Book Scavenger Hunt?

I'm going to do this list for 2015. I made a modified list for 2016 that fits me better. And only one category per book. For example, I will be using Margaret Atwoods Maddaddam trilogy for the trilogy. But it would also fit into "by a female author" and "set in the future" (I think).

Anyway, I was curious to see if I unintentionally read any in 2014:

1. Finished in one day: The Crow. Have been watching the movie since I was little. Amazing art.


2. Antonym in the title: N/A


3. Set somehere you've always wanted to visit: My books didn't travel very much. Also, I'm sort of a homebody. I guess London in Neverwhere. But one country that always makes me go "OMG WTF why are you so prettyful!?" is Iceland. So for 2015, I'll get a book set in Iceland.


4. Came out the year you were born: The Witching Hour.


5. Book with bad reviews: 50 Shades of Grey


6. Trilogy: Didn't get a whole one in, but finished His Dark Materials. Least sentimental/condescending childrens books ever. And so good.


7. Book from childhood: I assume this means re-read a book you read as a child, I re-read Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess before donating it.


8. Love Triangle: The Forest of Hands and Teeth


9. Set in the future: The Handmaids Tale


10. Set in highschool: Fly on the Wall


11. Colour in the title: Pink Smog


12. Made you cry: I don't know if any made me cry. Maybe Wintergirls.


13. Magic: The Night Circus


14. Graphic Novel: Fun Home


15. By An author you never read before: White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. A lot would have fit into this category, but I wanted to point this book out. So good.


16. Book you own but never read: I have a shit ton of books that fit here, but I'll single out the ones that have been with me for years. Like coffee table books, do people ever read them? Mine was Birthday Secrets, an astrology book.


17. Takes place in your hometown: none, the closest was Toronto-set Scott Pilgrims Precious Little Life. Toronto is 4 hours away I think. I looked up novels set in Windsor on the library website, found a few that might be interesting.


18. Written in a different language: The Little Prince (French).


19. Christmas: A Midwinter's Tail was set in early December and mentions Christmas. Snowed in seemed to be set during winter break, but it never mentions Christmas or New Years. Or when they go back to school.


20. Author with your initials: Nope. Jodi Picoult for 2015 it is.


21. A play: N/A


22. Banned book: 1984


23. Based on or inspired by a tv show: Buffy comic book


24. Started but never finished: The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963. We started reading it in school, but then they took it off the reading list. I don't think it was banned, I think it was paperwork or something. I dunno.


25. More than 500 pages: The Witching Hour. But I won't be using the same books for several categories in 2015.

Going to make this two posts.

Book Scavenger Hunt? Part 2

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1. Classic Romance: Northanger Abbey


2. Became a movie: Dracula


3. Published this year: The Impossible Knife of Memory


4. Number in the title: 50 Shades Darker


5. Written by someone under 30: All I Want to Be by Halley Reed


6. Non-Human characters: Raven Girl


7. Funny: Go The Fuck to Sleep (narrated by Samuel L Jackson)


8. Female Author: The Marriage Chest by Dorothy Eden. Read 42 books by women this year, but that was the first.


9. Mystery/Thriller: The Moth Diaries is kind of a mystery. I started reading Thai Horse, a thriller, but it was so ugh. Sexist/racist adventure thriller about a white dude, set in Asian country, written by a white dude. Donate it before finishing, and two others that were the same (but set in China and Japan rather than Thailand).


10. One word title: Starstruck


11. Short stories: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories.


12. Set in a different country: Like I said, my books didn't really travel out of Canada, the US or UK. I'll try to fix that in 2015. I guess the "best" for that category is Eat, Pray, Love. Ugh.


13. Non-fic: The Women Who Run With Wolves


14. Popular authors first book: I may have read something that counts, but I don't feel like looking it up. Ew, 50 shades of Grey would count.


15. Book from an author you love, but never read: Witch Baby, my library had every Dangerous Angel book, except this one, which is the second. My sister bought me the anthology last year. Missing Angel Juan is still my favourite.


16. Recommended by a friend: ha


17. Pulitzer prize winner: none this year


18. Based on a true story: I assume this means, something that happened and was fictionalized for a book. Rather than a non-fic. I'll go with The Fairy Ring.


19. Bottom of to-read list: since I try to read my books in the order that I buy them/they are given to me/they appear in my hands from a puff of smoke... I'll say the bottom of my to-read list is the newest one. That would be A Midwinters Tail, came in a box of books my sisters friend was donating.


20. Book your mom loves: she has a lot of books, but can't really read because it's hard on her eyes. I keep telling her about audiobooks and large print, but I dunno. For 2015, I'll make it, dun dun dun, The Secret. Ugh. Someone told her to read it and she went out and bough FOUR copies (one for her, one for each of her brats). She still hasn't read it. Mar read it and hated it. Other Sister read it and is a kiss-ass so she loves it. It's been collecting dust with my other unreads for years.


21. Book that scared you: Wintergirls and Lord of the Flies gave me some anxiety.


22. More than 100 years old: Carmilla


23. Nice Cover: Fly on the Wall, The Marriage Chest. I've gotten out of buying books just for the cover. The plot summary has to be interesting as well. FOTW seemed cute, it was. I misread the summary on TMC and it was disappointing.


24. Book you didn't read in school: 1984 and Lord of the Flies, I guess.


25. Memoir: Marbles

I'll post my modified list next year. But mainly I wanted to add POC writers, LGBTQ subjects, poetry, etc. I also changed things like "set in the future" is just "sci-fi". Magic is high or low fantasy. Classic romance is just romance. I dunno. We'll see how 2015 goes.