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Planning to do the Color Challenge (message 119) for 10:White
5/15Pink
Red
7/11Orange
7/27Yellow
3/8Green:
7/32Light Blue
Dark Blue
7/6Purple
4/18Brown
2/23Black:
3/25Metallic
Challenge complete!
The Jar (Randomizer) Challenge for 12 (message 115)So glad I decided to do this one! When I sorted my to read list in random order, some really GREAT books came up in the top 12!
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Awesome corner Claire!! Love to read curled up on the couch!
1st Quarter Must Read Challenge(message 52) for 3:1.
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Doing the January Personalities Challenge (45) for 2:1.
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Also doing the Places and Spaces 1st quarter challenge (28) for 3:1. The afterlife:
2. The past:
3. The future:
Bethany wrote: "under the redwood tree"?????
Tracking by month to keep myself on paceJanuary:
1. Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
2. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
3. Three Souls
4. Floyd 5.136: The MAC Series -- Book 1
5. Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
February
6. Uncharted: Story for a Shipwright
7. The Goldfinch
March
8. Land of Hidden Fires
9. Things Fall Apart
10. The Virgin Suicides
11. The Betrothed
12. Beartown
13. Hillari's Head
April
14. Gilead
15. Lilac Girls
16. Big Little Lies
17. Before We Were Yours
18. 11/22/63
19. Pasta, Poppy Fields and Pearls
20. Lee County Elegy
May
21. The Time Machine
22. WayFinder
23. The Importance of Being Earnest
24. The Invisible Man
25. A Doll's House
26. Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
27. When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over
June
28. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
29. Twelve Years a Slave
30.Choosing the StrongPath: Reversing the Downward Spiral of Aging
31. Wuthering Heights
July
32. All the Little Children
33. Gateway to the Moon
34. Two Steps Forward
35. The River's Memory
36. The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
37. Her Name Is Rose
38. Improvement
39. Little Fires Everywhere
August
40. A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers
41. Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
42. The Reckoning
September
43. On the Brink of the Nile
44. Broken Angel
45. Excavation: A Memoir
46. The Song of Achilles
47. In the Midst of Winter
October
48. All We Ever Wanted
49. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
50. Journey to Sand Castle
51. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
52. Fear: Trump in the White House
November
53. The Nines
54. Secondborn
55. The Kite Runner
56. The Sea
December
57. Lost Night
58. The Birth House
59. Amy and George
60. In the manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent
Also doing the Members' Tasks Yearly Challenge (52) for 5:***New Goal***
Challenge complete!
6. Blagica's task: I am sitting here reading Under the Dome, a book with over 1000 pages. Read a book that intimidates you or the biggest book on your TBR Pile.
11. Claire's task: I was lucky enough to have travelled to Egypt and see first-hand the pyramids, tombs, and temples there. Read a book about Pharaoh, a book set in Egypt, or a book about archaeology.
12. Daph's task: I love reading (obviously!) Read a book recommended by a friend or family member.
16. D.G.'s task: I was born in the Dominican Republic. Read a book with a Hispanic author, character, or setting. I will select this book later. Selection made!
42. Rachael's task: My name was popular in the 1990s, the decade in which I was born. Read a book published between 1990 and 1999.
After looking at all the challenges again, as well as my books read so far this year, I realize that I have actually met more of these members' challenges than I thought I would, so I'm expanding my list as follows:
2. Amanda's task: I am from Scotland and now live in the Netherlands. I studied French and German. Read a book which has been translated from another language.
10. Chloe's task: I was born and raised in Canada. Read a book set in Canada or by a Canadian author.
19. Gilraens's task: I lived in three different countries (Netherlands, UK and New Zealand). Read a by an author from one of those three countries or set in one of those countries.
29. Jessica's task: I grew up in Massachusetts, went to college in Montreal, and now live in Minnesota. Read a book that takes place somewhere that begins with the letter M or someplace where the winters are very cold.
30. Jill's task: My grandmothers parents came to America form Ireland. Read a book that takes place where one of your ancestor's lived.
34. Laura's task: I like to read book set in places I've actually visited. Read a book set somewhere you have visited or lived.
38. Lois' task: I am a genealogist. Read a story about a search for family history or discovering your past.
40. Nikinnia's task: I am a Southern, Black woman. Read a book by an African American author, with an African American character or set in the South.
41. Nikki's task: My favorite thing about reading a good book is the escapism factor. I can go anywhere or live any adventure. Read a book where the main character gets transported to a different time or place.
44. Rique's task: My mother and mother-in-law lived through most of the tumultuous 20th century. Read a book, fiction or historical fiction, taking place anywhere from the Great Depression through WWII (1929-1945).
Well, I've always loved a good party, and the 16,000 member party looks like a lot of fun, so I signed up for 5 of the challenges there. 1. Join the Party and go to the Give a Recommendation, Get a Recommendation Thread, and read the book recommended to you!
4. Read the 16th book on your TBR list.
5. Pick a challenge you are not a part of and do the 16th task. I chose the A-Z Challenge, which gave me the letter P
6. Read a book that was published in 2016.
8. Visit 16 of your Goodreads Friends, and read TBR book that you all have most in common.
Challenge complete!
I have to add a comment here about Beartown. This book is amazing! Definitely one of the best I have ever read. It's almost unfair to review any other books for about a month, because not much is going to look good in comparison.I borrowed it from my library. I think I need to own it.
I decided to do the 2nd quarter Century of Books (79) challenge for 6:1.
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Doing the July Spell-It-Out challenge (#9) for 6 booksB -
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Challenge complete 7/27
I decided to do one final challenge for the year. I've added the Advent Calender December challenge. I'll be reading in two areas:In the manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent
1. The Author of Life
2. Why Would He Come?
3. Just Call Him "Jesus"
4. God Came Near
5. With God Nothing Is Impossible
6. Who Would Believe It?
7. Christ in You
8. Conceived by the Holy Spirit
9. Pacing Outside the Stable
10. Searching the Night for a Light
11. God Dances Amid the Common
12. Linger Near the Manger
13. The Face of the Infant-God
14. Mary's Prayer
15. Joseph's Prayer
16. Too Busy to Notice the Impossible
17. How Long His Love Lasts
18. Seeing Jesus
19. Too Majestic for Words
20. What Love Does
21. Be Numbered Among the Searchers
22.Bloodstained Royalty
23. A Sacred Delight
24. Come and Behold Him
25. A Glimpse of His Majesty
I will also read one selection per day from a Dylan Thomas poetry collection.
1. A Winter's Tale
2. Being But Men
3. Incarnate Devil
4. The Natural Day and Night
5. When I Woke
6. Since, on a Quiet Night
7. This Side of the Truth (for Llewelyn)
8. We Who Are Young Are Old
9. Lift Up Your Face
10. I Know This Vicious Minute's Hour
11. In the Beginning
12, Especially When the October Wind
13. With Windmills Turning Wrong Directions
14. Foster the Light
15. Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright
16. Shall Gods Be Said to Thump the Clouds
17. The Hand That Signed the Paper
18. You Are the Ruler of this Realm of Flesh
19. Why East Wind Chills
20. Was There a Time
21. Song
22. We See Rise the Secret Wind
23. O Make Me a Mask
24. There's Plenty in this World
25. The Conversation of Prayer
26. Rain Cuts the Way We Tread
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2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent (other topics)Amy and George: A Novel (other topics)
Lost Night (other topics)
The Birth House (other topics)
In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent (other topics)
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The plan:
1. TBR Twins, every month
2. Read the unread titles on my Kindle (there are at least 18!)
3. Read at least the 6 books I got for Christmas, and as many other books I own as possible
4. Check out the library for new releases that look good
5. Join a few of the yearly challenges here.