DID NOT COMPLETE
Inspirational blogger and book fan Hannah Braime encourages people to read by hosting a 26-book and 52-book reading challenge every year. Her challenges don't have a particular theme, but each book fits a particular category or requirement -- like a scavenger hunt.
My friend Rachelle, who owns the delightful Crooked House Books here in Portland (and on-line) organized a group of people to undertake the 26-book version of Hannah's challenge. That's why I call this my Crooked House Challenge. She created a Facebook page for the group, for anyone interested in playing along, so feel free to join in.
The rules are simple. To complete the challenge, you have to read 26 different books. Each has to be completed in 2017. One book cannot be applied to more than one category, but books can overlap with other challenges. We are just trying to read 26 books in 2017, not necessarily one book every two weeks, although that is what it will average out to be.
- A book you read in school
- A book from your childhood
- A book published more than 100 years ago
- A book published in the last year
- A nonfiction book
- A book by a male author
- A book by a female author
- A book by someone who isn’t a writer
- A book that became a film
- A book written in the 20th century
- A book set in your hometown/region
- A book with someone’s name in the title
- A book with a number in the title
- A book with a character with your first name*
- A book recommended to you by someone else
- A book with more than 500 pages
- A book you can finish in a day
- A book previously banned
- A book with a one word title
- A book translated from another language
- A book to improve a certain area of your life
- A memoir or journal
- A book written by someone younger than you
- A book set somewhere you’ll be visiting this year
- An award winner
- A self-published book
* Our group agreed to change this one a little because there are several people, including me, who have unusual first names. I could spend a lifetime looking for a book with a Gilion in it (pronounced with a hard G by the way, so it's not a funny spelling of Gillian). We agreed to change this one to a book with a character with your first or last name, or a book written by someone with your first or last name. I think I can find a book written by an author named Dumas.
THE BOOK I'VE READ
NOTES:
Updated January 1, 2018. The only two I didn't get to were a book with my name in it and a banned book. I just couldn't figure out if any of the books I read had ever been banned. I suspect the Erica Jong book was banned somewhere! And maybe some other books I read. But I've already read all the "classics" that show up on lists of banned books.
Hi Gilion,
ReplyDeleteWhat an unusual challenge, completely different from any I have come across so far - with 'challenge' being the word of the moment, as I reckon this one is going to take some thinking about!
Good Luck and I look forward to checking out some of your entries :)
Yvonne