The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
October 22, 2022 -- Week 43


Challenge Check-In time! How's your challenge going so far? On schedule? Just waiting on November to finish? Fallen a little behind? Are there any prompts we can help with?

10 prompts left! Should be able to finish

Six left, but a seventh might need to be done over. Two are already started, and the others have been selected. Plus a couple mini-challenge stragglers that were set aside less than completed. Should be doable...

Two left for the challenge, selected already. I have 1 mini-challenge prompt left. So I should be good to finish.

I'm just waiting for November.

I haven't read a November book yet, but I know which one I'm going to read for book club, so I included it on the wrap-up list, which is done.

I have four left. I'm almost finished with #11 (a book with less than 2022 Goodreads ratings), and I have the others chosen, except for the November one.

This is the first year I have ever done any reading challenges, and I am on track to complete three of them! I have read so many good books this year that I most likely wouldn't have otherwise picked up, so I'm loving it!

Ahhhhh…6 more to go!

This week I read:
Blue Label by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles which is literary fiction set in Venezuela about teenagers on a road trip, trying to find a way to deal with the collapse of a country around them. I found it well-written and engaging. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Here is my review. This would work for Author with X/Y/Z in their name OR an Indie read OR A Bilingual Character

A Return to Sanditon by Anne Toledo, one of several books completing Jane Austen's final unfinished manuscript. Here is my review: my review. It would work for Jane Austen inspired prompt!

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood is a graphic novel/ autobiography by Marjane Satrapi about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review. It works for Nonfiction Bestseller/ recommended by a favourite author

Progress:
52 Book Club: 43/52
Booklist Queen: 41/52
Aussie Spring Challenge: 11/18

Still struggling with “seen someone reading in a public place”, “picked based on its spine” which is hard when you read ebooks, and “game in the title”

I have just two books left. One is of course November reading and the other is indie read. May I read a book not on sale. The author gave it to me as a present. He doesn't think to sell his book. Therefore, none of the booksellers has it. Does it count?

Necmi wrote: "I have just two books left. One is of course November reading and the other is indie read. May I read a book not on sale. The author gave it to me as a present. He doesn't think to sell his book. T..."

Of course, all books count! I have a lot that I got for free.

Lindsey wrote: "Necmi wrote: "I have just two books left. One is of course November reading and the other is indie read. May I read a book not on sale. The author gave it to me as a present. He doesn't think to se..."

Thank you Lindsey. I'll read it and count as indie book.

I've been finished awhile. I've been gobbling up the mini challenges when they pop up. For the Nov read, I read Now in November by Josephine Johnson. Can't wait to see next year's completed list. I thought about starting on next year's with the four from the drawings we did, but decided to wait to see what the exact wording is for the prompt.

I finished the challenge at this noon.

I'm down to a book that intimidates me (House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski) and a book read in November (What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris).