T4MRC

The 4 Month Reading Challenge (T4MRC) ends the end of October. I have read 14 books since the first of July. I wonder how many points I really have.

I read 4 of the 5 choices in the 5 point category. Only one in the 10 point category. I read 3 of the 5 choices in the 15 and 20 point categories. See T4MRC-4 page for books read.

Choices not read
5 point category:

• Read a historical fiction book

10 point category:

• Read a book with a Civil War theme (any country)
• Read a Biblical fiction book
• Read a book about a king or queen
• Read a book set in France

15 point category:

• Read a biography or autobiography
• Read any book and then post a review

20 point category:

• Read a book that was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Read a book from The Modern Library Top 100

Another book to count

15 Point Challenges

• Read a book by an author you’ve never read before
• Read a biography or autobiography
• Read a book with a number in the title
• Read any book and then post a review
• Read any book but read it outside

I was reporting my points over on She Read A Book & realized I could count the Old Testament Student Manual - Genesis-2 Samuel as a book with a number in the title. It's a text book, but I studied read it AND it has a number in the title. Cool!

I didn't even count that over on Goodreads. I really ought to do that. Wonder if anyone else has.

Read a series of books

This would be a good challenge for 2011, Serial Reads

20 Point Challenge in The Four Month Reading Challenge (T4MRC).

• Read a book in a series AND the one after it
• Read a book that was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Read a book considered Christian fiction
• Read a book from The Modern Library Top 100
• Read a book by an author born in July, August, September or October

I read My Mom's A Mortician by Patricia Wiles & then the next book, Funeral Home Evenings. I am now working on Early Morning Cemetery.

These are wonderful books. I got the first 2 at the library on CD. We can't find these books in the library or to buy. Mother needs them on CD & LOVES them. She listened to Funeral Home Evening twice. The titles of the books are wonderful. Funeral Home Evenings instead of Family Home Evenings. They're both FHE, LOL And what teenager does not call early morning seminary, early morning cemetery?

Pulitzer Prize book

One of the 20 point challenges for T4MRC is "Read a book that was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction." I didn't think I had ever read a Pulitzer Prize book.

Mother got a book from Talking Books by A. B. Guthrie Jr., titled Arfive. In logging it into her Goodreads account, I found A.B. Guthrie Jr. had written The Way West, the Pulitzer prize winner for fiction in 1950. And I remembered reading it. So, I added it to my books on Goodreads. Not sure of the date read, but I do remember it was a quilting bee & it was before Grandma died.

The Way West
by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Rayni's review

Aug 22, 10

bookshelves: 1960s, award-winning, westerns

status: Read in July, 1962, read count: 1

I don't remember much about this book except I wasn't supposed to read it. I remember overhearing my teen-aged aunt (Maxine) telling my mother not to let me read it. It was "above my head." I, of course, immediately went to the attic of my grandparents home & found it. I sat in the attic & read all afternoon while my mother, grandmother & other female relatives were quilting in the living room. 

message 1: by Pat,

Aug 23, 2010 07:58pm

LOL----don't remember that much about it huh? Must not have been that good!

 message 2: by Wayne

Aug 28, 2010 10:28pm

Now you know how Adam and Eve felt!!!

Like mother like daughter, it seems!!

message 3: by Rayni - rated it 2 stars

Sep 04, 2010 01:12pm

Ya, Wayne, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Pat, the only thing I remember about it is I wasn't supposed to read it. I do remember I read fast, with a pounding heart, so afraid I'd be caught. 

message 4: by Wayne

Sep 13, 2010 11:01pm

More than just a "reading experience" this episode in the attic!!
It's also a young person's blow for independence from the Adult World and in another way an entry into it as an Equal...regardless of whether they knew of it or not, the step had been taken. You had arrived!!!
Via "The Way West"!!!
So much else going on, no wonder you don't remember the plot!!
God bless you, Rayni.
love from Wayne. 

Not sure what Wayne mean in his first comment. But I love the second comment.