{"id":5949,"date":"2017-12-10T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2017-12-10T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:06:52","slug":"color-coded-reading-challenge-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/color-coded-reading-challenge-2018","title":{"rendered":"Color Coded Reading Challenge 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Color Coded Reading Challenge caught my attention last year and I find myself interested in it again this year. I’m not sure why, since it’s not easy to find books that match the color categories. My own personal rule for this challenge is not to use the covers of books to satisfy the categories, but only to use the titles of the books, which makes it even harder. I’m not sure how many years I’ll be able to do this using only books from my TBR pile, but I’m in for this challenge in 2018. Here are the color categories as explained by Bev at My Reader’s Block<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"ColorA book with “Blue” or any shade of Blue (Turquoise, Aquamarine, Navy, etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  2. A book with “Red” or any shade of Red (Scarlet, Crimson, Burgandy, etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  3. A book with “Yellow” or any shade of Yellow (Gold, Lemon, Maize, etc.) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  4. A book with “Green” or any shade of Green (Emerald, Lime, Jade, etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  5. A book with “Brown” or any shade of Brown (Tan, Beige, Sand etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  6. A book with “Black” or any shade of Black (Jet, Ebony, Charcoal, etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  7. A book with “White” or any shade of White (Ivory, Eggshell, Cream, etc) in the title\/on the cover.<\/li>\n
  8. A book with any other color in the title\/on the cover (Purple, Orange, Silver, Pink, Magneta, etc.).<\/li>\n
  9. A book with a word that implies color (Rainbow, Polka-dot, Plaid, Paisley, Stripe, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I had a hard time last year finding a book with a word that implies color, and I had the same hard time this year, finally settling on\u00a0The Shadow of the Wind<\/em>. I think the word\u00a0shadow<\/em> implies the color black or gray, so I’m going with it. Here’s my complete list:<\/p>\n

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    1. Blue:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>To the Far Blue<\/strong> Mountains<\/em> by Louis L’Amour<\/li>\n
    2. Red:\u00a0<\/strong>The Red<\/strong> House Mystery<\/em> by A.A. Milne<\/li>\n
    3. Yellow:<\/strong>\u00a0Rumpole and the Golden<\/strong> Thread<\/em> by John Mortimer<\/li>\n
    4. Green:\u00a0<\/strong>The Kinks’ The Kinks Are the Village Green<\/strong> Preservation Society<\/em> by Andy Miller<\/li>\n
    5. Brown: <\/strong>From Sand<\/strong> and Ash<\/em> by Amy Harmon<\/li>\n
    6. Black: <\/strong>The Black<\/strong> Arrow<\/em> by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li>\n
    7. White:<\/strong>\u00a0Only the Ball Was White<\/strong><\/em> by Robert Peterson<\/li>\n
    8. Any other color:\u00a0<\/strong>The Bronze<\/strong> Bow<\/em> by Elizabeth George Speare<\/li>\n
    9. Implied color: <\/strong>The\u00a0Shadow<\/strong> of the Wind<\/em> <\/em>by Carlos Ruiz\u00a0Zaf\u00f3n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      As I’ve mentioned in earlier challenge posts, I’ll be keeping track of my progress at my 2018 Reading Challenges page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Color Coded Reading Challenge caught my attention last year and I find myself interested in it again this year. I’m not sure why, since it’s not easy to find books that match the color categories. My own personal rule for this challenge is not to use the covers of books to satisfy the categories, but only to use the titles of the books, which makes it even harder. I’m not sure how many years I’ll be able to do this using only books from my TBR pile,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Color Coded Reading Challenge 2018","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1002,1008,873],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-2018-reading-challenge","tag-color-coded-reading-challenge","tag-reading-challenges"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/colorcodedchallenge2017.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1xX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}