Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt TBR game

Take the book you read last

Find another author with the same first or last name - pick any book by that author

Open that book and go to page 74. On the 3rd line down, pick out two words, and find a book with those two words in the title.
(If you are doing this without physical copies of the book - like me - go to the quotes page on GoodReads, and pick the 3rd quote. Or find a sample, and follow the instruction. 3rd line down, two words.)

Find another book with a similar context

find yet another book with a similar title

Pick the name of one of the characters in that book, and find another book that has that name in the title, (or has a character with the same name or a similar name)

Open that book at any page in random, close your eyes, and put your finger down. Under your finger is your word. 

Find a book with that word in the title.

Ok, let's play:

The last book I read: Grendel

It's written by John Gardner

An author with the same name is Sally Gardner and the book is I, Coriander

ABOUT page 74, 3rd line down is "My father ordered all the windows of our house to be opened so that her spirit could find its way home."

I pick The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home by Catherynne Valente

A book with similar context is Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker

Similar title would be Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

A character from that book is Scales

A book with that name (or word) in the title... well, this is a bit of a long stretch, but I say Beaufort Scales: A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker. Now Beaufort Scales is not part of the title, it's the name of the series the book is part of. Close enough, I say.

A random word is "looked"

The book I chose is Looking for the King by David C. Downing

I could have gone this way, too

A book with similar context is The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Similar title would be The Legend of Eli Monpress

A character from that book is Eli

A book with that name (or word) in the title The Young Elites by Marie Lu

A random word is "loud"

The book I chose is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Another Scavenger Hunt comes from Mars, and it starts with "A cover that you love".

 A book with a similar cover is 

The first sentence on page 50 (or something around that place) is "A tendril of black hair escaped her uttariya and fell across her cheek."

A book title with one of those words in the title is Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn 

So... a book with opposite themes. A modern cosy love story with a clumsy MC... 

Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

It has 279 pages. I need to find a book with a reverse page count. 

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Er... that's 972 pages. Oh my goodness. 

Interestingly enough, I have a book on my TBR list with that exact page number.

Forever Amber. 

The book with the same color palette on the cover is Prairie Fires

Prairie Fires was published in 2017, and another book published that year is Artemis by Andy Weir.

The next prompt is a bit questionable.

Mars says to count the number of letters of the first word in the story, and then find a title with the same number of letters but Ellen Catherine says read a book with that many hundred pages, and THEN find a book with title of that many letters... 

The first word of Artemis is "I". ROTFLMAO

So, a 100-page "book". Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig has 95 pages, and I think that's close enough.

There are surprisingly many books with one-letter titles in the world. I'll choose Z by Therese Anne Fowler, just for the fun of it.

So... the next book needs to have a title or author whose name starts with Z. Joke's on me. I'm dying here ROTFLMAO

I could choose Nancy Mitford's Zelda.

Reading 2025

Now, there's the yearly lists:

PopSugar reading challenge

Around the year in 52 books

The 52 Book Club

Read Harder 2025

Booklist Queen's Reading Challenge

and then some other interesting things:

The 2025 Pantone Color Challenge

   

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Suomalaisia lukuhaasteita 2025

 Northern Reading Challenge 2025

1. Fear or phobia is associated with the book

2. Collection of essays

3. In the book a museum is visited

4. A book by a Finnish-Swedish or Swedish-Finnish author

5. The book has friendship across borders

6. In the book, character(s) move on skis

7. A book recommended by a colleague/schoolmate/student friend

8. A book in which music plays an important role

Terry Pratchett Soul Music

9. Character-driven book

10. A book I would like to be the main character of

11. Domestic picture book

12. Bildungsroman

At the Sign of the Naked Waiter

13. The book takes place in the Arctic region

14. The book is associated with a swamp

15. In the book, the character(s) is/are isolated

16. Read a poem from the work nominated for the Tanssiva Karhu (Dancing Bear) award

17. A book related to Raahe

- Marjetta, patruunan tytär 
- Margareta Keskitalo; Satamakylän serkukset, Tyttö kuunarilaiturilla 
- Heidi Köngäs: Vieras mies

18. A book that makes you hungry

19. The book is associated with nostalgia

20. There is a fruit on the cover or title of the book

21. Read a classic comic book

22. Watch a documentary on an interesting topic

23. The name of the book starts with a vowel

24. The title of the book reminds you of a song

25. A book whose name you have to google/look up in the dictionary

Lanark (Apparently it's a town in Scotland)

Helmet-​lukuhaaste 2025

1. Kirjan nimessä on alistuskonjunktio (että, jotta, koska, kun, jos, vaikka, kuin, kunnes)

2. Fantasiakirja

3. Kirjan päähenkilö on nuorempi kuin sinä

4. Kirjassa valvotaan yöllä

5. Kirja, jonka joku muu on valinnut sinulle

6. Kirjassa on prologi eli esipuhe

7. Hyvän mielen kirja

8. Kirjan kannen pääväri on vihreä tai kirjan nimessä on sana vihreä

9. Kirjassa on konflikti

10. Kirjassa käydään elokuvissa

11. Tietokirja, joka on julkaistu 2020-luvulla

12. Kirjassa on ilkeä tai paha naishahmo

13. Kirjailija on työskennellyt kirjastossa

14. Kirjan kääntäjä on voittanut Mikael Agricola -palkinnon tai muun käännöspalkinnon

15. Kirjassa ajaudutaan haaksirikkoon

16. Kirja, jossa on sukupuu tai hahmoluettelo

17. Kirjan päähenkilöllä on lemmikkinä kissa tai koira

18. Kirjailijan nimessä on enemmän kuin kaksi osaa

19. Kirja on Keltaisen kirjaston kirjalistalla

20. Kirjasta tulisi mielestäsi hyvä elokuva tai tv-sarja

21. Kirjassa on muusikko

22. Kirjassa lomaillaan

23. Pidät kirjan nimestä

24. Kirjassa tehdään laittomuuksia

25. Kirjan kannessa tai nimessä on käärme

26. Kirjassa on itse valittu perhe

27. Jossain maassa kielletty kirja, joka on julkaistu 2000-luvulla

28. Kirjassa ollaan järvellä

29. Kirjailijan viimeisin teos

30. Kirjassa on häät tai hautajaiset

31. Kirjan päähenkilölle ura on tärkeä

32. Kirja liittyy jollain tavalla Tove Janssoniin

33. Kirjassa ratsastetaan

34. Kirjassa on tunnettu rakennus

35. Kirjan nimessä on sana ”mies” tai ”poika” tai niiden taivutusmuoto

36. Kirjassa opiskellaan sisäoppilaitoksessa

37. Kirjailija on maasta, jossa haluaisit käydä

38. Elämäkertaromaani

39. Kirjassa etsitään ratkaisua arvoitukseen

40. Kirjassa ajalla tai kellolla on tärkeä merkitys

41. Kirjan tapahtumat sijoittuvat aikakauteen, jolla et haluaisi elää

42. Kirjan päähenkilö tekee huonoja valintoja

43. Kirjan nimessä, kannessa tai kuvauksessa on jokin mauste

44. Kirjassa hoidetaan ihmistä (Suomen Sairaanhoitajat 100 vuotta)

45. Kirjassa on isä ja tytär

46. Suosittu kirja, jonka kaikki muut vaikuttavat lukeneen

47.-48. Kaksi kirjaa, joissa on samannimiset päähenkilöt

49. Kirja on julkaistu vuonna 2025

50. Kirjaa on suositellut kirjaston työntekijä

Seinäjoen kaupunginkirjaston lukuhaaste

1. sijoittuu Lappiin tai kertoo Lapista

2. Helsinki tai muu suomalainen kaupunki mainittu

3. saaressa tai saaristossa

4. vesillä

5. luonnossa

6. Suomen kehityksen harppauksia tai kohtalonhetkiä

7. eläimet luonnossa tai kotona

8. nähtävää Suomessa

9. ilmasto ja ilmastonmuutos

10. maahanmuuttajana Suomessa

11. ilmestynyt alun perin ruotsiksi

12. sijoittuu Norjaan

13. kertoo jostakin Baltian maasta

14. suomalainen vähemmistö

15. toisellekin kielelle käännetty suomalaisen kirjailijan teos

16. sisältää murretta, puhekieltä tai slangia, tai alkukieli muu kuin suomi

17. perustuu suomalaiseen mytologiaan tai kansantaruihin

18. nykyajan sankari tai legenda

19. uskonto tai herätysliike

20. suomalaisena maailmalla

21. kansalaisvaikuttaminen

22. onnettaren suosikit tai päähänpotkitut

23. oppimassa ja opiskelemassa

24. nykyajan sodat ja seuraukset

25. liikkuminen ja matkustaminen

26. yhteydenpidon tapoja

27. nykyajan vaikuttajat

28. runous 2000-luvulla

29. sarjakuvaromaani

30. Finlandia-voittaja tai -ehdokas

Reading a book for every year of my life

1969    Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

1970    Love Story by Erich Segal / The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer / 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

1971    The Exorcist by Peter Blatty / The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart / The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

1972    Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli / Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

1973    The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart / Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke / Fear of Flying by Erica Jong / Sula by Toni Morrison

1974    The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope / Carrie by Stephen King / The Forever War by Joe Haldeman / The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip / The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

1975    Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow / Jäniksen vuosi by Arto Paasilinna / The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez / Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt / Miestä ei voi raiskata by Märta Tikkanen

1976    Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart / Roots by Alex Haley / The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett / The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner / A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively / The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

1977    The Shining by Stephen King / Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison / The Women's Room by Marilyn French / Egalias döttrar by Gerd Brantenberg 

1978    The Stand by Stephen King / The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin / A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman / Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer / The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy

1979    The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart / The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter / Ghost Story by Peter Straub / Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing

1980    The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett / Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie / The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones

1981    The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving / Little, Big by John Crowley / Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith / Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis

1982    The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley / Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

1983    The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart / Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins / The Woman in Black by Susan Hill / Startide Rising by David Brin / Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer

1984    The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera / Legend by David Gemmell / Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

1985    Contact by Carl Sagan / Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy / Maus by Art Spiegelman / Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

1986    It by Stephen King / Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card / The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

1987    Misery by Stephen King /  War for the Oaks

1988    The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1989    The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie / The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving / The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs

1990    The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie / Darcy's Utopia by Fay Weldon / Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

1991    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis / The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan / Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold / Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 

1992    Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson / The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis / Bailey's Café by Gloria Naylor / A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville

1993    Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg / Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler / The List of Seven by Mark Frost / The Shipping News by Annie Proulx / A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

1994    Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein / The Book of Secrets by M.G.Vassanji / Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières / The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

1995    Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua / Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink / The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro / The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

1996    Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood / Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk / Infinite Jest by David Foser Wallace / The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler / A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt / The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

1997    The Red Wyvern by Katharine Kerr / Killing Floor by Lee Child / Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons / Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy / Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

1998    My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk / Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay / The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver / The Hours by Michael Cunningham ( Also Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf) / The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

1999    Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier/ There and Back Again: by Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy / Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier / Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund / Battle Royale by Koushun Takami / Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

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Suuri Nuorten Kirjakerho

Suuri Nuorten Kirjakerho oli Suuren Suomalaisen Kirjakerhon nuortenkirja-sarja, jota julkaistiin 1976-1980. Luulen että kerho julkaisi kirjan kuukaudessa, mutta en tiedä koska se alkoi, eli kuinka monta kirjaa he julkaisivat 1976. En myöskään tiedä missä järjestyksessä kirjat julkaistiin.

1980 vaaleanpunainen

Porokylän porukan talvi - Anna-Liisa Haakana

Minustako urheilija?! - Stanislav Rudolf (Julkaistu myös nimellä Tonnikala)

Tähdenlento - K.M.Peyton
(alkuperäisteos Fly-by-Night, ensimmäinen osa 5-osaisesta sarjasta)

Mahdoton Marionetti - Nan Inger

Susikoira Roin tunturiseikkailu - Jorma Kurvinen

Yllä meren, alla kiven - Susan Cooper

Jättiläisen tasku - Anni Lahtinen

Rock & Rocky: sirkus palaa - Wolfgang W. Parth

Varastetun maiseman tapaus - Terrance Dicks

Silta salaiseen maahan - Katherine Paterson

Kätkijät - Mary Norton

Kiljusen herrasväen seikkailut - Jalmari Finne

1979 keltainen

Punaisten apinoitten linna - Wolfgang Ecke 

Susikoira Roi Lapissa - Jorma Kurvinen 

Viimeiset turnajaiset - Harry Kullman

Kättä päälle, Vasco da Gama - Arto Seppälä

Tom Sawyerin seikkailut - Mark Twain

Lintukansan poika - Anne Aarnio

Seikkailujen sirkus - Enid Blyton

Uhmamielinen syksy - Stanislav Rudolf

Uponnut auto - Arvi Arjatsalo

Villieläinten heimo - René Guillot

Jenni ja nummien villihevonen - Patricia Leitch

Pelastakaa kummitukset - Eva Ibbotson

1978 sininen

Taistelukala - S.E.Hinton

Operaatio Merimies - Tor Edvin Dahl

Takapihan sankareita / Kräki-Kalle ja Limperi - Kaarlo Merimaa

Puumajakesä - Lilian Kallio

Rock & Rocky Gangsterien kannoilla - Wolfgang W. Parth

Taistelu Venuksessa - Robert A. Heinlein

Susikoira Roi ja seikkailu saaristossa - Jorma Kurvinen

Jotkut senkun häipyy - Anna-Greta Winberg

Krokotiilijengi - Max von der Grün

Lähtö kello yksi - Sisko Latvus

Villioriin varsa - Mary Elwyn Patchett

Niin vaelsivat sisarukset - Ann Rutgers

1977 vihreä

Valkoisen suden pako - Mel Ellis 

Koko kaupungin Vinski / Vinski ja Vinsentti - Aapeli

Pieni Tuittupää / Tuittupää ja pikku Totsi - Leena Härma

Kahden vuoden loma-aika - Jules Verne

Prinssi ja kerjäläispoika - Mark Twain

Viisikko aarresaarella / Viisikko vanhassa majakassa - Enid Blyton

Ilmasilta / Hiljaisen joen aave - Mikko Samulinen

Vanhan talon kummitus - Penelope Lively

Susikoira Roi - Jorma Kurvinen

Maailman ympäri 80 päivässä - Jules Verne

Palaneen talon salaisuus / Kadonneen kissan salaisuus / Kadonneen kaulakorun salaisuus - Enid Blyton

Ratsukesä - Marvi Jalo

1976 punainen

Viimeiset kaanit / Pertsa ja Kilu - Väinö Riikkilä

Hevoshoitola Varsanjalka - Monica Dickens

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Pääkallokiitäjä - Asko Martinheimo

GoodReads f'd up, again

 I have been using the GoodReads' Reading Challenge page to kind of blog about my reading, and to note interesting reading challenges and ideas, but GoodReads made it so that it isn't possible any longer. Not only that, but if I'm logged in, I can't even see the previous posts. Luckily, one can go to comments and track the URL, so that one can go to Internet Archive and archive the page... but... WHY? Why, GoodReads? It's like with Pinterest, they ignore what people are asking, and put in "improvements" no-one asked for. I suppose it's the advertisers that are prioritized, and the users are being ignored, so in the end the users will leave the site, and the site will vanish. Good job, GoodReads. As if the users weren't p'd off enough already.

Anyway, here's the link to my pages:

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2019

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2020

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2021

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2022

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2023

Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2024

I will be blogging here instead from now on. 

TBR game

 I have been binging the TBR game videos on Youtube :-D

I love the complicated things where people need to do tons of different things, like spin a wheel, cards, tbr jars and everything :-D

To fit these to my TBR list - which is extensive, as you all know - I think I need to do a couple of things.

1) I participate in several reading challenges. I'm obsessed with them. I love reading prompts and trying to find books I'd want to read that fulfill the prompt. 

So - I have 5 book-a-week challenges, so I could make each a tbr jar, and pick a prompt from each for each week, and then either read them in one book or more if needed... that would be interesting.

I have my fantasy reading challenge.

2) Then there are the prompts that involve counting bookshelves and books on shelves... That is not a good idea for my shelves, as I don't have shelves of physical books I haven't read. But I have over 1000 books on my digital TBR list. I could divide them into shelves, and use that.
I have enough books on my TBR list to have 24 shelves with over 60 books in each, so I could use the time prompt. (What's the time, hour is the bookshelf, minutes the book)

3) I need to pick out all the series from my TBR list, and number them. (I mean, #1, #2, etc.)

4) genre

5) I have books in different "lists", like on Kindle, Netgalley, etc.

6) There are lists I want to do, like Are You Well Read in World Literature? 

7) There's always the Dewey Decimal System :-D

Also, the "punishment" of not having read a book that was on the list.
You have to read it the next month, you have to exchange one book from the TBR list for that, and IF you don't read it, you have to remove it from your TBR list.