2025 Reading Challenge discussion

For this year I may repeat some of my old challenge. Hopefully this year I will manage to make all of them..... I will try to focus in cleaning my shelves. physical and digital ones.... I really need to put a ban on buying books I will allow myself only for my book club of Modern Mr Darcy, Reading Women and some of the finalist for the Women Prize for Fiction Award...

Challenge #1
Volver a leer en español
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

So I have been running Stats about my books and I can say that I am sad... I barely read in spanish lately and I am a native speaker!!! So in order to push myself a bit more I am putting here the goal to read at least 15 books in spanish.

1. Insólitas
2. Sobre los huesos de los muertos
3. La chica de nieve
4. Los informantes
5. Cementerios de neón
6. Mandíbula
7. Temporada de huracanes
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Challenge #2
Reading Women Challenge 2020
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020


CHALLENGES
All books read for this challenge must be by or about women. Please note that the spirit of this challenge is not to read books by men.

DONE 1) A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India The Space Between Us
DONE 2) A Book Translated from an Asian Language Arid Dreams - Translated from Thai
DONE 3) A Book about the Environment Sobre los huesos de los muertos
DONE 4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author One Love:
5) A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction
6) A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
7) A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism
DONE 8) An Anthology by Multiple Authors Insólitas
9) A Book Inspired by Folklore
10) A Book About a Woman Artist
11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation
12) A Book About a Woman Who Inspires You
DONE 13) A Book by an Arab Woman Minor Detail
DONE 14) A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author The Memory Police
DONE 15) A Biography Cleopatra: A Life
DONE 16) A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability The Kiss Quotient
DONE 17) A Book Over 500 Pages In the Woods
DONE 18) A Book Under 100 Pages Transfer Window
19) A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You
DONE 20) A Feel-Good or Happy Book The Bookshop on the Shore
DONE 21) A Book about Food With the Fire on High
DONE 22) A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher Girl from Faber & Faber
23) A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author
24) A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions

BONUS
25) A Book by Toni Morrison
26) A Book by Isabel Allende

14/24

Challenge #3
TBR JAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

For this challenge I want to read 12 books that I already own. I do have a shelf with them, so following the instructions put in the Challenge the 12 books are:

1.Rawblood
2.The Great Alone
3.The Clockmaker's Daughter
4.Philida
5.The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro
6.Objetivo 4
7.An Untamed State
8.Frankissstein: A Love Story
9.How to Build a Girl
10.Barbara the Slut and Other People
11.Diarios de Kolimá
12.All the Names They Used for God

***DONE***
Challenge #4
Reading Around the World

For this Challenge I am planning to read more international. So for this Challenge I decide to read books from 12 Different Countries. One book per country is allow. Books from US and UK are not accepted since these are the countries of the majority of my books.

1. Frankenstein in Baghdad - Iraq
2. The Sun and Her Flowers - Canada
3. The Stationery Shop - Iran
4. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Australia
5. Insólitas - Spain
6. Sobre los huesos de los muertos - Poland
7. The Space Between Us - India
8. Girl - Ireland
9. Los informantes - Colombia
10. Arid Dreams - Thailand
11. The Memory Police - Japan
12.10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Turkey
13. Wild Woman - Croatia
14. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - France
15. Temporada de huracanes - Mexico
16. The Fragility of Bodies - Argentina
17. Transfer Window - Denmark
18. Be Prepared - Rusia
19. Ramifications - Mexico
20. Mandíbula - Ecuador
21. Minor Detail - Palestine
22. The Pear Field - Giorgia

Challenge #5

Modern Mr Darcy Reading Challenge 2020

1. A book published the decade you were born
DONE 2. A debut novel The Word Exchange
DONE 3. A book recommended by a source you trust The Memory Police
4. A book by a local author
DONE 5. A book outside your (genre) comfort zone The Sun and Her Flowers
DONE 6. A book in translation Frankenstein in Baghdad
DONE 7. A book nominated for an award in 2020 The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Is Nominated for the Nebula Award
8. A re-read
9. A classic you didn’t read in school
10. Three books by the same author

5/10

***DONE***Challenge #6
LET’S TURN PAGES
Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020


I plan to read 16000 Pages.

Current Pages: 22380/16000

January:

1. Frankenstein in BaghdadPages: 272
2. Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People Pages: 280
3. The Sun and Her Flowers Pages: 248
4. The Stationery Shop Pages 312
5. The Lying Game Pages 374
6. Cleopatra: A Life Pages 385

February

1. Nothing to See Here Pages 272
2. The Kiss Quotient Pages: 333
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January Pages 374
4. The Word Exchange Pages: 384
5. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Pages: 313

March:

1. The Bride Test Pages: 320
2. The Indignities of Being a Woman Pages: 240
3. One Love:: Pages: 32
4. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays: Pages: 224
5. Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life Pages: 224
6. In the Woods Pages: 612
7. Insólitas Pages: 488

April:

1. The Space Between Us Pages 352
2. Sobre los huesos de los muertos Pages: 299
3. Girl Pages: 240
4. La chica de nieve Pages: 450

May

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames Pages: 310
2. Actress Pages: 272
3. The Bromance Book Club Pages: 352
4. Oona Out of Order Pages: 357
5. Los informantes Pages: 376
6. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures Pages: 415
7. Arid Dreams Pages: 210

June

1. Lovely War Pages: 480
2. Temporada de huracanes Pages: 224
3. America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster Pages: 216
4. The Bookshop on the Shore Pages: 410
5. The Memory Police Pages: 288
6. From the Abyss: Short Stories and Poems of Descent & Redemption Pages: 118

July

1. The Trials of Morrigan Crow Pages: 468
2. The Last Train to Key West Pages: 320
3. Undercover Bromance Pages: 320
4. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain Pages: 288
5. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite Pages: 184
6. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Pages: 320

August

1.Wild Woman Pages: 222
2.The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas Pages: 192

September

1. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Pages: 136
2. His & Hers Pages: 320
3. The Fragility of Bodies Pages: 381
4. With the Fire on HighPages: 400
5. Transfer WindowPages: 92

October

1. Cementerios de neón Pages: 199
2. Be PreparedPages: 256
3. RamificationsPages: 197
4. Bites of Terror: 10 Frightfully Delicious Tales by Cuddles and RagePages: 144
5. MandíbulaPages: 288
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea Pages: 393
7.Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow Pages: 545
8. Minor Detail Pages 112

November

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Pages: 448
2. The Pear Field Pages: 163
3. Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema Pages: 200
4. El tiempo de las amazonas Pages: 364
5. The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction Pages: 144
6. The Institute Pages: 576
7. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Pages: 413
8. The Fig Tree Pages: 328
9. Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow Pages: 560

December

1. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Pages: 253
2. Tokyo Ueno Station Pages: 180
3. Cadáver exquisito Pages: 254
4. You Have Arrived at Your Destination Pages: 46
5. Solutions and Other Problems Pages: 528
6. Daddy-Long-Legs Pages: 156
7. La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer Pages: 368
8. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Pages: 513

Challenge #7

Reality Bites

This is my non fiction corner.... I hope I will read 15 Non Fiction books this year.

1.Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
2.Cleopatra: A Life
3. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
4. The Indignities of Being a Woman
5. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
6. Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life
7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Challenge #8
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Duration: 1 July - 30 September, 2020

So for this Challenge I will read 6 women writers from different parts of the world.


1. 🇦🇺Australia: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
2.🇺🇸United States: The Last Train to Key West
3. 🇹🇷Turkey: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
4. 🇭🇷Croatia: Wild Woman
5.🇫🇷 France: Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

5/6

***DONE***
Challenge #9
ADVENT CALENDAR CHALLENGE
Duration: December 1, - December 31, 2020

In this case I will follow the Advent tradition and read from the 1st till the 24 of December.

Book #1: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space


December 1: Introduction
December 2: The Child's Whose Head Was Bathed in Darkness
December 3: Disability: A Fairy Tale
December 4: In Olden Times, When Wishing Still Helped:
The Fairy Tale in France and Germany
December 5: Someday my Prince Will Come: Disney and the World Without Shadows
December 6: The Little Dumb Foundling: Hans Christian Andersen’s Ugly Little Ducklings
December 7:‘Something Below Humanity’:
The Beautiful and the Beastly
December 8: The desolated Land
December 9: Monsters and Marvels
December 10: The Great Unraveling and Forward

Here the book is finish. I started last month the book La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer and in the next day I will read one chapter per day.
December 11: Yo fui la única que regresé con mi madre
December 12: En nuestra casa viven dos guerras
December 13: El auricular no dispara
December 14: Nos condecoraban con unas medallas pequeñas
December 15: No era yo
December 16: Recuerdo aquellos ojos
December 17: Nosotras no disparamos
December 18: Se necesitaban soldados... Pero nosotras lo que queríamos era estar guapas
December 19:Señoritas, ¿Saben ustedes que la esperanza de vida de un jefe de la sección de zapadores es de dos meses?
December 20:Una mirada, una sola
December 21: Y la patata de primavera es diminuta
December 22 : Mamá, ¿Cómo es papá?
December 23 : Se puso la mano allí, en el corazón
December 24 : De repente sentí un irresistible deseo de vivir