Erin's Challenge 6.0 Halfway Update

We're barely over a month into Erin's Challenge and I feel pretty confident I will complete the challenge again this round.  Same as last time, I will not be participating in the bonus round.  I don't want that kind of self-pressure.  I probably could since many of the books I want to get to after this challenge are on this list, but back to that self-pressure thing.  Meh.  Do not want that stress.


Legend:
Strikethrough = Complete
Bold = Selection to be read
Italics = In progress

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

I have the other 3 books on Audible and I will be listening to them as soon as the challenge is over.

• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly  
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover  
• Black Cross by Greg Iles  
• One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid  

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

• When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi   
• We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman   
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver   

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

• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison  
• Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos  
• Mate: Become the Man Women Want by Tucker Max  
• The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes  
• The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand  
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows  
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon  

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

Kimmi mailed me her copy and it's been sitting on the nightstand waiting for my attention.

• Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani  
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison  
• Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks  
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson  
• The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen  
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery  

20 points: Read a book with a homonym in the title

This is my 2nd time checking this book out from the library and I still haven't finished it and now someone else has put a hold on it.  I think I'm just going to use my Audible credit this month and listen to this book instead.  Sadly, the library doesn't have the audiobook version.  Womp, womp.

• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas  
• Other options from this list, if applicable.

20 points: Read a book by your favorite author.

I have this on my Kindle, I just need to read it.

• The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes   
• The Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lian Hearn  

25 points: Read a book set in the city/town/state/territory/county/province where you live. 

I am #5 and #3 on the hold list at the library for the ebook.  No audiobook to be found.  Ugh.

• South of Broad by Pat Conroy  
• Choosing Charleston by T. Lynn Ocean  
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd  

30 points: Read a “Rory Gilmore” book. 

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon  

30 points: Read a book from a genre that you’ve never read (or rarely read.)

• Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik  
• Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon  

35 points: Read a book with time travel.

I bought this during a 2-for-1 sale that Audible was having at the end of last year, so this has been on Audible since then waiting for me.  I listen to it when I don't have a library audiobook to listen to so progress is slooooowww.. and ya know, it's 500+ pages.  #outlanderstyle

• Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon   

Totals:
5 complete
2 in progress
3 to go (2 ebooks (1 on library waitlist), 1 hard copy)


I've come to realize that audiobook are my jam.  4 of the 5 completed books were audiobooks.  I didn't want them to be, but they are.  I can listen to a book and still do other things, which is perfect.  I struggle with making time to actually sit down and read a book, which is why I have failed at ebooks more and more recently.  #firstworldproblems