Desiré’s 2021 Reading Nook

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Yearly Goal: 25/25

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Yearly Challenges 🤓
Book Club: 5/6
TBR Jar: 6/11

Quarterly Challenges 📚
Q1 - Changes: 3/3
Q2 - Skipping
Q3 -
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Monthly Challenges 📖 2/9
1. January - Marathon Challenge: 3/3
2. February - You Know Nothing Jon “Snow”: 2/2
3. 25k - Celebrating 25,000 Members: 5/5
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Yearly Challenge: Book Club 2021

Goal: 6

Group Reads: 3
1. February - The Snow Child ✅
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Buddy Reads: 3
1. January - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ✅
2. March - The Great Gatsby ✅
3. April - The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian ✅
4. May - Gone Girl ✅
5. June - The Book Thief

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Yearly Challenge: TBR Jar

Goal: 11

1. Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen
2. The Lost Hero
3. The Library at Mount Char ✅
4. Dark Places ✅
5. The Shadow of the Wind
6. And Then There Were None ✅
7. The Glass Hotel
8. Gone Girl ✅
9. The Salt Path
10. The One ✅
11. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue ✅

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Quarter 1 Challenge:

Goal: 3 ✅

CHANGES
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2021

This first quarter of 2021, we’re focusing on all the ways that we change, either through our own decisions, in response to other forces, or how we enact change on others. Each book you read can only be counted for one prompt

Read a book about an activity below or someone (real or fictional) who engages in it.

Read a book that features:
1. The word "change" (Changes, Changing, or other variations) in its title.
2. The theme of money or money on its cover (loose change).
3. An adaptation of its original format (book-to-manga, translation, etc.)
4. The author's initials found in the word "change"
5. Separate book sections or part of a series of three or more books (make change)
6. An author or character writing under a pseudonym
7. A topic or character about which you feel differently now than in the past.

Read a book about an activity below or someone (real or fictional) who engages in it.
8. Changing one's mind about a life decision.
9. Switching careers/jobs. Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After ✅
10. Relocating to a different city, state/province, or country. The Simple Wild ✅
11. Cultivating new daily habits.
12. A character who shifts shapes or identities.
13. Life changes due to age
14. A medical transformation
15. A life-changing experience.
16. A changing household
17. An action or phenomenon that transforms society or the world.
18. Replacing one thing with another (change out)
19. Technological innovation
20. A game-changer. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging ✅


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Monthly Challenge: January

Goal: 3 ✅

MARATHON CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2021

This is such a hit every year, that we thought we would kick off the year again with a running start! How often is it our New Year's Resolution to read more books? How many of us set goals higher than we did last year? How many of us want to read that super long classic that has been sitting on our bookshelf collecting dust, or spend a winter day curled up on the couch with a pile of graphic novels? Let's start 2021 with a marathon of reading!

Pick a pile of books that you feel you could snuggle up with: a nice over-500-page book, a stack of books under 100 pages, or those books that have been on your TBR list for way too long. Anything you choose is fair game!

This is not a sprint, but a way to spend January in the pages! Pick the number of pages or books you would like to read in January and post them below. The goal is to make fast progress on your reading goals in the New Year. Who would have thought that you could do a marathon by hurrying up and sitting with a book?

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Buddy Reads

January - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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March - The Great Gatsby

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April - The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian

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May - Gone Girl

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June - The Book Thief

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Group Reads

February - The Snow Child

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Monthly Challenge: February

Goal: 2 ✅

YOU KNOW NOTHING, JON SNOW
Duration: February 1 to 28, 2021

This open-prompt challenge is a celebration of our monthly theme for February: Snow!
To join the challenge, let the challenge leader know how many qualifying books you intend to finish while the challenge lasts.

You may count any book that fits one of the categories below. (Prompts may be repeated.)
1. A book with "Snow" in its title. The Snow Child ✅
2. A book with a typical winter scene on its cover.
3. A book in which "Snow" or other weather-related word (Storm, Ice, Winter, etc.) is the given or family name of a main character.
4. A book in which the protagonist lives in or travels to a location where snow falls during the narrative.
5. A book by an author whose complete name includes at least 3 letters from the word "Snow." The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. ✅
(Examples: Victoria Schwab, Brandon Sanderson, Kate Atkinson, John Steinbeck, etc.)

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CELEBRATING 25,000 MEMBERS
Duration: March 1 to May 31, 2021

Goal: 5 ✅

Since the group’s humble beginnings in 2012 up to now, our group’s membership has continued to grow. In January, it reached a milestone of 25,000 members.
So, here is a commemorative quarterly challenge to celebrate the prosperity of our group and its members!

To join the celebration, post a comment to let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. Each book may count for a single prompt within this quarterly and prompts may not be repeated.

If you are new to the group and/or its challenges, you’ll find more information about participating in our challenges in this thread.

How many books will you be reading to celebrate the growth of our reading community?

1. Read a book that includes a party or anniversary celebration. The Great Gatsby ✅
2. Read a book that features a bibliophile, bookworm, librarian, or bookshop.
3. Read a book that you shelved during your first month of being a member of this group. The One ✅
4. Read a book about making new friends.
5. Read a book that was read for this challenge by another participant.
6. Read a book featuring a scene with two or more people reading together.
7. Read a book starting with “L,” the 12th letter of the alphabet (ignore “a” and “the”). The Library at Mount Char ✅
8. Reread a book you read in 2012
9. Read a book in a series with at least 12 books.
10. Read a book which has been translated into 25 or more languages Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories ✅
11. Read a book with at least 25 chapters or sections.
12. Read a book set in 2012 or about a significant event you personally experienced that year.
13. Read a book either published in 2012 or included in the Best Books of 2012 listopia. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
14. Read a book with 20, 12, 2012 or 25 in the title
15. Read a book with over 25,000 ratings on Goodreads. Off To Be A Wizard ✅
16. Read a book by an author who has written more than 25 books
17. Read a book with a title that has at least 25 characters, excluding spaces.
18. Read a book with a title starting with “Y,” the 25th letter of the alphabet (ignore “a” and “the”).
19. Read a book that was written when the author was under 25 years of age.
20. Read a book written by a writer who has been writing for 25 or more years.
21. Read a book that you wish to read when you're 25. If you're over 25, read a book you read at that age or read a book you'd recommend now to your 25-year-old self.
22. Read a book with the word ‘silver’ in the title or with a silver cover.
23. Read the 12th or 25th book on your TBR list. 25th - The Once and Future King
24. Read a book in a series of 4 (25% of a series)
25. Read a book published in 1996 (25 years ago).

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