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from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.
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Only three of us, so I've given us a couple of days for each part. I guess if we are all reading it super quick we can post ahead of schedule (thinking of Wheels!)
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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
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How to Participate:The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the Audiobook Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!
1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post
2. During the month, read the audiobooks that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year
Then start a new post for the next month!
FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:
Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:
Books in category:
FINISHED
End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:
MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):
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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)
~ Monthly Audiobook Challenge ~
Each month we will have a different theme of audiobook for you to listen to.
Read one, two, three, or thirty. Up to you! Just post at the start of the month which books you will read in the category, update through the month and post a link to your Goodreads review (no links to external sites).
Let's find some great audiobooks together!
Duration: Monthly
January 2023 Theme:
◈ Full Cast
An audiobook with several narrators; there is usually a narrator per character (e.g. American Gods by Neal Gaiman). To find these, you can search most sites by the term “Full Cast.”
Nominations so far:
2023 Weighty Tome nominations are open here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nominations close 20 December
2023 Weighty Tome nominations are open here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nominations close 20 December
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Each year we pick one incredibly large book, split it out across the year, and do a very long buddy read!2022 was Pillars of the Earth;
2021, Gone with the Wind;
2020 War and Peace ;
And 2019 Les Misérables
Anyone is welcome to join the buddy read, but you can only nominate if you intend to join
Nominate Up to three books below that meet the following criteria:
* A minimum of 30 hours on audio according to a reputable site such as audible or overdrive this is slightly less than previous years, as we started to run into mainly classics and it may be time to broaden the options
* Has not been a NBRC BOM previously
* You want to read and intend to join in the Weight Tome read in 2023
* If part of a series, it is book 1 (i.e. you can not nominate a book 2, 3 etc.)
To Nominate:
Post:
The book (link via the "add book/author" option above the comment box)
The description (copy and paste from GR)
The audiolength and source
NOMINATIONS CLOSE 20 DECEMBER 2022
And then we will get voting!!
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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
How to Participate:
The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.
Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.
1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is
2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)
3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio
Then start a new post for the next month!
**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!
Dec 08, 2022 04:19AM
Dec 08, 2022 04:18AM
VolunteersJenny (nominator)
Judith
Cat
Dec 08, 2022 04:18AM
Chapter Breakdown
Date MPDQ Chapters Pages
2 Jan Jenny I: Sick Kids 1 - 60
3 Jan Judith II: Influences 61 - 124
4 Jan Cat III: Unfair Games - V: Pivots 125 - 248
5 Jan Percy VI: Marriages - VII: The NPC 249 - 304
6 Jan Angie VIII: Our Infinite Days - X: Freights and Grooves 305 - end
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 08, 2022 04:18AM
In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
Nominated by Jenny
