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- Aleta: 14 read, Forest Wanderer
- Ally: 11 read, Forest Wanderer
- Brianna: 0/15 read
- Kalena: 3/10 read
Well, I'm in, obviously! :) Maybe it'll get the ball rolling.I'm not going to choose a level, but I hope to at least become a Forest Wanderer. Maybe try out the different Sci-Fi subgenres or focus on genres like modernism, surrealism and the kind. Haven't read much there.
I'm up for it! I'll probably shoot for Forest Wanderer too.
Great! :) I actually just counted how many I read this year, without having paid too much attention to it, and it turns out it's at least enough to be an Amazonian Explorer! Wouldn't have thought that. Perhaps I'll manage to be a Deep-sea Submarine Diver in 2015 :)
I love these kind of books! I'm in. Here's a couple of links that people may find useful:
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adv...
@Chuck, I think you may have misunderstood. It's a challenge for reading as many different subgenres and genres as possible in a year. The traveling theme is really an explorer theme (to go with the name and theme of the group) and nothing more than adding silliness :) Thanks for the links though, they'll come in handy for when Travelogue comes up as GOTM though, so will bookmark them!I hope you'll consider joining anyway!
I'm in. I'll try Mountain Trekker
Forest wanderer sounds about my speed... 10 genres, please.3/10
1. Wonderstruck Children's fiction 1/1/2015
2. Back on Murder Crime 1/5/2015
3. Code Blue Christian fiction 1/8/2015
Aleta wrote: "@Chuck, I think you may have misunderstood. It's a challenge for reading as many different subgenres and genres as possible in a year. The traveling theme is really an explorer theme (to go with th..."Yep. I completely misunderstood. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I wasn't. I thought it was about travel subgeneres, heh. Pretty funny really.
No problem Chuck, happens to everyone ;) Do you still want to join or...?Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone!
ALETA'S TOUR DE GENRE 2015Genres and subgenres read: 14
1. Romance: Pamela. Or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (06/01/2015)
2. Comedy: The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (10/01/2015)
3. Children's Chapter: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (11/01/2015)
4. Short Story: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (11/01/2015)
5. Western Romance: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (12/01/2015)
6. Poetry: Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (20/01/2015)
7. Historical Adventure: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (24/01/2015)
8. Romantic Comedy (Play): A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (01/02/2015)
9. Satiric Comedy (Play): Clouds by Aristophanes (03/02/2015)
10. Mystery: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (16/02/2015)
11. Fiction: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (19/02/2015)
12. Farce (Play): The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder (20/02/2015
13. Satire: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (23/02/2015)
14. Graphic Novel: Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle (26/02/2015)
Badges:
12/01: Countryside Explorer
16/02: Forest Wanderer
ALLY'S TOUR DE GENRE 2015Genres and subgenres read: 13
1. YA > Paranormal: Awoken by Sarah Noffke (Jan 1)
2. Classic > Romance: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Jan 8)
3. Classic > Adventure: The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (Jan 11)
4. YA > Dystopian: Rebels by Jill Williamson (Jan 15)
5. Play: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Jan 16)
6. YA > Fantasy: Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (Jan 17)
7. Crime Thriller: The Knight by Steven James (Jan 18)
8. Historical Fiction: Breaking Ties by Jo Grafford (Jan 24)
9. YA > Mystery: All Fall Down by Ally Carter (Jan 25)
10. Romantic Suspense: Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey (Jan 31)
11. YA > Science Fiction: Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Feb 7)
12. Christian Historical Fiction: For Such a Time by Kate Breslin (Feb)
13. African American Classic Lit: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Feb 19)
Great start, Ally! Oh, I loved North and South! Depressing, so took me a while to read, but it was such a great book. Do you read a lot of classics or 19th cen. lit?
Thanks! I loved it too. It was depressing! The whole time I kept thinking, poor Margaret...Actually, I'm really just getting started with the classics. Total, I've probably only read 30 or so, but I'm really looking forward to reading more.
Jane Eyre is probably my favorite so far. Currently I'm reading Mark of Zorro. I think I've done pretty well. I'm only 16 and I only just gained an interest in them a year or so ago, but I hope to make a pretty big dent in the genre in the future! Appreciate any recommendations you can give me :)
@Kalena, great start as well! Only 11 days into the New Year and already 3 genres read :)@Ally, Same here. But I think she's one of the few literary characters that I've really been able to identify with.
That's not bad at all, especially if you're only 16! Jane Eyre is a favorite of mine as well and one of the few books I allow myself to reread. Have yet to read anything else from the Brontë sisters though.
I've been wanting to read Zorro, used to watch it as a cartoon when I was a kid, and later the Antonio Banderas movies :) I'm a sucker for adventure stories and such.
What kind of classics are you interested in? I always try to spread out and read as many authors, time periods and genres as possible, so there's some really different ones that I could recommend :)
Just finished Zorro; really enjoyed it. I'd love to read more adventure stories. Added to that, anything similar to Jane Eyre or anything by Jane Austen.
I love adventure stories! Some of my favorites are Around the World in Eighty Days and Tarzan of the Apes, they're great fun :) Hmm.. Let's see.. Pamela. Or, Virtue Rewarded, the one I just finished, was one of the books Jane Austen read. It's sadly not very appreciated here on GR, which seems mostly due to people not understanding what life was like back then and that the old Christian virtues are scorned at/not understood today. I found it to be a pageturner though, and since you like clean reads, you might appreciate it as well :)
Yay congrats on becoming a Countryside Explorer, Ally! Pretty soon you'll be climbing mountains or going up the Amazon river :)
How was Death of a Salesman? It's been on my tbr for ages, but it doesn't exactly call my name, it seems so depressing lol.
Thanks!I'm afraid Death of a Salesman was a one star for me. I just didn't find the characters to be very likeable, so I couldn't really sympathize with them.
Sometimes it's hard to like a book with unlikeable characters. If there's a point to it, like with Anna Karenina, I'll keep reading and can even still like the book. If it's like On The Road and there's no point other than "look at us being jerks to women and doing stupid things, aren't we cool?", then I don't bother. I've heard it from many that Death of a Salesman's characters aren't likeable enough.
Another badge for Ally! You're now a Forest Wanderer :)I'm still one genre away from that. My next finished book will bring me up there though :)
:) Yay! It's the YA books. I read them faster. But my current read is my first epic fantasy for the year, and it's almost 700 pages. So, might not update this for awhile, lol.
YA books are usually pretty fast reads :) At least it's a fantasy book, they're usually fun and exciting! I'm currently reading Moby-Dick and while it's "only" 629 pages (have books that are above 1500 pp on my tbr!), it sure is taking me long because I really, really don't like it! So I'm not updating much right now either :)
I have a lot of longer books on my tbr as well. My problem is stirring up the gumption to start them, because they take up so much time. And if I'm not sure I'm going to enjoy it...it gets put off.
I think I only read 1 book last year that was +500 pp. This year though, I for some reason have a lot of really long books that I'd love to read, which is something I haven't felt like for a looong time. Really exocted about that, silly as it is ha :)
Whew! Moby Dick is finally over and I got my next badge with Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which was a sideread :)
Only one book away from being a Mountain Trekker! This is going much faster than anticipated :)
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DURATION: January 1st - December 31st (2015)
Sometimes a little motivation is all you need to step out of your comfort zone and experience new genres. This challenge will hopefully give you a little push toward finding new kinds of literature to enjoy :) There are 8 levels and each one is completed by reading as many different sub/-genres as it requires.
✧ A book can only count as one genre or subgenre completed.
✧ Each sub/-genre can only be counted once
✧ Reading a book from a genre doesn't exclude it's subgenres from counting towards a level
✧ You don't have to choose a level when you sign up, unless you want to.
✧ When you finish a book, post here by using “add book/author” and tell us what sub/-genre it is.
THE LEVELS:
✧ Countryside Explorer: Congratulations, you've read 5+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Forest Wanderer: Congratulations, you've read 10+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Mountain Trekker: Congratulations, you've read 15+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Mountain Climber: Congratulations, you've read 20+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Amazonian Explorer: Congratulations, you've read 30+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Deep-sea Submarine Diver: Congratulations, you've read 50+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Arctic Explorer: Congratulations, you've read 60+ different sub/-genres!
✧ Space Traveler: Congratulations, you've read 100+ different sub/-genres!
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