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3rd Quarter Challenge: Chloe's 10 Challenge
OK! I am in! I am going to try my best to make this happen! PS: Please don't judge my book choices!
CHLOE'S 10 CHALLENGE
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2016
This challenge was created by Chloe, who won the Create a 3rd Quarter Challenge competition. To celebrate 10,000 members, we're going to put a dent in our to-be-read lists by sorting our to-read shelf in 10 different ways.
To sort , go to My Books page, click your to-Read shelf and scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll see "sort" with a drop down box next to it.
In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list.
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
This is a wonderful challenge and even though I doubt I'll be able to finish it with the 6 book clubs that I belong to, I'm going to give it a shot and will complete the list if it takes me to the end of the year!! CHLOE'S 10 CHALLENGE
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2016
8 of 10 completed
In ascending order:
**1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
The 13th Enumeration: Key to the Bible's Messsianic Symbolism by William Struse
Finished 8/9
**2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
Ghost House by Alexandra Adornetta
Finished 7/17
**3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list.
My Brother's Secret By Dan Smith Finished 11/11
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
The Collected Novels of José Saramago by Jose Saramago (NOTE--this book is 3,000 plus pages so I'm going to select one or more of the stories to total up to 200 to 300 pages to complete this task)
**5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly FINISHED 9/23
In descending order:
**6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list
The Wrong Man by Kate White
Finished 8/5
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
**8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.
**Robin of the Wood - Legend by Adam Greenwood Finished 7/28
**9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Finished 8/15
**10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
Artful by Peter David
Finished 9/29
I'd suggest to pick one 20th down. Another reader had the same thing happened so they choose to use the 20th book down That's what I was thinking of doing, so thanks for mentioning it and confirming the strategy!
1/10 books completedIn ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list: The 7th Woman
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list: Stranger Child
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list: Cat's Eye
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list: The Innocent
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list: You Belong To Me
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list: The Small Backs of Children
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list: Berzerker
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list: The Sudden Departure of the Frasers
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list: Before I Go
I'm in! Sounds interesting. Sign me up for 10.
3/10Ascending
Title: Did You Ever Have a Family - √
Author: The Language of Flowers
# of pgs: Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life - √
Date added: Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Random: I Let You Go
Descending
Title: Sisterland - √
Author: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society
Avg rating: The Serpent King
Date added: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Random: The Nightingale
Challenge accepted!In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list.
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
Edited post #29. I've finished my random pick in ascending order,
.I am 1/10.
Here's my list (7 days late)0/10
In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.- 2010: Odyssey Two
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.-The Dragon's Path
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Gone-Away World
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. -The Seer and the Sword
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. -Solar
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list - The Young Elites
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.- Blood Red Road
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Name of the Wind
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.- Disruption
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. -The Time Traveler's Wife
edit* - just requested two of the books from my library!
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I have got to say, I AM LOVING THESE BOOKS!! Excited for this quarter. :)
This sounds like fun! I'm going to go for 5. I've picked books for all 10 and will decide as I go which ones to read.CHLOE'S 10 CHALLENGE
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2016
This challenge was created by Chloe, who won the Create a 3rd Quarter Challenge competition. To celebrate 10,000 members, we're going to put a dent in our to-be-read lists by sorting our to-read shelf in 10 different ways.
To sort , go to My Books page, click your to-Read shelf and scroll to the bottom of the page where you'll see "sort" with a drop down box next to it.
In ascending order:
✓ 1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list. Ali in Wonderland read 8/14/2016
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. Lying Awake
✓ 4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art read 9/25/2016
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. The History of History
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list The Woman Lit By Fireflies
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
✓ 8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal read 8/11/2016
✓ 9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. Nobody's Fool read 9/10/2016
✓ 10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. Amity & Sorrow read 9/13/2016
5/5 Challenge completed!
Updated message 2Read 1/10 books
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list. The Assassin's Blade
This sounds like fun so I will join and just commit to the ascending task right now. So 5 for me!In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.:
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.:
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list.:
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.:
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.: Fallen Women
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list: (While you were Mine)
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. (loving frank)
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
Hmmm. . I think I'll try for 4. Haven't been reading as often as I'd like :(
Congratulations to everyone who joined. Updated to here
Update to message #42I have one book completed for this challenge.
Put me down for 10!In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list. - After You
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. - All the Birds in the Sky
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. - A Game of Thrones
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. - City of Glass
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. - Throne of Glass
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Last Star
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Girl of Fire and Thorns
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. - Magonia
10/10
Love this challenge! I'm in for 9 books (because 2 are coming up as the same).READ 4/9
In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list.
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
The Essential Rumi
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
Beyond Black
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list
* already part of this list
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.
Red Queen
Update to message #19.
✔ 2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë ★☆☆☆☆
Read from July 08 to 09, 2016
3/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 0 books
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 1 book
✔ 2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë ★☆☆☆☆
Read from July 08 to 09, 2016
3/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 0 books
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 1 book
Read 1/10 .Vampire's Kiss: A NEW ADULT, VAMPIRE PARANORMAL ROMANCE SAGA This was ok but very much twilight like, I'm not really into vampire romancey type books.
1/6Sort by author - tenth book down - Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso.
Sometimes you do these random selections and you think, why did I wait so long to read this book. This was not one of those times. Wrong book wrong time. I will revisit one day...maybe...just to be fair.
Updated message 2Finished 3/10 books
(Since I have a lot of series, if the 10th book down is in a series I'll just read the next book from that series that I haven't read yet. Like if Crown of Midnight is 10th I'll read Throne of Glass)
Update to message #19.
✔ 6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin ★★★☆☆
Read from July 10 to 13, 2016
4/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 1 book
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 1 book
✔ 6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin ★★★☆☆
Read from July 10 to 13, 2016
4/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 1 book
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 1 book
I'm in!CHLOE'S 10 CHALLENGE
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2016
10/10 Read - DONE!
Here's my list:
In ascending order:
In descending order:
Sounds like a unique challenge. I'm up for it.My list:
In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list. - I, Robot
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Pillars of the Earth
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Color of Magic
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. - Vicious
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. - High Society
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. - A Brief History of Seven Killings
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list. - Live Free or Die
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. - Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. - The Sandman: Overture
I'll aim for 6 of the 10 since some of them I don't own yet. And also The Pillars of the Earth is really long.
Updated message 28-- 4/10✔9. Sort by Date Added: Coastliners--07/06/16
✔2. Sort by Author: Behind the Scenes at the Museum--07/12/16
Updated post #29 and finished reading
. I have read 2 out of 10 books.
Updated message 2Read 4/10 books
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Fantastic challenge!! Count me in!In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.Στέλλα Βιολάντη
2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο
3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. Chemistry: The Central Science
4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.Madeline and the Bad Hat
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list Συννεφιάζει
7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.Ο φτωχούλης του Θεού
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list.Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.Matilda
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list.Murder in Mesopotamia
I don't promise I will read the science ones because they are HUGE and a bit expemssive :/
2/6 Bright Star - complete poems and selected letters of John Keats
Ahhhhhh what I wanted to say re my second book of this challenge was it was the tenth book on the descending order of my to read list - using average star rating (4.34). I was disappointed as I was hoping for more letters than were included, and for a book titled Bright Star - which is the name of the film about Keats and Fanny....there was only one letter from Keats to her. I only gave it three.
On the positive though, my first read in this challenge, The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony proved most beneficial, as Keats as a creature of his time references greek mythology throughout his work...but even with that prep, I didn't do his work justice in terms of understanding...it should be savoured rather than rushed....another to revisit.
I have to find a way to work it out since I'm working with so many different shelves and to-read is the one I use least ;-)In ascending order:
1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
4* /
4* (both German only)2. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. (A Lasting Impression / The Knights of the Cross)
3*3. Sort by Number of pages and read the 10th book down on your list. (The Road to Terminus)
5* /
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5*4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
4* /
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2*5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. (Plan Ikar=Icarus Agenda)
In descending order:
6. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list (You Are Here)
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3* /
book 1 of
4* (? not sure yet)7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list. (Small Towns, Big Dreams: Sexy Small Town Romance Starter Set / The One Who Sees Me / Lady Susan)
8. Sort by Average rating and read the 10th book down on your list. (Quo Vadis)
3*9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. (Just the Way You Are / Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More (book 1) / Eisiger Tod: Wegners erste Fälle (1.Teil): Hamburg Krimi - German only)
10. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. (A Secret Love / A Tale of Two Cities)
5*Finished: 11 books
Update to message #19.
In ascending order:
✔ 4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos ★★★★★
Read from July 07 to 14, 2016
5/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 1 book
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 2 books
In ascending order:
✔ 4. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos ★★★★★
Read from July 07 to 14, 2016
5/10
★☆☆☆☆ - 1 book
★★☆☆☆ - 0 books
★★★☆☆ - 1 book
★★★★☆ - 1 book
★★★★★ - 2 books
Updated message 2Read 5/10 books
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal
Updated message #82Read 1/10
5. Sort by Random and read the 10th book down on your list. Kiss Me Deadly July 15
Not the best book, but entertaining.
Updated to here. Welcome to the challenge everyone and congratulations to Anna and Jewel for reading half of their books
Updated #15.7. Sort by Author and read the 10th book down on your list.
- All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker ✔
1/10 complete
Updated message #82Read 2/10
9. Sort by Date Added and read the 10th book down on your list. book:The Library|18694158] July 17
Stay away from this one it's bad. Really bad. Thankfully it was a short one!
Update to message #19.
In ascending order:
✔ 1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque ★★★★☆
Read from July 10 to 18, 2016
6/10
In ascending order:
✔ 1. Sort by Title and read the 10th book down on your list.
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque ★★★★☆
Read from July 10 to 18, 2016
6/10
I've finished my first book today - Operation Kingfisher by Hilary Green. I've had this on my Kindle for ages and was looking forward to it, but have given it a disappointing 2. Updated message 38 - 1/10
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