Here's my preliminary list for the #SCWBC15, which runs from November 1, 2015 to January 31, 2015:
5 points: Read a book that has between 100 and 200 pages. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck, 107 pages
10 points: Read a debut book by any author. (The book does not have to be a 2015 debut.) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson, 465 pages
10 points: Read a book that does not take place in your current country of residence. The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman, 592 pages (Israel)
10 points: Read a book that someone else has already used for the challenge. Have to wait for the check-ins before I can pick this one!
15 points: Read a book published under a pseudonym (e.g. Robert Galbraith, Sara Poole, J.D. Robb, Franklin W. Dixon, Mark Twain, etc.). Out of Africa - Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen), 399 pages
15 points: Read a book with “boy,” “girl,” “man” or “woman” in the title (or the plural of these words). The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson, 503 pages
15 points: Read a book with a one-word title (e.g. Attachments, Americanah, Uglies, Wild, etc.). Cinder - Marissa Meyer, 387 pages
20 points: Read a book with a person's first and last name in the title (e.g. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle). The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer - Michelle Hodkin, 452 pages
20 points: Read a food-themed book. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, 290 pages
20 points: Read a book with a verb in the title. (For any grammar nerds out there, I mean “verb” in the most general sense, so gerunds count. For non-grammar-inclined people, just use any book that appears to have a verb in the title!) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson, 563 pages
30 points: Read two books with the same title (by different authors). The Piano Teacher - Janice Y.K. Lee, 368 pages & The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek, 288 pages
30 points: Read a nonfiction book and a fiction book about the same subject (e.g. a biography and historical fiction novel about the same person; two books about a specific war or event; a nonfiction book about autism and a novel with a character who has autism, etc. The possibilities are endless!). The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory, 518 pages (Fiction) & The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir, 656 pages (Nonfiction)
I believe that I must be crazy... All but three of my books for this challenge are OVER 300 pages! And if my calculations are correct (if I read these books here, and not including the one I have yet to pick), I'll have read 5,588+ pages by January 31, 2016! I think I have lost my mind! But I am extremely excited! A lot of these have been on my TBR list for a long time, and I get to check a couple off the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge too!
Also, I'm not sure if I picked a good book for the food-themed book category, but I guess we'll see. I have another one in mind if I need to change it.
Wanna join in? Click the button below to find out the challenge rules! Happy reading!
