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message 1: by Liezel (last edited Jan 02, 2016 09:03AM) (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments 1. Read a book that takes place in 3 different mythical/imagined realms - parallel dimensions, mythical worlds. Planets do not count, unless they're in another dimension. Earth does not count either, so you can't read a book that features only Earth, heaven and hell, unless the book features a mythical place on Earth.
Also, you can't cheat by using 3 different cities in one mythical world or something.


2. Read a book that has been banned (not just challenged) in 3 or more countries.

3. Reread a book (give a second chance to) a book you previously gave a bad rating/review.

4. Finish a book that you started but gave up on.

5. Choose a series that you a gave a low rating to, and read the second book.

6. Read a book with the word second, (not seconds) two or twice in the title. The catch is it can't be the second book in a series.

7. Read a book that was nominated for an award/awards but never won (came in second :D)- never won anything

8. Read a book with 7 or more words in the title. Subtitles don't count (ie. nothing after the colon).

9. Read a book that is number 7,8 or 9 in a stand alone series.

10. Read a book where a main character has the same name as your mother (we can speak about it if your mother has a random name etc).

11. Read a book that's cover depicts someone that is about to die in some way or other.

12. Read a book that has a two part title that coincides with your initials (just first and last name). For example, mine is LC = Long Cannons by blah blah

13. Read a book with 1000 or more pages.

14. A title with 3 or more words, each starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For example: A Boat Can Drift Everywhere

15. Read a book with a number of ratings matching your birth date. Month/Date/Year Eg. 01/20/86 would come to 12,086 ratings. Provide a screenshot to be verified by another member..

16. Read a book that is not written by a south African and does not take place in south Africa, but where in south Africa is mentioned.

17. Read a book that at least three of your friends have given less than three stars to.

18. Read a book translated from Finnish.

19. Read any novel by Tolstoy or Ayn Rand.

20. Go to a second-hand bookstore. Find the last book on the fiction shelf. If you do not have it, buy it and read it.

21. Read a book that is set on an ocean vessel that is not a passenger cruise ship.

22. Get three of the other sado-masochists here to choose a book that they think you'll HATE but that they think you should read. Choose one of the books and read it.
(For this challenge, just announce that you want three nominations and the first 3 to come in will be the books you have to choose from.)

23. Read a book published in the year that your father was born (1938)

24. Read a book with the originals authors signature in the front

25. Read an entire series consisting of 6 or more books. Re-reads not allowed!

26. Read a book with a reference to a classic book in it and read that classic too.
So you have to read two books here and you have to post the quote.

27. There are 3 steps
1. Choose a book to read. A classic, multiple award-winning or literary book is best. Fiction or non-fiction.
2. Read a novel (fiction) based on the book in step 1. eg. read Hyperion if your book is The Canterbury Tales.
3. Read a non-fiction book related to the book in step one. Eg. a collection of essays on the novel, a book about the author etc, a book about a theme of the novel (eg. vampires, dystopias) where the novel is discussed at length. It can be a study guide, but remember that it should fit the 100 page minimum requirement.


28. The terrible threes: Read three trilogies. (Re-reads allowed, but you must start from book 1)
29. Read a graphic novel.

30. Pick a theme, any theme fantasy, horror, whatever and read 6 different books belonging to that theme written by 6 different authors coming from the 6 different continents so from Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia, North-America and South-America. I know Antartica is counted as a continent, but I don't think they have many native authors there. I think it would be nice to see what the different continents do with the themes.

31. colour coded theme - You have to read 9 books. Each book must contain a colour in the title. The following colours should be used -
1. Yellow
2. ✓Red
3. ✓Blue
4. ✓Green
5. ✓White
6. ✓Black
7. ✓Brown
8. ✓Any other colour like Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Pink
9. ✓Last book should contain a word that implies colour, like rainbow, polka-dot, stripes

32. Read a book set in colonial Australia.

33. Read any book of your choosing, but then post a picture (a real picture - no photoshopping!) of yourself in the exact locations of a scene from the book. The picture/location should be verifiable. So don't use a photo of a beach that could be a beach anywhere in the world.
Eg. if you read Moxyland, you could use a picture of yourself in/outside Stones on Long Street in Cape Town. Just a picture of yourself in Cape Town won't cut it.

34. Re-create a cover. You have to take a pic where you have recreated a cover, using props, dressing up etc. You can't just use photoshop, except when putting a title on it and so on :)
Oh and read the book obviously :)

35. There is a song called "The Book Lovers" by the Divine Comedy. Read one book of 3 authors mentioned in the song.

36. Word Quest - One of your goodreads friends must choose a word for you, for example "driving", then you must find 3 books relating to that word and read it.

37. Read 33 novels from your favourite genre provided that each novel is more than 333 pages OR you can choose to read 11 novels from your favourite genre, provided that each novel is by an author you haven't read yet and that each novel is more than 333 pages.

38. ✓a) Read 9 debut novels by different authors (first actual novel in print by a major publisher).
✓b) Then read 3 novels published before the death of its author. (That author's last novel).>

39. Nomination : read an original greek mythology novel as close to the original text as you can get your hands on (obviously not greek)

40. A one-word title with 10 letters.



message 2: by Liezel (last edited Nov 02, 2015 12:00PM) (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Planned Reading

1. The Eyre Affair
2. Lolita
3. Haven
4. Vellum
5. Mirage
6. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
7. Horns
8. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
9. Blaze of MemoryPsy-Changeling 7
10. Johanna Hanna's Daughters
11. Intrinsical

12.Lady Killer
13. The Way of Kings
14. Across the Universe
15. The Clockwork Orange
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16. I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Tina Walters was declaring that "Cairo was super cool. Johannesburg - not so much.
17. Beastly
18. Purge
19. Anna Karenina
20. Dark Origins
21. Life of Pi
22. Pillars of the Earth, Never Knew Another or The Count of Monte Christo
23. 1938: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
24. Achieving the Impossible
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25.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
25.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
25.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
25.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
25.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
25.6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
25.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
26.1 Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
26.2 The Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe
'The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two days—my hair standing on end the whole time.'
27.1 Jane Eyre
27.2 Jane
27.3 The Life of Charlotte Bronte
28.1 Perfect Chemistry
28.2 Rules of Attraction
28.3 Chain Reaction
28.4 The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
28.5 Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
28.6 Mockingkay - Suzanne Collins
28.7 Wake - Lisa McMann
28.8 Fade - Lisa McMann
28.9 Gone - Lisa McMann
29 Drifters
30. Historical Fiction
30.1 The White Queen - Europe
30.2 Things Fall Apart - Africa
30.3 People of the Book - Australia
30.4 Code Name Verity = N. America
30.5 Of Love and Shadows - S. America
30.6
31.1
31.2 Sisters Red
31.3 Blue Bloods
31.4 Zelah Green
31.5 White Witch
31.6 Black Beauty
31.7 The Man in the Brown Suit
31.8 Scarlet
31.9 Shade
32 Morgan's Run
33
34
35.1 Mansfield Park
35.2 The Wasp Factory
35.3 Never Let me Go
36 word: staff
36.1
36.2
36.3
37
37.1 Nightshade
37.2 A Touch Mortal
37.3 Revolution
37.4 The Magnolia League
37.5 On the Jellicoe Road
37.6 You Against Me
37.7 King Dork
37.8 Hush Hush
37.9 Before I Fall
37.10 Huntress
37.11 Dead Beautiful
38.1 Warped
38.2 Timeless
38.3 Demon Kissed
38.4 Heart Shaped Box
38.5 XVI
38.6 Pride and Popularity
38.7 The Iron Witch
38.8 Angelfire
38.9 The Beckham Experiment
38.10 Emma
38.11 Curtain
38.12 Ash - James Herbert
39. Illiad
40. Masquerade

Books Read: 77/92
Tasks Completed: 27/40


message 3: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Finished 7 books and only 1 task so far, think I should move onto the easier tasks


message 4: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Nah later you will be glad you did the hard ones first :)


message 5: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments completed #8 and #16 with two fun and easy to read Gallagher girls books.


message 6: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments finished #6, so that makes it 11 books & 4 tasks completed.


message 7: by Claudia (new)

Claudia (claudiavstoomanybooks) | 1779 comments Congratz!


message 8: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Congratz Liezel!

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message 9: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
Congrats!


message 10: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments

guess i'll be hanging out at this level for a while as it's back to the harder tasks


message 11: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
I know what you mean. I am trying to get all the one book tasks out of the way so I can focus on the larger tasks and I am running out of them. Still have a few to go and then I will be hanging out on a certain level for a while too. Not sure which level that will be. But Evil Bunny is my favorite rank it sounds so cute and evil at the same time so if you have to hang out somewhere this is the place to do it.


message 12: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Lol i'm still trying to achieve evil bunny status!


message 13: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
I am almost done :D
Just kidding even though it does feel that way because I have already read so many tasks but the multibook tasks are still on my path so you have still plenty of time to beat me.


message 14: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments You're right evil bunny is pretty cool. lol dont think I hav a chance in hell of beating you.


message 15: by Barbara (last edited Jul 05, 2011 01:09PM) (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
Hey you never know. If I find a job any time soon I won't read half as much as I do now. So just pray that I find a job which would be a good thing on so many levels. And sometimes that last book is the hardest to find so who knows how long I will be stuck on a certain book. Also with task 37 I am going for the 33 book option. Partly because I like a challenge and partly because I read so much that I want to make it fair and give everyone a chance and that is a way of doing it.


message 16: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments finished #s 40 & 29


message 17: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments completed 9 tasks & 24 books


message 18: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
you're not an evil bunny anymore! Congrats!


message 19: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Thanks, feels good to be moving on :)


message 20: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Congratz Liezel!

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message 21: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments completed 12 tasks & 50 books


message 22: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Congratz Liezel!

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message 23: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
Congrats!


message 24: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments finished #26, which takes me to 16 tasks completed


message 25: by Claudia (new)

Claudia (claudiavstoomanybooks) | 1779 comments Congratz!


message 26: by Lu (new)

Lu | 12672 comments Mod
Congratz Liezel!

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message 27: by Barbara (new)

Barbara | 4434 comments Mod
Congrats on your new rank!


message 28: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Thanks


message 29: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Haven't updated in a while, but completed 21 tasks and 68 books


message 30: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments finished #23

tasks 22/40
books 70/92


message 31: by Liezel (new)

Liezel (liezkl) | 736 comments Finished #s 18 & 38

tasks 24/40
books 73/92


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