2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

2015 Reading Challenge

WEEKS & TOPICS

1. a book with more than 500 pages
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 786 pages
Done

2. a romance
Candle's Christmas Chair by Jude Knight
Done

3. a book that became a movie
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
Done

4. a book published this year
The Rise Of The Dominant Railroads by Scott Slaughter

My book is not here yet so I am adding A Christmas Dance by Alissa Johnson
Done

5. a book with a number in the title
House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Done

6. a book written by someone under 30
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald writtenwhen he was only 23
Done

7. a book with nonhuman characters
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Done

8. a funny book
Midnight in Montmartre by Chloe Emile
Done

9. a book by a female author
KILLER FAMILIES: TRUE CRIME: MURDER BY DADS, MOMS, KIDS & SPOUSES by Sylvia Perrini

10. a mystery or thriller
For The Love Of My Sisters by Shameek Speight

11. a book with a one-word title
Persuasion by Jane Austen

12. a book of short stories
Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

13. a book set in a different country
Emma by Jane Austen

14. a nonfiction book
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days by Irving E. Lowery

15. a popular author's first book
Flower Fables by Louisa may Alcott

16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet

17. a book a friend recommended
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave by Sojourner Truth

18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

19. a book based on a true story
Colorful Characters of Northern New York: Northern Lights by David Chanpagne and Watertown Daily Times

20. a book at the bottom of your to read list

21. a book your mom or dad loves
God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

22. a book that scares you
Innocence Lost: A Little Girl's Life Changed Forever (The Cries No One Heard Book 1 by Julianna Hurd

23. a book more than 100 years old
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe pub. 1852

24. a book based entirely on its cover

25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't

26. a memoirMemoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genet) Campan
Victoria's Son by Philip Toquin

27. a book you can finish in a day
I Survived #4: I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis

28. a book with antonyms in the title
Carlo derudio. A survivor of the Little Bighorn by Ken Comery

29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

30. a book that came out the year you were born
Diary of a Young Girl by anne Frank

31. a book with bad reviews

Thanks, LouAnn!
By a Lady: Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England by Amanda Elyot

32. a trilogy (the first)
The Langley Sisters
The Eldest Langley - Lady In Disguise.
byWendy Vella

33. a trilogy (the second)
The Langley Sisters
The Middle Langley - Lady In Demand.
byWendy Vella

34.The Langley Sisters
The Youngest langley-Lady in Distress
byWendy Vella

35. a book from your childhood
Heidi by Johanna Spyri

36. a book with a love triangle
Cowboy Crush by A L Loire

37. a book set in the future
Going Underground by Chris Ward

38. a book set in high school
Fallencrest High by Trijan

39. a book with a color in the title
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

40. a book that made/makes you cry
Child Abuse: Through the Eyes of a Child (A true story of abuse and neglect-Book 1) by Betty Jones

41. a book with magic
My Boyfriend Merlin by Priya Ardis

42. a graphic novel
Little Nemo's Wild Sleigh Ride by Roland Urbanek

43. a book by an author you've never read before
Love, Guns and Lies: The Donavan and Dara Series by Ja'Lynell Broyles

44. a book you own but have never read
Scandal by Carolyn Jewel

45. a book that takes place in your hometown
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

46. a book that was originally written in another language
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas originally written in French

47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)
The Billionaire's First Christmas by Holly Rayner

48. a book written by an author with your same initials
Louis L'Amour

49. a play
Macbeth by William Shakespear

50. a banned book
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

52. a book you started but never finished

We have a couple books in common. I also see you really enjoy reading true stories. Looking forward to discussing the books with you.

Jennifer, a part of my is really into History and Genealoogy. It makes for some very unusual reading choices at times. LOL From the very begining, I would read a book and it would reference a person place or event that was not the main theme of the book or main character whatever. It would make me search out another book for more information on that. It seems like every book brings up a new need to read more. I think I have printers ink flowing through my veins.

I'm kind of the same way. Once I hear about something I want to know more about it.

I like your choice for an author's first book. I quite enjoyed the other books I've read by Louisa May Alcott and I think I might have to look out for that one. :-)

Good luck with the challenge.

I Just now edited my list for week 4. My book has not arrived yet so I am adding A Christmas Dance by Akissa Johnson. I will have at leaast one that canbe read this week That fits the category.