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11: A category from another challenge
What are you reading this week?A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2017, a novel that is set in wartime
Why did you choose this category?
This book is the current selection for a book club, and I needed a way to work it into AtY. I am not doing the Popsugar challenge this year, but I am familiar with it from previous years, so it was the first place I looked.
What are you reading this week?Falling into Place by Amy Zhang
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I chose a topic from the Popsugar 2017 Challenge - about a difficult topic.
Why did you choose this category?
I enjoy reading books that are about topics that are typically not written about.
What are you reading this week? Humans of New York: Stories
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017 challenge. the category is a book with pictures.
Why did you choose this category?
I like photography
What are you reading this week?Before Life Happened by Isabel Curtis
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
The New Year challenge in the YA Buddy Readers group on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. The category is New-to-You author.
Why did you choose this category?
I had this on hold for a buddy read a while ago that I didn't end up participating in. It was horrendous so I'm going to get absolutely as much out of it as possible to make up for the complete waste of time it was.
What are you reading this week?All the Bright Places
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
This is based on the Popsugar 2017 Challenge - about a difficult topic. It's also the book I meant to read for week 34 of the 2016 ATY challenge A book about mental illness that I didn't get around to reading last year... mostly because it's such a difficult topic and out of my comfort zone
Why did you choose this category?
Because I've been meaning to read this book for a few years now, but have been avoiding it. I tried to force myself to read it last year, but put it off too long and didn't get it from the library in time. Now that I have it, I have no excuses.
- What are you reading this weekSpell or High Water by Scott Meyer
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Seasonal Reading Challenge: Winter 2016: Read another book by an author you read for the first time in 2016
- Why did you choose this category?
I can't remember how I stumbled upon this group, but I was really looking for a place to make this book fit in since I just read the first one and really enjoyed it.
What are you reading this week?Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge from 2016: Category: the highest rated on your TBR
Why did you choose this category?
I've never done a reading challenge, so I looked at last year's challenge which I wasn't a part of to pull in a category for this year. I liked the idea of doing the highest rated on my TBR to push me to read something I've been interested in but haven't gotten to just yet.
- What are you reading this week?
Jeffrey Archer
- Which challenge did you pick? Pop Sugar
What is the category? First book in a series that you have never read before.
- Why did you choose this category?
I have been wanting to read the Clifton Chronicles for quite some time, so I thought this might be just the thing to get me started!
The challenge I chose from was the 2017 popsugar challenge. The prompt I chose was "A book that never fails to make you smile." I finished "The Help" this week for this category. This category was the only one "The Help" fit into in this challenge so that is why picked it. I loved this book the first time around, and I loved it just as much this time.
What are you reading this week?The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2) by Alan Bradley
Which challenge did you pick?
I picked the 2017 AtY discard challenge
What is the category?
A book with a child as main character
Why did you choose this category?
I started the Flavia de Luce mystery series, and I liked it so much I wanted to continue reading about Flavia's adventures.
- What are you reading this week?I actually finished this last week and just realized I could use it for a category on ATY - Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by H.G. Bissinger
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I chose 2017's BookRiot's ReadHarder Challenge which I am also doing this year - the category is the first listed - A Book About Sports
- Why did you choose this category?
To be honest, because I am double dipping both challenges where possible, although there are 52 categories here and only 24 on ReadHarder. This book fulfilled both.
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- What are you reading this week? The Rosie Project
- Which challenge did you pick?
Popsugar reading challenge 2017
-What is the category?
A book with a red spine.
- Why did you choose this category?
It's a red book.
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I'm reading Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I chose the Popsugar 2017 challenge and the eatery I chose were "A book with a title that's a character's name" which is very fitting for this book!
- Why did you choose this category?
I tend to just go with what fits me at that time, and it so happens that I had to read this for school, and I were a week behind on my challenge so I read this and then later found out that I could see if I could fit it in in the challenge! So I like to think of this as my book for week 2. Let's go week 3, we can do this!
- What are you reading this week?Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Which challenge did you pick?
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Group: Seasonal Reading Challenge (Winter 2016-2017)
What is the category?
Book by a female author whose initials are found in MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
- Why did you choose this category?
This is a book I selected for another annual challenge in The Life of a Book Addict GR group, where you pre-select 12 specific books + 4 optional that you are going to read in 2017. I selected all books that I own (including this one) AND it fits the category listed above. It is a challenge for me finding books that fit all 3 challenges!
What are you reading this week?I read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
2016 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge: Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness.
Why did you choose this category?
I was reading this book anyway and found the category to fit it. I knew there was a challenge from last year that had a category about mental illness so I went looking to find out which one. Reading back over all the past years' challenges, I wish I'd joined in earlier. This is my first year doing challenges.
- What are you reading this week? Cinder by Marissa Meyer- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category? I picked the Pop Sugar 2016 Reading Challenge and the category was "A book based on a Fairy Tale"
- Why did you choose this category? I think i was looking just a perfect category to read Cinder!
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What are you reading this week?Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Which challenge did you pick?
Book Riot's 2017 Read Harder Challenge
What is the category?
Read a nonfiction book about technology.
Why did you choose this category?
I wanted to choose a category from the Book Riot challenge since it's not one that I'm participating in and I didn't want to double up on a challenge category I'm already doing. I wanted to pick the category first & then pick a book to fit it. I planned to choose the first category, a book about sports. But then I have a lot of books out from the library right now, so I decided to see if the book I'm currently reading, Weapons of Math Destruction, fit any of the categories, and it fit this one, so I fit the category to the book.
What are you reading this week.Kidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonWhat challenge did you pick:The Book Riot Challenge 2015 Harder Challenge: an audio book
What is the category:
An audio book
Why did you choose this category : I want to get more in to reading classic and this is a way I can do it, by reading it and listing to it that the same time.
-What are you reading this week? The Pearl-What challenge did you pick? The BINGO challenge from my classics group.
-Why did you choose this challenge? To have a little fun with my classics reading.
What are you reading this week?Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
It's my own challenge; one popular book from each year in the past decade (shows up on the GoodReads popular pages for the years 2007-2016). Also, this was picked by another Challenge Factory member on the "Dusty Bookshelf" challenge.
Why did you choose this category?
I am only a few books away from completing it! I have 2008 and 2012 left. And again, another Challenge Factory member chose it for me.
- What are you reading this week? The Woman in Cabin 10
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar - a book that involves travel.
- Why did you choose this category? Mostly because I was trying to find a place to fit this book in.
What are you reading this week?I'm re-reading Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I chose one from the Seasonal Reading Challenge - Read a book where the FIRST word of the title begins with a letter in BINGO.
Why did you choose this category?
I'm reading the three Theban plays for another challenge in February, and I needed a place to fit this one into our challenge.
What are you reading this week?Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017
A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
Why did you choose this category?
I'm trying to read more books by authors of different ethnicities
What are you reading this week?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I went to List Challenges and chose the one that is "BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books..."
Why did you choose this category?
I want to try and read all 100 of the books on this list. I have so far read 18 of them.
I'm working through that list too, Sarah! I really like it, I think it's fairly well-rounded.
What are your reading this Week?A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
What challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017 - A book from a nonhuman perspective
Why did you choose this category?
No,particular reason but I love,books about dogs.
- What are you reading this week? Animal Farm by George Orwell- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category? The 2016 Popsugar Reading Challenge / A book you haven't read since high school
- Why did you choose this category? It caught my eye, and I liked the idea that it gave e a chance to reread Animal Farm.
What are you reading this week?Innocent Traitor
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge- A book recommended by a librarian
Why did you choose this category?
My mother is a librarian and knows my reading habits really well. She usually recommends books and authors that I end up loving.
- What are you reading this week?Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined - Don't laugh - My daughter already told me it was horrible. I feel I must read anyway.- Which challenge did you pick? 2016 Around the Year Challenge What is the category? A work of Young Adult Fiction
- Why did you choose this category? I got this book as a Christmas gift and was trying to fit it in a category
What are you reading this week?Never Let Me Go
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge - a book recommended by a librarian
Why did you choose this category?
I wanted to double up with a Popsugar challenge, but I couldn't choose, so I used a random number generator to pick for me!
What are you reading this week?What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
This is from the Rory Gilmore Challenge, and there is no categories.
Why did you choose this category?
I wanted to read something from the Rory Gilmore Challenge and this book is relevant to me at the moment as I am watching Feud about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis making the movie, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.
- What are you reading this week?
Prey by Michael Crichton- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
This fits a category in the Reading With Style spring season challenge (author who is a doctor) and my next stop in the Disneyland challenge in Stress Free Challenges (something in flight on the cover).
- Why did you choose this category?
Because it was the next stop at Disneyland :)
- What are you reading this week?The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I picked the audiobook category of the Popsugar Challenge
- Why did you choose this category?
I commute 40 minutes each day and enjoy listening to audiobooks while I drive.
What are you reading this week?Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I chose a category from the 2016 Around the Year challenge - read a book from the Rory Gilmore challenge.
Why did you choose this category?
I like getting inspiration from lists of books (like the Guardian's 100 best books, BBC Big Read, etc) so this seemed like an obvious choice. It was hard to choose just one book from the list though as there are a lot of great books on it.
What are you reading this week?An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Books and Ladders #52wks52bks challenge
A Book Originally Published in the Year You Were Born
Why did you choose this category?
I researched it when there was a similar category in the vote for this challenge, and then I found the book in my favourite thrift store and really wanted to read it.
What are you reading this week?Infernal Devices, by K.W. Jeter
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
A Steampunk novel, from the 2017 Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge.
Why did you choose this category?
Just like the sound of steampunk!
- What are you reading this week?Soulless
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
2017 Ultimate Popsugar Challenge. The category is Steampunk
- Why did you choose this category?
Guess what Angela, I liked the sound of it too.
What are you reading this week? Thereby Hangs a Tail by Spencer Quinn.Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I only know of the Popsugar Challenge and this one, so it must be Popsugar. The category is Non-human perspective.
Why did you choose this category? I wanted to read another Bernie book by Spencer Quinn, so I searched around to find a way to do it.
- What are you reading this week?
Eileen, by Otessa Moshfegh
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
Popsugar 2017. A book that has a character's name as a title.
- Why did you choose this category?
Eileen had been on my TBR for a while and it easily fit this category.
- What are you reading this week?
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
2017 Read Harder Challenge - Task #12: Read a Fantasy Novel
- Why did you choose this category?
I initially chose it for the Task#20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel but realised I already had a book for that category and it really is more of a fantasy book. And having recently discovered Rainbow Rowell I was on a roll...
Progress Post:- What are you reading this week?
by Pierce Brown- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category? I chose a Sci-Fi/Fantasy challenge from The Challenge Factory. The category is "Can't Wait For Sci-Fi".
- Why did you choose this category? I've been stalled on this challenge for too long, this is a good jump start.
- What are you reading this week? Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category? PopSugar 2017. "The first book in a series you haven't read before"
- Why did you choose this category? I was really curious about the first book in the series of the Grisha, so basically I chose the category to fit this book in it.
I'm reading a book from the 2016 Around the yEar in 52 Weeks Challenge. Week 52: Read a book published in 2016. I'm reading The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. I've wanted to read it for a while.
- What are you reading this week? Two books: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter and The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
"A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture"(Bookriot RC 2015) and "A book you loved as a child" (Popsugar RC 2017).
- Why did you choose this category?
I picked the 1st because I was interested in adding some diversity in my reads and I don't think I read a book by an author from an indigenous culture.
The 2nd was because I wanted to re-read this book this year and it was nice to be able to fit it in the challenge.
- What are you reading this week?None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
A-Z Title Book Reading Challenge (Letter N)
- Why did you choose this category?
Because I was already doing that challenge and just happened to finish this book which fit that category.
- What are you reading this week?Three Seconds To Rush by Danielle Stewart
- Which challenge did you pick?
2015 Popsugar challenge
What is the category?
A book with a number in the title
- Why did you choose this category?
I have been wanting to read this book
What are you reading this week?Paper Princess by Erin Watt
Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
2017 Popsugar -- Bestseller in genre you don't normally read.
For me, that category is Romance.
Why did you choose this category?
My sister mentioned recently that she enjoys a Romance every now and then so I picked this one from the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards.
- What are you reading this week?Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
I'm not sure which topic I picked originally but the book fits for:
Popsugar 2017 - A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
- Why did you choose this category?
I want to read this series this year so I tried to fit a few of them in to my list.
- What are you reading this week?Purple Hibiscus
- Which challenge did you pick? What is the category?
2017 Book Riot "debut novel"
- Why did you choose this category?
I needed a category in which my current book fit ;)
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Charlotte’s Web (other topics)Boys Over Flowers: Hana Yori Dango, Vol. 1 (other topics)
Magpie Murders (other topics)
The Next Always (other topics)
Jane Eyre (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
E.B. White (other topics)Anthony Horowitz (other topics)
Richard Brautigan (other topics)
Ted Allbeury (other topics)
Patrick Ness (other topics)
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For those reading in order:Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2017.
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