Monday, April 4, 2016

1/4 of the way through the year

Reading Challenge update.   I am currently involved in 4 reading challenges:   the monthly reading challenge, the unofficial popsugar challenge from facebook page, the official pop sugar challenge and around the world in 52 books on goodreads.   My own rules:  I NEVER repeat a title within a particular challenge but I can use the same title across challenges.   Here is my breakdown so far.  Completed tasks:

Unofficial PopSugar Challenge - 52 total tasks. 27 complete.
Nebula Award winner - Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick.
Book of Poetry -  A Bit of Tickle for the Mind by Melinda McIntosh
YA Book - Emmy and Oliver
Fantasy - Girl of Fire and Thorns
Science Fiction - Morning Star by Pierce Brown
Debut Novel - The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford
Book With Alliteration in the Title - Little Lamb Lost
A Book Because of it's Cover - You, Me, Him
New Author from the 2015 Challenge - The Men We Reaped by Jessmyn Ward
A Book Set in the State Where you Were Born - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
A book set in a state you would like to visit - We Never Asked for Wings
A Book your Father Loves - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Main Character is an animal - Worthy
Time Travel Book - The Rose Garden
A book about books - The Little Paris Bookshop
A Book about Pirates - A Darker Shade of Magic
Retelling of a Fairy Tale - A Court of Thorn and Roses
Published in 2016 - All the Birds in the Sky
A Book over 100 years old - Ivanhoe
A book outside your comfort zone - The Humans by Matt Haig
Free Book - Gifts of the Blood by Vicki Keire
Friend Recommended - Confess by Colleen Hoover
Guilty Pleasure - The Distance Between us by Kasie West
Doesn't fit anywhere else - The Glass Sword
Brit Lit - Never Let me Go
Erotica - The Woodsman
Adventure Novel - To Kill the Potemkin
Protagonist of a different gender - The Life We Bury
A book about Heroes - The Song of Achilles

The Official PopSugar Challenge
Based on Fairy Tale - A Court of Thorn and Roses
A YA Best Seller - The Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige
Book set in Home State - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Translated into English - Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf
Book under 150 pages - Never, Never part 3 by Colleeen Hoover
NYT bestseller - The Life We Bury
A Book you can finish in a day - The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
A Book with 600 pages - After
Oprah Book - Never Let Me Go.
Science Fiction - The Last Girl
Recommended by a family member - Confess by Colleen Hoover
Published in 2016- Morning Star by Pierce Brown
Takes place during Summer - Whisper Beach
Murder Mystery - The Pocket Wife.
Book of Poetry - A Bit of Tickle for the Mind
Takes Place on an Island - A Darker Shade of Magic

Goodreads Challenge -
Meant to read in 2015 but didn't - You, Me, HIm
Book from Goodreads awards - Confess by Colleen Hoover
Book by author discovered in 2015 - Men We Reaped
Book with a title that starts with L - Life as We Knew It
A Book about books - The Little Paris Bookshop
Book from summer reading list - Whisper Beach
A Book with a first name in the title - We Need to Talk about Kevin
First book in a series - Gifts of the Blood by Vicki Keare
The Next book in a series - The Glass Sword
Main Character has interesting Profession - A Darker Shade of Magic
YA - Raven Boys
16th book on my TBR list - Little Lamb Lost
Seen Movie but Haven't Read the book - StarDust by Neil Gaiman
Anti-hero - After
Favorite Genre Novella - King of Beasts by Danielle Paige
Top 100 Fantasy Novel - A Court of Thorn and Roses
Scary Novel - Finding Jake
Book Embarrassed to Read in Public - Bookishly Ever After
Crime Story - The Life We Bury
Published in 2016 - Morning Star.

Monthly Challenge -
A book made into a movie - Stardust
A Book Recommended by a friend - The Life We Bury
Published in 2016 - Morning Star

1 comment:

  1. Nice list, Laurie! Definitely getting after it this year

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