C. Yang Reading Challenges

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INDEX
Symbols: ★☆✔

1. Harry Potter Sorting Hat Challenge (13/16)
2. All About Audiobooks Reading Challenge (3/50)
3. Baby Got Book (2/13)
4. Let's Do the Time Warp Again Challenge (7/12)
5.What's Your Major Challenge (18/21)

DISCLAIMER: I am a very slow reader. This is my way of motivating myself to find more time to read between studying and working.

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Harry Potter Sorting Hat Challenge

Easy - 7/8 books
Hard - 13/16 books

House: SLYTHERIN
Total Points: 19
✔ Snake - The Dream Thieves (Main character referred to as Snake #CountingIt) 5★★★★★
✔ Green/Silver - A Storm of Swords 4★★★★☆
✔ Murder/Suicide/Unrequited love - The Secret History 5★★★★★
✔ Cunning/Shrewd - Prince's Gambit 5★★★★★


Rival: GRYFFINDOR
Total Points: 11.5
➲ Lion - Narnia?
✔ Scarlet/Gold - Sula 3.5 ★★★★☆
✔ Ghost/Decapitation - The Raven King 4.5★★★★★
✔ Courageous/Chivalrous/Brave - A Thousand Splendid Suns (Laila) 3.5★★★★☆

RAVENCLAW
Total Points: 12.5
➲ Eagle/Bird shapeshifter -
✔ Blue/Bronze - Blue Lily, Lily Blue 3.5★★★★☆
✔ Scotland - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 4★★★★☆
✔Scholarly/Bookish/All knowing - Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Everyone) 5★★★★★


HUFFLEPUFF
Total Points: 12
➲ Medieval time (5-15th century) - Once and Future King? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
✔ Yellow/Black - Girl with Curious Hair 3.5★★★★☆
✔ Religious - No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam 3.5★★★★☆
✔ Hard working/Patient/Loyal - Kings Rising 5★★★★★

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All About Audiobooks Challenge

Duration: 01/12/2016 - 01/12/2017
Progress: 3/50
Levels:
(view spoiler)[Voice Over: 1-5 books
Remixer: 6-10 books
Audio Technician: 11-15 books
Sound Engineer: 16-20 books
Producer: 21-24 books
Director: 25-30 books
Executive Director: 50 books (hide spoiler)]
Freestyle Option

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
2. Hamilton: The Revolution
3. Girl with Curious Hair

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Baby Got Book

Progress: 2/13

Rule: Books over 450 pages or 12 hours.
Level: In for a penny, in for a pound.
(view spoiler)[
✦ In for a penny, in for a pound: 1 book
✦ Two's company, three's a crowd: 2 - 3 books
✦ Four or five to feel alive : 4 - 5 books
✦ 2, 4, 6, 8, bog in, don't wait: 6 - 8 books
✦ 9, 10, read it again: 9 - 12 books
✦ Bakers dozen: 13+ (hide spoiler)]

1. The Secret History
2. A Storm of Swords

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Let's Do the Time Warp Again Challenge

Progress: 6/12
Levels:
Easy - 3/4
Moderate - 5/8
Difficult - 7/12
BONUS - Read 4 books about time travel

Past (<1870):
1. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

"Modern" (1870-1969):
1. A Mathematician's Apology
2. The Art of the Novel
3. Sula

Present (1970-2016):
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns
2. The Dream Thieves
3. The Secret History

Future (>2016):
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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What's Your Major Challenge

Progress: 18/21
Rank Achieved: Junior

Rules: Book title, author name, or character begins with letter.
Levels:(view spoiler)[
Freshman = Read 1-5 books.
Sophomore = Read 6-12 books.
Junior = Read 13-18 books.
Senior = Read 19 - 26 books.
Double Major = Double up only on your favorites and go for an even 30. (hide spoiler)]

M - A Mathematician's Apology
A - The Art of the Novel
T - A Thousand Splendid Suns
H - Hamilton: The Revolution
E
M Maggie Steivater: The Dream Thieves
A
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History
I - Ignorance
C - Captive Prince
S - Simon Singh: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

S - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
T - The Raven King
Aslan, Reza: No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
T - The Foxhole Court
I
S - A Storm of Swords
Toni Morrison: Sula
I
C - Captive Prince: Volume Two
Steivater, Maggie: Blue Lily, Lily Blue