Jenna's Read 'Em or Weep 52/2017 Challenge

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Topic order TBD as I go along ... don't want to predetermine too much as I tend to change my mind a lot.

I'm doing this challenge to try to keep myself from rabbit-hole-ing too much, as I tend to do with books especially... which is why my TBR list never seems to shrink even a little! I also have a secondary goal of choosing as many books as possible from my very large home library :)

****UPDATED 1/17/17**** :)

Listed in challenge order, not reading order:

#1 A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

- owned, hardcover

#2 A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
City of Bones


#3 A book you meant to read in 2016- tbd
lots of choices here... I'll likely pull something from the 2016 challenge that I didn't get to

#4 A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
Six of Crows


#5 An historical fiction Reading during week 3 (Mon 16 - Sun 22)
March

- borrowed, paperback

#6 A book being released as a movie in 2017 -- tbd
options:
The Nightingale
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

#7 A book with an animal on the cover or in the title -- tbd
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild


#8 A book written by a person of color
Their Eyes Were Watching God

- owned, paperback

#9 A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
World Made by Hand

- owned, paperback

#10 A dual-timeline novel
Bitter Greens


#11 A category from another challenge
*Something From the Rory Gilmore Challenge
Walden
The Naked and the Dead

#12 A book based on a myth – tbd
All on my tbr:
Norse Mythology
- owned, paperback
Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs
- owned, paperback
A Handbook of Norse Mythology
A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
- owned, paperback

#13 A book recommended by one of your favorite authors -- tbd

#14 A book with a strong female character
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

- owned, hardcover

#15 A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) -- tbd
The Vikings: A History

- owned, paperback

#16 A mystery
The Visitor


#17 A book with illustrations Read during Week 1(Monday 2 to Sunday 8)
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

- owned, hardcover
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics


#18 A really long book (600+ pages)
East of Eden

- owned, paperback

#19 A New York Times best-seller
The Darkest Part of the Forest

- owned, hardcover

#20 A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

- owned, paperback

#21 A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
A Storm of Swords

- owned, paperback

#22 A book by an author you haven't read before
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

- owned, paperback

#23 A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
Watership Down

- owned, paperback

#24 A book written by at least two authors – tbd
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch


#25 A book about a famous historical figure – tbd
?John Muir
?Napoleon

#26 An adventure book
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex


#27 A book by one of your favorite authors
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm

- owned, paperback

#28 A non-fiction
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field


#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
Red Queen

- owned, hardcover

#31 A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
genre: environment – subgenre: nature
A Natural History of North American Trees

genre: environment – subgenre: nature and genre: fantasy – subgenre: fairytales
Gossip from the Forest


#32 A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by Greg King
- owned, hardcover

#33 A magical realism novel -- tbd

#34 A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere -- tbd

#35 A book where one of the main characters is royalty
War & Peace

* Buddy read … this one is epic, aiming for <6 months
Progress:
- Part First, 1805
- Part Second, 1805 1/15
- Part Third, 1805
- Part Fourth, 1806
- Part Fifth, 1807
- Part Sixth, 1808-1810
- Part Seventh, 1810-1811
- Part Eighth, 1811
- Part Ninth, 1812
- Part Tenth, 1812
- Part Eleventh, 1812
- Part Twelfth, 1812
- Part Thirteenth, 1812
- Part Fourteenth, 1812
- Part Fifteenth, 1812-1813
- Part Sixteenth, 1813-1820

#36 A Hugo Award Winner or Nominee
Uprooted

- owned, hardcover
* started this last year and got side tracked from it... (are we seeing a pattern here?) but what I did read of it was fantastic... I'll start it over

#37 A book you choose randomly
The Shores of Tripoli

- owned, hardcover
**impulse-buy at Barnes and Noble, I picked it up purely based on the cover, and bought it based on the synopsis


#38 A novel inspired by a work of classic literature – tbd
Going for a re-written fairytale here:
Stung
Sweetly – Jackson Pearce (can't find it on GR)
...idk if I can bring myself to read Cinder…

#39 An epistolary fiction – tbd
The Martian
House of Leaves
- owned, paperback

#40 A book published in 2017 – tbd
*waiting to see what comes along

#41 A book with an unreliable narrator -- tbd

#42 A best book of the 21st century (so far) -- tbd

#43 A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
Read from Monday 9 to Sunday 15
The Bear and the Nightingale

- owned, kindle

#44 A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)

#45 A book with a one-word title
Divergent


#46 A time travel novel – tbd
? Next Outlander title

#47 A past suggestion that didn't win (link) -- tbd

#48 A banned book
The Hunger Games

- owned, hardcover

#49 A book from someone else's bookshelf
The Whale Road


#50 A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition

#51 A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) Finish by Week 52”
The Witches' Almanac, Issue 36, Spring 2017-Spring 2018: Water, Our Primal Source

*meant to be read throughout the year :)

Almanac Progress:
- A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- The Blessed RavenA tale of a talking head and a cauldron
- Collect the Whole Set... of Gods
- Hocus Pocus or The Anatomy of Legerdemain and A Dark Composure Of Words
- Faith and Belief in Traditional British Old Craft
- The Sacred Acre The Magic of The Land Between Low and High Tide
- Binding Spells
- Greaco-Egyptian Magic
- A Bee Keeper's Year
etc.

52. A book set in a fictional location - tbd
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

**I have both the audible and the older hardcover versions

[Sophie]

Jenna, you can organize your plan the way you want, but to make it easier to find particular prompts by their number, we ask you to respect the number set here, ex. a book with illustrations is number 17.

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Ooooook I think I fixed it ;)

[Anastasia]

'Three Cups of Tea' was a very inspirational book for me. Unfortunately I found out later that he may have been collecting money under false pretenses. :(

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Anastasia wrote: "'Three Cups of Tea' was a very inspirational book for me. Unfortunately I found out later that he may have been collecting money under false pretenses. :("

Oh wow well thats disappointing.... I'll try to enjoy it anyway, it was given to me by a dear friend and I hope to get something out of it.

Katie wrote: "Happy reading, Jenna :)"

Thanks Katie! Same to you!