Jammin Jenny's 2018 Around the Year Challenge

[Jammin Jenny]

The 2018 List

Progress: 15/52

✔1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
✔2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
✔3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link)
✔4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
✔5. A book about or inspired by real events
✔6. A book originally written in a language other than English
✔7. A gothic novel
8. An "own voices" book*
✔9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
✔10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
✔11. A literary fiction
✔12. A book set in Africa or South America
✔13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
✔14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
✔15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
✔16. A narrative nonfiction
✔17. A book you expect to make you laugh
✔18. A book with a location in the title
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
21. A book written in first person perspective
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
23. A medical or legal thriller
24. A book with a map
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
26. A book with a text only cover

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
30. A short book
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
32. An alternate history book
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
35. A book featuring a murder
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2)
38. A science book or a science fiction book
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link)
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
44. A ghost story
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
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 (link)
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

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[Jammin Jenny]

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Task: Week 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Book: The Last Olympian
Author: Rick Riordan
Date Read: 15 Jan 2018
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: A, T & Y are all found in the title
the lAsT olYmpian

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Task: Week 2 . A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Book: Midnight in Austenland
Author: Shannon Hale
Date Read: 1/28
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: #5 in top 10 oldest books on my TBR bookshelf

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Task: Week 3 - A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
Book: Strange Weather
Author: Joe Hill
Date Read: 1/27
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: on the Horror Goodreads Choice Awards 2017 Nominee List

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Task: Week 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Book: The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us about Entrepreneurship, Community, and Growing a Sustainable Business
Author: Anastasia Cole Plakias
Date Read: 14 Jan 2018
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: the author explores growing vegetables in a city by using the roof as his garden area

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Task: 5. A book about or inspired by real events
Book: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Date Read: 31 Jan 2018
Rating: 5 sstars
How it fits: it is a memoir of the author's life, about real events

[Anastasia]

I like how you have set up your completion posts.

[Jammin Jenny]

Anastasia wrote: "I like how you have set up your completion posts."

Thanks!

[Tammy]

Excellent! I dig your challenge name and your completion posts, too!

[Jammin Jenny]

Tammy wrote: "Excellent! I dig your challenge name and your completion posts, too!"

Thanks!!

[Jammin Jenny]

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Task: Week 12. A book set in Africa or South America
Book: Gorillas in the Mist
Author: Dian Fossey
Date Read: 3/2
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: set in Rwanda

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Task: Week 6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Book: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Date Read: 3/14
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: originally published in French

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Task: Week 11. A literary fiction
Book: Spider's Web
Author: Charles Osborne
Date Read: 3/14
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: it is a work of literary fiction

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Task: Week 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Book: The Troop
Author: Nick Cutter
Date Read: 3/21
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: five boys get stranded on an island where a patient being treated for an "infestation" has escaped (government cover-up)

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Task: Week 7. A gothic novel
Book: Gothic Tales
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Date Read: 3/30
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: it has the MPG Gothic

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Task: Week 10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Book: The Eyre Affair
Author: Jasper Fforde
Date Read: 4/1
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: author's debut novel

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Task: Week 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Book: The Devil in Disguise
Author: Cynthia Eden
Date Read: 4/8
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: one of the MCs is a fire breathing dragon

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Task: Week 9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Book: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Author: Darynda Jones
Date Read: 4/14
Rating: 4.5 stars
How it fits: FEET is in the title

[Celeste]

Jammin Jenny! You're always making tasks for SRC. I'm a fan :) I like how this is set up like that. I'll think of doing this for next year's challenge.

[Jammin Jenny]

Thanks Celeste!

[Jammin Jenny]

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Task: 16. A narrative nonfiction
Book: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Date Read: 4/18
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: it is a narrative non-fiction story of Malala's life

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Task: 17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Book: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Author: Jenny Lawson
Date Read: 4/19
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: this is a really funny memoir of the author's life

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Task: 18. A book with a location in the title
Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Date Read: 4/29
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Guernsey is a location in England

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Task: 15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Book: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Date Read: 5/6
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: two POVs/multiple timelines