2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

I don't think I'm going to stick with the weekly topic and instead I plan on reading whatever I feel like that week. I have a few topics that I'm still searching for and I'll be seeing whatever everyone else is reading as I am not super committed to most of the books on here. I'm excited to try this!


WEEKS & TOPICS

1. a book with more than 500 pages – Anna Karenina finished 3/7/15
2. a romance – Pride and Prejudice finished 3/22/15
3. a book that became a movie – The Fault in Our Stars finished 1/15/15
4. a book published this year - Landline finished 3/19/15
5. a book with a number in the title – Thirteen Reasons Why finished 2/8/15
6. a book written by someone under 30 – Red Rising finished 3/26/15
7. a book with nonhuman characters - Scarlet finished 4/18/15
8. a funny book – Yes Please finished 3/28/15
9. a book by a female author – Where She Went finished 3/30/15
10. a mystery or thriller – A is for Alibi finished 4/5/15
11. a book with a one-word title - Cress
12. a book of short stories – Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
13. a book set in a different country – The Secret Place
14. a nonfiction book – In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
15. a popular author's first book – Northanger Abbey
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet – Bruiser
17. a book a friend recommended – The Trouble With Charlie
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book – The Goldfinch
19. a book based on a true story – The Constant Princess
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list – The Last Time I Saw Paris
21. a book your mom or dad loves - For the Roses
22. a book that scares you – Best New Horror 23
23. a book more than 100 years old – The Scarlet Letter
24. a book based entirely on its cover – Big Little Lies
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - 1984
26. a memoir – Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
27. a book you can finish in a day - The Selection finished 3/7/15
28. a book with antonyms in the title – Night and Day
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit – The Secret Place
30. a book that came out the year you were born - Strangers
31. a book with bad reviews – Epoch Dawning
32. a trilogy (the first)- Delirium
33. a trilogy (the second) - Pandemonium
34. a trilogy (the third) - Requiem
35. a book from your childhood – The Clue of the Broken Locket
36. a book with a love triangle – Body Surfing
37. a book set in the future – Reunion in Death
38. a book set in high school - Evermore
39. a book with a color in the title – The Picture of Dorian Gray
40. a book that made/makes you cry – If I Stay finished 3/10/15 (but I didn't cry so I may add another one...this could be a hard category for me...)
41. a book with magic – A Discovery of Witches
42. a graphic novel – Saga, Volume 1
43. a book by an author you've never read before – The Girl on the Train
44. a book you own but have never read – Doctor Zhivago
45. a book that takes place in your hometown - Cold by John Smolens
46. a book that was originally written in another language – The Count of Monte Cristo
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday) – Knit the Season
48. a book written by an author with your same initials -
49. a play – Waiting for Godot
50. a banned book – The Catcher in the Rye
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show – The 100 by Kass Morgan
52. a book you started but never finished - Frankenstein

Welcome to the group. I just finished reading Frankenstein last night and your Week 47 book's got me intrigued, I've got two books by that author on my shelf already. :-)

Good luck with the challenge.

Ah, someone else reading Dorian Gray for the color week :D

Have fun with the challenge :)

I read If I Stay last week for the book that became a movie. It was short which was nice and was definitely a good book but I really liked Me Before You, which I read the week before. I would strongly recommend it for week 40 if you haven't read it already :)

Cait wrote: "Welcome to the group. I just finished reading Frankenstein last night and your Week 47 book's got me intrigued, I've got two books by that author on my shelf already. :-)

Good luck with the chall..."

That is the 3rd in a series and I absolutely LOVED the first one. I had no idea there was a 3rd and the synopsis stated it is set during the Christmas season with the main character's daughter. I'm looking forward to it :)

Laura wrote: "I read If I Stay last week for the book that became a movie. It was short which was nice and was definitely a good book but I really liked Me Before You, which I read the week befor..."

Thanks for the recommendation! I'm not sure how I'll feel about If I Stay and only bought it on my Kindle because it was on sale for like $1.99 and the library had a wait list. I'll look in to Me Before You. Thanks!

Ah, that's cool. I've got the first two in the series then. I picked the first up in a charity shop and then saw the second a few months later and picked it up because of the title, then realised afterwards they were both by the same author. I'll have to treat myself to the third.

Do you knit?

Cait wrote: "Ah, that's cool. I've got the first two in the series then. I picked the first up in a charity shop and then saw the second a few months later and picked it up because of the title, then realised a..."

Yes I do and after I read the first one I spent a couple months in a knitting frenzy! Now I pick it up occasionally, but I do have spurts (usually in the winter time) where I knit more regularly.

The first two books are one of the next on my bookshelf. I'm looking forward to starting them, I've been in a bit of a knitting funk recently so hopefully it'll pep me up a bit!

Ohh. #47 looks interesting to me also. Have you read Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's books on knitting? they are non fiction, but funny.

a nonfiction knitting book that is funny? I'm curious! I'll have to check it out - thanks for the suggestion!

We have a few of the same books. What did you think about the Selection? I cry at lots of books so #40 won't be that hard for me. If you cried in The Fault in Our Stars, you could switch that with If I Stay. If I Stay is on my TBR too.

Ella wrote: "We have a few of the same books. What did you think about the Selection? I cry at lots of books so #40 won't be that hard for me. If you cried in The Fault in Our Stars, you could switch that wi..."

I ended up loving the Selection. I've been on a YA/dystopian kick for about 2 years now, which is kind of embarrassing to say, but I really liked the Selection. It reminded me of the TV show The Bachelor mixed with Cinderella and Divergent (only in the aspect of there being different factions). I don't think it was anything thought provoking or deep (I mean, it is YA...) but it ended up being interesting enough that I sat down and read it in one day when I didn't intend to. Now I am looking forward to reading the other books in the series :)

I read the rest of the Selection series. I really enjoyed it. So funny, I found out ri h t after I finished, my 12 year old daughter was also reading The Selection. How are you liking Pride and Prejudice?

Ella wrote: "I read the rest of the Selection series. I really enjoyed it. So funny, I found out ri h t after I finished, my 12 year old daughter was also reading The Selection. How are you liking Pride ..."

I just finished it this morning and I liked it. I didn't love it as much as I loved Emma, but it was pretty good. Now to find a movie version to watch :) I just love reading books and then watching movies of them - even though they rarely ever do the book justice!