Gabe's Challenges

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Finally a new corner!
Hopefully organized this year
I'll update as I complete them.

Yearly Challenges:

Quarterly Challenges:

Monthly Challenges:

Special Challenges:

Personal Challenges:

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Once upon a time...

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Previously...

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1. Demon Dentist, David Walliams
2. Salome, Oscar Wilde
3. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
4. War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
5. Colters' Wife, Maya Banks

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Personal Challenge: The NR Challenge
Read all of the Nora Roberts' books that I own. I'll start counting the ones I still have to read, then I'll backtrack the compillations and previous books. Organized by year of publication.

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Exploring USA

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Serious Readers Challenge
NBRC

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Serious Readers Challenge
NBRC

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Serious Readers Challenge
NBRC

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Mount TBR 2017

1. Demon Dentist, David Walliams
2. Salome, Oscar Wilde
3. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
4. War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
5. Colters' Wife, Maya Banks

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MnG 19

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Back to School

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SRC Winter
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5.1. ANCIENT (author)
5.2. Egypt, Iraq, Greece, Turkey
5.3. series #1
5.4. Fall 2016 5, 10 or 15 point tasks
5.5. pages with 1 or 2
5.6. Nicholas e derivados
5.7. Aesop's Fables
5.8. long, night, cold, wolf, old, snow, hunger
5.9. 2 and 5 (pages; 1st published)
5.10. Emil and the Great Escape

10.1. list
10.2. The Importance of Being Earnest
10.3. History/Historical fiction
10.4. FIRE ICE (title/author)
10.5. House of Many Ways
10.6. author 1st read in 2016
10.7. "environment," "ecology," "engineering," or "food"
10.8. Salome
10.9. Mythology
10.10. Horror

15.1. I, me, mine, myself AND autobiography/memoir
15.2. Night AND Time
15.3. Yes Please (page 1) AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (author) - one or two books
15.4. Nonfiction AND interrogative words (1 or 2 books)
15.5. BINGO (1st word title)
15.6. anything
15.7. Fantasy (genre)
15.8. NAHCOOO (title/subtitle/author)
15.9. Summer (title) OR list
15.10. aircraft (cover)

20.1. CARIBBEAN (author)
20.2. 2 word title same letter / author 1st and last, same letter
20.3. Dickens / Kentucky, Massachussets, Pennsylvania, Virginia / published year ending with 7
20.4. bones (cover)
20.5. list or short stories
20.6. IDK
20.7. 2 i and 2 E (title)
20.9. PROOFREADING (author)
20.10. Group Read

25.1.
25.2.
25.3.
25.4.
25.5.
25.6.
25.7.
25.8.
25.9.
25.10.
25.11.

30.1. anything
30.2. Pride and Prejudice + A-I-O-U (at least 3, no E)
30.3.
30.4. Insomnia + A Brief History of Time
30.5. anything
30.6.
30.7. Chicago, Berlin, Paris, London, Toronto (choose 2)
30.8. no fucking clue
30.9. no fucking clue
30.10.

Books: 4
Tasks: 4/60
BB:
GO: 2
Total: 35 (hide spoiler)]

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SRC Spring

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SRC Summer

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SRC Fall

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Around the Year with 52 Books: 5/52
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The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
5. A historical fiction
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
10. A dual-timeline novel
11. A category from another challenge
12. A book based on a myth
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
16. A mystery
17. Demon Dentist
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
19. A New York Times best-seller
20. The Importance of Being Earnest
21. Colters' Wife
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
24. A book written by at least two authors
25. A book about a famous historical figure
26. An adventure book
27. The War of the Worlds
28. A non-fiction
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
48. Salome
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
52. A book set in a fictional location (hide spoiler)]

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Genre Bingo Challenge : 0/25



Classics: Salome
Humor: Demon Dentist
Science Fiction: The War of the Worlds
Family Saga: Colters' Wife

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Translation Tango
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Option One:
Chose a level and read books that have been translated from their original language to the language you will be reading it in

LEVEL ONE
1. Demon Dentist, David Walliams
2. Salome, Oscar Wilde

LEVELS
Linguist: 1-5 books
Foreigner: 6-10 books
Got ya Grammar : 11-15 books
Lexical: 16-20 books
Verbal: 21-25 books
Interpreter: 26 or more

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Let's Turn Pages : 451/20k

1. Demon Dentist, David Walliams - 315
2. Salome, Oscar Wilde - 80
3. The Importance of Being Earnest - 56

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Popsugar Reading Challenge : 5/52
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1. A book recommended by a librarian
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
3. A book of letters
4. An audiobook
5. A book by a person of color
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title
7. A book that is a story within a story
8. A book with multiple authors
9. An espionage thriller
10. A book with a cat on the cover
11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability
14. A book involving travel
15. A book with a subtitle
16. A book that's published in 2017
17. A book involving a mythical creature
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
19. A book about food
20. A book with career advice
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective
22. A steampunk novel
23. A book with a red spine
24. A book set in the wilderness
25. A book you loved as a child
26. Demon Dentist
27. A book with a title that's a character's name
28. The War of the Worlds
29. A book with an unreliable narrator
30. A book with pictures
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
32. A book about an interesting woman
33. A book set in two different time periods
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title
35. A book set in a hotel
36. The Importance of Being Earnest
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before
40. A book you bought on a trip

Advanced
41. A book recommended by an author you love
42. A bestseller from 2016
43. Colters' Wife
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee
46. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of
47. Salome
48. A book that's more than 800 pages
49. A book you got from a used book sale
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book
51. A book about a difficult topic
52. A book based on mythology
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Around the World Through Language : 0/50

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Serial Reader Challenge
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I will finish __ series I have started before this year. (# books)
I will start __ series this year. (# books)
I will read __ series from start to finish this year. (# books)
I will read __ number of books that are part of a series. (# books)

My total number of books is _____
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Colors Challenge : 1/15
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Duration: January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...).

2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).

3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).

4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...).

5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).

6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).

7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...).

8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...).

9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).

10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).

11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...).

12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).

13. Demon Dentist

14. Read a book with a color in the title of the book.

15. Read a book with a word describing colors in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, ect...). (hide spoiler)]

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A to Z Challenge - Location Edition : 3/26
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A:
B:
C:
D: Denver, Colters' Wife
E:
F:
G:
H:
I:
J: Judeia, Salome
K:
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N:
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W: Woolton, The Importance of Being Earnest
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