@Quiet: do you want to be included in our reading challenge, I'm not sure if you want to be added, either way you can always post in here and I'm glad you are.

For young adult I recently read The Underdogs Trilogy by Mark Zusak.
I also liked I Am the Messenger by him too.

@Moonshadow: I'm not sure. I'm only four books in to the challenge I started in May of last year (not the prolific reader I used to be. Plus school.) I'll hang around and talk though, at least.

I do have a pile of unfinished books, but I like this challenge that I'm doing that has specific requirements because I'm reading stuff I normally wouldn't look at.

I did solve my YA dilemma. Went to the local library today for a work site visit for my tech program and they had a Valentine's Promotion "Blind Date With a Book." You get a booked wrapped in brown paper, with a genre, age-range, and check out code on it. I don't know what it is yet, but it came with a chocolate. :)

Looky what I found! Wishbone list!

I shall read 30 books from this list! (eventually) Not the entire thing because I've already tried to read a couple and I know how horrid they really are, and I have already read some anyway. Silas Marner is on my personal reading list totally because of this show.

I thought that Frankenstein, TheTime Machine, A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice were great.

That is a very impressive list!

Wishbone is kind of the reason I got into classics. I tried to get a copy of Faust and the librarian gave me the wrong one, getting me Doctor Faustus instead. Not the easiest reading at 13. I still have a copy, and will attempt it again at some point, though I may have to restart as it's been a while.

Opened my mystery teen fantasy book from the library. It's Paul's One Realm Beyond. Never heard of it, but it's pretty absurdly cute so far. I've been into grim or realistic stuff lately so a dragon arguing from a haystack is pretty entertaining.

Would you believe that the person who loves time travel (that'd be me) has never read The Time Machine? i think i need to fix that this year. XD

I was afraid of it, a little. Again, Wishbone. I do remember watching an old movie that I think was based some of Orwells, if he wasn't a character in it? Not sure.

I want to read Pride and Prejudice as much to see what the book reads like after watching the mini-series so many times. I love the fact that for all Elizabeth's annoyance with Mr. Darcy, he really is just what she was hoping for in the beginning of the series.

Maybe I can find a copy with a pink cover.

one of my daughters watched Wishbone and I watched as well. I thought it was pretty great, actually!

I know! I have a pile that I recorded back when VHS was still a thing...I think there are DVDs out now of the series. Didn't usually care for the "life" story, but I always wanted to see what book he was doing (costumes, yay!) and it was interesting how it would relate to whatever predicament was otherwise going on.

It's not the most literary of things (or quality video) but...
Pride & Prejudice

oh I know all about VHS tapes... says the lady who still has a VCR. it might even still work. XD

and from what I do remember, it was interesting to see how the story in the book (and also costumes, yay!) related to the story in the episode.

One of the things on my "to-do" list is to help my mom transfer all out video recordings to DVD. There are a lot of them. There are even some Beta hanging around. ;)

I like the episode with Anansi the spider and wisdom. Hopefully I'll be able to track down a written copy of it.

oh that sounds like so much fun!... not! XD

Well, that would depend entirely on the content of said videos tapes. The last one was supposed to be old ice skating galas and a biography of Scott Hamilton, when "Biography" was still running. Instead it was a "Murder She Wrote" marathon, of which mom already owns all of them on DVD so no point there.

oopsie.

i'm pretty sure all my tapes are still labelled accurately.

We have a "red book" that has everything cataloged up to tape 89. Sadly, there are over 100 now. Yes, this tape lied.

I have exactly none of my VHS tapes cataloged.

or my books. I tried to keep track of the books I own on goodreads. didn't work out so well.

You need to remedy this immediately :)
You also have to try Kindred. I've read it several times, and it is a very good time travel book.

I will - soon enough!

ooh, Kindred looks interesting! I'll put it on my goodreads list, thanks!

I don't have a list of books I have, but I have a list of books I read.
I keep it in a Composition Book.

I'm sure there a way, on goodreads, to get it to display all the books you listed as owning. mine's just very out of date!

the list I have of books I read first started out as a google doc, but since I joined goodreads, I stopped updating the list. Now my list is just on goodreads. XD

I've always had a hard list on paper.
I like to write, so I love doing it that way.
I started also keeping a list of books read when I joined Ernya.

the thing I liked about putting the list in google docs is that when I read a book, I could put it alphabetical order when I put it on the list. That way, I could easily find out if I read the book, or what book in a series I was up to.

on goodreads, I can just sort the whole mess alphabetically. XD

Oh damn! that is a good idea, usually I have to go through page after page. I look when the book came out then I start looking from there.
I'll have to check that goodreads thing out. Maybe just put the last 5 years of books read on there.

I started keeping track of my books in 2008 - I'd kept track on my LiveJournal, so I scrolled through and put those in my google doc. Then when I started 2009, I made a new page and added books from 2009 onto the new page.

Somewhere in there, I also started a second google doc, which was a comprehensive list. So, when I finished a book, I'd put it in alphabetical order on the 2009 page and the comprehensive page.

When I joined goodreads in 2014, I added all my books from my google docs lists and made sure they matched up. I think I updated my google docs for a little bit longer, but then after a while, it was easier to just update the goodreads list, so the google docs have fallen by the wayside. I probably ought to delete them at this point.

i like keeping the list and being able to see what I have read.
Although I'm usually pretty good about remembering what I read.

Methinks I have too much on my plate to tackle the Wishbone list, especially as I keep adding books to my read list on my local library profile. I bumped into a reading list this month on my library site for "Freedom to Read Week" in Canada. Here's the list. All the books have been challenged at one point.

Freedom to Read

I recall seeing "Go Ask Alice" around in bookstores some years ago. I've added that to my current reading challenge since I believe that reading a banned or challenged book it on it. The only book from that list that I've read is Bridge to Terabithia.

I can post the details of the challenge I'm currently doing if anyone wants to see them. I believe it covers 30-ish books.

@ Quiet: I would like to see your list :)

I read The Little Prince today, I must have read it when I was a kid, it was cute and sad.

It's around her somewhere, I believe in the binder that is currently propping up my computer. Give me a minute.

A friend of mine adores The Little Prince. I've never read it, or watched it. Been curious, though. How sad is it? We talking a little melancholy or heart wrenching why-did-I-read-this?!

Here we are. :)

2016 LITSA Reading Challenge
(I picked this up a little late)

Blue = done
Orange = reading
Slate Gray = queued

1. A horror Book Jaws - Benchley
2. A book over 600 pages long Memories of Ice - Erikson
3. A book under 200 pages long Guinea Dog - Jennings
4. a YA book One Realm Beyond - Paul
5. A dystopian book
6. A book that will become a movie in (2017)
7. A book by someone with your first name
8. A book set in the Middle East
9. A book about politics (fiction/non-fiction)
10. A book over 100 years older than you
11. A book that was translated in English One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn
12. A book set in (local province or state) Middle of Nowhere - Addison
13. A graphic novel or trade comic book
14. A book of poetry Cathay - Pound
15. A book of short stories H.P. Lovecraft Compendium
16. A book with a pink cover
17. A murder mystery
18. A fantasy novel
19. A book about a culture you don't know
20. An autobiography
21. A book by/about someone who is LGBTQ
22. A collection of essays
23. A book by an author from Africa Nostalgia - Vassanji
24. A book by an author from Southeast Asia
25. A New York Times best seller The Scarlet Gospels - Barker
26. A book that was published in 2016
27. A book that takes place during the winter
28. A book from a genre you've never read
29. A book you read once in high school
30. A book written by a celebrity The Princess Diarist - Fisher

The challenge is based off of something by POPSUGAR, the Read Harder Challenge, though not familiar with it.

Popsugar's 2017 Reading Challenge!

• A book by an author from a country you've never visited
  An Imaginary life - Malouf
• A book from a non-human perspective Fifteen Dogs - Alexis
• A book with a red spine The Last Wish - Sapkowski
• A book about a difficult topic Death by Video Game - Parkin
• (It's a secret!)

Superfluous Books

Wow I like this list of challenges!
I might borrow it and attempt it at some point.
That might be a good challenge for me for next year maybe.

I'm just going to chip away at it. I'll finish when I finish it.

That's what I was kinda thinking.
Just working at it, a bit at a time, not necessarily in a year, but open-ended.

Added some of the books I plan to read to my challenge list. Just so happened that one of the new ones I bought happens to be a NYT bestseller. One for that category!

My rule to myself is that one book can't count for more than one category, even if it qualifies for them. For instance, Memories of Ice is both over 600 pages and fantasy.

I can probably cover all these categories from just my collection so far (pink cover, authors from Africa and the Middle East, dystopian, book from high school, a translation, graphic novel, murder mystery, etc) but I haven't really decided on them yet.

I wish I was a faster reader. I tend to savor each word way too much! This list has intrigued me so much. I think I'm going to start it this year, and see how long it takes me, probably more than 1 year at the least.

it takes me longer to read now since I've been crocheting lots too (have been for the past 5 years)... so I don't use 100% of my free time for reading, as I did in the past.

OMG I still am loving my crocheted alien <3
I sometimes spend all day reading, usually on a Sunday or in the summer, when I'm outside reading. I don't have a hobby that takes my time, its the actual process of reading that is slow for me. I read a lot, but I read slow. I can't speed read through a book.

yaaay!

i generally read at lunch time - either at work my desk job, or after my weekend job when i eat right after I leave. i used to read at bedtime... but i'd find myself falling asleep reading, so i don't do that anymore. XD

I'm a much slower reader after university, I think because I still think along the lines of literary analysis when I read, and it's hard to let that go. Books like Memories of Ice are dense and it takes me a long while to get through them because I like to take the time to digest and ponder the content. I was reading Memories before I started that list. The other books are ones I finished at the same time. I am the type that will have several books on the go, according to the mood I'm in.

I get my best reading in after breakfast when I can do it. Sometimes in the afternoon, or when i'm reading a non-fiction book I can read for a bit at night. In the summer i read a lot because I sit outside and read.

I think that is why I read slow, I'm absorbing everything like I'm in school and its a literary assignment! I rarely very rarely do "light" reading. Most of the books I read even the fiction ones, are pretty dense.

finished my Star Wars book.... which means I've finished all the Star Wars that I'd planned to read! yaay! my current book is in my sig. =)