2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I've committed to at least 50 book read in 2014 and I am joining in several interesting challenges.

Edit - I changed my goal to 75 on 8/13

Listopia Challenge, Yearly Challenge 2014:

15 Books from The "What Women Born in the 70s Have Read"
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

1. #27 Divergent
2. #52 Insurgent
3. #34 Allegiant
4. #71 The Interestings
5. #4 Where'd You Go, Bernadette
6. #32 The Girl You Left Behind
7. #78 Matched
8. #16 The Light Between Oceans
9. #17 Life After Life
10. #489 Just One Day
11. #196 Just One Year
12. #34 Labor Day
13. #2 Me Before You
14. #93 Whistling Past the Graveyard
15. #287 The Here and Now


And 5 from the Listopia "Best Books Ever"

1.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. The Night Circus
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. The Fault in Our Stars
5. Unwind

COMPLETE! 6/21/14

COMPLETE!
2014 2nd Quarter Challenge, Read Women (in for 5)


1. The Night Circus
2. Anna and the French Kiss
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
5. The Girl You Left Behind

Complete Already?! Let's go for 10. :)

6. Matched
7. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
8. The Light Between Oceans
9. Life After Life
10. Just One Day

Finished!

11. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
12. Labor Day
13. Whistling Past the Graveyard

2014 2nd Quarter Challenge: Finish Those Series

In for 3

The Silo Series (3/3) -- Finished!
The Selection Series (2/3) -- Finished!
Matched Series (3/3) -- Finished!

Completed June 27

THE JUNE SCHOOL YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: June 1 - 30, 2014

1. Summer break: This is the time of year many students look forward to the most. Older students can spend months planning vacations, studying abroad or searching for the right summer job.
Read a book that involves a life changing trip or vacation

2. Good teacher: “Good” is entirely subjective so think about your favorite teacher, trainer, or educator who really made an impact on your life.
Read a book that explores the subject that person taught

3. Bad teacher: “Bad” is equally subjective but is sometimes more easily discernible. Think about your least favorite teacher or an educator who didn’t seem to care.
Read a book involving the topic he/she taught or where the characters do something that is generally unacceptable.

4. The Classics: There are hundreds of books that consistently make summer reading lists. Often, reading these allows us to avoid judgment from other readers later in life – “How have you never read that?” they tend to say.
Read a book that you feel like you "should" have read by now

5. Seniors: The last year of high school or university is the time when students prepare for the next step in their lives.
Read a book involving a transition (high school to college, human to non-human etc)

6. Juniors: Juniors are looking forward to their last year, sending applications (college, job or other) and hoping that they know themselves well enough to make the right choice.
Read a book where a character struggles with his/her identity or is trying to figure out who they are

7. Sophomores: Sophomore comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “foolish.”
Read a book on a subject or a character who is wise, foolish or both

8. Freshman: Stories of this first year in a new school can be both painful and entertaining.
Read a book where the character(s) are outsiders or experiencing something entirely new to them

9. Foreign Exchange: Exchange students represent the connection between a familiar world and a country that is just another chapter in a geography book.
Read a book set in a foreign country

10. Varsity: This is the paramount achievement for any athlete; yet even after reaching the Varsity team, athletes must work to maintain to their status.
Read a book involving a power struggle

11. Junior Varsity: For athletes in the making, getting a spot on the JV team gives them the opportunity to learn new skills in order to reach Varsity.
Read a book by an author that is new to you

12. New School Year: As the summer comes to a close and the new year starts, students are barraged with tests to assess what they’ve retained over the long vacation.
Read a book involving memory or memory loss

Signed up for 5!

1.Unwind counts for #8
2. Labor Day counts for #3
3. Me Before You for #9
4. Whistling Past the Graveyard for #1
5. The End of Your Life Book Club for #2 (fav teacher taught English and a Novel class)

COMPLETE 6/21/14

The Hunger Games 3rd Quarter Challenge
14/14


The Capitol: The capitol is filled with beautiful extravagant people. Read a book with “beauty” in the title OR read a book where the main character is said to be extraordinarily beautiful.
Gabriel's Rapture

District 1: District 1 produces luxury items. Read a book about people who are rich OR read a book where a piece of jewelry plays an important role.
Gabriel's Inferno

District 2: District 2 produces weapons and trains peacekeepers. Read a book about a war OR read a book with a cop as one of the characters.
UnWholly

District 3: District 3 makes electronics. Read a book about a technologically advanced society OR read a book with a computer (or robot) as a main character.
Cinder

District 4: District 4 is a fishing district. Read a book about a fisherman OR read a book that at least partially takes place on a boat.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
It's kind of a stretch, but there is a boat. ;)

District 5: District 5 is the source of electrical power. Read a book that features a lightning storm OR read a book that is set in a place without electricity.
Twelve Years a Slave

District 6: District 6 is the hub of transportation. Read a book written by an author from a different country OR read a book that takes place in a real location you could visit.
Gabriel's Redemption

District 7: District 7 produces lumber and paper. Read a book that takes place in a forest OR read a physical book made out of paper (as opposed to an ebook).
The Spectacular Now

District 8: District 8 makes textiles. Read a book about fashion OR read with an item of clothing on its cover.


District 9: District 9 produces grain and has no characters named in the books. Read a book with an unnamed main character OR read a book with a character who is a vegetarian.
Then We Came to the End (the narrator is unnamed)

District 10: District 10 specialized in raising livestock. Read a book that has a domestic animal as a character OR read a book that has an animal in the title.
The Tiger's Wife

District 11: District 11 is an agricultural district and Rue, a young herbalist, originated here. Read a book where a young person dies OR read a book where an herbalist saves someone from dying.
The 5th Wave

District 12: District 12 is the mining district, and Katniss and Peeta, its tributes, wear clothes that catch fire. Read a book that has a fire that is helpful in it OR read a book that has the word “coal” somewhere in it (add a quote of the sentence where you found the word).
Dark Water "Amiel poked at the coals with the stick he'd used to write on the dirt floor of his other house."

District 13: District 13 is a rebellious district that specialized in nuclear technology. Read a book centered around a nuclear disaster OR read a book where the main character is rebellious.
My Name is Not Easy

Going for all 14
Completed 9/15/14

THIRD QUARTER CHALLENGE: ALWAYS A NOMINEE, NEVER A WINNER
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2014
10/10

There are tons of wonderful books out there that have never won any awards, no matter how many awards they've been nominated for.

For this challenge, choose a literary award (or two or three) that appeals to you. For a list of literary awards, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/award

Your goal is to read as many books as you can that have been nominated for but never won that specific award. Set your goal, and do your best to reach it by the end of the quarter!

I have signed up for 10 from the Goodreads Choice Awards and 5 from the National Book Awards
(8/25 - editing to 5 of each):

1. The Age of Miracles
2. Gabriel's Inferno
3. Out of the Easy
4. The 5th Wave
5. Cinder

1. The Tiger's Wife
2. Then We Came to the End
3. Dark Water
4. My Name is Not Easy
5. The Spectacular Now

Completed 9/15/14

JULY: THE HOARDERS CHALLENGE
Duration: July 1 - July 30, 2014
2/2 Completed 7/26

As we move into the second half of the year, it's time to clear those shelves!

1. Read the book that has been on your Goodreads TBR list longest.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2. Read a book from your physical book shelf or any other stash of books.

3. Read a book you got as a gift or for free.

4. Read a book recommended by or borrowed from a friend.
The Husband's Secret

5. Read a group read that you missed. You can see them all here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
The Rosie Project

6. Read the next book in a series that you've neglected.
UnWholly

7. Read the book that you've most recently added to your TBR list.
The Prologue

8. Read a book you started and never finished.

9. Read a book you bought with great intentions to read and just haven't got to it yet.

10. Read a book that you should have read in high school or college but you faked through instead.
The Catcher in the Rye

I signed up for 5. (editing to 2)

76/75 book complete! Yay!