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DoodlePandas 2016 SFE Challenge
FIRST!
Now to try to figure out what books to read... lol!I have no idea how to find a book with my occupation in for instance.
But I guess that's part of the fun! :D
I'll probably have to go for Romance for that one. You can find a Romance protagonist for almost any profession, I think. :D
MrsJoseph wrote: "FIRST!"DOH! :)
My profession is pretty easy for a book with my occupation. jPod or Microserfs by Douglas Coupland would cover that.
Christa wrote: "I'll probably have to go for Romance for that one. You can find a Romance protagonist for almost any profession, I think. :D"^this
Christa wrote: "I'll probably have to go for Romance for that one. You can find a Romance protagonist for almost any profession, I think. :D"Hmmm good point! :D
If not, I can go for nurse maybe... Get called nurse often enough :P
Finished Morning Star today, so that will be my book published in 2016 :)
Just finished SELF HELP: SELF ESTEEM: Daring to be Great: Steps to Accepting Yourself and Being Confident (Self-Acceptance Confidence Transformation) which is my self-improvement book. Nice and short (which is not something that can be said about the title!!)Free on Amazon ;)
Read TAKEN BY THE X-RAY TECH: A Reluctant First Anal Sex With Doctor ShortWhich was the only book i could find that had my occupation in it...
No comment xD
DoodlePanda wrote: "Read TAKEN BY THE X-RAY TECH: A Reluctant First Anal Sex With Doctor ShortWhich was the only book i could find that had my occupation in it...
No comment xD"
*head spinning. Can't think clearly...What!!!!*
Haha, exactly! For more info, read my review! xD
DoodlePanda wrote: "Read TAKEN BY THE X-RAY TECH: A Reluctant First Anal Sex With Doctor ShortWhich was the only book i could find that had my occupation in it...
No comment xD"
LMAO!
OK, done some (stolen) changes :D
Considering changing "A book translated to English" into "translated to Norwegian". Not sure that would be cheating too much though... :P
DoodlePanda wrote: "Considering changing "A book translated to English" into "translated to Norwegian". Not sure that would be cheating too much though... :P"Seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless, like me, you can't read Norwegian...
LOL! Yes, I think it's totally fair - we import and translate all of the awesome Scandinavian fiction into English. Turn about is fair play, yes? It should count every bit as much for the purposes of this challenge.
Read some poetry today... Not convinced it's a genre that I will read a lot of in the future... Lol!But at least i can add Panikk! to the list!
Agreed!
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Is reading a book by a poet countable? Sjón has a few titles. I liked The Blue Fox."James Dickey was a poet, too, but he also wrote Deliverance. I'll let you extrapolate my point. :D
Lol. Too bad I don't do rereads. Deliverance was great.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Lol. Too bad I don't do rereads. Deliverance was great."Agreed. I'm almost tempted to reread and claim it as my poetry category. I'm not a poetry fan, though there are a couple of poems I love.
I fell it's less and less likely I will get anywhere near to finishing this challenge... lol
Know how you feel. There are definitely some challenges I'm really going to struggle with. Maybe lower the bar, and say "I'll achieve 75% of the SFE challenges" :)
It's early people. Early. Still not even a quarter of the way through the year. Poetry tends to be quick read. You could pick up T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It's 50 pages and quite meditative. I'd also suggest Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes. A couple of my favorite poems are in there.
Occupation and 600 pages are the two that are scaring me right now. I think everything else is doable.
There's also "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" for those King/Dark Tower fans. I plan on using it for my poem.
↪ A murder mystery finished The Dead RoomWhich also counts in two of my other challenges:
1/5 audiobooks finished
2/10 forgotten books finished
↪ A book set in your home Which will also be my S in the A-Z challenge
No provinces or regions in Norway? I still need to do the home state. Granted home state is way easier given how prolific the US is in producing books. I've only got a list of two potentials for home province right now. Although I've lived in a few provinces so technically they were my home province at one point.
There is, but they are small and it's very unlikely I'll find a book set here. Norway has less people than most of the US states anyways (around 5 million), so I thought it was fair :P
Totally fair. My province is 1 million people so I understand the issues with small populations. I think I've only read two or three books in my lifetime that were set in my province. Oddly enough I've read two books from Norwegian authors.
DoodlePanda wrote: "↪ A book you can finish in a day - Unicorn Western"Damn! I forgot that challenge. I travelled to London by train on Wednesday, and read all but the last 10 minutes of a book, but decided to finish it off the next day... Oh well, I'm going down there again next week, so will have another try then :)
Oh no, so close! Better luck next time :)
↪ A book written by a comedian - Døde menn går på skiI thought I was going to die of boredom and that my eyes would fall out from rolling so hard... Only reason I finished it was because it was fairly short and it would count for this challenge...
Wow. That sucks.
↪ The first book you see in a bookstore/library - The BeesSo I didn't technically see this at a book store, it was a small store that sells drink and snacks and such, but also has lots of books and magazines... And I went home and bought it on the Kindle for a fraction of the prize, because I'm not an idiot.
But it was the first book I saw in a shop. That also sells books. I say it counts :P
Orlok wrote: "Sounds good to me."Yay :D
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Shaman King, Vol. 1: A Shaman in Tokyo (other topics)
Awoken (other topics)
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25/40(?)
↪ A book based on a fairy tale - Scarlet
↪ A YA bestseller - Betrayed
↪ A book set in your home
statecountry - Snømannen↪ A book translated to
EnglishNorwegian - Piken på toget↪ A book that's under 150 pages - Q is for Quarantine
↪ A New York Times bestseller - Marked
↪ A self-improvement book - Daring to be great
↪ A book you can finish in a day - Unicorn Western
↪ A science-fiction novel - Zero
↪ A book recommended by a family member - Carry the Ocean
↪ A graphic novel - Bleach, Volume 27: Goodbye, Halcyon Days
↪ A book that is published in 2016 - Morning Star
↪ A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Taken by the Xray Tech
↪ A book that takes place during Summer - Flesh
↪ A book and its prequel Cinder + Glitches
↪ A murder mystery - The Dead Room + Glitches
↪ A book written by a comedian - Døde menn går på ski
↪ A dystopian novel - Red Rising
↪ A book with a blue cover - Awoken
↪ A book of poetry - Panikk!
↪ The first book you see in a bookstore/library - The Bees
↪ A book from the library - Hunted
↪ A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with - Shaman King, Vol. 1: A Shaman in Tokyo
↪ A book that takes place on an island - Desperation
↪ A book that's more than 600 pages - Insomnia
↪ A book about history (non-fiction or fiction) - Tales of the Japanese
A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy (The color of magic)
A book that won an award
A National Book Award winnerA book you haven't read since high school (Deperation)
A romance set in the future
A book set in Europe
A book that has or will become a movie
A book recommended by someone you just met
A book written by a celebrity
A classic from the 20th century (The hobbit/The last Unicorn)
A book about a road trip
A satirical book
A book at least 100 years older than you (Jules Verne?/Alice in wonderland)
A book from any Book Club
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A political memoir↛
A book from Oprah's Book Club↛
An autobiographyPossible replacements:
Book published the year I was born (The gunslinger)
Book with 2 or more people on the cover
Book about gamers/gaming
Some of these are unlikely to happen, so I might come up with some replacements :P