Diane's Reading Challenge

[Diane]

2015 Reading Challenge
1. A book with more than 500 pages
The Liar by Nora Roberts (release date 4/16/15)
2. A classic romance
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. A book that became a movie
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Sundance Films) (Audio) (finished 1/31/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4. A book published this year
Windy City Blues by Marc Krulewitch (finished 1/2/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5. A book with a number in the title
4th of July by James Patterson
6. A book written by someone under 30
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
7. A book with nonhuman characters
The Tell-Tail Heart (Cattarina Mystery #1) by Monica Shaughnessy
8. A funny book
Workman's Complication (McCall & Company #1) by Rich Leder (finished 1/20/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
9. A book by a female author
Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan series #1) by Laura Lippman (finished 1/26/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
10. A mystery or thriller
The Vanishing Wife by Barry Finlay (finished 1/17/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
11. A book with a one-word title
Captured by Neil Cross
12. A book of short stories
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. A book set in a different country
The Death Season (The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries) by Kate Ellis (finished 1/8/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
14. A nonfiction book
Vegetarian Weight Loss by Jonathan Vine
15. A popular author's first book
A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16. A book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
17. A book a friend recommended
The Monkey's Raincoat (An Elvis Cole Novel Book 1) by Robert Crais
18. A pulitzer-prize winning book
Don’t know yet
19. A book based on a true story
Dobyns Chronicles by Shirley McLain (finished 1/3/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
20. A book at the bottom of your to read list
Don’t know yet
21. A book your mom loves
The Longest Ride by Nicolas Sparks (book daughter loves)
22. A book that scares you
Don’t know yet
23. A book more than 100 years old
The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
24. A book based entirely on its cover
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor (finished 1/28/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
25. A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
either: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom OR Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
26. A memoir
Don’t know yet
27. A book you can finish in a day
To the River: Rescue by the Schuylkill (Cattarina Mystery novella)by Monica Shaughnessy
28. A book with antonyms in the title
Don’t know yet
29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
Don’t know yet (probably set in Ireland)
30. A book that came out the year you were born
Nancy Drew 27: The Secret of the Wooden Lady by Carolyn Keene
31. A book with bad reviews
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
32. A trilogy (the first)
Don’t know yet
33. A trilogy (the second)
Don’t know yet
34. A trilogy (the third)
Don’t know yet
35. A book from your childhood
Probably a Nancy Drew book – not sure which one
36. A book with a love triangle
Colorado Hope (The Front Range #2) by Charlene Whitman (finished 1/24/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
37. A book set in the future
Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb
38. A book set in high school
Don’t know yet
39. A book with a color in the title
Don’t know yet
40. A book that made/makes you cry
Don’t know yet
41. A book with magic
Don’t know yet
42. A graphic novel
Don’t know yet
43. A book by an author you've never read before
Cane and Abe by James Grippando
44. A book you own but have never read
Don’t know yet
45. A book that takes place in your hometown
Don’t know yet
46. A book that was originally written in another language
Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc (originally in French) (finished 1/15/15)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
47. A book set during christmas (or similar holiday)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. A book written by an author with your same initials
The Old Buzzard Had It Coming (An Alafair Tucker Mystery # 1) by Donis Casey
49. A play
Don’t know yet
50. A banned book
Don’t know yet
51. A book based on or turned into a TV show
Don’t know yet
52. A book you started but never finished
Don’t know yet

[Diane]

Just updated. Some have been read, but out of order. I'm waiting for Nora Robert's novel, The Liar (to be released in April) for my > 500 page novel. There are still a lot of 'don't know yet' items.

[Cait]

I'm still filling in a lot of my weeks as I go, I think there are some I won't know for definite until the week of the challenge.

Looks like you're doing well. Good luck with it. :-)

[Diane]

Cait wrote: "I'm still filling in a lot of my weeks as I go, I think there are some I won't know for definite until the week of the challenge.

Looks like you're doing well. Good luck with it. :-)"

Hi Cait - Thanks! It's definitely a fun way to read books that I've been wanting to for sometime. Actually I'm happy to add a lot of Sherlock Holmes to my list. I read and enjoyed several when I was in school and did a report on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but I honestly can't remember which stories I read at this point.

[Cait]

I read them all a little while ago and reread The Sign of Four more recently for a literature course. My husband's a major Sherlock Holmes nut and qbout 90% of what he reads is based on Holmes in some way.

When I get to the mystery week it'll just be whichever is next on his list of books I have to read.

Have fun revisiting them. :-)