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This is the 1st level of this challenge.
If you can commit to read at least a hundred books in 2024, welcome. The challenge will consist of five levels, each level will require you to read more books!
Level 1: 1 - 100 books
Level 2: 101 - 250 books
Level 3: 251 - 500 books
Level 4: 501 - 1000 books
Level 5: 1001 - infinity!
So, once you complete your first hundred, you may advance to the next level.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 1 through 100) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
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Dec 21, 2023 06:33AM
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Dec 21, 2023 06:33AM
Dec 21, 2023 06:33AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters Pages MPDQs
3 Jan Prologue - 10 25% Melindam
4 Jan 11 - 21 47% Angie
5 Jan 22 - 33 71% Cat
6 Jan 34 - Epilogue Lexi
Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?
Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here
Dec 21, 2023 06:32AM
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.
In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.
Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.
Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.
What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?
Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.
Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.
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nominated by: Melindam
Dec 21, 2023 06:30AM
Dec 21, 2023 06:30AM
VolunteersNominator: LittleRedRidingHood
Melindam
Judith
Henny
Beth
Dec 21, 2023 06:30AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters Pages MPDQs
16 Jan 1 - 3 21% LittleRedRidingHood
17 Jan 4 - 5 37% Judith
18 Jan 6 - 8 63% Melindam
19 Jan 9 - 11 81% Jenny
20 Jan 12 - end 100% Beth
Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?
Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here
Dec 21, 2023 06:30AM
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.
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nominated by LittleRedRidingHood
Voting is now open for the 2024 Weighty Tomeonly vote if you intend to join
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Voting is now open for the 2024 Weighty Tomeonly vote if you intend to join
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Dec 19, 2023 03:18AM
Hi Lisa! Given Carrie a nudge; if they don't get questions up by the time you wake tomorrow please do pop your set up regardless :)
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A spreadsheet has been created to show all of our players, your target, how many books read, and what your % to your goal is comparative to other players.Everyone has access to columns C and D, so you can update your target and your books read whenever you like :)
Spreadsheet is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
In 2016 we started this challenge because when one of our mods (Karen) joined Goodreads in 2012, she still had books on her "to read" shelf from back then. They just stared at her... mockingly... asking when she was going to either read them or remove them from that shelf...
So in 2016 we started "clean out the closet" to read or delete all the books left on your TBR added in 2012 or earlier.
Over the years we have played with the concept and changed things around a little, but the reading challenge is simple...
>sort your "to read" shelf by date
>pick the books that you are going to read which have been on your list the longest and set yourself a goal. You may decide to read all of your books from the oldest year, or you may just take the oldest 20, or 50, or 5 books on your list. Some people choose specific series books, or ARCs, or just random..... Completely up to you how you set your goal and how many books you read!
>Your goal is tracked on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
and players can edit columns C and D. So update your target books and books read as you go and we will post monthly progress to the thread.
It would also be great if you post your thoughts on the books once you finish them. Was it worth waiting for? :)
Reading Challenges
~ Emerald Coin To Earn an Emerald Coin:
One Coin upon "cleaning out" (reading) 30 books that have been on your TBR for more than one yearLearn about Gem coins here
