NancyJ's Summer Reading Challenge ✨

[NancyJ]

2022 Summer Reading Challenge Prompts - June 1- Aug 31
Goal = 5000 points
July 8, 2022 Total points = 5600
After July 8 - 5a (500)+ 3a (300)+

Hot Yoga - 100 points x3 =300
🌞1a. A book with a twist
✔️A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
🌞1b. A romance -
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callander
🌞1c. An author you've been meaning to try
✔️Clap When You LandElizabeth Acevedo
(Happiness, Aminata Forna)
1d. A book with a lot of hype true biz)
😎😎1e. A person is on the cover - Eat a Peach David Chang

Jazzercise - 200 points x3 = 600
Author's initials are in:
🌞2a. PUMP UP THE JAM - AP HP EA
✔️ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
🌞2b. LET'S GET PHYSICAL - ES strout HP EA
✔️ Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
2c. HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - Book Lovers, Emily Henry
2d. CANT TOUCH THIS - (True Biz, Sara Novic) Beloved Amy Harmon
🌞2e. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN -
✔️ The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

Cross Fit - 300 points X4 = 1200
😎😎3a. A book published in 2022 - Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
🌞3b. Part of a series of at least three books -
✔️Rogue Protocol
🌞3c. A book that combines more than one genre -
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🌞3d. Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional) -
✔️Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
🌞 3e. Set in more than one country -
✔️How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

Aquarobics - 400 points X5 = 2000
🌞4a. By an author over the age of 50 -
✔️A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (age 60 in 1964)
🌞4b. Published before 1922 -
✔️Washington Square by Henry James1880
🌞4c. The cover has water on it
✔️Beartown by Fredrik Backman
🌞4d. A book that takes place in more than one era of time
✔️ The Thirty Names of Night by Zehn Joukhadar
🌞4e. A biography or memoir
✔️This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett

Ninja Warrior - 500 points X3 =1500
😎😎5a. A book with more than 500 pages - ADDITIONAL
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
🌞5b. A book set primarily in Japan
✔️Kitchen
🌞5c. A collection of essays, poems, or short stories
✔️Calypso by David Sedaris
5d. A weapon is on the cover
(The Word Is Murder)
🌞5e. A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings - ✔️Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (South America) 5e or 4c

[NancyJ]

Read
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built -by Becky Chambers 1e (person on cover) or 3c (multi-genre)
✔️The People We Keep by Allison Larkin 2b or 2e
✔️ Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells - 3b Series
✔️Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis 🌈- 5e or 4c(water)
✔️A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - 4a
2b,2d,2e, or 1e
✔️ Washington Square by Henry James - 4b or 3d
✔️Calypso by David Sedaris - 4e
✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar 4d or 3e
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo - 1c, 2a, 2b, 2e
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar - 1b
✔️Commonwealth by Ann Patchett -2a
✔️Beartown by Fredrik Backman -4c
✔️A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne -1a
✔️Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto -Japan 5b
✔️Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette -3d
✔️How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior -3e
✔️Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout -2b
✔️This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett - memoir 4e


2022 Summer Reading Challenge Prompts - June 1- Aug 31
Goal = 5000 points

July 8, 2022 Total points = 5600

Hot Yoga - 100 points x3 =300
🌞1a. A book with a twist
✔️A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
🌞1b. A romance -
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callander
🌞1c. An author you've been meaning to try
✔️Clap When You LandElizabeth Acevedo
Happinessby Aminatta Forna
🔹1d. A book with a lot of hype (Book lovers, true biz)
🔹1e. A person is on the cover (Book lovers, Immortal, Clap)

1d, 1e, 2022 options
The Poet X, With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
Book Lovers by Emily
True Biz by Sarah Novic
The Maid



Jazzercise - 200 points x3 = 600
Author's initials are in:
🌞2a. PUMP UP THE JAM
✔️ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
🌞2b. LET'S GET PHYSICAL
✔️ Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

🔹2c. HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - Ruth Ozeki, Lisa See, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kristin Hannah, Nella Larsen, Emily Henry, Louise Erdrich, Kathleen Rooney
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

🔹2d. CANT TOUCH THIS -
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
True Biz by Sara Novic

🌞2e. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN -
✔️ The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

Cross Fit - 300 points X4 = 1200
🔹3a. A book published in 2022
The Unknown Beloved
True Biz
Book Lovers
Something Wilder
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

🌞3b. Part of a series of at least three books -
✔️Rogue Protocol
🌞3c. A book that combines more than one genre -
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🌞3d. Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional) -
✔️Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
🌞 3e. Set in more than one country -
✔️How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior

Aquarobics - 400 points X5 = 2000
🌞4a. By an author over the age of 50 -
✔️A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (age 60 in 1964)
🌞4b. Published before 1922 -
✔️Washington Square by Henry James1880
🌞4c. The cover has water on it
✔️Beartown by Fredrik Backman
🌞4d. A book that takes place in more than one era of time
✔️ The Thirty Names of Night by Zehn Joukhadar
🌞4e. A biography or memoir
✔️This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
Ninja Warrior - 500 points X3 =1500
🔹5a. A book with more than 500 pages
🎈Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
🌞5b. A book set primarily in Japan
✔️Kitchen
🌞5c. A collection of essays, poems, or short stories
✔️Calypso by David Sedaris
🔹5d. A weapon is on the cover
(The Word Is Murder)
🌞5e. A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings - ✔️Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (South America) 5e or 4c

[NancyJ]

Currently Reading:
Wild Swans - history - audible/kindle - 500+ pages - July
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

Upcoming
True Biz 🌈, deaf culture - book - August Book Club
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 - 5c, 4a, 2a - book, request eaudio
The Unknown Beloved - multi genres, 2022,

A Girl Returned
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond