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Wedding 4x4 Challenge

The goal of this challenge is to read 4 books that fit into each of the four topics. This is a "square" challenge - four topics, four books each.

Duration is 6 months. You can make this longer or shorter if you need to, but try to make it challenging for yourself while still fun.

Topics:
1. Something Old A book that has been on your physical shelf or TBR for a very long time. You can sort your TBR by date added to find out which books have been on it the longest and start there.

2. Something New A book that has just been published in the current year (2014) or you can choose to read books that you have just recently purchased.

3. Something Borrowed These can be library books or books that friends have lent you. Any book that you do not own.

4. Something Blue Books with a blue cover or have the word blue in the title.

Set up looks like this. Feel free to copy and paste into your challenge.

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Duration: 6 months
Completed: 0/16

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Welcome to the challenge atefe!

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Duration: 6 months
Completed: 1/16

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Welcome to the challenge Tina!

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months
Completed: 0/16

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Welcome to the challenge Janessa!

Love this idea! On my phone right now, so will update this post when I can. Do we set our own start/end dates?

Welcome to the challenge Melissa! Yes, you do. The planned duration is 6 months, but you can adjust it to make it easier or more difficult for yourself.

Fantastic :) the hard one for me will be borrowed. I read everything on my iPad. But my mum listens to some audio books so maybe I can borrow some of them. That will be something new for me too because I've never done that!

If it's a Kindle app, sometimes you can borrow books from a friend or sometimes you can borrow ebooks through the library. Good luck!

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Welcome to the challenge Tia!

Thanks ;) this sounds fun!

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months (May 15 - Nov 15)
Completed: 16/16

Something Old
* Inferno
* The Phantom of the Opera
* The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Brave New World

Something New
* Dreams of Gods & Monsters - published April 8, 2014
* Queen of Hearts - published Feb 12, 2014
* Mr. Mercedes - published June 3, 2014
* The One - published May 6, 2014

Something Borrowed
* The Fault in Our Stars
* Paper Towns
* The Handmaid's Tale
* The Language of Flowers

Something Blue
* The Golem and the Jinni
* The Light Between Oceans
* Outlander
* Vaclav and Lena

Welcome to the challenge Chase!

Start: 5/16/14
End: 11/16/14
Completed: 1/16

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* Backup by Jim Butcher
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Welcome to the challenge Colleen! Looks like you are going to be busy. :)

Start: 5/19/14
End: 11/19/14
Completed: 0/16

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Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months (5/19/14-11/19/14)
Completed:15/16

Something Old
*The Bell Jar-on my to-be read shelf forever.
*J is for Judgment-on my actualy bookshelf for many many years.
*K is for Killer
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Something New
*Strawberry Shortcake Murder-author new to me
*The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
*The Silkworm
*Top Secret Twenty-One

Something Borrowed
*Clockwork Prince-audio book from library 5/22/14
*The Heist-audio book from library 6/11/14
*Passion-audio book from library 7/8/14
*Rapture-audio book from library 7/18/14

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Welcome to the challenge Amber & Jaime!

EEK! But ok... I'm Game :o)

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months (May 19,2014-November 19,2014)
Completed:16(17)/16(17)YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

Something Old
*Someday, Someday, Maybestarted: 6/25/14; completed: 6/26/14
*I Love Everybodystarted: 6/17/14; completed: 6/25/14
*Dear Johnstarted: 6/26/14; completed: 6/29/14
*Dad Is Fat:7:11/14; Completed: 7/14/14

Something New
*Pros and Cons(purchased/completed 5/20)
*The Book of Lost Things (puchased: 5/26/14; Date Completed:6/2/14
*Loser purchased: 5/30/14; Date Completed: 6/3/14
*Stardust purchased: 6/2/14; Date completed: 6/3/14
*(since Pro's and cons was so short) City of Heavenly Fire: borrowed: 6/28/14; completed: 7/17/14

Something Borrowed
*The Lightning ThiefBorrowed from the library on 5/20/14. Date Completed: 5/23/14
*The Sea of Monsters Borrowed from the library on 5/23/14. Date Completed: 5/26/14
*Shatter Me date borrowed from the library: 6/15/14; Date completed: 6/22/14
*The Battle of the Labyrinth:date borrowed from the library 6/19/14; Date completed: 6/25/14

Something Blue
*Blue-Eyed Devilborrowed 6/3/14; Date completed: 6/4/14
*Savannah Blues borrowed 6/4/14; Date completed: 6/13/14
*The Titan's Curse borrowed 6/7/14; Date completed: 6/17/14
*The Light Between Oceans Purchased 6/17/14; Date completed: 7/15/14

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Ooooooo fun! And no bridesmaid dress required! LOL

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months (May 15 - Nov 15)
Completed: 0/16

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Something Borrowed
* Thirteen Reasons Why borrowed from Becca and finished 5/16
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LOL Amy! Nope. Just traditions. :)

Welcome to the challenge Lauren & Amy!

Don't the pages count?

atefe wrote: "Don't the pages count?"

Nope. If you want to set a goal for yourself that each book has a minimum page number that is fine, but we aren't counting pages for this challenge.

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months, start date 27 May 2014
Completed: 12/16

Something Old
* Fortune's Pawn
* Angelfall
* Animal Farm
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Something New
* The Goblin Emperor
* The Girl with All the Gifts
* Red Rising
* Tunnel Vision

Something Borrowed
* Lord of Light
* Love Minus Eighty
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Something Blue
* A Different Blue
* Late Eclipses
* The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Welcome to the challenge, Karen!

Very cool challenge idea Kristie!

Wedding 4x4 Challenge

The goal of this challenge is to read 4 books that fit into each of the four topics. This is a "square" challenge - four topics, four books each.

Duration is 6 months. You can make this longer or shorter if you need to, but try to make it challenging for yourself while still fun.

Topics:
1. Something Old A book that has been on your physical shelf or TBR for a very long time. You can sort your TBR by date added to find out which books have been on it the longest and start there.

2. Something New A book that has just been published in the current year (2014) or you can choose to read books that you have just recently purchased.

Euphoria 9/20/14

3. Something Borrowed These can be library books or books that friends have lent you. Any book that you do not own.

4. Something Blue Books with a blue cover or have the word blue in the title.

Thanks! Welcome to the challenge, Amber!

You're welcome and thank you Kristie!

Is this book acceptable for blue cover?

Start: 5/16/14
End: 11/16/14
Completed: 3/16

Something Old
* Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
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Something Borrowed
* Backup by Jim Butcher
* Mean Streets by Jim Butcher
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atefe wrote: "Is this book acceptable for blue cover?
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I think so. It's definitely not mostly blue, but I think it has a big enough patch of blue that you could use it if you want to.

Welcome to the challenge, Colleen!

Wedding4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months started 5/28/14
Completed: 14 /16

Something Old
* Beyond Belief/ Josh Hamilton
* Game Set Match / Nana Malone
* Maid for a Billionaire / Ruth Cardello
* Karma / Nikki Sex

Something New
* Home Again / Kristen Hanna
* Sand Castles / Antoinette Stockingberg
* Witches in Flight / Debora Geary
* Three Wishes / Liane Moriarty

Something Borrowed
* The king / JR Ward
* Carolina Isle / Jude Deveraux
* So This is Love / Barbara Freethy
* Nobody But You / Barbara Freethy


Something Blue
* the Blue Bistro / Elin Hilderband
* The Dream / Barbara Delinsky
* Getaway Girls / Joan Rylen
*Falling for a Stranger / Barbara Freethy

Thanks Kristie ;))

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Duration: 6 months
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Ooooh well why the heck not? :) Another awesome idea!

Is it possible to combine this with the Perks of Being a Wallflower Challenge? As in if I read something that has been on my shelf for ages for this and it is at the same time a book from the other challenge, is that ok?
If not, that's totally fine, I'll try to make it work anyhow! :) -> More books, yay!


Wedding4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months
Completed: 14/16

Something Old
* Bitten (completed 15/05/2014)
* The Magician's Nephew (completed 17/06/2014)
*The Horse and His Boy (completed 27/07/2014)
* The Night Circus (completed 06/07/2014)

Something New
* One by One (completed 10/07/2014)
*Halfway to the Grave (completed 15/07/2014)
* Moon Called (completed 16/07/2014)
* Silence (completed 27/07/2014)

Something Borrowed
* The Great Gatsby (completed 31/07/2014)
* Duplik Jonas 7. (completed 22/12/2014)
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Something Blue
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (completed 19/06/2014)
* Darkfever (completed 06/08/2014)
* Bone Crossed(completed 18/08/2014)
* Throne of Glass (completed 10/12/2014)


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Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months started 29/5/14
Completed: 2/16

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Eldarwen - Sure, it is fine to use the same book for two separate challenges. You just can't use it twice in the same challenge. (eg. A borrowed book with a blue cover can be put in either section, but not both.)

Welcome to the challenge!

Welcome to the challenge, Jordan!

Alright, thanks! :)

Duration: 6 months started 29/5/14
Completed: 16/16 24.11.2014!

Something Old
* Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (3.8.2014)
* Hope Rises, Alice Bello (12.9.2014)
* Storm Glass (12/11/2014)
* To The Lighthouse (24.11.2014)

Something New
* If You Could See Me Now, Cecelia Ahern (1/5/2014)
* Green Rider, Kristen Britain (18.7.2014)
* The Weight of a Human Heart (4/8/2014)
* Can you keep a secret? (20.9.2014)

Something Borrowed
* Storm of Swords pt 2 (Finished 29/5/2014)
* Hidden, Marianne Curley (26/06/2014)
* The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (4.7.2014)
* Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion (1.10.2014)

Something Blue
* Wyrmweald: Returner's Wealth, Steward & Riddell (6/8/2014)
* The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (10.9.2014)
* The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness (11/9/2014)
* Screwed, Eoin Colfer (12.7.2014)

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Start: 5/16/14
End: 11/16/14
Completed: 3/16

Something Old
* Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
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Something New
* Skin Games by Jim Butcher
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Something Borrowed
* Backup by Jim Butcher
* Mean Streets by Jim Butcher
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This sounds like a fun challenge!

Wedding 4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months (Start date: 1st June, 2014)
Completed: 0/16

Something Old
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This sounds really fun! xD

Wedding4x4 Challenge
Duration: 6 months

Start Date: June 1, 2014
End Date: December 1, 2014
Completed: 0/16

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Welcome to the challenge, Rowena, Ebonny, & Monique!

Start: 5/16/14
End: 11/16/14
Completed: 5/16

Something Old
* Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
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Something New
* Skin Games by Jim Butcher
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Something Borrowed
* Backup by Jim Butcher
* Mean Streets by Jim Butcher
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Something Blue
* In a Dog’s Heart by Jennifer Arnold
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