picked by Pigletto
✓ The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon read 12/10/2017
Also recommended: Possession, The King Who Made Paper Flowers: A Novel, The Red Tent
Round 20: Dec 23 - picked by Suzanne
✓ Midwives read 12/29/2017
Also recommended: Before We Were Yours, You, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
Round 21: Jan 6 - post your suggestions by Jan 9
Round 22: Jan 20 - post your suggestions by Jan 23
Round 23: Feb 3 - post your suggestions by Feb 6
Round 24: Feb 17 - post your suggestions by Feb 20
Round 25: Mar 3 - post your suggestions by Mar 6
Round 26: Mar 17 - post your suggestions by Mar 20
May reading34. Triptych read 5/5/2017 ★★★★☆
35. Us read 5/7/2017 ★★★★☆
36. Everybody's Fool read 5/14/2017 ★★★★★
37. House Rules read 5/18/2017 ★★★★☆
38. The Signature of All Things read 5/21/2017 ★★★☆☆
39. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant read 5/21/2017 ★★★☆☆
40. A Piece of the World read 5/22/2017 ★★★☆☆
41. The Joy of Geocaching: How to Find Health, Happiness and Creative Energy Through a Worldwide Treasure Hunt read 5/23/2017 ★★★★☆
42. Elsewhere read 5/25/2017 ★★★☆☆
43. Addicted read 5/28/2017 ★★☆☆☆
June reading44. Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love 6/7/2017 ★★★☆☆
45. Inescapable read 6/8/2017 ★★★☆☆
46. The Mutual Admiration Society read 6/9/2017 ★★☆☆☆
47. Manning: A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy read 6/12/2017 ★★★☆☆
48. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood read 6/17/2017 ★★★★☆
49. The Girl in the Spider's Web read 6/19/2017 ★★★☆☆
50. Off Season read 6/20/2017 ★★★★☆
51. Turbo Twenty-Three read 6/21/2017 ★★★☆☆
52. Welcome to Braggsville read 6/23/2017 ★★☆☆☆
53. The Infatuations read 6/26/2017 ★★★★☆
54. A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life read 6/28/2017 ★★★★☆
55. Brooklyn read 6/30/2017 ★★★☆☆
July reading56. The Story of a New Name read 7/3/2017 ★★★★☆
57. Kind of Kin read 7/4/2017 ★★★☆☆
58. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress read 7/8/2017 ★★★★★
59. Trajectory read 7/10/2017 ★★★☆☆
60. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer read 7/14/2017 ★★★☆☆
61. Dreams of Joy read 7/19/2017 ★★★★☆
62. No Opportunity Wasted: Creating a Life List read 7/23/2017 ★★★★☆
63. Scrappy Little Nobody read 7/30/2017 ★★★★☆
August reading64. Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League read 8/2/2017 ★★★★☆
65. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary read 8/10/2017 ★★★★☆
66. Nora Webster read 8/10/2017 ★★★★☆
67. The Husband's Secret read 8/17/2017 ★★★★☆
68. Dear Bob and Sue read 8/23/2017 ★★★★☆
69. Dark Places read 8/24/2017 ★★★★☆
70. The Wasp Factory read 8/28/2017 ★★☆☆☆
October reading72. My Reading Life read 10/2/2017 ★★★★☆
73. The Widow read 10/12/2017 ★★★☆☆
74. The Summer Before the War read 10/24/2017 ★★★★☆
75. My Name Is Lucy Barton read 10/25/2017 ★★☆☆☆
76. No Land's Man read 10/29/2017 ★★★★☆
November reading77. Here's to Us read 11/2/2017 ★★★☆☆
78. Lum read 11/11/2017 ★★★☆☆
79. Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel read 11/15/2017 ★★★★☆
80. The Aviator's Wife read 11/17/2017 ★★★★☆
81. The Almost Sisters read 11/19/2017 ★★★★☆
82. Raw: A Love Story read 11/20/2017 ★★★☆☆
83. Lab Girl read 11/23/2017 ★★★☆☆
84. The Other Widow read 11/23/2017 ★★★☆☆
85. Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune read 11/25/2017 ★★★☆☆
December reading86. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas read 12/2/2017 ★★★☆☆
87. Midnight's Children read 12/4/2017 ★★★☆☆
88. Moonlight on Butternut Lake read 12/4/2017 ★★★☆☆
89. Commonwealth read 12/6/2017 ★★★☆☆
90. The Rithmatist read 12/7/2017 ★★★★☆
91. The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection read 12/8/2017 ★★★☆☆
92. Self Storage read 12/10/2017 ★★★☆☆
93. The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon read 12/10/2017 ★★★☆☆
94. Possession read 12/12/2017 ★★★☆☆
95. The Wright Brothers read 12/13/2017 ★★★★☆
96. Midnight Champagne read 12/15/2017 ★★★★☆
97. The King Who Made Paper Flowers: A Novel read 12/16/2017 ★★★★☆
98. The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy read 12/17/2017 ★★★★☆
99. Chestnut Street read 12/17/2017 ★★★☆☆
100. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend read 12/18/2017 ★★★☆☆
101. The Quilter's Daughter read 12/18/2017 ★★★☆☆
102. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language read 12/22/2017 ★★★☆☆
103. Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother read 12/22/2017 ★★★★☆
104. The Hypnotist's Love Story read 12/24/2017 ★★★★☆
105. You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures read 12/25/2017 ★★★☆☆
106. The Red Tent read 12/27/2017 ★★★★☆
107. Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS read 12/27/2017 ★★★☆☆
108. Family Life read 12/28/2017 ★★★☆☆
109. Midwives read 12/29/2017 ★★★★☆
110. The Divorce Papers read 12/30/2017 ★★★☆☆
Wow, of a goal of 104 books is 'scaling back', I'm scared to ask how much you'd read if you were going all out ;)I'm in awe as to how organized and well planned everything is :)
Best of luck with your goals in 2018!
Lisa wrote: "Wow, of a goal of 104 books is 'scaling back', I'm scared to ask how much you'd read if you were going all out ;)I'm in awe as to how organized and well planned everything is :)
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Well, last year I read 140 books, and 171 the year before that. Right now, I'm way behind... I need to read 17 books to reach this year's goal - basically, I'll need to spend every free minute reading until the end of the year :-)
Thanks for your kind words. I have had a bad habit of joining too many challenges in the past, and the only way I could keep on top of things (and have a prayer of completing them) was to get organized. Sometimes I think it's overkill, and it almost becomes a part-time job (lol)
Susan C wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Wow, of a goal of 104 books is 'scaling back', I'm scared to ask how much you'd read if you were going all out ;)I'm in awe as to how organized and well planned everything is :)
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That's amazing :) The only way I would be able to read more than 100 books is if I stopped working and studying and sleeping... I could live without the first two but my sleep is just too precious so that's not bound to happen :) lol
Haha, I know what you mean. I have the same habit :) I had pledged to reel it back this year but I'm struggling with that, at the moment. I blame the challenge creators for making them so alluring! :D
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I love doing challenges so much that I actually belong to two other challenge groups besides this one! Last year, I started out joining every challenge that came along, and ended up being overwhelmed, and it just wasn't fun anymore. This year, I'm going to be more selective on which challenges I join so that reading will be fun again.
Update 12/30 - I still seem to be joining a lot of challenges; however, I'm limiting the number of tasks that I commit to. Basically, I'm committing to no more than 12 books for a yearly challenge, and 3 books for a quarterly challenge. Sounds doable, right?
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