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2022 Reading Stats
Buddy & Group ReadsJanuary
The House in the Cerulean Sea
BR Leviathan Wakes CC - starts 1/16
The Beautiful Ones CC - 1/28
BR The Obession CC - starts 1/18
BR Veronica Speedwell series CC - starts 1/23
London Highwayman series CC - 1/24
BR The Beekeeper's Promise CC - 1/26
BR Lessons in Chemistry CC - starts 1/28
BR Come Sundown CC - 1/30
February
BR Once Upon A Con eries CC - starts 2/1
The Locked Tomb series CC - starts 2/1
BR Shelter in Place CC - starts 2/13
BB Hideaway CC- starts 2/25
BR Simon Snow series CC - starts 2/25
BR Quality Street - 2023RC -
BR A Closed and Common Orbit - 2023RC
March
BR The Daevabad Trilogy CC - starts 3/7
BR Record of a Spaceborn Few - 2023RC
BR The Hemingses of Monticello - 2023RC
September
Grass 9/14-10/14
Team or Pairs ChallengesTheme Wars - Aristocats 12/1 - 12/31
Snowball Fight 12/1 - 2/29
Christmas Trivia Game HOB 11/1 - 12/31
NFBC Team Challenge NFBC _ Year long
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Over:
(view spoiler)
Individual - MonthlyGenre of the Month TOAP - recurring monthly
Listopia Madness December
Series Surfing - December
Graphic Novel Mania
Frosty the Snowman 12/1 - 12/31
Completed:
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Individual - 2 MonthDark Christmas 12/31 - 1/31
Game Night Bingo Game Night - recurring every 2 months
Individual - 3 month/Quarterly2023 Read the Season Maltese Edition
ħarifa (Autumn) 9/23 - 12/20
Over:
(view spoiler)
Individual - AnnualDisney - One Hundred Years of Wonders 2023RC
Bookworms Take Shelfies 2023RC
Discovery Bookshelf 2023 FLOAB
Completed:
Cleaning Out the TBR CLoset 2023 NBRC
Spreadsheet Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Individual - At Your Own PaceHangman TFC Ongoing
Murder, She Wrote Challenge HOB Ongoing
Halloween Hall of Fame HOB Ongoing
(view spoiler)
Links to General Rules for my Groups:Game Night 100 pages min
Hooked on Books 100 pages min
TOAP 100 pages min
MapUgh! I can't do an interactive map!!!!!! No outside links. I'll have to think about this....
Country List by Continent (per UN):Africa: 0/54
Asia: 0/48 - many disputed areas....
Europe: 0/49
North America: 0/23
South America: 0/16 (including dependent territories)
Oceania: 0/14
Year by year….I’m not trying to read a book for every year of the 20th century and beyond, but I do like to see where my reading falls on a timeline.
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Pulitzer Finalists and WinnersOver the last few years, I've been trying to read all the winning and nominated works for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama - and a few from other categories as well. Lists of the non-winning Finalists have only been made available since 1980.
Year or 'finalist' for works read in 2023 are in bold.
Drama: 0 / 37
1918: [Why Marry?] by Jesse Lynch Williams
1938: [Our Town] by Thornton Wilder
1940: [The Time of Your Life] by William Saroyan
1943: [The Skin of Our Teeth] by Thornton Wilder
1946: [State of the Union] by Russell Crouse and Howard Lindsay
1948: [A Streetcar Named Desire] by Tennessee Williams
1955: [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] by Tennessee Williams
1959: [J. B.: A Play in Verse] by Archibald MacLeish
1967: [A Delicate Balance] by Edward Albee
1971: [The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds] by Paul Zindel
1977: [The Shadow Box] by Michael Cristofer
1987:
finalist: [Broadway Bound] by Neil Simon
1981: [Crimes of the Heart] by Beth Henley
1982: [A Soldier's Play] by Charles Fuller
1983: ['night, Mother] by Marsha Norman
1985:
finalist: [The Dining Room] by A. R. Gurney
1987: [Fences] by August Wilson
1988: [Driving Miss Daisy] by Alfred Uhry
1989: [The Heidi Chronicles] by Wendy Wasserstein
1990: [The Piano Lesson] by August Wilson
1991: [Lost in Yonkers] by Neil Simon
finalist: [Prelude to a Kiss] by Craig Lucas
1992:
finalist [Conversations With My Father] by Herb Gardner
1993: [Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches] by Tony Kushner
1994:
finalist [A Perfect Ganesh] by Terrence McNally
1995: [The Young Man From Atlanta] by Horton Foote
1997: NO WINNER
finalist[The Last Night of Ballyhoo] by Alfred Uhry
2000: [Dinner With Friends] by Donald Margulies
2001: [Proof] by David Auburn
2003: [Anna in the Tropics] by Nilo Cruz
2005: [Doubt: A Parable] by John Patrick Shanley
finalist: [The Clean House] by Sarah Ruhl
2007: [Rabbit Hole] by David Lindsay-Abaire
2008: [August: Osage County] by Tracy Letts
2009: [Ruined] by Lynn Nottage
2010:
finalist: [In the Next Room, or the vibrator play] by Sarah Ruhl
2011: [Clybourne Park]
2017: [Sweat] by Lynn Nottage
I'm also hoping to read some works from other categories.
Biography/Autobiography: 0 / 0
Fiction/Novels: 0 / 11
1923: [One of Ours] by Willa Cather
1928: [The Bridge of San Luis Rey] by Thornton Wilder
1932: [The Good Earth] by Pearl S. Buck
1937: [Gone With the Wind] by Margaret Mitchell
1945: [A Bell for Adano] by John Hersey
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1953: [The Old Man and the Sea] by Ernest Hemingway
1961: [To Kill a Mockingbird] by Harper Lee
1975: [The Killer Angels] by Michael Shaara
2017: [The Underground Railroad] by Colson Whitehead
2018: [Less] by Andrew Sean Greer
General Nonfiction: 0 / 6
1995: [The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time] by Jonathan Weiner
finalist: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil] by John Berendt
1996:
finalist:[Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder] by Lawrence Weschler
1998: [Guns, Germs and Steel] by Jared Diamond
2011:
Finalist: [Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men] by Mara Hvistendahl
2013: [Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America] by Gilbert King
History: 0 / 2
1987: [Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of Revolution] by Bernard Bailyn
2010
Finalist [Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City] by Greg Grandin
Poetry: 0 / 2
1918: [Love Songs] by Sarah Teasdale (special prize, officially pre-Pulitzer Prize)
1923: assorted works by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Special Awards and Citations:
1977: Alex Haley for [Roots]
1992: Art Spiegelman for [Maus]
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This is my spot to track and/or link to my challenges. I'm also setting up a Personal Challenge thread, where I'll track and post books, individually, I think.
I'm not sure how many posts I'll need to begin with, so I'm just going to reserve a bunch.