Sylvia's Challenge Thread (comments welcome)

[Sylvia]

Eep, I hope I'm doing this right....

I'm doing the following challenges:

Read All the Books: Place 12 books in my 2021 Challenge shelf (current number: 11)
* 🧛‍♂️ The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
* Vulnerable AF
* 💃 Mexican Gothic
* This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
* Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer
* 🐉 Domesticating Dragons
* Fight Club
* Second Shooter
* High White Notes
* Let's Get Lost
* Greenlights

Short Fiction Challenge: I'll update stories in a reply to this post along with my Dwarf status

I love the bonus challenges on the series challenge but I don't get enough time to read to work through series as well this year, so I will have to live without collecting all the great symbols. I might add them to my list of books anyway :D

[Sylvia]

Short Fiction Challenge

1. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
2. Onboarding Practices for the Ravaging Horde by E.B. Brandon
3. Fifteen Dogs in a Human Suit by Paul R. Hardy
4. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
5. Brightly, Undiminished by Sarah Grey
6. The Day Fair For Guys Becoming Middle Managers by Rachael K. Jones
7. Proof by Induction by Jose Iriarte
8. White Goods by Liam Hogan
9. Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian
10. My Custom Monster by Jo Miles
11. Tyrannosaurus Hex by Sam J Miller
12. Truth, in Plain Sight Hidden by Wendy Nikel
13. There Are No Guards at the Borders of Faerie by Eric James Stone
14. Switzerland by Farah Al Qasimi
15. A Challenge You Have Overcome by Allegra Goodman
16. Carnival Nine by Caroline M. Yoachim
17. Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
18. #selfcare by Annalee Newitz


Narrative Non-Fiction
(which for me is related and also interesting but it makes sense to track it separately)
1. Active Shooter by David Sedaris
2. Bad Dog by Anna Heyward
3. The IHOP Years by David Sedaris
4. Duplex by Anthony Veasna So
5. Flight Plan by Anne Patchett
6. The Polo Lounge at the Dorchester Hotel by Jay Rayner
7. Soundtrack by Lisa Groen Braner
8. Soundtrack by Sally Ashton
9. The Fourth State of Matter by Jo Ann Beard
10. One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles by Anthony Bourdain for the New Yorker
11. A Sandwich by Nora Ephron for the New Yorker (2002)
12. Consider the Lobster (PDF) by David Foster Wallace for Gourmet Magazine (2004)
13. Cooking Your Way Through the Pandemic by Stanley Tucci
14. The Devil's Bait by Leslie Jamison
15. The Spy Who Liked Me by John le Carré
16. The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat by Hunter S Thompson
17. Old Lady Down the Hall by David Sedaris

[Sylvia]

Bonus Badges

I can't find the original of this but I saw it in Leticia's Reading Challenges and was overcome with longing.

B) Bonus challenges (referring to individual sequel books)

You can earn the following tiny little symbols by reading a (sequel) book in a series book which

1) has a dragon (or the word dragon) on the cover: you get the dragon 🐉
🐉Domesticating Dragons


2) has a weapon (or the name of a weapon) on the cover: you collect the knife 🔪

3) has a person on the cover: you collect the dancer 💃
💃 Mexican Gothic

4) has a landscape on the cover: you collect the flower 🌺

5) has stars or planets on the cover: you collect the star ✨

6) has an fantastical/not real creature or the name of one on the cover: you collect the unicorn 🦄

7) has a real animal/name of one on the cover: you collect that animal's emoji 🐰🐒🐅🦅🦚🐟 etc. (repeatable)

8) features a murder investigation: you collect the detective 🕵️‍♂️

9) features an alien/vampire/zombie/ghost: you collect the 👽or 🧛‍♂️ or 🧟‍♀️ or 👻 (repeatable)
🧛‍♂️ The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

10) features a love story/couple/some romantic elements: you collect the hearts 💕

11) features space travel: you collect the UFO 🛸

12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one: you collect ice ❄ or fire 🔥 (repeatable)

If you collect all 12 categories, you get a medal: 🏅

The books you read for challenge B) should not be the first books in a series, but sequels. If you read a series sequelbook that doesn't match any of the bonus challenges, you get a lucky lady bug 🐞 for each as a consolation.

[DivaDiane]

Hey Sylvia!! I didn’t know you were a member of this group! Lovely to see you here. Hope you are well. Good luck with the challenges. I always sign up for them, choose books with great enthusiasm and proceed to fail utterly!

[CBRetriever]

here's the original:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sylvia]

DivaDiane wrote: "Hey Sylvia!! I didn’t know you were a member of this group! Lovely to see you here. Hope you are well. Good luck with the challenges. I always sign up for them, choose books with great enthusiasm a..."

Hi! I didn't know you were here either. I'm a new member and this is my first time doing the challenges. I'm really looking forward to it though! How do I find your thread?

Thank you CBRetriever for the link!

[DivaDiane]

I do have a thread here (called Diane’s Artificial Memory) on SFFBC, but I maintain the one in another group (gasp!) better and there is more engagement there too. You are welcome to check it out. I hope it works: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I forgot to request your friendship so I’ll take care of that now!

[DivaDiane]

Haha! We are already! So, you can click on my name in this post to be taken to my feed.

On the personal calendar in the other group, check out the 3rd post from the very beginning for my choices for the SFFBC challenges and my mile long recap of 2020 is on the last page.

[Sylvia]

Cool, thank you! My goal is to be a BIT more active so I'll hold off on the other group while I see how I do, but itlooks like fun!