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I'm in!Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
Category 2:
Read 15 plays
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
Category 4:
Read 10 poems
Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
Category 6:
Read 15 books under 200 pages
Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
Had two typos on challenge, adjust accordingly :)
Short & Sweet Treats Short and Sweet Challenges > 2016: One Hundred Challenge
January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Completed 28/100
Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
Category 2:
Read 10 plays
� 1. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
Category 4:
Read 10 poems
Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages�
� 1. Terry Treetop Finds New Friends by Tali Carmi 31 pages READ 1/15/2016
� 2. The Joy of less Book 1 Discovering Your Inner Minimalist by Cary David Richards 75 pages READ 1/26/2016
� 3. Cats on the Prowl by Nancy C. Davis 91 pages READ 2/7/2016
� 4. What She Really Wants by Barbara Delinsky 26 pages READ 2/16/2016
� 5. The Poodle Walks Alone by Rita L. Rote 98 pages READ 2/19/2016
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Category 6:
Read 10 books under 200 pages
� 1. Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life by Ali Vincent 192 pages READ 1/7/2016
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Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
� 1. The Children Act by Ian McEwan 240 pages READ 1/19/2016
� 2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 215 pages READ 1/31/2016
� 3. The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page 240 pages READ 2/5/2016
� 4. Slade House by David Mitchell 238 pages READ 2/26/2016
� 5. Brownies & Betrayal by Heather Justesen 215 pages READ 2/27/2016
� 6. Pistols & Pies by Heather Justesen 242 pages READ 2/27/2016
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S&S, 2016 100 Short & Sweet Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
18/100 *Remember to tag bookshelf!
For 2016, Short and Sweet Treats has a challenge for you! You must read 100 short and sweet stories that fall into 7 different categories. You may read any genre and can follow your progress with our challenge. Also, create a bookshelf in "My Books" to be able to track the challenge.
Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
1. Sweet Filthy Morning After Christina Laurens, Wild Seasons #1.5, 3-31-16 (5*),review approx. 18 pgs. (30 min. audio)
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Read 10 plays
1. Cyrano De Bergerac Edmond Rostand, 1-31-16 (5*), review
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Read 10 novellas
1. The Warlord Wants Forever Kresley Cole, #1 Immortals After Dark (IAD), 2-23-16 (3*), review 192 pgs.
2. Midnight in Death J.D. Robb, #7.5 "In Death" series, 2-29-16 (4*), review 90 pgs.
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Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
1. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, 4-5-16 (5*), review 128 pgs.
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Read 10 books under 200 pages
1. Never Never Colleen Hoover, Part 1/3, 1-14-16 (5*), review 150 pgs.
2. Once Upon a Winter's Heart Melody Carlson, #1 Valentine's Day, 2-28-16 (3*), review 160 pgs.
3. A Buckhorn Summer Lori Foster, #5.7 Buckhorn Bros., 3-1-16 (4*) review =195 pgs.
4. Captive Witness Carolyn Keene, #64 Nancy Drew Mysteries, 3-2-16 (3*), review =192 pgs.
5. Base Instincts Larissa Ione, #11.7 Demonica, 3-17-16 (4*), review =152 pgs.
6. A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle, Time Quintet #1, 3-24-16 (2-1/2*), review =190 pgs.
7. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, 4-5-16 (4*), review =152 pgs.
8. The Outsiders S.E. Hinton, 5-9-16 (4*), review =180 pgs.
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Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
1. Back to Buckhorn Lori Foster, 1-15-16 (3*), review 240 pgs.
2. Ice Linda Howard, 1-16-16 (3-1/2*), review 208 pgs.
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, #1 HHG series, 1-20-16 (4*), review
4. Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk, 5-8-16 (2-1/2*), review =218 pgs.
5. The Last Time I Saw You Elizabeth Berg, 5-23-16 (3*), review =241 pgs.
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Challenge Dates:
January 1-December 31, 2016
Challenge Dates:January 1-December 31, 2016
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Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
Category 2:
Read 10 plays
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
Category 4:
Read 10 poems
1. Slant Six Erin Belieu 01/19/2016
2. Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 02/10/2016
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Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
1. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip George Saunders 1/10/2016
2. The Stranger Albert Camus
Category 6:
Read 10 books under 200 pages
Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
I'd really like to participate in this challenge, but will commit to only 50, instead of the 100. I have a tentative list and will track my progress in "My Books".
That's totally fine, I'm glad that you will participate
Challenge Dates:January 1 - December 31, 2016
Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
1. A Slander Anton Chekhov
2. The Man of My Dreams Diane Schoemperlen
3. Kino Haruki Murakami
4. Amundsen Alice Munro
5. Signs and Symbols Vladimir Nabokov
6. The Watsons A Fragment Jane Austen
7. Roman Fever Edith Wharton
8. Master and Man Leo Tolstoy
9. The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle
10. East of the West: A Country in Stories Miroslav Penkov
11. What Men Live By Leo Tolstoy
12. A Cup of Tea Katherine Mansfield
Category 2:
Read 10 plays
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
1. Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville
Category 4:
Read 10 poems
1. The Lady of Shalott: A Victorian Ballad Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
1. Lady Susan Jane Austen
Category 6:
Read 10 books under 200 pages
1. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
2. The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
3. The Time Machine H. G. Wells
Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
1. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
If I joined the challenge today would I be able to use any book or short story that I have read since January 1?If I use an anthology of short stories, do I list each short story individually?
Can we use stories in both challenges- The anthology challenge as well as the 100 book challenge?
Yes, Wanda. You can include a book or short story that you've read since January.If you are reading a anthology as part of the books in the higher page range, list the anthology. If you're using only a few short stories for the goal from the anthology, list the short stories.
You can use stories in both challenges as well. :)
Jen ƸӜƷ wrote: "Yes, Wanda. You can include a book or short story that you've read since January.If you are reading a anthology as part of the books in the higher page range, list the anthology. If you're using ..."
Thank you so much for the quick reply!
This is a really different challenge. I am happy to join if a little late. I think that I will be able to finish it.Short and Sweet 100 Book Challenge
Challenge Dates:
January 1-December 31, 2016(view spoiler)
Category 1: Read 30 short stories
1. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary: A Prequel Short Story by Ben Hopkin
2. The Grieving Owl by David Sedaris (from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary)
3. Scorn of Women by Jack London (from The Plays of Jack London)
4. The Catbird Seat by James Thurber (from Thurber on Crime)
5. Cuan MacCairill by James Stephens (from Traditional Irish Fairy Tales)
6. Min by Rebecca Lee (from Bobcat and Other Stories)
7. A Painful Case by James Joyce (from Dubliners)
8. Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (from Spunk: The Selected Short Stories)
9. The Glasgow Mystery by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (from Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Forty Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines)
10. Alibi Ike by Ring Lardner (from A Subtreasury of American Humor)
11. The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe (from The Complete Stories and Poems)
12. Get Sinatra by Loren D. Estleman (from Detroit Is Our Beat : Tales of the Four Horsemen)
13. The Visitor by Roald Dahl (from Switch Bitch)
14. Miriam by Truman Capote (from Trilogy: An Experiment in Multimedia)
15. Tiny's Granny by Ismat Chughtai (from Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India)
16. The Autobiography of @ by Jeff Abugov
17. Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
18. The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
19. Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
20. Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad (from Traveller's Library Compiled with Notes)
21. A Toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney (from Short Stories from the New Yorker)
22. The Old Lady by Thyra Samter Winslow (from Short Stories from the New Yorker)
23. The Test by Angelica Gibbs (from Short Stories from the New Yorker)
24. Goodbye, Shirley Temple by Joseph Mitchell (from Short Stories from the New Yorker)
25. Little Woman by Sally Benson (from Short Stories from the New Yorker)
26. The Cheater's Guide to Love by Junot Díaz (from This Is How You Lose Her)
27. A Late Encounter With the Enemy by Flannery O'Connor (from A Good Man Is Hard to Find And Other Stories)
28. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
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Category 2:
Read 10 plays
1. Scorn of Women by Jack London (from The Plays of Jack London)
2. The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Theft by Jack London (from The Plays of Jack London)
4. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays by W.B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory
5. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
6. Miriam by Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, and Frank Perry (from Trilogy: An Experiment in Multimedia)
7. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
8. The Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (from three plays by henrik ibsen)
9. Lovers and Other Strangers by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna
10. Translations / Faith Healer by Brian Friel (from Selected Plays)
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
1. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
2. A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Le Petit Prince by Joann Sfar, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
5. Candideby Voltaire
6. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (from Short Novels of the Masters)
7. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
8. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (from Collected Novellas)
9. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
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Category 4:
Read 10 poems
1. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
2. The Acorn Planter by Jack London (from The Plays of Jack London)
3. Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker
4. The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (from The Canterbury Tales) / Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney, Geoffrey Chaucer
5. I'm Too Young To Be Seventy by Judith Viorst
6. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Unknown
7. Sweethearts of Rhythm by Marilyn Nelson
8. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
9. Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
10. William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
11. Time & Money by William Matthews
12. The Insect God by Edward Gorey
Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
1. Coyote v. Acme by Ian Frazier
2. I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
3. The Rise of Life on Earth by Joyce Carol Oates
4. Murder with Mushrooms by Gordon Ashe
5. Wonder Woman, Vol. 2: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult
6. Sour Cherry Tree by Mira P. Peck
7. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
8. Ayn Rand's Anthem: The Graphic Novel by Charles Santino / Anthem by Ayn Rand
9. Cat In The City by Julie Salamon
10. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
11. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
12. The Party At Jack's by Thomas Wolfe
13. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
14. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
15. The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King by T.H. White
16. Summer by Edith Wharton
17. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
18. The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
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Category 6:
Read 10 books under 200 pages
1. Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P.G. Wodehouse
2. Take the Monkeys and Run by Karen Cantrell
3. Marriage: A Duet by Anne Taylor Fleming
4. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
5. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
6. My Story by Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht
7. Holy Cow by David Duchovny
8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
9. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Category 7:
Read 10 books under 250 pages
1. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor
2. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
3. Torch Ginger by Toby Neal
4. The Driftless Area by Tom Drury
5. The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball by Frank Deford
6. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
7. Going Nowhere Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood
8. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
9. Dog Beach: A Novel by John Fusco
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Fantastic progress, Allegra!
Just another clarification question. I am listing a book as a novella if the genre 'novella' is listed on its main page in ŷ. Is that acceptable? Several of my novella have more than 150 pages but less than 200 and are listed as novella on the main page.Thanks
Oh ŷ categories it as novella, then it's good to go.
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For 2016, Short and Sweet Treats has a challenge for you! You must read 100 short and sweet stories that fall into 7 different categories. You may read any genre and can follow your progress with our challenge. Also, create a bookshelf in "My Books" to be able to track the challenge.
Category 1:
Read 30 short stories
Category 2:
Read 10 plays
Category 3:
Read 10 novellas
Category 4:
Read 10 poems
Category 5:
Read 20 books under 150 pages
Category 6:
Read 20 books under 200 pages
Challenge Dates:
January 1-December 31, 2016
Have fun!