SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

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21. Read a classic - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Finally!

12.5/30

Hahahahahaha, well done!

Finished No. 11 Beastly by Alex Flinn

14/30 Almost half way :)

Naz wrote: "Finished No. 11 Beastly by Alex Flinn

14/30 Almost half way :)"

Great!

Hey Im back on line where is my badge!? I want to bask in my glory! ;D LOL

haha save it and put it on :P

Finished 12 - Torment by Lauren Kate.

That's 10/30 for me.

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Finished 1.Read a book with your Name
One white rose by Julie Garwood and 7. Read a book to learn something new The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas

16/30 :)

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What did you think of The End of Mr Y Naz?

It took awhile for me to get into it but that was mostly due to the fact that I was always distracted when I started reading it. Once I did though I had wished I could be like a sponge and just absorb all the info at once instead of reading then rereading and thinking it through again. Doing this made me take longer to finish it than i would have otherwise. I think she went a little overboard at some points when she started mentioning Derrida and Heidegger on every page but you've got to love her use of metaphors and it still had me going ''wow'' every now and then, specially in the last 70 or so pages.

Finished 20. Read a book with a Country name in the title.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

13.5/30

Finished:
8. A genre you normally avoid: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (paranormal romance)
9. Random book: Beastly by Alex Flinn
21. Classic: Candide by Voltaire
26. Sports theme: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (cricket)
27. Two elements on the cover: (air and water)

Progress: 15.5/30

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Finished nr12 One Word Title

Beastly by Alex Flinn

14.5/30

Is it ok if I list His Dark Materials for 29 - Read 1 book with 'his' or 'her' in the title? Technically it's 3 books, but since I'm listing the whole series it can count as 1?

Oh wow I don't know
It helps that you would read all 3 for 1 task, and you wouldn't use the other for any other challenge right?

Ja, of course :) I'll remove all 3 titles from the categories I've put them in, and only list His Dark Materials at 29.

Then I think its cool, anyone else agree?

Sounds fair enough to me.

Cool, thanks :)

14) Finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

15.5/30

Did some re-arranging, but recently completed
King Rat by China Mieville - author's debut
Geek Love by Katherine Dunne - author with a colour as a surname.
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - award-winning book
Flyleaf by Finuala Dowling - SA author

Current total: 18.5/30

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Read no. 20 - book with a country - Eat, Pray, Love and no. 22 - award winning - The Book of Lost Things

18/30

1. Read a book with your Name

2. Read a book with the word "love" in the title

3. Read a author with a colour as a surname example Holly Black

4. Read a book that was released in 2010 Die Onbekendes by Bloemhof, François

5. Read a book by a author who's name and surname starts with the same letter, example Rick Riordan

6. Read a book by a South African author Bottervisse in Die Jêm, Deon Meyer

7. Read a book to learn something new (this can be fiction or non-fiction, eg. you could read a novel or a non-fiction work about Victorian England.) Emphasis on NEW - choose a topic you know little or nothing about. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (Learned a lot more about the Amish [Plain] way of life)

8. Try a genre you normally avoid (I've tried this, and it can be really cool, especially if you 'swap' genres with someone else, and you chat about what you thought of each others books)

9. Read a random book - pick a book that you've never heard of, by an author you don't know of. Coconut by Matlwa, Kopano

10. Read a book with an unusual narrator - a young child, an animal, an AI, a group narrator, etc. Vampires, werewolves, fairies, etc. DO NOT count.

11) Favourite Colour- That predominant colour of the book cover should be your favourite colour. e.g. red is my favourite colour.

12) One Word- The title of the book should only have one word in it e.g. Wings, Lolita, Fallen

13) Double Title- Find two books by different authors with the same name. e.g. Scandal and Scandal ---> halfway done!
Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9), Harris, Charlaine and The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)Pfeffer, Susan Beth

14) Set in a City- The story is set and revolves around 1 major city e.g Chicago Land Vampire Series or Sex and The City Rooi luiperd (Rooi Luiperd #1) by Bloemhof, François [Cape Town]

15) Dear Diary- Book written in the form of someone’s diary or has the word diary in the title e.g. Bridget Jones Diary or Vampire Diaries.

16. Author's debut: read the first book published by an author

17. Read a non-fiction book;

18. Read a book written by a woman for woman;

19. Read a autobiography;

20. Read a book with a Country name in the title.

21. Read a classic (e.g. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens)

22. Read an award winning book (e.g. Man Booker, Orange, Newbery, Costa, Pulitzer) Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

23. Read a book whose author shares your birth month (e.g. I was born in April; so were William Shakespeare and Barbara Kingsolver)

24. Read a book from the BBC Big Read top 100 (1-50 and 51-100)

25. Read a book not originally written in English - read the book in English or in the language in was written in (e.g. Anna Karenina (Russian), Triomf (Afrikaans))

26. Read a sports themed book. (about sports, on the cover or in the title) Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37) by Pratchett, Terry

27. Read 1 books with 2 elements on the front cover. E.g. The ocean and sky= water and air

28.Read 1 book with 2 types of animals on the cover

29. Read 1 book that has "his" or "her" in the title

30.Read 1 book from the Victorian era

Finished no. 25 (translated book) - After Dark by Haruki Murakami (originally written in Japanese)

Total: 19.5/30

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Welcome Tracy! Go ahead and keep a list on your blog :)

Finished nr 22.

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Now 16.5

Finished no.12, 20.5/30

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Finished no 16.
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Finished nr 19

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Finished no.5
21.5/30

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Erm for Set in a City does it have to be a big city or does a town with the population of 5,243 count? And for Same Name does The Alchemyst and The Alchemist count?

Finished no.4, 22.5/30

Naz wrote: "Erm for Set in a City does it have to be a big city or does a town with the population of 5,243 count? And for Same Name does The Alchemyst and The Alchemist count?"

5,243 ... now why does that sound so familiar? Hmm ... I Am Number Four?
But really, 5,243 sounds like a small village rather than a city. Unless by "set in a city" it only means the place it's set in plays a role in the overall story / setting is important?

Naz wrote: "Erm for Set in a City does it have to be a big city or does a town with the population of 5,243 count? And for Same Name does The Alchemyst and The Alchemist count?"

It might count, since population doesn't seem to be a great indicator of whether a place counts as a city or not. The Vatican City has only 826 citizens. Some definitions of city require less than 5000 citizens, others require more.
I think what's more important is if the location is an administrative and legal centre and not, for example, just a residential area. Also, as Kahlan said, the location should be an important part of the story.

I think Alchemyst/Alchemist is ok :) It's pretty hard trying to find two books with the same name where you're actually interested in reading both.

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Ok thanks guys :)

Finished no. 21: A Classic: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
13/30

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Finished no.30
Total: 23.5/30

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Finished no.1
24.5/30

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Finished a few: 4, 6, 7, 9, half of 13, 14, 22 and 26

7.5/30

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