Hélène's 2022 Summer Reading Challenge

[Hélène]

My plan :

Hot Yoga - 100 points
1a. A book with a twist
1b. A romance : This Close to Okay
or En attendant Bojangles (Waiting for Bojangles)
1c. An author you've been meaning to try :
1d. A book with a lot of hype :
✔ 1e. A person is on the cover : Le roi n'avait pas ri

Jazzercise - 200 points
Author's initials are in:
✔ 2a. PUMP UP THE JAM : Jaune : histoire d'une couleur by Michel Pastoureau
✔ 2b. LET'S GET PHYSICAL : Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
✔ 2c. HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF : The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun
2d. CANT TOUCH THIS :
✔ 2e. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN : Fewer Things, Better: The Courage to Focus on What Matters Most by Angela Watson

Cross Fit - 300 points
3a. A book published in 2022 :
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
✔ 3b. Part of a series of at least three books : The Widows of Malabar Hill
✔ 3c. A book that combines more than one genre : The Murder of Mr. Wickham (retelling / mystery / historical fiction)
3d. Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional) : Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
✔3e. Set in more than one country : Meines Vaters Land: Geschichte einer deutschen Familie - set in Germany, Denmark, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia

Aquarobics - 400 points
✔ 4a. By an author over the age of 50 : Das geheime Leben der Bäume (The Hidden Life of Trees)
4b. Published before 1922
✔ 4c.. The cover has water on it : Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
✔ 4d. A book that takes place in more than one era of time : Les Tudors by Bernard Cottret
✔ 4e. A biography or memoir : Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Ninja Warrior - 500 points
✔ 5a. A book with more than 500 pages : Im Wald by Nele Neuhaus - 560 pages
5b. A book set primarily in Japan : Pachinko
✔ 5c. A collection of essays, poems, or short stories : I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working by Shauna Niequist
✔ 5d. A weapon is on the cover : The Power of the Dog
✔ 5e. A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings : Des ailes au loin by Jadd Hilal - 29 ratings

BOOKS READ :


TOTAL : 5400 points