Challenge Task Suggestions - ONGOING

[Emily]

Read a book you have bought at a garage sale or bargin bin.

[Jeane]

Emily wrote: "Read a post apocalyptic/natural disaster HF book (like one about Pompeii, fall of a civilization, etc)."

yeeeeees :-)

[LenaLena]

I would be really happy if we could find a challenge task that would allow me to get some points for reading the non-HF The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss which is coming out March 1st and which I will have to go buy the very same day. At almost 1000 pages that is going to eat up some significant challenge time....

Read an author with a beard? The word 'Man' or 'Woman' in the title? I am sure you can up with something.....

[Jackie]

LMAO! Marleen, I'm with you. I'll probably be reading that one in March.

[Luckngrace]

Read a book about a hurricane, earthquake, shipwreck, avalanche, nuclear accident, etc. or it's aftermath.

[Emily]

Luckngrace- We think alike. I just posted a very similar idea just a couple posts up. :-)

Another idea: Read a book that is being made into a movie that will be released sometime in 2011. (inspired by watching the new Jane Eyre trailer and thinking I need to reread that before 3/11)

[Luckngrace]

Read a book that mentions a gift.

Read an HF from your favorite setting and time period.

I'll resubmit a suggestion from before Ch#5: Read a book containing a sport or game.

Read a book you feel touched or changed the world in some way.

Continue a series you love.

Read a book written by or about a political figure or party or state of the country, etc. (past, present or future).

[LenaLena]

Jackie wrote: "LMAO! Marleen, I'm with you. I'll probably be reading that one in March."

See... see? Her Constableness needs to read it too. She wants a task that fits this book (back me up here, Jackie)!

How about a matching set of tasks?
Read an author whose last name starts with an M
Read an author whose last name starts with an A
Read an author whose last name starts with an R
Read an author whose last name starts with an C
Read an author whose last name starts with an H
Bonus points if you do all 5!

Or you can choose to do
A
P
R
I
L

(as long as it has an R in there!)

[JC]

How about a matching set of tasks?
Read an author whose last name starts with an M
Read an author whose last name starts with an A
Read an author whose last name starts with an R
Read an author whose last name starts with an C
Read an author whose last name starts with an H
Bonus points if you do all 5!

Or you can choose to do
A
P
R
I
L

(as long as it has an R in there!)


LOVE IT!

[Jeane]

Ask a fellow HF member to make up a task for you

[Rachel]

Read a book from the Historical Fiction 2011 List.

Or to include The Wise Man's Fear...
Read a book from the Can't Wait Books for 2011 List.

[JC]

Rachel wrote: "Read a book from the Historical Fiction 2011 List.

Or to include The Wise Man's Fear...
Read a book from the Can't Wait Books for 2011 List."

I like this!

Or maybe the most recently published HF on your TBR list (maybe pick from 5)?

[Ellen]

After all this cold weather and with spring to look forward to, I would love it if we could incorporate something about gardening or flowers into a challenge. Maybe something like--read a book with the name of a flower, plant, or tree in the title, such as White Oleander, The Tea Rose, The Blood of Flowers, The Peony Lover, The Forgotten Garden, etc.

[Luckngrace]

Ellen wrote: "After all this cold weather and with spring to look forward to, I would love it if we could incorporate something about gardening or flowers into a challenge. Maybe something like--read a book with..."

I really love this one Ellen. Can't wait to see which ones they pick for Ch#6.

[Luckngrace]

Marleen wrote: "Jackie wrote: "LMAO! Marleen, I'm with you. I'll probably be reading that one in March."

See... see? Her Constableness needs to read it too. She wants a task that fits this book (back me up here, ..."

I really like this one, too.

[Kristine]

Have not kept up with this thread, so if it's a repeat I apologize, but how about an HF story that takes place in Ireland and/or tells of an Irish family immigrating to the U.S. or another country.

[Gayle]

Kristine wrote: "Have not kept up with this thread, so if it's a repeat I apologize, but how about an HF story that takes place in Ireland and/or tells of an Irish family immigrating to the U.S. or another country."

I was thinking the same thing......and that it would be a good one for St. Patrick's Day in March.

[Maureen]

I am new to this group and this is my second post. I just finished reading Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly. It would fit into an Irish themed HF. The story is a fictionalized account of the author's great-great-grandmother and her life in Ireland during the Potato Famine or as the author terms it, The Great Starvation. I really enjoyed it!

[Hock]

Evelina A. wrote: "Read a book (any genre) that's been translated to english."

I just published a book consisting of selections from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that I translated from Mandarin into English. See my blog for more http://hockgtjoa.blogspot.com/

[Maude]

Read a book about the transports to Australia, and how they built a country, either fiction or nonfiction.

Read a book about the Far North/Canada from any era, fiction or nonfiction. That would include anything from P.I. Island to the Gold Fields, and farthest North.

[Maude]

Now that I think about it, those books should be fiction since we are the fictionista's!

[Jackie]

Non-fiction and other genre options are okay though. I really don't want to limit all the tasks.

[Rachel]

Read a book about a famous actor, theater, studio, etc.

[JC]

A couple challenges ago we had a task that was to read two books set in the same time period in different countries. For the current challenge I read Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette and am currently finishing The Eight with one book ending with the French Revolution and another book beginning with it and having two different perspectives of the same conflict. It's been highly interesting to me to read about this time in history that I formerly knew nothing about. We could have a task to read two books that take place during the same time, possibly portraying some "event" from different perspectives.

[ToniS]

We had one in the past that was to read a fiction and a non-fiction about the same event or time period or person or whatever. That was interesting to me, too.

[Leland]

LemonLinda wrote: "read a book that features your star sign (I'm a leo - so a lion on the cover or in the title/plot, if you're a gemini then twins cou..."

But that would be a hard one for those of us who are Taurus..."

Which zodiac will we use? I was Scorpio but now I'm supposedly a Libra since theres a new sign. (Lucky 13!)

[Leland]

Maude wrote: "Now that I think about it, those books should be fiction since we are the fictionista's!"

Agreed, unless otherwise specified by the task

[Jeane]

JenC. wrote: "A couple challenges ago we had a task that was to read two books set in the same time period in different countries. For the current challenge I read [book:Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette|1..."

I loved the eight!!!

[Leland]

How about

Read one novel set on each continent.

It could be a challenge with 6 or 7 parts (I was taught 7, but I understand some see North and South America as the same continent)

[Jeane]

Nice idea!!!!!! Could be good for a 2 month challenge but maybe only HF then.

[Emily]

Read a book with a mythical creature in the title (ex Dragonwyck, The Lady and the Unicorn)

Read a book with a time of day or night in the title (twilight, dusk, morning, night, noon, etc.)

[Joanna]

read about a post-apocalypse world or distopian future? or the end of a civiliation maybe to get some HF involved.

[Emily]

Read a book based on a fairy tale

Read a "science gone wrong" novel

Read a HF book about a major historial event and then a NF book about the same event.

[Jackie]

Can you give an example of a "science gone wrong" novel?

[Rachel]

Jackie wrote: "Can you give an example of a "science gone wrong" novel?"

Dr Jeckle & Mr Hyde or Frankenstein perhaps?

[Jackie]

Ah ok. Makes sense now. :)

[Emily]

Rachel wrote: "Jackie wrote: "Can you give an example of a "science gone wrong" novel?"

Dr Jeckle & Mr Hyde or Frankenstein perhaps?"

Exactly. :-)

The Stand- not HF, basically anything by Scott Sigler, The Invisible Man

I don't know how easy it would be for HF. But I know it was a big theme with Victorian writers (and for horror writers now too).

[Jackie]

We can always put that one in the all genre category to make it easier to find books.

[Laura K]

This might have already been suggested previously, and it could be very hard-- Read a book whose author's first and last name start with the same letter.

[Laura K]

There are two Goodreads authors in this group whose first and last names start with the same letter. ;-)

[Margaret]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before. What about reading a HF from where you live (or close to).

[Maude]

Margaret, I like your idea!

[Henry]

Read a book that you've heard from different sources that "has an ambiguous ending". Something for the mind to mull over......................guess that sounds boring........ Ah! What the hell, i tried.

[Emily]

Henry wrote: "Read a book that you've heard from different sources that "has an ambiguous ending". Something for the mind to mull over......................guess that sounds boring........ Ah! What the hell, i t..."

That doesn't sound boring at all! I like it.

[Henry]

Emily wrote: "That doesn't sound boring at all I like it".................................. Thanks Emily, just decided to post that as it crossed my mind that i haven't read enough books with endings like that.

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How about one book from each of three different time 'zones', for example, Medieval, Tudor, Victorian, or Pre-history, Roman, Dark Ages, etc? Or is that too easy?

Or . . . .
A book set during the 1st WW, and another set during the 2nd WW? (Doesn't necessary have to be ABOUT the wars, just set in those time-lines)

An HF book about a journey that involves more than one country.

An HF book about a healer of some kind - ie, nurse, doctor, psychiatrist, midwife, 'wise-woman', apothecary, physician, surgeon, etc.

With 'UK fever' being high at the moment, what with the Royal Wedding . . how about four books, one of each set in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales?

[JC]

I like the UK fever idea!

[Emily]

JenC. wrote: "I like the UK fever idea!"

That's a really fun idea!

[Maude]

Bee, those are some great ideas!!

[Rachel]

Read a re-imagined fairy tale.