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January - March Theme: Favorite Genre - Non-FictionBooks read 1/5
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
2. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
3. The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife
📚 4. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick February 26
5. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
April-June Theme: 5 oldest books on my TBR
Books Read: 0/5
1. Nights at the Circus
2. Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
4. Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
5. The Marijuana Chronicles
If you have any suggestions for themes please post them in this thread, or send me a message! Happy reading!
October 1st - December 31st
Theme: Read 5 books by authors you haven't read yet
July 1st - September 30th
Theme: Read 5 books set in a different country than the one you live in
April 1st - June 30th
Theme: Read the five oldest books on your TBR
Welcome to the TBR Revival Challenge 2021! This challenge is for anyone looking for some extra motivation to get some books off their TBR!How to keep score:
Comment on this thread with 5 books from your TBR that fit the current theme. When you've finished a book from your list check it off by adding the date you finished reading next to the title:
Books read: 1/3
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. The Hunger Games January 6
3. The Two Towers
To edit your challenge score/edit your comment:
1. Find your comment in the challenge thread. [Tip: Take note of the message number in the upper left corner when you first post your list]
2. On the bottom right of your comment, there should be four hyperlinks: "reply | edit | delete | flag". Select "edit".
3. Add your book read date per above instructions.
4. Click "edit post" once you are done.
Challenge dates:
This challenge will run all year with a different theme for each quarter.
January 1-March 31
April 1 - June 30
July 1 - September 30
October 1 -December 31
Levels
You don't have to read all 5 books from your TBR to participate! choose to read however many books you want to.
Books read:
0- It’s the thought that counts
1 - One more down!
2 - On a Roll
3 - Page Turner
4 - Avid Reader
5 - Reading Rockstar
Updated message #48
Updated message #48
Tracking through message: 51Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
On the Road (307p) - 8
Gulliver's Travels (306p) - 2
2001: A Space Odyssey (297p) - 2
The Martian Chronicles (241p) - 2
The Call of the Wild (172p) - 12
The Age of Innocence (293p) - 10
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (394p) - 8
A Raisin in the Sun (162p) - 2
A Wizard of Earthsea (183p) - 9
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (267p) - 1
Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for February 2021 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.Books that qualify for this category:
1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.
2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.
3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end midnight December 16
Dec 01, 2020 10:20AM
Tracking through message: 60Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Year of Magical Thinking (242p) - 6
Station Eleven (333p) - 14
The Map of Salt and Stars (368p)
White Teeth (448p) - 2
Kiss of the Spider Woman (281p) - 3
Deliverance
The Lovely Bones (372p) - 4
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (291p) - 7
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465p) - 11
Untamed (352p)
The Humans (282p)
The Book of Lost Names (400p)
Half of a Yellow Sun (433p) - 2
Nation (367p) - 1
The Last Wish (360p)
The Book of Longings
Dec 01, 2020 10:20AM
Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for February 2021 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category.Books that qualify for this category:
1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.
2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.
3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end midnight December 16.
Tracking through message: 64Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Kite Runner (371p) - 15
The Bell Jar (294p) - 10
Pachinko (502p) - 8
The Night Circus (391p) - 10
The Nightingale (440p) - 7
Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 6
Romeo and Juliet (301p) - 3
Elanore Oliphant is Completely Fine (336p) - 1
Where the Crawdads Sing (384p) - 1
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (384p)
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring*
Farenheit 451*
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Circe
Wuthering Heights
The Alchemist
Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for February 2021! This discussion is for the category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf.
Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.
Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!
Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.
Nominations end Midnight December 16.
Updated message #48 with my November reads!Total points for November: 9.5
