Tag: reading challenge
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Reading Challenge #18: A Book You’ve Read Before that Never Fails to Make You Smile
Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern How it fulfills the challenge: The Night Circus is one of those books that uses its imaginative and fantastical powers to charm and delight. The circus Morgenstern creates is one that I would love to experience. It’s a book that made me happy the first time I read it, and […]
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Reading Challenge #26: A Book By an Author From a Country You’ve Never Visited
Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude Author: Gabriel García Márquez How it fulfills the challenge: Márquez is from Colombia, and I’ve never been outside of North America Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Quick Description: A sweeping family saga in a small Caribbean town filled with super long lived residents and plenty of mystery and intrigue. It follows […]
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My Reading Challenge for 2017
So last year’s challenge did not go well. And not because I didn’t read a lot of books. I just sort of lost my motivation somewhere along the way. I think the real problem had something to do with the nature of the challenge itself. My goal was to read more of the books that […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books On My Fall To Be Read List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is about the books you want to read this fall. I’ve read a lot of books this year, but I haven’t done a very good job of keeping up with my challenges, so this fall will […]
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Series Challenge #1: The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
The first completed series on my list was one I read for book club. Our reading list for the year includes 4 trilogies, and this was the first one up. Series Breakdown: Books in Order: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant Favorite Book: Divergent Genres/Keywords: science fiction, young adult, dystopic My Average Rating: 3.33 What These Books […]
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A-Z Reading Challenge: #: 13 Rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro
While the world is filled with more amazing books than you can read in a lifetime, there’s also plenty of not-so-great ones, or ones that just don’t click with you. This book was definitely one that didn’t appeal to me. The book was billed as a “puzzle” book, set in and between the World Wars, […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I was Excited to Buy and Still Haven’t Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic was a freebie, so I thought I’d do a post related to one of my challenges for the year, which is to make more of a dent in the books I actually own. I normally find this a bit difficult […]
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Women Writers Reading Challenge #66: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
There are some books that leave an indelible mark by dint of their incredible strangeness–books that startle and make you wonder how an author ever could have come up with it. This is one of these books. But it’s brilliant. Geek Love follows the story of Oly, an albino hunchback who her parents deplore for […]
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Women Writers Reading Challenge #65: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
You may have noticed this book popped up on my favorites list for Top Ten Tuesday. There were actually a number of books on that list that I haven’t done a post about yet, but they will all be coming I promise. This book came out about five years ago, but it’s lost none of […]
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