The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Do you need to balance out all those chunksters and doorstoppers you've taken on? This is the challenge for you! Read books 280 pages or less for this challenge.

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Level 2 - Flapping Wings
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Level 3 - Taking Flight
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This challenge is fun. I am in for Level 3.

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Storm-blast by Curtis Parkinson
2. Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove
3. Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
4. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Level 2- Flapping Wings
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7.Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
9. Out of Bounds by Beverley Naidoo
10. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Level 3- Taking Flight
11. Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
12. Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke
13. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
14. Le città invisibili by Italo Calvino
15. Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz

The 2017 Reading Challenge Group

Year-Long Challenges 2017 > Feather Weight 2017 (280-)

January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Completed 119/???

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers

√ 1) 31 Days To A Clutter Free Life: One Month to Clear Your Home, Mind & Schedule by Ruth Soukup READ 1/1/2017 3 stars 202 pages
√ 2) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi READ 1/2/2017 3 stars 230 pages
√ 3) Faithful by Alice Hoffman READ 1/7/2017 4 stars 258 pages
√ 4) Life Organization In 1 Month: Take The One Month Self Organization Challenge And Experience The Amazing Benefits by Julia Wilson READ 2/13/2017 3 stars 44 pages
√ 5) Everybody's Got a Seed to Sow - The Brookwood Story by Yvonne T. Streit READ 3/11/2017 5 stars 224 pages

Level 2- Flapping Wings

√ 6) Cat Herding by K.P. Hilton READ 4/10/2017 1 star 14 pages
√ 7) A Christmas Princess by Ofelia Gränd READ 4/10/2017 3 stars 5 pages
√ 8) The Beginning by Kirsten Osbourne READ 4/10/2017 3 stars 10 pages



Level 3- Taking Flight




TOTALLY BEHIND IN UPDATING - WILL WORK ON THAT VERY SOON!

Of course I am in for this :)

I'm going to try for level 2

I'll try for level 1.

Loved this one - in for all three levels

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie - 184 pages
3. Good Harbor by Anita Diamant - 256 pages
4. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers - 240 pages
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn - 208 pages

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 256 pages
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby - 132 pages
8. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - 268 pages
9. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - 192 pages
10. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen - 241 pages

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews - 246 pages
12. Daniel by Henning Mankell - 279 pages
13. Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields - 256 pages
14. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín - 272 pages
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Mo's Feather Weight Challenge 2017 (280 pages or less)

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan 210 pages *Read 24 Jan 17*
2. Bang My Car 132 pages *Read 28 Jan 17*
3. The Book of Tea 109 pages *Read 31 Jan 17*
4. Pulling Down Strongholds 118 pages *Read 12 Mar 17*
5. Silas Marner 240 pages *Read 20 Mar 17*

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. A Separation 231 pages *Read 11 Apr 17*
7. Chess 83 pages *Read 13 Apr 17*
8. The Life of a Stupid Man 55 pages *Read 17 Apr 17*
9. The Burrow 220 pages *Read 26 Apr 17*
10. Judaism: An Introduction 272 pages *Read 15 May 17*

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. The Death of Ivan Ilyich 118 pages *Read 21 May 17*
12. The Accusation 247 pages *Read 26 May 17*
13. French Rhapsody 232 pages *Read 29 May 17*
14. Human Acts 224 pages *Read 30 Jun 17*
15. The Atheist's Mass 57 pages *Read 3 Jul 17*

I'm in on this:

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. If I Stay
2. I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers
3. The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937
4. Simply Sexual
5. Finding Master Right

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
7. Falling for the Backup
8. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
9. Today Will Be Different
10. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. His Bloody Project
12. Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves
13. When God Whispers Your Name
14. Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
15. Champion's Story

I'm in on this:

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
2. Joy in the Morning
3. Outline
4. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
5. Plato's Republic

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Right Ho, Jeeves
7. Ring for Jeeves
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Level 3 - Taking Flight
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I will give this a try. On to level 2 :) Looks like level 3 is up.

'Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. A Christmas Carol
2. The Trial
3. The Capture
4. Beyond Depression: Essays About Feeling Low, Feeling Stuck, And Finding Healing
5. Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene (Just the retelling of the scene, so actually about 10 pages...), but it is a separate book on GR.

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Fever Dream
7. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
8. American Housewife
9. When Breath Becomes Air
10. Holiday Grind

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
12. Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
13. Pros and Cons
14. The Color Thief: A Family's Story of Depression
15. Love Warrior

I'm in.
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I'm going for all 3 levels. *Completed*

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Incognito (201 pgs)
2. The Rose Master (217 pgs)
3. Susanna and the Spy (276 pgs)
4. The Field Guide (144 pgs)
5. By Divine Right (119 pgs)

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles (256 pgs)
7. Magic in the Wind (112 pgs)
8. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (184 pgs)
9. Penric's Demon (85 pgs)
10. Penric and the Shaman (160 pgs)

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. A Letter of Mary (275 pgs)
12. The Island (28 pgs)
13. Sixth of the Dusk (96 pgs)
14. All for Love (208 pgs)
15. The Medium (261 pgs)

I'm in... level 3!

I'll try this too - to level 2, I think.

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Cats In The Belfry - Doreen Tovey
2. Cats In May - Doreen Tovey
3. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
4. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll Lewis Tenniel John

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
7. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot
8. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
9. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
10. Sinful Cinderella - Anita Valle

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. The Red Notebook - Antoine Laurain
12. The Warden - Anthony Trollope
13. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving - Louisa May Alcott
14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
15. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

Finished!

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Princess's Secret Baby
2. If I Was Your Girl
3. Blackmailed
4. Stay With Me
5. Sleeping Beauty, Magic Master: A Graphic Novel
~LEVEL 1 COMPLETE~

Done! Yay!
Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. The Visitor
2. The Encounter
3. The Message
4. The Predator
5. The Capture

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. The Stranger
7. Oliver Twist
8. Robinhound Crusoe
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth
10. The Triumph of Night

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. Kerfol: A Story by Edith Wharton
12. Xingu
13. The Choice
14. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
15. Joan of Arc

Count me in! I'm trying to aim for all 3 levels.

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. A Cat Called Birmingham 182 pgs
2. Shopaholic on Honeymoon (Kobo e-reader edition) 45 pgs
3. Nail Your Novel Instant Fix: 100 tips for fascinating characters (Kobo e-reader edition) 23 pgs
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 223 pgs
5. The Obsession (Kobo e-reader edition) 266 pgs

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. 50 Haiku (Kobo e-reader edition) 18 pgs
7. Luna the Autobiography of a Super Cat (Kobo e-reader edition) 52 pgs
8. The Princess & the Penis (Kobo e-reader edition) 127 pgs
9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 251 pages
10. Matilda 232 pages

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. The Herring Seller's Apprentice 253 pages
12. To be decided
13. To be decided
14. To be decided
15. To be decided

I finished the first round- fifteen books.

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Night Owl
7. El Deafo
8. Serving HIM Vol. 1
9. Menage: Three Dollar Bill
10. Smart and Sexy
~LEVEL 2 COMPLETE~

Nice work, guys!

Feather Weight: Round 2

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
16. Water Rat by Marnie Laird
17. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
18. Grain by Robert J.C. Stead
19. Daughter of the Mountains by Louise S. Rankin
20. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
21. The Cay by Theodore Taylor
22. Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
23. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
24. Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
25. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Level 3 - Taking Flight

26. Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace
27. Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
28. Complete Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
29. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
30. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Finished Round 2

Just completed level 3 and planning on starting round 2.

11. Too Much Temptation
12. Brokeback Mountain
13. Colters' Woman
14. Breaking Up
15. Colters' Wife
~Level 3 Round 1 Complete~

Round two done!
Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
16. The Red Badge of Courage
17. Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers
18. The Long Run
19. Candy Bombers
20. The Andalite's Gift

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
21. The Alien
22. The Secret
23. The Android
24. The Forgotten
25. The Reaction

Level 3 - Taking Flight
26. Elfangor's Journey
27. Alloran's Choice
28. Coming Home 1916
29. An Alien Dies
30. Different

Round Three done
Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
31. Clone Three
32. The Change
33. The Picture of Dorian Gray
34. The Unknown
35. The Escape

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
36. The Warning
37. The Underground
38. The Decision
39. Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Power Outage
40. Starfire (2015-2016) Vol. 2: A Matter of Time

Level 3 - Taking Flight
41. In the Time of Dinosaurs
42. The Departure
43. The Discovery
44. A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906
45. [book:The Threat|363361

All in.

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. Animal Farm
2. The Austere Academy
3. The Ersatz Elevator
4. The Vile Village
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Black Beauty - 245
7. The Time Machine - 118
8. Rage
9. Bridge to Terabithia
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Level 3 - Taking Flight
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Featherweight Round 3

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers

31. Low Notes On A High Level by J.B. Priestley
32. Before Adam by Jack London
33. The Twits by Roald Dahl
34. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
35. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Level 2 - Flapping Wings

36. Solaris by Stanisław Lem
37. All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
38. Deenie by Judy Blume
39. Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
40. Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Level 3 - Taking Flight
41. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
42. Death on the Riviera by John Bude
43. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
44. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
45. The Passport by Herta Müller

Rosemarie wrote: "Featherweight Round 3"

Fabulous - amazing that you're on Round 3 already!

Thanks. Since they are short books, I tend to take a break and read one while I am working through a longer book. Many of them are children's books because I really enjoy reading them because many are well written- or just fun.

I finally read my 2nd book!! It appears this is a year of chunksters for me so far.

Round 2 of FeatherWeight

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. O Pioneers!
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Level 2 - Flapping Wings
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Level 3 - Taking Flight
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Rounds 4 and 5 are done!

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
46. The Wind in the Willows
47. Sinful Cinderella
48. The Last Uncle
49. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
50. The Solution

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
51. Animal Poems
52. Quantum Tangle
53. Tales To Give You Goosebumps: 10 Spooky Stories
54. More Tales to Give You Goosebumps
55. Harley Quinn, Vol. 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Stab

Level 3 - Taking Flight
56. Tales for the Midnight Hour
57. Thirst
58. Still More Tales for the Midnight Hour
59. Solaris
60. Love Poems

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
61. Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps: Ten Spooky Stories
62. Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Kicked in the Teeth
63. Suicide Squad, Volume 2: Basilisk Rising
64. Suicide Squad, Volume 3: Death is for Suckers
65. Shuriken and Pleats, Vol. 2

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
66. Suicide Squad, Volume 4: Discipline and Punish
67. Suicide Squad, Volume 5: Walled In
68. New Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Pure Insanity
69. Daisy Miller
70. Good Night, Maman

Level 3 - Taking Flight
71. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
72. The Pretender
73. Ghost Stories
74. The Suspicion
75. Madame De Treymes

Finished level 3!!

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. If I Stay
2. I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers
3. The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937
4. Simply Sexual
5. Finding Master Right

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
7. Falling for the Backup
8. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
9. Today Will Be Different
10. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. His Bloody Project
12. Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves
13. When God Whispers Your Name
14. Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness
15. Champion's Story

Way to go, Cindy.

Rosemarie wrote: "Way to go, Cindy."

Thanks - it's funny that this took me longer than the Chunkster. :)

Starting Round 4:

Level 1- Ruffled Feathers

46. The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
47. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
48. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
49. The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
50. The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen

Level 2 - Flapping Wings

51. Magic or Not? by Edward Eager
52. Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
53. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
54. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
55. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Level 3- Taking Flight

56. Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
57. Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
58. The BFG by Roald Dahl
59. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
60. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

Good job Cindy and Rose! I'm glad to see how my silly idea from last year has become so popular!

That is true. I have read many more short books this year, but I am working on a couple of chunksters too.

I have read a lot that either are just a little too long to be featherweight or just a little too short for a chunkster LOL

So did I. I read a book that had 397 pages.

That's always just a little frustrating.

I read one that was 399 pages once. I was sooo anoyed...

Ha. That's terrible. :)

Yes it is! Or one that's 283 pages >;(

Haha so true Sonia! I had one that was 400 pages exactly... I was way too happy about that!

And I have another 399 page book... Jurrasic Park, when I get to it

One more round done!

Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
76. The Extreme
77. The Attack
78. The Exposed (Animorphs, #27)
79. Teacher Creature
80. Millennium Snow, Vol. 3

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
81. The Experiment
82. New Suicide Squad, Volume 2: Monsters
83. New Suicide Squad, Volume 3: Freedom
84. New Suicide Squad, Volume 4: Kill Anything
85. Millennium Snow, Vol. 4

Level 3 - Taking Flight
86. The Sickness
87. Suicide Squad Vol. 1: The Black Vault
88. Elfangor's Secret
89. Red Hood and the Outlaws, Volume 1: Redemption
90. The Reunion

Fantastic, Jenny!

Thanks Rose!

Just finished round 2:

(Round 2) Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. In Real Life
2. Brazen
3. Colters' Lady
4. Wires and Nerve, Volume 1
5. Adulthood Is a Myth
~LEVEL 1 COMPLETE!~

Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. January
7. February
8. March
9. Siri & Me: A Modern Love Story
10. Kristy's Great Idea
~LEVEL 2 COMPLETE!~

Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. Troublemaker
12. Troublemaker 2
13. What Is Hidden
14. A Walk to Remember
15. Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
~LEVEL 3 COMPLETE!~

On to Round 3!