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Hi to everybody and happy new year! I saw this challenge on tumblr and I found it interesting, so I thought "why not post it here so everyone can see it?" Check it out, let me know if anyone else wants to do this ;)

I'm up for this, I am doing a similar challenge on another group, hopefully I can include books in both challenges.

I do that all the time, combine challenges so I can complete a few with at least half the books repeating themselves in each challenge :)

Are you doing this challenge Alma? Its a pretty big challenge so was thinking 18 months to complete?

Anybody else up for doing it?

The link says 'page not found' O_o

Working for me.

Will save it and try and add it to the group photos

I have done it for you Tinka. Click on the photos link on the group and you should see the list.

So anybody up for doing it? I think Alma ran away.

I'm in! So, I guess we post the completed tasks here right?

Completed:

A Graphic Novel:

I think use this section to discuss the books used in the challenge, I will create a new discussion for putting up the lists.

So we discuss here and add them to the list?

Yes I done a list of the books, which you can copy, then just add books to them and tick them off when you have read them. I'll leave my list blank for a while so anybody can just copy that list if they want.

Ah okay :)

How was that fables book? Not heard of that one before. I got my graphic novel from the library at the weekend. The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic and so far I am not impressed, if I had already read the book then this would make no sense at all, the drawings are really good, especially the princess in the chainmail bikini.

Fables is really great, kind of what ABC's Once Upon A Time tries to be I think. Interesting twist on fairytales, great characters and the artwork is fantastic.

Oh, I'd love to read the Discworld Graphic Novels. Terry Pratchett writes such good books, his imagination is just beyond words.

Question, does it count as short stories if I choose a fairytale book? I mean those are technically short stories right?

it's any book with a collection of short stories in it.

I really like once upon a time, I have one episode of once upon a time in wonderland left, it has got to be the worst spin-off ever.

The book I'm starting now is one my Mom loves so I can tick that box...was easier than I expected

So I finished the challenge to read something my Mom loves and I'm so glad its something I loved too because we kind of have a different taste most of the time

Well done Tinka, I think we have that book, my daughter wanted it and then it ended up living on the shelf.

Updated my list now, have finished 4 books so far.

Just finished and since it is over 100 years old I can count it for the challenge so yay

Has anyone found a good way to find authors with their initials? I went through a bunch of lists and couldn't really find anything

That's one of my problems too. Can't find any so far

What's your initials? I was thinking of changing that one to shares first name with you.

Put down your initials here and we can look.

We have for some reason shares the first name in our list, but it actually is 'the same initials'

Btw mine are I.S

Mine are V.M.

I was being cheeky and renamed it to first name as I thought initials would be tough to find.

Ness if you like vampire novels then try this one Blood Diva author is V. M. Gautier, close enough I think. It is a very good book.

Tinka wrote: "We have for some reason shares the first name in our list, but it actually is 'the same initials'

Btw mine are I.S"

Iain Sinclair has some interesting sounding books on London

And

Imelda stark does some erotic books. :)

I'm not really into vampire novels, but I guess I'll take what I can get :)

Ness wrote: "I'm not really into vampire novels, but I guess I'll take what I can get :)"

Ah! Ok then, how about crime novels?

Val McDermid is a pretty big author

Val McDermid will do. Thank you :)

Jason you just got a new job as a personal book finder for the group

Haha you giving Imelda stark a go then?

No, I was more thinking about Iain Sinclair, except I find something more interesting, but he'll probably do

His books on London do look quite interesting I might have to try one too.

Too easy.

Alexander Dumas, the count of monti Christo is a great book and will cross one book off the Gilmore challenge too.

Anna Dale might be more your thing though, not read her before.

Maybe a bit of Sherlock by Arthur Conan Doyle.

ish? It IS Sherlock. Haha crazy woman.

Yeah well...you should find something related to Sherlock there...

So I added to my list under the category 'New Author to You' because I never even heard about David Sedaris before finding this one

Hahaha, he created Sherlock, I would check out his author profile and find book 1, they are all really good stories and you may even get hooked, a lot of them are quite short too.

7th book done. Grundish and Askew awesome book, you should all give it a go, I would like to see how far you get before you are grossed out.

I realized I can use for the challenge as well since it's the first book King published

Yep,ts what I was planning, thought that was why you were reading it.

Jason wrote: "Yep,ts what I was planning, thought that was why you were reading it."

I was originally just reading it for the Rory Gilmore Challenge. I don't know much about Stephen King's publishing history so I had no idea

Awesome, didn't know it was in the Gilmore challenge too.

See? You kill two birds with one stone

Interesting, so if I have a big enough stone I could wipe out all birds?

I'm already stuck because i started reading Naked Lunch for the banned book one. It's so difficult to read, i'm already thinking about switching to the german translation... but my pride is stopping me... :D

I have heard it is tough to read, you could try the audio book.