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Spring is finally here! And we've got a little challenge to celebrate...

How it works:
Read the word SPRING (same as with the Word of the Month challenges; see the planning posts below if you're confused).

Complete the following 3 tasks:
- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot.
- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.
- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year.

This challenge lasts for the whole season of spring, from 1 September to 30 November.

Unlike most challenges, you are allowed to use 1 book for two functions, ie. you can use a book to finish both a task AND a letter. However, you can't use a book to finish two tasks or two letters.
Eg. I can read PopCo by Scarlet Thomas for the letter P and for the tbr task, but I can't use it for the letter S and the letter P.

Happy reading, and enjoy the spring sunshine!

S - Shift by Kim Curran
P - Painting by Numbers by Tom Gillespie
R - Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
I - Infidel by Kameron Hurley
N - John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
G - Blackwood by Gwenda Bond

- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot. - Breed by Chase Novak

- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.


- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year. - The Passage by Justin Cronin

I just wanted to add, that you're under no obligation to read a happy book in the spirit of spring. If you want to read a horror like Frankenstein for the birth task, for example, then go ahead ;)

�- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot. Specials
�- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.
�- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year. Uglies

✔S - Shift by Kim Curran
✔P - Mort by Terry Pratchett
✔R - The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
✔I - Enemy of the Fae by India Drummond
N - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
✔G - The Ghost and the Goth

-Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot.
Dragon Warrior by Janet Chapman
- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.

- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year.


S - Snuff by Terry Pratchett
P - The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
R - Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
I - I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
N - The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
G - A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin

COMPLETED

S - The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
P - The Passage - Justin Cronin
R - The Lighting Thief - Rick Riordan
I - Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
N - The Winter House - Nicci Gerrard
G - The Returners - Gemma Malley

- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot. What Happened to Goodbye

- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.
Haunting Violet

- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year. The Titans Curse

�-Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot. = Unwholly
�- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.

�- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year = The Map of Time

✔S - Such Wicked Intent > Kenneth Oppel
✔P - Félix J. Palma > The Map of Time
✔R - Robert Jordan > Lord of Chaos
✔I - Insurgent
✔N - Neal Shusterman > UnWholly
✔G - George R.R. Martin > A Dance With Dragons

Done! 2012-10-09

Lauren, is it books we started in Sept or can books we started in Aug and finished in Sept count?

My rule is that you have to finish in September (or October or November), regardless of when you started. If Lu's cool with that, then that's the rule.

*glares threateningly at Lu*

Agreed :) *gulp*

Good for you. :P

✔Life, birth or renewal - One For The Money
✔Spring cover - Charlotte's Web
✔Clean (TBR for longest) - Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

✔S - Starclimber
✔P - Pure
✔R - The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
✔I - I Am Number Four
✔N - The Necromancer
✔G - George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt

OK, question...

Would A Brief History of Time count for the Life, birth or renewal task? A large amount of the book looks at the origin (which is kind of like a birth) of the universe and it talks lots about the origin and growth of ideas and theories...

Hmm, I'm ok with it.

1. Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot.Immortal Rules By Julie Kagawa would count as she is given new life as a vamp..Should count

2. Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.

Pulled, flowers on the cover in black and white does it count?




3. Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year.

Read

S Geralds Game by Stephen King
P - Perfume
R - Neigbor from hell By R.L Mathewson
IImmortal Rules By Julie Kagawa
N - The Night Circus
G - While it lasts -Abbi Glines

COMPLETED OCTOBER 18TH 2012

Emma wrote: "1. Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot.

2. Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.
3. Clean out those ..."

I might be having a total black out, but how is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy your G book?

Sorry thought you could use any letter starting with G. Edited. You can see I dont do the word of the month normally.

That's ok! I am sorry that you have to look for another book now. Fortunately you have lots of time. :)

No problem, I only saw this yesterday and had a look at the books Id already read in September so added them.Am currently reading The Dome By Stephen King and then Ill finish Cleopatra by Margaret George so S and G should be covered.Also I will check if Under the dome has been on my tbr list for a year, im sure it has.

A usual I have had my head up my butt and missed this one. But I am here now so let me see what I can do with the books I have read so far this month.

S- Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
P- Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
R- R.L. Mathewson - Perfection
I-Ingrid Paulson-Valkyrie Rising
N-Coraline-Neil Gaiman
G- My Heart Be Damned by Chanelle Gray

- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot. - Taking Chances by Molly McAdams

- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.

- Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year. - Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian

- Read a book where birth, new life or renewal is central to the plot.

- Read a book with an iconic Spring image on the cover - flowers, baby animals, bees, butterflies, etc.

Clean out those tbr shelves! Start by reading something that's been on your tbr pile for at least a year. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

S - Snuff by Tery Pratchett
P - My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult
R -
I -
N -
G - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

I noticed that some of the books I really want to read have already been done as previous books of the month before I joined the group, so I figured I'd incorporate them into a challenge :)

S - The Strip by J.J. Salem
P - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
R - Divergent by Veronica Roth
I - Insurgent by Veronica Roth
N - One Day by David Nicholls
G - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Life, birth or renewal - Breed by Chase Novak
Spring image - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Cleaning my TBR shelf - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Is this cover "Springy" enough?

It feels more autumny, but the task says it should have an iconic spring image on it like flowers and your cover has flowers. So technically I would say yes. It is why I have my doubts about a cover of my own . The book is set in spring and the cover looks like spring but it doesn't have any iconic spring images on it.

I think both of yours are fine :)

Yay! Thanks!

Thanks!

Done!

congrats

Congrats!

Well done!

Thank you. :)

I am done!

congrats Barbara

Congrats!

Lol I totally forgot I was dong this challenge but it turns out I finished it a few days ago! I have updated :)

Congrats everyone!!

Thanks guys!
Congrats Lauren!

Excellent, congrats!

Lauren (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "Lol I totally forgot I was dong this challenge but it turns out I finished it a few days ago! I have updated :)

Congrats everyone!!"

HeeHee, you make me laugh! Congrats on finishing.

Finally done! Gosh, Anna Karenina was nearly the death of this challenge.

Congrats!
Didn't you like Anna Karenina?

Actually, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. To me, Tolstoy = daunting. I just found the Russian names tough, especially since each character had more than one, depending on the situation. And there were many times in those farming chapters when I put the book down and thought I'd never pick it up again.

I think modern literature has spoiled me with it's graphic descriptions 'cause I always have to read these classics so slowly so that I don't miss anything (like Vronsky and Anna consummating their relationship in all of one sentence!)

Oh well, it's another book off my TBR list.

Congrats Sharle!

Sharle wrote: "Actually, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. To me, Tolstoy = daunting. I just found the Russian names tough, especially since each character had more than one, depending on the situation. ..."

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can continue to read a book that is excruciatingly difficult to finish. I did try reading Anna Karenina but didnt finish it so Bravo Sharle and Well done over all for completing the Challenge. :-)

I enjoyed Anne Karenina, but I love Russian literature anyway.
If you're interested, Sharle, then there is a discussion about this book in the book discussion corner of our group. We did a buddy read on it a couple of months ago.

@Emma: it is just a matter of making a scedule and keeping to it. And didn't you finish Contact, a book you disliked and therefor would have been difficult to finish?

Contact was an exception and It was for a challenge. There are some books i.e. Cry to heaven that I just wont finish even though Ive read quite alot of it.

True, you did stop reading Cry to Heaven. :)
Me I always finish a book I started. It just bugs me if I don't.

Thanks, Barbara, I'll check it out.

@Emma: I made myself read according to a schedule and then used more interesting reads as a reward for keeping to it. I also share most people's problem of not being able to leave a book unfinished.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can continue to read a book that is excruciatingly difficult to finish.

Unlike Sharle and Barbara, I don't keep to a schedule, but I often have grim determination to finish, either because I promised to review the book, I need it for a challenge, or I want to know about it because of the hype/reputation of the novel. Also, my philosophy is that you can't truly judge a book until you've reached the end. Sometimes they surprise you. Life of Pi served to remind me of that last month; I didn't enjoy it, but I'm really glad I finished it.

A lot of people abandon books they don't find exciting enough, saying that life is short and shouldn't be wasted on boring books, but I don't only read books for entertainment, so that's ok with me.