The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Main Goal:
→ 22/50 total books read in 2018

Series I'd like to read:
→ The Lunar Chronicles
→ Starbound
→ Graceling
→ Precious Stone Trilogy
→ The Illuminae Files
→ A Court of Thorns and Roses
→ Mistborn
→ Shades of Magic
→ Six of Crows
→ Shades of Magic
→ The Raven Cycle
→ The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
→ The Mysterious Benedict Society
→ Percy Jackson & the Olympians
→ The Heroes of Olympus
→ Dorothy Must Die
→ Harry Potter movie related books (page to screen, creature vault, etc)

Books I want to re-read:
→ Harry Potter Series
→ My Most Excellent Year

Year in a Glance:



DNF:

Alphabet Soup

TOTAL: 11/26

✔ A - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
✔ B - The Beauty and the Beast
✔ C - Carry On
_ D - A Darker Shade of Magic / Dorothy Must Die / The Dream Thieves
_ E - Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories
✔ F - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
✔ G - The Girl on the Train
_ H - Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey
✔ I - Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
_ J - Jane Eyre
_ K - The Kind Worth Killing
✔ L - Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories
✔ M - The Marquise of O
_ N - The Night Circus
_ O - Obsidio
✔ P - Pé Descalço
_ Q - The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
_ R - The Raven Boys / Room / The Rose & the Dagger
_ S - The Sea of Monsters
✔ T - The Little Prince
✔ U - An Unseen Attraction
_ V - Very Good, Jeeves!
_ W - We Are the Ants / The Wicked Will Rise / The Wrath and the Dawn
_ X - X Marks the Spot, We're All Going to Die!... So What's for Lunch?
_ Y - Yellow Brick War
_ Z - The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies

The order I've read them in:

Good luck on your challenges, Mariana.

Anti-Alphabet Soup

TOTAL: 13/26

✔ A - The Little Prince
✔ B - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
_ C - Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories
✔ D - An Unseen Attraction
✔ E - Fangirl
✔ F - Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories
✔ G - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
_ H -
✔ I - Pé Descalço
_ J -
_ K -
_ L -
✔ M - Carry On
✔ N - The Marquise of O
✔ O - The Beauty and the Beast
_ P -
_ Q -
_ R - The Lightning Thief
_ S - The Battle of the Labyrinth
_ T -
✔ U - Good Faeries/Bad Faeries
_ V -
✔ W - Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
_ X -
✔ Y - The Girl on the Train
_ Z -

The order I've read them in:

Featherweight Challenge → DONE!
Total: 15/15, as of November 8th
Haven't Read yet: _
Read: ✔
Loved: 💖

✔ Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers
1. During the Dance, 9 pages 💖
2. Seasons of Glass and Iron, 33 on kobo (letter size changes page count) 💖
3. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories, 56 pages
4. The Little Prince, 64 pages
5. The Marquise of O, 112 pages

✔ Level 2 - Flapping Wings
6. Circle Mirror Transformation, 112 pages
7. SNOW-BOUND, 120 pages
8. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, 134 pages
9. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 160 pages
10. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, 175 pages

✔ Level 3 - Taking Flight
11. Pé Descalço, 186 pages
12. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries, 192 pages
13. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, 224 pages
14. An Unseen Attraction, 247 pages
15. The Beauty and the Beast, 280 pages 💖


The order I've read them in:

New to You → DONE!

Not yet read: _
Read: ✔
Total: 10/10

Level One: Test the Waters
✔ 1. Paula Hawkins

Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End
✔ 2. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
✔ 3. L. Frank Baum, and I still haven't read the wizard of Oz (even though it's one of my favorite childhood movies), I'll change that this year, for sure.

Level Three: Take a Swim
✔ 4. Heinrich von Kleist
✔ 5. K.J. Charles
✔ 6. Rainbow Rowell

Level Four: Dive Right In
✔ 7. Amal El–Mohtar
✔ 8. Will McIntosh
✔ 9. John Chu
✔ 10. John Greenleaf Whittier

Chunkster Challenge

Not yet read: _
Read: ✔
Total: 1/10

Level One - Chunkster
✔ 1. Fangirl, 481 pages
✔ 2. Carry On, 528 pages
_ 3.

Level Two - Flower Presser
_ 4.
_ 5.
_ 6.

Level Three - Back Breaker
_ 7.
_ 8.
_ 9.
_ 10.

Order I've read them in:

Doorstopper

I want to read one 600-1000 page book in English - books in Portuguese won't count!

50 Book Challenge

→ January: 15

1. Pé Descalço
2. The Girl on the Train
3. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
4. Sweet Filthy Boy
5. Dirty Rowdy Thing
6. The Beauty and the Beast
7. During the Dance
8. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
9. The Little Prince
10. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
11. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries
12. The Marquise of O
13. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
14. An Unseen Attraction
15. Fangirl



→ February: 6

1. Carry On
2. Seasons of Glass and Iron
3. Bridesicle
4. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
5. SNOW-BOUND
6. Circle Mirror Transformation



→ March:
→ April:
→ May:
→ June:
→ July:
→ August:
→ September:
→ October:
→ November:
1. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories



→ December:

YEAR TO DATE: 22

Cereal Numbers: The Series Challenge

Level 1: Grab A Spoon: 3-4 books/volumes of the same series
Level 2: Pour The Milk: 5-10 books/volumes of the same series
Level 3: Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!: more than 10 books/volumes in a single series read this year

Literary Anniversaries

Lewis Carroll
✔ 1. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
_ 2. Alice through the Looking Glass
_ 3. Jabberwocky

Decade Challenge

(Original publication date)

Total: 5/22 - as of November, 2018

✔ 1800-1809: The Marquise of O, 1808
_ 1810-1819: Pride and Prejudice, 1813
_ 1820-1829: The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, 1827
_ 1830-1839: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, 1834
_ 1840-1849: A Christmas Carol, 1843
_ 1850-1859: Not So Bad as We Seem, Or, Many Sides to a Character, 1851
✔ 1860-1869: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, 1865
✔ 1870-1879: Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, and Other Stories, 1878
_ 1880-1889: Treasure Island, 1882
_ 1890-1899: The Jungle Book, 1894
_ 1900-1909: The Wizard of Oz, the first one was published in 1900
_ 1910-1919: The Secret Garden, 1911
_ 1920-1929: Carry on, Jeeves, 1925
_ 1930-1939: Murder at the Vicarage, 1930
✔ 1940-1949: The Little Prince, 1943
_ 1950-1959: The Martian Chronicles, 1950
_ 1960-1969: Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962
_ 1970-1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
_ 1980-1989: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 1, 1988
_ 1990-1999: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
_ 2000-2009: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2001
✔ 2010-2018: The Girl on the Train, 2015

Order I read them in:

Rosemarie wrote: "Good luck on your challenges, Mariana."

Thank you!

New to You → Round 2

Not yet read: _
Read: ✔
Total: 2/10

Level One: Test the Waters
✔ 1. Annie Baker

Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End
✔ 2. Ellis Towne
_ 3.

Level Three: Take a Swim
_ 4.
_ 5.
_ 6.

Level Four: Dive Right In
_ 7.
_ 8.
_ 9.
_ 10.