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A-Z Book Title ChallengeI'm going to finish it this year!
A. All Fall Down
B. Beauty and the Werewolf
C. Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
D. Dark Side of the Moon
E. Edge of Eternity
F. Fall of Giants
G. Gnome on the Range
H. Hangman Blind
I. Immortal
J. Just Like Heaven
K.
L. Loveknot
M. Midsummer Star
N. Nora Roberts Land
O. Obsession in Death
P.
Q.
R. Running Hot
S. Sizzle and Burn
T. Trans-Sister Radio
U. Unleash the Night
V. Viper Game
W. When it Rains: The Umbrella Collection
X.
Y. You Slay Me
Z. Zorro
A-Z Author A. Kyle Adams Dirty Drag
B. Andrea Barrett== The Air We Breathe
C. Adam-Troy Castro-- Gustav Gloom and the People Taker
D.
E. Janet evonavich-- The Chase
F. Ken Follett--Winter of the World
G. Diana Gabaldon-- Lord John and the Private Matter
H. Karina Halle--Darkhouse
I.
J.
K. Tonya Kappes -- A Charming Crime
L. Mercedes Lackey--The Sleeping Beauty
M. Ed McBain-- The Big Bad City
N. Betty Neels--Heidelberg Wedding
O.
P. Ripley Patton Ghost Hand
Q. Amanda Quick-- The Mystery Woman
R. J.D. Robb Down the Rabbit Hole
S. Sarah Sundin--A Distant Melody
T. Mark Twain-- The Prince and the Pauper
U.
V.
W. Jeannette Walls--Half Broke Horses
X.
Y.
Z. Jennifer Zane Gnome On The Range
Genre Reads GroupTwelve Plus 2
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6. The Book of RuthSKIPPING
7. The Day the Falls Stood StillSKIPPING
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9. DreamcatcherSKIPPING
10. Instruments of Night
11. The Witch's Circle: Rituals and Craft of the Cosmic Muse
12. Band Fags!
Alternatives:
1. Granny Dan
2. The Island
Happily Ever After Group2015 BLUE COLLAR VS WHITE COLLAR (which hero type do you read more?)
Blue:
White:
Happily Ever After Group2015 Heroines around the World
1. American-
2. English/British-
3. French-
4. Scottish-
5. Celerian (fantasy world)-
6. Italian-
7. Canadian-
8. Mount Olympus-
10. Harmony (fictional planet)
Lea wrote: "You have a lot of challenges going!"Lea wrote: "You have a lot of challenges going!"
Yeah I do but most of them I don't set an actual amount to I just see if what I read will fit in any of them.
Biography (January- sept)1. Read about an Entertainer of some kind: theater, movies, dancing, singing, comedy any form of entertainment goes.
2. Leader of a country, past or present whether it is a king, queen, president or dictator is your choice. Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
3. A criminal or "infamous" character.
4. An Athlete, if you consider it a sport then it qualifies.
5. A hero, or "selfless" person. (This is a pretty broad category)
Love in Any Language Challenges:Afrikaans (Jan-Feb) (Na: After)
N:
Nora Robert's LandA:
All Fall DownBasque (Mar- Apr) (Musu: Kiss)
M: Mercedes Lackey
U:
S: Secrets & Scandals #1
U:
Language: Croation (May- June) Ever: IKAD
I:
K: Selena Kitt- Taken
A:
D:
BBC Challenge1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
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20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
30
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
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43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
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72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
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89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
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100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Bard: Shakespeare challengeOPTION 3: choose one or however many you want to read from this list:
**Othello: read a book involving the themes of racism, love, jealousy and betrayal
**The Taming of the Shrew: A comedy, a story that involves a "shrewish" person of some kind.
**Twelfth Night or What You Will: a book of mistaken identity or about a woman who dresses as a man
**Julius Caesar- read a book about a character who is dealing with the demands of honor, patriotism & friendship.
**Richard III- read a book that occurs in the English court of the 1500s
**Macbeth- read a book that deals with the themes of lust for power or betrayal of friendship, this is also known as the cursed play and called the Scottish Play so you can read a book about a Scottish curse.
**Midsummer Night's Dream- Book involving Fairy royalty, unreturned love between friends or mischief makers and the mischief they cause.
**Henry V- read a book about/during the Hundred Years War or conquering France.
**Romeo & Juliet- read a book with the theme of young love, feuding families, or teenage suicide.
**Hamlet- a book with themes of madness, grief, rage, treachery, revenge or moral corruption.
1. Othello: Love Jealously, Betrayal
3. Twelfth Night: Mistaken Identity
10. Hamlet: Madness, grief
I'm pretty impressed with how well I am doing this year.
This Challenge will run from May 1st to September 30th.Here is a list of famous detectives and a description of them, pick however many different ones you want to read and either read a book with that detective in it or a book with the same type of detective that you have selected.
SAM SPADE: A hard-boiled detective, runs a detective agency, not afraid of fights or firearms, appears to be cynical but has a sense of duty, usually has some type of femme fatale in the story with him.
DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR RODERICK ALLEYN: British detective, an example of a gentleman detective (younger son of a baronet), works for Scotland Yard, solves mysteries where the murder method is generally interesting or different.
MISS MARPLE: A spinster with a remarkable talent as an amateur sleuth, intuition and psychology are important to her, annoys police detectives
SHERLOCK HOLMES: solves mysteries with logical reasoning, believes in the science of deduction, he is eccentric, brilliant, has an assistant that may not be as smart but is extremely useful
CONSTANTINE: chain smoking, cynical, occasionally embittered detective of the occult and magicians
INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU: totally incompetent but baselessly confident detective. He solves cases usually on accident and almost always with the help of others
FOX MULDER: believes in aliens, monsters and every other type of paranormal activity; solves bizarre cases & tackles conspiracy theories
THE SCOOBY DOO GANG: Group of teens who investigate ghost and ghoolies, they never find a real one though.
RORSCHAD: antihero, vigilante detective, ruthless crime fighter, believes in good or evil- no shades of grey, seeks to punish evil at all cost
HERCULE POIROT: conventional, clue based detective; tends to hide his ideas until the end with a big reveal, solves complicated mysteries through talking to people to get them to reveal there natures.
Inspector Clouseau
Miss Marple
Seven Degrees Challenge You've all heard the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon? How about we give it a try but with books?
This challenge will be open from August 1st through the rest of the year. Read seven books (or as many as you can) using the Kevin Bacon idea.
So pick your first book and once you finish that book you have to pick your next book based off of some connection to the book you just read.
I'm interested to see how the first book compares to the last.
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a retelling of the story of Cupid & Psyche told from Psyche's "ugly sister" Orual's view point. Psyche was so beautiful that her beauty brought her trouble from mortals and gods both.With that in mind I am going to read:
2.
told from the view point of the "ugly" stepsister, the story of their lives living with an unnatural beauty, a retelling of Cinderella.leads to:
3.
a retelling of little red riding hood mixed with beauty and the beast. The beauty must tame the beast (or break the curse.which takes me to
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After Glow (other topics)
After Dark (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
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J.D. Robb (other topics)
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I don't know if I will make the 200 as I know there are several large books on my TBR stack that may take up some time.