SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

1. Read a book that takes place in 3 different mythical/imagined realms - parallel dimensions, mythical worlds. Planets do not count, unless they're in another dimension. Earth does not count either, so you can't read a book that features only Earth, heaven and hell, unless the book features a mythical place on Earth. Also, you can't cheat by using 3 different cities in one mythical world or something.
The Subtle Knife

2. Read a book that has been banned (not just challenged) in 3 or more countries. Lolita

3. Reread a book (give a second chance to) a book you previously gave a bad rating/review. The Shipping News

4. Finish a book that you started but gave up on. Les Misérables

5. Choose a series that you a gave a low rating to, and read the second book. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

6. Read a book with the word second, (not seconds) two or twice in the title. The catch is it can't be the second book in a series.

7. Read a book that was nominated for an award/awards but never won (came in second :D) The Accidental Tourist

8. Read a book with 7 or more words in the title. Subtitles don't count (ie. nothing after the colon).

9. Read a book that is number 7,8 or 9 in a stand alone series.

10. Read a book where a main character has the same name as your mother (we can speak about it if your mother has a random name etc).

11. Read a book that's cover depicts someone that is about to die in some way or other.

12. Read a book that has a two part title that coincides with your initials (just first and last name). For example, mine is LC = Long Cannons by blah blah

13. Read a book with 1000 or more pages.

14. A title with 3 or more words, each starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For example: A Boat Can Drift Everywhere

15. Read a book with a number of ratings matching your birth date. Month/Date/Year Eg. 01/20/86 would come to 12,086 ratings. Provide a screenshot to be verified by another member.

16. Read a book that is not written by a south African and does not take place in south Africa, but where in south Africa is mentioned.

17. Read a book that at least three of your friends have given less than three stars to. Pride and Prejudice

18. Read a book translated from Finnish. The Summer Book

19. Read any novel by Tolstoy or Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead

20. Go to a second-hand bookstore. Find the last book on the fiction shelf. If you do not have it, buy it and read it.

21. Read a book that is set on an ocean vessel that is not a passenger cruise ship.

22. Get three of the other sado-masochists here to choose a book that they think you'll HATE but that they think you should read. Choose one of the books and read it.
(For this challenge, just announce that you want three nominations and the first 3 to come in will be the books you have to choose from.) Out of Africa

23. Read a book published in the year that your father was born Doctor Zhivago

24. Read a book with the originals authors signature in the front

25. Read an entire series consisting of 6 or more books. Re-reads not allowed!
Frank and Brien Herbert - The Dune Saga

26. Read a book with a reference to a classic book in it and read that classic too.
So you have to read two books here and you have to post the quote.

27. There are 3 steps
1. Choose a book to read. A classic, multiple award-winning or literary book is best. Fiction or non-fiction.
2. Read a novel (fiction) based on the book in step 1. eg. read Hyperion if your book is The Canterbury Tales.
3. Read a non-fiction book related to the book in step one. Eg. a collection of essays on the novel, a book about the author etc, a book about a theme of the novel (eg. vampires, dystopias) where the novel is discussed at length. It can be a study guide, but remember that it should fit the 100 page minimum requirement.

28. The terrible threes: Read three trilogies. (Re-reads allowed, but you must start from book 1)
*Farseer, Robin Hobb
*Legacy Series, Melissa Delport
*Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peak
*Lord of the Rings
***whichever Trilogies I finish first, will win for this category***

29. Read a graphic novel.

30. Pick a theme, any theme fantasy, horror, whatever and read 6 different books belonging to that theme written by 6 different authors coming from the 6 different continents so from Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia, North-America and South-America. I know Antartica is counted as a continent, but I don't think they have many native authors there. I think it would be nice to see what the different continents do with the themes.
*Europe Coraline
*Africa Broken Monsters
*Asia Goth
*Australia The Pilo Family Circus
*North America American Psycho
*South America Bully

31. colour coded theme - You have to read 9 books. Each book must contain a colour in the title. The following colours should be used :
1. Yellow -
2. Red – The Red Tent
3. Blue -
4. Green -
5. White -
6. Black -
7. Brown -
8. Any other colour like Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Pink – A Clockwork Orange
9. Last book should contain a word that implies colour, like rainbow, polka-dot, stripes - Shades

32. Read a book set in colonial Australia. Morgan's Run

33. Read any book of your choosing, but then post a picture (a real picture - no photoshopping!) of yourself in the exact locations of a scene from the book. The picture/location should be verifiable. So don't use a photo of a beach that could be a beach anywhere in the world.
Eg. if you read Moxyland, you could use a picture of yourself in/outside Stones on Long Street in Cape Town. Just a picture of yourself in Cape Town won't cut it.

34. Re-create a cover. You have to take a pic where you have recreated a cover, using props, dressing up etc. You can't just use photoshop, except when putting a title on it and so on :) Oh and read the book obviously :)

35. There is a song called "The Book Lovers" by the Divine Comedy. Read one book of 3 authors mentioned in the song.
Vanity Fair
The Name of the Rose
Sense and Sensibility

36. Word Quest - One of your goodreads friends must choose a word for you, for example "driving", then you must find 3 books relating to that word and read it: SECRET

37. Read 33 novels from your favourite genre provided that each novel is more than 333 pages OR you can choose to read 11 novels from your favourite genre, provided that each novel is by an author you haven't read yet and that each novel is more than 333 pages. - CRIME

38. a) Read 9 debut novels by different authors (first actual novel in print by a major publisher).
b) Then read 3 novels published before the death of its author. (That author's last novel).
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Secret Life of Bees
The Virgin Suicides
Casino Royale and You Only Live Twice
The Kite Runner
The Joy Luck Club
White Oleander
The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Curtain
A Study in Scarlet and The Edge of the Unknown

39. Nomination : read an original greek mythology novel as close to the original text as you can get your hands on (obviously not greek)

40. A one-word title with 10 letters. Goldfinger

COMPLETED: TASK 24. Read a book with the original author's signature in the front

PROGRESS FOR TASK 31. Colour coded theme - You have to read 9 books. Each book must contain a colour in the title. The following colours should be used :

1. Yellow -
2. Red – The Red Tent
3. Blue - Die vrou in die blou mantel
4. Green - Anne of Green Gables
5. White -
6. Black -
7. Brown -
8. Any other colour - A Clockwork Orange
9. Last book should contain a word that implies colour, like rainbow, polka-dot, stripes

COMPLETED TASK 37. Read 33 novels from your favourite genre provided that each novel is more than 333 pages OR you can choose to read 11 novels from your favourite genre, provided that each novel is by an author you haven't read yet and that each novel is more than 333 pages. -

I chose CRIME as my genre and will be going for the 33 books mark as I already have a bunch of Crime novels by some of my favourite crime authors on my TBR shelve.

1. Ann Rule - Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases 511 pages
2. Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train 336 pages
3. Deon Meyer - 7 dae 419 pages
4. Michael Connolly - The Lincoln Lawyer 417 pages
5. Michael Connolly - Chasing the Dime 338 pages
6. Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 686 pages
7. Lynda La Plante - Silent Scream 515 pages
8. Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling 550 pages
9. Robert Galbraith - The Silkworm 455 pages
10. Max Allen Collins - True Detective 480 pages
11. Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls 408 pages
12. James Patterson - Along Came a Spider 449 pages
13. John Connolly - Every Dead Thing 467 pages
14. Robert Galbraith - Lethal White 656 pages
15. Karin Slaughter - Pretty Girls 419 pages
16. Karin Slaughter - Fractured 388 pages
17. Karin Slaughter - Triptych 393 pages
18. Karin Slaughter - Genesis 436 pages
19. James Patterson - Jack & Jill 466 pages
20. James Patterson - Cat and Mouse 416 pages
21. James Patterson - Pop Goes the Weasel 461 pages
22. Karen Slaughter - Criminal 448 pages
23. Karen Slaughter - Unseen 379 pages
24. James Patterson - Roses are Red 416 pages
25. Shanna Hogan - The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained 352 pages
26. James Patterson - Violets Are Blue 391 pages
27. James Patterson - Four Blind Mice 416 pages
28. James Patterson - The Big Bad Wolf 400 pages
29. James Patterson - London Bridges 403 pages
30. James Patterson - Mary, Mary 413 pages
31. Dawn Kopman Whidden - Keeping Hope Alive 345 pages
32. Karen Slaughter - The Kept Woman 461 pages
33. Karen Slaughter - Cop Town 416 pages

General progress on finished tasks:

1. Read a book that takes place in 3 different mythical/imagined realms - parallel dimensions, mythical worlds. Planets do not count, unless they're in another dimension. Earth does not count either, so you can't read a book that features only Earth, heaven and hell, unless the book features a mythical place on Earth. Also, you can't cheat by using 3 different cities in one mythical world or something.
The Subtle Knife

2. Read a book that has been banned (not just challenged) in 3 or more countries Lolita

4. Finish a book that you started but gave up on. Les Misérables

5. Choose a series that you a gave a low rating to, and read the second book. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

9. Read a book that is number 7,8 or 9 in a stand alone series. The Kept Woman (Will Trent #8)

10. Read a book where a man character has the same name as your mother - Laurette. The main character's name is actually Marie-Laure, but one of the other character's calls her Laurette throughout the book. All the Light We Cannot See

11. Read a book that's cover depicts someone that is about to die in some way or other. A Wistful Tale of Gods, Men, and Monsters

13. Read a book with 1000 or more pages (1007 pages) The Way of Kings

16. Read a book that is not written by a south African and does not take place in south Africa, but where in south Africa is mentioned. American Psycho
Page 158 " Have the South African colonial forces and the Soviet-backed black guerrillas found peace yet?"

17. Read a book that at least three of your friends have given less than three stars to. Pride and Prejudice

18. Read a book translated from Finnish.

19. Read any novel by Tolstoy or Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead

21. Read a book that is set on an ocean vessel that is not a passenger cruise ship. The Hunt for Red October

23. Read a book published in the year that your father was born Doctor Zhivago

29. Read a graphic novel The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning

Progress for task 36. - SECRET
Word Quest - One of your goodreads friends must choose a word for you, for example "driving", then you must find 3 books relating to that word and read it: SECRET
1. Secret Prey
2. The Secret Keeper
3.

Planning for Task 15
Read a book with a number of ratings matching your birth date. Month/Date/Year Eg. 01/20/86 would come to 12,086 ratings. Provide a screenshot to be verified by another member.
The Winner's Crime

my birthday is 27 Jun 1983

COMPLETED: TASK 25. Read an entire series consisting of 6 or more books. Re-reads not allowed! - Dune Series by Frank (and later Brian) Herbert
1. Dune
2, Dune Messiah 3.
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse: Dune
7. Hunters of Dune
8. Sandworms of Dune

PROGRESS FOR TASK 30. Pick a theme, any theme fantasy, horror, whatever and read 6 different books belonging to that theme written by 6 different authors coming from the 6 different continents so from Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia, North-America and South-America. I know Antartica is counted as a continent, but I don't think they have many native authors there. I think it would be nice to see what the different continents do with the themes.
I picked HORROR

*North America: Whispers
*Europe: The Wasp Factory
*Africa: Broken Monsters
*Asia
*Australia The Pilo Family Circus
*South America

COMPLETED TASK 35. There is a song called "The Book Lovers" by the Divine Comedy. Read one book of 3 authors mentioned in the song.
Vanity Fair
Sense and Sensibility
The Name of the Rose

PROGRESS FOR TASK 38.
a) Read 9 debut novels by different authors (first actual novel in print by a major publisher).
b) Then read 3 novels published before the death of its author. (That author's last novel)

Ken Kessey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet ///

COMPLETED: TASK 28.
The terrible threes: Read three trilogies. (Re-reads allowed, but you must start from book 1)
1. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy by Ransom Riggs
2. Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown
3. Legacy Trilogy by Melissa Delport

COMPLETED: TASK 26
Read a book with a reference to a classic book in it and read that classic too.
So you have to read two books here and you have to post the quote.
A - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had rad a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking"
B - Don Quixote