Challenge list-books

[Winter]

I have this challenge:

2nd Quarter Challenge: Sharon's Spring Challenge

Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2015

1. Read a book about time travel.

2. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision.

3. Read a book that takes place in the spring.

5. Read a steampunk book.

7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break.

12. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics (happy, confident) or an action genre book.

Looking to fill these ones with list-books. Any suggestions. Particulary for 3 and 7, struggling with those :)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I think Lucky Jim will fulfill #7. (I have not read it, I'm sure someone else can confirm.)

NY Review Books says:

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

[Zala]

For nr. 1 I'd recommend The Time Traveler's Wife, but you've probably read that already.
So, another one is Outlander.
I think How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, by Simone Elkeles, would fit the requirements for #7.
And #5, a steampunk book, could be Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm, by Leigh Bardugo. Or Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel.
I hope you find something to your liking.

[Winter]

Zala wrote: "For nr. 1 I'd recommend The Time Traveler's Wife, but you've probably read that already.
So, another one is Outlander.
I think [book:How to Ruin a Summer Vacation|4919..."

Probably very good books, but I can't find any of them on the list unfortunately.

[Winter]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I think Lucky Jim will fulfill #7. (I have not read it, I'm sure someone else can confirm.)

NY Review Books says:

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the tw..."

That one might be good for one of my personal challenges too:)

[Dree]

I believe a good section of Of Human Bondage takes place at a medical school in England. I don't know if this would count.

I don't remember the details--I read this book over 20 years ago and still consider it to be one of the worst books I have actually finished.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Another I have not read, but the description appears that it will satisfy your #3 - Spring.

Broken April

[Winter]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Another I have not read, but the description appears that it will satisfy your #3 - Spring.

Broken April"

Thank you! That one seems to fit perfectly ^^

[Winter]

3 and 7 where the ones I did not have an idea for :)

[Dee]

Winter wrote: "7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break."

The Art of Fielding is another book that takes place in a college setting.

[Winter]

David wrote: "Winter wrote: "7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break."

The Art of Fielding is another book that takes place in a college setting."

Thanks :)

[Diane]

The first half of The Sense of an Ending takes place in a college setting.

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost might take place in the spring.

[Diane]

The Secret History takes place in a college setting, too. Part of The Marriage Plot does as well.

[Emily]

Ulyssess by James Joyce. It occurs on June 16th, which meteorologically, is still spring!

[Winter]

I actually didn't think about that.!
I have read the secret history and it is exellent! But it could count since I read everyone with dates, so the few I had read Anew/)

[Meg]

I think Catcher in the Rye would fit both the impetuous decision and the college categories :-)

[Emily]

Is the Time Machine by Wells on the list? I don't have it in front of me.

[Winter]

It is and will probably be my choice for steampunk:)

[Emily]

I was thinking time travel. What is the definition of steampunk?

[Jennifer W]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Another I have not read, but the description appears that it will satisfy your #3 - Spring.

Broken April"

It would fit the spring category, but it's one of the worst list books I've read (just my opinion, of course).

I recently read Lady Chatterley's Lover which takes place in spring. I found it enjoyable, but not everyone does.

[Winter]

Emily wrote: "I was thinking time travel. What is the definition of steampunk?"

Not exactly sure, but I think it was on a list of steampunk on listopia and they will be considered legal :)

[Winter]

Jennifer W wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Another I have not read, but the description appears that it will satisfy your #3 - Spring.

Broken April"

It would fit the spring category, but it's one o..."

Broken April looks like my kind of book though from the description.

[Emily]

Steampunk is science fiction which features steam powered machinery as opposed to advanced technology. (according to google!)

[Jennifer W]

Winter wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Another I have not read, but the description appears that it will satisfy your #3 - Spring.

Broken April"

It would fit the spring categ..."

I certainly hope you enjoy it more than I did! :)

[Winter]

:) I might or not. I have seen people her not liking The Secret History for example, so taste is certainly a factor. Although people seem to almost agree on some.

[Melanti]

I'd think that at least the "Franny" part of Franny and Zooey would count for #7. So would Pnin.

Many of Jules Verne's stories would count as Steampunk, but I don't think Around the World in Eighty Days would. Journey to the Center of the Earth might - It's been a few years since I've read it, though, so I'm a bit shaky on what technology he included. The Time Machine definitely works too.

Slaughterhouse-Five should count as time travel.

[Winter]

Melanti wrote: "I'd think that at least the "Franny" part of Franny and Zooey would count for #7. So would Pnin.

Many of Jules Verne's stories would count as Steampunk, but I don't think..."

That's some great choices, thank you!

[Mekki]

You can also try Giles Goat-Boy (view spoiler)[( The whole world is a college ) (hide spoiler)] for #7.