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12 Plus 2 Challenge 2017
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9. The Sensualist: An Illustrated Novel
10. 1915
11. The Bone Garden
12. A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath
Alternate:
1. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
2. The Cobra Event
I am glad you are bringing back this challenge. I am hoping to read all 12 books I choose this year. I will post my book list later.
I've never finished one of these yet, but hope springs eternal! 2.Blue Asylum
5.Macbeth
8.Birdwing
9.Looking for Alaska
Alternates:
1. Twice Loved
2.Mad About the Boy
Here is to finally completing one of these. *fingers crossed*1. The Next Always
2. Bridget Jones's Diary
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. The Da Vinci Code (carry over from 2016)
5. Juliet
6. Jane Eyre
7. Wuthering Heights
8. To the Power of Three
9. Queen of Camelot
10. Abandon
11. Dancing Backwards
12. The Marvelous Land of Oz
Alternates [both books I have started but never finished]:
1. 11/22/63 (carry over from 2016)
2. A Tale of Two Cities (carry over from 2016)
Karin wrote: "Here is to finally completing one of these. *fingers crossed*1. The Next Always
2. Bridget Jones's Diary
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. [book:The Da Vin..."
Bridget Jones's Diary...a favorite. The only other ones on your list that I've read are A Tale of Two Cities and Wuthering Heights.
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1. The Next Always
2. Bridget Jones's Diary
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. [book:The Da Vin..."
Nice book choices. I have tried several times to read 11/23/63 but could never get into it.
Knocked another one off this list today!
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So I am moving on to the next one.
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It was an ok book, an interesting look at history. The main characters are 15 year old boys who get caught up in a time travel plan to go back in time and stop WWI. The boys have to decide if changing the past is the right thing to do or to keep history intact.
Knocked one off my list, Local Girls by Alice Hoffman. She is one of my favorite authors, so whenever I see one of her books at a yard sale or flea market I snatch it up. This one is realistic fiction and did not disappoint. Have you ever looked at someone and wondered what his or her story was? This book elevates the everyday in details that are both heartbreaking and hopeful.
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This was a very bland story that I kept reading cause I really thought it was going to get better.
I wish Goodreads had a thumbs up button or something.
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That would be nice.
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Started The Pied Piper but just cannot get into it. Moving on to other books.
I'm doing a little better with this list this year. I have four to go. The last book I read, ttyl, is a book written in Instant Messaging messages. Published in 2004, it is pretty dated at this point (the slang and references), and I found reading the entire book in IM messages was kind of annoying.
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The last book I read, ttyl, is a book written in Instant Messaging messages. Published in 2004, it is pretty d..."
Wow, I think I would struggle with this one to.
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I am half way through my list! I think I have only read 3 of the 7 books I tried from it but at least they are off my TBR shelf!
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Post 12 books that you want to read this year and see how many you can finish by December 31st!
You don't have to read them in the order that you post them. Also, just because you have them doesn't mean that you are going to like the book so you can post some alternatives if you want or just post that you tried reading the book and it wasn't for you.
If you would like a little bit more of a challenge can you find 12 books from all different genres or at least different subgenre of books if they are in the same genre?
This Challenge will be open from January 1 through December 31.