November - Branching Out

[Megan]

BRANCHING OUT
Duration: November 1 - 30, 2019

For this challenge, we are encouraging you to branch out and try something new. However, rather than reading something entirely different, you'll be using a book you already love as a starting point. Like a tree, there are many ways you can choose to branch out:

STEP ONE:
Choose a book that you enjoyed reading this year or an all-time favorite. This is your "trunk."

STEP TWO:
On the right side of the Goodreads book page is a section called "Readers Also Enjoyed" and below that, "Genres." Decide which you would like to use to branch out.

STEP THREE:
Choose one or more books from the "Readers Also Enjoyed" or the list of books generated when you click one of the Genre Labels.

-OPTION 1: All books branch out of the "trunk" book.
-OPTION 2: Your books branch out of each other. Use the "Readers Also Enjoyed" or Genre Label List from your last book read rather than the "trunk" book after the first time.

Thank you to Kristin for creating this challenge. Lindsay will be leading this challenge.

[Lindsay]

Participant List

Anissa (m25) 0/2
Carmen (m8) 10/10 ✅
Cassie (m29) 0/2
Gail (m13) 0/2
Jennifer (m20) 3/3 ✅
Kate (m12) 2/3
Kristin (m15) 3/3 ✅
Lulu (m5) 4/4 ✅
Lynn (m7) 2/2 ✅
Nicky childs (m30) 0/2
Nicole (m19) 3/4
oshizu (m3) 3/3✅
Sarah (m17) 6/6 ✅
SarahKat (m14) 4/4 ✅
Shaelyn (m16) 1/4
Sunshine (m4) 0/3
Tasha (m6) 2/2 ✅
TerryJane (m18) 4/4 ✅
Ziggy (m11) 6/5 ✅

[oshizu]

Thank you for leading this challenge, Lindsay! :)
Please sign me up for three books.

Progress: 3/3

✔️1. A Brightness Long Ago
✔️2. Gods of Jade and Shadow
✔️3. Dominicana

Trunk #1: Holy Sister
Readers also enjoyed:
*A Brightness Long Ago
Readers also enjoyed:
*Gods of Jade and Shadow
Readers also enjoyed:
*Dominicana

Member's corner link
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Lulu]

Love this! I'll go for 2 books. I'm going with "Readers Enjoyed" and using books that branch out of from just the trunk book.

4/4 -- COMPLETE
Trunk: Gideon the Ninth
Branches:
1. This Is How You Lose the Time War
2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
3. Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
4. The Haunting of Tram Car 015

[Canadian Dragon]

Put me down for two books please.

[L Y N N]

This is a unique challenge. It will require some thought from me, however!

I will pledge to read two books!
2/2 read as of November 15
DONE!!

) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
November 3--5/5 stars
I will definitely continue this series!

Branched by Genre>Science Fiction to

2) The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica Roth
For the November campus book club meeting!
November 15--5/5 stars

[Carmen]

Hola!
Sign me up for 10 books, please.
For this challenge I selected as trunks 2 books that I like very much and I discovered thanks to the globetrotter challenge, and although I couln't read them for the challenge itself, I read them later, so as branches I chose some books that I found for the same challenge, and a couple more that fit the bill.

PROGRESS: 10/10

❎Trunk 1:

Genres>Cultural>Asia
Branches:
✔A Corpse in the Koryo
✔Kafka en la orilla
✔Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
✔The Clay Marble
✔Three Filipino Women

❎Trunk 2:

Genres>Cultural>Africa
Branches:
✔El Hijo del Viento
✔The Shadows of Ghadames
✔Walking Still
✔The Book of Chameleons
✔Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?

[oshizu]

Lulu wrote: "Love this! I'll go for 2 books. I'm going with "Readers Enjoyed" and using books that branch out of each other.

0/2
Trunk: Gideon the Ninth
Branches:
1. [book:Do You Dream of Terra..."

@Lulu
I'm currently reading Gideon the Ninth.
How did you like it?

[Lulu]

oshizu wrote: "Lulu wrote: "Love this! I'll go for 2 books. I'm going with "Readers Enjoyed" and using books that branch out of each other.

0/2
Trunk: Gideon the Ninth
Branches:
1. [book:Do You D..."

I really liked it! I would especially recommend the audiobook -- the narrator was so fantastic :)

[Kate]

I'm in! These books are all on my TBR list (aside from Siddhartha)

Trunk:
Branches: (readers also enjoyed)
Lord of the Flies
The Handmaid's Tale
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

[Gail]

Put me down for 2 please.

Trunk: The Noel Diary

Branches (Readers Also Enjoyed)
The 13th Day of Christmas
A Winter Dream

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I will go for 4 comics to start with.

Trunk: Batman, Volume 8: Superheavy

Branches (genre): DC Comics>Batman
1. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1
2. All-Star Batman, Vol. 1: My Own Worst Enemy
3. Batman, Volume 3: I Am Bane
4. All-Star Batman, Volume 2: Ends of the Earth

[Shaelyn]

I think I will go for four books please!

Trunk: Greenglass House

Branches:
1. Girl Waits with a Gun (Kopp Sisters #1)
2. The Vanished Bride
3. Nooks and Crannies ✔

Progress: 1/4

[Sarah]

I am going to go for six books please. All books are going to branch out of the trunk book and I am going for Genre

Progress:6/6(Completed)

Trunk: Ella Enchanted (1/11/19)
Genres>Romance

Branches:
1) American Royals (7/11/19)
2) The Fault in Our Stars (4/11/19)
3) Me Before You (21/11/19)
4) New Moon (21/11/19)
5)To All the Boys I've Loved Before(16/11/19)

[TerryJane, Challenges]

BRANCHING OUT - Monthly Challenge
Duration: November 1 - 30, 2019
Progress: 4/4 -- COMPLETE

TRUNK: The Alice Network

BRANCHES: I'm using "Readers Also Enjoyed" list of similar books, and am using Option 1, where all books branch out from the original trunk book.
🌳 The Lost Girls of Paris
🌳 The Huntress
🌳 The Sandcastle Girls
🌳 The Light Over London

[Nicole]

Signing up for 4 books!

Trunk 1: The Demon Prince of Momochi House, Vol. 11

Branches: Using Option 1 and the Genre 'Shojo'.
Fruits Basket Another, Vol. 1- Done!
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1
Skip Beat!, Vol. 01- Done!
Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 1- Done!

Goal Met So Far: 3/4

[Jennifer]

I’m going to join for 3 books. My trunk will be Salt to the Sea

Branches:

1. Paper Hearts DONE

2. The Underground Railroad DONE

3. I chose a secondary branch from Paper Hearts: Audacity DONE

3/3

[oshizu]

Nicole wrote: "Signing up for 4 books!

Trunk 1: The Demon Prince of Momochi House, Vol. 11

Branches: Using Option 1 and the Genre 'Shojo'.
Fruits Basket Another, Vol. 1
[book:Ou..."

@Nicole
I loved Fruits Basket! What's Fruits Basket Another?
Wow, you're reading some old-school manga. :D

[Lindsay]

Welcome everyone. Sorry I'm a little late. Life gets in the way sometimes! I will get the participant list up to date as soon as possible. Good luck!

[Nicole]

oshizu wrote: "@Nicole
I loved Fruits Basket! What's Fruits Basket Another?
Wow, you're reading some old-school manga. :D"

I'm not sure! I actually haven't read Fruits Basket yet & I wanted to read it first, but someone already checked it out at the library, so I went w/ this one that was also on the list. I'm glad to know you enjoyed Fruits Basket, though! Hopefully this one will be good, too.
Yeah! :D Looking forward to reading them. Haven't really read that many Shojo mangas yet.

[Anissa]

I'm in for 2 books. I'm going with "Readers Enjoyed" and using books that branch out of each other.

BRANCHING OUT
Duration: November 1 - 30, 2019

Progress: 0/2

Trunk: Married by Morning

Branches (Readers Also Enjoyed):
1) Unveiled
2) A Little Bit Wild

[Nicole]

Update to Message 19:

Skip Beat!, Vol. 01

1/4

[Phyllis]

redeeming love

[Cassie]

I'm going to try for 2!

Trunk: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo\
Branch 1: The Book of Essie
Branch 2: The Handmaid's Tale

[Nicky childs]

2 for me please

Trunk:- The Book Thief
Branch 1: The Nightingale
Branch 2: Code Name Verity

[Lulu]

Updated post #5:

I'm upping my goal from 2 to 4!

1/4 complete, finished This Is How You Lose the Time War

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 1/10

Trunk 1: Genres>Cultural>Asia

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I finished! 4/4

1. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1
2. All-Star Batman, Vol. 1: My Own Worst Enemy
3. Batman, Volume 3: I Am Bane
4. All-Star Batman, Volume 2: Ends of the Earth

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 2/10

Trunk 1: Genres>Cultural>Asia

[oshizu]

Updated msg 3: 2/3 books read

1. A Brightness Long Ago
2. Gods of Jade and Shadow

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 3/10

Trunk 2: Genres>Cultural>Africa

[Nicole]

Update to Message 19:
Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom, Vol. 1
2/4

[Lindsay]

Updated to here.

Massive well done to SarahKat for finishing already. A few other people are close to finishing. How are you finding your Reads? Are they on a par with your trunk book?

Welcome Cassie and Nicky. Good luck to you both!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 4/10

Trunk 2: Genres>Cultural>Africa

[Shaelyn]

updated message #16:

Progress: 1/4

[Sonsoles]

Ow, I have just discovered this challenge (I am a bit new in this group and you have many interesting and funny things around ) but right now I am with a novel that is long and slow, so I don't think I can join this moths, are you doing this every month or do you plan to do this challenge again some time next year?

[Lulu]

Updated post #5:

Finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January

2/4

[Sonsoles]

Oh, thanks so much. I think I voted in that discussion, but I thinkI didn't notice this one. I will pay attention for next time. Thanks again for the info ^^

[Lindsay]

Updated to here.

Congratulations on finishing your challenge Ziggy!

[Jennifer]

Updated message #20

Finished Paper Hearts

1/3

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 5/10

Trunk 1: Genres>Cultural>Asia

[Kate]

Update 2/3

Finished last night. I wish I had read the book before watching the series because it was like I knew everything that was going to happen.
I'm looking forward to reading The Testaments though.

[Sarah]

Message 17 Updated

3/6

[Lindsay]

Updated to here.

Well done to everyone with their progress. We're just past the halfway point in this challenge now.

Kate I really enjoyed The Testaments as it moves on from the tv series. I hope you like it!

Happy reading!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 6/10

Trunk 1: Genres>Cultural>Asia

[Sarah]

Message 17 Updated

4/6

[Jennifer]

Updating message #20

2. The Underground Railroad DONE

2/3

[L Y N N]

Update to message #7--2/2
Done as of November 15!

[Carmen]

Message #8 updated:

PROGRESS: 7/10

Trunk 2: Genres>Cultural>Africa

[Canadian Dragon]

First branch completed. Speak