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Feather Weight Challenge (June-December 2016)
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 The Orchard: A Memoir
2Water Song (Once Upon a Time
3The Frog Prince
4Lord of the Flies
5The Stranger
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 Fright Time #12
7Fright Time #8
8Northanger Abbey
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Level 3 Taking Flight
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The 2016 Reading Challenge Group Mini Challenges > Feather Weight Challenge June-December 2016
June 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Completed 11/15
For this challenge, read more books with less then 280 pages. A break from all the chuncksters!
Three levels of five books each. This will run the remainder of the year.
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
√ 1. Blueberry Blues: A Gray Whale Inn Short Story by Karen MacInerney READ 6/13/2016 17 pages 3 stars
√ 2. The Ivory Tower by Kirstin Pulioff READ 6/25/2016 60 pages 2 stars
√ 3. A Scone Killer by Josephine Wiggle READ 7/2/2016 50 pages 2 stars
√ 4. The Sweet Revenge by Josephine Wiggle READ 7/2/2016 98 pages 2 stars
√ 5. A Deadly Parade by Josephine Wiggle READ 7/2/2016 104 pages 2 stars
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 Too Cute To Kill by Linda Crowder
7 Death among the Roses: a Melanie Hart Mystery by Anna Drake
8 Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
9 My Beautiful Broken Shell: Words of Hope to Refresh the Soul by Carol Hamblet Adams
10 The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 Hired Bride by Noelle Adams
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1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (223 pgs)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (251 pgs)
3. Lady Fortescue Steps Out (152 pgs)
4. The BFG (208 pgs)
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176 pgs)
Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Much Ado About Nothing (62 pgs)
7. King Lear (80 pgs)
8. The Twits (96 pgs)
9. Matilda (131 pgs)
10. Emperor Mage (228 pgs)
Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. A Lady of Integrity (270 pgs)
12. A Gentleman of Means (242 pgs)
13. First Year (278 pgs)
14. Resurrection Row (226 pgs)
15. The Zig Zag Girl (240 pgs)
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Books with less then 280 pagesThis will run the remainder of the year.
I will try level 1. I don't have too many of these books.
Completed: 5/5
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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finished June 15/20162
finished July 27/20163
finished July 4/20164
finished Aug 1/20165
finished Sept 11/2016
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Jenny wrote: "Leslie, have fun with it!"Will do. Thanks for putting this together. It is nice to have a short book from time to time. I have been reading A Song of Ice and Fire series this year...The biggest books I have ever read. When I pick up anything under 400 pages now it feels so light in my hands! giggle
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Mo's featherweight challenge.Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 - The Castle of Otranto 208 pages. Read 23 Jun 16.
2 - The Drowned World 198 pages. Read 3 Jul 16.
3 - Journey to the Centre of the Earth 184 pages. Read 5 Jul 16
4 - The President's Hat 208 pages. Read 6 Jul 16.
5 - The Secret Agent 269 pages. Read 10 Jul 16.
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 - Naomi 237 pages. Read 14 Jul 16.
7 - Hide and Seek 261 pages. Read 17 Jul 16.
8 - The Night Watch 160 pages. Read 25 Jul 16.
9 - A View from the Bridge 96 pages. Read 6 Aug 16.
10 - New Crochet: A Beginner's Guide, with 38 Modern Projects 224 pages. Read 14 Aug 16.
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 - The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark 135 pages. Read 16 Aug 16.
12 - A Simple Heart 64 pages. Read 17 Aug 16.
13 - Frankenstein 225 pages. Read 3 Sep 16.
14 - Of Mice and Men 112 pages. Read 12 Sep 16.
15 - Utz 127 pages. Read 19 Sep 16.
Cindy's featherweights:Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 - Wonderment in Death
2 - Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet with Style
3 - Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
4 - When Breath Becomes Air
5 - I Am the Cheese
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 - I Suck at Girls
7 - A Touch of Midnight
8 - Fair Coin
9 - Sold Into Marriage: One Girl's Living Nightmare
10 - A Gracious Plenty
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 - Above the Waterfall
12 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
13 - Deep Down
14 - War Horse
15 - A Plague of Zombies
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers1 - The Winter Girl by Matt Marinovich - 224 pages
2 - Incendiary by Chris Cleave - 256 pages
3 - A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen - 122 pages
4 - Klee Wyck by Emily Carr - 111 pages
5 - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - 179 pages
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 - Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood - 208 pages
7 - Blow Hot, Blow Cold by Ellery Queen - 147 pages
8 - A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea by Eunsun Kim - 228 pages
9 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - 149 pages
10 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 160 pages
Level 3 Taking Flight
11. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout - 208 pages
12. What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey - 228 pages
13. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet - 226 pages
14. My Home As I Remember by Lee Maracle - 160 pages
15. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
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Most of the books I've read this year are less than 280 pages, looks like all but one which was 378 pages. One I read is marked exactly 280. I guess that one counts if it were 281 it would be out. :)I could jump in on this one. It will look a lot like the TBR mini-challenge minus the first book, but with one additional book so.
The average number of pages I've been reading this year is 230-251. I usually try to avoid chunksters because they do take a long while to read and I am not a fast reader. I'm faster than I was in school but sti...SQUIRREL.
Oops just noticed this is from June to December. I have to edit my list. I just have one book since 01 June 2016.
Feather Weight Challenge:From 01 June - 31 December 2016
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 Brave New World - 177
2 No Love Lost - 176
3 The Assassination Affair - 158
4 Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It - 186
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Level 3 Taking Flight
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Jenny wrote: "Cap, good to have you along. Did you enjoy Brave New World?"Mostly yes. I had thought I had read it years ago, I might have started reading it then but stopped, because there were several parts that were new to me, maybe just forgotten but I'm not so sure.
Overall I liked it, but at times was too concerned with the exposition to the point of over explaining how the society functioned that it didn't leave much room for much of an actual story. It was about 3 chapters in before a "story" started shaping up. The first two chapters were mostly concerned with how babies in the society were "hatched" and "bottled" and integrated into the society's caste system. They were just about how the society ran, and how people were "processed" instead of naturally born. I'm not sure how much of the details of the process was actually needed to tell the story. It is sort of the difference between baking a cake entirely from scratch vs. using a package with the batter pre-mixed. So my interest didn't get started until around chapter 3 or 4. That could have been why any earlier attempts to read it years ago were halted.
The copy of the book I have was published around the time or just after the airing of the NBC made for television "movie" (2 part mini-series?) circa 1980. I think I had watched that back then but not sure, I do recall a few years back (late 1990s about 1998) there was another made for TV (cable tv) version that had Leonard Nimoy as the controller, but I don't recall too much of it. I sort of recall it didn't follow the book too closely and the caste system, which is an important part of the book, wasn't well represented or identified.
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Taking a glance at my TBR list for the year, I think at least 10 are less than 280 pages (probably more, but I'm also committed to the chunkster challenge. That's a lot of pages lol). I'll go for level two. Level 1- Ruffled Feathers
1. The Ideal Muslimah(268) It was dry but informative
2. Food, Genes, and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins (248)
3. Islamic Studies Book 1(252)
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Weirdly I've read a few feather weights this month already, all very good reads. So I might as well join :O)Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 The Time Machine (104 pages) 4* great victorian scifi
2 The Turn of the Screw (121 pages) 4* finally got to read this one
3 The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo (81 pages) 3.5* great narrator
4 Every Eye (144 pages) 4* beautiful writing
5 The Victorian Chaise Longue (99 pages) 4* unsettling
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (232 pages) 4* poignant & thought-provoking
7 Under Rose-Tainted Skies (272 pages) 4* charming heartfelt YA on agoraphobia & OCD
8 The Vegetarian (183 pages) 4.5* morbidly fascinating and thought-provoking
9 The Return of the Soldier (188 pages) 4* poignant with beautiful language
10 Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (168 pages) 4* psychological horror with bit of supernatural
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games (199 pages) 4* plot thickens
12 The Haunting of Hill House (246 pages) 4* psychological horror
13 A Study in Scarlet (143 pages) 4* Sherlock and Watson for the first time
14 Patience (255 pages) 4* comedy on serious subject of conjugal relationships
15 The Penelopiad (198 pages) 4* retelling of The Odyssey from Penelope's perspective
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers1 A Clockwork Orange
2 The Vile Village
3 Murder on the Orient Express
4 The Hostile Hospital
5 Giovanni's Room
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 The Turn of the Screw
7 After Alice
8 Twelfth Night
9 The Alchemist
10 The Day the Crayons Quit
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 Northanger Abbey
12 The Fall Guy
13 The Woman in Black
14 Lucky Jim
15 Dragonbreath
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fewer than 280 pagesLevel 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 Of Mice and Men
2 The Old Man and the Sea
3 The Book of Salt
4 The Leper of Saint Giles
5 The Hemingway Hoax
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 The Return of the Soldier
7 The Day of the Triffids
8 The Remains of the Day
9 Reading the Bones
10 The Wasp Factory
Level 3 Taking Flight
11 The Comedy of Errors
12 Captain Brassbound's Conversion
13 The Bad Beginning
14 Thérèse Raquin
15 This Census-Taker
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I'm in - I've got quite a lot of these that have been lingering on my reading list for a while (starting from the beginning of this month for simplicity).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
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Just read Under Rose-Tainted Skies and loved it - heartfelt, frank, hopeful YA novel dealing with mental illness (mainly agoraphobia and OCD) (review)
I have put in all I have read from June to find out what all I have read till now. Second round will be the actual count for this challenge.Featherweight Challenge
Duration: June-December, 2016
Books read:15/15
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FIRST ROUND: 1-15
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
✔ 1 Mrs. McGinty's Dead (229 pages) - 6/15/16
✔ 2 The Ice Palace (171 pages) - 6/23/16
✔ 3 Red Dirt Heart 4 (266 pages) - 6/25/16
✔ 4 Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle (267 pages) - 6/26/16
✔ 5 The Big Four (272 pages) - 6/26/16
Level 2 Flapping Wings
✔ 6 Third Girl (276 pages) - 7/1/16
✔ 7 Coraline (162 pages) - 7/5/16
✔ 8 Puddle Jumping (126 pages) - 7/5/16
✔ 9 The Way You Look Tonight (269 pages) - 7/6/16
✔ 10 Reviled (190 pages) - 7/8/16
Level 3 Taking Flight
✔ 11 Yours to Keep (201 pages) - 7/8/16
✔ 12 Superhero (136 pages) - 7/9/16
✔ 13 Defying the Odds (181 pages) - 7/10/16
✔ 14 Point of No Return (152 pages) - 7/11/16
✔ 15 Roads To Mussoorie (125 pages) - 7/13/16
SECOND ROUND - Starting from 16
✔ 16. The Housekeeper and the Professor (192 pages) - 7/13/16
✔ 17. Revenge (176 pages) - 7/14/16
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@ Allison - What I've done is sort my list here of books I've already got to read by number of pages and then have a nice list of books that qualify for this. It has been very good for me to help read a lot of the books that have been sitting around for a while.
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Jenn - that is a good idea!I've flapped my wings and going now for taking flight (message 28)
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Just finished The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #10 The Assassination Affair 158 pages. My list is message post #23.
CaptKirk42 Classic Whovian wrote: "Just finished The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #10 The Assassination Affair 158 pages. My list is message post #23."Didn't even know there were UNCLE books. Sounds fun :0)
Finally read The Haunting of Hill House, which was one intense read! - review
Veronique wrote: "CaptKirk42 Classic Whovian wrote: "Just finished The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #10 The Assassination Affair 158 pages. My list is message post #23."Didn't even know there were UNCLE book..."
Yes the UNCLE books were published mid to late 60s around the last couple of seasons of the show. There are 23 books published in the US the last one being harder to find apparently and apparently most sellers want a fortune for it. IN the UK there were 16 books published they were the same stories as the US books but in a different order, different cover designs. As the numbers tell some of the stories were not published in the UK. There are also 2 "Girl From UNCLE" books based on that spin-off show from around the same time.
CaptKirk42 Classic Whovian wrote: "Yes the UNCLE books were published mid to late 60s around the last couple of seasons of the show. There are 23 books published in the US the last one being harder to find apparently and apparently most sellers want a fortune for it....."Thanks :O)
Im so happy for this challenge :)Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers1 The Bridges of Madison County
2 The Tales of Beedle the Bard
3 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4 Quidditch Through the Ages
5 Prokleta avlija
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 Shirley Link & The Safe Case
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Three levels of five books each. This will run the remainder of the year.
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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Level 2 Flapping Wings
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Level 3 Taking Flight
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