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message 1: by Vernice (last edited Dec 04, 2016 10:33AM) (new)
Dec 04, 2016 12:42AM

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message 2: by Vernice (last edited Nov 29, 2017 09:02AM) (new)
Dec 04, 2016 10:32AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Let's Turn Pages
Duration: January 1 – December 31, 2016

27 773/25 000

January = 3 080
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February = 3 296
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March = 2 625
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April = 1 393
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May = 2 651
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June = 1 974
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July = 2 662
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August = 3 061
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September = 1 318
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October = 3 571
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November = 2 142
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message 4: by Vernice (last edited Nov 20, 2017 10:18PM) (new)
Dec 04, 2016 12:15PM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Serial Reader Challenge
Duration January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Goal: 30/33

I will finish 4 series I have started before this year (7/7 books)

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I will start 4 series this year (4/5 books)

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I will read 5 series from start to finish this year (15/16 books)

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I will read 5 books that are part of a series (4/5 books)

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message 5: by Vernice (last edited Oct 09, 2017 01:14AM) (new)
Dec 04, 2016 12:16PM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge (Link to 2017 Reading Group page)
Duration: 1 January - 31 December

Progress: 20/40

Task List

✔ 1. A book recommended by a librarian - Animal Farm
✔ 2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - Mr. Mercedes
3. A book of letters -
4. An audiobook -
✔ 5. A book by a person of color - Between the World and Me
✔ 6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - The Summer that Melted Everything
7. A book that is a story within a story - The Thirteenth Tale
✔ 8. A book with multiple authors - Writers of the Future: Volume 33
✔ 9. An espionage thriller - End of Watch
✔ 10. A book with a cat on the cover - Life of Pi
✔ 11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - The Silkworm
✔ 12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - The Little Prince
✔ 13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - Kindred
✔ 14. A book involving travel - In the Labyrinth of Drakes
✔ 15. A book with a subtitle - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
✔ 16. A book that's published in 2017 - The Boy on the Bridge
✔ 17. A book involving a mythical creature - Within the Sanctuary of Wings
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile -
19. A book about food -
20. A book with career advice -
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective -
22. A steampunk novel -
23. A book with a red spine - The Red Tent
✔ 24. A book set in the wilderness - Lord of the Flies
25. A book you loved as a child -
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - The Year of the Flood
✔ 27. A book with a title that's a character's name - The Traitor Baru Cormorant
✔ 28. A novel set during wartime - All the Light We Cannot See
29. A book with an unreliable narrator - Never Let Me Go
30. A book with pictures -
✔ 31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - Memoirs of a Geisha
✔ 32. A book about an interesting woman - Lilac Girls
✔ 33. A book set in two different time periods - Orphan Train
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title -
35. A book set in a hotel -
✔ 36. A book written by someone you admire - Born a Crime
37. A book that's becoming a movie on 2017 -
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas -
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - Oryx and Crake
✔ 40. A book you bought on a trip - News of the World

Advanced Options:

Progress: 9/12

1. A book recommended by an author you love -
✔ 2. A bestseller from 2016 - The Fireman
3. A book with a family member term in the title - The Night Sister
✔ 4. A book that takes place over a character's life span - A Man Called Ove
✔ 5. A book about an immigrant or refugee - Behold the Dreamers
✔ 6. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of - The Ghost Bride (Bangsian)
7. A book with an eccentric character - Doctor Who: Only Human
✔ 8. A book that's more than 800 pages - Drums of Autumn
✔ 9. A book you got from a used book sale - Thunder on the Plains
✔ 10. A book that's been mentioned in another book - And Then There Were None
✔ 11. A book about a difficult topic - Small Great Things
✔ 12. A book based on mythology - American Gods


message 6: by Vernice (last edited Nov 01, 2017 02:13AM) (new)
Dec 04, 2016 03:57PM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) My Favorite Things
Duration January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Progress: 17/20

1. My favorite fiction book is: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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2. My favorite non-fiction is: The Secret
- The Promise Girls ✔
3. My favorite author is: J.K. Rowling
- The Silkworm ✔
4. My favorite genre is: Historical Fiction
- All the Light We Cannot See ✔
5. My favorite fairy/folk tale is: Mulan
- Memoirs of a Geisha ✔
6. My favorite male book character is: Jamie Fraser
- Drums of Autumn ✔
7. My favorite female book character is: Hermoine Granger
- The Devil's Obsession ✔
8. My favorite song is: Bohemian Rhapsody
- Rebel Queen ✔
9. My favorite movie is: Phantom of the Opera
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant ✔
10. My favorite television show is: Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Only Human
11. My favorite color is: Green
- Looking for Alaska ✔
12. My favorite real animal is: Owl
- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls ✔
13. My favorite talking animal is: Mushu from Mulan
- In the Labyrinth of Drakes ✔
14. My favorite number is: 33
- Writers of the Future: Volume 33 ✔
15. My favorite food is: Bacon
- Animal Farm ✔
16. My favorite real place to visit is: The Beach
- Life of Pi ✔
17. My favorite book land to visit is: Hogwarts
- Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists ✔
18. My favorite month is: October
- Sleeping Beauties ✔
19. My favorite quote is: Every cloud has a silver lining
- Thunder on the Plains ✔
20. My favorite non-book hobby is: Playing games
- Ready Player One


message 7: by Vernice (last edited Oct 09, 2017 01:15AM) (new)
Dec 13, 2016 11:00AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) A to Z Challenge -- Location Edition
Duration: January 1, through December 31, 2017

24/26 Completed

A: Aurdwynn (The Traitor Baru Cormorant)
B: Berlin (Lilac Girls)
C: Calabria (In Calabria)
D: Devon (And Then There Were None)
E: England (Animal Farm)
F: Fraser's Ridge (Drums of Autumn)
G: Gion (Memoirs of a Geisha)
H: Harlem (Small Great Things)
I: India (Rebel Queen)
J: Johannesburg (Born a Crime)
K: Kwajalein (Unbroken)
L: London (Three Weeks with a Princess)
M: Maryland (Kindred)
N: New Hampshire (The Fireman)
O: Omaha (Thunder on the Plains)
P: Pacific Ocean (Life of Pi)
Q: Qurrat (In the Labyrinth of Drakes)
R:
S: Sahara (The Little Prince)
T: Texas (News of the World)
U:
V: Village (Messenger)
W: Wiezenstaat (The Asylum of Dr. Caligari)
X:
Y:
Z: Zollverein (All the Light We Cannot See)


message 8: by Vernice (last edited Aug 24, 2017 05:44AM) (new)
Dec 13, 2016 11:08AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Color Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Progress: 12/15

1. "White" or any shade of white in the cover
✔ Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

2. "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover


3. "Red" or any shade of red in the cover
✔ The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

4. "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover
✔ The Fireman by Joe Hill

5. "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover
✔ Three Weeks with a Princess (The Improper Princesses #2) by Vanessa Kelly

6. "Green" or any shade of green in the cover
✔ Messenger (The Giver, #3) by Lois Lowry

7. "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover
✔ Gathering Blue (The Giver Quartet, #2) by Lois Lowry

8. "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover
✔ American Gods by Neil Gaiman

9. "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover
✔ It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

10. "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover
✔ Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

11. "Black" or any shade of black in the cover
✔ The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

12. Metallic color in the cover


13. 5 colors on the cover
✔ Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

14. Color in the title of the book
✔ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

15. A word describing colors in the title
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1) by Terry Pratchett


message 9: by Vernice (last edited Oct 06, 2017 05:22PM) (new)
Jan 06, 2017 12:36AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Around the World in Books
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2017

Read books written by authors from as many different countries as you can. The authors can have either been born there or lived there.

Progress: 7/15

✔ USA - Martha Hall Kelly
Canada - Margaret Atwood
✔ England - Neil Gaiman
Ireland - John Boyne
France - Tatiana de Rosnay
✔ South Africa - Trevor Noah
Croatia - Sara Nović
✔ Sweden - Fredrik Backman
✔ Malaysia - Yangsze Choo
✔ Spain - Yann Martel
✔ Cameroon - Imbolo Mbue
Singapore - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Taiwan - Janie Chang
Japan - Kazuo Ishiguro
Pakistan - Mohsin Hamid


message 10: by Vernice (last edited Sep 05, 2017 12:04AM) (new)
Jan 06, 2017 12:38AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) The Walt Disney Challenge
Duration: 1 January - 31 December

Progress: 23/30

✔ Snow White - Read a book with an apple on the cover or mentioned in the book - The Ship

✔ Pinochio - Read a book where the main character tells a lie and is caught out on it - American Gods

✔ Fantasia - Read a book where the main character is a wizard/magician or is an apprentice/intern - Assassin's Apprentice

✔ Dumbo - Read a book that is set in a circus - The Orphan's Tale

✔ Bambi - Read a book where a character's mother or father die or are dead - Orphan Train

Cinderella - Read a rags to riches book where the main character ends up better than they started off as -

✔ Alice in Wonderland - Read a book where the main character discovers or is transported to an alternate world - Kindred

Peter Pan - Read a book where a person discovers they are special in some way and defeats a 'baddy' -

✔ Lady and the Tramp - Read a book where a woman/man falls for a woman/man deemed 'beneath' them - Thunder on the Plains

✔ Sleeping Beauty - Read a book where someone wakes up from a coma or a lengthy sleep (e.g. cyrosleep) - The Fireman

✔ 101 Dalmations - Read a book with a number in the title or where one of the main characters are held imprisoned - Small Great Things

✔ The Jungle Book - Read a book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature or a book closely connected to India during the Raj - Rebel Queen

The Aristocats - Read a book by a French author or set in Paris - Sarah's Key / The Girl You Left Behind

Robin Hood - Read a book about thieves, or where archery is a large theme, or a book with a bow and arrow on the cover -

✔ Winnie the Pooh - Read a book about friends, or a book about bears or a bear on the cover - Looking for Alaska

✔ The Rescuers - Read a book where the main character helps someone in need - Lilac Girls

✔ The Little Mermaid - Read a book that has a mermaid as a character or takes place under water for a lot of the book - The Promise Girls

Beauty and the Beast - Read a retelling of this - Choose from this list

✔ Aladdin - Read a book set in a desert, or a book with/about Djinn - The Little Prince

✔ Lion King - Read a book set in Africa, deals with wildlife or has a lion on the cover - Born a Crime

✔ Pocahontas - Read a book which features Native Americans/by a Native American author or set in the United States prior to 1900 - Drums of Autumn

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Read a book set in or about the Renaissance -

Hercules - Read a book where a character is the son/daughter of a god. Or where a god, half-god is the main character -

✔ Mulan - Read a book set in Japan - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

✔ Tarzan - Read a book set in the jungle or a book about someone having to cope in a new environment - New Boy

✔ Lilo & Stitch - Read a book where the relationship between siblings is important to the plot - The Summer that Melted Everything

✔ Bolt - Read a book with a dog on the cover or where one of the main characters owns a dog - Assassin's Quest

✔ The Princess and the Frog - Read a book where the main character is a person of colour or is set in New Orleans - Behold the Dreamers

✔ Tangled - Read a book about someone going on a journey - Life of Pi

✔ Frozen - Read a book set in a cold climate or deals with sisters or has snow on the cover - Beartown


message 11: by Vernice (last edited Nov 01, 2017 02:15AM) (new)
Jan 06, 2017 12:46AM

Vernice (fictionfantastic) Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge
Duration: 1 January - 31 December

Progress: 45/52

✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - Lilac Girls
✔ 2. A book with at least 2 perspectives - All That Remains
✔ 3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - Small Great Things
✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Wayward
✔ 5. A historical fiction - News of the World
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 -
✔ 7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - Life of Pi
✔ 8. A book written by a person of color - Behold the Dreamers
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - The Thirteenth Tale
✔ 10. A dual-timeline novel - Orphan Train
11. A category from another challenge - Time and Time Again
✔ 12. A book based on a myth - American Gods
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - Oryx and Crake
✔ 14. A book with a strong female character - It Ends with Us
✔ 15. A book written or set in Scandinavia - Beartown
✔ 16. A mystery - And Then There Were None
✔ 17. A book with illustrations - How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You
✔ 18. A really long book (600+ pages) - The Fireman
✔ 19. A New York Times best-seller - End of Watch
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading -
✔ 21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - In the Labyrinth of Drakes
✔ 22. A book by an author you haven't read before - Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
✔ 23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list - The Little Prince
✔ 24. A book written by at least two authors - Writers of the Future: Volume 33
✔ 25. A book about a famous historical figure - Rebel Queen
✔ 26. An adventure book - Assassin's Apprentice
✔ 27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Mr. Mercedes
✔ 28. A non-fiction - Columbine
✔ 29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses - Thunder on the Plains
✔ 30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books - Looking for Alaska
✔ 31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - Memoirs of a Geisha
✔ 32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 33. A magical realism novel - The Summer that Melted Everything
✔ 34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - Born a Crime
✔ 35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty - Royal Assassin
✔ 36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee - All the Birds in the Sky
✔ 37. A book you choose randomly - The Ship
✔ 38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - New Boy
✔ 39. An epistolary fiction - World War Z
✔ 40. A book published in 2017 - The Boy on the Bridge
✔ 41. A book with an unreliable narrator - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - Water for Elephants
✔ 43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - Within the Sanctuary of Wings
✔ 44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" - Lord of the Flies
✔ 45. A book with a one-word title - Kindred
✔ 46. A time travel novel - Drums of Autumn
47. A past suggestion that didn't win - The Night Sister
✔ 48. A banned book - Animal Farm
✔ 49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - All the Light We Cannot See
✔ 50. A Penguin Modern Classic - The Importance of Being Earnest
✔ 51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing
✔ 52. A book set in a fictional location - The Traitor Baru Cormorant


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