Page Count
Currently at:25,941
Goal: 25, 000
Achieved: November 30, 2017
Updated: December 12, 2017
Book Count
Currently at:76
Goal: 60 - Keep going :)
Achieved: August 30, 2017
Updated: December 12, 2017
Popsugar: 2017 Book Challenge
Two years ago, I stumbled across PopSugar's Reading Challenge. (Here's last year's ).
2017's is no less exciting! They even added an 'Advanced' section. And, of course, I added a few.
Content
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Book of letters ~ A Secret History (Mary Gentle)
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By or about a person with a disability ~ Memory of Earth (Orson Scott Card)
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Involving travel ~ Crystal Kingdom III (Amanda Hocking)
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Involving a mythical creature ~ Nicholas: The Lords of Satyr (Elizabeth Amber)
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About food ~
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About career advice ~
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Pictures within ~ DragonLance Tales, Vol 2 (Various Authors)
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^Takes place over a character’s lifespan ~ The Red Garden (Alice Hoffman)
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^About an immigrant or refugee ~The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
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^More than 800 pages ~ The Passage (Justin Cronin)
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^Book that’s mentioned in another book ~ Micromegas (Voltaire)
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^Difficult topic ~ The Thing About Jellyfish (Ali Benjamin)
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^Based on mythology ~ The Search for the Red Dragon (James A. Owen)
Character
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Main character has different ethnicity than you ~ Flame in the Mist (Renee Ahdieh)
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About an interesting woman ~ Margaret the First (Danielle Dutton)
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Nonhuman perspective ~ Written in Red (Anne Bishop)
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Unreliable narrator ~ The Loser (Thomas Bernhard)
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^Eccentric character ~ Ghostly Echoes: Jackaby, III (William Ritter)
Setting
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Set in wilderness ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau (H.G.Wells)
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Set during wartime ~ The Chilbury Ladies' Choir (Jennifer Ryan)
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Set in two different time periods ~ A Handful of Time (Kit Pearson)
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Set in a hotel ~
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Set around a holiday other than Christmas ~
Author
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POC author ~ Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Madeleine Thien)
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Multiple authors ~
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Author who uses a pseudonym ~ Ink and Bone (Rachel Caine)
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Author from country you’ve never visited ~ Frogkisser (Garth Nix)
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Written by someone you admire ~ The Screwtape Letters (C.S.Lewis)
Cover
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Cat on the cover ~
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*Stars on the cover ~ A Court of Mist and Fury, III (Sarah J. Maas)
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Red spine ~ The Masked City, II (Genevieve Cogman)
Title
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Title with a subtitle ~
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One of the four seasons in the title ~ Winter Be My Shield (Jo Spurrier)
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Title that’s a character’s name ~ Violet Eyes (Debbie Viguie)
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Month or day of the week in the title ~
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^Family-member term in the title ~ The Storyteller's Daughter (Cameron Dokey)
Genre
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Espionage thriller ~ Jane, unlimited (Kristin Cashore)
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Best seller from genre you don’t normally read ~ The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
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Steampunk ~
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^A genre/subgenre you’ve never heard of before ~ Unridden (Cat Johnson)
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*Modern children’s book ~ Lily Quench and the Treasure of Mote Ely (Natalie Jane Prior)
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*Classic children’s book ~ Peter Pan (J.M.Barrie)
Publishing
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Published in 2017 ~ Caraval (Stephanie Garber)
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^Bestseller from 2016 ~
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*Published before 1950 ~ Dragonwyck (Anya Seton)
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*Published 1980’s ~ Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee)
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*Published 1990’s ~ Green Rider (Kristen Britain)
Reading
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Been on your TBR for way too long ~ Black Unicorn (Tanith Lee)
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Brought on a trip ~
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First book in series never read before ~ The Gunslinger: Dark Tower I (Stephen King)
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Audiobook ~ The Miniaturist (Jessie Burton)
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Recommended by a librarian ~
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^Recommended by an author you love ~
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^Used book sale acquirement ~ The Fairy's Mistake (Gail Carson Levine)
Rereading
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Loved as a child ~
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You’ve read before that never fails to make you
smile ~ Graceling (Kristin Cashore)
Current Events
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Becoming a movie 2017 ~
^ADVANCED
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