The Challenge Factory discussion

For this monthly challenge, roll two dice. Using the number you got, find books on your TBR list. You will use this number for the whole month. You decide how many books you want to reduce from your TBR pile using the number you rolled.

For numbers 10, 11, and 12, you can use either number or both.
For 10, you can use '1' or '0' or 10.
For 11, you can use '1' or 11.
For 12, you can use '1' or '2' or 12.


Example: you rolled a 7. You can read #7 on your TBR list
the books can be published in a year ending in 7
the books can be published in July (the 7th month)
the books can be the 7th in a series
the books can have a 7 in the page number
the books can be on the 7th page of your TBR list
It's up to you how the number connects with books from your TBR list.

If you are participating in the Scale Your TBR Mountain Challenge, feel free to use this challenge to fulfill your commitment there.

Happy reading and let's reduce our TBR lists!

I rolled 4 + 6 = 10

I'm going to try to focus on 10 (therefore 0).

Completed: 11

Published in 2010
Open Season by C. J. Box. 11/18/19

10th in a series
King's Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb

10 in the title
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin. 11/24/19

10 letters in the title
Redemption by David Baldacci. 11/10/19

100th page of my TBR list
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. 11/10/19

Published in October (10th month)
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War by Thomas Allen. 11/17/19. Published October 10th, 2006.

Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley. 5 stars. 11/22/19. Published October 2002.

A Woman's War by. S. Block. October 2018. 11/27/19

Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver. October 2011. 4 stars. 11/25/19

Published on the 10th of a month
Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner. Published January 10, 2017. 11/16/19

10th book on my TBR list
William's Doll by Charlotte Zolotow. 11/16/19

Pages a multiple of ten
160 pages. Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin. 4.5 stars. 11/28/19.

November Read and Reduce
Rolled 6 + 6 = 12 or 2

302 pp & set during December & 22 letters in title: Not a Creature Was Purring by Krista Davis 11/07/19
Two word title: Black Ship by Carola Dunn 11/11/19
TBR #4026 & 20 letters in title: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 11/17/19
Two word title: Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn 11/23/19
Twelfth in the title & two word title & TBR #1231: Twelfth Night by Deanna Raybourn 11/30/19

Read and Reduce - November, 2019

Rolled 5 + 6 = 11

the books can be published in a year ending in 1
the books can be published in January or November
the books can be the 1st or 11th in a series
the books can have a 1 in the page number

1. Wanted Kaylea Cross - 11/2 - 214 pgs
2. Spin C.D. Reiss - 11/4 - #1 in series
3. Hot as Sin Bella Andre - 11/9 - Pub Jan, 2019
4. Wait: The Brazen Bulls Beginning Susan Fanetti - 11/10 - Pub Nov, 2019
5. Texas Blue Jodi Thomas - 11/13 - Pub 2011
6. Either Side of Midnight Tori de Clare - 11/18 - Pub Jan, 2013
7. Christmas Lights Liberty Blake - 11/23 - Pub Nov, 2013
8. Sweet Tea at Sunrise Sherryl Woods - 11/26 - Pub Nov, 2010

I rolled 3+4=7.

7 in publication date
Winter's Fury(published July of 2017) Nov 2

7 in page count
books from page 7 of my tbr list

Rolled 1+6 = 7

#7 in TBR
Last Diner Standing 11/11

#7 in series
Lowcountry Bookshop 11/17

Pages
Midnight Ice: A Mad for Mod Mystery (67p) 11/19
Hot Toy (77p) 11/28

Day
Jealous in Paradise (06/07/19) 11/22

Month
Sweet Somethings (07/14) 11/09

Year
The Plot is Murder (11/17) 11/11
Banana Cream Pie Murder (02/17) 11/15
Withering Heights (04/07) 11/20

I rolled 3 + 5 = 8

I'm going to try to read as many as I can!

Published in 19(8)5 (also the year I was born!)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Sunshine wrote: "Rolled 1+5 = 6

Doing the first 6 books on my TBR list:"

Sunshine, can you find books on your TBR list that are specifically associated with '6'?

I rolled 1+1= 2

Model Misfit book 2
Changeless book 2 Read November 18, 5 stars

November Read and Reduce
Rolled 1+5 = 6

#6 on TBR list (sorted randomly each time)
Happy Doomsday by David Sosnowski 11/18/2019

#6 on Randomizer list
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 11/04/2019

#6 on What to Read Next list
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson 11/20/2019

#6 in publishing date
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo 11/16/2019 (pub. 06/25/2019)

6 in the series number
Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum 26) by Janet Evanovich 11/24/2019

#6 in the page number
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents by Bonnie Angelo 11/11/2019 (496 pages)
Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley 11/27/2019 (678 pages)

I rolled a 1+3 =4

Every 4th book in my TBR
a 4 in the publish date
4th in series
4 in total pages

Sunshine wrote: "Oh okay, LOL I misread it. I'll fix it now :)"

No problem, and thank you.

Message 11


Rolled a 6, reduced by 7.

Done...not so many this month =(

Message 4

Rolled 11, reduced by 8