1AnnieMod
Anyone interested in a bit of a fun challenge?
Read books set in as many different states/provinces/territories/counties as you can.
Level 1: Read 6 books
Level 2: Read 12 books (1 per month for example)
Level 3: Read 24 books (because it is 2024)
Level 4: How many can you read in 2024?
You can mix and match in any way you want - you can just hit 6 US states or 6 English counties or pick one book per country (we do have 6 after all: The United Kingdom, Ireland, The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) or anything in between. Once you get to level 2, you still can do the same - except that you cannot use a book in a setting you already used. Oversea territories also count.
No need to decide what level you are targeting now - start with level 1, then if you want, continue adding books until you hit the next levels. :)
Anyone up?
If you want to start your own thread, you can do that. Or post here. :)
Happy 2024 and I wish you all a lot of great reading!
Read books set in as many different states/provinces/territories/counties as you can.
Level 1: Read 6 books
Level 2: Read 12 books (1 per month for example)
Level 3: Read 24 books (because it is 2024)
Level 4: How many can you read in 2024?
You can mix and match in any way you want - you can just hit 6 US states or 6 English counties or pick one book per country (we do have 6 after all: The United Kingdom, Ireland, The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) or anything in between. Once you get to level 2, you still can do the same - except that you cannot use a book in a setting you already used. Oversea territories also count.
No need to decide what level you are targeting now - start with level 1, then if you want, continue adding books until you hit the next levels. :)
Anyone up?
If you want to start your own thread, you can do that. Or post here. :)
Happy 2024 and I wish you all a lot of great reading!
2rocketjk
This looks like fun. I generally don't read for specific challenges, but I do enjoy keeping track of how my random reading selections meet different LT challenge threads. In 2023, I've read a total of 18 "non-state specific" books set in the U.S., and books set specifically in 8 different U.S states, for a total of 10 books, because I happened to read three books set in Mississippi. I didn't read to Canada, New Zealand or Australia, but there were four books set in England, one in Ireland and one in Wales.
So all told that's 28 books from the U.S. 4 from England and one each from Ireland and Wales: 36 books! I guess I'm a premature Level 4! I will keep an enthusiastic eye on this as I move through 2024. Thanks for starting this.
So all told that's 28 books from the U.S. 4 from England and one each from Ireland and Wales: 36 books! I guess I'm a premature Level 4! I will keep an enthusiastic eye on this as I move through 2024. Thanks for starting this.
3AnnieMod
>2 rocketjk: Yey, I have company :)
Depends on how you want to count - I'd count these as 8 (the 8 states) +1(Ireland) +1(Wales) +(between 1 and 4 for the England ones depending on if they are in different counties). So either really close to getting to level 2 or starting on level 3 :) But if you want to count all books set in our countries, up to you :)
Depends on how you want to count - I'd count these as 8 (the 8 states) +1(Ireland) +1(Wales) +(between 1 and 4 for the England ones depending on if they are in different counties). So either really close to getting to level 2 or starting on level 3 :) But if you want to count all books set in our countries, up to you :)
4rocketjk
>3 AnnieMod: Well, the four England books were:
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (mostly London, I think, as well as Virginia for a bit)
Call for the Dead by John le Carre (mostly London)
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson (Gloucestershire)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (memoir: London and Westmoreland)
Oh, but also, did you have in mind to count fiction only? Or can memoirs, biographies and histories get in on the fun?
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (mostly London, I think, as well as Virginia for a bit)
Call for the Dead by John le Carre (mostly London)
Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson (Gloucestershire)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey (memoir: London and Westmoreland)
Oh, but also, did you have in mind to count fiction only? Or can memoirs, biographies and histories get in on the fun?
5AnnieMod
>4 rocketjk: Everything counts if you want it to count :) I plan to count non-fiction in my counts when it fits :)
7rocketjk
rocketjk's RGII 2024 Challenge Post
Thought I'd just post my ongoing challenge progress here. Below I include the books that are appropriate to this endeavor:
American states:
California: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts
Massachusetts: This is Murder, Mr. Jones by Timothy Fuller
Minnesota: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Mississippi: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Montana: The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan
New York: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
North Carolina: Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Washington, DC: Erasure by Percival Everett
Wyoming: American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee.
England:
Hertfordshire: Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce- (2)
Ireland:
County Kildare: The Curragh Incident by Sir James Fergusson
Scotland:
Lanarkshire: Robert Owen by Joseph McCabe - (1)
Current status:
Level 1
1 - The Sentence
2 - The Island at the Center of the World
3 - The Ploughmen
4 - The Prophets
5 - Robert Owen
6 - This is Murder, Mr. Jones
Level 2
7 - The Curragh Incident
8 - Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
9 - Erasure
10 - American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
11 - Dear Mrs. Bird
12 - Look Homeward, Angel
Notes:
(1) - Although the subject of this biography, Robert Owen, was Welsh, the locale of his most famous project, the progressive, pro-worker industrial center called New Lanark was in Lanarkshire, Scotland, so that's where I'm listing this short work.
(2) - I've listed Dear Mrs. Bird, which takes place in London, as Hertfordshire due to the following passage from the Wikipedia post on that city: "Since the 19th century, the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority." If there is a more appropriate designation for a London-located book, please let me know.
Well, I was the only one who followed through on this challenge, but it was kind of fun nevertheless. With my late-December addition of North Carolina via Look Homeward, Angel, I filled out Level 2. Whoo hoo!
Thought I'd just post my ongoing challenge progress here. Below I include the books that are appropriate to this endeavor:
American states:
California: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts
Massachusetts: This is Murder, Mr. Jones by Timothy Fuller
Minnesota: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Mississippi: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Montana: The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan
New York: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
North Carolina: Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Washington, DC: Erasure by Percival Everett
Wyoming: American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee.
England:
Hertfordshire: Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce- (2)
Ireland:
County Kildare: The Curragh Incident by Sir James Fergusson
Scotland:
Lanarkshire: Robert Owen by Joseph McCabe - (1)
Current status:
Level 1
1 - The Sentence
2 - The Island at the Center of the World
3 - The Ploughmen
4 - The Prophets
5 - Robert Owen
6 - This is Murder, Mr. Jones
Level 2
7 - The Curragh Incident
8 - Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
9 - Erasure
10 - American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
11 - Dear Mrs. Bird
12 - Look Homeward, Angel
Notes:
(1) - Although the subject of this biography, Robert Owen, was Welsh, the locale of his most famous project, the progressive, pro-worker industrial center called New Lanark was in Lanarkshire, Scotland, so that's where I'm listing this short work.
(2) - I've listed Dear Mrs. Bird, which takes place in London, as Hertfordshire due to the following passage from the Wikipedia post on that city: "Since the 19th century, the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority." If there is a more appropriate designation for a London-located book, please let me know.
Well, I was the only one who followed through on this challenge, but it was kind of fun nevertheless. With my late-December addition of North Carolina via Look Homeward, Angel, I filled out Level 2. Whoo hoo!
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