So I've been talking a lot about books recently, and I mentioned that I was blogging about my 2015 reading challenge that I didn't complete, but I still have the list from it so I'm gonna talk about it now.
So the goal was 52 books in 52 weeks. I did not accomplish that because I stopped reading my list about half way through the year. But, I'm going to list what the prompt was and the book I had picked for said prompt as well as if I read it or not.
1. Book with more than 500 pages. I had picked Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. The first book in the Sword of Truth series, and also the book that the short TV series Legend of the Seeker was based on which is what interested me in that book. It was also a book that my brother had so I was able to read it.
2. Classic romance. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. I don't remember much about this book. But I read it!
3. That became a movie. I had picked Kami Garcia's Beautiful Creatures, but is still on my to-read list. I will get to it...eventually.
4. Published this year. Yeah, I never picked one.......................
5. With a number in the title. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five was the choice and I did read it. I read it in one day, but only gave it 1 star on GoodReads.
6. Written by someone under 30. Pierce Brown's Red Rising. Which I thought was horrible. Yeah.
7. With nonhuman characters. Silvana De Mari's The Last Dragon, which I didn't get to.
8. A funny book. Apparently Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief was a funny book, but I don't remember much other than I did read it. So....
9. By a female author. Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle was picked but not read.
10. Mystery/thriller. Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was picked but not read.
11. With a one-word title. Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf was picked but not read.
12. Book of short stories. James Finn Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was picked but not read.
13. Set in a different country. Nicole Hadaway's Release was picked but not read.
14. Nonfiction book. Erik Lawson's The Devil in the White City. When I picked this one, I thought it sounded so interesting but it was dreadful. Just awful and dull and boring and yeah.
15. Popular author's first book. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet was picked but not read.
16. From author you love but haven't read yet. Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller was picked but not read. And I still have not read it.
17. A friend recommended. Rachel Hartman's Seraphina was picked but not read. I don't even remember who recommended it.
18. Pulitzer prize-winning. Jeffrey Eugindes's Middlesex was picked but not read.
19. Based on a true story. Beatrice Sparks's Go Ask Alice was picked but not read.
20. At the bottom of your to-read list. Tina Folsom's Cain's Identity which is book 9 of the Scanguards Vampire Series. Which I'm pretty sure I rearranged my to-read list shortly after but who really cares. It was also one of the first ones I read that year.
21. Your mom loves. I never picked one, mainly because my mom is no longer with us, but I remember some book series that she enjoyed but I never got that far.
22. That scares you. Dan Simmons's The Terror. And I don't know if it scared me or not because it was picked but not read.
23. More than 100 years old. Jack London's White Fang was picked but not read.
24. Based entirely on cover. Nothing was ever picked.
25. Supposed to read in school but didn't. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita which I did a paper on in college and did pretty well on for not reading it all the way through. Didn't get around to reading it this time either.
26. A memoir. Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love was picked but not read.
27. You can finish in one day. Because I read Old Man and the Sea in one day, I theorized that I could also read Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in a day. Which I did.
28. With antonyms in the title. Jaime Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was picked but not read. I had to google this prompt and that was the only one that sounded interesting.
29. Set somewhere you've always wanted to visit. Again with the Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms however this one was picked but not read.
30. Published the year you were born. Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish, which is the first in the "Witcher" series that the video game is set after. I don't remember much about it.
31. With bad reviews. Believe it or not, but Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray had bad reviews. I enjoyed it but you know, there is always one person who complains about anything.
32. a Trilogy. JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series was picked but not read. This is why even though there is only 50 prompts, there were 52 books to read.
33. From your childhood. Bruce Coville's Dark Whispers from the Unicorn Chronicles filled this prompt. Since I didn't want to count re-reads, and a lot of the books series from my childhood I had actually finished or couldn't remember where I left off, I went with this one.
34. With a love triangle. Richelle Mead's Storm Born was picked but not read. Since I enjoyed her Vampire Academy series, which also had a love triangle, I figured I would enjoy this one too, but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
35. Set in the future. Veronica Roth's Allegiant filled this prompt. Considering I had read Divergent and Insurgent in 2013, I figured I should finish the series.
36. Set in high school. Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why was picked but not read.
37. With a color in the title. Richelle Mead's The Indigo Spell was picked but not read. I had read the previous two books in the Bloodlines series, but for some reason didn't read this one. I still haven't but I plan on it.
38. That made you cry. Markus Zusak's The Book Thief was picked, but I'm not sure if it made me cry.
39. With magic. L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Ordermaster was picked, however I still haven't gotten to it. Oops.
40. Graphic novel. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis was picked but not read.
41. By an author you've never read before. Rachel Vincent's My Soul to Take was picked but not read.
42. You own but have never read. Nothing was picked for this one. I now have an ample supply of ones I own but have never read.
43. That takes place in your hometown. Coreen Callahan's Fury of Fire (go Seattle!). I did accomplish this one... but haven't read any of the rest of the series. I plan on it. Just haven't yet.
44. Originally written in different language. I took this one a step further and read Antoine de Saint-Exuréy's Le Petit Prince IN FRENCH. I had started reading it Senior year of high school but hadn't finished it and it was one of the first kindle purchases I made but never got around to it until 2015.
45. Set during Christmas. David Baldacci's The Christmas Train was picked but not read.
46. Written by author with your initials. A.D. Miller's Snowdrops was what I picked and if I remember correctly I actually enjoyed this one. However, now that it is three years later I realized that Ann M. Martin, the author of the Baby-Sitters Club series, would have been exact. I counted first and last because not a lot of authors include either their middle name or initial.
47. A play. Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream was picked but not read.
48. Banned book. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was picked but not read.
49. Based on or turned into a tv show*. Melissa de la Cruz's Witches of East End, which aired on Lifetime under the same name, was picked but not read. Oops.
50. You started but never finished. Dram Stoker's Dracula was picked but is still not finished.
*I did however, read Bitten and Stolen by Kelley Armstrong which are the first two books in the Women of the Otherworld series, which was turned into the SyFy show Bitten that aired for 3 years. So technically this prompt was filled, but not by what I had picked and was done after I basically called it quits on the reading challenge.
Some of these I am still interested in reading, but as I mentioned previously (at least I think I did), I want to get the books that are physically on my to-read list on GoodReads done before I get to ones that aren't on that list/ before I add more. Some, like the two by Mead and the ones by Modesitt and Goodkind are on my list so I'll get to them at some point.
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