The Reading Challenge Group discussion

2015 Reading Challenge: 150
Currently: 27/150

Goals for 2015(in no particular order):
Read one non-fiction book every month
Participate in YA Group read every month
Finish/Catch up on Outlander series
Read missed books by authors I love
Read at least 2 books from PhysicalTBR bookshelf every month

January:12/13
February:15/13
March:(0)
April:(0)
May:(0)
June:(0)
July:(0)
August:(0)
September:(0)
October:(0)
November:(0)
December:(0)

12 Non_fiction Books - One per month, group read or personal choice


January: 1) This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
February: The Assasination of Medgar Evers Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
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YA Group Reads-I plan to do all of these in 2015. As a middle school librarian, it's easy to justify these as part of my job!


January: Previously read - didn't choose to re-read
February: Paper Towns
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Other Group Reads - No Pressure here...just gonna read the ones that float my boat.

January: Non-Fiction Group Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
February: Genre Group Read The Rosie Project

Read More Books from Authors I love:
Maggie Stiefvater
Scott Westerfeld

Read Two Books per month From Physical TBR Bookshelf

January: 1) Jackaby 2) Ocean at the End of the Lane 3) Hidden like Anne Frank
February: To All the Boys I've Loved Before The Rosie Project Paper Towns

Catch Up on Outlander
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Started on 01/23 Completed 02/05
An Echo in the Bone
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Mini-Challenges - Let's see what Renee has up her sleeve :)

All Year:
Award Winners The Crossover Newberry 2015
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Nebula 2013
Paper Towns Edgar YA 2009

January:
First!First!
New Year/New Author - Jackaby

YA Wonderland - What's got me excited in the world of YA

January:JackabyBy William Ritter Debut Novel - Met the author briefly at the Texas Teen Book Festival in October.
Under a Painted Sky Received this one as an ARC from NetGalley
Free to Fall Another author that I met at Texas Teen Book Festival in October
Just One Day By Gayle Forman
Just One Year 02/19
Just One Night 02/20
The Crossover 02/21
To All the Boys I've Loved Before 02/22
Out of the Easy
The Geography of You and Me
Paper Towns

Classics - Non-Group Read :)
1) Bartleby, the Scrivener 01/11

Oh yeah, and...

January


1Jackaby 01/03
2The Ocean at the End of the Lane 01/05
3 Free to Fall 01/06
4This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness 01/09
5 Under a Painted Sky 01/10
6 Bartleby, the Scrivener 01/11
7 Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival 01/13
8 Just One Day 01/14
9 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 01/19
10Winter Garden 01/21
11Out of the Easy 01/26
12Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi01/29
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February


1 A Breath of Snow and Ashes 02/05
2 The Assassination of Medgar Evers 02/06
3 The Geography of You and Me 02/06
4 All Fall Down 02/08
5 Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation 02/10
6 Grandfather Gandhi 02/10
7 When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop 02/11
8 Paper Towns 02/11
9 Landline 02/14
10 The Rosie Project 02/15
11 Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift 02/17
12 Just One Year 02/19
13 Just One Night 02/20
14 The Crossover 02/21
15 To All the Boys I've Loved Before 02/22

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Finally Updated my January Progress - I LOVE having this all in one place. So glad I put in the work to lay it out before the year began!!

Happy, Happy, Happy to have completed a huge read toward my goal of catching up on the Outlander series. #6 is done, and was SO much better than #5!

February is Updated - Looks like a big number, but a few are picture book award nominees (all are amazing, BTW, Esp the book about Gandhi). One chunky one to give it some balance. Favorite of the Month so farThe Crossover