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HomeInMyShoes 2019 Reading Challenges
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "The lazy bingo challenge..alphabet 00 / 24
.countries 00 / 24
.titles 00 / 24
.covers 00 / 24
.random 00 / 48
That's it. No list of books listed for each category. No extra challenges. No potenti..."
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I LIKE THIS
I have been overwhelmed with life. This looks good.
I agree, this is probably more like what I should be doing... but no! :P
MrsJoseph wrote: I have been overwhelmed with life. This looks good. This is me. It is not so much overwhelmed, but just really busy with family, project work, guitar...
I looked through my list of books. There's nine books from series on it. I don't even read series. How does this happen?
I thought you were reading Discworld? ;)I know there are a few series I have started where the first book was originally a stand-alone but got enough attention that the author decided to follow-up. Or just did a follow-up because they wanted to. That's probably the main way.
Haha, true. I don't think it is actually humanly possible to avoid series because the people around us have decided that pretty much everything is a series.Discworld is one of three series (Discworld, YouSpace and Thursday Next) that I really count myself as currently reading. But there are a lot of other series that I have read at least a book from.
So next year's series books appear to be right now:
1 - The Suffering (The Girl from the Well)
3 - Night Watch (Discworld)
4 - Monstrous Regiment (Discworld)
5 - The Sandman Preludes (Sandman)
6 - Dimension W (Dimension W)
8 - Silence of Medair (Medair)
10 - Snowblind (Dark Iceland)
11 - Trophy (Jensen & Sander)
12 - The Good, the Bad, and the Smug (YouSpace)
I blame the challenges for that. Series books just fit in to so many categories easily. And, well, Scandinavia.
Time to figure out what to request from the library to start the year. Jasper Fforde maybe with Something Rotten? Or maybe Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates?The complete list of suspects:
(view spoiler)
Looks like lots of UK and Japan this year.
Woah that is some list xDBut it's always nice to have choices so you can pick something that fits your reading mood! :)
Twelve of last year's reading plan's 50ish books didn't get read so I would probably expect the same this year. I'm pretty happy with the list, but not in my overall drive to read right now. 2019 might be the big reading bust year. We'll see.
I hope it changes, I'm just now coming out of several months worth of reading barely anything. Finally I'm enjoying it again!
It will come, but I seriously doubt I'll be done in June like last year. I think this is going to take some time. I requested Something Rotten from the library so I have something to read when the new year hits. I don't like using up too many eBooks too quick as they are always available.I also requested the two books that I know the library doesn't have so I can get them working on that early. But they denied the one request, which is rather disappointing.
I'm looking for The Maid by Yasutaka Tsutsui. So disaapointing seeing it show up on my requests as "NOT SUPPLIED."
It look like everything I would have checked off is covered except "someplace you'd like to visit" which is easy enough to find something else.
You might have to throw in more Diskworld. The DIskworld challenge ends in 2020. :)
Stephanie wrote: "You might have to throw in more Diskworld. The DIskworld challenge ends in 2020. :)"I've only got six books left. Four in 2020 should be doable, but I probably should try for three in 2019 and three in 2020.
One. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates.Should have been:
Cover - red
Sesame Street - O
Big- Zombie
Titles: one word title
I don't know what happened on my spreadsheet but it is all screwed up again and Zombie isn't on it.
Congrats on the first book of the year!Sucks that the spreadsheet doesn't work though :(
Did you select Zombie for the large challenge on the checklist tab when you created your tab? I don't see it on your list. There are 87 options from that list but only the first 48 will fit unless you change the check-marks below to pick the ones you want. Just trying to see if this is an error where I did something wrong or if I didn't document enough.If you want, you can replace it (just type zombie over the one you want to replace) with no penalty. It will change color saying it has been replaced but that is all (and I can resolve that if you want.)
I did. Or at least I thought so. I saw a couple weeks back that my options were all messed up so I deleted my sheet and recreated it. I'll go through and fix it at some point. It seems weird because I never would have picked an aurhor with your name again. Lol.It'll all work out in the end.
Two. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill.Just making up some things for the categories, we'll see how I do with revisions.
Sesame Street: K
Titles: "The" in the title
Covers: a circle
Random: Dragon!
Three. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde.Sesame Street: F
Titles: Adjective in the Title
Covers: Book or Paper
Random: Hitman / Assassin
So far. I need to re-evaluate my books to fit the categories again.
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "So far. I need to re-evaluate my books to fit the categories again."I'm too lazy for that, I just read whatever i fancy and try to fit it in where i can xD
^That's kind of what I'm doing, but since I didn't get my sheet changes to stick for the categories I'll substitute where I need. I like the list of 50 books I've got outlined.I've already covered off a couple that I didn't have in the list I thought I selected, but I know my random board won't cover some things. I'll see how it goes.
Four. Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor by Jon Scieszka.Audio book with my son. He liked this one a lot. Me, not so much.
Sesame Street: J
Titles: name in the title
Random: main character less than 16 years old
5 already, huh? You seem to be going strong :D
Audiobook with my son was an easy one. Zombie was a read in a day kind of book (short and absorbing.) Fforde is one of my favourite authors these days. None of this seems like work yet, although I just requested a 700 page novel so that should slow me down in short order.
DoodlePanda wrote: "HomeInMyShoes wrote: "So far. I need to re-evaluate my books to fit the categories again."I'm too lazy for that, I just read whatever i fancy and try to fit it in where i can xD"
Yes! I do the same....
Six. Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro.Mexico (10)
Sesame: g
Titles: a made up word
Cover: blue
Random: first in a series
Seven. The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown.Perhaps slightly not as good as the first, but still. What a great pair of books for kids
Sesame: P
Title: nothing else matches
Random: Cyborg/Robot/AI
Eight. The Maid by Yasutaka Tsutsui.Japan (25)
Titles: profession
Cover: trees or flowers
Random: set somewhere you want to visit
Added the MASH challenge to the top. That seemed like work.
Nine. The Collectors by Jacqueline West.United States
Sesame: J
Covers: black
Random: non-human characters
MASH: read a book with someone with long hair on the cover
Ten. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn.United States
Random: mindfulness
Eleven. Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong.China (11)
Sesame: Q/X/Z
Title: colour in the title
Cover: shadow
Random: more than 500 pages
Twelve. Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger by Jon Scieszka.United States...
Title: object in the title
Random: main character less than 16 (switched previous Einstein book to New Author)
BINGO! First line on the title sheet.
Woot!
Thanks.It took me one more book than last year to get the first Bingo.
Thirteen. The League of Unexceptional Children by Gitty DaneshvariUnited States
Title: Anything Goes
Cover: Two or More People
Random: GR Recommendation
HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "You might have to throw in more Diskworld. The DIskworld challenge ends in 2020. :)"I've only got six books left. Four in 2020 should be doable, but I probably should try for th..."
Oh good!! I have to step up my game on this series after my Kindle Unlimited expires in April. I am currently reading book 26. Have a ways to go on the 42 books.
42? I thought there were only 41. I'm wondering if I am missing something? According to FictFact there's 41, but they sometimes aren't really accurate:- Night Watch (29)
- Monstrous Regiment (31)
- Going Postal (33)
- Snuff (39)
- Raising Steam (40)
- The Shepherd's Crown (41)
On Goodreads they've added a lot of stupidity:
- Death and What Comes Next (Discworld, #10.5; Death, #1.5)
- Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld #14.5; City Watch #1.5)
- Troll Bridge (Discworld #16.5)
- The Sea and Little Fishes (Discworld, #22.5; Witches #5.5)
- Where's My Cow? (Discworld, #34.5)
- A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices (Discworld #37.5)
- Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )
I don't do half books when it comes to series.
You are not wrong. I included Good Omens, which technically is not part of the Diskworld series, but still based on it. Since it's an independent novel, you can read it any time after you've finished the witch series within Diskworld.I typically use FantasticFiction.com for series numbering or helping me to determine what is next. I've only seen a couple of mistakes (fixed quickly) over some years.
Sixteen. The Good, the Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt.United Kingdom (155).
sesame: h
title: punctuation in the title
cover: silhouette
random: most recent in a series
Bingo. First line on Sesame.
Seventeen. Wildwood by Colin Meloy.United States ()
sesame: C
cover: animal
So, so long. So so dull. The first chapter was great, but so dull after that.
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.Read a book that shows someone with long hair on the cover The Collectors
.Read a book with more then 2 people on the cover
.Read a book that a leg on the cover
.Read a book written by a man
Vehicle
.Read a book that features some type of transportation on the cover
Pet
.Read a book with an animal on the cover
# of Kids
.Read a book with a number in the title or a series The Good, the Bad and the Smug
Job (Pick One)
.Read a book tagged Science
.Read a book tagged Crime Death of a Red Heroine
.Read a book tagged War
.Read a book tagged Fantasy
Location (Pick One)
.Read a book set in North America
.Read a book set in Africa
.Read a book set in Europe
.Read a book set in Australia
That's it. No list of books listed for each category. No extra challenges. No potential list of reads even though you all know that does exist. Just go to the spreadsheet to see what is up.