2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

Ed wrote: "added my week #45"

I finished!

✔1. a book with more than 500 pages - The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain
✔2. a romance- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
✔3. a book that became a movie - Atonement by Rod McKuen
✔4. a book published this year - Yes Please by Amy Poehler
✔5. a book with a number in the title - 1919 by John Dos Passos
✔6. a book written by someone under 30 - Dubliners by James Joyce
✔7. a book with nonhuman characters- At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien (the characters are literary creations who rebel against their author who is also a literary creation of the author)
✔8. a funny book- The Worshipful Lucia by E.F. Benson
✔9. a book by a female author- Middlemarch by George Eliot
✔10. a mystery or thriller- They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
✔11. a book with a one-word title- Mother by Maxim Gorky
✔12. a book of short stories- Girls At War by Chinua Achebe
✔13. a book set in a different country - Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
✔14. a nonfiction book- A Room of One's Own by Virgina Woolf
✔15. a popular author's first book - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
✔16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
✔17. a book a friend recommended- God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
✔18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
✔19. a book based on a true story-Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
✔20. a book at the bottom of your to read list- The Penlopiad by Margaret Atwood
✔21. a book your mom or dad loves - Timbuktu by Paul Auster
✔22. a book that scares you- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
✔23. a book more than 100 years old- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
✔24. a book based entirely on its cover- Getting Stoned by Savages by J. Maarten Troost
✔25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
✔26. a memoir- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas- which despite the title, is really a Memoir by Gertrude Stein
✔27. a book you can finish in a day - How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
✔28. a book with antonyms in the title- The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun by Richard Lederer
✔29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (Brazil)
✔30.. a book that came out the year you were born- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
✔31. a book with bad reviews- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✔32. a trilogy (the first)- Night by Elie Weisel
✔33. a trilogy (the second)- The Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
✔34. a trilogy (the third)- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
✔35.. a book from your childhood- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
✔36. a book with a love triangle- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
✔37. a book set in the future- The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney
✔38. a book set in high school- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
✔39. a book with a color in the title - White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✔40. a book that made/makes you cry- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
✔41. a book with magic- Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
✔42. a graphic novel- The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
✔43. a book by an author you've never read before - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔44. a book you own but have never read- Lamb by Christopher Moore
✔45. a book that takes place in your hometown- Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena
✔46. a book that was originally written in another language -The Thief and the Dogs (Arabic) by Naguib Mafouz
✔47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)-Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
✔48. a book written by an author with your same initials- It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Eduard Limonov
✔49. a play- Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
✔50. a banned book - The Awakening by Kate Chopin
✔51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
✔52. a book you started but never finished- American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush byKevin Phillips

updated.

added Timbuktu by Paul Auster to week 21.

completed week 48 -It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Eduard Limonov

added a few more

added my week #45

4 more to go...just finished Oliver Twist for week 35.

Awesome work, Ed! Keep it going! You're almost there.

thanks Emm

Another one down....just finished Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis for week #30. Just 3 more to go.

I just noticed on Kateryna's board that she read The Awakening for week #50....which I had also read and forgot it was a banned book.... so, added that and I'm just 2 away.

Go, Ed! Go, Ed!!

Another one bites the dust...just have to finish The Perks of Being a Wallflower for week 38 and I'm done!

I'm done! Happy New Year everyone.

Congratulations! :)

Congrats! :)

Congratulations Ed!