book club thursday- reading challenge

Welcome Readers

My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT). Learn more about me and BCT here

Our feature today is:

This is when we read and review a book that fits one of themes from our "challenge" list:

Read a book published before 2010

Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born

Read a book set in your home state

Read a book with a cover you don’t like

Read a book you once gave up on

Read a book with a clever title

Read a new to you author

Start a new series

Read a hardcover
Read a trade

Read a “small-town” romance

Read a book with a favorite trope

Read a historical set anywhere but the USA

Read a book you keep meaning to read

Read a book that taught you something

Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)

Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)

Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)

Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)

Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)

Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)

Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)

An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))

Recommend By (say who / what )

I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)

Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)

Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)

Read a historical set in the USA

The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)

AKA (author with a pseudonym)

BOO! ( book with a ghost)

Survivors (books with hard subject matter)

* completed challenges

I picked -

I tried, but...

Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited at the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive absorbed in their own lives, but soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel.

During the reception, an inebriated Victor passes out in the mother of the groom's bedroom. He's woken with a jovial slap to the face, as she dangles a story about a missing necklace before him, one that she has never even told her son. Her tale sets in motion a madcap adventure that leads Victor, Kezia, and Nathaniel from Miami to New York and L.A., and ultimately across France, to the estate of Guy de Maupassant, author of the classic short story "The Necklace." Heartfelt, suspenseful, and told with Sloane Crosley's inimitable spark and wit, The Clasp is a story of friends struggling to fit together now that their lives haven't gone as planned and learning to separate the real from the fake.

This is one of those books, that I have owned for a long time.

I keep picking it up and trying to read it. Okay, so I really didn't try too hard this last time- I got distracted...(by another book of course! LOL)

The furthest I have gotten is about 40 pages in.

I don't know why because I LOVE LOVE LOVE this author's non-ficition humorous essays (I mean they are freaking funny!)

Ah well...maybe someday...LOL