Okay…………so having finished one challenge for 2014………I elected to read 104 books and review them – you won’t find the evidence on here, as some of my 104 turned out to be damp squibs, wallpaper or turkeys, in my far-from-humble.
Regular droppers by on here know that only the adored make these pages. The hall of shamed damp wallpaper turkeys, not to mention the adored, all surfaced on Amazon UK
Anyway, having finished that one, which I picked up from The Mad Reviewer I’m up for other mountains to climb. Incidentally Carrie of The Mad Reviewer did allow her reading marathoners to pick their distance. Is it any surprise I went for the long haul, the veritable book mountain?? And I wouldn’t be surprised if she does another in 2015…keep watching that space
Anyway, I digress (sort of), because I found another book related challenge which set some guided benchmarks, and thought it would be fun to try. I guess I could up the ante for myself, if it looks too easy, by ensuring that every one read had to make the blog, which would mean that if I picked a turkey for myself in a category, i would just have to read more of that kind till I found one which made the grade. Just as long as it’s not the over 500 pages one; I think I need to get that right from the off; not to mention the trilogy.
And………to make it even more difficult, I shan’t allow myself to have re-reads (that would be a really easy way of doing it) Them’s my rules for me!
Anyway thank you to The Book Lover’s Musings
Anyone else doing any book related challenges?
(And, thank you to Popsugar whoever they may be, I’ve seen a number of bloggers who have picked this one up and intend to run with it)
Happy New Year’s Eve/New Year, one and all
Lady Fancifull 
104 books is very impressive! I’m just doing the TBR Double Dog Dare, which “dares” you only to read books from your TBR pile for the first three months of the year – you have until midnight to stock up. As well as getting the pile down, the intention was to save money – but of course I’ve spent lots – and increased the “virtual” pile – by stocking up on Kindle titles. But as you can’t actually SEE them in the house, or more specifically Mr Crimeworm can’t, they don’t count (well that’s my rule and I’m sticking to it!) I do hope you enjoyed the festive season Lady Fancifull, and a Happy New Year to you when it arrives!
Ooh, that made me feel very anxious. No new books! But I’m sure your shrunken TBR will fill you with virtue come April
I used my new Kindle to hide the TBR In various ways in folders and in the cloud, so there are at the moment very few books on the Voyage, only stuff bought in the last month. When I organised all the titles on the old, pre-cloud Kindle it was a stroke of brilliant denial to refuse to download everything TBR. They can slowly seep down one at a time!
Intriguing challenge – I’m particularly looking forward to the one published in the year you were born. 1994 was such a good year! 😉
No challenges for me, though I’ll be resurrecting the rather dormant GAN Quest. I look at all these challenges and am frequently tempted, but know in reality I’d never stick to them or would end up feeling I was reading stuff just to tick boxes. At least when I just set my own, nobody cares if I break the rules! Not even me…
However I’ll see if I can help out at some point during the year with the category for a book recommended by a friend…hmm!
Ha ha! your last suggestion. I quite like this one as the categories leave lots of room for manouevre. Though I have made it more challenging by forbidding myself rereads.
I must admit though that a list that said ‘1 book by a female author’ was a bit shocking/depressing I’m also kind of mulling over the possibility of finding ‘make the blog’ choices which can combine categories. Sadly, year you were born and book published in 2015 rather cancel each other out. I might have fun finding how many tick-boxes one book could manage.
There are SO MANY books vying for the books you own but have never read spot…
This looks like a great challenge and I’m looking forward to seeing what books you choose for each category. I’m not partaking in any challenges except my personal one to increase my reading from books I already own especially as the OH realised from my recent post that more than the agreed 5 books a month had entered the house.
Ah, maybe you’ll be able to do that double dog challenge crimeworm is doing!
This new Kindle Voyage sounds great – are you enjoying it? I’m in a state of denial about my Kindle Fire having a cracked screen – I don’t want to give it to the chap up the hill who fixes them as that would mean being Kindle-less for a couple of days, which I can’t contemplate! And I’ve just realised I’ve got 50-odd minutes to buy all the books I could possibly want for the next 3 months!! Aargh! Best go look for bargains….Happy New Year (when it arrives!)
Happy New Year to you too crimeworm! PS, the Voyage is great. Although I regret it doesn’t have colour, I can’t read happily on a tablet. I’ve peeked at people using them to read on tubes, and don’t like the shine on the screen, it just means I have to try and look at graphics in a book on the PC, or buy the wooden book. I STILL would prefer real book reading if I lived in a large mansion with a huge dedicated library room, and perhaps someone to carry books for me. I’m certainly far more aware of WHAT I’m reading ‘in real’. I rather wish there could be a default which reopens the Kindle not to the page you were at in the text, but to the COVER and then the next page was where you were last. I heard an interesting programme the other week where cover designers were talking about their work, and someone actually made some reference to a study showing better recall from reading ‘real’ but i was busy chopping and blending and doing cookie things so didn’t pay close enough attention to get the reference , if given – e.g. WHAT STUDY!
I hope your cracked screen Fire is LOADED with last minute buys and your TBR is impressively heavy. We must all try to just review untempting books untemptingly, in order to keep you to your straight and narrow!
This seems more interesting than a challenge based purely in numbers. Even though I am just going to do one challenge this year ( reducing the TBR) I enjoyed working out what I would read in each of your categories. Some proved rather difficult.
You could perhaps do a combo FROM your TBR for this one!
The photo at the top of this post gives me reading vertigo, like I could fall off the edge of a book and into an abyss from which I’d never return. Was that your intention? 😀
My only reading challenge this year is to try to keep of with you and LF. That’s ambitious enough.
Heh, I think you must be vertigo ed! Keep of with me and LF?? I AM LF. Or it least I was last time I looked.
It’s a great picture isn’t it. – a Lewis Carroll rabbit hole of books.
This looks like a great challenge! What a good way of finding new books and reading things you would’t normally, well for me at least. I’ve signed up to the Classic’s Club challenge of reading 50 books over 5 years. Most of them were already on my tbr pile so maybe it is cheating. Hopefully this year I can make new friends over a mutual love of books which is my other ‘reading challenge’ 🙂
Looking forward to reading more of your reviews.
Oops, I sent a long reply, and pressed the wrong button, and it vanished into the outer darkness.
Anyway, not cheating at all to take things from the TBR – in fact, someone posted a challenge which a lot of people with stronger wills than mine signed up to, which involved ONLY reading books already on your TBR and in your real or virtual possession.
And blogworld is indeed a great place to make new passionately bookie friends. Even if it will, it surely will, make that TBR pile GROW!
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