The Reading Challenge Group discussion

I think I'm gonna use this as a place to keep track of everything I've gotten involved in here. :D

Haunted By the UnRead Mini Challenge

RENEÉ IS HAUNTED BY...

1) And the Band Played on planned for July.
2) Moving the Mountain planned for July**
3) Outlander planned for August
4) The Black Dahlia planned for August
5) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers for May
6) Charles Dickens planned for April
7) 1Q84 planned for March
8) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer planned for February
9) Don Quixote started in January

SUMMER READING MINI CHALLENGE (Remainder)
Start date: June 1st. End date: September 20th


GENRE CHALLENGE: AUGUST: Mystery
-The Black Dahlia (Ellroy)
-Get Shorty (Elmore)

NONFICTION:
-The Glass Castle
-Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
-And The Band Played On (LGBT)

YA:
-Allegiant (dystopian)
-The Madness Underneath (fantasy/mystery)

STARS & STRIPES SUMMER:

THE NORTHEAST:
-Blithedale Romance (Hawthorne)
-Portait of a Lady (James)
-Summer (Wharton)

THE MIDWEST:
-Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

OUT WEST:
-Roughing It (Twain)
-The Red Pony (Steinbeck)
-The Pearl (Steinbeck)

From FAB (Female Authors Bookclub)

2. A work of non-fiction
-Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

3. A collection of poetry

5. An anthology of all female contributors
-Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road

12. A book by an openly lesbian author
-Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
-Fingersmith

14. A book published in 2014:
-The Invention of Wings
-The Truth About Alice
-Elizabeth Is Missing

17. 3 works by International Women
-The Namesake
-Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
-The Tiger's Wife

Continental Challenge (Oct-Dec)
Renee's Continental Tour:
Shipping off October 11: (Don't know how far I'll get.)

THE CONTINENTS
-North America/Greenland: Moving the Mountain (USA/English)
-South America (& central):
-Europe: Household Stories  from the collection of the bros. Grimm: tr. from the German by Lucy Crane; and done into pictures by Walter Crane. (Germany/German)
-Africa
-Asia (see link for countries):  1Q84 (Japan/Japanese)
-Australia/Oceania (see link for countries): 
-Antarctica/Free Choice: Hard Times (Great Britain/English)
-Bonus: The Seven Seas (Read a nautical book):

Link: https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com...

December Plans

Finish the Pallisers!!!!!

Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
(FINISHED!)

1) Can You Forgive Her?**
2) Phineas Finn**
3) The Eustace Diamonds**
4) Phineas Redux**
5) The Prime Minister**
6) The Duke's Children**

Renee's December Point Challenge
TOTAL POINTS: 75.5

Read a general book: 1 point per book
- Herland: 1

Read a "shortie" (short story, poem, play): 0.5 points per
- Librivox Christmas Collection: 14 shorties: 7
- Merry Christmas, Strega Nona: 0.5

Read a group read book: 5 points per book

Read a book for the genre challenge: 3 points per book
- H.M.S. Surprise: 3

Read a book for a mini-challenge: 3 points per book
- The Prime Minister: 3
- The Battle Of Life: 3
- Santa, Baby: 3

Complete a multi-book mini-challenge: 10 extra points
- I'd Like To Buy A Vowel: 10
- I'd Like To Buy A Vowel: 10
- I'd Like To Buy A Vowel: 10 

Sign up and take part in the December readathon: 25

Buy A Vowel Challenge

No As- Villette**
No Es- Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story**
No Is- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone**
No Os- Phineas Redux**
No Us- The Invisible Man**
No Ys- Uncle Tom's Cabin**

Buy A Vowel Challenge

No As- The Prime Minister**
No Es-Santa, Baby
No Is- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows**
No Os- The Chimes**
No Us- The Battle Of Life**
No Ys- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking**

** = finished

December Readathon

Paradise Lost: 40 pages

Librivox Christmas stories: 13

War and Peace: chaps. 21

Outlander: p. 231-279

1Q84: p. 849-925
(76 pages)

Merry Christmas, Strega Nona! by Tommie DePaola (32 pages)