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message 1: by Kirby (last edited Feb 07, 2020 08:40AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Current Challenges:

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 Movement

2) 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:
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message 3: by Kirby (last edited Jan 15, 2018 07:48PM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Serious Readers Challenge


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DONE!!!!!!


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Hangman : DONE!!!


message 6: by Kirby (last edited Feb 13, 2017 09:33AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Main Page: Remember When Nickelodeon Was Good?

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)


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Team Pictionary

Over! 2nd Place :)


message 9: by Kirby (last edited Jan 22, 2017 12:16PM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments

The Love Boat

Finished books that don't satisfy main challenge go here:
News Brief


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Reading Roulette

BL: Feb 11, 2017: Read the first book on your TBR which is about one of the fine arts: music, dance, art etc.
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

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


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Small-Medium-Large Challenge

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


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Help Me Decide

--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


message 19: by Kirby (last edited Feb 05, 2017 07:04AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments

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


message 21: by Kirby (last edited Jan 27, 2018 08:18AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments

Serious Readers Challenge 2017

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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Color Challenge

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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments

BINGO!

Captain Spreadsheet

Two People on the cover


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments POFM

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


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Randomness

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Task 1: Read a book with "Welcome" in the title


message 30: by Kirby (last edited Feb 11, 2018 12:30PM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Discovery 52 Books Challenge

Kirby's Discovery Bookshelf

0/52

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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message 32: by Kirby (last edited Feb 26, 2018 06:06AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments CUTTHROAT!

Team Sting

Challenge Complete

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message 33: by Kirby (last edited Feb 12, 2018 06:59AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments BARC A Bookish Year

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

January
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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message 35: by Kirby (last edited Jan 22, 2018 06:01AM) (new)

Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Pages of Chance!

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)


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments Netgalley Challenge

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

Books:
The Button War by Avi The Book of Dog by Lark Benobi Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos The Book of Ralph by Christopher Steinsvold The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Read and Reviewed:
The Button War by Avi
Review


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Kirby (kirbym) | 232 comments SURVIVOR!


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