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message 1: by Ali (last edited Apr 01, 2020 07:08PM) (new)

Ali Monthly Challenges: January through June


January
Sight Reading (Post 12)
3. Blowing Your Own Trumpet:
Pride and Prejudice completed 01/10/20
4. Music to My Ears:
Rescue Me completed 01/18/20
7. Beat the Band:
Force of Naturecompleted 01/22/20

Marathon Challenge (post 50)
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy completed 01/29/20
The Nightingale completed 01/19/20

February
Monthly Challenge: Have Book, Will Travel
The Housekeeper and the Professor 02/18/20

Monthly Challenge: The 5 Love Languages 5/5
The Running Dream- gift 02/12/20
The Happiness Dare: Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire- self-help 02/21/20
The Closer You Come- service industry 02/01/20
First Time in Forever - "time" in the title 02/09/20
The Rosie Project- romance (ebook) - 02/24/20

March
Monthly Challenge: Earth Laughs In Flowers 4/8
1. Bloom of Youth: The Way You Make Me Feel 03/06/20
2. The Bloom is Off the Rose: The Great Alone 04/01/20
3. Your Year to Bloom: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
4. Bloom Where You’re Planted: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
5. Blood-Bloom: Marvels 3/16/20
6. Algae Bloom: Rosemary Cottage 03/10/20
8. “Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: Othello 03/11/20

Monthly Challenge: I've Put a Spell on You 2/4
W- Whatever Life Throws at You
A- Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City 3/13/20
R- Reading in the Wild 03/15/20
M- Maison Ikkoku, Volume 1 03/25/20

April
No monthly challenge--I'll finish books from March

May
June


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Ali Monthly Challenges: July through December


July
August
September
October
November
December


message 3: by Ali (last edited Feb 18, 2020 08:23AM) (new)

Ali Q1 Challenges
MEET US AT THE BOOKSHOP
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2020
In-challenge post: 48
Goal 9

Progress: 9/9 - completed 02/18/2020! ✌🏻

This quarterly challenge asks you to read any books of your choice, but each one must belong to a different genre or subgenre.

TBR tbd
*Children's literature, YA fiction
*Classics
*Fantasy, epic fantasy, high/low fantasy, historical fantasy, urban fantasy
*Fiction: literary, contemporary, and historical
*Folktales, fairytales, and their retellings
*History and true crime
*Hobbies & crafts
*Horror, suspense, and thriller
*Memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies
*Mystery and its subgenres (historical, culinary, paranormal, etc.)
*Myths, legends, and their retellings
*Nonfiction: history, science, technology, true crime
*Poetry
*Romance
*Science and technology
*Science fiction, dystopian literature, cli-fi, space opera, and alternative history
*Self-help books
*Westerns
*Special super-duper bonus prompt: Read a book set in a bookshop or about a bookshop owner.

(Sub)Genres:
Historical fantasy: Widdershins 01/04/20
Classics: Pride and Prejudice 01/10/20
Nonfiction, writing: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel 01/17/20
Contemporary romance: Rescue Me 01/18/20
Historical fiction: The Nightingale 01/19/20
Suspense: Force of Nature 01/22/20
YA: The Running Dream 02/12/20
Short stories, Western: Close Range 02/16/20
Literary fiction, Japanese: The Housekeeper and the Professor 02/18/20


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Ali Q2 Challenges


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Ali Q3 Challenges


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Ali Q4 Challenges


message 7: by Ali (last edited Dec 06, 2020 02:32PM) (new)

Ali Yearly Challenge: Serial Reader
In-challenge post: #26

Progress: 7/10

Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Scythe
Thunderhead
The Toll
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone 04/11/20
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Whyborne and Griffin by Jordan L. Hawk
Widdershins (re-read) 01/04/20
Threshold 02/18/20
Stormhaven 05/06/20
Cursebreakers by Brigid Kemmerer
A Heart So Fierce and Broken 06/01/20


message 8: by Ali (last edited May 10, 2020 05:38AM) (new)

Ali Yearly Challenge: Color Challenge
In-challenge post: #16

Progress: 12/18

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover
Rescue Me (Lovett, Texas, #3) by Rachel Gibson
2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover.
The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover.
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion
4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).
6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover.
Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller
7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover.
The Happiness Dare Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire by Jennifer Dukes Lee
8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover.
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).
10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1) by Alexander McCall Smith
11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) by Laini Taylor
12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.
First Time in Forever (Puffin Island, #1) by Sarah Morgan
14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover (rainbows, stripes, polka dots, floral pattern, mosiac, etc...).
15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.
Sophie's World A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title (yellow gold, black & white, etc...)
17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.
18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, shiny, mosiac, etc...)


message 9: by Ali (last edited Apr 11, 2020 06:57PM) (new)

Ali Yearly Challenge: Genre Bingo
In-challenge post: #54
Goal: 3 Bingos (some books may overlap)



B2: Memoir
I2: Horror
N2: Self-Help The Happiness Dare: Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire
G2: Classics Pride and Prejudice
O2: Crime

B5: General Nonfiction Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
I5: Romance Rescue Me
N5: Western Close Range
G5: Historical fiction The Nightingale
O5: Science, nonfiction:

B4: Young Adult The Running Dream
I4: Young Adult Fantasy Daughter of Smoke & Bone
N4: Suspense Force of Nature
G4: Literary fiction: The Housekeeper and the Professor
O4: Biography


message 10: by Ali (last edited May 26, 2020 11:32AM) (new)

Ali Yearly Challenge: Clear the Shelves
In-challenge post: #46
Note: all books must be purchased before 12/31/19. I'm only going to count books for this challenge if they are e-books I'm reading for the first time, new physical books, or physical books I reread and decide to get sell or donate.

Total goal: 20/40

e-books: 7/20

physical books: 13/20

e-books:
Threshold
The Rosie Project
A Room of One's Own
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Simply Irresistible
Stormhaven
The Sweetest Thing

physical books:
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Rescue Me
The Nightingale
Force of Nature
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
The Closer You Come
First Time in Forever
Close Range
Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
Reading in the Wild
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Whatever Life Throws at You


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