Leticia's Reading Challenges 2022 (Comments Welcome)

[Leticia]

SFFBC 2022 Challenges

2022 Read All the Books: On Cloud Nine

Circadian Reading Challenge 2022

Novella Challenge

Short Fiction Challenge

Series Bingo 2022

[Leticia]

2022 Read All the Books: On Cloud Nine


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Currently reading:




Read:

- DNF
- 5 stars!

[Leticia]

Circadian Reading Challenge 2022



https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Map Used: https://24timezones.com/timezone-map
Search Used https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/

I'll go with 12 Time Zones for now:


UTC Time Zone Country Author Title

-8 Canada - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake

✔️-7 Mexico Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Velvet Was the Night

✔️-6 US Brandon Sanderson - Cytonic

-4 Argentina - Angélica Gorodischer - Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

-3 Brazil - José de Alencar - Senhora

✔️0 UK - Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Tiger and the Wolf

1 France - Aliette de Bodard (lives and was raised there) - Tea and Murder

2 Lebanon- Amin Maalouf O Périplo de Baldassare or
Israel - Lavie Tidhar

5 India -The City Inside by Samit Basu


✔️8 China - Ken Liu - The Grace of Kings

✔️10 Australia - Garth Nix - The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

11 Russia - Vita Nostra or The Dead Mountaineer's Inn


Other ideas:

Philippines - Rin Chupeco The Bone Witch

India - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni-The Mistress of Spices

Nigeria - Suyi Davies Okungbowa- Son of the Storm

Korea - Un-su Kim - The Cabinet
and/or ✔️Bo-Young Kim - I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

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Read 2022:

✔️UK - Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Tiger and the Wolf
✔️Hungary - Theodora Goss - The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
✔️China - Ken Liu - The Grace of Kings- DNF
✔️Korea - Bo-Young Kim - I'm Waiting for You and Other Korea -Stories- DNF
✔️Australia - Garth Nix - The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
✔️Mexico Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Velvet Was the Night
✔️US - Brandon Sanderson - Cytonic

[Leticia]

2022 Novella Challenge

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Universe of Xuya Series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/306828

Seven of Infinities,
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight- short story
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
The Tea Master and the Detective,
On a Red Station, Drifting,

Legion Series:

Legion, Skin Deep, Lies of the Beholder


2022


Novellas Read:
✔️ - 5 stars!
✔️ - 5 stars!
✔️ - 5 stars!

[Leticia]

Short Fiction Challenge


https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My results:

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Sleepy: Read 1 piece of short fiction (any length).Done!

Bashful: Read 12 pieces of short fiction (any length) Done!

The Only Novella part of my Challenge is doing well!

SFFBC Short Fiction Anthology 2020:

Happy: Read 12 novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies Done!

Done with 9 Novellas and 3 short fiction collections/anthologies! But I plan to read more Novellas.

Sneezy: Read 52 pieces of short fiction (any length)
Done!

GOAL: Double Sneezy: Read 104 pieces of short fiction (any length)

Last year I read 68 pieces of short fiction so I need only 36 for my goal. But I'll try around 10 Novellas and 50 Short stories.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

UPDATE SEP21 read 50 short stories and 15 Novellas.

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Collections/Anthologies Completely Read:

2020


2021
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Update September 2021: This year I read 50 short stories and 15 Novellas and adding to the short fiction from 2020, so far so I completed my goal:

>Double Sneezy: Read 104 pieces of short fiction (any length). Done!

NEXT GOALS:

Doc: Read 52 novellas or short fiction collections/anthologies
Grumpy: Read 365* pieces of short fiction (no poems or flash fiction)

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2020 Novellas: 11

1✔️ 2✔️ 3✔️ 4✔️ 5✔️ 6✔️ , 7✔️ 8✔️ , 9✔️ 10✔️ ✔️ 11



2021 Novellas: 28 so far

1 ,2 ,3 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ,11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 20 , 21 ,22 , 23 24 25 26 27 , 28 29.




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[Leticia]

"(Explanations:
*Favorite Author = written by one of your faves
*Fresh off the Press = latest book in this series came out in 2020, 2021, or 2022
*Binge-Read= you read the whole series from start to finish in 2022 - easiest with a duology)

Each filled-in bingo row gives you a fox 🦊
Each filled-in column gives you a wolf 🐺
Each diagonal gives you a racoon 🦝

Fill in the whole bingo board by finishing or catching up with one series for each of the bingo prompts (no doubling up), and you get a golden trophy: 🏆

Trilogy - ✔️The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

Binge Read - ✔️Lore Olympus: Volume One, ✔️Lore Olympus: Volume Two and all available episodes on the webtoon page.



B) Bonus challenges

If one of the books in a series you're reading fulfills one of the following prompts, you can earn more cute emoji rewards! This time, even the first book in a series counts for this, but each book can only count for one bonus.

✔️1) Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 (2022 is the year of the water tiger)

2) Water/"blood"/other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊

3) A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱


4) Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝


5) Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 🧪

6) Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤


✔️7) Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👑
Egyptian Queen on the cover - The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

8) Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 🩺

9) Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
11) Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
(Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling this challenge.)

Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

Please feel free to post your thoughts, the series you plan to read, and how it's going. I hope you'll have a wonderful and successful reading year in 2022 and that many long and short series will see some progress!"

[Leticia]

2022 Get to Know You Challenge

I'll start doing this challenge with Gabi's books.

5 star read - Red Mars
2 star read - The Gospel of Loki

And Kristenelle's

5 star - Vita Nostra or The Fifth Season
2 star - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (although I think I will also not like this book)

And Karen's

5 star -The Sword of Kaigen
2 star - Tender Is the Night or The Host