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Book Challenge 2019: You Can Do!
« on: December 31, 2018, 07:15:51 AM »
Book Challenge 2019: You Can Do!

Don’t be intimidated! Even if you read only one book, but that’s more than
last year, it means new memories and satisfaction!





Steve McQueen, Riho Yoshioka
Nanami Hashimoto, Yuko Oshima, Jurina Matsui,
Natsumi Abe

1. Make a post, preferably stating a goal of how many books you want to read this year.
2. Edit that post as you read throughout the year, slowly adding to the list of books you've read. Sorting the list by month is recommended.
3. Don't create additional posts, just keep editing your original post. Graphic novels count as .25 (in other words, 4 graphic novels = one book)

Link to 2018 thread:
http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=42423.0
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Re: Book Challenge 2019: You Can Do!
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2018, 07:21:44 AM »
My Goal for 2019: 15 books

Past Performance:
2011: 26 books read - goal 50 books
2012: 24 books read- goal 50 books
2013: 26 books read - goal 35 books
2014: 14 books read - goal 30 books
2015: 30 books read - goal 28 books
2016: 21 books read- goal 32 books
2017: 17 books read- goal 30 books
2018: 13 books read - goal 20 books

January 2019 (2)
Five Women Who Loved Love (Ihara Saikaku)
[Translated by Wm. Theodore de Bary]
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)


February 2019 (1)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)


March 2019


April 2019 (2)
Flights (Olga Tokarczuk)
[Translated by Jennifer Croft]
China Dream (Ma Jian)
[Translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew]

May 2019

June 2019 (2)
The Night Tiger (Yangsze Choo)
Warlight (Michael Ondaatje)

July 2019 (1)
Prefecture D (Hideo Yokoyama)
[Translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies]


August 2019 (1)
The Gangs of New York (Herbert Asbury)

September 2019 (1)
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
[Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori]

October 2019 (2)
In a House of Lies (Ian Rankin)
Chinese Spring (Christopher New)

November 2019(1)

The Wall (John Lanchester)


December December 2019 (3)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)
[Translated by Ina Rilke]

Nothing Ventured (Jeffrey Archer)

River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze (Peter Hessler)


16 / 15
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Re: Book Challenge 2019: You Can Do!
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2019, 09:44:31 PM »
Last year I set a goal of one book - which is more than I read in years, and I achieved it and really enjoyed it, so hopefully will read more...

So this year... I'll set a goal of 3 books!



[January update] Following on from the videogame theme of the book I read last year, I read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I really enjoyed ig and it was interesting to see just how different it was from the film.



I forgot my [February update], which was that i read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury... a piece of classic science fiction, that, strangely for someone who rarely reads books, is all about the importance of books... anyhow, I'm not sure I like his rambling stream of consciousness style. It was interesting to see what bits of future foretelling he wrote about have come to pass...



After many months of not reading, I started a book whilst I was on holiday and finished it the othet day, wither in [November/December]. So that made my 3 I aimed for! The book was How To Stop Time, by Matt Haig. Which was enjoyable, I would have preferred that it didn't have mentions of Facebook/twitter in it. It was about a guy who ages very slowly and iis several hundred years old and flicks through different time eras so was quite nice. I want to read more novels now and just bought a couple more today!
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