Wilfully misinterpreted reading challenge

[mesotablar]

For the past few years I have been keeping a reading list to keep track of what I read. Originally I used reading lists to keep track of what fanfics I had started, then I decided to make them more formatted and readable as well as making them public. I’ve had a public accessible reading list for the past 3 years as a constantly-being-updated post on DeviantArt. I am sort of glad it doesn’t get much attention there because I read some seriously sketchy stuff sometimes.

Thanks to dreamwidth, I very very recently found out about the PopSugar Reading Challenge. Reading challenges sound cool! They influence and structure a reading list by pushing reader to read outside what they normally would choose.

I’m not much of a reviewer, I tend to give too much away. Plus I have a ridiculously huge amount of books I still need to go through in my stacks. Plus I have already completed 51 books this year. So let me just utterly fail at participating in the PopSugar Challenge:

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 'Wild Country' by Anne Bishop ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
A book: you think should be turned into a movie [All the yes!]
A book: inspired by mythology, legend or folklore [Apart from all the other stuff the Wild West could probably be argued to be mostly legend]
A book: that’s published in 2019
A book: featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
A book: recommended by a celebrity you admire [Anne Bishop is a celebrity I admire]
A book: about a family [Found family! ...well found Pack]
A book: about someone with a superpower [Cassandra Sangue, though the best is Meg who is the lead in the main series of books]
A book: told from multiple character POVs
A book: with a two-word title
A book: from a past prompt from the PopSugar Reading Challenge [From 2016: A book with a nonhuman perspective]

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 'Lake Silence' by Anne Bishop ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
A book: that makes you nostalgic [for last year!]
A book: with a plant in the title or on the cover [Bits of tree in the background count right?]
A book: a reread of a favourite [All Anne Bishop’s books are favourites!]
A book: you meant to read in 2018 [I meant to and I did, then again in 2019!]
A book: featuring an amateur detective [Yeah, I don’t think normal lawyers do that much work]

♥'Selected Poems' by Gerard Manley Hopkins♥
A book: published posthumously
A book: debut novel [His first and last]
A book: with no chapters, unusual chapter headings or unconventional chapters
A book: set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage or convent [He was a priest….]

♥'My Beloved Brontosaurus' Brian Switek♥
A book: about a hobby
A book: based on a true story [It is non-fiction]
A book: with ‘love’ in the title [My Beloved Brontosaurus]
A book: ghost story [What is the memory of something that never really was, but a ghost?]
A book: read during the season the book is set in [I’m sure I matched up at some point]
A book: with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover [There are clothes present]
A book: retelling of a classic [Classic history. Dinosaur history!]
A book: revolving around a puzzle or game [Dinosaurs are the greatest puzzle there is]

So that’s 27/50 prompts done

Comments

[baronessekat]

the challenge, at least for the reading group I belong to on FB, is to inspire you to read. I started doing it as a way to get out of a reading genre slump that I had been in. I found myself constantly going to the same type of books over and over and I was getting board. But then a co-worker introduced me to the challenge and it got me to love reading again and I greatly enjoy finding things that I otherwise would never have read. In my group some of us like me try for a different book for each topic. Others try to see how many topics one book will cover. It's all for fun and how you want to interpret the rules.

I do the PopSugar one fully. But then I also try to do the Goodreads Around the Year (mostly seeing what I can fit into it from the PS challenge) = https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19585498-the-52-topics-for-the-2019-reading-challenge

Last year I also started the A-Z challenges both Author and Title. The Author one I usually do an author whose last name starts with the letter of the alphabet. And title I do the first letter of the first word of the title (not counting the words The/An/A

But each topic/challenge at least for me is how you choose to interpret them.

But welcome to the challenges! Happy reading!

[mesotablar]

oooh, thanks for telling me about those other challenges!
Reading is a favourite pastime and I always love a chance to talk about Anne Bishop :D
I thought I was pretty good filling 10 prompts with one book, but actually making that the aim in book choice, wow! I wonder if there is a book out there that could fill all the prompts at once? it would be an epic mish-mash story!

I am sort of trying to collect a years worth of challenges, either monthly or year long ones. Mostly because I feel my weeks and months slip past so fast I want to develop a new sort of yearly structure (especially as we seem to be living in weather chaos I can't trust the seasons to be smoothly predictable).

[baronessekat]

book riot also does one, but I've not actually pursued that one. https://bookriot.com/2018/12/12/2019-read-harder-challenge/