Kathy E - Summer Reading Challenge

[Kathy]

Kathy's Summer Reading Challenge
PLANNING 5000 points needed

Finished 7/9/22

Points earned: 300+400+300+500+100+500+200+300+100+200+100+200+100+500+400+300+500= 5,000 points

✅ - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading

Hot Yoga - 100 points
1a. A book with a twist
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
library book OR
Then She Was Gone - Lisa Jewell
Audible

1b. A romance
✅The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary
library book

1c. An author you've been meaning to try
✅Dubliners - James Joyce
Audible

1d. A book with a lot of hype
✅An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Overdrive audio

1e. A person is on the cover
✅A Wreath for the Enemy - Pamela Frankau
ebook


Jazzercise - 200 points
Author's initials are in:
2a. PUMP UP THE JAM
The Gray Notebook - Josep Pla
book

2b. LET'S GET PHYSICAL
✅Matrix - Lauren Groff

2c. HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
Berlin Stories - Robert Walser
book

2d. CANT TOUCH THIS
✅The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
book and Audible

2e. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
✅Deconstructed - Liz Talley
Audible

Cross Fit - 300 points
3a. A book published in 2022
✅This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub
library book

3b. Part of a series of at least three books
✅The Likeness - Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad #2)
book

3c. A book that combines more than one genre
✅A Conspiracy in Belgravia - Sherry Thomas (historical mystery)
Audible

3d. Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional)
The Venice Sketchbook - Rhys Bowen
library book

3e. Set in more than one country
✅A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (Canada, England, France)
Audible

Aquarobics - 400 points
4a. By an author over the age of 50
✅Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
Overdrive audio

4b. Published before 1922
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit (1902)
library book

4c. The cover has water on it
✅The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
book


4d. A book that takes place in more than one era of time
Our Last Days in Barcelona - Chanel Cleeton (1936 and 1964)
Audible

4e. A biography or memoir
A Promised Land - Barack Obama
Overdrive audio

Ninja Warrior - 500 points
5a. A book with more than 500 pages
✅Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann (731p)
Audible

5b. A book set primarily in Japan
The Easy Life in Kamusari - Shion Miura
ebook/Audible

5c. A collection of essays, poems, or short stories
✅Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
library book

5d. A weapon is on the cover
✅Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie
book


5e. A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings
✅Cloud Howe, The Second Book of A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (327 ratings)
ebook

[Kathy]

Finished through 6/8/22

3c. A book that combines more than one genre
A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas (mystery/historical fiction)

3e. Set in more than one country
A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies (Canada, England, France)

4c. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame


Points earned: 1,000

[Kathy]

Finished 6/9/22 - 6/14/22

5a. A book with more than 500 pages
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann (731p) 500 points

Total points earned: 1,500

[Kathy]

Finished 6/15/22 - 6/21/22

1c. An author you've been meaning to try
James Joyce - Dubliners 100 points

1d. A book with a lot of hype
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 100 points

2d. CANT TOUCH THIS
Anthony Trollope - The Eustace Diamonds 200 points

3b. Part of a series of at least three books
The Likeness - Tana French
(Dublin Murder Squad #2) 300 points

5e. A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings
Cloud Howe, The Second Book of A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (327 ratings) 500 points

Total points earned: 2,700

[Kathy]

Finished 6/22/22 - 6/28/22

2e. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Deconstructed - Liz Talley 200 points

2b. LET'S GET PHYSICAL
Matrix - Lauren Groff 200 points

1b. A romance
The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary 100 points

Total points earned: 3,300

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Finished 6/23/22 - 7/7/22

5c. A collection of essays, poems or short stories
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott 500 points

4a. By an author over the age of 50
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope (age 59 when book was published in 1874) 400 points

Total points earned: 4,200