Facebook 30 Day Book Challenge

 

This Facebook Challenge asks you to select a book for each category and add a picture. Obviously the idea is to put it on your Facebook Profile, but even if you aren’t on FB this is a fun challenge.

If you decide to give it a try, please let me know and send me a link, so I can follow your choices.

Day 1: Favorite book: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Day 2: Least favorite book: I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Day 3: Book that makes you laugh out loud: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Day 4: Book that makes you cry: The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow
Day 5: Book you wish you could live in: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Day 6: Favorite young adult book: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Day 7: Book that you can quote/recite: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Day 8: Book that scares you: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Day 9: Book that makes you sick: Blindness by Jose Saramajo
Day 10: Book that changed your life: The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Day 11: Book from your favorite author: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Day 12: Book that is most like your life: Ordinary Love by Jane Smiley
Day 13: Book whose main character is most like you:  Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Day 14: Book whose main character you want to marry: City of Thieves by David Benioff
Day 15: First “chapter book” you can remember reading as a child: The Ghost of Blackwood Hall by Carolyn Keene
Day 16: Longest book you’ve read: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Day 17: Shortest book you’ve read: The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Day 18: Book you’re most embarrassed to say you like Carrie by Stephen King
Day 19: Book that turned you on: Lady Chatterley’s Lover by  D.H. Lawrence
Day 20: Book you’ve read the most number of times: The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Day 21: Favorite picture book from childhood: The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright
Day 22: Book you plan to read next: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Day 23: Book you tell people you’ve read, but haven’t (or haven’t actually finished): Don’t actually think I have one – I never lie about reading!
Day 24: Book that contains your favorite scene: City of Thieves by David Benioff
Day 25: Favorite book you read in school: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Day 26: Favorite nonfiction book: Among Friends by M.F.K Fisher
Day 27: Favorite fiction book: Still A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (see Day 1)
Day 28: Last book you read: Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
Day 29: Book you’re currently reading: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Day 30: Favorite coffee table book: The Art of Maurice Sendak (Vol 1) by Selma Lane