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I may be setting myself up for failure by taking on several reading challenges this year, and setting higher reading goals than I've managed the last couple of years. But if the goal is simply to read more, then even if I don't complete everything on the challenge, I haven't really lost, have I? At any rate, I consider it all for fun and to push me out of my comfort zone a little bit too. So here are the challenges I'm attempting in 2023.
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Last year I started The 52 Book Club challenge partway through the year so I knew I'd never complete all the prompts. Then the last quarter of the year presented some life challenges to me that got in the way of reading. I'm going to try again this year and see how many of the prompts I can do - realistically, I'm pretty sure I won't do all, since I've been reading only about 30 or so books in a year. Find out more about the 2023 Reading Challenge HERE.
#the52bookclub #the52bookclub2023
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Last year I also joined a couple of challenges hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader, and I will do the 2023 edition of those as well. They are combined in this anchor post.
First is the 2023 European Reading Challenge! For this challenge, participants will be reading books either set in Europe or by European authors. Once again, I will try the Four Star (Honeymooner) level participation. My goal will be to read four books set in four different European countries, or by authors from four different countries. Last year I listed only three books that fit this challenge, but they did cover four different countries.
From Rose City Reader:
THE GIST: The idea is to read books set in European countries or books by European authors. The books can be of any genre - fiction, nonfiction, novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, whatever. You can participate at different levels, but each book must represent a different country - either written by an author from a different country or set in a different country, no two books from the same country. It's supposed to be a tour!
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The TBR 23 in '23 Challenge is meant to encourage us to read the books already on our shelves (including eReader shelves) and maybe make room for more! I did have a lot of books on shelves, in boxes, and in the library of my Kindle that I hadn't read when I started this challenge last year. Many of them I was quite willing to pass on to others, but I didn't feel right about doing that without even trying to read them! So I thought I would read before I purged. I didn't get very far, to be honest. This year, I'm less confident about the challenge, because I did purge my shelves drastically when we moved, and of the books I kept, a lot of them are stored at the old house. However, I have largely ignored the many books on my Kindle over the past few years, so this will encourage me to actually read those. And hopefully I'll find books there that will help me meet the other reading challenges as well.
From Rose City Reader:
"TBR" counts as any book that was on your shelf prior to January 1, 2023. "Shelf" includes your ebook reader and audiobooks you own, but it doesn't include library books. This is a TBR challenge, so the goal is to read the books you own to make room for more books.
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I will continue keeping track of the titles I read in an "Alphabet Soup" challenge, to see how many letters of the alphabet I can represent. I will also try to participate weekly in what I call my Friday Fun posts. These include First Line Fridays, hosted by Reading is My SuperPower; Book Beginnings on Fridays, hosted by Rose City Reader; the Friday 56, hosted by Freda's Voice; and the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. I'll also continue occasional bookshelf summaries, shared with Book Date and at the BookWorms Monthly link-up.
Happy Reading!
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Thanks for signing up for the European Reading Challenge and the TBR 23 in '23 challenge! Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a lot of challenges! Good luck with them!
ReplyDeleteI must admit I don't challenge myself with my read, I just reading whatever interests me, as reading is my downtime and I don't want it to feel like a chore. I naturally cover different genres and settings over time.
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oh so many challenges. I do like a challenge but I feel like I'd be setting myself up to fail. I would like to read more this year and may even try a little more non fiction. Good luck and keep linking up to Bookworms Monthly so I can see how you do and share your posts.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely interested in the TBR 23 challenge. I have been eyeing some of the books I own thinking I really should dive into them so someone else can have the pleasure of reading them. (I don't read a book more than once.)
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