Anita's 2017 Challenges - **May She Do Better than 2016**

[Anita]

Play Book Tag: Climbing the PBT Stairs

Step 1: series
Book 1: Old Man's War
Step 2: sports
Book 1:The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
Book 2: The Sport of Kings
Step 3: true crime (admin stair)
Book 1: Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
Book 2: Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Book 3:The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
Step 4: memoir
Book 1: Born to Run
Book 2: Alligator Candy: A Memoir
Book 3:Between Them: Remembering My Parents
Book 4: The Rules Do Not Apply
Step 5: 1001 Books
Book 1: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Book 2: Dom Casmurro
Book 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book 4: Invisible Man
Book 5: The Trial


**Challenge complete on 10/25**

[Anita]

Play Book Tag: Hitting the PBT High Notes

The list below reflects my planned reads. Will note the date of completion and ratings as they are finished.


2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2015 - Epitaph
2014 - The Snow Child - finished 9/24, 3 stars
2013 - The Light Between Oceans - finished 4/27, 2 stars
2012 - City of Thieves
2011 - Doc
2010 - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
2009 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - finished 6/18, 3 stars
2008 - The Other Boleyn Girl

[Anita]

Play Book Tag: Read one book that fits the monthly tag

January: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
February: Lincoln in the Bardo
March: The Picture of Dorian Gray
April: Bossypants
May: Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood
June: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
July: The Sport of Kings
August: Old Man's War
September: No Country for Old Men
October: World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
November: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
December: The Hate U Give

** Done on 12/10/17**

[Anita]

Read 50 Books in 2017

1. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 3 stars
2. Born to Run - 3 stars
3. Moonglow - 3 stars
4. Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder - 3 stars
5. Lilac Girls - 4 stars
6. Dom Casmurro - 3 stars
7. Lincoln in the Bardo - 5 stars
8. Alexander Hamilton - 4 stars
9. The Nix - 5 stars
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray - 4 stars
11. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team - 3 stars
12. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings - unrated
13. Bossypants - 3 stars
14. The Trial - 3 stars
15. Invisible Man - 4 stars
16. Of Mice and Men - 5 stars
17. The Light Between Oceans - 2 stars
18. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - 4 stars
19. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - 4 stars
20. Seven Days of Us - 3 stars
21. Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood - 4 stars
22. Alligator Candy: A Memoir - 3 stars
23. Exit West - 4 stars
24. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 3 stars
25. The White Tiger - 4 stars
26. Between Them: Remembering My Parents - 3 stars
27. Anything Is Possible - 5 stars
28. The Sport of Kings - 4 stars
29. Hallucinating Foucault - 5 stars
30. Waking Lions - 3 stars
31. Yellow Crocus - 4 stars
32. The Rules Do Not Apply - 4 stars
33. History of Wolves - 4 stars
34. Old Man's War - 3 stars
35. 4 3 2 1 - 4 stars
36. The End of the Affair - 2 stars
37. Elmet - 2 stars
38. Solar Bones - 5 stars
39. Home Fire - 3 stars
40. No Country for Old Men - 4 stars
41. Autumn - 3 stars
42. The Snow Child - 3 stars
43. Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom - 3 stars
44. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball - 4 stars
45. Revenge - 4 stars
46. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech - 4 stars
47. Pachinko - 4 stars
48. Mrs. Fletcher - 3 stars
49. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story - 4 stars
50. Little Fires Everywhere - 3 stars
51. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League - 5 stars
52. Beneath a Scarlet Sky - 2 stars
53. Lab Girl - 5 stars
54. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - 5 stars
55. Worlds' End - 4 stars
56. Her Body and Other Parties - 3 stars
57. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - 3 stars
58. The Hate U Give - 3 stars
59. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose - 3 stars
60. Beartown - 5 stars
61. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 3 stars
62. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - 5 stars

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**Challenge completed on 10/29**

[Anita]

Other things I want to track, but am not considering challenges.

As I have proven I'm not so great at finishing challenges as it is.

PBT Top 100 Lists - Read 6 fiction/6 non-fiction:

1. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - fiction
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - fiction
3. The Light Between Oceans - fiction
4. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - non-fiction
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - fiction
6. The Snow Child - fiction


Read 6 books >500 pages:

1. Born to Run
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. The Nix
4. The Sport of Kings
5. 4 3 2 1
6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky


Books published in 2017

1. Seven Days of Us
2. Exit West
3. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
4. Lincoln in the Bardo
5. Between Them: Remembering My Parents
6. History of Wolves
7. 4 3 2 1
8. Elmet
9. Home Fire
10. Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
11. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball
12. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
13. Pachinko
14. Mrs. Fletcher
15. Little Fires Everywhere
16. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
17. Her Body and Other Parties
18. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
19. The Hate U Give
20. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
21. Beartown
22. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
23. Anything Is Possible
24. The Rules Do Not Apply

[Anita]

Anita wrote: "Play Book Tag: Climbing the PBT Stairs

Step 1: series
Book 1: Old Man's War
Step 2: sports
Book 1:[book:The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of B..."

Ok, I only need ONE more book to finish my steps. This seems like a minor miracle. Who has a good true crime book to recommend???

[Sushicat]

How about Columbine?

[Anita]

Great suggestion, but I have already read it. I thought it was outstanding though so good thought!!

[Ladyslott]

Anita wrote: "Anita wrote: "Play Book Tag: Climbing the PBT Stairs

Ok, I only need ONE more book to finish my steps. This seems like a minor miracle. Who has a good true crime book to recommend???
..."

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
In Cold Blood
The Executioner's Song
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

Just about anything by Ann Rule but the best one is probably:

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

[Anita]

Thank you so much, Linda! I have read two of those, but not the rest!!

[Book Concierge]

Anita wrote: "Ok, I only need ONE more book to finish my steps. This seems like a minor miracle. Who has a good true crime book to recommend??? ..."

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule is EXCELLENT!

[Anita]

Book Concierge wrote: "Anita wrote: "Ok, I only need ONE more book to finish my steps. This seems like a minor miracle. Who has a good true crime book to recommend??? ..."

[book:The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Sho..."

Thank you for the suggestion!! It echoes Linda's so I'll see if I can get it.

[Anita]

Climbing the PBT Stairs and 50 Books are done! Woo hoo!!

[Amy]

Congratulations Anita! Great job. And it's not even November.

[Anita]

Thanks so much Amy! I have a chance to set a personal best this year which would be so cool!

[Susie]

Excellent work Anita!

[Anita]

Two more books until 60! The most I will have ever read . . .really hope I make it!

[[deleted user]]

Good luck, Anita, and congratulations on completing the PBT challenges early.

[Amy]

Anita, amazing job! I hope some of the reads this year have been wonderful! I know there have been some disappointments too. So proud of your accomplishment, and more to come. Excited to hear about the decathlon challenges. Sending love - Amy

[Anita]

Lisa A ⛄ wrote: "Good luck, Anita, and congratulations on completing the PBT challenges early."

Thanks so much, Lisa!!! I think I can, I think I can . . .

[Anita]

Amy wrote: "Anita, amazing job! I hope some of the reads this year have been wonderful! I know there have been some disappointments too. So proud of your accomplishment, and more to come. Excited to hear about..."

Awww, thank you, Amy! Not my best reading year, but some of my recent non-fiction reads made up for it. Can't wait for another year of fun filled reading with all my friends here.