Decade Challenge

[Visalakshi]

Haha I'm enthusiastic and slow :p

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Nathan wrote: "Depends on my mood, time, work and life. 🤣

How about teams of two?
And remove few genres since we are less in number."

Okay, then i will pair soon. When do you all want to start?

About the genres, does anyone else wants to reduce number of genres?

[Nathan]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Nathan wrote: "Depends on my mood, time, work and life. 🤣

How about teams of two?
And remove few genres since we are less in number."

Okay, then i will pair soon. When do you all want to start?
..."

Yeah I opt to remove translation/non-fiction :P

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Just a suggestion -
Instead of removing completely, we can club sister genres ( Say fantasy/sci-fi as one category and Horror/thriller/mystery as one cat) or even opposite genres (like fiction & non-fiction as one).
That way no one's favourite genre gets removed. And say if someone doesn't feel like reading sci-fi they can read fantasy and still complete the task.

Personally, I'm fine with not removing anything or otherwise.

[Nathan]

Bookworm wrote: "Just a suggestion -
Instead of removing completely, we can club sister genres ( Say fantasy/sci-fi as one category and Horror/thriller/mystery as one cat) or even opposite genres (like fiction & no..."

This seems pretty feasible! Great idea!

[Visalakshi]

Yup that's a great idea!

[Visalakshi]

can we start from May 1? or next week if you guys feel that's too late

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "Just a suggestion -
Instead of removing completely, we can club sister genres ( Say fantasy/sci-fi as one category and Horror/thriller/mystery as one cat) or even opposite genres (like fiction & no..."

that's a great idea but we need new categories to replace them. suggestions are invited. :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

New categories as in to make total number of categories as 10?

If so, we can some categories like this -
1. Book from a birthday month (this was there before I think, while you were suggesting this challenge idea)
2. Book title that has the starting alphabet same as one's username (we can exclude articles if needed).
3. An Underrated book (say <30k ratings and <4 avg rating)
4. Highly rated book (say > 500k ratings and >4 avg rating)
5. Been in TBR shelf prior to 2022 Feb (goodreads).

3. 4. & 5. will allow us to read books that're in our tbr since ages.

[Pallavi]

May 1st looks good.

[Visalakshi]

B is just brimming with ideas !

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "New categories as in to make total number of categories as 10?

If so, we can some categories like this -
1. Book from a birthday month (this was there before I think, while you were suggesting th..."

but those are categories not genre... or lets five of us suggest two categories each and make a new list this time to cover 2000-10?

[Pallavi]

ok.. I suggest
1. Fantasy/Sci fi
2. Nonfiction /Memoir/Selfhelp/Science/Nature (all in one)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "New categories as in to make total number of categories as 10?

If so, we can some categories like this -
1. Book from a birthday month (this was there before I think, while you w..."

True...Only as categories.
Sure.

3. Thriller/Horror/Mystery
4. Literary Fiction (character driven/political commentary/social commentary)

What all do we have left -
romance,
historical,
magical realism (literary fic with realistic setting & magical elements, so comes within that)
Dystopian,
Speculative fiction (combo of dystopia, fantasy, sci-fi)

@Em -- Since, many of these are either superset or subsets. are these allowed as categories?

[Nathan]

How about dark/Crime/noir as an option.

[Visalakshi]

If we are gonna have 10 categories either way , we could just go with the previous categories. They were fine

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

I had free time yesterday, snooped around a bit on internet and found some of these challenges https://imgur.com/a/DOTr9wR

Check them out and share what you think of these, if you like we can pick one of these... We can do these categories in 2000-10 or 2000-21.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Em, These are nice. I liked all of these. Last one a bit more (
https://i.imgur.com/voVAR9e_d.webp?ma... )

[Leena]

but how will you decide what to pick up and read?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

All four will pick one board and then start reading as a team. Suppose board one i.e. Summer challenge is selected. Its has 24 category, then both participants has to read 12 books each. They have decide the categories they wants to tackle. About decade they also have to decide if they want to cover 2000-10 or 2000-20.

[Nathan]

We can pause the decade challenge & go for board challenge only. Separate one. Why mix two things???

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Em, I'm dividing the link you found with multiple boards to individual ones. It'll be easier for us to vote and finalize one board.

Board 1: summer reading challenge. Link - https://i.imgur.com/BBJNKBf_d.webp?ma...

Board 2: beat the blacklist 2022. 1st one.
https://i.imgur.com/rUSvU2z_d.webp?ma...

Board 3: beat the blacklist. 2nd image.
https://i.imgur.com/bgBb9dc_d.webp?ma...

Board 4: beat the blacklist. 3rd imqge.
https://i.imgur.com/k8zhfDa_d.webp?ma...

Board 5: book challenge 2022.
https://i.imgur.com/L6dPdOk_d.webp?ma...

Board 6: the 2022 book bingo reading challenge image.
https://i.imgur.com/voVAR9e_d.webp?ma...

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Since Board 2 and Board 5 have too many tasks, maybe we can exclude them?

If so, that leaves us with Board 1, 3, 4 & 6. Let's vote!!

[Visalakshi]

My thoughts are similar to Nathan. Why don't we stick with our decade challenge. see it through? our initial point of discussion was 10 books for 1 person will be hard! groups of 2 would be fine

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

I'm fine with keeping them separate too.
@Em, @Pallavi, what about you guys?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

I am fine with whatever you guys decide.

[Pallavi]

I would like to go with Decade challenge... we can do a separate track for Bingo challenges etc

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Okay.

Which one you guys wants to do first? Decade or Bingo?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

I prefer Decade first. Will be fine if it's otherwise too.
Bingo, we could go when we have couple more players, that way it'll be more easier and fun to tackle the board as groups.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Lets do Decade in May and I will add Bingo challenge for June In IR Newsletter. Hope people will join in.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

That'll be great, Em. *fingers crossed*

[Visalakshi]

Superb!

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Hello!!

I have updated Comment#3 with teams. let's get started.

[Leena]

All the best guys. Enjoy !!

[Nathan]

@Em: Should we create a separate thread to track the progress for respective teams or track it here??

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Up to you. You can discuss it here or create a new thread too.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Thanks @Leena.
@Nathan - Here's our thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "
Decade Challenge - 2000-10 (May, 2022)

Team 1 - Visalakshi & Pallavi

Team 2 - Nathan & Bookworm
"

@Em, decade is 2001-2010 right?

[Visalakshi]

Nice! Same categories but 2001 to 2010, rightt

[Visalakshi]

Here's our thread as well! We'll keep updating. Let's all have some fun! :)

Team 1

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Em: Book-to-movie, either the book or the movie has to be in the decade, both are not needed right?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "@Em: Book-to-movie, either the book or the movie has to be in the decade, both are not needed right?"

Yes.

[Leena]

that's one difficult genre

[Visalakshi]

I actually happen to like that genre!

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

book to movie? I am almost done with We Need to Talk about Kevin and it is fantastic. you can give it a try.

[Leena]

Em, did u like it?? It had caused ripples

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

one should not like these messy stories where someone keep questioning motherhood and the upbringing of their kids. this constant upheaval in a parent's life, this is all disturbing but the way things stands in today's society where parents and kids are mostly different pages about their view of life, this book just hit differently and very hard.

have you read or watched the movie? Gorab said movie is also very good, so i will check it out too sometime.

[Visalakshi]

I haven't watched or read this one. Will give it a try. I like book to movie genre cause we'll get to see different interpretation and adaptation of the same idea. It's interesting to see how movies change or enhance a book!

[Leena]

em, I've not done either.its such disturbing plot ...and you're right pointing fingers at the parenting is such a convenient way to write off any issues. society at large seems to be an equal if not more of a contributor.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Visalakshi wrote: "I haven't watched or read this one. Will give it a try. I like book to movie genre cause we'll get to see different interpretation and adaptation of the same idea. It's interesting to see how movie..."

what do you prefer? watch movie first or read book?