This year I want to get back to reading a bit more than I have been in recent years. In that regard I’m going to be participating in several different book challenges throughout the year. This page will be for holding me accountable for the challenges and as such I will be posting the challenges, the rules for each challenges, the books I’m reading, etc. etc.

Full House Reading Challenge

Full House Reading Challenge

For details on the rules head to The Book Date’s Blog. Here are the categories for the challenge:

From the local library
Theme/issue you think is important
Reread
Won or borrowed
Book from a series
Best read so far in 2014
Setting you’d like to visit
Review persuaded you to read it
Historical fiction
Free or bought very cheaply
From your wishlist
Suspense or crime
Free Choice
Less than 200 pages
Published in 2013
Set in different country from you
Contemporary
Published before 2013
Non fiction
Paranormal, SF, or Dystopian
Published in 2014
More than 400 pages
Book with animal in it
Author new to you
You love the cover

Goodreads Challenge

For details on the rules head over to the group created for this Goodreads challenge. Note that you have to join the Goodreads group to participate in this challenge. I’m waiting on the email from the group runner for the different categories so I borrowed the list from Sarah at Beyond the Gradebook.

Read a Clunker (more than 600 pages)
Mystery
Young Adult Fiction
Accidentally watched the movie first
Relive the magic (read a book from childhood/youth you loved and haven’t read recently)
Gathering dust (had the book for years and still haven’t read it)
Loved by others (others are constantly praising this book)
Second chance (didn’t like the first time)
Award winner
Classic
Biography/memoir
Contemporary fiction
Non-fiction
“Adult” fiction
Fantasy
Horror
Lost in translation (book originally published in a foreign language)
“Secret Santa” (book assigned to read by another challenger)
Short stories
Graphic novel
Banned book
True crime
Current NY Times #1 Best Seller
Cover story (a book you chose based solely on the cover image, you can’t even read the description)
Humor

Around the World in 12 Books

Around the World in 12 Books
For details on the rules head over to the Giraffe Days blog. I’m aiming for the Seasoned Traveler which means I need to read the full twelve books and that these countries need to be included: