Megalion! Hear me ROAR... or hear me read... wait.. I don't hear...

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This is going to be interesting.


PBT - Non Fiction 100 challenge: some have been on my mental "hurry up and read". Hopefully this will be a good excuse to get to reading some of those.
Challenge to myself: Read 3 of them for 2016.
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May Monthly Tag 》Series

✔April Monthly Tag 》Female Authors: 38

✔PBT - No Crying in Baseball:(view spoiler)[
1st inning - Captive Paradise: The Story of the United States and Hawaii - FINISHED
2nd inning - did not get to bat
3rd inning - God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit - FINISHED
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I've signed up for some Crazy Challenge Connection challenges.... whoo boy

June Spell - America's Cup - BLACK MAGIC and RAINBOW
✔ May Spell - Tulipomania - picked Netherlands Finished May 25th
✔ April Spell - April Fool's - I picked Zoologist. Finished Apr 30th

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HELP ME DECIDE - Every 2 weeks, a book is picked for me off my 2016 reading Goals shelf. Joining in at round two:
Round 2 - Apr 16th:
Girl at War (Susan)
✔Daughters of the Silk Road - Apr 18th (Extra from Nadine)

Round 3 - Apr 30th: The Last Dragon
Round 4 - May 14th: All the Light We Cannot See
Round 5 - May 28th : The Thirteenth Tale
✔Round 6 - June 11th: Youngblood on July 10th
Round 7 - June 25th: I Am Malala
Round 8 - July 9th: Six of Crows
Round 9 - July 23rd: City of Thieves
Round 10 - Aug 6th: The Language of Flowers
Round 11 - Aug 20th: Confessions of the Whore Next Door: Sex Work as American as Baseball, Hotdogs, and Apple Pie
Round 12 - Sept 3rd: Between the World and Me
Round 13 - Sept 17th: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Round 14 - Oct 1st: The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

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READING ROULETTE 2016-2017:
JULY 2 - Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
(Read the first book on your TBR that has an item of clothing on the cover.)

JULY 16


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READING ROULETTE 2016: Every two weeks, random set of criteria given, you read the first book that matches.
✔ ♠Apr 9th: First book that takes place in future or past - Fingersmith
✔ ♠Apr 23rd: First book in TBR with Love in title. Queerspawn in Love: A Memoir - Apr
✔♠May 7: A book within positions 61-70. (#61) The Illegal - May 21st
♠May 21: Read the first book on your TBR whose title starts with "S." - Shadow and Bone
♠June 4: First alliterative author name on TBR - The Girl and the Bomb
♠June 18: Read the first book on your TBR whose title contains a day of the week. If none, contains "day". - What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

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New To You Authors 2016 - new author every month
✔ May: Predators: A Botswana Mystery by Frederick Ramsay
✔June: The Eloquence of the Dead by Conor Brady
✔July: Inhumanum & Made Men by Bradley Ernst
August:

Name Droppers - I chose to pick 5 actors in memoriam.

2016 Countdown - Starting from 2001, you read that number of books for that year that were published that same year. i.e. for 2005, you read 5 books published that year.
COMPLETED: 2001, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016


16x16 - most ambitious one yet. I came up with 16 categories. Now I must read 16 books for each.

2016 Book Titles A-Z

2016 Authors A-Z - alliterative twist

In Other Words - Spelling words in a different language! I chose Finnish. Need to find the translations though for the words I'll be using.

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From Girls Guns and Grimoires group

✔Around the world in 30 days - April Month challenge
This is proving to be a bit distracting because a piece of my mind keeps going "Oooh! there's another place!" and I stop and highlight it real quick. Then again, I frequently stop and highlight passages that stand out to me for whatever reason.
Quit tracking at 188 places, not counting duplicates


2016 Bingo!

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PBT - Shelfagories: I've already got some of them well covered including the more outlier ones. Namely the translation one. Core of the Sun for the win! Wonder how fast I can complete this? Will mark it from time of my joining post.

Note to self, Go with either Medea or Waiting for Godot for the Play category.

1. book with more than 750 pages The Far Pavilions (1,100+ pgs *faint*)
4. A book published this year
The Steel Kiss
5. A book written by someone under 30 The Vicious Deep
6. A book based entirely on its cover Mr. Clarinet (my god it was good)
7. A mystery or thriller King Of Swords
8. A book of short stories American Housewife: Stories
9. A nonfiction book Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
13. A book set somewhere you want to visit - The Girl and the Rat
14. A book set in the future - Koko Takes a Holiday
15. A book with magic California Bones (and rest of the trilogy)
17. A book that takes place in your hometown Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth (Pasadena - closest candidate to one childhood home)
22. A translated book - The Core of the Sun (Finnish)
23. A book published by an indie pressThe Huntingfield Paintress
24. A book about an indigenous culture: Dew Angels
25. A graphic novel - Klaw: The First Cycle
29. A book that scares you. The Circle
28. A book with non human characters Chosen (furry white bats that are quite fond of being hugged and cuddled.

Remaining under cut:
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2. A classic romance (what's considered classic? Gone with the wind would work I'm sure)
3. A book that became a movie or tv show
Linda, As in the Linda Murder
10. A popular author's first book
Light a Penny Candle
11. A book that won the Pulitzer Prize after the year 2000: All the Light We Cannot See
12. A book more than 100 years old
Treasure Island? Or another classic. Charles Dickens?
16. A book you own, but have never read
One of the Cathy Lamb books or Furiously Happy

18. A book written by an author with your initials
Men by Marie Darrieussecq
19. A play (Medea or Waiting for Godot)
20. A collection of short stories aka anthology
21. A microhistory

26. A book published the year you were born
27. A book set during Christmas or other winter holiday - Charles Dickens Scrooge, maybe one of the two nf books that examine Scrooge / Marley
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Personal Goals:
Celebrity Memoirs: I've a long list piling up. Goal: 5 of them
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2.
3.
4.
5.


Animal focused Non Fiction: 5 and one must be one of the bonobo ones.
1. Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor
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3.
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5.

Other Non Fiction: 5 more that aren't covered by the above two goals.
1. Captive Paradise: The Story of the United States and Hawaii - Apr 11th
2. God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit - May 2nd
3. Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
4. Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
5. Bullet Riddled: The First S.W.A.T. Officer Inside Columbine...and Beyond


A Big Project:
✔In a nutshell, I want to make some in roads into actually reading some of the "hot titles" and in general books within months of being published. I'll set a total goal of reading 50 books published in 2016 . 51 read as of 5/6/16


BWFFP 2016 Longlist - I'd like to say I read all of them but aim for 10 out of 20.



Million's Most Anticipated of 2016 part 1: 98 books total I think. Goal: 20


Part 2

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ARC Reading

Netgalley! - just joined.. 4/14... how many can I squeeze into my reading? And how fast can I turn them around?
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NG FEATURED (chronological)
1. Unlikely Friendships: Dogs
2. Twenty-Four Shadows
3. The Rwandan Hostage (later removed, unsurprisingly)
4. The Huntingfield Paintress
5. Of Pens and Swords
6. A Jerk, a Jihad, and a Virus
7. You Had One Job!
8. A Robot In The Garden
9. Dew Angels
10. B.S., Incorporated
11. The Silent Sounds of Chaos
12. The Departed
13. Bullet Riddled: The First S.W.A.T. Officer Inside Columbine...and Beyond
14. The Girl Who Could Read Hearts
15. The Devil's Prayer
16. Sealed Up: The Course of Fate
17. Untouchable
18. Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids

EDELWEISS FEATURED (chronological)
1. Waer
2. The Big Feminist BUT: Comics of Feminism
3. Dangerous to Know
4. Medea's Curse
5. Bob Stevenson
6. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

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In first month:
Netgalley: 122 approved, 61 posted, 50% & 9 featured reviews
Edelweiss: X reviews posted, 2 featured

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Wacky Reading Challenges group

✔ April 2016 Mini Challenge - Finished Apr 30th

✔Mini Challenge - Finished May 26th

June 2016 Mini Challenge



May 2016 Challenges:
Wacky Tunes
Word Search
Read-a-thon 1st-7th

A Year of Fun in the Sun 5/1/16 -> 4/30/17
To Infinity and Beyond 5/1/16 -> 11/30/16

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Personal Challenge: How many countries can I hit? Book must be centrally located there. Roughly started from 2016. Open ended.

ISLANDS:
Canary Islands - A Darker Sky
Castellamare (Italy) - The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel
Dominican Republic - Dancing in the Rain
Haiti - Mr. Clarinet
Hawai'i - Captive Paradise (bonus: NF History)
Jamaica - Dew Angels (Jamaican author)
Sicily -

EUROPE:
Finland - The Bodyguard
Netherlands - The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old

AFRICA:
Botswana - Predators: A Botswana Mystery
South Africa - The Woman Next Door

ASIA:
Iraq - Consequence: A Memoir