[trystan830]

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!

[trystan830]

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

[trystan830]

reserved just in case?

[trystan830]

my reading challenge: in 2017, i read 46 books. my goal is to read more than that.

whoops! i only read 37!

~*2018 Book List*~

1. Wielding a Red Sword, by Piers Anthony
2. With Friends Like These..., by Gillian Roberts
3. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
4. War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
5. Warriors: Hawkwing's Journey, by Erin Hunter
6. Hardcore Twenty-Four, by Janet Evanovich
7. How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Gillian Roberts
8. Tigerheart's Shadow, by Erin Hunter
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. In the Dead of Summer, by Gillian Roberts
11. The Usual Sacrifices, by Yvonne Navarro
12. The Mummers' Curse, by Gillian Roberts
13. The Bluest Blood, by Gillian Roberts
14. Adam and Evil, by Gillian Roberts
15. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
16. Helen Hath No Fury, by Gillian Roberts
17. Claire and Present Danger, by Gillian Roberts
18. Warriors: Shattered Sky, by Erin Hunter
19. Till the End of Tom, by Gillian Roberts
20. A Hole in Juan, by Gillian Roberts
21. All's Well That Ends, by Gillian Roberts
22. Warriors: Darkest Night, by Erin Hunter
23. Warriors: River of Fire, by Erin Hunter
24. Being a Green Mother, by Piers Anthony
25. For Love of Evil, by Piers Anthony
26. And Eternity, by Piers Anthony
27. William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last, by Ian Doescher
28. Navigators of Dune, by Herbert & Anderson
29. The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley
30. Stygian, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
31. Stiletto, by Daniel O'Malley
32. Crowfeather's Trial, by Erin Hunter
33. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
34. Vox, by Christina Dalcher
35. Raging Heat, by Richard Castle
36. The dharma of The Princess Bride, by Ethan Nichtern
37. Warriors: the Raging Storm, by Erin Hunter

for my information:

reread list:
Being A Green Mother; For Love of Evil; And Eternity (remaining Incarnations of Immortality Series)
War of the Worlds
1984
the Han Solo Trilogy
Illium; Olympos
Harry Potter
The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings (Fellowship, Two Towers, Return)
Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series A-Y

own and still need to read:
Dune: Navigators of Dune
Supernatural: the Usual Sacrifices
Richard Castle: Raging Heat; Driving Heat; High Heat

series i'm currently reading from the library:
Amanda Pepper series - done!
Stephanie Plum series: Hardcore Twenty-Four came out last year; Look Alive Twenty-Five is out November 2018
Warriors - books 4, 5, 6 from Vision of Shadow series; Superedition #11

[KittyBeary]

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

[trystan830]

wooo!! that sounds like an awesome challenge, too!

[Kaderin Triste]

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

1. Roots - Alex Haley
688 pages
Finished May 10
2. Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Page 319 of 438
3. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Page 174 of 969
4. First Rider's Call - Kristen Britain
596 pages
Finished December 26
5. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
643 pages
Finished July 9
6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page 29 of 936
7.Oathbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
Page 53 of 1233
8. The Dragon's Son - Margaret Weiss
302 pages
Finished March 7
9. How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety and Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
130 pages
Finished March 8
10. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
399 pages
Finished May 29
11. Neil Patrick Harris Choose Your Own Autobiography
293 pages
Finished July 4
12. Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan
Page 32 of 474
13. The Books of The Gods (Part One) - Fred Saberhagen
Page 81 of 1013
14. A Manual For Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian
Page 84 of 250
15. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds - Paul Zindel
109 pages
Finished July 1
16. In The Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
Page 132 of 375
17. The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall - Anne McCaffrey
306 pages
Finished October 4
18. The Amityville Horror
315 pages
Finished November 4
19.
20.

[Mekatra]

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!

Book List:

1. Black Friday by Jan Stryvant - 1/5 stars R Rating
2. Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K Runyun - 5/5 Stars R Rating
3. Apocalypse Gates Book 1: Rapture by Danien Schinhofen 4/5 Stars R Rating

[trystan830]

awesome, Kaderin and Mekatra!!

[Kaderin Triste]

*adds all unfinished 2017 books to 2018 list*

[trystan830]

i hope to finish the book i'm reading (in my sig) by the end of this year. =)

[Kaderin Triste]

Ah, I haven't read that one yet, but I love Piers Anthony!

[trystan830]

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.

[Kaderin Triste]

I haven't actually read that series yet, but I love the Xanth series and the Apprentice Adept series.

But then I love puns...

[trystan830]

heh i like puns too, but i've only read his Incarnations of Immortality series....

[Quiet Man Cometh]

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//

Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father - Howe
Fifteen Dogs- Alexis
Nostalgia - Vassanji
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Tyson
The Princess Diarist - Fisher
The Last Wish - Sapkowski
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