My Reading Challenge... Take 2

If you've read my sister's post, you know that we are restarting our reading challenge. I'll leave the drawn out explanation to her and merely use this time to show you all where I left off. It was wild to read this self-description so many years later and compare my 2015 dreams to my 2017 reality. I guess we'll have to see where life takes us during the next year or so.

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About Me: 

I am a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill. I'm majoring in Mathematical Decision Sciences (basically statistics) and minoring in math. My goal is to be an actuary and possibly after that a lawyer, but we'll see. 

As you can probably tell, I also love reading and while I'm a bit of a geek I love more than just numbers.

Reading has always been a passion of mine and I love trying out new books, genres, and authors. I have the perfect part-time job working at Barnes and Noble. This isn't a recent thing either, I've read my entire life and actually one the award for most books checked out (and read) from the library at the end of seventh grade. While I don't have quite that much free time while balancing work and school, reading is still one of my favorite ways to pass the time. It doesn't matter if it's YA novels, nonfiction of most varieties or a nice mystery I'm hooked. This reading challenge gives me a great opportunity to try different books and to further expand my horizons. Plus, competing against my twin sister is always a blast!

Categories Completed: 13 of 50

My 2015 Challenge:

A book with more than 500 pages
A classic romance
A book that became a movie Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A book published this year
A book with a number in the title Zone One by Colson Whitehead (4.20.15)
A book written by someone under 30
A book with nonhuman characters
A funny book
A book by a female author The Keep by Jennifer Egan (2.2.15)
A mystery or thriller
A book with a one-word title
A book of short stories
A book set in a different country
A nonfiction book
A popular author's first book
A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet
A book a friend recommended
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book Beloved by Toni Morrison (2.23.15)
A book based on a true story
A book at the bottom of your to-read list
A book your mom loves
A book that scares you Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (3.23.15)
A book more than 100 years old Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1.22.15)
A book based entirely on its cover
A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
A memoir
A book you can finish in a day Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (1.14.15)
A book with antonyms in the title
A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit
A book that came out the year you were born
A book with bad reviews
A trilogy
A book from your childhood
A book with a love triangle
A book set in the future
A book set in high school Prep School Confidential by Kara Taylor (1.9.15)
A book with a color in the title
A book that made you cry
A book with magic
A graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (1.8.15)
A book  by an author you've never read before Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1.27.15)
A book you own but have never read
A book that takes place in your hometown
A book that was originally written in a different language Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (2.24.15)
A book set during Christmas
A book written by an author with your same initials
A play
A banned book
A book based on or turned into a tv show Doctor Who: The Angels Kiss by BBC (1.9.15)
A book you started but never finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (5.9.15)