Book Challenge #3 Update 2

Erin's Book Challenge is in full swing and I'm almost finished.

Key:

Complete

In progress

To read

5 points: Freebie – Read a book that is at least 200 pages.

• Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

10 points: Read a book that starts with the letter “R”.

• The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

10 points: Read a book with five words in the title.

• How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz

15 points: Read a book that has a (mostly) blue cover.

• Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
• Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
• The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper
• Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
• Bossypants by Tina Fey

20 points: Read a book with twins as characters.

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

20 points: Read a book from this list of books made into movies:

• One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
• Wild:From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

25 points: Read a book set in a country you have always wanted to visit. (Italy)

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

30 points: Read a historical fiction book.

• To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

30 points: Read a music related book.

• The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
• Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

35 points: Read a book originally published over 100 years ago.

• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I may have also thrown in some non-challenge books this month, which is my explanation for a seeming lack of progress.  #notsorry

But let me just show you this:

That would be THREEEEEEE books ahead of schedule.  Remember when I was a shameful FOUR books behind schedule?  BOOM, Beeches. 


I've already decided I'm not doing the bonus round since I know I will not complete it and I hate leaving things incomplete.  This really means I'm not in a rush to finish my remaining book(s) since I have through Oct 31.  Though truth be told, I'd like to finish ASAP so I can move on to other books I want to read, like the 2 on my nightstand.  Also, I'm probably going to finish Bossypants and potentially try reading some of the books that were other options, but I'm not holding out on any specific book in general.  Obviously my goal is 40 books for the year and I'm pretty confident I can make that happen.

Has anyone read the 2nd book, Dragonfly in Amber, of the Outlander series??  I'm thinking of it as my next audiobook.  It's 39 hours and I feel like that's a solid investment.. and at least a month of commute time + extra listening when it gets too good to stop.