Taylor’s Comments (group member since May 26, 2016)

Taylor’s comments from the 2017 Reading Challenge group.

Tier One: 22 / 36

Read a book that takes place on each continent, or is written by an author from that continent (fiction or non-fiction).

1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Antarctica
✓ Europe - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Asia
7. Australia

8. A banned or challenged book
✓ An award winning book (Pulitzer, Hugo, Man Booker, etc.) - The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
10. Memoir/Autobiography/Biography
11. A dead author's last book
✓ A book with LGBT matter or character(s) - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
13. A book your favorite author loves
✓ A retold fairytale - Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood
✓ A Young Adult book - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. A history book (fiction or non-fiction) - Savage Kingdom by Benjamin Woolley
✓ A book where you have seen the movie, but not read the book - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
18. A book from the NYT Bestseller list
✓ A book with the point of view of an immigrant - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
20. A controversial book - The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
21. The first book you see when you walk into a library or bookstore
✓ A classic - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
✓ A debut novel - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
✓ Published this year (2016) - Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
25. Based entirely on the cover
✓ Own but never read - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
✓ A book by an author you never read before - The Cimaruta: And Other Magical Charms from Old Italy by Raven Grimassi
28. A book recommended to you by a friendly librarian
29. A book by a Nobel Prize winner
30. Mythology (not just Greek)
31. A book written by someone born the same year as you
32. Dystopia
33. Reread of a favorite book
34. A book about books
✓ Book published the year you graduated high school - Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta by Ina May Gaskin
✓ A book a child/teen/someone younger than you loves - The Land of Smaerd by Andrea Von Botefuhr
✓ A book about/set by the sea - The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
38. A book with two authors
39. Author from your own state, province, or country - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
✓ A book about a trip (road, cruise, around the world) - A Passage to Shambhala by Jon Baird, Kevin Costner, and Rick Ross
✓ A book with the name of a person in the title - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Science Fiction
✓ Fantasy - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
✓ Wild card - Pie by Angela Boggiano
✓ Wild card - What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff
✓ Wild card - Busy Toddler, Happy Mom by Gayle Jervis
✓ Wild Card - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
48. Wild card
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Hello, I'm Taylor! I'm a stay-at-home mom in Oregon. I just came across this group today and absolutely love the idea! I love reading books in a variety of subjects, so I love that this challenge encourages such a great amount of diversity in what one reads, and how fun some of the challenges are, such as reading the first thing you see when you step foot in the library or bookstore. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all are reading and seeing if I can make it all the way through Tier One and at least into Tier Two!