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Hello my name is Joyce I am an ex-native New Yorker living in Southeast Florida. I have been lurking here and there and decided to start the 52 week challenge in 2022. I love paranormal books in particular. I love a lot of genres as well. Mystery, Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy are probably the favorites. I listen to a lot of audiobooks as I can do other things at the same time as reading. As well as reading I enjoy crocheting and knitting. I have been out of work for the past year so I have had lots of time to read which is why my original goal of 100 books had to change to 150 which I will complete.
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Hello I am Charlene! I am 25 and from Australia. I am excited to try the 52 week challenge in 2022. I read mostly fantasy and scifi but I have been trying to expand my reading next year. I saw a listopia for this group and I was hooked!
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Hi Everyone! I’m Tracy from Santa Barbara, California. I’m new to this group, but I participated in a similar group in 2021. I decided to try this group for 2022 because I liked that fact that the group voted on the prompts rather than just the moderators deciding — seems like a better way to end up with richer more varied ideas.I’ve been a reader all my life, and belong to two IRL book groups, but my reading didn’t really pick up until Covid hit. Reading, and the fact the fact I could download Kindle books from my library, really kept me sane — especially during that first year. But now the amount I read each year has picked up quite a bit (62 books so far this year, but I expect to get to at least 65, if not more). And even better, my husband has finally become a reader. He went from 1-2 books/year to at least 10 this year. His problem is finding the right book because he has very particular tastes.
Can’t wait to get started on my 2022 choices! I have at least one book picked out for most prompts. Not sure how I’ll decide which is THE book when I get to the multiple options prompts…
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Hello, this will be the first year that I attempt the ATY challenge. The prompts sound like so much fun. I will be keeping things simple by filling in the challenge as I finish my reads. I'm loving going through the suggestions being made.
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Hi everyone! I’m allison and I’m so excited to have found this group I can’t wait to connect with other readers. I have found myself reading very similar books so I thought this would be a good way to bring some variety to my reading!
Robin P wrote: "Welcome, sel! Feel free to join the Winter Seasonal Challenge that just started, and watching for our Read-a-thon coming up later..."Thanks so much. I'm looking forward to it.
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Hi! I'm Eileen from Maine. I love the ATY Challenge. 2022 will be my 3rd year participating. I love to find the BEST matches for the prompts each week. I keep a Google Doc with the list & live-link each prompt to several book choices. I LOVE the system!Does anyone know when the 2022 community spreadsheet will be posted?
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Emily wrote: "Hey Eileen! I've actually posted the 2022 tabs on the community spreadsheet already 🤫"Oh no! I missed that and now I'm column R. I've been one of the first 2 for the last 2 years and now I have to *gasp* scroll to the right.
Emily wrote: "Hey Eileen! I've actually posted the 2022 tabs on the community spreadsheet already 🤫"Sorry Emily. Can't seem to find it...HELP!
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Emily wrote: "Eileen, I moved your column to the A-F tab, since we sort by first name, not last! You can find it there!"OOPS! Thanks!
Hi all. I joined this group a few years ago. I started the challenge but never finished it. Hopefully this time I'll commit! I'm planning to read the prompts in order, one book a week. Do many people do it that way?
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Hi everyone. I'm new to the group and plan on doing the 2022 challenge. So, trying to figure out all the prompts and everything. I think taking on a challenge really encourages me to read more books. It also introduces authors and books that I never would have thought of reading otherwise. I'm looking forward to 2022!
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Hi everyone! I am so excited to have found this group. I was part of a challenge group in the past that ended in 2020. 2021 was a sad year without my challenge group! I love challenges because I end up reading so many books I would never have picked up otherwise!
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Hello, everyone! I am a middle school ELA teacher in Louisiana. I am trying to hit a larger yearly reading goal than in previous years. I found this group while searching for reading challenges and am very excited to be a part of this group!
Virginia wrote: "Hello, everyone! I am a middle school ELA teacher in Louisiana. I am trying to hit a larger yearly reading goal than in previous years. I found this group while searching for reading challenges and..."Welcome, Virginia! We’ve got a good amount of educators in here. I’m a former HS English teacher and current MS school counselor in Jersey. Middle school is such an adventure!
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Many years back I taught French in high school but before that I substituted in middle school in various subjects, mostly English. My original plan was to be a college professor of French but there were way too many applicants for every position and it's only gotten worse since then. I had an unrelated career in sales support/tech support/customer service, until my last job where I worked with people in Quebec and got to use my French.
Emily wrote: "Also, Steve, I didn’t know you were a school counselor. I just moved into a college counseling role in addition to teaching at my high school (so not social-emotional, unless you count kids crying ..."Yup! This is year 6 as a counselor after 8 years as an 11th grade English teacher. College counseling is the one aspect I’m sad I don’t get in middle school! 90% of middle school counseling is social-emotional haha.
My hat's off to any of you who work in schools these days with all the attend or virtual, mask or no mask, test or no test, stop start. Must be an amazing strain on both teachers and students... thanks for doing it!
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Lizzy wrote: "My hat's off to any of you who work in schools these days with all the attend or virtual, mask or no mask, test or no test, stop start. Must be an amazing strain on both teachers and students... th..."Thank you! It was definitely a challenge in the last almost two years now. As a counselor, kids weren’t exactly lining up to talk to me over Google Meet! The bulk of my job was emailing families to find out where their kid was. Now we’re back to virtual to start January, but I’m on paternity leave now so don’t need to worry About it fortunately.
Emily wrote: "Hey Virginia! I’m a teacher in Louisiana as well (used to teach ELA, but moved to economics/personal finance). Happy to have another Cajun here!"I read your reply while eating a big ole bowl of gumbo this evening. Unfortunately, we lost our little cold snap we were having there for a few days. It was in the 70's again today. I am near Alexandria but from Avoyelles. I can even make my own roux. haha
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Steve, our school is still in person because the teachers are able to be present, for the most part. But we have about 1/3 of our student body out sick or quarantined so we are still hybrid with those kids at school... it's a challenge!
Hi… I am Claire C. In Wayzata, MN. I have tried to be a part of this reading challenge for a few years and am trying again this year. The reason I quit is because I do not find the site user friendly. For example, it does not allow me to copy and paste the 2022 prompts list onto my 2022 plan sheet.
I also cannot add my name and books read to the Community Worksheet. I am not a computer novice, but I’ve tried a lot of different ways to complete these tasks but remain unable to enter information. I am using my iPhone 12 Pro.
Please help. Thank you 😊
Hi Claire, I’m sure the mods will be able to get everything straightened out… wanted to say a particular hello since I grew up in Wayzata, though now live In California. Hope you enjoy your reading this year.
Claire wrote: "Hi… I am Claire C. In Wayzata, MN. I have tried to be a part of this reading challenge for a few years and am trying again this year. The reason I quit is because I do not find the site user friend..."Hi Claire! I can’t think of any reason you wouldn’t be able to copy and paste the list off the spreadsheet to your own or edit the spreadsheet itself to add yourself from your iPhone. I can do both tasks on my iPhone 11.
Are you using the Google Sheets app or just editing it directly in the Safari browser or something else all together? Either way, you should be able to highlight them to copy and paste and edit the open cells on the spreadsheet.
Just to be clear: this is the sheet you’re trying to edit, right? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Just want to make sure you’re not trying to edit a locked version from a previous iteration of the challenge.
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Claire, just checking that you are trying to copy and paste on your phone’s web browser instead of the GR’s app. The app does not allow coping and pasting or editing. The app is quite lacking and problematic.
Hello, my name is M, I'm from Canada, and I found this challenge from the Popsugar Reading Challenge. I do a lot of varied reading, and I'm kind of eager to participate in this one too! I have a lot I want to read so I'm hoping some challenges will help me out. I like a good variety of books, but my main focus is finding ones that make me happy. Things that make me feel warm and cherished.
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Claire, I lived in Minneapolis for 25 years. I haven't gone far, only to Wisconsin, but the weather is slightly less extreme here.
Good afternoon! I'm Jazzy and I live in the northeast of England, much closer to Scotland than to 'that London'. I read a lot.
Around the Year in 52 Books
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I read all genres...but my favorite is historical fiction and I dont limit myself to just a certain time period...I will admit I am terrible with planning out books and sticking to the plan....I am an impulsive reader...whatever grabs my attention I will start to read...I am hoping that by being involved in the weekly discussions i will stay with the challenge for the whole year...My current read is Hamnet...I had put it down a couple times this year but recently started again a few days ago and am so enjoying the writing.....
I have a busy life...I work in accounting and sometimes my only sanity is getting time to read daily...i am married with 3 step children and 8 grandkids...My husband is retiring the end of January so life will change for us...just wish I could retire as well when he does...thankfully i work from home so no more daily commute into the city....winter driving can be so brutal at times here on the prairies....
Thats it for now....looking forward to discussing books and meeting new people....