Showing posts with label reading challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading challenge. Show all posts

4 Jan 2023

Discussion: 2023 Reading Goals!

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2023 Reading Goals!

We've started the New Year and I have a lot of goals to get through this year. I am joining reading challenges, plus want to read for the Goodreads challenge, read more of my owned books, and make sure that I clean up my past ARCs!

Learn more about it below and let me know what your reading goals are for the year.

Summary:

  1. Read 340 Books;
  2. Participate in the 2023 Read Harder Challenge;
  3. Finish at least 150 owned books;
  4. Catch up on past ARCs;
  5. Read more poetry, and;
  6. Stay consistent in my tracking, both physical and digital.


Reading Challenges with Prompts

This year, I am participating in a few Reading Challenges to help me read more broadly than last year. Even though I read a lot by historically underinvested authors and marginalized groups, I stayed within certain genres and I want to try branching out of that.

Read Harder Challenge


Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge is one of my favourites. It really focuses on diversifying your reading and calls out specifically BIPOC and Queer reads instead of leaving it up to you to seek those out. They also give recommendations for the prompts.

You can stay up to date with my reading by following the #BooksAndLaddersReadsHarder2023 hashtag on Twitter and Instagram.

PopSugar Reading Challenge


PopSugar's 2023 Reading Challenge has a lot of unique and interesting challenges for me to expand into other genres. I really want to read more poetry and expand into more historical fiction. I was really enjoying reading Romance novels last year so I want to continue doing that as well.

You can stay up to date with my reading by following the #popsugarreadingchallenge hashtag on Twitter and Instagram.


Reading Challenges without Prompts

While I want to focus on owned books that I have as well as catching up on ARCs, I also want to read more from the library as well.

This year, my Goodreads goal is 340! You can follow my progress here:

2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Jamie (Books and Ladders) has read 1 book toward her goal of 340 books.
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Jamie (Books and Ladders)'s bookshelf: 2023-read

Red Rising
it was ok
Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
See this review and more on Books and Ladders! Content Warning: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Attempted rape, Attempted suicide, Bullying, Eugenics, Misogyny, Murder, Mutilation, Rape (mentioned), Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence Rere...
tagged: bookoutlet-purchase, 2023-read, 2023-reread, science-fiction, young...
Before She Disappeared
Before She Disappeared
by Lisa Gardner
tagged: currently-reading and 2023-read

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I purchased the Reading Tracker from Novelly Yours and the biggest version holds up to 340 books, so I am using that as my basis. I'm not sure if I will actually get there, but I am going to try my best. And using the Reading Tracker is also how I want to start to be consistent in tracking my reading.

What are your reading goals this year?
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30 Jan 2019

#Discussion: 2019 Reading Goals + TBR

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I know that generally if I write out a TBR or reading goals or whatever, I don't stick to it. But I need to figure out what I have left on my outstanding piles and what I actually feel like reading, so post! My progress will be updated as I read more through the 2019 Reading Challenge widget embedded into this in terms of pure number, but I hope to have more update and progress reports for the goals I listed below!

2019 Reading Goals + TBR

2019 Reading Goals

2019 Reading Challenge

2019 Reading Challenge
Jamie (Books and Ladders) has read 13 books toward her goal of 150 books.
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I am hoping to read 150 books this year! According to the Savvy Reader's 50 Book Pledge website, I'm on track to read 247, but I bet that will slow down as time goes on. At the time I'm writing this post, I have read 14 books. I am hoping to finish about 3 more before this post goes live but we shall see.

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4 Dec 2018

2019 Reading Challenge: Reading Challenge Throwback #RCThrowback2019

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It's that time of year again, we're all rushing to finish books so we hit our Goodreads Challenge and clean up any other reading challenges we committed to this year (like mine - that I definitely did not succeed at). But it's also a time when we look forward to the future: a new year, a fresh start, more reading challenges to sign up for and never finish! But I'm here to give you some redemption. My reading challenge this year is to do ... all the ones you never quite finished. Introducing...

Reading Challenge Throwback (#RCThrowback2019)
Maybe you DNFed a book that you probably would have finished but just didn't had time. Maybe you only had one more square to finish off that bingo. Maybe you never actually finished that series. And you're still feeling guilty. Well, no more! This reading challenge will help you finish off all those old ones so you can feel accomplished and in control of your life - and your TBR.

I know, big promises.


 So how does it work?

 Step 1: Find old blog posts, lists, Twitter promises, etc. in which you said "hey, I will totally do that reading challenge"
Step 2: Compile those books into one list
Step 3: Link that list to this post so we can help each other out
Step 4: Start reading!
Step 5: As you read, cross off those books on the old reading challenge
Step 6: Feel accomplished
Step 7: Get your TBR under control (Optional)
Step 8: Praise me (Also Optional)
I am only focusing on the last two reading challenges that I signed up for, even though I probably have about 20 that I never finished. I didn't want to overwhelm myself too much next year since I have been having a hard time keeping up with reading and blogging. I don't want to sign up for something I won't be able to complete (again).
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8 Dec 2017

#Discussion: #ASeriesAMonth2018 Hosted by Dani Reviews Things Reading Challenge TBR!

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Hello all! I want to be more accountable for my reading in 2018 so I am hosting my own reading challenge and joining in on some others. This includes the #ASeriesAMonth2018 challenge hosted by Dani Reviews Things! 

I am excited to clear off some series on my shelves so here are the ones I am committing to, but I am hoping to actually read more than I am committing to. We shall see, we shall see...

I'm not stating what month I'm reading them in because it will depend on my TIME and work schedule. That is always why I'm including duologies, longer series, and the like.

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6 Dec 2017

2018 Reading Challenge: #2017Throwback

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So I did not complete my reading goals or challenges from this year (including the one I hosted, yikes) because school kicked my butt. But I'm hoping to do better in 2018. However, I feel like I can't just forget 2017 happened so I am going to make up for all the reading time I lost this year. This reading challenge is a "throwback" to 2017 by reading a different book every month that was published in 2017! You can make it fun by trying to read a book that was published in that specific month or you can just choose twelve books from 2017 and read them. You can make this as fun and challenging as you wish.

Below you will find the 12 books I am going to read this year, but I will also give you options if you want to read a specific book from that month! Feel free to make a TBR and link it below. You can use the graphic I made, just be sure to link back to me.

January

I'll be reading...

ALLEGEDLY

Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Series: N/A
Source: Purchased from Chapters
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: January 24, 2017

 Summary:
Mary B. Addison killed a baby.

 Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn’t say.

 Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn’t really “home”—no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home.
There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
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February

I'll be reading...

THE BEAST IS AN ANIMAL

Author: Peternelle van Arsdale
Series: N/A
Source: ARC via Publisher
Publisher: Maragaret K. McElderry Books
Publication Date: February 27, 2017

Summary:
Alys was seven the first time she saw the soul eaters. Twin sisters, they radiated an energy that excited Alys. Through them she felt the wildness of the forest, and The Beast within it. Too late, she learned of their power to destroy.

By the time she is fifteen, Alys knows too much about both the lure and the danger of the soul eaters. She lives in a world of adults who are terrified of their power, and who cower behind high walls and grim rules. Fear of the soul eaters—and of The Beast—rules their lives. Even more, they fear the ways in which The Beast may lurk among them—and within a girl like Alys.

For Alys has a connection to the soul eaters, and The Beast. And she hides a truth about herself that she can reveal to no one, for fear she will be called a witch. As the threat posed by the soul eaters grows, Alys must undertake a journey through the wild danger of the fforest. But the greatest danger is not outside her. Alys’s secret about who—and what—she is terrifies her most of all. And in order to save her world, she must also risk losing herself.
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5 Feb 2017

#52wks52bks: Week Six Recommendations + #Interview with Patty Blount!

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You may or may not know, but this year I am hosting a 2017 reading challenge! Every week for the whole year there are different themes and the idea is to read a book that fits the theme within that week! It will help you keep on track for your Goodreads Challenge as you will be at least thinking about a book for a whole week even if you don't quite get to it. 

But don't worry, if you don't finish a book or skip a week or start late, that's okay! This is just to make you think more about the types of books you are reading and to broaden your horizons.

If you didn't see the original post with all the challenges, click HERE.
If you are participating (or want to without checking, that's cool too), you can keep track of your reads with my Handy Dandy Charts.

This week's theme is...

Book With "Some" In the Title

Here are some books that you can check out to read for this week's challenge!

I'll be reading...

SOME BOYS

Author: Patty Blount
Series: N/A
Source: Purchased from Kobo
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: August 5th, 2014

Summary:

Some boys go too far. Some boys will break your heart. But one boy can make you whole.

 When Grace meets Ian she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses the town golden boy of rape, everyone turns against Grace. They call her a slut and a liar. But...Ian doesn't. He's funny and kind with secrets of his own.

 But how do you trust the best friend of the boy who raped you? How do you believe in love?

 A gut-wrenching, powerful love story told from alternating points of view by the acclaimed author of Send.

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Amazon | Chapters | TBD
I also have the wonderful Patty Blount here for an interview so you can learn more about the book I am reading this week!

Describe SOME BOYS in 10 words or less.


Patty Blount: Grace won't back off. No matter what people say. 

How long does it take you to write first drafts?


Patty Blount: The first draft literally took seven weeks to write. But there were several months of thinking, playing around with ideas, and research that also went into that first draft. I first got the idea in February and finished writing the first draft in October.
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