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
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
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:
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Australia
- New Zealand
- North America
- South America
- and as a bonus The Middle East
Literary Junkies Book Club
January
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
February
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
March
Book
April
Book
May
Book
June
Book
July
Book
August
Book
September
Book
October
Book
November
Book
December
Book
