Jenna's 2018 List -- A Place to Start

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Last year I failed this challenge EPICALLY... but I'm back, and I think it's a really great group of prompts!!

2018 challenges:
Rory Gilmore Challenge
First Quarter (1/4-3/31) Group Read: The Catcher in the Rye
First Quarter (1/4-3/31) Group Re-read: Anna Karenina
Read as Many Pages As You Can Challenge (Goal = Read 42,000 pages)
Current page count (excludes currently-reading): 7949
2018 MM Re-Reading Challenge (Goal = 5 rereads/month)
Books read: 8/60 *see ATY prompt #8
2018 MM TBR Series Knockout challenge
Books read: 7/26 *see ATY prompt #8

2018 ATY Challenge
Books read: 9/52
Books in progress: 3/52
> Origin 40% -- audible, buddy-listen with hubby, might take a while :)
> Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 52% -- my dog LITERALLY ATE MY BOOK ... so I'm trying to figure out how to finish this without raging every time I look at it!!
> A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York 19%

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War


2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
A Natural History of North American Trees


3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link)
Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman


4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Walk on Earth a Stranger – Rae Carson


5. A book about or inspired by real events
White Rose, Black Forest

Finished 9/15 - Kindle/Audible

6. A book originally written in a language other than English
The Shadow of the Wind


7. A gothic novel
The Haunting of Ashburn House

Finished 1/29 -- kindle

8. An "own voices" book
I'm in two M/M challenges so I'll fill this prompt and prompt #47 by listing all the M/M books I read this year.
2018 MM Re-Reading Challenge
1 Promises 1/1
2 Home and Away 1/2
3 Turbulence 1/6
4 Gideon 1/17
5 Illegal Contact 1/25
6 Stasis
7 Shy Cowboy
8 The Pleasure Slave
2018 MM TBR Series Knockout challenge
1 How to Howl at the Moon 1/3
2 Out of Bounds 1/16
3 Down by Contact
4 Seeker's Portrait 1/26
5 The Innocent Betrayal 1/29
6 Checkmate 2/15
7 On His Knees 2/18
Non-Challenge Reads
1 Deal Maker 1/1
2 The Innocent Auction 1/5
3 Rule Breaker 1/8
4 Scrambled Eggs and Lemsip 1/8
5 Stray 1/9
6 Accidentally Omega1/9
7 Omega's Breed 1/9
8 Taming the Omega 1/9
9 Omega in the Middle 1/11
10 Just a Bit Shameless 1/15
11 Down by Contact 1/17
12 To Seek and to Find 1/24
13 Beau and the Beast 1/12
14 The Viking In My Bed
15 The Next Competitor
16 Omega Reclaimed

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Ink and Bone – Rachel Caine

Finished 1/31 - paperback

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
The House at Riverton


11. A literary fiction
The Secret History

OR
The Catcher in the Rye


12. A book set in Africa or South America
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus


13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
A Torch Against the Night

Finished 2/12 - Kindle

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire 
Paper and Fire – Rachel Caine


15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
House of Leaves


16. A narrative nonfiction
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Going Postal


18. A book with a location in the title
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest


19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
An Ember in the Ashes

Rated ***** by Emily May
Finished 2/4 -- kindle
My rating: *****

21. A book written in first person perspective
Red Queen


22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
The Girl in the Tower – Katherine Arden


23. A medical or legal thriller

24. A book with a map
Barbarian Slave

Finished 2/5

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Six of Crows


26. A book with a text only cover
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home


27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Home

Finished 9/16 - Audible

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish


29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America


30. A short book
Options already on my shelf:
A Handbook of Norse Mythology Legends, Lore and Secrets of Western New York



31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
Hunted


32. An alternate history book
His Majesty's Dragon


33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
1985 word: Biodiversity -- biological diversity in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals 
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm – Dave Gouslon


34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call: A book with a supernatural character (Vampire)
Vespers – Irene Preston, Liv Rancourt


35. A book featuring a murder
Things Half in Shadow


36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
The Darkest Part of the Forest


37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Flight Behavior


38. A science book or a science fiction book
The Rose Garden


39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
The Queen's Poisoner

Finish 1/15 - KU w/whispersync

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies


41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Spinning Silver


42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
The Shores of Tripoli – James L Haley

*restart after 2017 fail... it was me, not the book

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York - Greg King


44. A ghost story
The Haunting of Blackwood House

Finished 2/1 - KU

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

*This book is huge with teeny tiny print...
OR
Anna Karenina

*Tolstoy... 'nuff said

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
The Cruel Prince – Holly Black


47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
*See prompt #8. If I have time left at the end of the challenge I'll read The Last of the Wine for a bonus


48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)

49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection

52. A book published in 2018
Down by Contact

Read dates: 1/16/18 - 1/17/18 -- kindle

[MJ]

The list of prompts for
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)

looks like it could be a great challenge unto itself.

Good that you're back. Life ran me over earlier this year, and I am still trying to get back. Here's to a much better 2018.

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

MJ wrote: "The list of prompts for
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)

looks like it could be a great challenge unto itself.

Good that you're ..."

Thanks MJ! It really could be its own challenge... I couldn't stand looking at that list anymore so I just forced myself to make a decision based on something that was already in my TBR lol...

Sorry to hear your 2017 was rough too... cheers to a great 2018!

[Jody]

Welcome back! 😊 I hear you on being repeatedly run over by life. I hope your bad times are well and truly over now.

[Ann]

I, too, am looking forward to reading Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest I live not too far from there and the whole idea kind of creeps me out. What happens in your own backyard?

[Anna]

I loved The Shadow of the Wind and Six of Crows. Have a great reading year! :)

[Jenna ✨DNF Queen✨Here, Sometimes...]

Anna wrote: "I loved The Shadow of the Wind and Six of Crows. Have a great reading year! :)"
Thanks Anna! I know I'm a bit behind the times especially with having not read Six of Crows yet but I think it's worth trying to fit into the challenge this year!

Ann wrote: "I, too, am looking forward to reading Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest I live not too far from there and the whole idea kind..."
You're so right! Amazing what is in a place's history! I find that secret past aspect so fascinating.

[Sophie]

Fall of Giants is indeed huge, but it's amazing! If you like audiobooks, I highly recommend listening to it, it makes it less daunting and the narrator is amazing!

Good luck on your challenge next year! I hope life will give you more time and energy to read!