SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

Tasks:

1. Read a book that takes place in 3 different mythical/imagined realms - parallel dimensions, mythical worlds. Planets do not count, unless they're in another dimension.
2. Read a book that has been banned (not just challenged) in 3 or more countries.
3. Reread a book (give a second chance to) a book you previously gave a bad rating/review.
4. Finish a book that you started but gave up on.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
5. Choose a series that you a gave a low rating to, and read the second book.
6. Read a book with the word second, (not seconds) two or twice in the title. The catch is it can't be the second book in a series.
7. Read a book that was nominated for an award/awards but never won (came in second :D)
8. Read a book with 7 or more words in the title. Subtitles don't count (ie. nothing after the colon).
9. Read a book that is number 7,8 or 9 in a stand alone series.
10. Read a book where a main character has the same name as your mother (we can speak about it if your mother has a random name etc).
11. Read a book that's cover depicts someone that is about to die in some way or other.
12. Read a book that has a two part title that coincides with your initials (just first and last name).
13. Read a book with 1500 or more pages.
14. A title with 3 or more words, each starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For example: A Boat Can Drift Everywhere
15. Read a book with a number of ratings matching your birth date. Month/Date/Year Eg. 01/20/86 would come to 12,086 ratings. Provide a screenshot to be verified by another member.
16. Read a book that is not written by a south African and does not take place in south Africa, but where in south Africa is mentioned.
17. Read a book that at least three of your friends have given less than three stars to.
18. Read a book translated from Finnish.
19. Read any novel by Tolstoy or Ayn Rand.
20. Go to a second-hand bookstore. Find the last book on the fiction shelf. If you do not have it, buy it and read it.
21. Read a book that is set on an ocean vessel that is not a passenger cruise ship.
22. Get three of the other sado-masochists here to choose a book that they think you'll HATE but that they think you should read. Choose one of the books and read it.
The Wind in the Willows/The Time Traveler's Wife/The Other Boleyn Girl
23. Read a book published in the year that your father was born
24. Read a book with the originals authors signature in the front
25. Read an entire series consisting of 6 or more books. Re-reads not allowed!
Saga of Seven Suns
26. Read a book with a reference to a classic book in it and read that classic too.
So you have to read two books here and you have to post the quote.
27. There are 3 steps
1. Choose a book to read. A classic, multiple award-winning or literary book is best. Fiction or non-fiction.
2. Read a novel (fiction) based on the book in step 1. eg. read Hyperion if your book is The Canterbury Tales.
3. Read a non-fiction book related to the book in step one. Eg. a collection of essays on the novel, a book about the author etc, a book about a theme of the novel (eg. vampires, dystopias) where the novel is discussed at length. It can be a study guide, but remember that it should fit the 100 page minimum requirement.
28. The terrible threes: Read three trilogies. (Re-reads allowed, but you must start from book 1)
29. Read a graphic novel.
30. Pick a theme, any theme fantasy, horror, whatever and read 6 different books belonging to that theme written by 6 different authors coming from the 6 different continents so from Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia, North-America and South-America. I know Antartica is counted as a continent, but I don't think they have many native authors there. I think it would be nice to see what the different continents do with the themes.
31. colour coded theme - You have to read 9 books. Each book must contain a colour in the title. The following colours should be used -
1. Yellow
2. Red
3. Blue
4. Green
5. White
6. Black
7. Brown
8. Any other colour like Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Pink
9. Last book should contain a word that implies colour, like rainbow, polka-dot, stripes
32. Read a book set in colonial Australia.
33. Read any book of your choosing, but then post a picture (a real picture - no photoshopping!) of yourself in the exact locations of a scene from the book. The picture/location should be verifiable. So don't use a photo of a beach that could be a beach anywhere in the world.
Eg. if you read Moxyland, you could use a picture of yourself in/outside Stones on Long Street in Cape Town. Just a picture of yourself in Cape Town won't cut it.
34. Re-create a cover. You have to take a pic where you have recreated a cover, using props, dressing up etc. You can't just use photoshop, except when putting a title on it and so on :)
Oh and read the book obviously :)
35. There is a song called "The Book Lovers" by the Divine Comedy. Read one book of 3 authors mentioned in the song.
36. Word Quest - One of your goodreads friends must choose a word for you, for example "driving", then you must find 3 books relating to that word and read it.
Sunbeam
37. Read 33 novels from your favourite genre provided that each novel is more than 333 pages OR you can choose to read 11 novels from your favourite genre, provided that each novel is by an author you haven't read yet and that each novel is more than 333 pages.
38. a) Read 9 debut novels by different authors (first actual novel in print by a major publisher).
b) Then read 3 novels published before the death of its author. (That author's last novel).
39. Nomination : read an original greek mythology novel as close to the original text as you can get your hands on (obviously not greek)
40. A one-word title with 10 letters.

1. The Amber Spyglass
2. Ulysses
3. TBC
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
5. TBC
6. TBC
7. Zoe's Tale
8. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
9. Guards! Guards!
10. TBC
11.
Most definitely dead!
12. King Maker
13. Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective
14. A Game of Thrones
15. The Terror
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16. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
17. TBC
18. TBC
19. Atlas Shrugged
20. TBC
21. Polar Shift
22. The Wind in the Willows
23. Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure - 1948
24. The Line of Polity
25. The Lost Fleet Series:
Dauntless
Fearless
Courageous
Valiant
Relentless
Victorious
26. TBC
27.1 Dracula
27.2 Salem's Lot
27.3 Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth
28. Icewind Dale Trilogy, Dark Elf Trilogy, Uplift trilogy
29. Green Lantern: Rebirth
30. Theme: Science Fiction
Europe - Neal Asher: Brass Man
Africa - Moxyland
Australia - The Outback Stars
Asia - ?
North America - The Lost World
South America - ?
31. Yellow -
Red - Hunt for Red October /Red Mars
Blue - Blue Man Falling
Green - Green Mars
White - White Rage
Black - Blackwater Sound
Brown - ?
Other -
Implied - Rainbows End
32. TBC
33. ?
34. ?
35. Edgar Allen Poe
Iain Banks
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
36. Sunbeam
37. Read more than 33 novels with 333 pages in 2 favourite genres

38. a)Debut novels:
1. Prince of Thorns
2. The Metalmark Contract
3. Deadlands
4. Gridlinked
5. Graceling
6. The End Specialist
7. The Warded Man
8. The Dwarves
9. Blood of Elves
?. Consider Phlebas
?. Gardens of the Moon
?. Slights
?. Elantris

b)The Last Theorem
Farewell Summer


39. The Iliad
40. Absolution

Tasks completed: 16

Hurray, one down! Why do I always choose the longest novels?

Congratz!
I like your debut novel choices, long as some of them are. I might steal a few. =)

Two down!

Three down!

Almost there!

Four down, now I can finally be an evil bunny!

Congratz!!

8 tasks done! Wohoo...

Congratz!

Nice, did you like Wind in the Willows?

Barbara wrote: "Nice, did you like Wind in the Willows?"

Yeah, it was ok. I vaguely remember reading it as a kid since when I started I knew Toad was going to have something to do with stealing a car. Amazing what the mind retains.

Finished no 27.

Finished no 25. Six books in a series. Phew!

wow nice!

Finished 9 and 11. That means I finally level up again.

Congratz Crusader!

Finished number 24.

Cool who's signature do you have?

The signature is Neal Asher's.

I also have Wilbur Smith's and Kaaron Warren's (although this is more a signed sticker).

Looks cool :D

Is that the book you won? I remember something about you telling us that you won a signed copy and that it got delivered recently or am I mistaken?

Barbara wrote: "Is that the book you won? I remember something about you telling us that you won a signed copy and that it got delivered recently or am I mistaken?"

I recently won a signed copy of Wilbur Smith's Those in Peril.

The Neal Asher ones got delivered at the start of May and that's basically the complete collection of his novels.

Cool, I like having every novel an author has written.

I never concerned myself much with signatures untill I went to conventions and people signed their stuff in front of me and now I am hooked.

But you win a lot of them, nice going. I never have that much luck. I keep trying though maybe one day...

I just finished Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith. That novel was set in the 17th century though, but I liked it. Hope you like Those in Peril as much as I did Birds of Prey.

It's been a while since I last read anything by him. I think the last one I read was The Seventh Scroll when I was in high school.

Crusader wrote: "It's been a while since I last read anything by him. I think the last one I read was The Seventh Scroll when I was in high school."

It was brilliant! Same with River God :)

Lu wrote: "It was brilliant! Same with River..."

Yeah, I might just have to re-read it at some time in the future.

Thanks so much for the nominations :)

Lu wrote: "Thanks so much for the nominations :)"

No problem!

Finished number 37. I have more than 33 books read with 333 pages in my 2 favorite genres.

Here's the entire list:
The LIne of Polity
Brass Man
Polity Agent
Line War
Embassytown
The Departure
Last four things
Leviathan Wakes
Robopocalypse
Den of Thieves
The A-Men
The Power of Six
Hell Ship
Eye of the World
Interesting Times
Thud
Making Money
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
Snuff
The Last continent
Wintersmith
Thief of time
Soul Music
Halo: Cryptum
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
Hogfather
Withces Abroad
Maskerade
The Omen Machine
Shadow of the Scorpion
The shadow rising
The Gabble and other Stories
Primordium
Years best SF
The Fires of heaven

Wow great Crusader :)

Nice going, congrats!

I went for the 11 books option because I wanted to win this challenge but if I hadn't I would have accomplished this too by now.

I've actually given up on actively doing this challenge. If something coincides then great, if not it's not a big deal.

I think I could've finished it with 11 new authors too, but it was too much hassle to figure out which ones were new and I think the debut novel task took away a couple of new authors too.

Yeah that is why I was first going to do the 33 book option and then I saw that 6 of the books on my list were already new authors so I only had to find 5 more. By the time I finished the challenge I did read about 22 books for that task.

I was lucky that I was doing this challenge when a lot of challenges I had signed up for I had already completed and so it was the only one I was reading for. Also with the no time limit the pressure is of so it doesn't matter if you read the books today of next year. But I am sure that one time in the future you will finish the challenge especially if you're past a certain number of tasks then you just want to finish it.