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1. Bookish Books Reading Challenge: Of course, I'm planning to do my own challenge! I'm going to go with the highest level, too, because why not? So, I'll be "Living in the Library" by reading 30+ books about books. Sweet!
2. Literary Escapes Reading Challenge: Once again, I'll be taking on the task of reading books set in all 50 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. You get bonus points for each foreign country you visit as well. This is a fun one, even if some of the states are really hard to find. I'm looking at you, Arkansas and North Dakota!
3. Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: I love hist-fic, so this one shouldn't be much of a challenge. Still, I'm going to dial myself back a little and do the "Ancient History" level, which requires reading 25 historical novels.
4. POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: Will 2023 be the year I actually complete this challenge? We'll see.
5. Booklist Queen Reading Challenge: This will be my third year for this challenge, which I always enjoy.
6. 52 Book Club Reading Challenge: I think this will be the third year for this one as well.
7. Build Your Library Reading Challenge: Since I had fun with this one in 2022, I'm signing up again in 2023. This year's prompts all follow an "Adventures in Science and Nature" theme. Not my favorite kind of reading, but the prompts are general enough that I should do fine.
8. Pioneer Book Reading Challenge: My husband and/or I will be in Provo at least once this year, so I'm going to give this one a go. I've yet to actually complete it, but it's still fun to try.
9. Craving for Cozies Reading Challenge: I'm still enjoying my cozies, so I'm going to do this one again. I'll join at the "Peckish" level again, so I'll be reading 1-25 cozies. No problem!
10. Medical Examiner Mystery Challenge: Playing M.E. is always a good time, so I'll be doing it again in 2023.
11. Book Bingo Blackout—I've never done this one before, but I love me a bingo-style challenge! The theme of this year's board is "School." I'll go for a blackout, naturally.
12. Pick Your Poison Reading Challenge—Another new one for me, this one involves choosing prompts from 27 topics (each of which has five categories). I think I'm going to go for the "52 Pick Up" level, which requires reading from two categories in each topic, with the use of one wildcard. Sounds fun!
13. Children's Book Reading Challenge...for Adults—I already read a lot of children's books, but why not encourage myself to read more? This challenge is simple. You just read books that could be found in the children's section of a library or bookstore. Easy cheesy.
Whew! Are you overwhelmed yet? Me too. Seriously, though, I'm looking forward to tackling all these. My idea of a good time, yes sirree! (Is it any wonder my kids think I don't know what fun is?)
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Good job on doing so well on most of your challenges! Good luck with the ones you're doing in 2023. I'm only doing one challenge this year. It's hosted by my Goodreads group and it's like the Classics Spin Club except we choose books on our TBR.
ReplyDeleteSounds fun! Good luck with it!
DeleteSo many challenges! And you did so well on them. I realize that finishing isn't really my goal, but thinking about the challenges and seeing how I can do. Good luck on this year's reading.
ReplyDeleteSame! I don't stress over finishing challenges. If I finish, great; if I don't, no biggie. That's the only way I can do so many. It's all about stretching my reading horizons a little and having fun for me.
DeleteDelighted that you're going to give the Book Bingo blackout a go! I'm also going for more US states by doing read around America challenge, hoping to fill in a few more states with that.
ReplyDeleteI've never done the Book Bingo challenge before, but I'm having a good time with it. I'm glad you posted on your blog about it so I could find it.
DeleteReading all the states is fun, isn't it? I enjoy taking on that challenge every year.
Good luck with all your challenges. Do you know of a re-read challenge?
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm so late in responding, Kami, but I know someone else already mentioned the Read It Again, Sam challenge to you. Good luck with it!
DeleteGood luck with these challenges! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deanna! Happy New Year to you as well.
DeleteGood luck with all your challenges, Susan! I'm not doing any, but will enjoy hearing about what others have read and how they are doing. Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteI do hope your reading mojo comes back big time in 2023, Kay! Can't wait to see what you read and love this year.
DeleteWow! Good luck with all your challenges! It looks like you've got a really fun mix.
ReplyDeleteI *tried* to get a little variety in there, but I just can't resist a good prompt-based challenge. Ha ha.
DeleteThe Literary Escapes challenge is so fun -- I decided to see how I ended up doing by happenstance, and I landed in 34 states and 16 other countries. NY and CA were my top two as well, though in reverse order from yours. (and yeah, I definitely did not have any from Arkansas or ND either).
ReplyDeleteI was really looking forward to hearing your final tally for the "toe tags" one, but wow! QUITE an impressive tally.
Congrats on all your successes, and hopefully on a future one of a different form -- the Bookish Books challenge looks fantastic.
You did really well on the Literary Escapes challenge without even trying. Nice! New York and California are ALWAYS my top two states read. There are tons of books set there and very few set in obscure states like Arkansas and North Dakota. Not surprising, but still...
DeleteHa ha. I should maybe be a little disturbed by how many corpses show up in the books I read. To be fair, all deaths count for the challenge, not just murders, so I'm not *quite* as bloodthirsty in my reading as it seems!
These sound like some great challenges! Best of luck with them all!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nicole! I'm already having fun with all these challenges :)
DeleteYou did awesome, Susan! I am doing less with reading challenges this year, but I did end up picking a few...and will HOPEFULLY finish my post in the next day or two, LOL!
ReplyDeleteThere may come a year when I don't want to do any reading challenges and that's okay. I go with the flow! At the moment, I'm really enjoying them.
DeleteFun challenge wrap up! I only did a couple in 2022 - succeeded in one, not so much in the other. However, this year I'm jumping in with both feet and also have 13 challenges, including yours. Here's my list:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/2023-challenges
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
I did surprisingly well on most of my challenges in 2022, but there were a couple I totally bombed. Oh well. It's just for fun.
DeleteGood luck with all your challenges this year!
Great post! It sounds like you did really well last year. Congratulations on completing so many challenges!
ReplyDeleteI'm doing the adult children's books challenge and the historical fiction challenge too. :D Best of luck with them all! x
I'm glad we're doing some of the same challenges! It will be fun to see what you read for them.
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