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Dewlanna wrote: "A challenge where we pick what we want to read from a list ? Maybe from one/two words title books and blue or red cover?"
Very close, I will announce it shortly!
Very close, I will announce it shortly!
February is here! That means a new challenge. Lets get this challenge going!
This is another "You Pick" Challenge, however.... it is a little different.
Rules
For this challenge you must pick one category, and complete that one. Each category is different, but you have a few options in the meanwhile.
Please state what "option" or category you are going in for in your master post below.
Read as many books you can!
You Pick Categories
Challenge Clean-Up: Check up on old challenges and see the books that you wanted to read, but didn't get to. The challenges can be the monthly challenges, or the old yearly challenges. The books cannot be from a challenge that is currently open, or an on-going challenge. You can check challenges here!
Monthly Madness: Go through the C&B bookshelf and read the books you never got to! Cannot read any books from the 2016 year! Must be 2015 and beyond! Check out the C&B Bookshelf to pick some "vintage picks!"
Genre Games Pick a two genres, and read as many as you can. The genre's up for grabs (no fiction!) are below:
Fantasy
Non-Fiction
Science Fiction
Horror
Crime
Young-Adult
Mystery
Romance
Self-Help/Personal Gain
Duration
February 1st - March 1st
This is another "You Pick" Challenge, however.... it is a little different.
Rules
For this challenge you must pick one category, and complete that one. Each category is different, but you have a few options in the meanwhile.
Please state what "option" or category you are going in for in your master post below.
Read as many books you can!
You Pick Categories
Challenge Clean-Up: Check up on old challenges and see the books that you wanted to read, but didn't get to. The challenges can be the monthly challenges, or the old yearly challenges. The books cannot be from a challenge that is currently open, or an on-going challenge. You can check challenges here!
Monthly Madness: Go through the C&B bookshelf and read the books you never got to! Cannot read any books from the 2016 year! Must be 2015 and beyond! Check out the C&B Bookshelf to pick some "vintage picks!"
Genre Games Pick a two genres, and read as many as you can. The genre's up for grabs (no fiction!) are below:
Fantasy
Non-Fiction
Science Fiction
Horror
Crime
Young-Adult
Mystery
Romance
Self-Help/Personal Gain
Duration
February 1st - March 1st
I am in for the Genre Games!
My 2 genres: Young-Adult and Non-Fiction.
I figured those are two pretty different genres that I can get a lot in!
Young-Adult
1. Vanishing Girls Feb. 1st, 2016
2. An Abundance of Katherines Feb. 12, 2016
Non-Fiction
1. #GIRLBOSS Feb. 21st, 2016
2. The 20 Something Guide to Getting It Together: A Step-By-Step Plan for Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis
My 2 genres: Young-Adult and Non-Fiction.
I figured those are two pretty different genres that I can get a lot in!
Young-Adult
1. Vanishing Girls Feb. 1st, 2016
2. An Abundance of Katherines Feb. 12, 2016
Non-Fiction
1. #GIRLBOSS Feb. 21st, 2016
2. The 20 Something Guide to Getting It Together: A Step-By-Step Plan for Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis

Monthly Madness: Go through the C&B bookshelf and read the books you never got to! Cannot read any books from the 2016 year! Must be 2015 and beyond! Check out the C&B Bookshelf to pick some "vintage picks!"
Genre Games Pick a two genres, and read as many as you can. The genre's up for grabs (no fiction!) are below:
I kind of been on a non-fiction kick lately with all of my time spent at the library so I will choose that category
Non-Fiction
1. Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State
2. Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story
I might change, but I did just pick up 2 similar topic self-help books
Self-Help/Personal Gain
1. Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People

Non-Fiction
1. Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin - 07/02, 3*
2. Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" - 13/02, 2*
3. Gottland - 13/02, 4*
4. Warszawa — miasto grzechu: Prostytucja w II RP - 19/02, 3*
5. Dry - 21/02, 4*
6. Zakonnice odchodzą po cichu - 23/02, 4*
7. Death Trip: Charles Manson and the Love and Terror Cult - 26/02, 2*
8. Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century - 26/02, 3*
Young-Adult
1. Zoe Letting Go - 01/02, 2*
2. Suicide Notes - 02/02, 3*
3. Hold Still - 02/02, 3.5*
4. Lies My Girlfriend Told Me - 06/02, 3*
5. Getting Somewhere - 28/02, 3.5*
Other YA books I've read (part of Popsugar 2016): Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Warm Bodies, Uprooted, Dorothy Must Die, No Place Like Oz
I hope to read at least three books for each category.

I think I will do genres: Mystery and Young Adult.
The Big Cat Nap by Rita Mae Brown is finished. I've finished The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart and Magyk by Annie Sage. Next is The Door in the Dragon's Throat.

✓ City of Thieves
✓ The Kite Runner
And maybe :
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (currently reading)
- Middlesex
Books mentioned in this topic
Getting Somewhere (other topics)Death Trip: Charles Manson And The Love And Terror Cult (other topics)
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century (other topics)
Zakonnice odchodzą po cichu (other topics)
The Twentysomething Guide to Getting It Together: A Step-by-Step Plan for Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis (other topics)
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Or another way to put it SO MANY OPTIONS.