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Gosh, Amy, you've completed 15 books. Congratulations. You'll zip through this in no time! :)I hope you enjoyed reading them. I'd love to see your rating.
Anna wrote: "Gosh, Amy, you've completed 15 books. Congratulations. You'll zip through this in no time! :)I hope you enjoyed reading them. I'd love to see your rating."
I will if I don't hit a reading slump right in the middle! It happens!
22/52 - Going strong even after a horrendous reading slump!
Wow, Amy - you are doing great! I have a lot of the books in your challenge on my TBR list. Are you doing multiple challenges? What will you read when you complete this challenge?
Brooke wrote: "Wow, Amy - you are doing great! I have a lot of the books in your challenge on my TBR list. Are you doing multiple challenges? What will you read when you complete this challenge?"After this challenge I will do the Popsugar challenge :-)
Wow, you're destroying it! Things Fall Apart is on my challenge too. Did you enjoy it?
I gave Things Fall Apart 5 stars. Don't go into it expecting to like or even sympathize with the main character. It's a glimpse into a very different culture at a time when western ideals are being forced on this society that has never even seen white men before. It was quite moving actually. I hope you enjoy it!
I really struggled with Things Fall Apart. There were just too many awful things that, although culturally acceptable, I couldn't reconcile.
Jody wrote: "I really struggled with Things Fall Apart. There were just too many awful things that, although culturally acceptable, I couldn't reconcile."For me, once I realized that the author never meant for us to like the character, I quite enjoyed the book. The intense clash between the epitome of tradition and Christian ideology felt genuine to me. I never felt bad for him at all, but I could feel his anger, his confusion and his disbelief that everything he and generations before him had known could be so easily and so thoroughly thrown aside. I imagine it's quite like the old men in our own modern culture trying to hold on to their beliefs and traditions while the world is changing so rapidly around them. They feel 100% right in their beliefs but hopeless to understand how or why everyone around them is throwing out those values and beliefs for completely foreign ideals. Many people may feel that the new way is better but that doesn't make it any less confusing, heartbreaking and just plain frustrating for those traditionalists dealing with the changes. Change is scary and not everyone is able to just shrug their shoulders and accept it. For me, it was interesting to see the other side of the struggle, if that makes sense.
That makes total sense. I think it's one I need to revisit, and frame it that way.
I loved Things Fall Apart. I really enjoyed the immersion in another culture foreign to me.
2017 Also Read:Saga: Vol. 1
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Pierce Brown's Red Rising: Son Of Ares #1
Those Left Behind
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
The Illustrated Guide to Limbo City
Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love
The Crabby Condition
Snow Blind
Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky
What Is It?
Blood Vice
Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
Sand
The Arrival
Y is for Yesterday
Wires and Nerve, Volume 1
Wool: The Graphic Novel
Robert Michals: The Demon in the Trees
Pierce Brown's Red Rising
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Death: The Time of Your Life
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I am actually done Anna. I noticed this morning that two books on my Also Read list fit my last two topics. Now the long wait until next year!
Thank you Anna and Silvia. There have been a couple of stretches that I didnt think I would finish at all. :-)
Marina H wrote: "Great work, Amy! Congrats"Thank you Jody and Marina!
Good for you, Amy! Do you have a Goodreads Challenge number, also.
Valerie wrote: "Good for you, Amy! Do you have a Goodreads Challenge number, also."I do Valerie. I am at 72 of 100. My personal goal is closer to 120 but I think that may be stretching myself a lot unless I read a LOT of graphic novels the last few months of the year. I don't have any planned at the moment however. 100 books in a year is nothing to scoff at anyway, :-)
That's my goal too, Amy - 100 books in this year. Congrats on finishing AtY!
Kathy wrote: "That's my goal too, Amy - 100 books in this year. Congrats on finishing AtY!"Oh 76 already Kathy. Great job!
°~Amy~° wrote: "Kathy wrote: "That's my goal too, Amy - 100 books in this year. Congrats on finishing AtY!"Oh 76 already Kathy. Great job!"
Thanks! Unfortunately I've saved a few door stops for fall -- The Historian, The Name of the Wind and Outlander. Yikes!
Kathy wrote: "°~Amy~° wrote: "Kathy wrote: "That's my goal too, Amy - 100 books in this year. Congrats on finishing AtY!"Oh 76 already Kathy. Great job!"
Thanks! Unfortunately I've saved a few door stops for ..."
Oh wow. Those are all massive. I read exactly 60% of The Historian before I walked away from that. It really wasn't my thing to start with and then it was just too darn heavy to hold! lol
Katie wrote: "Way to go! Party time!"Thank you Katie
Around the Year in 52 Books
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Death: The Time of Your Life (other topics)The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (other topics)
The Historian (other topics)
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✓1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - Salt to the Sea
✓2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - Legend
✓3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - Tales of the Peculiar
✓4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Blackout
✓5. A historical fiction - Once
✓ 6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Before I Fall
✓ 7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - Badass and the Beast: 10 Tails of Kickass Heroines and the Beasts Who Love Them
✓ 8. A book written by a person of color - Things Fall Apart
✓9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - The Girl with All the Gifts
✓10. A dual-timeline novel - Horns
✓11. A category from another challenge (Read an All Ages Comic/Book Riot) - Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #1
✓12. A book based on a myth - Limbo City Lights
✓13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - The Rest of Us Just Live Here
✓14. A book with a strong female character - The List
✓15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
✓16. A mystery - A Study in Scarlet
✓17. A book with illustrations - Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, Vol. 1: After Life
✓18. A really long book (600+ pages) - We, the Drowned
✓19. A New York Times best-seller - Heartless
✓20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - Seventh Grave and No Body
✓21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - Paper and Fire
✓22. A book by an author you haven't read before - A Tale Du Mort
✓23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link) - The BFG
✓24. A book written by at least two authors - The Long Earth
✓25. A book about a famous historical figure - Prisoner B-3087
✓26. An adventure book - The Color of Magic
✓27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Where Hope is Lost
✓28. A non-fiction - Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
✓29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses - Shadows in the Water
✓30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books - A Monster Calls
✓31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - sci-fi/space-opera The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
✓32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) - The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver: A Middle Falls Time Travel Novel
✓33. A magical realism novel - Every Heart a Doorway
✓34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - The Scarlet Reaper
✓35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty - King's Cage
✓36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link) - Flowers for Algernon
✓37. A book you choose randomly - Life is Short: The Collected Short Fiction of Shawn Inmon
✓38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - The Jungle Book: Manga Classics
✓39. An epistolary fiction - A Closed and Common Orbit
✓40. A book published in 2017 - Caraval
✓41. A book with an unreliable narrator - History Is All You Left Me
✓42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - The Thirteenth Tale
✓43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) - We Are The Few
✓44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" - WILDCARD:Lincoln in the Bardo
✓45. A book with a one-word title - Scythe
✓46. A time travel novel - Doomsday Book
✓47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) (A comic or graphic novel) - Goldie Vance Vol. 1
✓48. A banned book - The Old Man and the Sea
✓49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - Eleanor & Park
✓50. A Penguin Modern Classic, any edition -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✓51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) - The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
✓52. A book set in a fictional location - Doctor Who: Judgement of the Judoon
★= Currently reading
✓ = Completed