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Finished SBC! (a little late)
My goal for the year was to actually finish SBC, and I made it in the nick of time! And since this is the first time I've ever finished a challenge, I'm going to post my results. Even if I'm 6 months late!
Next book you see a stranger reading - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Funny title or cover - Prescription for Disaster by Candace Lafleur
Southern fiction - A Shot of Sultry by Macy Becket
Short stories - The Best American Short Stories 2011
Water word in title - The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Audie Award finalist - Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Book of a movie you've already seen - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Memoir written by a man - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Written in the 70s - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Featuring an eccentric mom - Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Medical theme - The Etiquette of Illness by Susan P. Halpern
Set 100 years in the past or future - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holberg
About religion - The God Patent by Random Stephens
Book it seems like everyone else has read - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
From the Buzzfeed list to read before they hit theaters - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Takes place in a country you'd like to visit - First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
New York Times notable book of 2012 or 2013 - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Title with at least 6 words - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Reread a book you haven't read in years - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
From a previously unfinished challenge category - Read a Giller Prize nominee - Larry's Party by Carol Shields
2014 success! Finished the last one on a bus yesterday afternoon!
Next book you see a stranger reading - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Funny title or cover - Prescription for Disaster by Candace Lafleur
Southern fiction - A Shot of Sultry by Macy Becket
Short stories - The Best American Short Stories 2011
Water word in title - The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Audie Award finalist - Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
Book of a movie you've already seen - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Memoir written by a man - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Written in the 70s - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Featuring an eccentric mom - Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Medical theme - The Etiquette of Illness by Susan P. Halpern
Set 100 years in the past or future - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holberg
About religion - The God Patent by Random Stephens
Book it seems like everyone else has read - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
From the Buzzfeed list to read before they hit theaters - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Takes place in a country you'd like to visit - First they Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
New York Times notable book of 2012 or 2013 - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Title with at least 6 words - The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Reread a book you haven't read in years - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
From a previously unfinished challenge category - Read a Giller Prize nominee - Larry's Party by Carol Shields
2014 success! Finished the last one on a bus yesterday afternoon!
Re: Finished SBC! (a little late)