Monthly Challenge Updates- January

Hey guys! Since I am participating (or trying to) in a few different reading challenges this year, I thought it would be helpful (mostly for me) to do a monthly update. I will use these updates to highlight what I’ve read over the month, which prompts I am hoping to tackle, and any that I may have gotten to thus far. Basically this is a monthly wrap-up.

General updates

Books started this month: 9

Books completed this month: 6

Reviews?: 4

     

 

BOTM choices (and link):

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner

 

 

Challenges

Beat the Back list

• Warcross by Marie Lu (my book feature)

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• The next book in a series you started
  • The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (book #2) (mini review)
• A book that was borrowed or that was given as a gift
  • Warcross by Marie Lu (library book) (feature)
• A book about death or grief
  • Faithful by Alice Hoffman (book feature)

BookRiot: Read Harder

• A one-sitting book
  • Faithful by Alice Hoffman (book feature)

I will reiterate that I have no plans to actually complete any of these challenges this year. Looking at these prompts, I know for a fact some of them I am absolutely uninterested in. However, some have made me excited for new books that weren’t on my radar (just what I need!). This is more or less so I can keep track of the things I am doing throughout the month. I will say that I want to work the hardest on my Beat the Back List though. And while I am organizing and keeping track of those books, I might as well tick off any challenge prompts I complete along the way, right?

I also want to try to pick up my Kindle books more going forward. Perhaps in between physical books? I need to start making a dent in my ARCs now that I have finally been approved for some!

February TBR

These are the prompts that I can (potentially) fill this month, with back listed books that I own.

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• A book made into a movie you’ve already seen
  • The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell
  • A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
• A book with a time of day in the title
  • Batman: The Nightwalker
• A book about time travel
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• A book with an animal in the title
  • The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
  • A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
• A book with characters who are twins
  • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• A book that is also a stage play or musical
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• A book about feminism
  • Red Clocks by Leni Zumas*
• A book about mental health
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• A book by two authors
  • The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen & Greer Hendricks*
• A book by a local author
  • Watching Glass Shatter by James J. Cudney
• A book from a celebrity book club
  • Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Reese Witherspoon)
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Reese Witherspoon)
• A childhood classic you’ve never read
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
  • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• A book that’s published in 2018
  • The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw*
  • Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely*
• A past Goodreads Choice winner
  • All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
• A book you wanted to read in 2017 but didn’t get to
  • my whole backlist?
• Your favorite prompt from 2015, 2016 or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
  • (from the 2017 list) A book of letters- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

 

BookRiot Read Harder

• A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries
  • Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• A western
  • Gunslinger Girl by Lyndsay Ely*
• A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi**
• A children’s classic published before 1980
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• A celebrity memoir
  • The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

 

*2018 releases so not “back listed” but I either own them or will very very shortly.

**Library books I currently have at home

How did everyone else do this month? What was your favorite read? Are any of these books on your February TBR? Let’s chat!