Mabo's out of topic challenge

[Anne]

So ! I never finished the 2015 challenge so i'm just keeping reading the books i chose for that list and adding some to complete a little list of 30 books with themes totally different to the 2016 challenge list. I just hope i can talk with people about books we'll have in common !

2016 book challenge
1.a trilogy (the second)
Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman 2/5
2.a trilogy (the third)
The amber spyglass - Philip Pullman 3/5
3.a book from your childhood
Les vacances - La comtesse de Ségur 4/5
4.a book with a love triangle
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell 3/5
5.a book set in the future
Wool - Hugh Howey 3/5
6.a book set in high school
Paper Towns - John Green 4/5
7.a book with a color in the title
The lilac sunbonnet - SRCrockett
8.a book that makes you cry
Extremely loud and incredibly close - Safran Foer
9.a book with magic
The eye of the world - Robert Jordan
10.a graphic novel
Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
11.a book by an author you've never read before
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
12.a book you own but have never read
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
13.a book that was originally written in another language
Steppen Wolf - Hermann Hesse
14.a book set during Christmas
Let it snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
15.a book written by an author with your same initials
The robber bride - Margaret Atwood
16.a play
A midsummer night's dream - Shakespeare
17.a banned book
I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
18.a book based on or turned into a tv show
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
19.a book you started but never finished
Ulysses - James Joyce
20.a book about sports
Slam - Nick Hornby
21.same year as your birthday
Valis - Philip K Dick
22.a book in a forest
A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson
23.a book about science
A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
24.autobiography
Black Boy - Richard Wright
25.a book set on another planet
Planetfall - Emma Newman
26.a book about mental illness
The belljar - Sylvia Plath
27.poetry
Where the sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein
28.a book set in another continent
The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini
29.post apocalyptic
The road - Cormac McCarthy
30.a book about books
The reader - Bernhard Schlink

[Anne]

Plus I'm part of a book club on twitter and we read a book a month. We vote every month for the next book so i'll try to add the books we read every time. 1book140

January
They're reading Persuasion but since i've already read this one i chose to catch on the december one that i didn't read

Charlie and the chocolate factory - Roal Dahl 4/5
Read this one faster than i thought, now i have to wait for the bookclub to decide what's next ^^

February
Between the world and me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 5/5
A really quick and intense book with a very important subject.

April
After a month without any book we're back in the game !
The boys in the boat by Daniel James Brown

[Zaz]

Good luck with Ulysses :)
Nice to see The Road, Wool, Eleanor&Park and Slam. I'm looking forward to your opinion on them and I hope you'll enjoy them!

[Anne]

Pulitzer Prize

I forgot that i have this huge challenge to read all the Pulitzer Prize books in fiction but i don't have any time limitation. So far i've read the three first books.
Here's the next book in the list :

1922 : Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
I've already read another book of his about the Ambersons, it seems he was famous at the time.

[Anne]

Zaz wrote: "Good luck with Ulysses :)
Nice to see The Road, Wool, Eleanor&Park and Slam. I'm looking forward to your opinion on them and I hope you'll enjoy them!"

I've started Ulysses years ago i really hope i can finish it someday :p
I'll definitely tell you what i think about all the books ^^

[Anne]

Goodreads's choice awards Best Books of 2015

Fiction
Go set a watchman - Harper Lee
Mystery & Thriller
The girl on the train - Paula Hawkins
Historical Fiction
The nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Fantasy
Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
Romance
Confess - Colleen Hoover
Science Fiction
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
Horror
Saint Odd - Dean Koontz
Humor
Why not me ? - Mindy Kaling
Nonfiction
Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
Memoir & Autobiography
A work in progress - Connor Franta
History & Biography
Dead Wake - Erik Larson
Science & Technology
Beneath the surface - John Hargrove
Food & Cookbooks
The pioneer woman cook's dinnertime - Ree Drumond
Poetry
The dogs i have kissed - Trista Mateer
Debut Goodreads Author
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
Young Adult Fiction
All the bright places - Jennifer Niven
Young Adult Fantasy
Queen of shadows - Sarah J. Maas
Middle Grade & Children's
Magnus Chase - Rick Riordan
Picture Books
The day the crayons came home - Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

[Anne]

Our shared shelf

Glad Emma Watson is doing her bookclub here. Hope to read more about feminism !

January
My life on the road - Gloria Steinem 4/5
February
The Color Purple 5/5

It's hard to follow since some books are hard to find in libraries here ^^
April
How to be a woman by Caitlin Moran

Link : Our shared shelf

[Anne]

So for February I'm adding Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates for 1book140 and will be reading the book of the month here : Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. I'll try to read To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee before reading Go set a watchman. I still haven't started Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. I'm finishing Les Vacances by La comtesse de Ségur and then I'll read another Rainbow Rowell that i didn't read last year. I've packed this month with lots of books, i'm counting on the holidays at the end of the month to have free time to read.

[Anne]

I'm reading fast for my challenge this year. The Ta-Nehisi Coates book was so intense and short i read it in no time.
I read Eleanor & Park just as fast and it was cute, i'm having trouble being interested in Attachments by the same author though.
I started the Color Purple and it's intense as well, i'll take my time with this one.
I'm enjoying my challenges for now but i'm still hoping to have a great and fascinating book next.

[Zaz]

Yes, E&P and Attachments are not at the same level, E&P had more depth and characters' building. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

I didn't pay attention that you listed Queen of shadows for the GR Choice Awards. It's the 4th in the series. I'll probably start the series before you as I'm very curious about it, so you'll have some feedback. Same for Red Queen, but my expectations for this one are pretty low.
And stay away from The girl on the train, it's sooooo depressing :p

[Anne]

Zaz wrote: "Yes, E&P and Attachments are not at the same level, E&P had more depth and characters' building. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

I didn't pay attention that you listed Queen of shadows for the GR Choic..."

I had no idea Queen of shadows was a 4th volume :ppp
The first book of the challenge is the Harper Lee's one but I never read To kill a mockingbird so i'm starting with that during the holidays ^^;

[Zaz]

I'm interested in knowing how you'll like both of them. I read To Kill some years ago and I'm curious about the new book but the reviews are really mixed.

[Anne]

Read Paper Towns really quickly, i really like John Green's writing style even though his stories have different qualities and i can see what is lacking in them. I realized i put 4 stars to each of his books though i can tell you which ones are better written. Overall i like the sweet and sour feeling i get off his books.

My bookclub on twitter has dwindled and we are but 7 or 8 members still wanting to read and share our reviews with each other. So march no one was around but for April we're back in the game with the story of the american rowing team who went to the 1936 olympic games and won right under the nose of Hitler.

I've finished How to kill a mockingbird and it was awesome so i'm ready to read Go set a watchman.

And i'm fighting my way through Our shared shelf choices because a lot of them aren't available in my country. Had to buy April's choice at a second hand shop online so i could read it.

I'm a bit late in the year challenge but that's because I've read three books of pure fanfiction during march and i don't regret it !