2015 Reading Challenges Wrap Up
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Cape Cod, a great place for reading
I love to take part in various reading challenges throughout the year. In 2015 I took part in two notable ones: Modern Mrs. Darcy's 2015 Reading Challenge, and the Books on the Nightstand Summer Book BINGO. I finished Mrs. Darcy's challenge, and came close to completing the square on BINGO. Here's how I filled the categories:
2015 Reading Challenge:
A book you're been meaning to read: Station Eleven
A book published this year: I Take You
A book in a genre you don't typically read: Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
A book from your childhood: Ramona Quimby Age 8
A book your mom loves: W is for Wasted
A book that was originally written in a different language: Heidi
A book that "everyone' has read but you: Me Before You
A book you chose because of the cover: Prospect Park West
A book by a favorite author: On Writing
A book recommended by someone with great taste: Game of Thrones
A book you should have read in High School: My Antonia
A book that's currently on the bestseller list: All the Light We Cannot See
Summer Reading BINGO:
Published before 1970: A Separate Peace
Cozy Mystery: The Nightingale Before Christmas (Meg Langslow Mysteries)
Set in a place you want to visit: Doctor Sleep
10 Short Stories: stories by O. Henry, Maeve Binchy, Truman Capote, and from the journal One Story
An audiobook: I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
A presidential biography: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Nonfiction: Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
A novella: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Borrowed from the library: Never Let Me Go
Free Square: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
With only words on the cover: W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
With a red cover: How to Eat a Cupcake: A Novel
Travel writing: Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist
By an author of a different gender: Jurassic Park: A Novel
Started but never finished: One Summer: America, 1927
Young adult novel: The Fever: A Novel
That you've pretended to have read: To Kill a Mockingbird
Currently on the bestseller list: The Girl on the Train
Found in a used bookstore: The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Fantasy: Wizard and Glass: (The Dark Tower #4)(Revised Edition)
Squares I missed:
A play
With a number in the title
By an author of a different culture
Recommended by a librarian or a bookseller
With a one-word title
What book challenges are you looking forward to in 2016?
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