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haha sibyl I think I made it til June of last year. I think my first goal is to stick it out the whole year this year :)
Robyn wrote: "haha sibyl I think I made it til June of last year. I think my first goal is to stick it out the whole year this year :)"I did so well in 2013, and just died in 2014. Shameful!
First Quarter Challenge - One, Two Buckle My Shoeread 5
1. One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
finish a series
2. Three, four,
Open the door;
read a new genre or author (or both for those who are game) -- Helen Grant, the Vanishing of Katharina Linden
3.Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
finish a previously unfinished book
4. Seven, eight,
Lay them straight;
read a trilogy or small series (at least 4 books) in order
5. Nine, ten,
A big, fat hen;
read the thickest book on your TBR
6. Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
read an old favourite
7. Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
read a romance novel - Pages for You
8. Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
read a book that takes place in a prairie or has food on its cover - Kim Zupan, The Ploughmen
9. Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting;
read a book you've been waiting to read - Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
10. Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.
read the last book on your tbr list - Timothy Egan, the Worst Hard Time
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I Spy Yearly Challenge:1. Color - Between Shades of Gray,
2. Number - The Sixth Extinction
3. Things That Grow - Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, Under the Udalla Trees
4. Seasons - Winter Mythologies and Abbots
5. First Name - Nora Webster
6. Places - The Oregon Trail
7. Body Part - Fire Shut Up in My Bones
8. Weapon - Friday Was The Bomb, The Knife Man, Poison Spring, The Water Knife
9. Body of Water - Fourth of July Creek
10. Form of Water - Snowmen at Night
11. Product of Fire - Smoky Night
12. Celestial Body - The Sun is God
13. Architecture - The Turner House
14. Senses - Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power, Baby Meets World: Suck Smile Touch Toddle, Taste Memory
15. Royal Title - Rat Queens no. 1
16. Family Member - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
17. Elements - Fire Shut Up in My Bones
18. Time of Day - The House in the Night
19. Metal - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold
20. Emotion/Feeling - More Happy Than Not
21. Animal/Insect - H is for Hawk
22. Something to Read - Pages for You,
23. Gender Identifier - Men Explain Things to Me
24. Paranormal Being - The Buried Giant
25. Occupation - Playing the Whore,
PopSugar challenge, need 25:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1) A book with more than 500 pages - A Little Life
2) A classic romance
3) A book that became a movie - The Martian
4) A book published this year - Fates & Furies
5) A book with a number in the title - A Brief History of Seven Killings
6) A book written by someone under 30 - The Opposite of Loneliness
7) A book with non human characters - The Tusk That Did the Damage
8) A funny book - El Deafo
9)A book by a female author - Redefining Realness
10) A mystery or thriller - The Likeness
11) A book with a one word title - Here
12)A book of short stories - Fortune Smiles
13) A book set in a different country - The Incarnations
14) A nonfiction book - How We Got to Now
15) A popular author's first book - The Secret History
16) A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet ??
17) A book a friend recommended - The Martian
18) A Pulitzer Prize winning book - The Sixth Extinction
19) A book based on a true story - Smoky Night
20) A book at the bottom of your to-read list
21) A book your mom loves - The Sparrow
22) A book that scares you - Being Mortal
23)A book more than 100 years old - Beowulf
24) A book chosen based entirely on it's cover
25) A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
26) A memoir - H is for Hawk
27) A book you can finish in a day - Bitch Planet vol. 1
28) A book with antonyms in the title - Playing the Whore: the Work of Sex Work
29) A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - City of Women (Berlin)
30) A book that came out the year you were born
31) A book with bad reviews
32) A trilogy -
33) A book from your childhood
34) A book with a love triangle - Pages for You
35) A book set in the future - The Girl With All the Gifts
36) A book set in high school - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
37) A book with a color in the title - Blue is the Warmest Color
38) A book that made you cry
39) A book with magic - Uprooted
40) A graphic novel - Pregnant Butch
41) A book by an author you've never read before - The Year of the Runaways
42) A book you own but haven't read yet - Winter Mythologies & Abbots
43) A book that takes place in your hometown (or surrounding area) - Ghettoside
44) A book that was originally written in a different language - The Story of a New Name
45) A book set during Christmas - What Alice Forgot
46) A book by an author with your same initials
47) A play
48) A banned book
49) A book based on or turned into a TV show - The Likeness (in production)
50) A book you started but never finished
March spell-out challenge:W - The Worst Hard Time
A - Allthe Bright Places
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M - Blue is the Warmest Color - Julie Maroh
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Second quarter challenge, need three:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1. Spring Ahead! The phrase "Spring forward, Fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of Standard Time. Read a book about time travel.
2. Spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision. -- The Tusk That Did the Damage
3. Spring is a Season! Spring is one of the four conventional temperate seasons following winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it will be autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Read a book that takes place in the Spring.
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water. - Nora Webster
5. Spring, a mechanical device that stores energy. Read a steampunk book - Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Most steampunk books have mechanical devices in them.
6. Spring Cleaning. Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime. The practice of spring cleaning is especially prevalent in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically in spring, hence the name. However it has also come to be synonymous with any kind of heavy duty cleaning or organizing enterprise. A person who gets their affairs in order before an audit or inspection could be said to be doing some spring cleaning. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
7. Spring Break is a vacation period in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break.
8. Spring goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. With March being such a changeable month, in which we can see warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, you can understand how this saying might hold true in some instances. We can only hope that if March starts off cold and stormy it will end warm and sunny, but the key word is hope. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot. - A God in Ruins
9. She’s/He’s no Spring Chicken. New England chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the Spring bought better prices, rather than old birds that had gone through the winter etc. Sometimes farmers tried to sell the old birds as a new spring born chicken. Smart buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term now is used to represent birds (and even people) past their plump and tender years. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading.
10. Hope Springs Eternal is from a poem An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope – people always hope for the best, even in the face of adversity. Will continue to hope even though they have evidence that things cannot possible turn out the way they want. Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet.
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. - Dietland
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
A-Z Yearly ChallengeA - Yes Please by Amy Poehler
B - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
C - Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
D - Life Drawing
E - Men Explain Things to Me
F - Fire Shut Up in My Bones
G - Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges
H - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
I - Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, and Imperial Folly
J - How Jesus Became God
K - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
L - The Lions of Al-Rassan
M - Fairyland, a Memoir of My Father
N - Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
O - The Opposite of Loneliness
P - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Q - The Boys in the Boat
R - Redefining Realness
S - Pregnant Butch by A. K. Summers
T - The Tusk That Did the Damage
U - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
V - The Vanishing of Katarina Linden
W - Blue is the Warmest Color
X - French Concession by Xiao Bai
Y - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Z - The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan
Bookriot Read Harder Challenge1.
2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65 - Toni Morrison, Home; Blue Nights or Where I Was From
3. A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people) - When Mystical Creatures Attack!
4. A book published by an indie press - A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
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9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.) - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.) - Yolen, Briar Rose; Malinda Lo - Ash, Wide Sargasso Sea, Zadie Smith - On Beauty (Howard's End), Going Bovine by Emma Bray (Don Quixote), Francesca Segal - The Innocents, Ursula LeGuin - Lavinia, Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad, Springer - The Espressologist, Noughts & Crosses (Romeo & Juliet), Tamara Drew, Re: Jane
16. An audiobook (get something from library?)
17. A collection of poetry - Citizen, An American Lyric
18. A book that someone else has recommended to you - ask Twitter, or Beauty Queens
19. A book that was originally published in another language - My Struggle, The Story of a New Name
20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?) - Lumberjanes, El Deafo
21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over) - Jurassic Park
22. A book published before 1850 - Dickens, Austen, Beowolf (Seamus Heaney), A Journal of the Plague Year, Diaries of Lewis & Clark, The Tale of Genji, The Odyssey
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24. A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”) - Better Than Before, the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Happiness Project, The Checklist Manifesto, Come As You Are, Mistakes Were Made
June midsummer festival challenge:need 2 books set in these countries:
Brazil -
Bulgaria -
Canada - Sweetland
Denmark -
Estonia -
Faroe Islands -
Finland -
France - Vanished Smile, How to Ruin a Queen, How Paris Became Paris, Winter Mythologies and Abbots, Smile Revolution
Germany - The Faithful Executioner, Berlin Diary, Leavetaking, Traveler of the Century
Greece -
Hungary -
Iran - City of Lies
Italy - The Days of Abandonment, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Latvia -
Lithuania -
Norway - My Struggle (Min Kamp)
Poland -
Romania -
Ukrain/Russia - Anthrax, the Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak, The Romanov Sisters, Red Notice
Scotland -
Serbia -
Spain -
Sweden - Hanna's Daughters
Wales -
June favorite pet challenge. Need three:Rules:
1. They can have a picture of an animal on the book's cover - Rabid, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, The Shepherd's Life
2. The book can even be one that has the name of your pet/s within it.
3. Read about that has the same kind of pet you have in it. - Rabid, Love at First Bark, Talk to the Tail, The Second Chance Dog, Another Insane Devotion
*Read a non-fiction book about an animal/pet
*Some people have exotic pets, read a book with an exotic animal in it.
* Some people have large pets, such as horses or big dogs, read a book over 500 pages.
*Some people prefer small animals that are easy to take care of. Read a book that is 100 pages or less.
Read Harder Yearly Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
ReadWomen Yearly Challenge - one new to me woman author each month.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I Spy Yearly Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
A-Z Yearly Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nonfiction Bingo Yearly Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Randomizer Yearly Challenge:
January: The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
February: City of Women
March: Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia
April: The Everything Store
May: Blankets, Thompson
June: Bronner, The Bigot
July: Black, Life Drawing
August: The Terror of Tellico Plains
September: Vincent, Cut Me Loose
October: Belle, For the Public Good
November: Cohn, Behind Enemy Lines
December: The Emperor of All Maladies
Debut Authors Yearly Challenge
read 6 debut novels this year.