2019 Reading Challenge List

#1 A book becoming a movie in 2019 : Pet Semetary
#2 A book that makes you nostalgic : David Bowie
#3 A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) : Burning Up
#4 A book you think should be turned into a movie : Vintage Murder (5-9-20)
#5 A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads : Fellowship of the Ring
#6 A book with a plant in the title or on the cover : Tales of Accidental Genius
#7 A reread of a favorite book : Lost Souls
#8 A book about a hobby : Fangirl
#9 A book you meant to read in 2018 : Blood Communion
#10 A book with "pop," "sugar," or "challenge" in the title : Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
#11 A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover : Tweaked
#12 A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore : Fairy Tales
#13 A book published posthumously : The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
#14 A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie : Waiting for Godot
#15 A retelling of a classic : Sense & Sensibility (graphic novel)
#16 A book with a question in the title : Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
#17 A book set on a college or university campus : The Rules of Attraction
#18 A book about someone with a superpower : Library of Souls (10-20-20)
#19 A book told from multiple character POVs : The Informers
#20 A book set in space : Feed
#21 A book by two female authors : Marked
#22 A book with a title that contains "salty," "sweet," "bitter," or "spicy" : Sweetbitter
#23 A book set in Scandinavia : The Girl in the Spider's Web
#24 A book that takes place in a single day : The Dinner
#25 A debut novel : Wuthering Heights
#26 A book that's published in 2019 : Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
#27 A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature : Dead Boy
#28 A book recommended by a celebrity you admire : Faust
#29 A book with "love" in the title : Obsessive Love
#30 A book featuring an amateur detective : I Hunt Killers
#31 A book about a family : King Lear
#32 A book written by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America : The Joy Luck Club
#33 A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title : Escape from the Island of Aquarius
#34 A book that includes a wedding : A Storm of Swords
#35 A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter : The History of Punishment
#36 A ghost story : Thirteen Chairs
#37 A book with a two-word title : Beautiful Boy
#38 A novel based on a true story : The Shining
#39 A book revolving around a puzzle or game : Jumanji (5-15-20)
#40 Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge : Bloodlust
#41 A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book : New York 2140
#42 A "choose-your-own-adventure" book : Romeo and/or Juliet
#43 An "own voices" book : To All the Boys I've Loved Before
#44 Read a book during the season it is set in :
#45 A LitRPG book : The Eye of Minds
#46 A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters : We Need to Talk About Kevin
#47 Two books that share the same title (1) : The Lost World
#48 Two books that share the same title (2) : The Lost World
#49 A book that has inspired a common phrase of idiom : Othello
#50 A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent : The Murder at the Vicarage

Date Started: January 1, 2019
Date completed: December 31, 2019
Books finished in challenge:  8 of 50
Books finished in total for year: 51

2019 Reading: The Shining

#38 A novel based on a true story

I finally finished it! I think I really want to read more Stephen King this coming year. There is just something I like about it. His stuff is coming back into popularity with a vengeance lately and I recently realized that I have not read as much of his stuff as I would have liked and I would like to change that.

I enjoyed the book version of this (because of COURSE I've seen the Stanley Kubrick movie version) and now that I know how this one ends, I am very anxious to read Doctor Sleep to see how the story continues with Danny as a grown up.

I also like to discuss this story with my friend Tara sometimes (well, the movie, anyway). We talk about all the theories that fly around, especially from the Room 237 documentary and all of the different ideas that people have about the hotel and the reasons why Jack went insane and what or how the "shining" effects Danny and his parents and it was good to get to the source material so that I could have the original perspective to then about for the future.

This is the last book for the year, I didn't do too well for the PopSugar Reading Challenge, but I hop that I'll be able to catch up and do better next year.

2019 Reading: Fellowship of the Ring

#5 A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads

Despite my better judgement, I decided to give this one a try. I really don't enjoy his writing style and am not the biggest fan of fantasy to begin with, but I stuck with it. IT TOOK ME FOREVER BECAUSE I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF IT!

Dear God, just shut up!!!! You throw out all of these names of people and places that have no context and instead of creating an epic fantasy world that I want to live in, you just confuse me more and make me want to shoot everyone with one of Legolas's arrows and then throw myself into Mount Doom because this is boring as SHIT!!!

Why am I still reading this, you may ask? Because I hate myself. And I am a completion-ist. I started it. Must finish. But I really don't want to read the other ones and I don't think I will. It's just too much. There are a million other things I would rather read and I just don't have the patience to sit through two more of these abominations of "classic literature."

I started it in May...

It is now December...