Saturday, October 1, 2022

2022 Challenge Update June-September

  Hello, Readers! Linz the Neglectful Blogger, here. I hope everyone is doing well. 

There have been a lot of changes going on lately in my life. I haven't really been reading all of that much as a result. I think I announced in a more recent post that I'm going back to school for my Doctorate. So between work and school, it's been a little crazy. In addition, there has been a new addition to our family. 

As of last night, we started the Foster to Adopt process for this beauty. Her name is Riley. She's a St Bernard/Great Pyrenees mix. She's about five years old. We'll see if she lets me read. Thus far, it has been determined that I should be giving her all of the attention instead of ordering groceries online.



As a result of all the craziness that's been going on, I think I will switch how I do my blog posts for a little while. Instead of doing a post for each book, I'm going to try and just do a monthly update or a review when I can. I don't really want to stress myself out even further. I'll still try and give some general thoughts on them. I may try to do more discussion posts to compensate. We'll see. I'm not making any promises. Literally, all I want to do right now is take a nap.


Challenge

Level 1: Book of the Month Club


1 Read a book under $5: The Druid by Jeff Wheeler

2 Read a book that is under 350 pages: The Humans by Matt Haig 

3 Read a book that was recommended to you

4 Read a newly published book (within a year): The Egyptian Mystery by Emily Organ

5 Read a book that has a type of plant or flower in the title

6 Read a book because of the cover - Daughter of Sparta by Claire M. Andrews ( No blog post, but rated 5 stars on Goodreads)

7. Read a book about a mythical creature.: All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter

8 Read a book that takes place in the future

9 Read a book by an author that's new to you  Instinct by Rebecca Heiss

10 Read a book from NPR's top 50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the past decade: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1027159166/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-past-decadeThe Brass City by S.A. Chakraborty

11 A book by an author whose first or last name has 5 letters: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

12 Free Space! (Pick any book) Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey

Level 2: Casual Reader Club


13 Read a book published 5 years ago

14 Read a Speculative Fiction Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer

15 Read the first book in a duology

16 Read the second book in a duology

17 A book that was published when you were 5 years old

18 Read a book by an author named Alex, Alexander, Alexandra (or variant): Lore by Alexandra Bracken

19 Read a book about Zombies

20 Read a book with a black cover: The Octonumi Fosbit Files Prologue by Trevor Alan Foris

21 Read a book from AbeBooks.com's list of 100 (fiction) books to read in a lifetime: https://www.abebooks.com/books/100-book-to-read-in-lifetime/

22 Read a book with the word City in the title

23 Read a book about a musician (non-fiction or fiction)

24 Free Space! (Pick any book)

Level 3: Dedicated Reader Club


25 A book with a title that has 5 letters

26 Read a book published by Macmillan (or subsidiary)

27 Read a book with a title that doesn't start with an article (A, An, The): Helen of Troy by Margaret George

28 Read a book you recently acquired: The Lobotomist's Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff

29 Read a book that's been on your TBR for over a year, Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

30 Read a Revenge Story

31 Read a book by Philippa Gregory

32 Read a book that takes place on an island

33 Read a book that does not have a person (or people) on the cover. Hunted by Darcy Coates

34 A book that you intended to read on last year's challenge

35 Read a Psychological Thriller: The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker

36 Free Space! (Pick any book)

Level 4: Speed Reader Club


37 Read a book over 500 pages: The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks

38 Read a book that starts with the letter Z (or has Z in the title)

39 Read a book that takes place around your favorite holiday

40 A book with 5 objects on the cover

41 Read a book with the word Wisdom in the title

42 Read a Dystopian

43 Read a book by an author with the same name as one of your parents (Biological, Step, Adopted)

44 Read a book that a movie/show you've watched is based on but have yet to read (example: Watched The Hobbit, but never read the Hobbit) Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz

45 Read a book about a Saint (non-Fiction or Fiction)

46 Read any book from the Men's Health most popular book list https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/g37473997/most-popular-book-by-year/?utm_source=facebook_arb&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=arb_fb_mnh_m_i_g37473997&fbclid=IwAR22Eb95uWUC2FVY_Bdn0CtG3KV8-6-IxwnfABCIZ25fMHLM0Tw4Mee2M2U

47 Read a book published in a year that was important to you: To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

48 Free Space! (Pick any book)

Level 5: Overachiever Club


49 Read the 5th book in a series or an author's 5th novel

50 Read a True Crime book

51 Read a book by Georges Simenon (or one of his Pen Names)

52 A book with the number 5 in the title

53 Read a book that takes place in Russia

54 Read a book by an author using initials as part of their name Sutton by J.R. Moehringer

55 Read a book that has a title in the form of a question

56 Read a banned book from this banned book list https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

57 A book with at least 5 prominent characters, The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

58 Read a book that Linz read previously http://linzthebookworm.blogspot.com/p/reviews-z.html

59 Read a book that Tress read previously https://songstress7.wordpress.com/category/reading/

60 Free Space! (Pick any book)

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