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Color Coded Reading Challenge Sign-Up

1/28/2014

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I never noticed just how many books have colors in the title until I discovered this challenge last year. It's hosted by Bev at My Reader's Block. The goal is to read nine books with colors in the titles, one for each of the following categories:

- Blue
- Red
- Yellow
- Green
- Brown
- Black
- White
- Any other color
- Any implied color
It can be a shade of the above-mentioned color or the name of the color itself. I completed this challenge last year, and I was a bit hesitant to join again this year. I thought it might be difficult to find enough color books to complete this challenge two years in a row. But it's not quite the end of January, and I've already read books for three categories - unplanned, even! It looks like I'm ready for another go on this challenge. You can check out my 2014 Reading Challenges page to see what I've read for this and all of the challenges I've joined so far.

Now I'm off to find the rest of my color books. I'm discovering that blue and green are common in titles. Black and white seem to be less so. I'm open to suggestions if anyone's got some!
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Joyful Reader link
1/28/2014 02:55:56 am

I only have one book on my list for this year that has a color in it, The Red Badge of Courage. Then on my classics list one other, The Color Purple. No more colors! Interesting.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/30/2014 01:48:03 pm

I've never read The Color Purple. That would be a good one for this challenge!

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mari @ bookworm with a view link
1/30/2014 12:33:41 am

Great idea for a challenge. Look at The Yellow House, if you like historical fiction it's a very good story.

Good luck!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
1/30/2014 01:48:45 pm

The Yellow House is right up my alley. I just added it to my TBR list. Thanks for the suggestion!

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