Clare L’s
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Clare L’s
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from the 2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge group.
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Hi Adriana, I completed my first monopoly. Young Adult
Coming of Age - The Book Thief
YA Fantasy – The Knife of Never Letting Go
THE MONOPOLY GENRE CHALLENGEDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2014
It's a subgenre challenge with a twist! This challenge uses a monopoly board, and each color is a different genre. Read the subgenre listed on each property--your goal is to get as many monopolies (all the subgenres listed for each color) as possible.
The max number you can go for is eight because there are eight possible monopolies on the board.
Completed: 4/4
Hi Adriana, I would like to join this challenge. I will go for 4 since I am joining late.
Young Adult
Coming of Age - The Book Thief - 04/04/2014
YA Fantasy – The Knife of Never Letting Go - 01/14/2014
Suspense
Crime – Reconstructing Amelia - 08/16/2014
Horror - Annihilation - 07/19/2014
Mystery – Odd Apocalypse - 03/27/2014
Fantasy
Epic/high fantasy - Daughter of the Blood -07/19/2014
Mythic fiction – Gods of The Nowhere: A Novel of Halloween - 11/4/2014
Magical realism – The Golem and the Jinni - 06/20/2014
Romance
Historical Romance - Little Women
Paranormal Romance - Cruel Beauty or __
Chick-lit: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver -09/28/2014
Historical (time periods)
Medieval - Eragon or Red Wall
Victorian - Christmas Carol
Ancient - Cruel Beauty or ___
Science Fiction
Cyberpunk/Steampunk: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 07/10/2014
Dystopian: Red Rising - 05/12/2014
Space Opera: Ender's Game - 10/27/2014
Non-fiction
History - A Night to Remember
Science: A Brief History of Time - 05/31/2014
Biographical
Memoir – Is Everyone Hanging out without me
Autobiography - Angela's Ashes
Biography - Walt Disney
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Hi Adriana, I would like to join this challenge. I will go for 4 since I am joining late. Coming of Age - The Book Thief - 04/04/2014
YA Fantasy – The Knife of Never Letting Go - 01/14/2014
Suspense
Crime – Reconstructing Amelia - 08/16/2014
Horror - Annihilation - 07/19/2014
Mystery – Odd Apocalypse - 03/27/2014
Fantasy
Epic/high fantasy - Daughter of the Blood -07/19/2014
Mythic fiction – Gods of The Nowhere: A Novel of Halloween - 11/4/2014
Magical realism – The Golem and the Jinni - 06/20/2014
Romance
Historical Romance
Paranormal Romance
Chick-lit: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver -09/28/2014
Historical (time periods)
Medieval
Victorian
Ancient
Science Fiction
Cyberpunk/Steampunk: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 07/10/2014
Dystopian: Red Rising - 05/12/2014
Space Opera: Ender's Game - 10/27/2014
Non-fiction
History - A Night to Remember - 11/12/2014
Science: A Brief History of Time - 05/31/2014
Biographical
Memoir –
Autobiography -Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Biography
Karma wrote: "I'm interested in some opinions on this. Bromden talks about the war that the big nurse is fighting and about McMurphy winning battles, but never being able to win the war. So, who do you think ul..."I think you can argue both. In my opinion I still think McMurphy won the war. Nurse Ratched may have won the last battle but she had to go to extreme measures to do so. McMurphy as you mentioned really shook up the Nurses ordered world that she worked so hard to build, and you could see that with patients signing themselves out or transferring and Bromden act of defiance at the end. While she may have killed the man, I think what he stood for will last much longer. She wasn't pure evil, and McMurphy was no angel, so there are a lot of grey areas. Overall though she lost a bit of the power she once had over the patients and the doctors. Also, based on her writing at the end, does that mean she can no longer talk? Or could just be a temporary thing. If that is the case, if McMurphy took her voice (which is horrible that he tried to strangle her) then one can say he took one of her most powerful weapons.
I finished the book this past weekend, and this was the first time reading it for me and I have never seen the movie. I enjoyed the book, but I didn’t love it. Took me a bit to get into it, and some parts of the book just didn't interest me. I agree mid-way to the end is where it picked up for me as well. I read I Never Promised You a Rose Garden last month and it was fun to compare the two since both books were published in the early 1960s and takes place in a mental institute. So that made the book more enjoyable for me in that I could compare between the two mental institutes, mental patients, law and order, society perception of the mentally ill, the struggles of the mentally ill in that time period, etc.
Overall, I really liked the book. Taking the book from a perspective of a mental patient was confusing at times, especially when Bromden went on and on about machinery, his childhood and obviously the “fog”. However the fact he was presumed deaf and dumb by everyone made him a good fly on the wall. A part of me was hoping he’d spill everything he knew to McMurphy once he started talking. The characters were interesting, favorite being McMurphy. I found it hard to sympathize with Nurse Ratched. Her job is very hard yes and there needs to be rules, and having someone come in and throw all order aside would be frustrating. But the “therapeutic” measures such as belittling and teaming up against a patient at the meeting, and playing with people’s lives she can’t control through shock-therapy and lobotomies was appalling. This was my first group read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been meaning to read this one for a while now.
LITTLE APRIL SHOWER MINI CHALLENGEDuration: April 1 - 30, 2014
Little April Shower is a song from the Disney movie, Bambi. You can watch it here. Let's take a look at other Disney movies that contain rain.
Completed: 4/4
1. Beauty and the Beast. Read a book that has "Romance" listed as a genre OR a book where the main character misjudges someone.
2. The Rescuers. Read a book that has "Adventure" listed as a genre OR a book in which someone needs rescuing.
3. The Little Mermaid. Read a book that takes place at sea OR contains mythical creatures.
4. The Sword in the Stone. Read a book that contains magic of some sort OR read a book that takes place in medieval Europe.
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SECOND QUARTER CHALLENGE: FINISH THOSE SERIES!Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2014
This challenge focuses on finishing series you've started. They can be series you started as a child and want to know what happened to your favorite childhood characters (for example, Lowry's The Giver or L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time), they can be series you would like to start and finish within the span of the quarter, or they can just be any series you started but never finished.
Completed: 3/3
1) Chronicles of Narnia (6/7)
2) The Odd Thomas Series (4/6)
Forever Odd
Brother Odd
Odd Hours
Odd Apocalypse
Deeply Odd
3) Chaos Walking Series(2/3)
The Ask and the Answer
Monsters of Men
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Thread to track yearly, quarterly and monthly challenges.
I will sign up for 3 series, and a partial 4th (I don't think it counts but it will give me the added drive to finish it... been putting it off). So three for me!Finished: 3/3
1) Chronicles of Narnia (7/7)
2) Odd Thomas Series (4/6)
Forever Odd
Brother Odd
Odd Hours
Odd Apocalypse
Deeply Odd
3) Chaos Walking Series(1/3)
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4) The Dark Tower Series(7/7)
Love love love Disney! I will go for four!Completed 4/4
1. Beauty and the Beast:
2. The Rescuers:
3. The Little Mermaid:
4. The Sword in the Stone:
Hi Everyone! My name is Clare and I am from Ottawa, ON. I love reading and would like to become a more active reader. This group seems fun and easy going. My goal is to read at least 20 books in 2014, and I look forward to participating in other reading challenges with the group.
