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Next year's TBR challenge will be celebrating/honouring important events that happened in 2020. So far I have tasks relating to corona, the BLM movement, the US presidential election and the Australian wildfires. If you guys can think of any other prominent events that occurred this year that you think I should honour/celebrate let me know!
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I’m going to pushing back the first Reader Recommends so it’ll start in Feb instead of Jan (which means only 11 people will be picked and not 12) and the Best Books of 2020 Readathon can end in Jan instead of in Feb.
Also thought it’d be fun to have a whole month dedicated to graphic novels seeing as not enough people read them but there are MG graphic novels out there. Haven’t decided yet but maybe April? Or July?
May is the month of middle grade so there should be some kind of middle grade centred event in that month, not sure what, I’d welcome any ideas!
September will be Steampunk September as I know Dee asked for it this year but I didn’t manage to fit it in.
Still seem to be missing the big event of the year... every year there’s a big group event like in 2019 it was the august challenge, in 2020 the CYOA Challenge so I need something equally spectacular for 2021... going to need to brainstorm for this one!
We could always bring back the big Middle Grade challenge! That would be fun to do again, with maybe some changes. Also we could have more themed readathons as I really like those!
You could do a "Believathon" type challenge :) or inspire yourself from it :)It's really cool and would be absolutely spectacular!
- here's the link to all the info of Believathon: https://believathon.co.uk/believathon...
It's just an idea though and I don't know if we would be allowed to reuse the challenge...
Just a heads up, KotLC book 9 isn't set to release until November of next year so we might not have a series readathon for that month.
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@Ilsen I like that idea actually. And because this’ll be my second time hosting the middle grade team challenge then I’ll be able to iron out all the wrinkles and problems we had last time. And come up with like a fun mini task thing that I really wanna do in it! Was august a good time to host it? Or is it ok to pull it forward to May?
As for themed readathons that’s a good idea! I wanted to do more in different themes but I didn’t want people to get tired of the format. Already there are 2 readathons planned for next year in that format: the best books of 2020 readathon and the October readathon.
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I really like Themed readathons as well. Maybe also Nonfiction November with MGs?
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Kadi wrote: "@Robin that’s an interesting idea! I really don’t have any interest in nonfiction so I wouldn’t take part and I’m wondering how many others would be the same... maybe I should do a poll and if enou..."I'm not real big on nonfiction either. There are some really good MG nonfiction books out there, but for me they are few and far between. When I was teaching, I always found it tough when we had to find a nonfiction book interesting enough to read with students.
I do like the idea of monthly themes, however.
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I have some nonfiction to get to but I’m not a humongous fan. Having the monthly theme is good though! Maybe with the readathon that we do or not.
Kadi wrote: "@Kristie @Lynn I like them too! They're a lot of fun to host and it's always fun to see what books people come up with for it. I'm also not a big fan of nonfiction, Lynn. I didn't even know middle ..."They exist, but there aren't many that are both interesting and entertaining.
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Kadi wrote: "Hmmm... I'll see closer to the time. November is so very very far away! In other news: I've already started planning for the Middle Grade Reading Challenge which I've moved back to August because t..."That sounds like fun. All of these ideas for next year sound great. Looking forward to them all.
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Our first themed readathon of the year was the Best Books of 2020 readathon but that’s finished. Our next one is the Graphic Novel readathon in July and then we’ll have the fairy tale one in December! The steampunk September event is a challenge not a readathon so that one doesn’t count. Good to have a bit of variety!
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Will we not be doing the March Women’s History themed or the October themed Readathon again this year?
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As for the March Women’s History Month... idk, do the people want it? We already will have 2 series readathons and Spencer’s Reader Recommends so I thought any more events would be too much. I don’t know, what do you think?
@Kadi We don’t have to do it if we have a lot of other events. I was just asking because I did like it, as I like all the other themed readathons!
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Also, I've been planning for the October readathon and I'm happy I've managed to come up with an interesting twist for it. Can't wait for October to come around again! It feels like it just left and now I want it to come back😂
@Dee I’m pretty sure the TBR Challenge 2021 is the replacement to that. It’s just not called TBR Purge
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I discovered an interesting video blogger on Youtube who is very down to earth and likes to discuss YA and some MG books. Her videos might make a good basis for group discussion. The vlog is called Aviva's Library and here is the link for her channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfU_...
Just a thought.
Check out what's already planned to be going down in 2021: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
More info and sign ups for the reader recommends monthly event will start soon. Basically it's just an event where each month a random member of the group who has signed up will recommend around 7 books they like and would recommend to others, some MG (we are an MG group) but they can also recommend YA/Adult/NA/etc
Come vote for what our next series readathon in 2021 should be: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...