Devann's Challenges

[Dev]

2018 CHALLENGES

Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2018
---90 books

New Releases 2018 [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
---20 books [JAN]
---17 books [FEB]
---34 books [MAR]
---24 books [APR]
---26 books [MAY]
---17 books [JUN}
---28 books [JUL]
---16 books [AUG]
---23 books [SEP]
---25 books [OCT]
---12 books [NOV]
---07 books [DEC]
TOTAL - 250 books

New 2 U Authors 2018 [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
---272 books

Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
---20 books [ON TRACK]

Re-Read Rewind [04/18-11/18]
---25 books

DEAR [Drop Everything and Read] [4/12/18]
Earth Day Readathon [4/22/18]

My Year in Books 2018
2018 NetGalley Reads Challenge

[Dev]

I decided to do a list of my monthly challenges here as well. These aren't affiliated with this group in any way but every month [or sometimes two months] I pick certain shelves that I will try to read as many books as possible from during that month so here are the ones for the end of 2017 and then 2018 so far

[50] 10-17 Halloween Horror
[30] 12-17 Devils & Demons
[40] 01-18 New Year, Old Series
[25] 02-18 LGBTIA Love
[45] 03-18 Magical March
[40] 04-18 Classics vs. Chicks
[45] 05-18 Mythical May
[20] 06-18 Pirates and Thieves
[25] 07-18 History and Mystery
[55] 08-18 Fall Fantasy
[45] 09-18 Sci-fi September
[45] 10-18 Creepy Creatures
[45] 11-18 Old and New
[20] 12-18 Challenge Catch Up

TOTAL: 460 books

[Dev]

2019 CHALLENGES

Cleaning out the TBR Closet 2019
---61 books

Weight Loss Challenge [01/19 - 06/19]
Weight Loss Challenge [07/19 - 08/19]

New 2 U Authors 2019
---220 books

New Releases 2019
---13 books [JAN]
---23 books [FEB]
---25 books [MAR]
---21 books [APR]
---22 books [MAY]
---19 books [JUN}
---18 books [JUL]
---10 books [AUG]
---35 books [SEP]
---23 books [OCT]
---07 books [NOV]
---06 books [DEC]
TOTAL - 222 books

Decades Challenge 2019
---190 books

Never-Ending Series Challenge [01/19 - 03/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [03/19 - 05/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [05/19 - 07/19]
Never-Ending Series Challenge [07/19 - 10/19]

Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
---45 books [AHEAD BY 5]

Re-Read Rewind [11/18-02/19]
Re-Read Rewind [02/19 - 10/19]

DEAR [Drop Everything and Read] [4/12/19]
Earth Day Readathon [4/22/19]
Pride 50 Jubilee [06/2019]

My Year in Books 2019

[Dev]

Gonna go ahead and list out my personal monthly challenges and what shelves i'll be reading from for each month for 2019 as well:

[35] 01-19 NEW YEAR OLD SERIES v2
[20] 02-19 POC PARTY
[40] 03-19 YOU GO GIRL
[34] 04-19 LIARS & THIEVES
[34] 05-19 FANTASY & FAIRYTALES
[30] 06-19 GAYS & GIRLS
[26] 07-19 PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
[23] 08-19 SUPERS & SCIENCE
[35] 09-19 FALL FANTASY V2
[34] 10-19 MONSTER MASH
[24] 11-19 OLD AND NEW V2
[18] 12-19 CHALLENGE CATCH-UP V2

[Dev]

2020 CHALLENGES

✔ Cleaning out the TBR Closet 2020
---30 books

✔ Author Alphabet 2020
---26 books
✔ ABC Reading Challenge 2020
---26 books

✔ New 2 U Authors 2020
---125 books
✔ New Releases 2020
---14 books [JAN]
---20 books [FEB]
---15 books [MAR]
---13 books [APR]
---05 books [MAY]
---09 books [JUN}
---06 books [JUL]
---08 books [AUG]
---12 books [SEP]
---18 books [OCT]
---05 books [NOV]
---06 books [DEC]
TOTAL - 131 books

❒ Decades Challenge 2020
---138/200 books [ends 2/21/21]
✔ Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
---68/100 books [ahead by 8 books]

✔ Never Ending Series [10/19-04/20]
✔ Never Ending Series [04/20-11/20]
❒ Never Ending Series [11/20-??/??]

❒ Re-Read Rewind [10/19-??]

✔ DEAR [Drop Everything and Read] 4/12/20

My Year in Books 2020
2020 NetGalley Reads Challenge

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2021 Challenges

✔ New 2 U Authors 2021
--- 136 books
✔ New Releases 2021
--- 76 books

❒ Never Ending Series [07/31/21 - 10/10/21] [10/10/21 - ??/??/??]
❒ Re-Read Rewind [/02/02/21-??/??/??]

✔ Decades Challenge 2021 [starts FEB 1]
--- 231 books
✔ Cleaning out the TBR Closet 2021
--- 60 books
✔ Decades Challenge 2020 [ends FEB 21]
--- 210 books
✔ Fill in the Gaps [2018-2022]
--- 27 books this year / 100 books total [DONE]

✔ Never Ending Series [11/20/20-02/02/21]
✔ Never Ending Series [02/02/21-05/29/21] [05/29/21 - 07/31/21]
✔ Re-Read Rewind [10/19/20-02/02/21]

✔ He Said, She Said
✔ Author Alphabet 2021
✔ All About You, Part 1
✔ All About You, Part 2
✔ Color Challenge
✔ Harry Potter Sorting Hat Challenge
✔ A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay

My Year in Books 2021

[Dev]

Thinking about doing the Reading Glasses and Professional Book Nerds Reading Challenges for 2021 so I'm putting the lists here to keep track of them

Reading Glasses

Read a poetry collection
--- Embodied: An Intersectional Comics Poetry Anthology by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Read a microhistory
--- The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
Read a book by a Native/First Nations author
--- My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Read a book recommended by your library/librarian
--- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Read a banned book

Attend a virtual book event
--- The Adventure Zone: Crystal Kingdom - Virtual Event 7/13
Get rid of a book you’ll never read
--- Heroes in Hell by Janet E. Morris
Review a book by a BIPOC
--- My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Review a bookstore/boost a bookstore on social media
Figure out your wheelhouse

Professional Book Nerds

Read a 2020 debut that you didn't read in 2020
--- Tam Lin: A Modern, Queer Retelling by T.J. Deschamps
Reread a book you have already read in a different format
--- The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan [listened to audiobook]
Read a book by an LGBTQIA+ author
--- The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Read a book by an author who has been interviewed on PBN
--- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Read a nonfiction book by a woman historian
--- Spy Princess: The Life Of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
Read a picture book
--- Chu's Day by Neil Gaiman
Read a book published befween 1990- and 2000
--- Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Read a book you've never read but you have seen the screen adaptation
--- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Read a play
--- Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron
Read a book by an author from your city or state
--- Truth and Other Lies by Lyra Wolf
Read a book about a book
--- The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Read a cookbook - select a recipe and make it

[Dev]

2022 Challenges

❒ Decades Challenge 2022

✔ New Authors 2022
✔ New Releases 2022
✔ ABC Reading Challenge 2022
✔ Never Ending Series [07/31/21 - 10/10/21] [10/10/21 - ??/??/??]
✔ Re-Read Rewind [/02/02/21-02/11/22]
✔ Author Alphabet 2022

My Year in Books 2022

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my coin collection:

21 ruby
07 sapphire
25 emerald
11 amethyst
03 tourmaline
04 diamonds
01 citrine