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2018 Reading Challenge
i set myself a reading challenge every year, which is to read more books than the previous year. 2017 was the first year i did this on Trisphee, and had a great time! (thanks Moonshadow!)
so, (snagging from last year's thread), set a challenge for yourself: read 50 books, read only the books you have at home that you haven't read yet, read a specific genre, read only non-fiction books... whatever you choose. Your first post should contain your challenge, and use a spoiler to indicate how you are progressing in meeting that challenge. i use a spoiler for my booklist. =) Please feel free to chat about books, your day, anything! https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/03...g?v=1411837338 |
List of members who are joining our 2017 Reading Challenge:
trystan830 KittyBeary Kaderin Triste Mekatra Quiet Man Cometh sylvanSpider Claire Bear Moonshadow Crystallyn Whisper EverAshwood PurpleBox |
reserved just in case?
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my reading challenge: in 2017, i read 46 books. my goal is to read more than that.
whoops! i only read 37! for my information: |
I'm trying to get back into reading more, and I think I have some books I haven't read in years or at all. So my challenge will be to get those read. xD
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wooo!! that sounds like an awesome challenge, too!
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Oh snap, I forgot this was starting again!
I'm gonna try to read only 20 books this year because I definitely didn't make it to 30 in 2017. Kaderin's Reading List |
In 2018 I would like to read 60 books, but with the stipulation that they cannot be rereads! I'm really bad about reading the same few books over and over. Time to branch out!
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awesome, Kaderin and Mekatra!!
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*adds all unfinished 2017 books to 2018 list*
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i hope to finish the book i'm reading (in my sig) by the end of this year. =)
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Ah, I haven't read that one yet, but I love Piers Anthony!
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i'd been trying to reread them for years... but i keep getting books out of the library! i own the Incarnations of Immortality books 1-7. there's an 8th, but i have no interest in it at all.
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I haven't actually read that series yet, but I love the Xanth series and the Apprentice Adept series.
But then I love puns... |
heh i like puns too, but i've only read his Incarnations of Immortality series....
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Well, I guess I could go easy on myself and try and read more than last year, but given I read very few, that might be harder than it looks. I'll need to migrate my old challenge lists over here. Or perhaps, I'll just keep a list this time and keep track of my aging challenges on paper at home.
Okay, here's my thing! Books (at least one!) must be completed in the month they are marked for. ~ QMC's 2018 Reading Challenge ~ 1. January: Nine Lessons I learned from My Father - Howe 2. February: Where the Red Fern Grows - Rawls 3. March: Vas: An Opera in Flatland - Tomasula & Farrell Big Red - Kjelgaard 4. April: The Princess Diarist - Fisher The Hellbound Heart - Barker 5. May: The Whispered Tales of Graves Grove - Anthology 6. June: Great Dog - Cali 7. July: A Boy Called Bat - Arnold My Friend Dahmer - Backderf The Skeleton Tree - Lawrence 8. August: Chase - Barclay Ungifted - Gorman 9. September: Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein - Baily 10. October: The Land of Forgotten Girls - Kelly 11. November: Tales from the Inner City - Tan Collision: Stories - Breukelaar - abandoned The Darkest Dark - Hadfield Drumheller Dinosaur Dance - Heidbreder 12. December: The Last Wish - Sapkowski finish what's UNfinished! \\The Shelf at Home// Fifteen Dogs- Alexis Nostalgia - Vassanji The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Tyson Deadhouse Gates - Erikson House of Chains - Erikson Survival: a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature - Atwood The Thief of Always - Barker Vas John Dies at the End - Wong |
Oh, oh! Can I join this? I'm a grad student studying literature and am on this site all the time anyway...so it would be kind of silly for me to not at least try to join in the fun!
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Ooh ooh! Which literature?
And I'm sure you can. It's open to anyone here. |
Presently, as I'm not in the focus part of my degree yet, just about everything depending on which classes I'm taking. However, I have a particular portion of my heart reserved for the "long" nineteenth century, as it was a period of a lot of growth and change! As such, my reading goals would consist of more George Eliot, more Charles Dickens, and because he's my favorite author (though not necessarily part of this era by any means...at all) more Franz Kafka. I do need to reread some of his stuff as it's been a very long while...but that's goal!
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I focused my efforts around the Romantics to start, but I've found a recent delight in Modernist lit now. Metamorphosis is on my "to read" list. I'll get there, eventually.
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QuietMan and sylvanSpider, i'll add you to our participant list, and link to your first post in the thread... which you can edit for your challenge and/or booklist.
and hi there sylvanSpider!!! welcome! |
Oh that's perfect!!! Thank You! The Metamorphosis is actually a pretty quick read, it only being about 80 pages. You can read it for free too in pdf form!
Also, thank you for the warm welcome! |
I'm something of a print snob, and take ages to get around to a lot of things.
Thanks Trystan! |
i think i read The Metamorphosis in high school. i don't remember much beyond the opening sentence now, but i do remember it kinda bugged me a bit.....
and y'all are welcome!! =D |
I was hoping to see this thread! <3
-_- Can my challenge be small? Because I never ever read as much as I would like to. I have a pile of books on my night stand that I haven't started and I just want to be sure to read all of them this semester. I don't plan in years, I plan in semesters hahaha. I get so swept up in school reading (and let's be honest, the internet is distracting) that I only read one or two leisure books each semester. My pile of books, in the order I think I'm going to read them: Heartbreak- Andrea Dworkin's memoir The Princess Diarist- Carrie Fisher Turtles All The Way Down- John Green Asshole: A Theory- Aaron James Flatland- Edwin A Abbot If I manage to finish those, I want to read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Neuromancer by William Gibson -_- and maybe I can come up with a new list for the summer. |
your challenge can be whatever you'd like, Claire!! i've added you to the list of participants!
oooh, Oryx & Crake! i read that. it's the first book in the MaddAddam trilogy. Book 2 is The Year of the Flood and book 3 is MaddAddam. good stuff! |
I read The Handmaid's Tale last semester, I devoured it. Read it in one night. A couple people recommended that trilogy is what I should read next if I want more Atwood, and I do, I do want more Atwood. Very very much so.
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i forget when i first read the Handmaid's Tale, but that year i watched the movie with Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall. then i reread it this year, and watched s1 of the miniseries (it's on Hulu, but that's not where i watched it... XD )
Handmaid's Tale is awesome! |
Yea I read the book because I wanted to watch the new show, but now I just like... can't imagine the show being as good as the book lol.
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ugh i'm cleaning and found a book i need to add to my bedside stack. pray for me that i don't find more books hidden in the pile of mess in this apartment -_-
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oh the show is so good! there's more than just Offred's POV, too.
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-_- we had hulu for a couple weeks and then boyfriend cancelled it because we werent using it lol. i do want to see it.
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i use watchseries for all my shows - you have to google it, because the URL keeps changing... LOL. or when i get home, i can send you the three links i have for their every-so-slightly different sites. XD
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hahahaha. I'll probably eventually google "Watch (insert name of show here) online streaming free" -_- i try to pay for stuff (or, let's be honest, let boyfriend pay for me) cause i know how hard people work on things like tv shows. i haven't illegally downloaded music in years. or if i do, i buy a tshirt from the band to make up for it. -_-
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I feel like the worst part of this challenge so far is that I want to start reading, but I can't bring myself to count a book I read in between now and Monday as a 2018 book lol...
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fair enough, Claire. we have netflix, and if it's not on there, i just use watchseries. to be perfectly honest, we really have no take-home pay - it all goes to bills and paying down the credit cards. *sigh*
sylvan - tee hee..... |
Okay also on The Handmaid's Tale hulu series... I don't think I've ever said this before about anything else, but the show is better than the book. They delve a lot deeper into the world than the book does. Even the author herself said that the show added another, much needed, dimension to the book.
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if i recall correctly, doesn't she work on the show too? (like GRRMartin with Game of Thrones)
Also, Margaret Atwood has a cameo on the first episode as one of the Aunts ;) |
I know for sure she did consulting for the screenwriting,
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