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message 1: by Cindy (new)
Dec 16, 2016 03:44PM

Cindy (cindyd) 2017 Challenge


message 9: by Cindy (new)
Jul 30, 2017 03:01PM

Cindy (cindyd) 2nd Quarter Challenge: Clear the Shelves

I would like to join. My book piles are getting a bit out of control. Finished June 18.

Physical Books: 25
1. Dragonfly In Amber
2. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
3. The Gathering
4. The Cat Who Had 14 Tales
5. The Willoughbys
6. The Cat Who Came for Christmas
7. The Road Not Taken: A Selection of Robert Frost's Poems
8. Mom, Dad, Mike and Pattie
9. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
10. A Whole New World
11. As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale
12. The Girl in the Park
13. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
14. Flunked
15. Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War
16. Forever Liesl
17. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
18. Ghosts
19. Boys Don't Knit (in Public)
20. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
21. Voyager
22. The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground
23. Women of the Sierra
24. An Irish Country Cookbook
25. There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me


message 10: by Cindy (new)
Jul 30, 2017 03:07PM

Cindy (cindyd) I am reading 12 books total; six books from each list. 12/12 Finished 04/18/17

Reading for Fun:

1. A book you chose for the cover
2. A book with reputation for being un-put-down-able
**3. A book set somewhere you've never been but would like to visit London, 1850 (Vampire Plagues, #1) by Sebastian Rook
4. A book you've already read
**5. A juicy memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
6. A book about books or reading
**7. A book in a genre you usually avoid An Unforgettable Lady (An Unforgettable Lady, #1) by Jessica Bird. I don't usually read Romance novels.
**8. A book you don't want to admit you're dying to read Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
9. A book in the backlist of a new favorite author
10. A book recommended by someone with great taste
**11. A book you were excited to buy or borrow, but haven't read yet My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1) by Cynthia Hand
**12. A book about a topic or subject you already love Courage & Defiance Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark by Deborah Hopkinson

Reading for Growth:

**1. A Newberry Award winner or Honor book The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt The author, Irene Hunt, won a Newberry Award, but not for this book.
**2. A book in translation Night by Elie Wiesel
**3. A book that's more than 600 pages Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon
4. A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection
5. A book of any genre that addresses current events
6. An immigration story
**7. A book published before you were born Goodbye, Mr. Chips First published in 1934.
8. Three books by the same author
9. A book by an #ownvoices or#diversebooiks author
**10. A book with an unreliable narrator or ambiguous ending I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves
11. A book nominated for an award in 2017
**12. A Pulitizer Prize or National Book Award Winner The Witches Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff. The author, Stacy Schiff, won a Pulitizer, but not for this book.


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