The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
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Hello. My name is Allyson.I'm 15 years old. I live in Illinois. I've been reading since I was 3 years old. My other interests include knitting, crocheting, drawing, and listening to music.
Hello,my name is Valerie. It took me sometime, but I finally finished a book right now I am taking a break from it. I like to read, crochet, watch football especially college and college basketball. I saw this challenge and thought it might be good for me to try because I usuallly only read chicklit, romance novels, and murder/mystery books.
Hi,my name is Audryaunna and I live in Nebraska. I am always looking for new books. I am always reading books by either the same author or the same type of books. I love knitting, drinking coffee, and reading YA books. I joined this group because it looked like a group that I can broaden by book comfort zone.
Hi! My name is Alyssa. I am a student at University of Houston and am in my last year as a Journalism major! I also work full time and love reading in my spare time. I am looking for new books, authors and genres to try. My favorites are Non-fiction and some drama fiction. Jodi Picoult is one of my favorite authors and also like the classics. Looking forward to new challenges in this book group!
I am on a fiction kick right now but both my son (Fox news) and husband (per diem, ABC TV news) are journalists. Love the plays of Oscar Wilde, Strindberg. Eugene O'Neill and Ibsen. Good luck to you!
Hi, my name is Pam & I work at a rural library in East Texas. I love to read & really love challenges. They help me to broaden my horizons & try new authors and genres. Reading challenges like this one are really treasure hunts for "bookies"!
Hi . I'm Abdu Noor. you can call me simply Noor. I'm from India. I'm 20 years old. Doing B.Tech degree in computer science. Reading is my hobby. Rather say newly started Hobby.My favorite book is the alchemist by Paulo coelho. I just read only a few books. but I really love to read more and more. I don't know which book I should read. so this group may help me. thank u for this wonderful group.
Hi. I'm in the middle of reading Adultery by the same author on audiobook. It is really more about a spoiled, bored woman than anything else. Keep up this wonderful hobby.
Hi everyoneMy name is arin. I'm 19 and i'm college student. I like reading every genre but mostly chicklit. It's my first time participating in book challenge. I'm very exicited!
Hi, I'm Amy. I am a mother of 3 who recently got out of daycare to focus more on my family. I suddenly have more balance which includes time to feed my passion...reading!
hello everyone! I'm karthikeya and I'm from Mysore ,India. I enjoy reading and I hope to include books from a wide range of topics in my list. thank you SRC!
Hi everyone! I'm Alannah from Glasgow, Scotland. I'm a school student hoping to go on to study law. Currently I'm particularly interested in the classics but I'm really up for reading anything. Feel free to add me as a friend if you'd like as I'm very new to Goodreads :)
Tammy wrote:I occasionally branch out of my comfort zone/ favorite genres as well. I'm trying to find some good fantasy reads. I usually don't read fantasy. Any suggestions?I'm not a big fantasy fan but if you haven't read it I highly recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Hi, I'm Simone, from Asheville, North Carolina. I used to be a voracious bookworm till the workload of nonfiction in college wiped me out. I didn't read a fiction book I chose for fun for 5 years. So I thought it was time to get back to it, and started off easy with Harry Potter, and I'm now reading a book every 1-3 days. I love challenges, so thought I'd try some out. It may take me a bit to figure out the forums here, but I look forward to joining in for the winter challenge.
Hi Simone! Welcome, I'm kind of close to you. I'm in Georgia. Hope you enjoy this book club!
Hi all. I hope to participate in the Winter Challenge (board name Victoria C), the suggested tasks already sound great, so I'm looking forward to seeing the final list. I live in Maryland, have a job, a family, and read as much as I can, including some audio books while commuting.
I am active in a few GR groups, but mainly the Books on the Nightstand podcast group. They had a great summer challenge based on Bingo and I guess it kindled (ha) my competitive spirit.
Welcome Simone & Victoria .... be sure to go to the READERBOARD thread and request an official readerboard name.
My name is Sally, and I am a grandmother from Australia who has a double addiction - reading and challenges!I have followed a couple of friends in here and plan to start with the winter challenge - which is quite odd because it is summer here in Oz and damn hot right now.
I have a couple of weeks to get my head around how your challenges work but the little peek I had earlier I think I am going to LOVE it :)
I wanted to do the Fall challenge, but have had barely time to read, let alone post. I am sad there just is not enough time to fit all I love in. Maybe I will be able to do it sometime in the future.
Hi, My name is Beth, I work for a veterinarian in rural Virginia, and I, in recent years, have learned to love reading ( never did as a kid). For the past two years I have done reading challenges and this year I'm looking for something new and different. I look forward to joining the next challenge and will be looking around the website and following what others are doing until then to get acquainted with how the game is played.
Hello. My name is Sarah ( with an A at the end since us Sarahs' seem so common!!).I work for a small home furnishings business in Scotland and spend all my working life being creative so it's nice to come home to a book and chill out a bit.
I was bought an ereader for my birthday and since then my book consumption has increased somewhat. I love it and wish i had made the move to one before.
I've joined this challenge to get me trying new genres but my, I think I'm bamboozled by how much people are managing to read. very impressed.
Welcome Sarah! Glad you are joining the challenge!
Hi!!My name is Alex Starke, I'm 26, and I'm a high school math teacher in Georgia. I LOVE these types of reading challenges, even though I don't always stay on top of it the way that I should! I like trying :)
I currently have the two most wonderful children. Both boys, they're cute and furry and keep me warm at night. They're spoiled to death, and yes...have four paws :)
My life motto: I work hard so my cats can have a better life. :)
Haha, JK! Very excited to start the winter challenge!!
Hi Alex! I'm in Georgia too - outside Augusta. Welcome to the challenge!
Hello,I noticed this group when it was featured on my GR groups page one day and decided to investigate. It looks like fun - I read widely in almost any genre, so it's right up my alley. (Dystopia and horror, though, would be tough...) I'm using the challenge to get myself through my massive TBR pile, and am really looking forward to discovering some great new books. But I also reread a lot, so I'm glad that's OK here.
As a currently unemployed widow whose kids are married I have lots of time to read and knit. Thanks to my Kindle I can do both at the same time, if I want. Of course, audio books are great for that, too. And I'm a fast reader, normally reading 20-40 books a month. So the challenge is technically doable for me.
I will be travelling out of state in January because I have a grandbaby due then. It will be great to see my son, DIL and 4 year old grandson and I know from experience I'll not get much reading done. So I need to read as fast as I can before I go. :)
Following the clue releases and planning my books is a lot of fun. We'll see how I do with following the plan, though. I tend to be a very impulsive reader. If I'm not in the right mood for a certain book - forget it. It won't be read. Hopefully within the next three months I'll have enough variety of moods to get to everything. LOL
Can't wait for November to end so we can start reading.
Hi everyone. My name is Michelle (Meshell) on the readerboard. I am 45, a nurse and have 2 teenage daughters. I use to read all the time, and loved it so much. Then with the kids, my husband and work, I found I really didn't have time to read the way I like to, so I stopped. I really need to do something to make me happy, so I joined the group to give myself incentive to start reading again. Looking forward to the winter books.
Hi Michelle - hope you find time to read some great books! Welcome!
@Teri-k: Oh, my! You are a fast reader. I average 15 books a month. When I started this group, I was looking for a way to get back into reading and stuck to the plan I made for each task. However, as time has gone on, I find that I may move books or substitute other books for my plan, so it is a bit more flexible. I also read several books at one time, primarily because my attention and mode varies. It is not uncommon for me to have 6-7 books going at the same time.This season, I am using the planning thread to track other books I might use in my plan for each task. I am hoping it will make the substitutions easier later.
@Shari (and all other newbies): Be sure to familiarize yourself with the threads in the WELCOME, THE RULES, and the MODERATOR'S ANNOUNCEMENTS sections. If you have questions beyond that, there is the General Questions thread for each season and specific task help for each task. Have fun!
Hello, I'm Kit (aka Absinthe, Nixas, or Aryell) I'm a college student who is double majoring in sexuality studies and psychology. I'm a voracious reader and read books from every genre. I love having discussions about books with others and I enjoy reading challenges as I am a highly motivated person who enjoys the feeling of productivity.
As the tasks are now being posted, and I'm having fun making my plans, I'm getting quite intimidated. Even though I saw in advance how many tasks there would be, it's only as I'm adding actual books to each one that I'm thinking, no way will I be able to read all these in 3 months! I am going to try though. I salute those of you that can do it! I read fast, but unfortunately that pesky full time job and sleeping interfere!
Thank you :) I'm still reading through the rules and regulations of how to properly function in this club, but I'll get around to participating regularly when I feel comfortable to do so.
Hahaha, Victoria! I know how you feel!
Hello, I'm Harm and I live in the Netherlands. I work as a psychologist in a prison. I like many different kind of genres and do not really have a favorite genre. The most important thing in a book for me is that I like to be surprised, to read something that I have not read before. I find the idea of the Seasonal Challenge very interesting. I hope this will help me to bring some structure in reading books from my fastgrowing to read list. And hopefully be surprised by books that I otherwise wouldn't have read :).
Hello All. I am Amrina. I am looking forward to the challenge even though I am not completely sure of how it is going to pan out.
Hello All. I am Amrina. I am looking forward to the challenge even though I am not completely sure of how it is going to pan out.
Hi everybody, my name is Sara. I'm originally from Iowa but as we're a military family we're currently living in Texas with a move coming soon to Georgia. I've loved reading for as long as I can remember, and now that my daughter is 6 it's exciting to see her getting interested in reading too. The challenge sounds very interesting, although reading through some of these posts I'm realizing I'm not the fast reader I thought I was! I'm still excited to give the challenge a try, though.
Bea,I'm using that planning thread, too. It makes it easy to glance down the long list of tasks and locate a specific book. I've left some of the easier-for-me tasks open so I can fill them in as I go.
And 15 books a month is still a lot - more than most people read. :)
Bea wrote: "@Teri-k: Oh, my! You are a fast reader. I average 15 books a month. When I started this group, I was looking for a way to get back into reading and stuck to the plan I made for each task. However, ..."
Hi Harm, Amrina, and Sara..... Welcome!!!
Hello! I've been in a reading slump lately and read about this group on the blog Book Riot. Excited to try the challenges out.
Hi! I'm Victoria - I read about the challenge/group on Book Riot also. It sounds fun!
Hi, I'm Julia in Virginia and this is my first go-around. I've seen this challenge mentioned a few times on Bookriot and elsewhere and thought it might an interesting change of pace. And surprisingly challenging already.
Hi! I'm Kendra, and I'm from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I heard about this group through Book Riot, and I'm so excited to participate in the Winter Challenge! I work at Chapters and have an English minor in my Secondary Education degree, so reading is my entire life. I'm always looking for new challenges and groups to join, because I need ways to direct my reading. I'm also looking to meet new friends!
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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My name's Jemma, 27 years of age. Originally from Sheffield, but have slowly gravitated my way down south and am now a Warwicker! I have a job where I have to read contracts all day long, I've got into a bit of a book rut so would like to give this challenge a go and see where it takes me!
Should be fun!