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My Progress: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Progress: 25/39
Remaining Tasks:
4. Rocko's Modern Life: Read a book that takes place in Australia OR has the word "modern" anywhere in the text.
6. Kablam!: Read a book of short stories OR that has some sort of punctuation in the title.
7. Hey Arnold: Read a book that takes place in a big city OR that has a grandparent as a character.
13. The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Read a book that has a major character that has red hair OR that has an author whose first or last initial can be found in PETE
17. The Secret World of Alex Mack - Read a book whose author has the initials AM (or the reverse) OR that has lightning on the cover
18. Kenan & Kel - Read a book by an author whose first or last initial is K OR that has an orange cover
22. All That - Read a book that has a main page genre of Humor OR that is written by an author who is younger than you
27. Think Fast! - Read a book with exactly two people on the cover (no more, no less) OR that has an author whose first or last initial is either T or F
29. Wild & Crazy Kids - Read a book that has the word "And" in the title OR that has an adjective describing a noun (ex: wild kids, blue eyes, sexy body)
30. Get the Picture - Read a book that has a picture of some sort on the cover (portrait, photograph, drawing, etc.) OR that has at least five distinctly different covers on Goodreads for the same book.
31. What Would You Do? - Read a book that has flashbacks in the story OR that has an ending that you didn't see coming.
32. Nickelodeon Guts - Read a book that has a mountain on the cover OR that has Sports as a main page genre
33. Nick Arcade - Read a book that has a character who plays video games OR that has a blue cover
39. Blue's Clues - Read a book that has a dog that plays a major role in the story OR that comes from a series where the author has changed at some time during its production (you can read any book in the series)


Cleaning Out the Closet 2017
1) Diary
2) A Wild Sheep Chase
4) The Sun Also Rises
5) Crime and Punishment
6) Lolita
7) Catch-22
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9) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
10) Walden
11) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
12) In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
13) The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
14) Harmony
15) Brave New World
16)


Pick One For Me
January 2017:
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-Outlander
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February 2017 :
-The Name of the Wind
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BL: Feb 11, 2017: Read the first book on your TBR which is about one of the fine arts: music, dance, art etc.
BL: March 11, 2017: Read the first book on your TBR whose author's FIRST name starts with an H.
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
ABANDONED

Level 2: 3 books per task
Start: January 22, 2017 (no deadline)
Completed: 8/75
For the purposes of this challenge, book sizes are as follows:
Small (S) = 100 - 250 pages
Medium (M) = 251 - 450 pages
Large (L) = 451+ pages
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Abandoned

--Half a King - Joe Abercrombie
--Redwall - Brian Jacques
--Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way - Shauna Niequist
--The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
--Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan - I'm reading this now, very excited for the netflix series!
--The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1) by Terry Pratchett - A fun, quick read.
--The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - This is on my tbr as well. I've heard great things.
--The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - I know many people who consider this to be their favorite book...maybe it will be yours too... :)
How Dare the Sun Rise Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) by Agatha Christie
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1) by Terry Pratchett


Here Comes 2017: A New Year of Lists
Here Comes 2017 - A New Year of Lists
Duration: January 22, 2016 - November 30, 2017
Level 1
Completed: 2/12
1) Starting Book: We
Completion: 1/28/17
List: Best Books Ever
2) Book: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Completion: 2/5/17
List: Unconventional, Seductive, Intelligent, and Dizzyingly Surreal
3) Book: Never Let Me Go


Nooks & Crannies
Start: January 22, 2017
End Date: January 22, 2018
Read any book you would like as long as it is a book you physically own. Remember, no e-books allowed with this challenge.
Level 3: 16/18 Books
1) Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
2) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
5) Never Let Me Go
6) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
7) The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
8) Difficult Women
9) Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
10) March: Book One
11) The Refugees
12) Invisible Cities
13) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
14) We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
15) Artemis
16) Exit West


Serious Readers Challenge 2017
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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood
Locke and Key Welcome to Lovecraft #1 by Joe Hill

Kirby's Discovery Bookshelf
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Weekly Shelf Call Outs
Current Book: Oryx and Crake
Week 1: Jan 1-Jan 7
CALL OUT: R3C6
Current Book: The Martian Chronicles
Week 2: Jan 8-Jan 14
CALL OUT: R2C1
Current Book: Snow Crash
Week 3: Jan 15-Jan 21
CALL OUT: R1C3
Current Book: Blood Child and Other Stories
Week 4: Jan 22-Jan 28
CALLOUT: R5C4
Current Book: Pachinko
Week 5: Jan 29-Feb 4
CALLOUT: R3C4
Current Book: Redshirts
Week 6: Feb 5-Feb 11
CALLOUT: R4C5
Current Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain
week 7
CALLOUT: R2C6
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My Personal Thread
Personal BARC Bank
RABID LEVEL
Complete One - Two Prompts each month (12 or 24 books total)
May choose a different prompt each month, do not have to do the same one
Read a Book Published in January of any Year
Book Read: Crime and Punishment
Read a Book that is the FIRST Book of a Series
Book Read: A Wrinkle in Time
February
Read a Book with a TWO Word Title
Book: [book:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and
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My Log
Roll 3 Die and Read a Book with a Matching Number of Pages
RABID LEVEL - may reorder die numbers - read 24 books.
First Roll: 5,2,6
1. Besieged (256 pages)

Books on Netgalley shelf: 6
Feedback ratio: N/A - first timer
Books:






Read and Reviewed:

Review
Books mentioned in this topic
Mischief and Mayhem (other topics)Burn the Place: A Memoir (other topics)
The Great Believers (other topics)
The Immortalists (other topics)
Killing Commendatore (other topics)
More...
1) Times 100 Must Read Books of 2019
1. Normal People
2. Trust Exercise
3. The Farm
4. The Need
5. The Testaments
6. The Water Dancer
7. How to Be an Antiracist
8. Three Women
9. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
10.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement2) Clean Sweep 2020 Tracking
*My Grid
*Call Out Thread
1. January: The Paper Wasp
2. February: Mischief and Mayhem
3. March:
4. April:
5. May:
6. June:
7. July:
8. August:
9. September:
10. October:
11. November:
12. December:
3) Bingo
Week: 6 - Sushi Go!
Task: Read a book with the numbers 2,3 3,4 or 4,5 in the page count, in any order.
Selection: Mischief and Mayhem
How it fits: 238 pages
Date Finished:
Week: 5 - Around the World
Task: Read a book with the word BEER in the text or where there is a drink on the cover.
Book: Burn the Place: A Memoir
How it fits: p. 12 "I held out my hand in front of me like I was holding a beer."
Date Finished:
Week: 4 - Slapjack
Task: Read a book where someone gets slapped or hit.
Book: The Great Believers
How it fits: Page 50 "introduced, and he was right. Stanley slapped his back and said, "No kidd…"
Date Finished:
Week 3: Category - Cards Against Humanity
Task: Read a book that starts with a letter in HUMANITY
Book: The Testaments
How it fits: T is in humaniTy
Date Finished: 1/29/20
Free Space
Book: The Immortalists
Date Finished: 1/26/20
Week 2: Category - UNO
Task: Read a book with a 2, 10, or 7 in the page count or publish date
Book: She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
How it fits: 310 pages
Date Finished: 1/13/20
Week 1: Category - Go Fish
Task: Read a book with two of the same numbers in the page count
Book: Killing Commendatore
How it fits: 688 pages
Date Read: 1/10/20
Completed Challenges:
(view spoiler)[1) November 2016 Paint Your House with Books
2) Hangman
3) Serious Readers Challenge 2016
4) Stuck in a Rut
5) Escape Room
6) Team Pictionary
7) Serious Readers Challenge 100/100
8) Cutthroat Team Sting 1 book a week
1) 52 Discovery Books 0/52
2) 2018 Level 1 Serious Readers Challenge 10/100
3) FLOAB Bingo Challenge (January 2018)
4) BARC A Bookish Year
5) Help Me Decide
6) POFM January 2018
7) Pages of Chance! 0/24
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