2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Let's get this straight: I just LOVE competitions and challenges. My "official" goal is to read a total of fifty books from all the 50 categories of 2015 Reading Challenge (A classic romance, a book with nonhuman character, a banned book... You get the idea) but because I'm SUPER competitive and also super stupid, I'm probably gonna do as many challenges as I just can.

The Main Challenges:

Read 50 books on 2015
1. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Started somewhere in 2014 - Finished 5.1.2015
2. Kärleken (Never wipe tears bare handed - Love)
Started 7.1. - Finished 8.1.
3. Pillerinpyörittäjä (The Scarab) - Katariina Souri
Started 9.1. - Finished 11.1.
4. Älä käy yöhön yksin (Don't go alone in the night) - Kjell Westö
Started 11.1. - Finished 19.1.
5. We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
Started 24.1. - Finished 25.1. (I started reading 10pm 24.1. and finished 1.30am 25.1...)
6. Stalinin lehmät (Stalin's Cows) - Sofi Oksanen
Started 25.1. - Finished 1.2.
7. 172 Hours on the Moon - Johan Harstad
Read 7.2.
8. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Started 6.1. - Finished 9.2.
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Started 9.2. - Finished 10.2.
10. Täältä Pohjoiseen - Sentencedin Tarina (From here to north - The story of Sentenced) - Matti Riekki
Read 13.2.

The Reading Challenge 2015
1. A book based on true story
Kärleken
Started 7.1. - Finished 8.1.
2. A book based entirely on its cover
Pillerinpyörittäjä
Started 9.1. - Finished 11.1.
3. A book that takes place in your hometown
Älä käy yöhön yksin
(Set in Helsinki, Finland)
Started 11.1. - Finished 19.1.
4. A book by an author you've never read before
We Were Liars
Started 24.1. - Finished 25.1.
5. A book by female author
Stalinin lehmät
Started 25.1. - Finished 1.2.
6. A book you can finish in a day
172 Hours on the Moon
Read 7.2.
7. A book with a number in the title
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Other Challenges:

I Spy -challenge
1. Color - red, crimson, indigo
2. Number: 172 Hours on the Moon - Johan Harstad
FINISHED 7.2.
3. Things That Grow - tree, rose, garden
4. Seasons - spring, fall, autumn
5. First Name: Minä, Katariina - Laila Hirvisaari
STARTED 9.2.
6. Places: The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandré Dumas
STARTED 6.1.
7. Body Part: Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
FINISHED 9.2.
8. Weapon - knife, poison, arrow
9. Body of Water: The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
ON HOLD
10. Form of Water - ice, mist, rain
11. Product of Fire - heat, ash, flames
12. Celestial Body: The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
ON HOLD
13. Architecture - castle, bridge, house
14. Senses - sight, touch, taste
15. Royal Title - king, duke, emperor
16. Family Member - brother, aunt, parent
17. Elements - fire, wind, air
18. Time of Day: Älä käy yöhön yksin - Kjell Westö
FINISHED 19.1.
19. Metal: The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
ON HOLD
20. Emotion/Feeling - love, fear, pride
21. Animal/Insect - Stalinin lehmät - Sofi Oksanen
FINISHED 1.2
22. Something to Read - book, story, newspaper
23. Gender Identifier - wife, man, lady
24. Paranormal Being - vampire, angel, ghost
25. Occupation - doctor, assassin, detective

January Challenge - Goodread's Choice Awards 2014 Winners
1/1
(0. YA Fantasy: City of Heavenly Fire - read in 2014)
1. YA Fiction: We Were Liars
Started 24.1. - Finished 25.1.

#readwomen2015 -challenge
3/25
- Inkheart
FINISHED 9.2.
- Stalinin lehmät
FINISHED 1.2.
- Frankenstein
ON HOLD
- The Case of Styles
ON HOLD
Katariina Souri - Pillerinpyörittäjä
FINISHED 11.1.
- We Were Liars
FINISHED 25.1.
- Minä, Katariina
READING

The Year of Book 2015 -challenge (In Helsinki, Finland, partially same as the Reading Challenge 2015)
ROUGHLY TRANSLATED FROM FINNISH TO ENGLISH BY ME
0/15
1. A book from an author that was under 25 when published
2. A book which sets outside Finland - 172 Hours on the Moon (I think Moon is far enough.)
3. A Finlandia Prize won book
4. A book you've wanted to read for some time
5. An adaption of a classic
6. A book about LBGTI+ people - Kärleken
Finished 8.1.
7. An YA novel
8. A self help book
9. A book from an author outside Europe and North America - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Finished 10.2.
10. A poetry
11. A book from author over 65
12. A book which makes you feel a bit embarassed
13. A book about native people
14. A book about the opposite sex
15. A book recommended by librarian

1st Quarter Challenge - Retellings
1. Peter Pan and Peter and the Starcatchers
2. Sleeping Beauty [READ] and Briar Rose

1st Quarter Challenge - One, two, buckle my shoe
1.
2. Read a new genre or author
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad - new author
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

February Challenge - The Saints go marching in
1. The book about music or false accuse - Täältä pohjoiseen
2.
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8. A book about arranged marriage or prostitution
A Thousand Splendid Suns
FInished 10.2.

The year has started extremely well, I already have 3/50 books this year, 2/50 books of Reading Challenge and 1/25 of #readwomen2015 challenge! And oh boy, I have so many books waiting for me to start reading! I also got a proper reading lamp today to my home.

And again one book finished, I really enjoyed this one! Now I should continue Inkheart but I'm itching so bad to start some of my new books... (Yeah, bought couple new again.)

Because I'm stupid, I took part on more challenges. Atm I have
5/50 for this year
4/50 for the Reading Challenge
1/25 for the I Spy -challenge
1/1 for the January Challenge - FINISHED!
1/15 for The Book of Year -challenge
0/2 pairings for the 1st Quarter Challenge - Retellings
0/10 for the 1st Quarter Challenge - One, two, buckle my shoe
0/? for the February Challenge

This is going well, I've read so many books I've enjoyed really much! For some reason Inkheart and The Count of Monte Cristo are going reeeeaally slowly but I'm sure they just need the right time and place to be read. (And I bought a new book. Again. I'm gonna be buried under them if I can't control myself.)

I finished Inkheart and got onward with Monte Cristo! Now my stats are:
8/50 for this year
6/50 for the Reading Challenge
4/25 for the I spy
4/25 for #readwomen
2/15 for The Year of Book -challenge
0/2 pairings for 1st Quarter challenge - Retellings
1/10 for 1st Quarter challenge - One, two, buckle my shoe
0/? for the February challenge