Lieke's Spring Reading Challenge

[Lieke]

Spring Reading Challenge Tasks

First round 9/12

MARCH (3/4)

1. Spring

1. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in SPRING (you can ignore or use a, an, or the)
✅ Een Ierse roos
2. Read a coming-of-age or inspirational book
3. Read a book with themes related to nature

2. March Birthdays: Gabriel García Márquez

1. Read a book set in Colombia.
2. Read a book with themes inspired by the author's life or values (family, magical realism, Latin American politics/social issues).
3. Read a book by an author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige

3. March Madness

1. Read a book with a page count that appears in the number 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
2. Read a book published between 1931 and 1968.
✅ On the Road (1957)
3. Read a book set in Kansas, North Carolina, California, or Tennessee.

4. St. Patrick's Day

1. Read a book written by an author whose initials appear in Maewyn Succat.
2. Read a book with a theme of good vs. evil.
3. In honor of the famous Shamrock, read a book that is third or fourth in a series.
✅ De Herrezen Draak (Wheel of Time #3)

APRIL (3/4)

1. April Fool's Day

1. Read a humorous book.
2. Read a book with a fish on the cover.
3. Read a book whose author's initials are found in APRIL FOOLS DAY.
Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead

2. Spring Sports: Baseball

1. Read a book written in OR set in the 1800s.
2. Read a book with a 3 in the page number.
✅ Wisselvrouw (413 pages)
3. Read a book off of one of these lists that feature sports:
⚾️ 30 Best Sports Books
⚾️ 25 Best Baseball Books
⚾️ Best Nonfiction Books about Sports

3. Earth Day

1. Read a book with a green cover OR with a plant on the cover.
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2. Read a book in which the character travels through more than one country.
3. Read a cli-fi book.

4. April Birthdays: Maya Angelou

1. Read a banned book.
2. Read a book by an author who has more than 30 published works.
✅ Minnares voor een maand
3. Read a book featuring the Civil Rights movement.

MAY (3/4)

1. May Day

1. Read a book that has the letters MAY (in any order) in the title.
2. Read a book with a colorful cover.
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3. Read a book where a character is a tradesman who works with their hands.

2. Cinco de Mayo

1. Read a book written by a Mexican or Mexican American author.
2. Read a book set in Mexico.
3. Read a book that is part of a series that contains a multiple of five books in the series (5 books, 10 books, 20 books, etc. in the series, but you can read any book of the series).
The Kill Order (5 book series)

3. May Birthdays: Frank L. Baum

1. Read a children's/middle grade/YA book. (You can ignore the 100 page rule.)
✅ Honderd uur nacht
2. Read a book with a female main character that leaves home.
3. Read a book that was made into a movie.

4. Mother's Day

1. Read a book that starts with a letter in MOTHERS DAY.
✅ De meeste mensen deugen
2. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their mother.
3. Read a book featured on one of these lists:
🌸 20 Books for Moms
🌸 15 Important Books about Motherhood
🌸 25 Modern Mom Must-Reads

[Lieke]

Plan for March:
✔ De Herrezen Draak by Robert Jordan (ATY)
✔ Wisselvrouw by Katharine Kerr (ATY)
✔ On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory (ATY)
En dag by David Nicholls (ATY18)

Plan for April:
Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
Supernova by Marissa Meyer
The Kill Order by James Dashner
Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead (ATY)

Plan for May:
Ravenzwart by Katharine Kerr (ATY)
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction by Neil Gaiman
Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige by Selma Lagerlöf (ATY18)

[Lieke]

Other books read:

March
Een verre kust by Jenny Colgan (May 1.2)
Minnares voor een maand by Lynne Graham (April 4.2)

April
Het eindeloze strand by Jenny Colgan (April 3.1)
Generaal zonder leger by Özcan Akyol
Leon & Juliette by Annejet van der Zijl
Het water komt by Rutger Bregman
Honderd uur nacht by Anna Woltz (May 3.1)
Een Ierse roos by Nora Roberts (March 1.1)

May
De meeste mensen deugen by Rutger Bregman (audio) (May 4.1)

[Lieke]

To read:
March 2: Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige by Selma Lagerlöf
April 1: Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
May 2: The Kill Order by James Dashner