SqueakyChu's BookCrossing Category Challenge for 2016

My goal will be 12 books for 2016 because I think I'll do better with a BookCrossing category challenge than I did in 2015 with an ABC (already been crossed) challenge.

I register all of my books on BookCrossing so I literally have hundreds of books to choose from for this challenge!

I'm looking forward to seeing what categories will be presented.

Good luck on your challenges, everyone!

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I'm posting the categories here for quick reference. I will add my BC journal to each entry when I finish each challenge.

January - A book that has been on your TBR more than 2 years
1. COMPLETED: BC journal entry for Kokoro (2006)
2. COMPLETED: BC journal entry for The Bird Artist (2004)

February - A book by one of your favourite authors
3. COMPLETED: BC journal entry for The Sound of the Mountain (Yasunari Kawabata)
4. COMPLETED: - BC journal entry for Mon "The Gate" (Natsume Soseki)

March - A book with an interesting journal entry
(none)

April - A book from a genre you don't normally read
(none)
COMMENTS: The genre I picked was manga. The books I chose to read in this genre were either my son's books or library books. None were BC-registered. :(

May - A book with multiple journalers
5. COMPLETED: BC journal entry for Thanksgiving

June - A nonfiction book
(none)

July - A book that has a long BC wishlist
6. COMPLETED: The Picture of Dorian Gray was wishlisted 49 times.

August - A book by a new-to-you author
7. COMPLETED: The Joyful Bear: A Furry Philosophy for Overcoming Adversity and Finding Happiness -by Margaret Meps Schulte and Frank Lloyd Bear

September - A book with a very appealing cover
8. COMPLETED: Rapunzel: Strawberry Shortcake by Megan E. Bryant

October - A book that's considered a classic

November - A book that has been on a different continent

December - A book from your favourite genre

And to you! I will try to get to setting up my 2016 threads today.

Ideas for January - A book that has been on your TBR more than 2 years:

1. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman - I started reading this book now (12/18/15). It depends on when I finish it whether or not I can count it toward this challenge. I've had this book since 2007. Yikes! That's nine years!
2. Love in the asylum by Lisa Carey - I acquired this book in 2011 (five years ago) so it would also fit this challenge. I'll keep it on hand.

Good luck! I'm sure it'll feel great to finish a book that's been on the TBR for 9 years.

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is turning out to be such a good book. If I finish it before the end of 2015, I'll see if I can pick another relatively old one.

More ideas for January - A book that has been on your TBR more than 2 years:

3. An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore - (since 2011)
4. The Plague - Albert Camus - (since 2008)
5. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki - (since 2006)

Forget the ideas I had in msg #3. I finished the first book in 2015 and decided not to read the second book. :O

I started reading books #3,4,5, by the way. The question is if I will finish them!

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I did it! I read Kokoro. Look for the link to my BC journal entry in msg #1.

Congratulations! It must feel good taking a book from 2006 off the TBR pile.

It does, but now I'm working on one from 2005!

More ideas for January - A book that has been on your TBR more than 2 years:

6. What Remains - Carole Radziwill

Yikes! I just found a book I've had since 2004! I started reading it tonight. It's...

7. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman.

>11 SqueakyChu: I read that a few years ago when I was trying to read a book from every province and territory. I thought it was a rather odd little book.

>12 gypsysmom: I'm a little less than halfway through The Bird Artist. It is kind of odd, but I'm enjoying the story and the way it's told. I've never read any book before by Howard Norman, but I see that this book was a National Book Award finalist. It was published in 1994, and I've had it on my bookshelf since 2004. It's about time I read it! :)

That reminds me of a challenge that I was also in a few years back here on LibraryThing. Needless to say, many of the challenges I started back then got left by the wayside.

Haha! Here it is! :D

>13 SqueakyChu: Nice to see that you're getting those really old books off your shelf!

Hmmm ... I've been neglecting my own thread in that challenge.

>14 mathgirl40: Nice to see that you're getting those really old books off your shelf!

I'm really pushing myself to do this because the new, shiny books always seem much more tempting.

I'm finished for January and ready to move on to February's challenge. I was able to complete two books. See message#1 for the BC journal entries.

Ideas for February:
1. Mon "The Gate" by Natsume Soseki
2. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata - I started reading this book today. I can use it for either January's challenge (since I've had it since 2006) or for February's challenge. Let's see when I finish it! :)

>17 SqueakyChu: Glad to see you planning for next month's challenge already. I'll start the next thread.

I'm already well into The Sound of the Mountain so I don't yet know to which challenge I'll apply it. :)

I finished The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata. See message #1 for the BC link. Seriously, so many contemporary Japanese authors find favor with me, I find it hard to choose just one.

It appears that I have/had two copies of this book. The copy I just finished I got in 2010, not in 2006. Now where did I put the other copy?!

I finished Mon "The Gate" and liked it very much, but it's only the kind of novel I would recommend to others who enjoy reading contemporary Japanese novels. It's very slow and deep into a quiet husband-wife relationship throughout the entire narrative.

I was unhappy to find out that this is a trilogy of which I started with Book 3. I'm not sure how easy it will be for me to find the first two books of this trilogy. Oh, well. The search is half the fun. :)

>21 SqueakyChu: I'll keep The Gate in mind. My knowledge of contemporary Japanese novelists is still fairly limited but I have enjoyed all the books I've read so far. One I particularly liked is Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura. I've also read a couple of Japanese mysteries that I really enjoyed and would like to find more of those.

>22 mathgirl40: Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura is a haunting book. I loved reading that book! It was creepy...but what a good story!

Be sure to share those books of contemporary Japanese fiction with me that you read. I'm always looking for new ones to try.

For April, I'm exploring manga, a genre that I never read. I think I've only read one book of manga in my life before, but, Wow! It is so much fun. I decided to do this when my older son made his second trip to Japan this year. He's a gamer, and fan of anime, manga, and music based on anime and gaming. I decided to explore manga and have been delighted to find out that the books are not just comics of high school romances, but have lots of other quite interesting subjects. It was in a similar way that I came to appreciate (non-manga) graphic novels a few years ago.

Thanks for the list at the top. Somehow I missed this "category" stuff completely. Already have some non-fictions pulled for June, so as long as stay on track that should work.

and addending that. Apparently I saw and responded to the category thingie in December and then promptly forgot all about it! Added a tickler to my "master" monthly tracker spreadsheet...hopefully that will help.

Glad it will help you. Some of the categories are tough for me, but others are fine.