April 2012 TBR Challenge - Sign Up Thread

[Amy]

wow! I have never done a challenge on goodreads but this looks fun! How do I make a list with links like you all did? just copy & paste?

[Evan]

Amy, the html is as follows, only you need to add a < at the beginning and a > at the end (had to remove them so you could see the code rather than the result)

a href="insert link URL here">text here
Other people might use a slightly different code, but this is the one my friend gave me because I didn't know how to do it either

[Holly P]

To do the links you just hit the link right above the comment box that says add book/author and then do a search for the book and hit add. It gives you an option at the bottom to do either the link or the cover image.

[Becky, Moddess]

Or you can use the add book/author search link above the comment box, Amy.

[Christina]

20. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley HF 527 pages
19. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris HF 528 pages
18. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer HF paperback 758 hardcover 602 ***
17. The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World by Richard Stearns 320 pages
16. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory HF 408 pages
15. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley HF 478 pages
14. The Observations by Jane Harris HF 406 pages
13. The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory HF 382 pages
12. The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd HF 776 pages
11. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell HF 496 pages
10. The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd HF 896 pages
9. Crestmont by Holly Weiss HF 340 pages
8. Figures In Silk by Vanora Bennett HF 450 pages
7. Letters from Home by Kristina McMorris HF 352 pages
6. Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees HF 303 pages
5. Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett by Vanora Bennett HF 423 pages
4. The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay HF 222 pages
3. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk HF 417 pages
2. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton HF 562 pages
1. A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory HF 512 pages

Jackie’s List: Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory HF 441 pages
Becky’s List: Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt HF 325 pages

*** The most popular edition of Invisible Bridge was the audio book listed as 28 pages. May I still use this book for the challenge? If so, should I use the hardcover or paperback page numbers? (I own the paperback edition)

[Holly]

Christina wrote: "20. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley HF 527 pages
19. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris HF 528 pages
18. [book:The Invisible Bridge..."
Thanks so much for putting Crestmont on your list, Christina.

[Holly]

Ellen wrote: "Holly wrote: "Tentative April challenge. Will have to edit.
20 The Lifeboat: A Novel by Charlotte Rogan
19 A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel by Suzanne Joi..."

You are correct, Ellen. Goodreads has it listed as 181 pages. I'll have to find something else.

[Becky, Moddess]

Christina - for The Invisible Bridge, I'll allow the 2nd most popular edition, which is the Hardcover. The first is the audio, which is not going to have an accurate page count, since they are usually entered as # of discs or hours.

[Becky, Moddess]

Also, as a general reminder to everyone - please check your lists to make sure that your classics fit the 50 year rule, if you're counting them as HF or for the bonus tasks.

When they were published, the book's setting must have been at least 50 years in the past.

So if a book was published in 1800, the book would need to be set in 1750 or earlier.

:)

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Becky wrote: "Also, as a general reminder to everyone - please check your lists to make sure that your classics fit the 50 year rule, if you're counting them as HF or for the bonus tasks.

When they were publis..."

What about books that have a present day story along with a past story. Examples include The Gargoyle or The Eight.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I read the Eight and I believe it counted as HF.

[Becky, Moddess]

Those are fine, as long as the HF portions meet the rule.

[Chris]

And they didn't get to the HF portions with a time machine...

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

There was no time machine involved.

[Chris]

Excellent.

I was thinking more of stuff I usually read. Heh...

[Evan]

Thanks guys, I hadn't spotted the add book/author button *facepalm*

Next time I have a list to do I won't spend ages sorting the HTML

Sorry for almost making it a lot harder than necessary, Amy

[Jon]

sigh... 20 books in a month.. doubt i could manage 2 these days. im so rubbish.. and to think i won a couple of these back in the day!

[Becky, Moddess]

Carole wrote: "Thanks guys, I hadn't spotted the add book/author button *facepalm*

Next time I have a list to do I won't spend ages sorting the HTML

Sorry for almost making it a lot harder than necessary, Amy"

Don't worry, Carole! There are a lot of features that seem obvious in hindsight that get overlooked until pointed out. I still discover new things on this site, and I've been here since 2008! LOL

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

You been on Goodreads almost as long as I have been on Facebook :)

[jb]

I love looking at everyone's list and now I have changed mine like three times :)

[Margaret]

jennbunny wrote: "I love looking at everyone's list and now I have changed mine like three times :)"

yea me too...think I am going to wait till closer to the end of the month and do a final list.

[jb]

That is what I am thinking too Margaret. I have the list done, but....I may change a book or two around depending on the library.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

We decided on starting the challenge on March 18 and going to June 18th

[Nancy from NJ]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "We decided on starting the challenge on March 18 and going to June 18th"

So we now have three months for this challenge? What made you change this?

Just finished my challenge list and will post it either later tonight or tomorrow.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

the timeframe was up for discussion and some people wanted to get started earlier but extend it to June.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

oh wait, I am sorry the last post I made was in error. I got confused. The HF challenge is still April 1st to May 31.

[Margaret]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "oh wait, I am sorry the last post I made was in error. I got confused. The HF challenge is still April 1st to May 31."

The end of May? So not the end of April then?

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

End of April. I told my YA group about our challenge and they adopted it with their own twist. Tnen I have SRC in my head that ends May 31 so I got all confused on my dates.

[Becky, Moddess]

I think Jayme is referring to a different challenge. I have not made any changes to this challenge at all.

Lists need to be locked in by March 31st, challenge starts on April 1 and will end on April 30th.

[Nancy from NJ]

OK - I am ordinarily a very confused person but now - fuggedaboutit. LOL

Will begin reading April 1st and end the challenge April 30th.

[Becky, Moddess]

LOL Yep. No changes here. :)

[Nancy from NJ]

Becky - do we have to read the books in order? I know it would be advantageous to do it this way but I'm just wondering. Thanks

[Becky, Moddess]

Nope - you can read in any order. The only requirement is that you have to read 5 of your list books before the bonus points will be awarded.

[Nancy from NJ]

Thanks Becky. I think you have Wench on your TBR list. I downloaded this book on the recommendation of a friend and forgot all about it.

[ladywallingford]

1. Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I by: Tracy Borman
2. Tempest At Dawn by: James D. Best
3. The Last Kingdom by: Bernard Cornwell
4. Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by: Sally Bedell Smith
5. Our Tempestuous Day: History Of Regency England by: Carolly Erickson
6. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by: Ian Mortimer
7. Romans de la Table Ronde: Erec et Enide, Cligés, Lancelot, Yvain by: Chretien de Troyes
8. Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia by: Carolly Erickson
9. Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by: Sarah Bradford
10. Sarum: The Novel of England by: Edward Rutherford
11. Hugh and Bess: A Love Story by: Susan Higginbotham
12. The Sunne in Splendour by: Sharon Kay Penman
13. Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English by: Marjorie Chibnall
14. Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen Of France by: Lisa Hilton
15. Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by: Robert K. Massie
16. The queen'scross by: Lawrence Schoonover
17. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by: Erik Larson
18. Ender's Game by: Orson Scott Card
19. Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus by: Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood
20. The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by: Mark Logue

Jackie - I, Claudius by: Robert Graves
Becky - Katherine by: Anya Seton

[Rachel]

Qualification please!

2) Bonus Task: Choose one HF book from EACH of Jackie and Becky's TBR lists that you have not read, and read both books.
To earn this bonus, at least 5 of your OWN books must be completed, and one HF book from each of Jackie and Becky's TBRs must be completed. Once ALL 7 books are read, 100 points will be awarded.

Do the other 5 books have to be HF? As I am reading it, they do not, but want to verify. Thanks!

[Carla]

edited list

20 Letters to the Editor: Two Hundred Years in the Life of an American Town
19 The Distant Land of My Father
18 Lord John And The Brotherhood Of The Blade
17 Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
16 The Kingdom of Ohio
15 Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman
14 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
13 With God in Russia
12 The Neverending Story
11 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
10 The Last Templar
9 Up Country
8 Queen By Right
7 A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
6 Dimanche and other stories
5 The Last Days of Socrates
4 The Best Alternate History Stories Of The 20th Century
3 The Girl in the Red Coat
2 Becoming Jane Eyre
1 The Scarlet Letter

[Becky, Moddess]

Rachel wrote: "Do the other 5 books have to be HF? As I am reading it, they do not, but want to verify. Thanks! "

No... Sorry for being confusing.

For the bonus task, ONLY the books chosen from my TBR or Jackie's TBR need to be HF.

The books from your list can be ANY genre.

You can read in whatever order you like: 20 through 1; 1 through 20; odd numbers first; alphabetically; bonus books first; author's astrological sign in reverse zodiac order... whatever you can come up with. LOL

But for bonus scoring purposes, you have to have 5 of your "any genre" list books read, plus both HF bonus books (one HF from my list and one HF from Jackie's) before the 100 point bonus score will be awarded.

Does that help? :)

[Nicole]

20. The House At Riverton
19. Child 44
18. Swamplandia!
17. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
16. By Fire, By Water
15. Still Life With Murder
14. Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
13. The Widow's War
12. Don't Breathe a Word
11. Silver Sparrow
10. Poison
9. Mozart's Sister
8. Graceling
7. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
6. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
5. Shanghai Girls
4. Bumped
3. The Double Bind
2. 13 Little Blue Envelopes
1. The Borgia Bride

[jb]

Here is my list for the April Challenge:


20. The Book Thief
19. People of the Book
18. A Princess of Mars
17. Angelology
16. Must Love Lycans
15. The Monster of Florence
14. Interview With the Vampire
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
12. The Court of the Air
11. The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
10. Definitely Dead
9. In the Company of the Courtesan
8. Kleopatra
7. Slammerkin
6. The School of Essential Ingredients
5. Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
4. Dracula
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
1. Helen of Troy

Becky Bonus: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Jackie Bonus: Moloka'i

[Foxy Grandma]

Updated 3/22



20. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers 336 pgs HF
19. Signs in the Blood 400 pgs HF
18. Voice of the Eagle 624 pgs HF
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 352 pgs HF
16. Requiem by Fire: A Novel 352 pgs HF
15. Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of America 512 pgs HF
14. The Dressmaker: A Novel 306 pgs HF
13. The Lady of the Rivers 497 pgs HF
12. Kitty Goes to War 324 pgs
11. Blue Moon 352 pgs
10. Heart of Evil 400 pgs
9. Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken: The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens 364 pgs
8. A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes 242 pgs
7. Sailing to Capri 384 pgs
6. The Lucky One 326 pgs
5. deeper waters 390 pgs
4. The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story 304 pgs
3. Red Mist 512 pgs
2. The Rescue 352 pgs
1. Sun At Midnight 471 pgs

Bonus :
Jackie - Sarah's Key 426 pgs
Becky -The Cypress House 294 pgs

[LemonLinda]

Hopefully, this is my final edit.

20. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
19. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
18. The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
17. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
16. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
15.A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
14. A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias
13. The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
12. The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
11. The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
10. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
9. American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th by Susan Cheever
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
6. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
5. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge
1. My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

Becky's TBRs - The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth Peters

Jackie's TBRs - Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer

[Becky, Moddess]

Ooooh, LOTR is so good. :D I love it.

[Foxy Grandma]

Becky wrote: "For the bonus task, ONLY the books chosen from my TBR or Jackie's TBR need to be HF.

."

Wouldn't it be nice if the two of you had a HF-to-Read shelf......? (running and hiding now)

[Becky, Moddess]

Ha!

[Becky, Moddess]

I have too many different To-read shelves as it is! LOL

[Jackie]

LOL. I must admit my shelves are a mess. I can create one for you this weekend though if it makes things easier.

[Becky, Moddess]

Well I do have a HF shelf, but I don't know if all of my unread HF books are on it.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

[Jackie]

Here's my HF To Read Shelf:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Just a warning: I'm still adding books. Also, I'm doing it rather quickly so you may find some books that will not qualify per our HF definition for the group. You may also find books on my To Read shelf that qualify and I just forgot to add them. But at least this will make it easier for you to search. :)

[Marji]

I'd like to try this challenge. Because I live on a boat and we'll be cruising in the Bahamas in April, I'm not sure I'll have internet access on April 30 to finalize the list, but I'll give it a shot.

20. A Game of Thrones
19.Winter's Tale
18. 1Q84
17.Genghis: Birth of an Empire
16. The Prague Cemetery
15. Elizabeth I
14.1861: The Civil War Awakening
13. Amagansett
12. Lionheart
11. The Once and Future King
10. Innocent Blood
9. False Mermaid
8. The Night Watch
7. Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
6. A Morbid Taste for Bones
5. Wolf Hall
4. Mason and Dixon
3. Salt: A World History
2. Angle of Repose
1. Chesapeake

Becky TBR Bonus The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jackie TBR Bonus The Bronze Horseman