Anne’s Comments (group member since Dec 26, 2014)

Anne’s comments from the 2017 Reading Challenge group.

Amanda wrote: "Hi there, my name is Amanda and I'm a SAHM from Central Oregon. I found this chalk on Pinterest and printed the list off as my New Years resolution was to read more, something that I hadn't done mu..."


Welcome Amanda! We can't really take credit for the original challenge, it came from some website called PopSugar. We've had a good time with it, and decided to carry on next year with a challenge that was truly crowdsourced by this group.

Enjoy!

The moment that many of you have been waiting for is here! Time to reveal the details and categories for the 2016 Reading Challenge...

Next year's challenge will have two levels of achievement:

Tier One

Read 36 books selected from the categories. Up to four may be "wild card" books of your choice.

Tier Two

Read a book from each of the 43 categories, plus 9 "wild cards" for a total of 52 books.

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The Categories

Read a book that takes place on each continent, or is written by an author from that continent (fiction or non-fiction)

1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Antarctica
5. Europe
6. Asia
7. Australia

8. A banned or challenged book
9. An award winning book (Pulitzer, Hugo, Man Booker, etc.)
10. Memoir/Autobiography/Biography
11. A dead author's last book
12. A book with LGBT matter or character(s)
13. A book your favorite author loves
14. A retold fairytale
15. A Young Adult book
16. A history book (fiction or non-fiction)
17. A book where you have seen the movie, but not read the book
18. A book from the NYT Bestseller list
19. A book with the point of view of an immigrant
20. A controversial book
21. The first book you see when you walk into a library or bookstore
22. A classic
23. A debut novel
24. Published this year (2016)
25. Based entirely on the cover
26. Own but never read
27. A book by an author you never read before
28. A book recommended to you by a friendly librarian
29. A book by a Nobel Prize winner
30. Mythology (not just Greek)
31. A book written by someone born the same year as you
32. Dystopia
33. Reread of a favorite book
34. A book about books
35. Book published the year you graduated high school
36. A book a child/teen/someone younger than you loves
37. A book about/set by the sea
38. A book with two authors
39. Author from your own state, province, or country
40. A book about a trip (road, cruise, around the world)
41. A book with the name of a person in the title
42. Science Fiction
43. Fantasy
44. Wild card
45. Wild card
46. Wild card
47. Wild card
48. Wild card
49. Wild card
50. Wild card
51. Wild card
52. Wild card

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A big thank you to everyone that took part in the discussions and voting for our next challenge. My hope is that you'll all find it to be an even better experience in 2016!

During the month of December I'll start creating the discussion folders and will change the name of the group to reflect the new year. And I'll find a new icon for the group.

In the meantime, keep reading - 2015 isn't over yet!

I'm really looking forward to the final list too !!

With that I do believe I'll wrap things up! Thirty-eight votes here will do nicely.

Stay tuned for the full list reveal soon!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

Frogli wrote: "Finished! Wheeeee! I can't for the life of me remember which ones I posted and where as I know I have shifted some around. I will just update them all here...



Congratulations!!!

Annerlee wrote: "ARE we voting ON or OFF the list??

i.e. do I put my least favourites or my favourites????"

Vote for your four favorites! I won't close voting until I hear from you. :-) You could be a tie-breaker!

Thomas wrote: "Anne wrote: "Looking good so far! Keep voting for a few more days."

I can't wait to see the new list. We should try to spread it when it's done."


Good plan!

Oh dear - I definitely meant for everyone to vote for their favorites, and I'm sure everyone did that.

The voting is bringing some pretty clear winners for this round. I'm just about to tally up the most recent batch!

Cheryl wrote:

whOOps. I was thinking survivor and voting off the island. ;)



Hee hee

Looking good so far! Keep voting for a few more days.

Me! I'm so busy for the next two months that I'm not going to sweat it. If I get a few more categories I'll be happy.

We need a vote off to round out the last four categories! We are getting close to a great list. I'm really looking forward to revealing next year's challenge soon!

Please select your top FOUR from the following:


A book about death
A poetry book
A book set in Victorian England
book with a month name in the title
The "wrong" book (a book with the same/similar title as another)
Author from your own state (or country, if you are not from US)
Steampunk
Book about a trip (road trip, cruise, world)
Science Fiction
Fantasy
A book with the name of a person in the title

There hasn't been any activity here for a few days, so I'm going to go ahead and close the thread. We have some clear winners.

This thread is officially closed. I'll post the results soon.

Thanks everyone! I'll start tallying these up in the next couple of days. Keep voting!

Thanks everyone for continuing to vote while I was out of town for a few days - we're up to 79 people! I'm excited that so many of you have taken the time to give input.

Some of you have pointed out that several categories are similar. I tried to avoid it when I put together the list, but missed a couple. I will take the raw numbers, then account for similarities so we end up with the most variety possible.

It's been really interesting tallying the votes - I have a system of organization to make sure I don't go nuts! Putting my librarian organizational skills to work.

I'll leave voting open through the weekend, then call this thread closed.

Everyone agrees that some of this year's categories were pretty difficult. However, there were some pretty good categories too. This vote will be a little different.

If you want all new categories, leave a comment saying so.

If you'd like to repeat categories, tell us your top three from this year.


Go!

59 people have voted so far - thank you! I'll let this go a few more days before wrapping it up.

Heather wrote: "This isn't a book about the Battle of Waterloo told by a rabbit, which is what a lot of reviewers have said. It's a book about how humans are discordant with nature because of our wars and why we f..."

Did you want this to go in the "non-human character" category?

Ashley wrote: "This was slow to start, but I stuck with it because my friend said it was really good. I did, and I was rewarded with an intriguing story with quite a surprising twist."

Recommended by a friend? Let me know if you want a different category.

Cheers!

Another batch tallied! Thanks for your votes everyone. At the rate we're going we'll have a very nice challenge list that isn't too painful but will allow us to stretch our reading tentacles.