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[Louise]

Hi :) My name's Louise, I'm from England. I obviously love reading and I saw this challenge and thought I'd give it a shot. I'm mostly here to get good book recommendations and read them :D I love all books, but mostly fantasy. I'm currently doing A levels so I don't have as much time as I would like to read and I end up re reading books a lot, so I probably wont get very far through the challenge :)

[Anushree]

Hi all ! I am Anushree from India ! I joined this group after I read the challenge this year. I tried to manage it offline last year but failed to stay up to it. My resolve is much stronger this year now. Its obvious that I love to read that is why I am here on Goodreads. I have joined this group and this challenge to diversify my reading genre, to explore more and more literature because there is just too much out there and sometimes I find myself lost. This is to define and see if I can carry the definition with me successfully. Thanks in advance to all you amazing people.

[Georgiana]

Hi, my name is Georgiana, I'm 20 and I'm from Romania. Between my time at college and housework, I always find time to read from time to time because when I do, I forget all of my (many) homework and I get to relax and enjoy a great story. I decided to do this challenge because I love reading and because it gives me a reason to try new genres and it pushes me to read more than I expected that I could.

[Mary-jo]

Hi, I'm Mary Jo from New York. I completed the 2015 Challenge and enjoyed it immensely! It really made me open up to reading books I may have never considered before. Looking forward to the 2017 Challenge!!!

[VanesGirl]

Hi, I'm Silke from Germany. I have done the 2015 Challenge with two friends in our bookclub. I´m looking forward to the 2017 challenge because my tbr-pile is way to high ;-)

[Shannon]

Hello, I'm Shannon from Texas. I did the 2015 and 2016 challenges and enjoyed them immensely. I have been a big reader all of my life and often run out of reading ideas. Popsugar challenges are the perfect remedy!

[Kathryn]

I probably shouldn’t really join any more GR groups, but I was fiddling around on the internet yesterday and saw that there was a new Popsugar challenge out for next year and found a link to this group…and so here I am. I didn’t finish what I had planned on for this year’s Popsugar challenge (although with only one book remaining, I could manage it if I tried – whether I will try or not is the question as the remaining books are the ones that excite me less!!). But I like the sound of some of next year’s challenge items more than some of this year’s, so I’m thinking I will give it another go – and hopefully participate in this group, which looks fun.

I live in Australia (Brisbane). I can’t seem to reduce my TBR list significantly as I seem to add books at the same rate as I read them! I also have some books I’d like to read that aren’t on my GR TBR list – which helps to keep my GR TBR list in check, but I know is actually counterproductive! It looks like I can slot some of my TBR books into the 2017 challenge, so that’s a good thing! My favourite genres are historical fiction, crime/mystery (but not too gritty), Christian fiction, and some non-fiction especially memoirs/biography/travelogues.

[Shilpa]

Hi everyone. I am Shilpa, from India. I am currently doing the Goodreads 2016 challenge but felt I wasn't really challenging myself. The 2017 Popsugar quiz looks really interesting. Hopefully, it will be a really good experience.

[Ashley]

I'm Ashley. I've never done a book challenge before, but I'm excited to try to tackle this one. I'm always looking for books to read, and this might be a really fun way to force myself out of my comfort zone.

[Jessica]

Hello! I'm Jessica, a children's librarian in Seattle.
This year I combined the PopSugar and BookRiot challenges (and made a spreadsheet because that's how I roll), and probably won't finish, but I've had a wonderful time working on it. i'm excited for 2017.

[Melanie]

Hello folks!
I have been doing to 2016 challenge all year and have only 3 books left. I only came across your group when Pop Sugar posted the 2017 challenge list. I am looking forward to receiving and sharing book ideas.

[Tina]

Hi all, I tried the challenge last year and gave up a couple of months in. I'm hoping that joining the group will motivate me to complete all the challenges.

[Lyndsey]

Hi all! I'm Lyndsey and I'm a stay at home mom of 3 from Indiana. Within the last year I've found my love of reading again and have used it as my escape from reality. :) I read everything from Nora Roberts to Stephen King but I often get stuck on one author for a long period of time so I thought the challenge would be fun to try!

[Pratiksha]

Hello, I am Pratiksha from India. I found out about this group recently through Popsugar. Really excited to be a part of this group.

[Lindsey]

Hi! I'm Lindsey and I live in Virginia. I read mainly historical fiction so I like challenges like these because they get me to branch out a bit.

[Stephanie]

Hello! I'm Stephanie and I'm from Massachusetts. I'm 25, and I'm a graphic designer. I play roller derby, run a book blog and on top of it all I'm in the middle of planning my wedding that's in June! I love reading (mostly young adult fantasy/fantasy/sci-fi) and hope to expand my reading horizons using this challenge!

[Cindy]

Hi, I'm Cindy. I'm 40 and have lived in Virginia all my life. I read pretty much anything that has words in it. lol

[Kirsten]

Welcome all!

[Lori]

Hi This will be my first book challenge and the first group I have joined on Goodreads. I love to read and usually finish 1 to 2 books a week so hopefully I will be able complete the challenge.

[Jess]

Hey everyone!
My name is Jess, originally from Maryland but moved to Clarksville, TN. I longed to work for the FBI but motherhood made me pursue the teaching profession instead. So now I hunt for the serial killers in books, in which I live vicariously through female lead Detectives/agents in those that I read. I found this group by googling "reading challenges" so here I am. I want something different like the rest of you.

I also just started my own book club for my local Tenneseans that love the mystery & thriller genre: Clarksville/Ft. Campbell Mystery book club.

Can't wait to start!

[Tami]

Hi, I am Tami from Texas. I have done a reading challenge for the last two years, but don't think I have ever read ALL the categories.
I am a lifelong reader, am in a real life book club and have also been reading some advanced reads this past year.

[Jacque T]

Hi! I'm Miriam. Born and raised in Texas but been an European expat for 16 years (currently in England). I home educate my 3 children, so much of my reading is school-related, especially historical fiction. I have tried the Popsugar challenge the past two years, never finish more than 2/3 of it due to many of my books not fitting the categories. But it is always fun to stretch myself a bit as well.

[Tytti]

Hi, I am Tytti from Finland. I will probably just lurk around here, if you don't mind, I am not sure I have time to really do the challenge but I am interested in some of the prompts and what people are reading to them.

I moderate my own group at GR (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...) and sometimes I'll need some ideas for monthly themes and group reads, so maybe I'll find some inspiration here as well. In my group members can also take part in another reading challenge (this year's can be found here: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Events_and..., it's made by the libraries in the Helsinki metropolitan area), so that will be our priority.

[Malaraa]

Hi! I don't know how much I'll track anything as a challenge myself, but I saw a chance to recommend, and I can't resist! Recommending books is a close second favorite thing of mine, after reading them. :)

[Angela]

Hello, everyone! I'm Angela, a librarian in North Carolina, USA. I'm close to completing the 2016 Challenge. The small branch library where I work uses the prompts list for our book club theme inspiration. When we have our meeting, we share the books we read and whether or not we would recommend them. At the end of each meeting, we choose our next theme. We usually go with something that the members find intimidating or that they would not choose on their own. In 2016, National Book Award Winners and Political Memoirs were two of our book club themes. Adventure and fantasy are my preferred genres with romance coming in right after that. I also enjoy manga although my budget won't allow me to enjoy it too deeply.

[Kristina]

Hi, I'm Kristina and I'm in Brooklyn, NY. I'm almost finished with my 2016 challenge from another group, which was a group-made list of prompts similar to the Popsugar challenge, but for 2017 I'm going to stick the the Popsugar list. My primary goal for 2017 is to almost exclusively read only books that I already own but haven't read yet, whether in print or on my Kindle. It's about 175 books to choose from so I'm able to fit most of the categories. I'm very excited.

[Nikki]

Anne wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Anne from Austin, TX. I don't usually have a problem reading 52 books per year but I do have a problem with books that have accumulated beyond the capacity of my home bookshelves s..."

I am just joining this group for 2017 and I am going to try the same thing. I currently live in Maine, but expect to be moving to Wisconsin sometime during the next year, so there is a need for me to read and donate a lot of the books on my shelves that I haven't read yet. I will fill in with library books, audiobooks, and books on Kindle (and probably, truth be told, some physical book purchases as well) but it will be fun to see how many prompts I can tick off from what's already on my shelves.

[poshpenny]

Welcome everyone!

[Vicki]

Hello all,

My name is Vicki. I'm from Bolingbrook, IL which is a suburb of Chicago. I've thought about a reading challenge before and decided that this is the year that I am going to dive into the Popsugar challenge. I bought a Kindle last year and it is definitely helping me read more as it is easier on my aging eyes to read on the Kindle than on a backlit device.

I started to make my list and I am going to transfer it to a spreadsheet so I can figure out how many pages I am going to have to read per day to get the books completed.

[Jo]

Evening all, I'm Jo, I live on the South coast of England. I've been doing the Book Riot Read Harder challenge for a couple of years, and someone mentioned the 2017 challenge so I thought I'd check it out - I think I can do most of it out of books I already own or want to read, so am going to give it a go!

I usually average about 120 books a year, but I'm currently three months into my twelve months of maternity leave and my son is almost 9 weeks old. Not sure yet what that will mean for my reading, we shall see :)

[Patricia]

Jo wrote: "Evening all, I'm Jo, I live on the South coast of England. I've been doing the Book Riot Read Harder challenge for a couple of years, and someone mentioned the 2017 challenge so I thought I'd check..."

120 books/year?! Wow! I've done 65 this year but that's probably more than ever. I'm trying to use books I already have too. I keep buying all these used books and I need to thin them out before it gets out of control. I think trying to figure out which books fit where will be half the fun! I even found a book with more than 800 pages on my shelf!

[Jo]

Patricia wrote: "120 books/year?! Wow! I've done 65 this year but that's probably more than ever. I'm trying to use books I already have too. I keep buying all these used books and I need to thin them out before it gets out of control. I think trying to figure out which books fit where will be half the fun! I even found a book with more than 800 pages on my shelf!"

I'm a fast reader :) I totally have this problem too and I got more than 200 ahead of myself in 2015 (even though I work in a library! It's a serious problem), so I put myself on a book buying ban this year and spent no money on them, only birthday etc. vouchers. I chewed through a big chunk of my TBR shelf this year but I've still got about 70 on there, and probably the same on my Kindle, so ban is on again in 2017!

And agree completely, the working out is half the fun. I've started a spreadsheet already :D

[Betty]

Hello, Everyone! I'm Betty and I'm from Mississippi. I work for my county's library system in two of our small libraries. I've checked out the challenge in the past, but 2017 will be my first year to actually participate. I want to get out of my reading rut, at least somewhat. I would like to read a few classics, some YA books, and a variety of genres. I'm probably going to read some cozy mysteries and historical Christian romances (my current favorites) to keep from feeling overwhelmed. Also going to throw in a few children's books, too. Reading Dracula (book of letters) and Pride and Prejudice (book on TBR list the longest) now. They're going slowly, which is fine since I want to finish them in 2017.

[Debra]

Hello I'm Debra. I from North Yorkshire, England. I did the I-Spy Challenge this year and it was my first reading challenge. I thought I'd try Popsugar this year. I enjoy contemporary fiction and fiction that takes me to a different time or a different place. I enjoy audio books and paper books. I like to take my time reading/listening. This year I would like to read more of the non-fiction books I have accumulated but never get around to reading.

[Amanda]

Hello, I'm Amanda. I'm 35 and a librarian outside Syracuse, NY. Just found this challenge, so starting to prep for 2017. I love non-fiction and thrillers, plus some pop-fiction. I mostly read paper, but have been listening to audiobooks the past year as I have an hour commute (round trip) every day. I hit 100 books read in a year early this month for the first time ever, so hoping to do that again in 2017 with help from this challenge.

[Anna]

Hello, I'm Anna Adam, digital learning specialist at Killeen Independent School District in Central Texas. This will be my third year participating in the challenge but I only just found the group! I'm so excited to have a place to get suggestions of books to fill the challenges!

I read a lot of YA because I help support the district librarians and we host a battle of the books for elementary and middle school children, but I enjoy supernatural and thrillers.

Can't wait to be a part of this!

[Chani]

Hi everyone. I'm Stephanie, an academic librarian in Texas. I finished the Pop Sugar reading challenge this year, but did not find out about this group until October. I am looking forward to participating in this challenge year, I love being pushed out of my book comfort zone.

[Caity]

Hi y'all! I'm Caity, I'm 28, and I am currently located in NYC, but I am actually from an Air Force family and am thus from nowhere in particular. I hold degrees in filmmaking and emergency management, aspire to finally publish in 2017, and have known about this reading challenge since some unknown time in 2015, or maybe it was 2014. Who knows, who cares.

This time around, I think I may actually give it a go. I have a lot of books on my shelves and on my kindle, so my extra challenge will be to not buy any new books unless absolutely necessary. It helps that I have an ARC or two from giveaways on Goodreads that won't actually be published until 2017. Muahahahahahah

[Sara]

Welcome to all the new members! There are a lot of you, so I would suggest (as many of you have already done) to just jump right in to the discussions! My favorite posts are the weekly check-ins where we can all post what we've read over the last week. These posts open every Thursday. Even if you are new and not starting an official challenge until 2017 you are still welcome to post your reading updates each week. Those of us who have finished the 2016 challenge still love to check in with each other. It's a highlight of our bookish week!

[Karen]

Hello all! My name is Karen, and I'm from Ontario, Canada. I saw the list for this challenge posted on Twitter, and thought it looked like fun, so here I am! I think this challenge might be a good way for me to branch out a little in my reading and read some things I might not normally go for. At any rate, I'm looking forward to getting started and chatting with all of you. Happy reading everyone!

[Karen]

I am also Karen :) I'm a New Jersey-born Arizonan now living in Wisconsin. I tried the Popsugar challenge last year, was ahead of the game in the first 3 months of the year, but then got bored with some of the selections that didn't interest me and stopped keeping track. This year I think the prompts are more favorable and I have enlisted my 15 year-old daughter to participate with me - we are reading the same list, which we chose together.

I am in the mortgage/finance industry, but was once an elementary school teacher. I love to dance. I teach Zumba in my spare time, which I've been doing for over 5 years. I also love to travel and if I had unlimited money/time, I'd fly somewhere new as often as possible to experience the people and culture of another country. I lived in Belgium for 3 years and loved it...honeymooned in Belize and would love to retire there!

[Kirsten]

Belgium & Belize... try and retire soon... any chance to escape the Trump regime should be taken at all costs!

[Karen]

Kirsten *Don't Be A Grinch* wrote: "Belgium & Belize... try and retire soon... any chance to escape the Trump regime should be taken at all costs!"

Indeed! I've got quite some time before I can retire, unfortunately. The people in both places were absolutely fantastic...so much friendlier and more compassionate toward others than they are here.

[Myra]

I guess this is close enough to 2017 to start planning! I don't recall where I heard of this challenge, but I'm going to try it with the hopes that it will help me stretch and read some things I otherwise might now. I read well over 100 books a year, so quantity is not a problem. But I do tend to stick with certain topics and styles.

[Warren]

Hi everyone, I'm Warren, ex-librarian (is any one ever an ex-librarian??) and taking on this challenge for 2017. I am also on a mission to read all the great classics in chronological order (still in ancient Greece at the moment : see www.chronolit.com for more on that silliness) and need a break from that once in a while so this challenge should do that and also help reduce my TBR shelves. Good luck everyone!

[Mandee]

Hi guys!!

I'm Mandee. First time here. Just learned about the challenge today and ALMOST done putting my list together. I'm a thirty-something mom from Florida who just relocated to Oregon. I read mostly YA and nonfiction. Looking forward to this, I've been in a funk ALL year. <3

[Peggy]

Hi all. Name's Peggy. I'm a Wisconsin-born resident of New Jersey. I want to try the challenge to increase my reading for enjoyment. Along with working full-time, I'm also a part-time grad student...and this has left little time for fun reading. I already have a number of books picked for the 2017 list, and am looking forward to this Tuesday, which will be my first day of Winter break from school!

[Lindsay]

Hi all. I'm the head of a law library here in Sacramento, CA. I read law texts most of the day, so I love to read anything else in my free time. I tried to do this challenge last year, but quickly became unsuccessful and just read what I wanted to. I saw this group and thought that it'd help me stay on track. I love to make new friends on Goodreads, so feel free to add me.

[Emily]

Hello! I'm Emily and I am a Speech-Language Pathologist in Pittsburgh PA. I love reading and lists so I figured this was the perfect challenge!!

[Megan]

Emily wrote: "Hello! I'm Emily and I am a Speech-Language Pathologist in Pittsburgh PA. I love reading and lists so I figured this was the perfect challenge!!"

I'm in Pittsburgh PA too! Welcome to the group!