Greyweather's comments
(member since May 30, 2008)
Greyweather's comments from the The Book Challenge group.
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Since you like Potter I would look at The Golden Compass (also YA but it is top-tier) or A Wizard of Earthsea.
Liz wrote: "Ok, just finished Twilight and I can honestly say that the Fantasy genre is not for me . . ."Twilight is part of a small sub-genre of fantasy, that of paranormal romance, YA paranormal romance at that. I humbly ask that the fantasy genre not be judged by Meyer's standard any more than she should be considered representative of romance novelists.
"The", "A", and "An" are ignored at the beginning of a title.
Liz wrote: "That challenge is almost a year old already so its a bit late to tackle that one."It is not as though it expired. ;-)
Your challenge is a neat idea. I hope it proves as fun as it looks.
Another way to expand this would be to also read 6 books where each author is from a different continent, and for the continent where you live, pick a book by an author of a different country.
I've done 1, 2, 4, and sometimes I have simply edited my initial post with each update rather than making any additional posts. Which I use usually depends on how big the challenge is.
Work of literary fictionThe Trial by Franz Kafka
That was the last item on the challenge. As I expected, the last challenges I completed were for poetry and literary fiction.
If you are still in school then you can hardly expect yourself to be able to commit the kind of time necessary to read dozens, let alone hundreds, of books.Don't worry about the size of your challenge, just have fun with it. That's the name of the game here.
Well that's certainly an interesting challenge, I wish you luck.
Poetry collection, poetry anthology, or an epic poem.A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects by Catherynne M. Valente
"Our Book Club is taking this on for the year. I will post our selections as we make them."Cool!
How are you doing the gender challenge with a group? Are there no men in the club?
A banned book is one that has been removed from the shelves of a library or classroom because of its controversial content. (You would be amazed at what some consider to be controversial) There are a great many websites dedicated to the topic which provide lists, so google for them if you're having trouble.Literary fiction has a number of different definitions. In general it means fiction that would be considered neither "genre fiction" nor "popular fiction". If you ask yourself, "Is this a book my high school English teacher would have made me read?" and you answer "yes," then you probably have an example of literary fiction.
An easy way to narrow the field is to look at books which have been nominated for one of the various literary awards like the Pulitzer.
That is entirely up to you.
Here's a new one (I think).The Five Senses Challenge
Read five books, the title of each should have something in it associated with the five senses (Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch) and/or the five organs that are associated with each sense (Eyes, Ears, Tongue, Nose, Fingers/Skin).
Example:
The Mote in God's Eye
Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories
A Taste of Revenge
A Whiff of Death
Seven Touches of Music
Genre book.The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney
There is also the What's in a Name? ChallengeYou have six categories (name, location, weather, color, plant, and animal) and you have to read a book with that category as part of the title.
For example:
Solomon VS. Lord
The Secret History of Moscow
Snow Crash
Red Seas Under Red Skies
House of Leaves
The Weird of the White Wolf
Well the idea was to start fresh, but do whatever you prefer.
Book by deceased author.The Castle of Iron by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
