Jaelquinn's 14 categories for the 2014 Category challenge
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1jaelquinn
I will be happy if I manage to read more than one book in each category.
1. 14 is the atomic number of Silicon - silicon is the main ingredient in computer chips. This will be books about information technology, computers or the Internet
1. Jpod by Douglas Coupland (want to read)
2. 14 is the approximate atomic weight of nitrogen - books that include the environment, ecology or global warming
1. Want Not by Jonathan Miles (want to read)
3. Messier object 14 ( a celestial object) - things that are not what they seem in some way
1. And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer (started June 30, 2014)
2. Impossible Things by Connie Willis (started May 15, 2014)
3. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (started June 12, 2014)
4. NGC object 14 ( another celestial object) located in Pegasus - a book that includes flying or horses or other flying animals
1. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (in progress as of May 4)
5. 14 stations of the Cross - books about oppression and overcoming obstacles (social conflict?)
1. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (in progress as of Apr 29)
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (want to read)
3. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (May 26)(completed)
4. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (started May 19)
6. 14 muqattat in the Qu'ran - divine secrets - things that don't fit anywhere else or are very special
1. Invisible Girl by Cherise Craney (started May 24)
2. Mixing Minds by Pilar Jennings (want to read)
7. 14 days in a fortnight, 14 pounds in a stone - novels with fortnight, pound or stone in the title or the author's name, could be a short story collection or a poetry book as well
1. V. by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Truth Stone by C. L. Sumruld
8. 14 encoded in Bach's music - books about Bach or music or encoding of any sort
1. The Obelisk Trap by Margaret Pearce(completed July 3)
2. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
9. 14 points outlined by Woodrow Wilson for constructing a new Europe following WWI - books about world politics after 1918
1.Gladdy's Wake by B.K. Anderson
2. Aegypt by John Crowley
3. Love and Sleep by John Crowley
10. 14 - the section that you go to when you die on Grailquest - books about the afterlife
1. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
11. 14 legs on a wood louse as well as on Hallucigenia- any book that includes insects or bugs of any kind - invertebrates
1. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
12. 14 - the name for the 13th floor - superstitious reasons - books that include the occult, superstitions and/or some kind of magic.
1. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (started May 8)
2. The Right Bitch Trio by Doranna Durgin (read July 3, 2014)
13. 14 - the number of lines in a sonnet - poetry books including sonnets or not
1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
2. The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings
3. Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
14. 14 - a symbol of infinity in the House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges -stories or novels about identity, myth and perception, or even the Minotaur in Crete, or a book that has the word infinity in the title
1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
3. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
4. Once on a time by A. A. Milne
1. 14 is the atomic number of Silicon - silicon is the main ingredient in computer chips. This will be books about information technology, computers or the Internet
1. Jpod by Douglas Coupland (want to read)
2. 14 is the approximate atomic weight of nitrogen - books that include the environment, ecology or global warming
1. Want Not by Jonathan Miles (want to read)
3. Messier object 14 ( a celestial object) - things that are not what they seem in some way
1. And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer (started June 30, 2014)
2. Impossible Things by Connie Willis (started May 15, 2014)
3. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (started June 12, 2014)
4. NGC object 14 ( another celestial object) located in Pegasus - a book that includes flying or horses or other flying animals
1. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (in progress as of May 4)
5. 14 stations of the Cross - books about oppression and overcoming obstacles (social conflict?)
1. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (in progress as of Apr 29)
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (want to read)
3. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (May 26)(completed)
4. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (started May 19)
6. 14 muqattat in the Qu'ran - divine secrets - things that don't fit anywhere else or are very special
1. Invisible Girl by Cherise Craney (started May 24)
2. Mixing Minds by Pilar Jennings (want to read)
7. 14 days in a fortnight, 14 pounds in a stone - novels with fortnight, pound or stone in the title or the author's name, could be a short story collection or a poetry book as well
1. V. by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Truth Stone by C. L. Sumruld
8. 14 encoded in Bach's music - books about Bach or music or encoding of any sort
1. The Obelisk Trap by Margaret Pearce(completed July 3)
2. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
9. 14 points outlined by Woodrow Wilson for constructing a new Europe following WWI - books about world politics after 1918
1.Gladdy's Wake by B.K. Anderson
2. Aegypt by John Crowley
3. Love and Sleep by John Crowley
10. 14 - the section that you go to when you die on Grailquest - books about the afterlife
1. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
11. 14 legs on a wood louse as well as on Hallucigenia- any book that includes insects or bugs of any kind - invertebrates
1. The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
12. 14 - the name for the 13th floor - superstitious reasons - books that include the occult, superstitions and/or some kind of magic.
1. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (started May 8)
2. The Right Bitch Trio by Doranna Durgin (read July 3, 2014)
13. 14 - the number of lines in a sonnet - poetry books including sonnets or not
1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
2. The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings
3. Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
14. 14 - a symbol of infinity in the House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges -stories or novels about identity, myth and perception, or even the Minotaur in Crete, or a book that has the word infinity in the title
1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
3. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
4. Once on a time by A. A. Milne
2MissWatson
Welcome to the challenge! Those are very intriguing categories, I'll be looking forward to see what you fill them with. Happy reading!
4christina_reads
Sounds like you will have some very interesting reading!
6rabbitprincess
Hello and welcome! Will be interested to see what you read, especially in your 14 Points category. Enjoy the challenge :)
7DeltaQueen50
Welcome to the challenge, we have both used many of the same facts about the number 14, but in a slightly different way. I will enjoy seeing what books you choose to read.
9jaelquinn
Thank you for your comments and encouragement Eva, DeltaQueen50, rabbitprincess, mamzel, christina_reads, lkernagh, MissWatson !
I haven't been paying attention to posts on the various topics for this group, maybe I will do a bit of that now.
It's been interesting thinking about reading in terms of these categories.
I haven't been paying attention to posts on the various topics for this group, maybe I will do a bit of that now.
It's been interesting thinking about reading in terms of these categories.
