Reading Challenge Update – June

I might be 4 months behind with my reviews but I’m at least half way through my reading year. Here’s the list below on how I was doing for the challenges at that point.

 

 

POPSUGAR

1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen
2. True Crime
3. The next book in a series you’ve started – Shadowblack
4. A book involving a heist
5. Nordic Noir
6. A book based on a real person – My Name is Victoria
7. Set in a country that fascinates you
8. Time of day in the title
9. About a villian/antihero – Phasma
10. About death/grief – One of us is lying
11. Female author using a male pseudonym
12. LGBTQ+ protagonist – Emerald to Emeralds, Dust to Dust
13. Book that is also a play/musical – George’s Marvellous Medicine
14. Author with a different ethnicity to you – Born a Crime
15. About feminism – Things a Bright Girl Can Do
16. About mental health – State of Grace
17. A book you borrowed/given as a gift – Etta, Otto, Russel and James
18. A book by two authors – Freshers
19. About or involving a sport – Wing Jones
20. Local author – The Ancient Track
21. Favourite colour in the title
22. Alliteration in the title – The Exact Opposite of Okay
23. About time travel – Found
24. Weather in the title
25. Set at sea
26. Animal in the title – Paper Butterflies
27. Set on a different planet – Loneliest Girl in the Universe
28. Song lyrics in the title – I was born for this.
29. Set on or about Halloween
30. Characters who are twins – Out of the Blue
31. Mentioned in another book
32. Celebrity book club – Turtles all the way down
33. Childhood Classic you’ve never read – Wrinkle in time
34. Published in 2018 – Goodbye Perfect
35. Goodreads choice awards winner
36. Set in the decade you were born – Attachments
37. Meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get round to – The Good People
38. Book with an ugly cover – Ready Player One
39. Book that involves a bookshop or a library – Skylarks
40. Favourite prompt from previous challenges – Dream of Lights
41. Bestseller from the year you finished high school
42. Cyberpunk
43. Book that was read by a stranger in a public place
44. Tied to your ancestry
45. Fruit or veg in the title
46. An allegory – Children of Blood and Bone
47. Author with the same first name or last name as you – 928 Miles from Home
48. Microhistory
49. Problem facing society today – Final 7
50. Recommended by someone else doing the challenge

 

READ HARDER

1. Published posthumously
2. True Crime
3. Classic Genre fiction – Princess Bride
4. Comic written and illustrated by the same person
5. Set in a BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, S.A) – The truth and lies of Ella Black
6. About nature – Skylarks
7. A western
8. Comic written or illustrated by a person of colour
9. Children’s classic pre 1980
10. Colonial or postcolonial literature
11. Romance by or about a person of colour
12. Celebrity memoir – Born a Crime
13. Oprah book club
14. Social Science
15. One-sitting: Goodbye, Perfect
16. First book in a YA series – Found
17. Sci-fi femal protagonist & female author – Loneliest Girl in the Universe
18. Comic that isn’t DC, Marvel or Image – Eternity 
19. Translated genre fiction
20. Cover you hate – Ready Player One
21. Mystery by a person of colour or a LGBTQ+ authour
22. Essay anthology
23. Female protagonist over 60 – Etta, Otto, Russel and James
24. Assigned book you hated

 

At point of writing I’ve got 15 challenges left to do and books planned for all of them. I’m hoping by the end of November and NaNoWrimo I’ll have reached the dizzying heights of only being 2-3 months behind.

Rea