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Jul 17, 2015 03:01PM
Do you have any of your own rules in the challenge? Mine are that I don't count audiobooks and I only use one book for one catagory.
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I'm only using one book per category as well. I've switched some around to fit different categories, but I will not list the same book twice on my list.
I am being very strict. One book for category, and only books I have not read before. No rereading. I am not 'fudging' categories. For instance, if it says antonym, it is an antonym. If it is a trilogy, it is not one that has more than three books in the series (that was very hard to do). I figured the point of the challenge was to actually challenge me. Not make it easy. I was expecting to go out of my comfort zone, and explore new things. That was what I figured the challenge was about, and that is what I did. HOWEVER, that being said...I do not begrudge anyone how THEY are doing it. Reading, and enjoying reading is the what it should be about, and if you are not enjoying it, or need to adjust...then, that should be one's own decision. For me, this works. (I only have two more books left, and one is coming out at the end of this month).
I'm doing one book per category and trilogy must be an actual trilogy. Other than that, no additional "rules."
My rules are that I will read a different book for each category, and that I can only count a book in one challenge. So...if I used Paper Towns for Florida in my 50 States Challenge, I couldn't use it for P in my Alphabet Challenge or "In a High School" in this challenge.Oh, I also had a rule that I wouldn't count any book that I rated 1 or 2 stars. And then I had to read a classic romance and hated all of them so much that I forced myself to finish one just to get it done. And it was a one star. So I tossed that rule. *laugh* I just couldn't take it anymore!
i've been pretty lax in rules, so i can use one book for three different categories. any format counts unless it's something like poetry (...i considered using The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot and had to come up with that rule). i'm trying not to re-read unless it was something from 10+ years ago or the first book in a trilogy. but yeah, i try to be mindful of stretching myself into different genres and it's really haarddd haha.
No "double-dipping" (ie, one book per category). That's pretty much it. Some I'm gonna have to fudge, cause I don't know of any book set in my hometown, etc.
Heather wrote: "No "double-dipping" (ie, one book per category). That's pretty much it. Some I'm gonna have to fudge, cause I don't know of any book set in my hometown, etc."I think that if you use one in a metropolitan city near you, that would count. I got lucky when I was discussing it with my local librarian. There had been one written that I did not know about. You might talk to local library. There might be one. Otherwise, most folks are using city near them.
HOWEVER, there is an author from your neck of the woods that might work for you. http://whitebreadandjam.blogspot.com/...
It doesn't take place there...but, the author is from your area. Then, of course, there are wine books about the Willamette Valley....And, travel books
Valerie wrote: "Heather wrote: "No "double-dipping" (ie, one book per category). That's pretty much it. Some I'm gonna have to fudge, cause I don't know of any book set in my hometown, etc."I think that if you u..."
Oh, I should check out our local librarian. We have several authors living here, so maybe one of them at least mentions Brownsville in a book.... ^_^
Oh yea, the trilogy thing - that was another rule I had for me, had to be a true trilogy. Trying to stay very strict to the guidelines set by the challenge, the only I semi took liberty with was Ultraviolet for the book with a color in the title. I didn't feel like the Ultraviolet was a true color to be able to count, but after reading it I felt like it belonged there. The whole book was about colors and seeing colors for words, and the tastes of colors... so I felt justified using it in my color category.
The only rules I really have are no books I've already read (except the book from my childhood category ) and only one book percatergory. I am using audio books. I walk to work and its about a 15-20 mintue walk so I've been listening to some classics as I walk and I've found, for me its the best way to "read" them. I also started this challenge with the hope that I would be able to read some of the books that have been on my bookshelves for so long I've forgotten about them. So it's been an interested challenge to fit the books I already own into the catergories.
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I love seeing the variety of ways we've shaped this challenge to make it personally challenging but also doable.
I´m also quite strict and only use one book per category. I don´t use audio books so I don´t know if I would count them if I did. Since I generally read books in either icelandic or english the book originally written in another language has to be some other language than those. One rule I´m probably gonna stretch a bit is the one about a book taking place in my hometown, I´m gonna go with a book taking place in my old hometown, actually just a stone´s throw from the doorstep of my house there.
I also am strict and using one book per category (other than trilogy obviously) The trilogy I read however was a quartet so i used one of the books for another category.
Also I am trying to read books I have never read before. I think I have one exception due to the nature of the category. (read as a child)
I have used audio books for some but that's because I have a 2 hour commute to the work/school. So kinda hard when your cutting about 4 hours a day to drive.
