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message 1: by Julie (last edited Feb 29, 2016 02:23AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Reading log by month. What I finished. Planning spot.

Oct.

Anna Karenina buddy read
Possession

September

A Wrinkle in the Skin
Wonderland
The Android's Dream
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Girl on the Train LIBRARY
The Thief
Bird Box

August

The Year of the Hare
Like Water for Chocolate
The Library at Mount Char

July
Crime and Punishment buddy read
Gone with the Wind buddy read
Second Chance at Zion
Utopia
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

June

Descender, Vol 1: Tin Stars
A Boy Like Me
A Mother's Influence

May

Cinder buddy read, LIBRARY
Little Men
Little Women
Fish Food
Ambrosine
The Passion of Dolssa

April

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao LIBRARY
The Book Thief buddy read
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
A Floating Life OWN
Willard and His Bowling Trophies

March

The Enchanted Island of Yew ILL
The Wind from Nowhere ILL
The Drowned World ILL
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers ILL
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy ILL
The Wolf Wilder LIBRARY, ebook
Paper Things LIBRARY, ebook
The Reluctant Fundamentalist OWN
Guantánamo Diary
Started Others: The World Vs Islam OWN, ebook
The Language of Flowers OWN
Armada
Sutterfeld, You Are Not a Hero: A Novel
When to Rob a Bank
War and Peace March-May, buddy read

Febuary

DONE The Handmaid's Tale
DONE Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Started Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans ILL
The Heir library
Started The One library
DONE The Guard library
DONE The Prince library
DONE The Elite library
DONE The Selection library
Tuck Everlasting LIBRARY
Red Rising LIBRARY, ebook
In Absence of Fear bookopoly due 16th
DONE Fahrenheit 451 LIBRARY
DONE The Blue Sky LIBRARY
DONE The Torrents of Spring LIBRARY
DONE Broken April LIBRARY 2/1
The Wandering Falcon OWN
DONE Four: A Divergent Story Collectionbuddy read LIBRARY
Allegiantbuddy read, borrowed
DONE Insurgent buddy read, borrowed
Sea of Poppies Own
Binarius: Episode I
The End of the Road
Coraline OWN
Hunger OWN, ebook
The Good Muslim OWN
The Kite Runner OWN
A Tale of Love and Darkness OWN
A Quiet Adjustment: A Novel OWN

January

DONE Freedom Through Sex: How To Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, Find Sexual Fulfillment And Heal Sexual Trauma
DONE The Arrival
DONE The Pearl
DONE The Whistler
DONE The Madman of Freedom Square
DONE Don Quixote own
White Oleander own
Started The Hobbit own
DONE Gone Girl own
DONE Divergent borrowed
DONE Wither own
DONE Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children own
DONE The Souls of Black Folk own, ebook 1/4 DONE
DONE The Round House own
DONEIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? own 1/5
Cash own
DONE Red Queen library DONE
DONE The Old Man and the Sea library 1/1 DONE
DONE One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich DONE
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life own
William Burroughs
DONE Junky own
DONE Queer own
Naked Lunch own
The Rataban Betrayal: A Novel own
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science own


message 2: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 04:57AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Book Riots not all selected yet
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1. Read a horror book Coraline OWN or Within These Walls

2. Read a nonfiction book about science Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

DONE 3. Read a collection of essays. The Souls of Black Folk 1/4 DONE or The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

4. Read a book out loud to someone

5. Read a middle grade novel Paper Things or The Wolf Wilder

Jan. 6. Read a biography (not memoir or autobiography). Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science OWN

DONE 7. Read a dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel Divergentread Cinder or Wither

8. Read a book originally published in the decade you were born.The Handmaid's Tale

9. Audie award winner

10. Read a book over 500 pages long. Anna Karenina

DONE 11. Read a book under 100 pages. The Old Man and the Sea1/1 DONE

12. Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender.A Boy Like Me

Feb. 13. Read a book that is set in the Middle East. The Kite Runner OWN

14. Read a book that is by an author from Southeast Asia. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

15. Read a book of historical fiction set before 1900.

16. Read the first book in a series by a person of color. Sea of Poppies

17. Read a non-superhero comic that debuted in the last three years. Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

Jan. 18. Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children OWN

19. Read a nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes. Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own or The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

20. Read a book about religion (fiction or nonfiction). The Library at Mount Char

21. Read a book about politics, in your country or another (fiction or nonfiction). The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

22. Read a food memoir. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life OWN

23. Read a play

DONE 24. Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness Don Quixote or Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things


message 3: by Julie (last edited Jan 25, 2016 07:11PM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Around the world challenge, author must have lived or been born in
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1. Russia Anna Karenina or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich OWN
Feb. 2. Afghanistan The Kite Runner OWN
Feb. 3. Australia The Book Thief OWN or CloudstreetOWN
Jan. 4. South Africa The Hobbit OWN
5. Dominican Republic The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Feb. 6. Norway Hunger buddy read
7. Columbia Delirium
8. Mexico Like Water for Chocolate
9. Finland The Year of the Hare
DONE 10. Iraq The Madman of Freedom Square
11. Austria Seven Years in Tibet
Jan. 12. Albania Broken April
13. Cambodia First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Jan/feb. 14. Mongolia The Blue Sky LIBRARY
15. Morocco The Sand Child
16. Andorra The Teacher of Cheops
DONE 17. Angola The Whistler
18. Nambia The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
19. Armenia Armenian Golgotha
20 Nepal The Lazy Conman and Other Stories: Folktales from Nepal
21. Netherlands The Twin
22. Bolivia Sangre Dulce / Sweet Blood
23. New Zealand Once Were Warriors
24. Central African Republic, Ouadda Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
25. Ukraine Ali and Nino: A Love Story
26. Nicaragua Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve
Feb. 27. Bangladesh The Good Muslim OWN
Feb. 28. India The Wandering Falcon OWN
29. Moldova The Story of the Ants
30. Israel Mordechai's Mustache and His Wife's Cats: And Other Stories
31. Belize On heroes, lizards and passion
32. Montenegro A Lullaby for No Man's Wolf
33. Thailand Time: A Thai novel
34. Cailico, Timor The Crossing: A Story of East Timor
35. Bahrain QuixotiQ
36. Nigeria The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives


message 4: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 06:06AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments I-Spy
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1. Of Mice and Men Little Men
2. A Tale of Two Cities The Handmaid's Tale
DONE 3. Gone with the Wind Gone Girl OWN
4. A Wrinkle in Time A Wrinkle in the Skin
DONE 51. 5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Giving Tree DONE
6. The Little Prince Little Women
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Wonderland
8. Brave New World The Brave Little Tailor or As Brave As You
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Android's Dream
10. The Joy Luck Club The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
11. The Diary of a Young Girl The Girl on the Train
12. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Bird Box
13. The Book Thief The Thief
14. The God of Small Things Notes from a Small Island
15. Around the World in 80 Days The Round House OWN
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
17. The Time Traveler's Wife Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
18. All Quiet on the Western Front A Quiet Adjustment: A Novel OWN
19. The Old Man and the Sea Mansfield Park
DONE 20. Where the Red Fern Grows Red Queen DONE
21. Island of the Blue Dolphins Treasure Island
DONE 22. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe The Whistler
23. Girl With a Pearl Earring The Pearl
24. The Call of the Wild The Wolf Wilder
25. The Good Earth Earth Girl


message 5: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 05:16AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Popsugar
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1. A book based on a fairy tale Cinder
Started 2. A National Book Award winner The Round House OWN
3. A YA bestseller The Book Thief OWN
4. A book you haven't read since high school Little Men
5. A book set in your home state Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall
6. A book translated to English The Three Musketeers
7. A romance set in the future Wither
8. A book set in Europe Mansfield Park
DONE 9. A book that's under 150 pages Cinderella Done
10. A New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train
Started 11. A book that's becoming a movie this year Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children OWN
DONE 12. A book recommended by someone you just met The Old Man and the Sea DONE
13. A self-improvement book Mended: Pieces of a Life Made Whole
14. A book you can finish in a day The Pearl
DONE 15. A book written by a celebrity Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? DONE
16. A political memoir Long Walk to Freedom
17. A book at least 100 years older than you Little Women
DONE 18. A book that's more than 600 pages Don Quixote
19. A book from Oprah's Book Club White Oleander
20. A science-fiction novel Earth Girl
21. A book recommended by a family member The Outsiders
22. A graphic novel The Arrival
23. A book that is published in 2016
24. A book with a protagonist that has your occupation Born on the Fourth of July
25. A book that takes place during summer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
26. A book and its prequel Red Queen Done (library), Queen Song
DONE 27. A murder mystery Gone Girl OWN
28. A book written by a comedian Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You
DONE 29. A dystopian novel Divergent borrowed
30. A book with a blue cover Onyx Moon
DONE 31. A book of poetry The Giving Tree OWN
32. The first book you see in a bookstore
33. A classic from the 20th century
34. A book from the library
35. An autobiography Cash OWN or A Pirate Looks at Fifty OWN
36. A book about a road trip The Hobbit OWN
DONE 37. A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, library
38. A satirical book The Torrents of Spring
39. A book that takes place on an island Treasure Island or The Blue Lagoon
40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.


message 6: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 05:00AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Happy New Year Surprise Challenge
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Modern Mrs. Darcy posted a challenge: 12 books in 12 different categories over 12 months.
1. A Book Published this Year
DONE 2. A Book You Can Finish in One Day
The Old Man and the Sea
Cinderella
The Giving Tree
3. A Book You Have Been Meaning to Read
4. A Book Recommended by Your Local Librarian or Bookseller
5. A Book You Should Have Read in School
6. A Book Chosen For You by Your Spouse, Partner, Sibling, Child, or BFF
The Outsiders
DONE 7. A Book Published Before You Were Born
The Old Man and the Sea
Cinderella
The Giving Tree
8. A Book That Was Banned at Some Point
9. A Book You Previously Abandoned
10. A Book You Own but Have Never Read
11. A Book the Intimidates You
DONE 12. A Book You Have Read at Least Once
The Giving Tree


message 7: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 06:16AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments TBR Randomizer Challenge
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March 1. When to Rob a Bank #4097
March 2. Armada # 4069
March 3. Sutterfeld, You Are Not a Hero: A Novel # 2137
March 4. A Sudden Gust of Gravity # 1725
Feb. 5.The End of the Road # 3896

March 6. The Language of Flowers #2175
Feb. 7. Binarius: Episode I #4896
March 8. Others: The World Vs Islam #418 own, ebook
April 9. Willard and His Bowling Trophies #3654
March 10. Guantánamo Diary #4093

April 11. A Floating Life #4882 own
May. 12. Ambrosine #2376
March 13. Freedom Through Sex: How To Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, Find Sexual Fulfillment And Heal Sexual Trauma #1349
May14. Fish Food #1046
May 15. The Passion of Dolssa #5266

July. 16. Second Chance at Zion#2495
June 17. A Mother's Influence #681
Oct. 18. Possession #3426
July 19. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning #3637
July 20. Utopia #4593


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message 9: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 06:10AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments From Fiction to Reality Challenge
10 books 5 pairs
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DONE 1. Red Queen to The Souls of Black Folk civil rights


message 10: by Julie (last edited Feb 01, 2016 07:02AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Lets Turn Pages /topic/show/...

5476/25000


message 11: by Julie (last edited Jan 19, 2016 06:23AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Moving mountains from pick a shelf
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I-inspirational The Alchemist
DONE A-American The Old Man and the Sea 1/1 DONE
DONE M-memoir Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 1/5 DONE
A-academic The Communist Manifesto
N-novel The Hobbit
U-unowned The Time Traveler's Wife
N-novella The Queen's Army
DONE A-adventure Divergent
S-sci-fi Cinder
H-historical romance Outlander
A-action The Elephant Tree
M-middle grade When You Reach Me
E- Ebook Gone Girl
D-dystopia The Selection
B-biographical memoir Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
O-owned but not read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
O-overdrive Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
K-kindle The Book Thief
A-abuse The Lovely Bones
D-demons Daughter of Smoke & Bone
D-death Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
I-interesting Graceling
C-Christian One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
T-translated Like Water for Chocolate
W-women The Handmaid's Tale
H-humor Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
I-in English The Android's Dream
C-Christmas The Christmas Note
H-historical fiction Water for Elephants
M-memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
A-animals The Jungle Book
K--kids The Secret Garden
E-Europe Girl With a Pearl Earring
S-steampunk The Native Star
M-mystery thriller The Girl on the Train
E-Epic Paradise Lost
S-spirituality The Shack
M-military Sister Sable
A-abuse The Perks of Being a Wallflower
R- romance contemporary The Notebook
T- time travel The Time Machine
A-autobiography I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
N-non-fiction Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
D-drama Pygmalion
N-non-fiction Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
O- overdrive Matched
T-thriller Fight Club
T-teen Looking for Alaska
H-horror American Psycho
E-English 1984
L-literature Of Mice and Men
E-education A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A-art The Arrival
S-short stories Glitches
T-theology Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
B-British Wuthering Heights
I- interesting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
T-travel Notes from a Small Island
C-chick lit The Secret Life of Bees
R--realistic fiction Out of My Mind
A-adult Memoirs of a Geisha
Z-zombie The Girl with All the Gifts
Y-ya Thirteen Reasons Why


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Julie  Webb | 135 comments Novel Books and Challenges
Planning vs. Achieving
is year I will read:
___ award winners (past and present, any literary award/people's choice counts)
___complete series (more than 3 books in total)
___complete trilogies
___books that I keep avoiding
___chunksters (over 450 pages)
___new releases
___new to me author(s)
___out of my comfort zone books
___books that are for so long in my TBR they are covered with spider webs and dust bunnies
___ books from my favorite genre
___ books from my favorite author(s)
___ books that everybody else seems to have read but me


message 13: by Julie (last edited Feb 01, 2016 07:08AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Novel Books and Reading Challenges
Serious Reader lvl 1
Read 100 Books, free choice
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1. The Old Man and the Sea 1/1
2. Cinderella 1/2
3. The Souls of Black Folk 1/4
4.Lost in the Woods 1/4
5.Max & Mo Go Apple Picking 1/4
6. On Beyond Zebra! 1/4
7. Scrambled Eggs Super! 1/4
8. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 1/5
9. The Giving Tree 1/5
10. Jack and the Dreamsack 1/5
11. Who Are You, Sue Snue? 1/5
12. The Story of Ferdinand 1/5
13. The Boy Who Wouldn't Share 1/5
14. Red Queen 1/12
15. Don Quixote1/13
16. The Madman of Freedom Square 1/15
17. Gone Girl 1/16
18. Divergent 1/17
19. The Arrival
20. Wither
21. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
22. The Pearl
23. Happy Birthday, Biscuit!
24. The Whistler
25. Junky
26. Queer
27. The Round House
28. Freedom Through Sex: How To Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, Find Sexual Fulfillment And Heal Sexual Trauma
29. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich


message 14: by Julie (last edited Jan 12, 2016 11:26AM) (new)

Julie  Webb | 135 comments Read 1001 Books
Novel Books and Reading Challenges /topic/show/...

1001 Group


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Julie  Webb | 135 comments Novel Books and Challenges
New 2 U Authors 2016
Lvl Devil May Care 20+
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1. Hemmingway, Ernest
2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3. Gillian Flynn
4. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
5. Victoria Aveyard
6. W.E.B. Du Bois
7. Mindy Kaling
8. William S. Burroughs
9. Louise Erdrich
10. Veronica Roth
11. Janet Fitch
12. Ransom Riggs
13. Lauren DeStefano
14. Johnny Cash
15. Stephen Alter
16. Hassan Blasim
17. John Steinbeck
18. Alyssa Satin Capucilli
19. Shaun Tan
20. Mike Reiss
21. Patricia Lakin
22. Carl R. Sams II
23. Louise Gikow
24. BC Recovering to the Hills, excerpt from Memiors of a Lap Dog
25. Bea Cha
26. True Hang
27. Sharon Her
28. May Lee
29. Koa Lor
30. Pacyinz Lyfoung
31. Mai Neng Moua
32. Vayong Moua
33. Noukou Thao
34. Bryan Thao Worra
35. Va-Megn Thoj
36. Ka Vang
37. M. S. Vang
38. Mayli Vang
39. Soul Vang, Soul Choj Vang
40. Kao Xiong
41.Dia Cha
42. Pa Xiong
43. Naly Yang
44. Peter Yang
45. Kao Yongvang
46. Kiera Cass
47. Margaret Atwood
48. Brooke Borel
49. Kyle Hoobin
50. Ray Bradbury
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Julie  Webb | 135 comments Quarterly Challenge 1


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Julie  Webb | 135 comments Monthly Challenges

January [Marathon:/topic/show/...]


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Julie  Webb | 135 comments Games
Bookopoly pick a shelf all year
We're going on a book hunt pick a shelf all year


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