1st Quarter Challenge: Group Reads

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Jenny!

[Lulu]

I'm in for 4, please.

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Possibles:
Northern Lights
Station Eleven
Lolita
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Golem and the Djinni

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Lulu!

[Samantha (AK)]

Sign me up for four (4)! Great opportunity to weed through my to-read list at the same time. ;)

01. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
02. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
03. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
04. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (was Unwind, but just discovered my library doesn't have it. *shrug*)

[Missy]

I'll aim for three:

1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2. Station Eleven
3. The Rosie Project

[Jackie B. -]

This is a great idea for a challenge-- I am in for three, all TBD based on mood and library availability.

Yay!

6/3

Update: 4/4/16: I just flew past this one. I'm so glad I joined this challenge! I look forward to more like it in the future.

Update: 2/16/16: Wow! Thanks to my book clubs, I'm really rocking on this challenge! Now we're at 4/3 read, and I will at least finish The Color Purple before the end of Q1 also for another book club. This is awesome. Thanks, life!

Update: 3/6/15: Thanks to my book clubs aligning to the stars of Group Reads on this list, I've flown far past my original goal of 3 books. I really want to read both The Rosie Project and Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, but I don't know if they will get done this quarter. Definitely on my list for the future, though!

1. The Martian by Andy Weir -- Completed 2/9/16
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr -- Completed 2/13/16
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker -- Completed 3/5/16
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness -- Completed 2/2/16a
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -- Completed 2/13/16
6. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel -- Completed 3/26/16

[Clare]

Great idea - planning on reading The Martian and a few of the others are in my tbr list so I'm in for a realistic 3

3/3 completed

1 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
3 The Martian

[[deleted user]]

I'm going to start with 6

0/6

1. Water for Elephants
2. Chocolat
3. Life After Life
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
6. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

[Sharon]

I'm in for 3.

1. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: By Jonas Jonasson by Jonas Jonasson
2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome everyone I missed while working!

[Amanda]

Hi! Count me in for 5 ( 6 if you include January's read, The Martian)

1. The Martian 2/24/16
2. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
3. The Silver Linings Playbook
4. The Night Circus
5. The Princess Bride
6. Frankenstein

1/6

[Hannah]

I'm in with 4, please :)

1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. Americanah
3. The Secret History
4. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairy-Land in a Ship of Her Own Making

2/4 - didn't make my goal of all 4!

[Blagica , Challenges]

All added welcome!

[Amanda]

I would like to join this challenge. I would like to do 5

Group Reads Challenge
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Extreem luid & ongelooflijk dichtbij) by Jonathan Safran Foer Completed 19/04/16 Rating 4 stars
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Completed 19/01/16 Rating 5 stars
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Completed 3/04/16 Rating 5 stars
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Completed 20/02/16 Rating 3 stars
5. The Martian by Andy Weir Completed 16/01/16 Rating 4 stars

3/5 Jan-Mar
2/2 April

Total 5/5

Challenge completed

Completed 3/5 January - March. I'm in the middle of reading the fourth book (completed 3/04/16) and have the fifth book planned for this month so will update here when finished (completed 19/04/16).

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Amanda!
I have three Amanda' s in this challenge so please let me know if i make mistakes.

[Amanda]

Thanks. Call me Amanda R!

[Bromide]

Almost every single one of these is on my to-read long list, so it'll be hard narrowing it down, but I want to shoot for 4.

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[Julie]

I'm in for 4 books:

1. The Girl with All the Gifts
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. The Color Purple
4. The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency

2/4 complete
I finished The Color Purple
I finished The Girl with All the Gifts

[Blagica , Challenges]

Added to here welcome to you both.

[Maria]

I'm in for 6 books. (TBD)

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Maria good luck with your 6!

[Maria]

Blagica wrote: "welcome Maria good luck with your 6!"

Thank you!

[Nik]

I'm in for three. I have been wanting to do this on my own anyway, so I'm happy to have discovered this challenge (almost at the last minute—wheee!).

Thanks!

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Nik even if you discovered it late I would have added you!

[Blagica , Challenges]

welcome Silija! You have been added for 5 good luck!

[Amanda]

I'll be the 4th Amanda joining this challenge so call me Amanda P :-)

I've read many of the group read books over the last couple of years, but there are 13 on the list that I still want to read.

I'll start this challenge with 8 books and then increase if I have time.

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury- finished 3rd January 2016
2. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente - finished 12th January 2016
3. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Cary - finished 17th January 2016
4. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - finished 1st February 2016
5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - finished 6th February 2016
6. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - finished 15th February 2016
7. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinder - finished 20th February 2016
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - finished 26th February 2016
9. The Princess Bride by William Goldman - finished 3rd March 2016
10. The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff - finished 20th March 2016

10/8

[Maria]

Sign me up for 5!

1. Between Shades of Gray
2. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
3. The Night Circus
4. All the Light We Cannot See
5. The Knife of Never Letting Go

5/5

[Sheryl_at_Ubookquitous]

I'm in for 3.

2/3


1. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

✔ 2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Completed Thursday 21 January 2016

✔ 3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker completed 19 February 2016

[Tawallah]

I'm in for three.

3/3

1. ✔ Between Shades of Gray

2.✔ Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore

3. ✔ A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Ornina]

Sign me up for four books please :

1-Lolita
2- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3-The Silver Linings Playbook
4- Gone Girl
5- The Kite Runner
2/5

[Blagica , Challenges]

added to here and welcome!

[Janine]

I'm in for four :)

Planning:

✔ 1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Bell Jar ★★★★
✔ 3. Water for Elephants ★★★★+
✔ 4. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America ★★★

4/4

[Renee]

I'd like to join for 8 (with a stretch goal of 12). There are at least that many books on the list that I want to read - hopefully the library will have some of them!

GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

Progress: 0 / 8 (stretch goal of 12)

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[Diana S]

GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016
Books Read: 3/9

I'm going to try nine. (3 books per month)

List of Books to choice from
The Martian
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Girl with All the Gifts
All the Light We Cannot See
Water for Elephants
The Secret History
Station Eleven
Between Shades of Gray
Matched
The Book of Strange New Things
A Discovery of Witches
✔Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (3/6/16) ★★★★
The Night Circus
✔ The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (1/8/16) ★★★★
✔ The Color Purple by Alice Walker (2/14/16) ★★★★

Group Reads

[Cheri]

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!! Very glad to have read these books; the challenge spurred me to finally read them. Thank you!

There are several books on there on my TBR list. I will try to read 4 of them this quarter. Here's the plan:

✔ 1. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)
✔ 2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (2 stars)
✔ 3. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (5 stars)
✔ 4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (3 stars)

[Heather Nicolé]

I'm in for 4, please!

1. The Martian
2. All the Light We Cannot See
3. The Book of Strange New Things
4. Life After Life

[Tarah]

I will do 6

[ChrisP]

Put me down for 3

[Nik]

> I'm in for three.

[1/3]

1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (★★★★★)

[Ornina]

Blagica wrote: "added to here and welcome!"
Dear can you update my challenge total to 4. i just realized that Gone girl, the book i am currently reading was one of your past group reads.

Thank you :)

[Polly]

I'm in for 5.

1. The Help Reserved with my local ebook library.
2. Catch-22 On my bookshelf and I've been meaning to read it for a long time.
3.The Knife of Never Letting Go On my TBR list already and reserved with my ebook library.
4. The Girl with All the Gifts On my bookshelf for a while now.
5.The Night Circus Reserved with my library and sounds really great. Friends have given it a 5 star.

Read 0/5

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here please let me know if I have made any errors.
Ornina you are now at 4. most welcome

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated Amanda congrats on your first book.

[Nik]

[2/3]

1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (★★★★★)
2. The Night Circus (★★★★★)

/NN

[Willemijn]

Does The Martian count, as the challenge is about past group reads, and this is the current group read?

If it does count, sign me up for 4 books please.
If it doesn't, sign me up for 3 books please.

Thanks!

[Amanda]

I've finished my first book and updated message 80.

1/8 complete.

Thanks,
Amanda P

[Blagica , Challenges]

Willemijn wrote: "Does The Martian count, as the challenge is about past group reads, and this is the current group read?

If it does count, sign me up for 4 books please.
If it doesn't, sign me up for 3 books plea..."

lots are counting it so i will put you down for 4

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here. welcome to all the new comers congrats Amanda on your first book and Nik on your second.

[Willemijn]

Blagica wrote: "lots are counting it so i will put you down for 4 "

Thanks!

[Maureen]

I'm in for 5

1st Quarter Challenge
GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads! This challenge was brought back at the suggestion of several members of the group.

1. Check out the list of all past group reads
2. Decide how many you'd like to read this quarter
3. Read!
4. Tell us what you thought of them in this thread.

I want to do 5

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