Personal Reading Goals - 2019

[Ed]

Finished another challenge:
Read at least 20 books on the 1001 Children’s Books I Must Read Before I Grow Up List. during 2019:

1. Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver 1/9/19
2. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé 1/9/19
3. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 2/20/19
4. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
5. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
7. Stina by Lena Anderson 3/9/19
8. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
9. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
10. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7/9/19
11. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming 7/15/19
12. Little House in the Big Woods by Little House in the Big Woods 7/16/19
13. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 8/8/19
14. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 9/15/19 (#82)
15. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 10/3/19 (#83)
16. Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett 10/22/19
17. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young 32p.
18. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 12/3/19
19. Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney 12/9/19
20. The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera 12/13/19

[Bea]

Goals:
1. Finish RwS-15 challenge plans:
♦ Dominoes W15 - 4 books - 1 book completed
♦ Five Years S16 - 1 books
♦ Awards Sp17 - 4 books (second plan) - 1 book completed
♦ Counting S17 - 6 books - 3 books completed
♦ Globally F17 - 5 books - 3 books completed
♦ Living Authors W 17 - 3 books + 6 books (I had two plans.) - 4 books completed
♦ Decades Sp18 - 7 books - 5 books completed
♦ Listopia S18 - 7 books - 5 books completed
♦ AbBY F18 - 6 books - 2 books completed
Total = 43 books (some are repeated)
2. Use as many of these old game books as possible in 10 and 20 point slots or new Rws-15 games throughout the year.
3. Post as I read.
4. Read or DNF books I have started but not finished:
♦ Christmas Books
♦ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - completed
♦ In Praise of the Crone
♦ A Game of Thrones - completed
♦ The Rabbi
♦When Mourning Comes - completed

[Ed]

Finished the Pop Sugar Challenge:
50/50

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge


✔1. A book becoming a movie in 2019- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 10/24/19
✔2. A book that makes you nostalgic- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 2/20/19
✔3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)- Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin 9/8/19
✔4. A book you think should be turned into a movie- The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas 1/23/19
✔5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
✔6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover- - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19
✔7. A reread of a favorite book- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2/5/19
✔8. A book about a hobby-I am fascinated and collect maps and flags- The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
✔9. A book you meant to read in 2018- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 1/7/19
✔10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 144 p. 1001 list 6/9/19
✔11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover- by William Trevor 1/24/19
✔12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19- the MC mentions Greek mythology several times and the story is told here in a Magic Realism folklore style.
✔13. A book published posthumously- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy 12/8/19
✔14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 12/3/19
✔15. A retelling of a classic- Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young 32p.- retelling of Little Red Riding Hood
✔16. A book with a question in the title- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy 9/2/19 -122p.
✔17. A book set on college or university campus- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19- much of the book is set at Cambridge
✔18. A book about someone with a superpower- almost every story has a character with a super power in Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
✔19. A book told from multiple POVs- From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan 1/12/19
✔ 20. A book set in space- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19
✔21. A book by two female authors- Raiders of the Lost Bark by Sparkle Abbey 12/4/19- the author is a pseudonym for a team of two female authors.
✔22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title-Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 10/7/19
✔23. A book set in Scandinavia- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/23/19- Yes I know Finland is not technically part of Scandinavia ...but Wikipedia informs us- "In English usage, Scandinavia also sometimes refers to the Scandinavian Peninsula, or to the broader region including Finland and Iceland, ..." see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandin...
✔24. A book that takes place in a single day- probably Saturday by Ian McEwan-289p.-1001 list
✔25. A debut novel- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/2/19
✔26. A book that's published in 2019- Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19
✔27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll- dodo;
✔28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
✔29. A book with LOVE in the titl Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney 12/9/19
✔30. A book featuring an amateur detective- two priests who have forensics experience become the real detectives in Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
✔31. A book about a family- Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver 1/9/19
✔32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America- Nawal El-Saadawi- Woman at Point Zero 2/11/19
✔33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title- The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese 192p-
✔34. A book that includes a wedding- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 1/19/19- features Gwendolen's marriage to Grandcourt.
✔35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19
✔36. A ghost story- Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 12/5/19
✔37. A book with a two-word title- In Morocco by Edith Wharton 1/27/19
✔38. A novel based on a true story- Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19
✔39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game-Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge- from 2018- set in a country that fascinates you:- Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler
✔41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book-The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
✔42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book- Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris-10/18/19
✔43. An "own voices" book- Calypso by David Sedaris 1/10/19
✔44. Read a book during the season it is set in- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 9/7/19
✔45. A LitRPG book-Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett 10/22/19
✔46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé- no chapters
✔47. Two books that share the same title- perhaps The Double by José Saramago 2/10/19
✔48. Two books that share the same title- The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-9/4/19
✔49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom-probably Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 1001 list
✔50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent-Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #1)- 6/4/19

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Well done, Ed!

[Lynn]

Ed wrote: "Finished the Pop Sugar Challenge:
50/50

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge


✔1. A book becoming a movie in 2019- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 10/24/19
✔2. A book that ma..."


Congratulations on finishing this challenge. There are quite a few categories on this list I would have found taxing! I hope you enjoyed it.

[Ed]

Lynn wrote: "Ed wrote: "Finished the Pop Sugar Challenge:
50/50

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge


✔1. A book becoming a movie in 2019- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 10/24/19
✔2. A b..."

Thanks Lynn...and yes...there were a few categories that were difficult...but I do like these types of challenges. They force me out of my comfort zone which sometimes generates surprising results which I probably would not have experienced otherwise.