Renee’s Comments (group member since Feb 03, 2014)

Renee’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

In very proud of the NF reading I accomplished this year. Theoretically, I love non-fiction, but it takes me forever to finish anything. So... Yay, Me!

30 Book Non Fiction Challenge
GOAL = 3 - SURPASSED! Completed 10

[] NF book with > 500 pages
[x] History: The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession**
[x] NF book that became a movie: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail**
[] NF about Relationships
[] NF book published this year
[] Religion or Philosophy
[] NF book with a number in the title
[] Biography: Charles Dickens**
[] A funny NF book
[x] NF book by a female author: The Feminine Mystique**
[] a How-To book
[] NF book with a one-word title
[] NF about Nature or Animals
[x] A NF book set in a different country: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban**
[x] Health/Wellness: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma**
[x] NF book a friend recommended: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear**
[] Prize winning NF book
[] Minority Studies
[] NF book that scares you: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America**
[] Self Improvement
[] A NF about something that happened in the decade you were born
[x] LGBTQ+: Bad Feminist**
[x] A NF book with a place in the title: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon**
[x] NF related to Current Events: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer**
[x] NF book you own but have never read: The Book of Tea**
[] NF book that takes place in your hometown/general area
[x] a Memoir: The Year of Magical Thinking**
[] NF book written by an author with your same initials or first name
[] Math/Technology
[] A NF book you started but never finished

30 Book Non Fiction Challenge
GOAL = 3 - SURPASSED! Completed 10

[] NF book with > 500 pages
[x] History: The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession**
[x] NF book that became a movie: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail**
[] NF about Relationships
[] NF book published this year
[] Religion or Philosophy
[] NF book with a number in the title
[] Biography: Charles Dickens**
[] A funny NF book
[x] NF book by a female author: The Feminine Mystique**
[] a How-To book
[] NF book with a one-word title
[] NF about Nature or Animals
[x] A NF book set in a different country: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban**
[x] Health/Wellness: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma**
[x] NF book a friend recommended: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear**
[] Prize winning NF book
[] Minority Studies
[] NF book that scares you: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America**
[] Self Improvement
[] A NF about something that happened in the decade you were born
[x] LGBTQ+: Bad Feminist**
[x] A NF book with a place in the title: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon**
[x] NF related to Current Events: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer**
[x] NF book you own but have never read: The Book of Tea**
[] NF book that takes place in your hometown/general area
[x] a Memoir: The Year of Magical Thinking**
[] NF book written by an author with your same initials or first name
[] Math/Technology
[] A NF book you started but never finished

Monthly Plan:
DECEMBER 2016: COMPLETED 7 of 10

Shakespeare's Sonnets 91-105
Victorians!: Middlemarch**
Trollope Project: Framley Parsonage
Readers Review:
Powell Project: Hearing Secret Harmonies**
Aubrey-Maturin Series:
Vorkosigan Series: CryoBurn**
HP: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows**
Fox & O'Hare:
A Passage to India
Dashing Through the Snow**
Kissing Christmas Goodbye**
A Shoe Addict's Christmas**

Crazy Christmas Baby?
Sorry to hear that, Camille. Although my mind has created all sorts of Crazy Christmas Baby scenarios. Too bad I can't draw. ... And I hope it wasn't as bad for you as my imagination. :p


Chase-
It took me forever to get through 1Q84 in spite of the fact that I'm a huge Murakami fan. It's just so long!

Don't stress it, Amanda. Celebrate the 21 that you read!

The birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is January 15, so it seemed a good time to focus on the struggle for Human Rights, including Civil Rights throughout the world.

Mission: Read one book about Human Rights &/or the people who have fought for them.

Human rights as defined by Merriam-Webster:
"rights (as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all people"

Civil Rights as defined by Black's Law dictionary:
"These are the rights that are granted to every citizen of the United States by the constitution and all of its amendments. Equal protection is guaranteed to every one regardless of race, colour and creed."

Human vs Civil
http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=31546

http://www.differencebetween.net/misc...

http://recomparison.com/comparisons/1...

Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tet. This holiday goes by many names and begins on January 28 this year. 2018 is the year of the ROOSTER.

Mission: Read one book in January set in Asia or about the Asian experience elsewhere in the world.

Alternate Mission: Read a book about a rooster.

For more information on this holiday... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chine...

You can ask questions here about the challenges in this folder.

Mini-Challenges will typically run for one month. New minis will appear each month on a variety of topics.

The Title makes this self-explanatory, but these challenges will run all year.

You can use books across challenges in this folder. So The Bell Jar could be used in Alphabet Soup as a "B" and in Decade Challenge in the 1960s and in the Rory Gilmore Challenge.

I'm so sorry, Sam. I had an updated version but got them mixed up. The right one for 2017 is posted now.

You're going to love it here. Everyone is really friendly. :)

This is a one book mini-challenge that must be completed in January.
Read a debut novel. (First novel by any author of your choice.)

Here's a few links to some famous firsts:

http://www.shortlist.com/entertainmen...

http://flavorwire.com/481906/50-of-th...

http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/...

http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/25-sen...

http://www.bookmarket.com/debutnovels...

Camille wrote: "I want to try this again this year as I couldn't finish it last time I tried."

I think it's a very challenging challenge. I tend to choose from the same periods over and over.

Nice!

Rosemarie wrote: "I am going to revisit the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder."

That's a great idea! Me, too!

Little House series
1) Little House in the Big Woods**
2) Little House on the Prairie
3)

Crazy Calendar Template (Copy to your own thread)


January-
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December-

Last year we did this as 4 separate mini-challenges, but we're changing it up for 2017. (Same concept, though.)

Mission: Read 12 books this year with the name of each month in the titles. You can read them in any order; just finish by the end of the year.

Examples:
The Two Faces of January
February Friend
The Adventures of Augie March
The Enchanted April
May We Be Forgiven
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Knee High by the Fourth of July
The Guns of August
The Last September
The Hunt for Red October
November of the Heart
The Dean's December

Winter Bingo Board!

Definitions (Updated as questions arise)...

Middle Grade- also called "Intermediate." Usually a chapter book written for children between the ages of 9-15. Newbury titles would fit here. Also, the Harry Potter books, Beverly Cleary, Rick Riordan, the Magic Treehouse series, Little House series, Anne of Green Gables, The Black Stallion, etc.

Magical Realism- "Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." (from Wikipedia)
For example, Beloved or One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Epistolary- written as a series of letters (or diary entries). For example, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Made Into A Movie- does not have to be recently

Based on Mythology- some examples might be The Lightning Thief or Till We Have Faces or Grendel. Use your own judgement.

Color/Lettering blocks refer to the cover of the book. Wintery colors for this one. Spring Bingo will have different colors and categories. ;-)