CPL's Book a Week Challenge discussion

New challenges for the month of July. Remember to list the challenges you completed for previous months on those threads.

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EPIC Bragging Rights totals

July Challenges:

1. Read a book with a title that could also be found on a greeting card.

2. Read a book about the history of America. Double points if it has to do with Independence Day or the American Revolutionary War.

3. Read a book with an orange cover.

4. Read a book that you started but never finished.

5. Read a book told largely in part by letters. The letters can be to the main character, to other characters, or as diary entries.

6. Read a book that someone has suggested to you that just sounds awful.

7. Read a book that has a single digit number in the title.

Have fun everyone!

Jennifer wrote: "New challenges for the month of July. Remember to list the challenges you completed for previous months on those threads...."

I'm super excited because The Rise and Fall D.O.D.O is told in alternating diary entries/letters. I just need to finish all 700 + pages before the end of the month...

Interestingly enough I'm reading a book that could almost cover three of these.

I got all excited because I thought the book I just finished would fit one of these...but, it's not a SINGLE digit number. It just goes to show I'm tired when I think 10 is a single digit number.

I've done three:
1) Found on a greeting card- Eye of the Beholder by Dana Marie Bell
2) History of America- Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
5) Find Me Unafraid by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner- included letters and emails (and I think text messages).

4.) Finally finished The Picture of Dorian Gray

Melissa wrote: "I got all excited because I thought the book I just finished would fit one of these...but, it's not a SINGLE digit number. It just goes to show I'm tired when I think 10 is a single digit number."

That stinks - we can count it as read a book that almost had a single digit number in the title.

Ann wrote: "I've done three:
1) Found on a greeting card- Eye of the Beholder by Dana Marie Bell
2) History of America- Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
5) Find Me Unafraid by Kennedy Od..."

AWESOME!

Kayzee wrote: "4.) Finally finished The Picture of Dorian Gray"

That's good - was it one you had been reading for a while?

Make sure you tally up all your books for July and post the number here so I can update the Bragging Rights thread.

Jennifer wrote: "Kayzee wrote: "4.) Finally finished The Picture of Dorian Gray"

That's good - was it one you had been reading for a while?"

Honestly, I started it back in May/June so it wasn't terribly long ago but it's not a long or dense read so I felt like I should've finished it ages ago.

Here are the three I finished for this challenge in July.

3. Read a book with an orange cover. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

4. Read a book that you started but never finished. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (only took me months because I was listening to it through the library, but had to wait in between for other people to have turns )

5. Read a book told largely in part by letters. The letters can be to the main character, to other characters, or as diary entries. Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber