2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Mini-challenge:
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013

1) Read a book from the decade you were born.
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album.
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born.
4) Read a book from the decade you choose.

Happy Reading!

Kaitlin will be leading this challenge. Thank you, Kaitlin! :)

Hi Ashley,
I'm going to do all four. And I've never led a challenge before, but I'd be happy to lead this one! Let me know.

Completed! 4/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. (1980s) The Stand by Stephen King - Complete & Uncut, published 1989
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album. (Ben Folds - 1980s) A Maggot by John Fowles
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. (Kurt Vonnegut - 1920s) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4) Read a book from the decade you choose. - 2010s
This is a Book by Demetri Martin

Awesome Kaitlin. If you'd like the job it is yours! Thanks so much for your help! :)

If you have any questions about leading just let me know. I'll help you out!

Kaitlin, I'm going for 2. :)

I am going to try for 2 for this challenge.

Ill also try for 2 :)

I'll go for 4!

Ashley wrote: "Awesome Kaitlin. If you'd like the job it is yours! Thanks so much for your help! :)

If you have any questions about leading just let me know. I'll help you out!"

Great, thanks!

I wil try for all 4. I just need to plan ahead so some of these books can work into mulitple challenges

Got you, Robyn!

Anybody have any books planned for this challenge yet?

I'll try for 3

Mini-challenge:
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013
4/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews May 21 It was published in 1979 and I was also born in the 70's

2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album. The Pillars of the Earth May 7 was first published in 1989 the same year Bon Jovi's first album was released.

3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov May 23 was written in 1955; Nora Roberts was born in the 50's

4) Read a book from the decade you choose. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts May 10 published in 2013

Welcome, Sharon & Shelly! You're both on the list.

Mini-challenge:
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013
2/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born.

2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
1960s
The Bachelors (1960) by Muriel Spark (05/13/13)

3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born.

4) Read a book from the decade you choose.
The War Between the Tates (1974) by Alison Lurie (05/11/13)

Happy Reading!

Got you, Deedee! Good luck with your goal.

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. (1990s)
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album. (Sabaton 2000s)
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. (Lisa See 1950s)
4) Read a book from the decade you choose. (1960s)

Hi, Emily! You're on the list.

Ok, Thanks~

I have updated you, Brianna. Let us know how you like Watchmen; that's been on my TBR for a long time.

I will go for 3.

I'm going for all 4.

Got you both, Jessica & Melanie! Good luck.

I just finished Fever 1793, one down three to go.

Good job, Emily! I updated you.

I'll join as well. Possibly all 4, I just have to decide on what books I'll be reading!

Brianna

I marked you for four, Brianna. Let me know if you want to change your goal.

I'm gonna do all 4! :D

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. -1990s.
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album.- Rammstein;1990s.
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born.- Edgar Allan Poe;1800-1810.
4) Read a book from the decade you choose.- 2010s

I'll be keeping Track of my Progress Here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Welcome, Nicole! I added you.

Finished Gone Girl from 2012, using it for option 4, decade of choice 2010s.

1/4

Great job, Robyn! I updated you.

I just finished Gone Girl too and was surprised how much I liked it. What'd you think?

I loved gone girl, if I could give half stars it would be a 4.5. I reserve 5 stars for books that really make me feel and remember them long after I read them. I will say gone girl surprised me, I was happily surprised when it wasn't as obvious as it seemed in the beginning.

my husband found a box of old toys and books. in it were the three scary stories to tell in the dark books by Alvin Schwartz. I LOVED these as a kid, excited to see if I still love them now. plus they will fit in the decade I was born. good ole 80s

Nice! I was born in the '80s too but never read those. Truthfully I didn't read much as a kid (except for school). Enjoy!

OK everybody - here's where we stand a little more than a third of the way through the month:

Decades Mini-Challenge
May 1-31, 2013

Participants:

Ashley - 0/2
Brianna (msg 7) - 0/3
Brianna (msg 28) - 0/4
Deedee - 2/4
Emily - 2/4
Heather - 2/2 COMPLETE!
Jessica - 3/3 COMPLETE!
Kaitlin - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Kelsi - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Melanie - 0/4
Morgan - 0/2
Nicole - 1/4
Robyn - 2/4
Shelly - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Sharon - 2/3

If anybody has an updates I didn't get, let me know! Good work so far!

Deedee and Shelly, I updated you to 2. Nice job!

How's everybody else doing? It's awfully quiet around here...;-)

Haha no problem! This is my first time leading a challenge so it was just making me self-conscious that there's so little activity :-) But probably everybody is just extra busy with the spring weather and whatnot.

I'm in the middle of The Stand for one of my '80s reads...it's huge and intense!

Less than a week left! Stats are updated in post 36.

Anybody (Americans, at least) planning to get reading time in over the long weekend?

Read a book from your favorite bands firs album: I have a favorite band in every genre, honestly I can not narrow it down... but I have finished Shanghai Girls which was published in the same decade as Vampire Weekend's debut album (which is fantastic by the way) so I am up to 2/4. A couple days left but I think I can still make it!

Nice work, Robyn! You can do it!

I have completed this challenge. I have read Children of the Night by Mercedes Lackey which was published in the 90s which was my decade of choice. I also read The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling which was published in 2008 which is in the same decade as my favorite band, Maroon 5's debut album. Which gives me 2/2 for this challenge.

FINISHED***** Post #13

Mini-challenge:
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013
4/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews May 21 It was published in 1979 and I was also born in the 70's

2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album. The Pillars of the Earth May 7 was first published in 1989 the same year Bon Jovi's first album was released.

3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov May 23 was written in 1955; Nora Roberts was born in the 50's

4) Read a book from the decade you choose. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts May 10 published in 2013

Awesome job, Heather & Shelly! You're the first finishers!

In my endless wisdom, I was reading The Stand as part of the challenge as one of my '80s books. I just noticed yesterday that it was published in 1979. Oops. Not sure if I can squeeze in two '80s reads in the next 3 days!

I'm all done!

May Mini-challenge: Decades
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013
Completed May 28, 2013

Goal: 4/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born.
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains 1995 (90s child)
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album.
Mumford and Son's: Babel, 2009. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. Margaret Mitchell, 1900 Dracula, published in 1897...close enough!
4) Read a book from the decade you choose.
American Gods

Finished Lord of the Flies by William Golding...Going to try to squeeze in the last two books.

Jessica's Update

Goal 3 Books
Read 3 Books

2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album: Maroon 5 1990's The Reader published in 1997 in English
3. Decade Favorite Author Was Born: Rhys Bowen (born 1940's) Escape from Sobibor
4) Read a book from the decade you choose: 2000's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

I'm done!

Completed! 4/4

1) Read a book from the decade you were born. (1980s) The Stand by Stephen King - Complete & Uncut Version, first published 1989
2) Read a book from the decade of your favorite band's first album. (Ben Folds - 1980s) A Maggot by John Fowles
3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. (Kurt Vonnegut - 1920s) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4) Read a book from the decade you choose. - 2010s
This is a Book by Demetri Martin

Good work, Kelsi and Emily!

In case anybody else is still working on the challenge, here are the standings:

Decades Mini-Challenge
May 1-31, 2013

Ashley - 0/2
Brianna (msg 7) - 0/3
Brianna (msg 28) - 0/4
Deedee - 2/4
Emily - 2/4
Heather - 2/2 COMPLETE!
Jessica - 3/3 COMPLETE!
Kaitlin - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Kelsi - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Melanie - 0/4
Morgan - 0/2
Nicole - 1/4
Robyn - 2/4
Shelly - 4/4 COMPLETE!
Sharon - 0/3

If anybody has an updates I didn't get, let me know! Good work everyone!

Mini-challenge:
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2013
I'll try for 3 -only got 2
1) Read a book from the decade you were born. Started but didn't finish :(

3) Read a book from the decade your favorite author was born. both born in the 50's Nora Roberts John Grishamdone

4) Read a book from the decade you choose. I'm choosing our current decade!done

No problem! Great effort, Sharon. I updated you.