Jenn's Challenge Recording Thread

[Jenn]

I'm starting these at the point I joined the group, so ignoring the books I read until ~20th Jan.

I'm going in for a lot of the challenges at the moment, as I'm spent the beginning of the year being ill repeatedly and keep being told to rest - therefore doing a lot of reading and it is good to have things to help me choose what to read next (and to make me feel like I'm accomplishing stuff).

[Jenn]

Buyer's Remorse: The TBR CHALLENGE (2016)

List for ebooks
Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. The House of the Vestals (I think I haven't read this one before, but not certain)
2. A Gladiator Dies Only Once
3. Strong Arm Tactics
4. Guardians Inc.: The Cypher
5. The Phoenix Code

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6. The Etymologicon
7. The King's Peace
8. The King's Name
9. The Prize in the Game
10. An Island of our Own

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
11. Roma
12. The Diving Bundle: Six Diving Universe Novellas
13. Crossfire
14. Matter
15. The State of the Art

Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
16. Inversions
17. Grey's Ghost
18. Faery Swap
19. Near + Far
20. Azkhantian Tales

List 2 for ebooks
Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. The Fairy Tale Trap
2. NPCs
3. The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines of the Air Transport Auxiliary
4. Destiny's Hourglass
5. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6. Miss Landon and Aubranael

List for paper books
Level One (5 TBR books) = List Tickler
1. Jumper
2.
3.
4.
5.

Level Two (10 TBR books) = List Tamer
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Level Three (15 TBR books) = Captain of the Shelf
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

Level Four (20 TBR books) = Master of All Dust Bunnies
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

(I can always merge the lists if needed but keeping them separate for now)

[Jenn]

WINTER BINGO 2016 - Challenge finished!

B1: Award Winner
B2: Graphic Novel
B3: Silver Lettering - Chains and Memory
B4: Mystery or Thriller - The House of the Vestals
B5: Current Event Related - Kindred Spirits

I1: Start a Series - The King's Peace
I2: Middle Grade -
I3: Blue Cover - The Seven Wonders
I4: > 400 pages - Roma
I5: Personal Improvement

N1: Classic
N2: Made into a Movie
N3: FREE - A Gladiator Dies Only Once
N4: Science Fiction - Nautilus
N5: Humor - Strong Arm Tactics

G1: Magical Realism
G2: LGBTQ+ - Metaphase
G3: White Cover - Commando Bats
G4: Published In Your Birth Year
G5: Biographical

O1: Published Last Year -
O2: Epistolary
O3: Gold Lettering - The Judgement of Caesar
O4: Based on Mythology - The King's Name
O5: Math/Science - The Phoenix Code

[Jenn]

2016 Alphabet Soup Challenge


A- The Ashford Affair
B- Barbary
C- Commando Bats
D- The Diving Bundle: Six Diving Universe Novellas
E- The Etymologicon
F- Fright Court
G- A Gladiator Dies Only Once
H- The House of the Vestals
I- Inversions
J- The Judgement of Caesar
K- The King's Peace
L- Last Seen In Massila
M- Metaphase
N- Nautilus
O- The Other Daughter
P- The Phoenix Code
Q-
R- Rubicon
S - Strong Arm Tactics
T- The Triumph of Caesar
U-
V- The Venus Throw (I think this one is new to me)
W- Whispered Magics
X-
Y-
Z-

[Jenn]

First! First! (Debut Novel) January 2016

I've just read Guardians Inc.: The Cypher by Julian Rosado-Machain - it was okay - fun, but fairly light. I'd like to read the next book in the series at some point, but don't feel I *need* to read it right now.
I think from the info on here that it is a debut novel...

[Camille]

Good luck with your challenges!
I hope you feel better soon.

[Jenn]

Camille wrote: "Good luck with your challenges!
I hope you feel better soon."

Thank you! I'm hoping the doctors figure out what is going on (and so can either do something to help or tell me what I should be doing)

[Jenn]

Non-fiction challenge

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

10 books

[] NF book with > 500 pages
[x] History - The Great Turning Points in British History
[] NF book that became a movie
[] NF about Relationships
[] NF book published this year
[] Religion or Philosophy - The Cathars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Heresy
[] NF book with a number in the title
[] Biography
[x] A funny NF book The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
[x] NF book by a female author The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines of the Air Transport Auxiliary
[] a How-To book
[] NF book with a one-word title
[] NF about Nature or Animals
[x] A NF book set in a different country - Sir John Hawkwood Chivalry and the Art of War
[] Health/Wellness
[] NF book a friend recommended
[] Prize winning NF book
[] Minority Studies
[] NF book that scares you
[] Self Improvement
[] A NF about something that happened in the decade you were born
[] LGBTQ
[x] A NF book with a place in the title - Dark History of the Kings and Queens Of England
[] NF related to Current Events
[] NF book you own but have never read
[] NF book that takes place in your hometown
[x] a Memoir - The Devil's Cup
[] NF book written by an author with your same initials or first name
[] Math/Technology
[] A NF book you started but never finished

[Jenn]

Very Very Valentine (February 2016)

I realise one of the books I read in Feb would count for this challenge: Speak Its Name, as it has a flower on the cover.

[Jenn]

Luck 'O The Irish (March 2016)

I read , which counts for this as the main character is Irish.

[Jenn]

Leap Year (February 2016)

Today I read: An Island of our Own.
It was a short children's book, but I realised that it would still count for this challenge. :)

[Jenn]

SPRING BINGO 2016

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

B1: Award Nominated - Go Set a Watchman
B2: Memoir
B3: Audio Book
B4: Green Cover
B5: Pretty Dress - The Ashford Affair

I1: Published before 1900
I2: Travel - Raiders of the Nile
I3: Horror or Suspense - The Other Daughter
I4: Mental Illness
I5: Fairies or Fae

N1: Published This Year
N2: Yellow Cover
N3: FREE -Street of the Five Moons
N4: Romance - That Summer
N5: Male POV - Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

G1: Tear-Jerker
G2: In Translation
G3: Minority Studies
G5: Young Adult
G6: Magical Powers - Fright Court

O1: Fairy Tale Retelling
O2: Historical (F or NF) - Empire
O3: Play
O4: Based on a True story
O5: Pink Cover

[Jenn]

Feather Weight Challenge (June-December 2016)

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 Penric and the Shaman
2 Azkhantian Tales
3 The Fairy Tale Trap
4 Miles to Go
5 NPCs

Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines of the Air Transport Auxiliary
7 Destiny's Hourglass
8 Nobody's Son
9 Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
10 Miss Landon and Aubranael

Level 3 Taking Flight
11
12
13
14
15