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Q2 - Pinspiration
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BOARD: Travel
📌Pin: Into the Great Unknown
✅The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
✅The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
✅Euphoria
BOARD: Nature
📌Pin: The Struggle is Real (Man For and Against Nature)
✅We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
✅Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
📌Pin: The Botany of Desire (Plants and Those Who Love Them)
✅The Signature of All Things
✅The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
BOARD: Science
📌Pin: 19th Century Science
✅The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
✅The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
BOARD: Historical Events
📌Pin: History of England in Fact and Fiction
✅Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
✅The Night Watch
A God in Ruins
BOARD: Award Winners
📌Pin: Award Winning Authors (not necessarily for the book chosen)
✅Caroline Graham-Death Of A Hollow Man
✅John McGahern- Amongst Women
✅Kate Atkinson -Case Histories
✅Anne Enright-The Gathering
✅Sarah Moss-The Tidal Zone
✅Sarah Moss-Night Waking
Julian Barnes-The Man in the Red Coat
BOARD: Travel
📌Pin: Into the Great Unknown
✅The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
✅The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
✅Euphoria
BOARD: Nature
📌Pin: The Struggle is Real (Man For and Against Nature)
✅We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
✅Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
📌Pin: The Botany of Desire (Plants and Those Who Love Them)
✅The Signature of All Things
✅The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
BOARD: Science
📌Pin: 19th Century Science
✅The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
✅The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
BOARD: Historical Events
📌Pin: History of England in Fact and Fiction
✅Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
✅The Night Watch
A God in Ruins
BOARD: Award Winners
📌Pin: Award Winning Authors (not necessarily for the book chosen)
✅Caroline Graham-Death Of A Hollow Man
✅John McGahern- Amongst Women
✅Kate Atkinson -Case Histories
✅Anne Enright-The Gathering
✅Sarah Moss-The Tidal Zone
✅Sarah Moss-Night Waking
Julian Barnes-The Man in the Red Coat
Sign me up, Scottie! I had sooooo much fun planning books for this quarterly.
For now, please set my challenge goal to 18 books. I definitely can read 6 books a month. I may increase my goal later (but maybe not).
Progress: 34/30 books, 5/5 boards
✅BOARD #4: Film and Theater (7/7)
📌Pin: Film & TV Adaptations
✔️1. Confessions (2010 film, Japan)
✔️2. Death in a Strange Country (2006 TV, Germany)
✔️3. All Yours (Tuya, 2015 film, Argentina)
✔️4. The Godmother (La Daronne, 2020 film France)
✔️5. Battle Royale (2000 film, Japan)
✔️6. A Great Deliverance (2001-2008 TV series, UK)
✔️7. The Martian
✅BOARD #5. Food and Cooking (5/4)
📌Pin: Culinary Mysteries
✔️1. Hummus and Homicide
✔️2. Aunty Lee's Delights
✔️3. The Crepes of Wrath
✔️4. Magic and Macaroons
✔️5. Spells and Scones
✅BOARD #6: Nature (3/3)
📌Pin: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
✔️1. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
✔️2. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✔️3. Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
BOARD #7: Science (6/6)
📌Pin: Science Fiction
✔️1. Raven Stratagem
✔️2. Rogue Protocol
✔️3. Borne
✔️4. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
✔️5. The Gone World
✔️6. A Memory Called Empire
✅BOARD # 15. Award Winners (13/10)
📌Pin: Miscellaneous Literary Awards
✔️1. 2014 Deutscher Krimi Preisbook/International category: The Body Snatcher|24796247]
✔️2. 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella: The Emperor's Soul
✔️3. 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Overstory
✔️4. 2018 Edgar for Best 1st Novel: She Rides Shotgun
✔️5. 2003 Agatha Award for Best 1st Novel: Maisie Dobbs
✔️6. 2012 Booker Prize for Fiction: Bring Up the Bodies
✔️7. 2019 Int'l Booker nominee: The Remainder
✔️8. 2019 Grand Prix, Ass'n of Caribbean Writers: Tentacle
✔️9. 2020 Edgar/Best Young Adult: Catfishing on CatNet
✔️10. 2019 Reading Women Award for Fiction: Cantoras
✔️11. 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction: The Veins of the Ocean
✔️12. 2016 Akutagawa Prize: Convenience Store Woman
✔️13. 1959 Newberry Medal: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
My planning post
PinspirationDuration: April 1 - June 30, 2020
Progress: 12/20
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
📌Musician
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu (04/15)
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
📌Baker MC
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (06/07)
6. Nature
📌Wilderness Survival
Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis (04/08)
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva (05/30)
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
📌Heroics
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (04/29)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (06/20)
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
📌New Relationship
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West (04/29)
📌Enemies to Lovers
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (05/10)
📌Starcrossed Lovers
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (05/27)
📌New Friends
Asylum by Madeleine Roux (06/23)
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
📌Foreign Countries
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (04/10)
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
📌Goodreads Choice Winner
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer (04/05)
I want to play this one, too! I couldn't wait for it to open :-)I've decided to pin at least one book to each board. I tried to find books that were somewhat obscure that are not known by most people.
Total finished: 15/15
X 1. Art - Artistic License by Julie Hyzy - A mystery involving a
stolen masterpiece & murder - finished 5/10/20
X 2. Historical Events - A Chinese Western: Not a Chinaman's
Chance in Chico by Steve Schwartzkopf - This is the story of
a massacre of Chinese workers that happened in 1800's
California - finished 4/6/20
X 3. Music - Songs of the Road by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A
collection of song lyrics & poems written by Doyle - finished
4/4/20
X 4. Film and theater - King Kong original screenplay by Edgar
Wallace - The original screenplay including director's notes
for the 1933 movie King Kong (which I've never seen) -
finished 04/01/20
X 5. Food and Cooking - Death by Rhubarb by Lou Jane Temple -
Mystery in which the protagonist owns a restaurant - finished
4/16/20
X 6. Nature - The Stillmeadow Road by Gladys Taber - A
woman's memoir of the progression of the seasons from
January through December in rural New England and her
observations of the changes in nature throughout the year -
finished 4/5/20
X 7. Science - Black Pioneers of Science & Invention by Louis
Haber - Biographical sketches of men whose discoveries &
inventions changed our world. - finished 04/01/20
X 8. Technology - Digital Fortress by Dan Brown - A thriller in
which an enemy uses computer code to compromise the
NSA's computer system - finished 4/23/20
X 9. Faith - Satan's Lullaby by Priscilla Royal - A mystery set in
1278 AD in which faith not only in God, but in each member
of a convent, is severely tested - finished 4/27/20
X 10. Courage - Medea by Kerry Greenwood - The Greek tragedy
of a woman, Medea, her first husband Jason (of Jason and
the Argonauts fame), & all of their adventures which require
tons of courage! - finished 4/15/20
X 11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity - The Rose Rent by
Ellis Peters - A charitable gift of a woman's home to the
abbey starts a chain of events involving love and murder -
finished 4/20/20
X 12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage - Giant's Bread by Mary
Westmacott (AKA Agatha Christie) - The story of Vernon, his
2 best friends, and Nell (the girl he loves and wants to marry)
and the stumbling blocks to everyone's happiness - finished
4/11/20
X 13. Home and Family - Loose Lips by Rita Mae Brown - The
ongoing saga of a southern family. finished 4/4/20
X 14. Travel - Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz - A couple cruises
the world on their yacht, finding all kinds of trouble from a
cartel in the Sea of Cortez - finished 5/4/20
X 15. Award Winners (any kind of awards) - The Five by Hallie
Rubenhold - 2019 Goodreads award winner about victims of
Jack the Ripper (in the category Best History & Biography) -finished 5/12/20
Please sign me up for 6 books. Board: Home and Family
Pin: Our Home and Native Land (Books by Canadians)
Book: Bear by Marian Engel
Book: Down Among the Dead Men by Dany Laferrière
Book: Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks
Sign me in, please!I'm going to try to read as many books as I did in the last quarterly challenge.
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1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
Hi Regina, please sign me up for 12 🤗Make that 18...
19/18 - COMPLETE ✔️
4. Film and theater
📍 TV adaptations:
📗 * The Woman in White
📗 * Mrs. McGinty's Dead
📗 * Three Strikes and You're Dead
📗 * Trouble at High Tide
📗 * Past Reason Hated
7. Science
📍 Genius:
📗 * The Devotion of Suspect X
📗 * Brief Answers to the Big Questions
📗 * The Atlantis Complex
📗 * Salvation of a Saint
📍 Sci-Fi:
📗 * All Systems Red
📗 * Never Let Me Go
📗 * Journey to the Center of the Earth
📍 Medical:
📗 * Prescription For Murder
📗 * Fatal
13. Home and Family
📍 Family
📗 * If I Stay
📗 * Winter Garden
📗 * Silver Bay
📗 * The Light Between Oceans
📗 * One Cornish Summer
Sign me up for 6 books, please. Pinspiration
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2020
Progress: 6/6
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
Pin: Lost Generation
*Shakespeare and Company 6/8/2020
6. Nature
Pin: Arctic Ocean
*Meren tarina – Meribiologin tutkimusmatka Arktikselle 5/21/2020
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Pin: Romances
*My Very 90s Romance Completed 4/28/2020
*The Overdue Life of Amy Byler Completed 5/31/2020
13. Home and Family
Pin: Complex mother-daughter relationships
*The Poet X Completed 4/27/2020
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
Pin: Topelius Prize
*Suomea lohikäärmeille Completed 4/26/2020
Welcome oshizu, Marissa, Carol, Megan, Luci, Mie, and Marja! Let's have a great reading quarter.
Hi Regina, please sign me up for 10 books. Thank you!Current Progress: 20/10.
BOARD #15: Award Winners
📌 Pin: Booker Prize
* Midnight's Children (1981 Winner)
* The God of Small Things (1997 Winner) - Completed.
* Life of Pi (2002 Winner)
* The Inheritance of Loss (2006 Winner)
📌 Pin: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
* The Old Man and the Sea (1953 Winner) - Completed.
* Beloved (1988 Winner) - Completed.
* The Shipping News (1994 Winner)
* Interpreter of Maladies (2000 Winner)
📌 Pin: Orange Prize for Fiction
* Small Island (2004 Winner)
📌 Pin: Goodreads Choice Award
* Go Set a Watchman (2015 Winner - Fiction) - Completed.
* Daisy Jones & The Six (2019 Winner - Historical Fiction) - Completed.
BOARD #4: Film and theater
📌 Pin: TV Adaptations
* And Then There Were None - Completed.
📌 Pin: Cinematic Adaptations
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Completed.
* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Completed.
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Completed.
* Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Completed.
* The Martian - Completed.
BOARD# 12: Friendship, Love, and Marriage
📌 Pin: Friendship
* Hollow City - Completed.
📌 Pin: Love
* Eleanor & Park - Completed.
📌 Pin: Marriage
* Ask Again, Yes - Completed.
* A Woman Is No Man - Completed.
Hola, Regina!Sign me in for 60 books, please. I love this challenge!
PROGRESS: 90/75
❎1. Art: "La primavera" by Sandro Botticelli (8/7)
✔The Secret Life of Paintings
✔Edwin of the Iron Shoes
✔The Enchanted April
✔La consagración de la primavera
✔Five Little Pigs
✔The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
✔Artists in Crime
✔Death of a Ghost
❎4. Film and theater - What's on TV tonight? (15/14)
✔One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✔Evil under the Sun
✔The White Ship
✔Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
✔Death In Ecstasy
✔One Corpse Too Many
✔Police at the Funeral
✔N or M?
✔Vintage Murder
✔The Hollow
✔Sweet Danger
✔Mutiny on the Bounty
✔The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
✔Soldados de Salamina
✔Strong Poison
❎6. Nature - Flora and Fauna (12/10)
✔The Case of the General's Thumb
✔Flowers for Algernon
✔Vision of Eden: the Life and Work of Marianne North
✔Gorillas in the Mist
✔The Orchid House
✔Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
✔Dogsbody
✔The Turtle of Oman
✔The Water Rat of Wanchai
✔Thyme of Death
✔Winding Up the Serpent
✔The Elephant's Journey
❎7. 8. Science and Technology - (8/5)
✔A Geek Girl's Guide to Murder
✔Rain, Hail, Sleet & Snow
✔All the Birds in the Sky
✔Dark Matter
✔The Alienist
✔Lágrimas en la lluvia
✔Bellwether
✔Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
❎10. Courage - Be yourself! - (5/4)
✔Wheels Within Wheels
✔Yo soy Malala
✔Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
✔Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
✔Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
❎12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage - The power of love - (12/7)
✔The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (love and marriage)
✔Lord Peter Views the Body (friendship)
✔Nantucket Nights (friendship and marriage)
✔Claire of the Sea Light (Love)
✔Cure for the Common Breakup (love and friendship)
✔Round Robin: An Elm Creek Quilts Book (love and friendship)
✔Beka Lamb (love and friendship)
✔One More Year (love and friendship)
✔Under the Yoke (love and friendship)
✔Love in a Cold Climate (love, friendship, and marriage)
✔New Uses for Old Boyfriends
✔Vain (love and marriage)
❎13. Home and Family - The family tree (13/10)
✔The Hollow Man
✔Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
✔Garden Spells
✔Boy, Snow, Bird
✔Caramelo
✔Fiela's Child
✔Danger Point
✔Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
✔The Old Man and His Sons
✔The Floating Admiral
✔The Chinese Shawl
✔First Frost
✔Uncommon Criminals
❎14. Travel Pin - Going places (10/10)
✔An African in Greenland
✔Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
✔Cándido o el Optimismo
✔Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
✔Brazzaville Beach
✔Sailing to Capri
✔They Came to Baghdad
✔A High Wind in Jamaica
✔The Bastard of Istanbul
✔Murder in St. Barts
❎15. Award Winners - Award Winning Books (7/6)
✔Water for Elephants
✔The Blind Assassin
✔La Tormenta Perfecta
✔47
✔Tales of the South Pacific
✔Auto-da-Fé
✔Doctor Zhivago
Sign me up for 8 😊 8/8 📌 Completed!📌
☑️Board #1 Art
📌 Art Collecting
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
☑️Board #2 Historical Events
📌 The Alamo
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
☑️Board #4 Film and Theater
📌 TV Adaptations
Written In Blood
☑️Board #7 Science
📌 Science Fiction
Lincoln's Dreams
☑️Board #12 Friendship, Love & Marriage
📌 BFF
Charlotte's Web
☑️Board #13 Home and Family
📌 Father Daughter
Ramona and Her Father
☑️Board #14 Travel
📌 Time Travel
To Say Nothing of the Dog: or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
☑️Board #15 Award Winners (any kind of awards)
📌 Edgar Award Best Novel 1992
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Welcome Sunshine, Trisha, Carmen, and Sunny!
I've never done a quarterly challenge, but there's no time like the present! I would like to try for 16 books, including the following:18/16
Art:
The Last Unicorn DONE
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame DONE
Historical Events:
Burr DONE
Sarah's Key DONE
Science:
The Andromeda Strain
The Fifth Season
Courage:
The Lottery and Other Stories DONE
The Soldier of Raetia DONE
Wizard's First Rule
Ghost Girl DONE
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian DONE
The People of Sparks DONE
Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity:
Parable of the Sower DONE
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption DONE
Friendship, Love, and Marriage:
Hope Never Dies DONE
Home and Family:
Still Life with Tornado DONE
The Son of Summer Stars DONE
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn DONE
Travel:
Ghost DONE
Favorite Folktales from Around the World DNF
Paper Towns DONE
The Ten Thousand Doors of January DONE
-2020 Reading Challenge Q2: PINSPIRATIONDuration: April 1 to June 30, 2020
Inspiration Boards
I will set a goal of 15 books.
15/15 as of May 7
Update: Goal increased to 20 books as of May 7
20/20 as of May 15
Update: goal increased to 25 as of May 15
25/25 as of May 24
Goal increased to 30 as of May 24!
30/30 as of June 4
Goal increased to 35 as of June 4!
35/35 as of June 28
Only one more prompt! Won't be able to complete that last prompt, but I started with a goal of only 15 books and ended up reading 35! YAY!
I inadvertently satisfied the music prompt with the very last book I read in June, Daisy Jones & the Six!
36/35 books total and at least one book in each category! YAY!
✔️1. Art
The Beach House
Daff is a painter, Michael is a jeweler/jewelry maker, and Bee is a writer.
May 20--5/5 stars
✔️ Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Zhivago was a writer in addition to being a medical doctor.
June 9--5/5 stars
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
✔️2. Historical Events
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
May 4--5/5 stars
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
✔️3. Music
Daisy Jones & The Six
June 30--5/5 stars
✔️4. Film and theater
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
April 27--5/5 stars
✔️5. Food and Cooking
The Beach House (Beach House #1) by Mary Alice Monroe
There was food everywhere all the time! Especially freshly caught and cooked marine animals--crabs, shrimp, etc. Made my mouth water! :)
May 19--5/5 stars
✔️6. Nature
The Overstory
April 20--5/5 stars
✔️7. Science
A Beautiful Blue Death
Fingerprint processing and testing for poisons.
May 7--5.5 stars
✔️ Brave New World
May 23--4/5 stars
✔️8. Technology
Splintered Bones
Kip was able to establish cyber identities for Sarah Booth.
April 12--5/5 stars
✔️9. Faith
Go Set a Watchman
Jean Louise had too much "faith" in Atticus...
April 25--5/5 stars
✔️ The Embassy of Cambodia
I'm uncertain whether Fatou knows what "faith" means in Christianity.
May 8--5/5 stars
✔️ The Ten Thousand Doors of January
January had to have total faith in her actions before they could be effectively enacted.
June 27--5/5 stars
✔️10. Courage
Circe
April 5--5/5 stars
✔️ A Fistful of Collars
Especially Bernie's son!
April 21--5/5 stars
✔️ Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
May 10--5/5 stars
✔️ The Talented Clementine (Clementine #2) by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee
May 16--5/5 stars
✔️ Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi
May 28--5/5 stars
✔️ The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
May 31--5/5 stars
✔️11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
Hope Rides Again
Michelle Obama's Rising Stars program.
April 12--5/5 stars
✔️ Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
May 13--5/5 stars
✔️Lou in lockdown by Jojo Moyes
Philanthropy/Charity by making costumes for the neighborhood during COVID-19!
June 4--5/5 stars
✔️12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
A Separate Peace
April 21--5/5 stars
✔️ Falsipedies and Fibsiennes
April 11--5/5 stars
✔️ Will Grayson, Will Grayson
April 28--5/5 stars
✔️ The Return Journey
April 28--5/5 stars
✔️ Little Women
May 13--5/5 stars
✔️ The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
May 29--5/5 stars
✔️ Stargirl (Stargirl #1) by Jerry Spinnelli
June 20--5/5 stars
✔️ Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan
June 23--4/5 stars
✔️13. Home and Family
Homegoing
April 30--5/5 stars
✔️ What Katy Did
May 24--5/5 stars
✔️ The Dutch House
May 25--5/5 stars
✔️14. Travel
The Unhoneymooners
The travel to and from Hawaii proved to be quite revealing...
April 24--5/5 stars
✔️15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
The Old Man and the Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1953
May 15--5/5 stars
✔️ The Martian (The Martian #1) by Andy Weir
Audi Award for Science Fiction 2015
June 4--5/5 stars
✔️The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
June 15--5/5 stars
Daisy Jones & The Six
My goal is 14.Inspiration Boards:
1. Art Monet: Itinerant of Light-Salva Rubio
2. Historical Events Carta à rainha louca-Maria Valéria Rezende
3. Music
4. Film and theater - Tudo sobre cinema
5. Food and Cooking La vegetariana-Han Kang
6. Nature Revolucao das Plantas - um novo modelo para o futuro-Stefano Mancuso
7. Science Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind-Yuval Noah Harari
9. Faith Gitanjali-Rabindranath Tagore
10. Courage Ratos-Gordon Reece
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity Eu Serei a Última-Nadia Murad
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen
13. Home and Family As Vantagens de Ser Invisível-Stephen Chbosky
14. Travel Comer, rezar, amar-Elizabeth Gilbert
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards) As luas de Júpiter-Alice Munro
I'm in for 10! I'll add the books as I go.10/10
COMPLETE
Board #2 Historical Events
Pin: Non-Fiction
1. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Board #4 Film and theater
Pin: Film & TV Adaptations
2. World War Z
3. The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #13)
4. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot #14)
5. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot #15)
Board #7 Science
Pin: Sci-Fi
6. Codon Zero
7. Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
8. Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
9. Chosen Ones (The Chosen Ones #1): 432
10. Armada
Board 14 : Travel Pin : ITALY
1) Romeo and Juliet set in Verona, Italy
2) A Room with a View set in Florence, Italy
3) Trieste set in Trieste, Italy
4) Il velo dipinto (The Painted Veil) in Italian language
5) Il Piccolo Principe in Italian language
6) Short Stories in Italian: New Penguin Parallel Texts bilingual book
7) In altre parole book about learning italian
8) Inferno set in Florence and Venice, Italy
I'm in...I have a few of them planned, but I'll add as I go.1) Art:
2) Historical Events:
3) Music
4) Film and Theater
5) Food and Cooking
6) Nature
7) Science
8) Technology
9) Faith
10) Courage
11) Humanitarianism, Philanthropy, Charity
12) Friendship, Love, Marriage
13) Home and Family
14) Travel
15) Award Winners (any kind of awards) 2019 Pulitzer Prize
PINSPIRATION - Q2 Quarterly ChallengeDuration: April 1 - June 30, 2020
Progress: 48/48 -- COMPLETE
For this challenge, participants will “pin” books to inspirational boards. How you connect the book to the board is up to you.
📋 1. ART
📌 Needle Arts: My soul is fed with needle and thread.
🧵 Crewel World
🧵 Framed in Lace
🧵 A Stitch in Time
📋 6. NATURE
📌 Woods: Trees give peace to the souls of men.
🌲 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
🌲 Walden; or, Life in the Woods
🌲 The Woodlanders
🌲 Light in August
🌲 Highfire
🌲 The Book of Lost Things
🌲 Into the Wild
📋 6. NATURE
📌 Sea & Shore: Happiness comes in waves.
🌊 To the Lighthouse
🌊 Black Water
🌊 Tidelands
🌊 The Siren
🌊 The Water Cure
🌊 And Then There Were None
🌊 The Waves
🌊 The Glass Ocean
🌊 A Long Petal of the Sea
🌊 The Deep
📋 6. NATURE
📌 Space & Sky: Never stop looking up.
🌟 Hold Back the Stars
🌟 The Stars Are Fire
🌟 The Star-Touched Queen
🌟 The Dog Stars
🌟 The Giver of Stars
📋 7. SCIENCE
📌 Physics: It's one part design, two parts math.
👩🏻🔬 The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
👩🏻🔬 One True Loves
👩🏻🔬 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
👩🏻🔬 One of Us Is Next
👩🏻🔬 Flat Broke with Two Goats
👩🏻🔬 Two Steps Forward
👩🏻🔬 A Tale of Two Citizens
📋 13. HOME & FAMILY
📌 Houses: I live in a castle called home.
🏠 A Stranger in the House
🏠 A Home at the End of the World
🏠 There's Someone Inside Your House
🏠 The Last House Guest
🏠 Secrets of the Chocolate House
🏠 The House of Secrets
📋 13. HOME & FAMILY
📌Gardening: Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
🌼 Love, Ruby Lavender
🌼 What Rose Forgot
🌼 Peony in Love
🌼 Darling Rose Gold
📋 14. TRAVEL
📌 US National Parks: Not all who wander are lost.
🥾 Blind Descent
🥾 Liberty Falling
🥾 Deep South
🥾 Blood Lure
🥾 Hunting Season
🥾 Flashback
Sign me up for 4040/40-COMPLETED
Board 2: Historical Events (5/5)
Pin: The Blitz World War 2
✅Whistling in the Dark(27/5/20)
✅Direct Hit(4/6/20)
✅Codename Eagle(28/5/20)
✅Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black(5/6/20)
✅Love in the Blitz: The War Letters of Eileen Alexander to Gershon Ellenbogan(28/6/20)
Board 3: Music (5/5)
Pin: Musicians Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs
✅Adele(6/6/20)
✅Chronicles, Vol. 1(5/6/20)
✅Anvil: The Story of Anvil(8/6/20)
✅I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau(7/6/20)
✅Brutally Honest(29/5/20)
Board 4: Film and Theater (5/5)
Pin: Film and TV Adaptations
✅Goosebumps Movie Novel(13/6/20)
✅Gossip Girl(26/3/20)
✅The Secret in Their Eyes(6/6/20)
✅Troubling Love(13/6/20)
✅The Miniaturist(10/6/20)
Board 5: Food and Cooking (5/5)
Pin: Food as Magic
✅Like Water for Chocolate(7/5/20)
✅Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet(6/5/20)
✅Chocolat(27/6/20)
✅The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake(9/4/20)
✅Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge(14/5/20)
Board 12: Friendship, Love and Marriage (5/5)
Pin: Complicated Marriages
✅The Children Act(14/5/20)
✅Olive Kitteridge(12/4/20)
✅An American Marriage(17/4/20)
✅The Time Traveler's Wife(10/4/20)
✅The Wife(13/4/20)
Board 13: Home and Family (5/5)
Pin: Family Drama
✅A Woman is No Man(26/6/20)
✅Sister of Mine(25/6/20)
✅The Nest(15/4/20)
✅The Children(23/6/20)
✅Perfect Daughter(22/6/20)
Board 14: Travel (5/5)
Pin: Places I Dream of Visiting
✅The Rough Guide to New York City(1/4/20)
✅The Light of Paris(24/6/20)
✅Juliet the Maniac(23/6/20)
✅The Gates of Rome(22/6/20)
✅The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician(14/6/20)
Board 15: Award Winners (3/5)
Pin: BookBrowse Awards(Any Year)
✅Becoming(2019 Best Nonfiction Book Winner)(8/4/20)
✅Educated(2018 Best Nonfiction Book Winner)(25/4/20)
✅The Help(2009 Best Book Winner)(9/6/20)
✅Eleanor & Park(2013 Best Young Adult Book Winner)(26/6/20)
✅The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks(2010 Best Book Winner)(28/6/20)
A big welcome to Jennifer, Lynn, Nathalia, Chalmation, Veronica, Izajen, Lucy, TerryJane, and Sarah!
PINSPIRATIONDuration: April 1 to June 30, 2020
Sign me up for 15 books, please.
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@ReginaUpdate to message 24. As I got into the planning, I stretched my imagination a bit and changed my goal from 30 to 48. This sounds so fun!
Welcome Snezana!
@TerryJane, I've updated your goal.
@TerryJane, I've updated your goal.
11/101. Art
2. Historical Events
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue
The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
3. Music
4. Film and theater
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
Hex
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
A Divided Loyalty
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Hunting Prince Dracula
13. Home and Family
I'll Never Tell
14. Travel
Crocodile on the Sandbank
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
The Graveyard Book
I'll go for 6. Completely undecided on which ones9/6
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
*Pin: Ancient Roman Empire*
3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
*Pin: Friends forever*
13. Home and Family
*Pin: Home is where the heart is*
14. Travel
*Pin: We've got to get away*
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
*Pin: Goodreads Choice Winners*
Sign me up for 6! Will keep track in my corner... once I work it out.
Please sign me up for 12 books.Board: Film and Theatre
📌 Disney
✔️ Stepsister finished 23 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
✔️ Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen finished 10 May, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
✔️ The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince finished 13 May, ⭐⭐ with review
✔️ Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch finished 16 May, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
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📌 Tolkien
✔️The Hobbit finished 8 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review previously written
✔️ The Fellowship of the Ring finished 15 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ The Two Towers finished 20 June, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️The Return of the King finished 29 June, ⭐⭐⭐ with review previously written
Board: Faith
📌Norse Gods
✔️ Norse Mythology finished 25 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review previously written
✔️ The Gospel of Loki finished 28 April, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📌Greek Gods
✔️ Circe finished 29 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📌Christianity
✔️ Paradise Lost finished 12 May, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
COMPLETED: 12/12
I'll start with 20. Thanks for hosting, Regina!Progress: 20/20 - Challenge Complete!
BOARD - ART
Pin: Color Theory
✔︎
A Study in Scarlet Women✔︎
A Crimson Warning✔︎
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black✔︎
Havana Blue✔︎
Oranges Are Not the Only FruitPin: Portrait, Landscape, Still Life
✔︎Portrait: So Long a Letter - A woman tells the story of her life in Senegal
✔︎Portrait: Annie John - The coming of age story of a young girl in Antigua
✔︎Landscape: A Small Place - A book describing Antigua and the effects of colonialism and tourism
✔︎Still Life: A Morning at the Office - A single morning at an office encapsulates the racial and political tensions in Trinidad a few years before independence.
✔︎Landscape: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections Highly descriptive autobiographical novel about arriving from Trinidad and living in rural England.
Pin: Modernism & Postmodernism
✔︎Neuromancer
✔︎Anagrams
✔︎White Noise
✔︎Moon Tiger
✔︎The New York Trilogy
BOARD - AWARD WINNERS
Pin: Not the Booker - Winners of Less Familiar Literary Prizes
✔︎Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Royal Society of General Biology General Book Prize
✔︎Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Barry Award for Best Paperback Original
✔︎Like Water for Chocolate - The Prêmio Jabuti and The American Booksellers Book of the Year Award (ABBY)
✔︎Harmless Like You - Betty Trask Award
✔︎The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir - French Voices Award
I'll sign up for 30 books. Thanks!Q2 - Pinspiration Challenge
Duration: April 1, 2020 - June 30, 2020
Total: 4/30 UNFINISHED
Board #7: Science - Glimpses of the Future
Read Books:
Ninefox Gambit (Rating ★★★)
Raven Stratagem (Rating ★★)
Driving the Deep (Rating ★★★★★)
Board #10: Courage - PRIDE
Read Books:
Only Mostly Devastated (Rating ★★★)
Sign me for 24 books. I will post boards as I figure them out.
I'd like to participate with a goal of 12 books.Inspiration Boards:
Goal: 13/12
1. Art
2. Historical Events
Mask of Duplicity
3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
All the Birds in the Sky
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
Brewster's Millions
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
Romancing Lady Stone
Fever
It's in His Kiss
Highfire
An Assembly Such as This
13. Home and Family
Things Fall Apart
Britt-Marie Was Here
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
The Last Lecture
Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2009)
A Fatal Grace Agatha Award for Best Novel (2007)
Morning Star
ITW Thriller Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2017), Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction (2016), Reddit r/fantasy Stabby Award for Best Novel (2016)
I would like to sign up for this challenge for 3 books.Quarter 2 Challenge
PINSPIRATION
Progress: 0/3
Board #6 Nature
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PinspirationDuration: April 1, 2020-June 30, 2020
Please sign me up for 4 books!
Progress: 0/4
Board #2: Historical Events (0/1)
Pin: Titanic
1.The Deep
Board #5: Food and Cooking (0/1)
Pin: Dessert and Mystery
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Board #12: Friendship, Love, and Marriage (0/1)
Pin: Female Literary Friendships
1. Little Women
Board #13: Travel (0/1)
Pin: Regency/Victorian England
1. A Night to Surrender
Hi everyone! I’m just popping in to say I will update and add new people to the participants list either this evening or tomorrow. I’ve had a bit of a stomach bug but am starting to feel better now.
I will join with 4 books as my goal. Progress: 4/4Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
PIN: Nonfiction
04/19/2029: Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir
05/03/2020: The Band That Played on: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
PIN: Disaster
04/10/2020: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
04/22/2020: The Bright Side Of Disaster
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
Pinspiration
Duration: April 1, 2020-June 30, 2020
Progress: 1/10
1- (11) Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph by Yusra Mardini
Duration: April 1, 2020-June 30, 2020
Progress: 1/10
1- (11) Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity - Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph by Yusra Mardini
2020 Reading ChallengeQ2 - Pinspiration
Duration: April 1 to June 30, 2020
Progress: 18 out of 18+
People use Pinterest to “pin” things that inspire them. You can find boards devoted to food, crafts, art, photography, pets...really, just about anything.
For this challenge, participants will “pin” books to inspirational boards. How you connect the book to the board is up to you. You can try to pin something on each board or you can focus on a select few. You can pin multiple books to each board, but each individual book can only be used once.
As an example, you might pin the Mona Lisa to your “Art” board. For that pin, you might read a book about Leonardo da Vinci, one set in Italy, a book on painting, The Da Vinci Code, or a book about a mysterious woman..
On the “Science” board, you might read a book by or about a famous scientist, a sci-fi book, a medical thriller, and so forth.
If you voted for Literary Awards as this year's group theme, you could even use the Awards board to indulge in reading award-winning books for three months.
For a single literary award over the years, your progress might look like this:
BOARD: Award Winners
PIN: Booker Prize for Fiction (any year)
BOOK: Girl, Woman, Other (2019 winner)
BOOK: The Testaments (2019 winner)
BOOK: The Milkman (2018 winner)
BOOK: Lincoln in the Bardo (2017 winner)
To join this challenge, post to let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. If you are new to participating in this group's challenges, please check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information.
We will all be working with the same 15 boards (rather than thinking up our own board themes), but feel free to get creative with what you pin to your boards.
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
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3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
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6. Nature
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7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
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10. Courage
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11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
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13. Home and Family
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14. Travel
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15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
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Updated to here.
Welcome Crystal, Tracy, Brittany, Ashleigh, Rachael, Margie, Sara, Kabra, KSMary, Aubrey, Anissa, Theresa, Nancy Ann, and Suzanne!
Welcome Crystal, Tracy, Brittany, Ashleigh, Rachael, Margie, Sara, Kabra, KSMary, Aubrey, Anissa, Theresa, Nancy Ann, and Suzanne!
I'm in for 7 books.Update: 6/7
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
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3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
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7. Science
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8. Technology
9. Faith
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11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
What a great challenge. Sign me up for 4 books.1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
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Update to message #14PROGRESS: 4/60
1. Art: "La primavera" by Sandro Botticelli - (1/4)
The Secret Life of Paintings✔4. Film and theater - What's on TV tonight? - (1/14)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest✔6. Nature - Flora and Fauna - (1/10)
The Case of the General's Thumb✔15. Award Winners - (1/5)
Water for Elephants
PinspirationDuration: April 1 - June 30, 2020
Progress: 12/12
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
- The Kreutzer Sonata 4/20/20
4. Film and theater
-Twelfth Night 5/7/20
-Troilus and Cressida 5/18/20
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
- White Fang 5/4/20
7. Science
- Silent Spring 5/14/20
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
-The Diary of a Young Girl 6/11/20
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
-Travels With Charley: In Search of America 4/25/20
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
-Hugo Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4/4/20
-Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 4/18/20
-Seiun Award The Sirens of Titan 4/30/20
-National Book Award Finalist Rabbit, Run 5/25/20
-Guardian First Book Award White Teeth 6/4/20
I'm so in. This sounds amazing! Please sign me up for 10 :)
So fun! I'm not sure how many I'll be doing but I'll start with 10Board: Historical Events
📌Nonfiction
1. Women & Power: A Manifesto
Board: Film & Theater
📌Film Adaptations
1. Emma
Board: Nature
📌Animals
1. Stuart Little ☑️
Board: Science
📌Science-Fiction
1. Divergent
2. Insurgent
3. Allegiant
Board: Faith
📌Spirituality
1. The Alchemist
Board: Friendship, Love, and Marriage
📌Romance
1. Me Before You
Board: Award Winners
📌Nobel Prize-winning Authors
1. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) ☑️
2. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) ☑️
Progress: 3/10
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (other topics)Rapture (other topics)
Untamed (other topics)
War Storm (other topics)
The Hobbit (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Julian Barnes (other topics)Cassie Stocks (other topics)
Lauren Willig (other topics)
Héctor García (other topics)
Iyanla Vanzant (other topics)
More...
Duration: April 1 to June 30, 2020
People use Pinterest to “pin” things that inspire them. You can find boards devoted to food, crafts, art, photography, pets...really, just about anything.
For this challenge, participants will “pin” books to inspirational boards. How you connect the book to the board is up to you. You can try to pin something on each board or you can focus on a select few. You can pin multiple books to each board, but each individual book can only be used once.
As an example, you might pin the Mona Lisa to your “Art” board. For that pin, you might read a book about Leonardo da Vinci, one set in Italy, a book on painting, The Da Vinci Code, or a book about a mysterious woman..
On the “Science” board, you might read a book by or about a famous scientist, a sci-fi book, a medical thriller, and so forth.
If you voted for Literary Awards as this year's group theme, you could even use the Awards board to indulge in reading award-winning books for three months.
For a single literary award over the years, your progress might look like this:
BOARD: Award Winners
PIN: Booker Prize for Fiction (any year)
BOOK: Girl, Woman, Other (2019 winner)
BOOK: The Testaments (2019 winner)
BOOK: The Milkman (2018 winner)
BOOK: Lincoln in the Bardo (2017 winner)
To join this challenge, post to let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. If you are new to participating in this group's challenges, please check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information.
We will all be working with the same 15 boards (rather than thinking up our own board themes), but feel free to get creative with what you pin to your boards.
Inspiration Boards:
1. Art
2. Historical Events
3. Music
4. Film and theater
5. Food and Cooking
6. Nature
7. Science
8. Technology
9. Faith
10. Courage
11. Humanitarianism/Philanthropy/Charity
12. Friendship, Love, and Marriage
13. Home and Family
14. Travel
15. Award Winners (any kind of awards)
This challenge was created by Regina, who will also be leading it. Thank you, Regina!