Cenda's Clutter of Challenges & Rabble of Readathons 2019

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2019 thread to keep track of all my various reading plans.

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Base list of all challenges I participate in this year:

Around The Year
Plan post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 24/52

Popsugar
Plan post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 32/50

Reading Women
Plan post: (below) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 17/26

Read Harder
Plan post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 13/24


Finished challenges:

Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge
goodreads.com/topic/show/19612123-cen...
(did not complete)

Tackle That TBR
Plan post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(COMPLETED 12th October)

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Base list of all readathons I participate in this year:

January
Buzzwordathon - 14th to 20th - read books with the word "lie" (or variants) in the title

February
Black History Month

March
FemmeFanTale readathon - 2nd to 10th - works of fantasy by women
Buzzwordathon - 18th to 24th - books with "who", "what", "why", "when", "where", or "how" in the title

April
Tome Topple - 13th to 26th - books over 500 pages

May
Buddy read Space Opera with Carmen
Procrastinator Book Club readathon, dates not set

June
[Pride Month?]
Queer Lit Readathon - 2nd to 8th
Buzzwordathon - 12th to 18th - books with "you" (or variants) in the title
Procrastinator Book Club readathon - 16th to 22nd
Summerathon - 21st to 27th

July
The Reading Rush - 22nd to 28th

August
Procrastinator Book Club readathon - 4th to 10th
MythTake readathon - 5th to 18th - retellings of myth, folklore, fairytales
FemmeFanTale Round 2 - 18th to 25th

September

October
[Victober and Spookathon]

November
[Nonfiction November]
Buzzwordathon - 18th to 24th - numbers in title

December

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Reading Women Challenge plan post

CHALLENGES
All books read for this challenge must be by or about women.

1) A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color - Miss Timmins' School for Girls
2) A book about a woman with a mental illness - The Calculating Stars
3) A book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand - Princess Princess Ever After
4) A book about or set in Appalachia - The Raven Boys
5) A children's book - Dragon Rider
6) A multigenerational family saga - The Murmur of Bees
7) A book featuring a woman in science - Remarkable Creatures
8) A play
9) A novella - The Blue Salt Road
10) A book about a woman athlete
11) A book featuring a religion other than your own - The Sisters of the Winter Wood (features Judaism)
12) A Lambda Literary Award winner - Tipping the Velvet
13) A myth retelling - The Silence of the Girls
14) A translated book published before 1945
15) A book written by a South Asian author - Salt and Saffron
16) A book by an Indigenous woman - Trail of Lightning
17) A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist
18) A romance or love story - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
19) A book about nature - H is for Hawk
20) A historical fiction book - Lies We Tell Ourselves
21) A book you bought or borrowed in 2019 - Disobedience
22) A book you picked up because of the cover - The Priory of the Orange Tree
23) Any book from a series - The House of Shattered Wings
24) A young adult book by a woman of color - On the Come Up

BONUS:
25) A book by Jesmyn Ward - Salvage the Bones
26) A book by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Completed The Sisters of the Winter Wood for:
- Popsugar Challenge prompt #35, a book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
- Reading Women Challenge prompt #11, a book featuring a religion other than your own

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Joined the Tackle That TBR challenge.

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Completed Dreamsnake for:
- Around The Year prompt #1, a book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy [Dreamsnake won multiple awards for science fiction, including a Hugo, a Nebula and a Locus]
- Tackle That TBR task #1, a book that has been on your TBR since you first joined Goodreads

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Completed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for:
- Popsugar prompt #4, a book you think should be turned into a movie
- Reading Women Challenge prompt #18, a romance or love story
- Tackle That TBR task #5, a book from the Popular Hyped Books list

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Completed Dragon Rider for:
- Popsugar prompt #27, a book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
- Read Harder Challenge prompt #10, a translated book written and/or translated by a woman
- Reading Women Challenge prompt #5, a children's book

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Completed Disobedience for:
- Popsugar prompt #25, a debut novel
- Reading Women prompt #21, a book you bought or borrowed in 2019 (😅)

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Completed In an Absent Dream for:
- Popsugar prompt #26, a book published in 2019
- Tackle That TBR task #3, a book by an author you love

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Completed What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky for:
Around the Year prompt #2, a book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)

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Completed The Griffin's Feather for:
- Read Harder prompt #9, a book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads

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Completed Lies We Tell Ourselves for:
- Around the Year prompt #3, a book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
- Popsugar prompt #19, a book told from multiple POVs
- Reading Women prompt #20, historical fiction
- Tackle That TBR task #8, a standalone

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Completed The Lies of Locke Lamora for:
- Around the Year prompt #4, a book with a criminal character

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Completed Salvage the Bones for:
- Reading Women prompt #25, a book by Jesmyn Ward

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Completed Tell Me a Dragon for:
- Tackle That TBR task #10, a book with a beautiful cover

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Completed Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures for Read Harder prompt #15, a book of mythology or folklore.

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Completed The House of Shattered Wings for Reading Women prompt #23, any book from a series

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Completed Once Upon a River for Popsugar prompt #6, plant in title or on cover.

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Completed The Silent Companions for:
- Around the Year prompt #6, a book with a dual timeline
- Popsugar prompt #36, a ghost story
- Tackle That TBR task #6, a book in a genre you usually don't read/like (that being horror)

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Completed Othello for:
- Around the Year prompt #5, a book by (or inspired by) Shakespeare
- Tackle That TBR task #9, a book released before you were born

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Completed On the Come Up for:
- Popsugar prompt #43, an OwnVoices book
- Reading Women prompt #24, a YA book by a woman of colour

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Completed The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories for Popsugar prompt #29, a book with "love" in the title.

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Planning to join the FemmeFanTale readathon in March. The challenges are in the form of a bingo card so I'm putting it here for future reference.

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Completed The Bear and the Nightingale for Popsugar prompt #7, a reread of a favourite book

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Completed The Girl in The Tower for Popsugar prompt #44, read a book during the season it is set in

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Completed The Winter of the Witch for:
- Tackle That TBR task #7, finish a series you started at least a year ago
- Around the Year prompt #7, 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme, with The House with Chicken Legs
[The common topic/theme is Slavic folklore, particularly the stories of Baba Yaga.]

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Completed Small Island for Popsugar prompt #37, a book with a two-word title

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Completed The House with Chicken Legs for:
- Popsugar prompt #12, a book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
- Around the Year prompt #8, 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme, with The Winter of the Witch
[The common topic/theme is Slavic folklore, particularly the stories of Baba Yaga.]

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Completed The Republic of Thieves for:
- Around the Year prompt #9, a book from one of the top 5 money-making genres (fantasy)
- Popsugar prompt #11, a book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover (masks)

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Completed If Beale Street Could Talk for Popsugar prompt #1, book becoming a movie in 2019

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Completed How Long 'til Black Future Month? for Popsugar prompt #16, a book with a question in the title

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Completed The Blue Salt Road for:
- Popsugar prompt #22, a book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
- Reading Women prompt #9, a novella
- FemmeFanTale readathon prompts: inspired by myth / stand-alone / novella

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Cendaquenta wrote: "Base list of all challenges I participate in this year:

Around The Year
Plan post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 9/52

Popsugar..."
Interested to see we are participating in the same challenges with the exception that I am not handling TBR books with that challenge. I am consciously trying to fill prompts from my TBR list which has over 650 entries and continues to grow.

Currently:
Read Harder 6/24
ATY 21/52
Popsugar 13/50
Reading Women 6/26

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Completed Chocolat for Popsugar prompt #3, a book written by a musician

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Completed In the Vanishers’ Palace for FemmeFanTale readathon prompts: LGBT+ / romance / fairytale retelling (it's Beauty-and-the-Beast-inspired) / BAME author

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Completed Remarkable Creatures for:
- Around the Year prompt #10, a book featuring an historical figure
- Popsugar prompt #38, a novel based on a true story
- Reading Women prompt #7, a book featuring a woman in science

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Completed The Priory of the Orange Tree for:
- Around the Year prompt #11, a book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals
- Reading Women prompt 22, a book you picked up because of the cover
(not solely because of the cover, but it was certainly a factor in initially catching my interest)

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Completed Golden Age and Other Stories for Popsugar prompt #15, retelling of a classic (specifically the story Dragons and Decorum, which is based on Pride and Prejudice except Elizabeth Bennet is a dragon rider)

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Completed Sorcerer to the Crown for Popsugar prompt #32, a book author from Asia, Africa, or South America (Zen Cho is Malaysian)

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Completed Silas Marner for Popsugar prompt #34, a book that includes a wedding

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Completed The Binding for AtY prompt #12, a book about reading, books or an author/writer.

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Completed Freshwater for Read Harder prompt #18, a novel by a trans or nonbinary author

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Completed Ghost Wall for Popsugar prompt #46, a book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters

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Completed The Grace of Kings for AtY prompt #13, a book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list

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Completed The True Queen for Read Harder prompt #16, an historical romance by an AOC

(The romance is a pretty small part of the plot, tbh - perhaps I'll swap this out for another book later in the year, if I find one)

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Completed The Tea Master and the Detective for:
- Popsugar prompt #20, a book set in space
- Read Harder prompt #6, a book by an AOC set in or about space

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Completed The Calculating Stars for:
- AtY prompt #14, a book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
- Reading Women prompt #2, a book about a woman with a mental illness [protagonist is diagnosed with anxiety]
- Read Harder prompt #2, an alternate history novel

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Prompts for Tome Topple readathon this month:

1. Read more than one tome
2. Read the tome that's been on your TBR the longest
3. Read a tome that's part of a series
4. Read a tome from a genre you don't usually read
5. Read an adult novel