I have decided to join in with another Reading Challenge for 2018 and this one is courtesy of the wonderful The Book Vipers – GoodReads group and looks set to test us all – mainly in searching out titles to fit all the topics! I may be requesting suggestions for some of them so get your thinking caps on please! I need help… in more ways than one!!
So the challenge is to read a book that fits the titles below! There are 3 levels that can be done – 9 squares, 16 squares or the full 25! I’m aiming for the 25 so we will see how we go!
Have already started a little looksie through my shelves to see what books I can get read that fit the topics! Here’s my initial list – with a number of gaps! – so hopefully I can complete the challenge!
A Classic – lots of candidates on my bookshelves so will choose later!
A Book About Money – struggling with this one so any suggestions welcome!!
A Book Under 100 Pages – not found any on my shelves yet so might have to go shopping!
A Book Of Poems – very poor poetry knowledge so where should I start?!
Free Choice
A Book Set In Another Country – The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
A Translated Book – On The Bright Side by Hendrik Groen
True Or Fictional Crime –
A Book With An Animal In The Title – THE CROW ROAD by IAIN BANKS
Book Vipers Monthly Read –
Non Fiction Book – RHAPSODY IN GREEN by CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
A Debut Book – THE MERMAID AND MRS HANCOCK by IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR
Book From A Small Publisher – HOLLOW SHORES by GARY BUDDEN
A Biography – FINGERS IN THE SPARKLE JAR by CHRIS PACKHAM
A Book You Have Borrowed – will raid the library!
Free Choice
A Banned Book – tempted to go Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland or would you recommend something else?!
A Book with a Food in the Title – BITTER FRUITS by ALICE CLARK-PLATTS
Free Choice
A Shortlisted Book – THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS by RYAN O’NEILL
A Book Over 500 Pages – THE CROW GIRL by ERIK AXL SUND – 750 pages!!
An Award Winner –
Second Book In A Series – SHADOWBLACK by SEBASTIEN de CASTELL
A Book About Books – VILLAGE BOOKS by CRAIG MCLAY
Science Fiction Or Fact – READY PLAYER ONE by ERNEST CLINE
So any suggestions or help you have for me would be most welcome! Free choices will probably be from my NetGalley shelves – I WILL get that under control in 2018!! I will carry on my search and may even end up changing some of my initial choices – that’s what normally happens! – but i’m looking forward to this challenge and trying a few different kinds of books!!
Books and Me! 
A book about money – how about The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain. Quite short as well, almost a short story. I’m not that much up on poetry either but I read some Seamus Heaney as part of my OU course. Try one of his Selected Poems collections. True or fictional crime – I recently read The Murderer’s Maid by Erika Mailman based on the Borden case.
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ooh i am liking the sound of that one thank you!! Will hunt a copy out – helps when it’s a shortie too!! Thanks too for the other hints! I’ll put them on my list to check out! 🙂
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Good luck with this challenge I had a look butcouldn’t get my head around it at all lol
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ha thank you!
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Good luck
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