The Really, Really, Really, Really, Hard 2017 Challenge!

[★ gwiz ★]

Have update challenge post 22 through November. Just Dec left to finish. :D

[⚜️XAR]

★ jazz ★ wrote: "Have update challenge post 22 through November. Just Dec left to finish. :D"

Yay!

[Krissy]

Finished :)

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[NayNay]

I finished my challenge, and it was another fun one.

Wishes everyone a Happy Holiday, have fun!!

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[⚜️XAR]

NayNay wrote: "I finished my challenge, and it was another fun one.

Wishes everyone a Happy Holiday, have fun!!..."

Congrats and Happy Holidays!

[Susan A]

Complete!

The Really....Hard Challenge

Thanks for hosting this challenge.

[Sam]

Finished in message 2.

[LaurLa]

Challenge complete for the year!! Always fun :-)
Updated post: MY Really, Really, Really, Really, Hard 2017 Challenge! (msg 12)

Completed: 66 of 66

[Beth]

I made it! (first post at 45)

The Really, Really, Really, Really, Hard 2017 Challenge!

January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

January – This month: Blood Donor Month and Male Watcher’s Day! Read 5 books that either have men on the cover or blood is involved somehow (think donation or vampires, etc).

1. 1824: The Arkansas War, Eric Flint 1/2/17
2. Guts & Glory: The Vikings, Ben Thompson 1/7/17
3. Dragon Bones, Patricia Briggs 1/18/17
4. Dragon Blood, Patricia Briggs 1/20/17
5. Fair Game, Patricia Briggs 1/28/17

February – This month: Groundhog Day! Re-read 5 books you’ve enjoyed in the past.

1. Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs 2/7/17
2. Night Broken, Patricia Briggs 2/3/17
3. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin 2/13/17
4. Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers 2/25/17
5. Smoke and Mirrors, Tanya Huff 2/27/17

March – This month: Middle Name Pride Day! Read 5 books by authors who use their middle name or initial (ie: Karen Marie Moning or Jennifer L. Armentrout).

1. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4: Last Days, G Willow Wilson 3/1/17 (probably too short)
2. Castaway Odyssey, Eric Flint + Ryk E. Spoor 3/13/17
3. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord 3/13/17
4. The Course of Empire, Eric Flint, K.D. Wentworth 3/28/31
5. A Season of Daring Greatly, by Ellen Emerson White 3/30/17
6. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space, Margot Lee Shetterly 3/31/17 (in case 1 didn't count)



April – This month: Library Week! Read 5 books that you got from the library or were leant to you by a friend.

1. Cuckoo Song Francis Hardinge 4/2/17
2. League of Dragons, Naomi Novak 4/5/17
3. Passing Strange, Ellen Klage 4/6/17
4. Manners & Mutiny, Gail Carriger 4/8/17
5. The Enemy, Lee Child 4/11/17

Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure, Nancy Atherton 4/13/17, A Week in the Woods, Andrew Clements 4/15/17, The Wooden Prince, John Claude Bemis 4/17/17, The Stolen Mackenzie Bride, Jennifer Ashley 4/22/17 , Never Go Back, Lee Child 4/22/17, Written in Red, Anne Bishop 4/26/17



May – This month: Star Wars Day and Cinco de Mayo! Read 5 books that are either sent in space or are the 5th book in a series.

1. The Span of Empire, Eric Flint & David Carrico 5/1/17
2. Break and Enter, Norah McClintock 5/6/17
3. Thick as Thieves Megan Whalen Turner 5/17/17
4. In Fire Forged, David Weber 5/18/18 (in space AND 5th in series)
5. Dead Silence (Mike & Riel #5), Norah McClintock 5/26/17



June – This month: Name Your Poison Day! Read 3000 pages or more this month.

The Innocent, David Baldacci 6/1/17 422 ==> 422
Snow Hunters, Paul Yoon 6/2/17 208 ==> 630
Angeleyes, Michael Z Williamson 6/5/17 368 ==> 998
The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon 6/6/17 275 ==? 1273
Trickster's Choice, Tamora Pierce 6/9/17 422 ==> 1695
The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire, Kimball Taylor 6/12/17 423 ==> 2118
You, Caroline Kepnes 6/13/17 422 ==> 2540
Shadow's Seduction (Immortals After Dark, #17), Kresley Cole 6/13/17 248 ==> 2788
One Fell Sweep, Ilona Andrews 6/14/17 257 ==> 3045
Pilot X, Tom Merritt 6/16/17 241

Trial By Fire, Norah McClintock 6/16/17 240

The Islands of Chaldea, Diana Wynne Jones 6/17/17 368

Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch 6/19/17 298

Illuminae, Amie Kaufman 6/25/17 608

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers 6/26/17 443

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman 6/28/17 337

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories, Connie Willis 6/29/17 496

First Grave on the Right, Darynda Jones 6/30/17 315



July – This month: I Forgot Day! Read 5 books that you forgot were on your TBR (put the date added to your TBR as well as the date you finally finished it).

1. Dragon in Exile, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller 7/3/17 (May 27,1 2015 -- I was listening to the sequel when I realized I had skipped this one)
2. Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, Sarah Miller 7/24/17 (added March 22, 2011)
3. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez 7/27/17 (added May 6, 2011)
4. Remnants of Trust, Elizabeth Bonesteel 7/27/17 (March 14, 2017, but I forgot and just grabbed it off a library shelf)
5. Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, Lindsay Moran 7/31/17 (March 9, 2011)


August – This month: Romance Awareness Month! Read 5 books with at least a romantic subplot.

1. Echoes in Death, Nora Roberts 8/3/17
2. The Rogue Prince, Lindsay Buroker 8/6/17 (very faint hints)
3. Penric's Fox, Lois McMaster Bujold 8/8/17
Penric’s Mission, Lois McMaster Bujold 8/15/17 (Do doomed romances count?)
4. Angle of Truth, Lindsay Buroker 8/11/17 (stronger hints)
5. Stolen Legacy, Lindsay Buroker 8/15/17 (a kiss!)
6. Desperate Hearts, Rosanne Bittner 8/15/17
7 . In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan 8/18/17
8. Partner (Echo's Wolf, #2), Lia Silver 8/22/17
11. Mercenary Courage, Ruby Lionsdrake 8/23/17


September – This month: Swap Ideas Day! Read 5 books that were recommended to you by a friend or Goodreads.

1. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, Jenny Lawson 9/7/17 (sister)
2. The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff 9/16/17
3, The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff 9/24/17
4. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright 9/25/17 (more an acquaintance, though)
5. The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit 9/27/17
6. Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourne 9/30/17


October – This month: Frugal Fun Day! Read 5 books that you either got for free or super cheap.

1. Captive Prince, C.S. Pacat 10/7/17 (giveaway from Tor.com)
2. Beginnings, David Weber 10/9/17 (Book swap at Foolscap)
3. The Emerald Atlas, John Stephens 10/23/17 (present)
4. Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer 10/26/17 (present)
5. A Family Under the Stars, Christy Jeffries 10/27/17 (gift from author)


November – This month: World Peace Day! Read 5 books set in 5 different countries.

1. Geared for the Grave, Duffy Brown 11/1/17 (Cycle Path Mysteries #1) (USA)
2. Murder on a Summer's Day, Frances Brody 11/2/17 (UK)
3. The Third Degree, Norah McClintock 11/8/17 (Canada)
4. The Keeper of the Mist, Rachel Neumeier 11/16/18 (Nimmera)
5. Bright Candles, Nathaniel Benchley 11/30/17


December – This month: Happy Holidays! Time is short for a lot of us this month. Read as many books as you can this month, but they must be holiday themed books.

OK, I don't like holiday books. If I have to read them, I don't want it to be in December. So I'm using the option to substitute a new challenge -- Books I read for a Reading Team. This was not as helpful as I hoped, as I was only on two teams and on one of them the task was to read Holiday Books. Argh!

1. First Impressions, Nora Roberts 12/3/17
2. Run, Kody Keplinger 12/24/17
3. Salt to the Sea, Ruta Septys 12/13/17
4. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire 12/8/17
5. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Christopher Moore 12/31/17

[JoAnne]

Did as much as I could on post 18
Failed

[★ gwiz ★]

Have updated and completed 2017 challenge. Yay!.

Have started 2018. As always there are a few months I not sure about.

[⚜️XAR]

★ gwiz ★ wrote: "Have updated and completed 2017 challenge. Yay!.

Have started 2018. As always there are a few months I not sure about."

Congrats!