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message 1: by Rina (last edited Jan 19, 2018 12:46PM) (new)

Rina | 14 comments Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017 [completed a week into 2018...that's good enough!]
Completed: 40/40 (or 43/52)

[x] A book recommended by a librarian - Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
[x] A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long - The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2) by James Dashner
[x] A book of letters - TouchThinkLearn ABC by Xavier Deneux
[x] An audiobook - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
[x] A book by a person of color - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
[x] A book with one of the four seasons in the title - Walking in a Winter Wonderland by Richard B. Smith
[x] A book that is a story within a story - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
[x] A book with multiple authors - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8) by John Tiffany
[x] An espionage thriller - Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor
[x] A book with a cat on the cover - We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
[x] A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - Ash and Quill (The Great Library #3) by Rachel Caine
[x] A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
[x] A book by or about a person who has a disability - Emmanuel's Dream The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
[x] A book involving travel - TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
[x] A book with a subtitle - Monopoly The Story Behind the World's Best-Selling Game by Rod Kennedy Jr.
[x] A book that’s published in 2017 - One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
[x] A book involving a mythical creature - Lonestar Secrets (Lonestar, #2) by Colleen Coble
[x] A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile - Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
[x] A book about food - Food A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
[x] A book with career advice - Bossypants by Tina Fey
[x] A book from a nonhuman perspective - Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
[x] A steampunk novel - Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2) by Rachel Caine
[x] A book with a red spine - A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3) by Chris Colfer
[x] A book set in the wilderness - The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
[x] A book you loved as a child - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
[x] A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
[x] A book with a title that’s a character’s name - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
[x] A novel set during wartime - Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
[x] A book with an unreliable narrator - On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
[x] A book with pictures - Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker
[x] A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - After You (Me Before You, #2) by Jojo Moyes
[x] A book about an interesting woman - Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
[x] A book set in two different time periods - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
[x] A book with a month or day of the week in the title - September Sneakers (Calendar Mysteries, #9) by Ron Roy
[x] A book set in a hotel - Murder at Redwood Cove by Janet Finsilver
[x] A book written by someone you admire - My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
[x] A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
[x] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Mouse's First Halloween by Lauren Thompson
[x] The first book in a series you haven’t read before - Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1) by Rachel Caine
[x] A book you bought on a trip - Dinosaur A to Z by Roger Priddy

Bonus level:
[] A book recommended by an author you love
[x] A bestseller from 2016 - Born a Crime Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
[] A book with a family-member term in the title
[x] A book that takes place over a character’s life span - The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
[] A book about an immigrant or refugee
[x] A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of - Loving vs. Virginia A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell
[] A book with an eccentric character
[] A book that’s more than 800 pages
[] A book that you got from a used book sale
[] A book that’s been mentioned in another book
[x] A book about a difficult topic - Anatomy of Innocence Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted by Laura Caldwell
[] A book based on mythology


message 2: by Rina (last edited Dec 06, 2017 12:09PM) (new)

Rina | 14 comments Colorful Covers 2017
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Level: 1
Completed: 11/12

Blue Cover - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
Green Cover - The Light Princess by George MacDonald
Red Cover - A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3) by Chris Colfer
Black Cover - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
White Cover - After You (Me Before You, #2) by Jojo Moyes
Yellow Cover - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8) by John Tiffany
Pink Cover
Purple Cover - The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Orange Cover - Lonestar Secrets (Lonestar, #2) by Colleen Coble
Gray Cover - Bossypants by Tina Fey
Brown Cover - Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Colorful Cover - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon


message 3: by Rina (last edited Dec 06, 2017 12:07PM) (new)

Rina | 14 comments A-Z Challenge 2017
Duration: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017
Books completed: 22/26

After You After You (Me Before You, #2) by Jojo Moyes
Born a Crime Born a Crime Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Colfer, Chris A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3) by Chris Colfer
Dashner, James The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, #2) by James Dashner
Everything I Never Told You Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Fey, Tina Bossypants by Tina Fey
Gaffigan, Jim Food A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
H oles Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8) by John Tiffany
Kondo, Marie The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
Lonestar Secrets Lonestar Secrets (Lonestar, #2) by Colleen Coble
Melton, Glennon Doyle Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Nelson, Jandy I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
One Perfect Lie One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
Powell, Patricia Loving vs. Virginia A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell
Q -
Reconstructing Amelia Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Sotomayor, Sonia My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Transatlantic TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Unbroken Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
V -
We are Never Meeting in Real Life We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
X -
Yoon, Nicola The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Z -


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