Summer Challenge

[Holly]

I'm looking at doing a Summer Challenge for this group.

I'm asking for ideas from the group.

Ideas I've come up with is a bingo board, a seasons challenge (read a book from each season), SUMMER word challenge (read a book that starts with the title or author of each letter in SUMMER),

I'm open to any other ideas. Comment the here.

[Holly]

So this summer I've decided on 2 challenges for the summer. They will start in June 1 and go until August 31. You can opt into one or both.

CHALLENGE 1:READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:
read one book from each season (7 books total)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

CHALLENGE 2: READ THE WORD SUMMER
books must either start their title with a letter or author's name must start with a letter in the word SUMMER (6 books total)

S
U
M
M
E
R

I have updated all the To Be Read and Read bookshelves so you have LOTS to choose from!

[Stephanie]

Ooh. This looks fun! Thanks!

[Jessica]

what are considered the 7 seasons?

[Holly]

the seven seasons of Gilmore Girls. so one book from season 1, one book from season 2. I can post a link to the list I used for the TBR list as soon as I get to my computer

[Helene]

Sounds like a lot of fun 🤩

[Jessica]

that would be awesome

[Jessica]

book 1 of summer challenge : Stephen King If It Bleeds

[Holly]

https://www.blackwhitereadbooks.com/t...

this is the master list i used for the tbr and read shelves. its broken down by season.

[Holly]

Summer challenge starts June 1st. I've decided to reward people who post completed challenges up on the discussion board with one entry into a drawing into a raffle to win a book from the list by me!

Keep posting your challenge plans and challenge completions (as of June 1st)

[Anneke]

I really like the idea of the read trough the seasons. I will give it a try!

[Holly]

you can do either, just let me know when you've completed it

[[deleted user]]

here are my tbr plans:
season 1: David Copperfield ✔ (S1E2)
season 2: The Joy Luck Club (S2E10)
season 3: One Hundred Years of Solitude (S3E20)
season 4: Wuthering Heights (S4E5)
season 5: A Room with a View (S5E2)
season 6: Charlotte's Web (S6E17)
season 7: Eva Luna (S7E14)


I will add a ✔ when finished

[Jane]

Aaaaah, I love the idea! When I first read "read a book from each season" I was like "so spring, summer etc?" haha. I'm glad that I figured out what seasons you mean.

CHALLENGE 1:READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:
read one book from each season (7 books total)
1. The Crucible
2. The Graduate
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4. Tender is the Night
5. Less Than Zero
6. Beowulf
7. In Cold Blood

CHALLENGE 2: READ THE WORD SUMMER
books must either start their title with a letter or author's name must start with a letter in the word SUMMER (6 books total)
S Slaughterhouse-Five
U Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
M The Martian ✔
M Man's Search for Meaning or Marathon Man
E The Optimist's Daughter (Author is called Eudora, hope that counts)
R Romeo and Juliet

When I read a book I will mark it with a checkmark ✔ and post the cover here:

[Mahima]

Hi Holly! I just joined today. And I love your challenge. Wanted to know if this will start from June 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020 right?

I love the idea of reading through the SEASONS. Its unique and very do-able.

[haley]

Looking forward to this!!!

CHALLENGE 1: READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:

1. ✔️ Carrie
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. ✔️ Atonement
5. The Da Vinci Code
6. The Year of Magical Thinking
7. In Cold Blood

[[deleted user]]

ah Eva luna is such an amazing book you have a great time ahead of you!

[Elba]

Challenge 2: SUMMER
S: *FRANNY AND ZOOEY BY JD SALINGER
U: * DRIVING MISS DAISY BY ALFRED UHRV
M: *MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER BY SIMONE de BEAUVOIR
M: *LOVE MEDICINE BY LOUISE ERDRICH
E: *EVA LUNA BY ISABEL ALLENDE
R: THE RAVEN BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
* Read
Finished my challenged on August 23, 2020 complete with episodes from GG containing my challenge reads. So enjoyable and so very Gilmore.

[Kendy]

I am gonna start with the SUMMER challenge and hope i finish that!

S:The Lovely Bones
U:Driving Miss Daisy
M:Little Women
M:The Godfather
E:Eva Luna
R:The Raven

[Holly]

haley wrote: "Looking forward to this!!!

CHALLENGE 1: READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:

*both of these lists may be subject to change, as I do not physically own all of these books and its a bit tricky trying to hunt ..."

I have Walden as my season 1 choice too!

[Holly]

I'm being ambitious and planning both....we'll see how that goes!

Seasons:
1. Walden
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
3: Henry IV part 1
4 Wuthering Heights
5. Catch-22
6. Angela's Ashes
7. R is for Ricochet

S: King Henry IV part 2
U: Beowulf
M: Mutiny on the Bounty
M: Marathon Man
E: Eva Luna
R: Return of the King (I have to read the first 2 first!)

[Holly]

Kali chai aur kitaab wrote: "Hi Holly! I just joined today. And I love your challenge. Wanted to know if this will start from June 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020 right?

I love the idea of reading through the SEASONS. Its unique ..."

Yes June 1st thru August 31st.

[Sherri]

This sounds great :) I want to get some of my Rory Gilmore's books off my tbr. I am unsure on a couple of my choices for I went by the complete list and I had difficulties finding which season the books were mentioned. Those will have a ? by them.

Season 1: Swann's Way
Season 2: Oliver Twist
Season 3: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Season 4: Tender Is the Night
Season 5: ? The Secret History
Season 6: The Year of Magical Thinking
Season 7: ? The Virgin Suicides
Maybe replacements/extras
season 2? end of season 1? Howl and Other Poems
season 2 Letters to a Young Poet ✔
season 2 Deenie
season 4 The Sun Also Rises
season 7 ? The Good Soldier

[Holly]

Sherri, if you go to the website I referenced above, they have them by season. That's out official list

[Stephanie]

I think I will just read everything Elba posted. I love her list. And no thinking. LOL.

Also, how do you make the check mark icon??

[Sherri]

Holly wrote: "Sherri, if you go to the website I referenced above, they have them by season. That's out official list"

Thank you, I will look through it again. :)

[Helene]

My plan is to read the second challenge

S: ✔ JD. Salinger ~ the catcher in the rye
U: ✔ Alfred Uhrv ~ Driving miss Daisy
M: ✔ De Beauvoir ~ Memoirs of a dutiful daughter
M: ✔Louise Erdrich ~ Love Medicine
E: ✔ The sun also rises ~ Ernest Hemingway
R: ✔ Edgar Allen Poe ~ the Raven

I’ve basically picked a lot of the same books as I’ve seen others do so I hope to be able to chat about them with the people reading the same books if anyone is into that ☺️

I have completed this list ✔

[Helene]

Feeling slightly crazy for posting this tbr list too, but doing it anyway. Reading through the seasons:


1. ✔ The bell jar ~ Sylvia Plath
2. ✔ Mrs. Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf
3. ✔ The art of war ~ Sun Tzu
4. ✔ Northanger Abbey ~ Jane Austen
5. ✔ Demons ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. ✔ Charlottes web ~ E.B White
7. ✔ Eva Luna ~ Isabel Allende

I have completed this list ✔

[Holly]

Helene wrote: "Feeling slightly crazy for posting this tbr list too, but doing it anyway. Reading through the seasons:


1.The bell jar ~ Sylvia Plath
2. Mrs. Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf
3. The art of war ~ Sun T..."

Aug 31st

[Helene]

Thanks 🙏 thats hmm 15 weeks? Better get started ☺️

[Anneke]

CHALLENGE 1:READ THROUGH THE SEASONS:
✔️ 1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
✔️ 2. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
✔️3. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
4. The trial by Kafka
5. Ethics by Spinoza
✔️6. Leaves of grass by Walt Wihtman
7. In cold blood by Trueman Capote

Maybe it will change because I will get most of the books from the library.

[Kim]

Just saw this and I'm joining in!

I'll do the seasons. Also-- completing the seasons challenge will almost double my finished books from the Rory list! :D

Season Completed Books: 7/7 (!)
these are tentative-- it depends on what I can get from the lib
I'll mark them when done.

✗ S1 : On the Road (that was rough, let's be honest)
✗ S2 : Who Moved My Cheese?
✗ S3 : Freaky Friday
✗ S4 : The Trial
✗ S5 : Less Than Zero
✗ S6 : The Year of Magical Thinking
✗ S7 : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Season Books Finished:


SUMMER Completed Books: 6/6
these are tentative-- it depends on what I can get from the lib
I'll mark them when done.

...adding this just in case I get real invested (slash I just finished grad school and the job market is real special right now, so lots of books it is). I'm not using the B&W list for some of these, but they are on at least one Rory list as I'm going off of the spreadsheet I downloaded from... somewhere.

✗ S : (title) The Shining
✗ U : (author last name) Driving Miss Daisy
✗ M : (title) The Five People You Meet in Heaven
✗ M : or (author last name) The Nanny Diaries
✗ E : (title) Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
✗ R : (author last name) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

SUMMER Books Finished:


Total Books Finished: 13/13 :D

[L.]

This is my summer reading challenge, I hope I’ll be able to get through them all! Better get started!

SEASONS
1- The Bell Jar
2- Franny and Zooey
3- Diaries of Sylvia Plath
4- The Trial
5- Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
6- Angela’s Ashes
7- Love Medicine

SUMMER
S: Sally Rooney - Normal People
U: Roy Lewis - Una Passeggiata con Mr. Gladstone
M: Katherine Mansfield - Racconti Neozelandesi
M: Sara Majka - Cities I’ve Never Lived In
E: Isabel Allende - Eva Luna
R: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

[Stephanie]

I forgot to add that Ive finished Eva Luna a few days ago. June 2 ,2020

[Stephanie]

I am going to ambitiously attempt to do both of these challenges. They both sound really fun! I chose books that were referenced in the original series that I also have on my unread shelf in my home library.

S~ Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
U~ Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Mark Twain
M~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
M~ The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
E~ Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
R~ Richard III by William Shakespeare

S1~ Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems
S2~ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
S3~ The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
S4~ The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
S5~ Nancy Drew series (book 1)
S6~ Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
S7~ In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

[Rosa]

This is such a great challenge. I'm pumped! Since I joined this club a little late (and have slacked a bunch) this will be a means to catch up and get to some of those books I tried to read and failed to finish. I pulled mainly from the list of books already read unless there were no applicable options. Here's my list!

SEASONS
1: Great Expectations
✔2: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
✔3: A Christmas Carol
✔4: 1984
✔5: A Room With a View
✔6: Charlotte's Web
✔7: Eva Luna

SUMMER
✔S: Slaughterhouse-Five
✔U: Driving Miss Daisy (by Alfred Uhrv)
✔M: Madame Bovary
M: The Godfather (by Mario Puzo)
✔E: The Sun Also Rises (by Ernest Hemingway)
✔R: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

[AnnaM]

So, this month we are not going to choose one book to read ? We are completing the summer challenge instead?

[Anneke]

Changed my book for season 5.

[Alivia]

I am a wee bit late to the party, but I'm going to jump in anyways! This seems like a great opportunity to knock some books off of my tbr. Also, this might encourage me to read books I own before buying new ones! Here's my list:

✔ S: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
U: The Name of the Rose
M: The Master and Margarita
M: The King of Attolia
✔ E: Edgedancer
R: The Eye of the World or The Name of the Wind

Good luck everyone!

[[deleted user]]

Hello everyone! I accidentally deleted my Goodreads Account but I'm back so I'll just re-upload my TBR which I'm making progress in

here are my tbr plans:
season 1: David Copperfield ✔ (S1E2)
season 2: Anna Karenina ✔ (S2E15)
season 3: Macbeth ✔ (S3E12)
season 4: Wuthering Heights ✔(S4E5)
season 5: The Code of The Woosters ✔(S5E5) this is indirectly mentioned in , when Richard lives in the poolhouse and his butler is referred to as Jeeves, the titular character of Wodehouse's Jeeves series.
season 6: Charlotte's Web ✔ (S6E17)
season 7: Eva Luna ✔ (S7E14)
I will add a ✔ when finished

[Karin]

I'm in .....Summer Challenge -1 from each season : 7/7
s1-the crucible✔
s2-to kill a mockingbird ✔
s3-one hundred years of solitude ✔
s4-the sun also rises ✔
s5-the davinci code ✔
s6-Beowulf ✔
s7-in cold blood ✔
* the season challenge is complete! *

Summer Challenge- spell the word summer: 6/6
s--the lovely bones ✔*changed to The Shining ✔
u-driving miss daisy ✔
m-the godfather ✔
m-the adventures of huckleberry finn-mark twain ✔
e-charlotte's web-e.b. white ✔
r-the raven-edgar allan poe ✔

The change was made as The Lovely Bones was not in Rory's Season List .

*Both challenges are now complete *

[Kim]

I couldn't create a new topic/thread and the summer challenge resurfaced these feelings, so...

Does anyone else feel feelings when looking at the B&W site and noticing how many books were mentioned in S1 and how each season there are fewer (S6 and S7 both make me cringe with just seven books each)?

I've noticed that before and had thoughts about it, but since part of our summer challenge is reading a book from each season, I've been forced to look at this again and it's giving me all of the feels.

[Stephanie]

Yes. I find that odd myself. Especially since the other lists have a lot of other books. Im doing all the lists though.

[Holly]

I understand and it's definitely a conversation the moderators can have. I think at the time there were so many inconsistencies with the previous list we used, this was the best. I can totally address it with the other moderators.

on a side note: mid summer check! how's it going...I've fallen off the wagon so I'm so far behind!

[Kim]

Holly wrote: "I understand and it's definitely a conversation the moderators can have. I think at the time there were so many inconsistencies with the previous list we used, this was the best. I can totally addr..."

But also, in general, Holly... Rory was reading all the time in the earlier seasons and a lot less in the later. That makes me sad that reading became less of a priority as she got older!

*Mid-summer check:*
I'm doing a lot better than I thought I would be doing, lol. I originally was going to do the seasons but added SUMMER letters because I am going through books so quickly (though slowing down due to library waitlists). When you combine the seasons + summer, I'm at 6/13 and I have another that just showed up from the library.

[[deleted user]]

I agree :( Rory did read a lot less, and I cant be the only one who detested her character after season 4 :(

[Karin]

Update completed to Message #42.

[Rosa]

I was pretty sad to see the lists shrink through the seasons myself. I can somewhat understand though - I really have to make time to read, and it's much more challenging now that I have obligations outside of just school. Maybe if Rory had an awesome Goodreads book club to keep her going things would have been different for her :)

I'm also pretty proud of myself for getting through as many books as I have! I'm at 5/7 books in the seasons challenge, and am starting on some summer challenge books this week. Not too bad for having started in late June (though granted a lot of those are super short children's books, but they count!). Just started The Godfather and am pleasantly surprised by how much I'm digging it so far.

[Karin]

Updated message #42

[Karin]

updated message #42-
one book from each season is now complete ! 7/7