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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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During winter is the best time to plan out our next trip! Let’s go traveling to a country that is not your home country. Pick one country and learn a bit about it by experiencing it through fiction! (Book 1 &2 must be fiction).
Book 1: Read a book by an author born in the country of your choice.
Book 2: Read a book that takes place in the country of your choice.
Book 3: Learn some history and read a book (either fiction or non fiction) with MPG Historical or Historical Fiction that takes place or about your chosen country.
Winter in New EnglandI am a born and raised New England girl. During our winters; the weather is severe, the traffic is terrible, but it can also beautiful and filled with wonder.
Book 1: Nor'easter, a winter weather event that mainly effects the New England states.
A - Read a book set in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
B - Read a book by an author from New England
Book 2: Traffic, is awful on a good day and is something straight out of a scary movie during a storm.
A - Read a book with MPG horror, embedded or stand-alone.
B - Read a book with all of the letters in the work TRAFFIC in the title.
Book 3: Beautiful, while it can brown and dreary, there is something magical about the world after the snow falls.
A - Read a book has a MPG of magic or magical, embedded or stand-alone.
B - Read a book with snow or ice on the cover.
The best of 2024 Book 1: Your favourite of 2024
Choose your favourite book read during 2024. There are no restrictions on what you choose - it doesn't have to have been used for SRC.
Read a book by the same author or a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section of your favourite book's page
Required: post a link to your favourite book
Book 2: The best of 2024
Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024. The award must be listed on the book's goodreads page and specify 2024.
Required: name the award
Book 3: Looking to 2025
Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.
Any 2025 release will work. Or you can read from the backlist of an author who has an upcoming release. You can be inspired by these lists (but you don't have to use them).
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.booklistqueen.com/upcomin...
https://www.waterstones.com/campaign/...
https://time.com/7202423/most-anticip...
https://thenerddaily.com/2025-january...
https://www.boffinsbooks.com.au/ficti...
Required: link to the 2025 by the same author if using the backlist option
Conservation through CollaborationIn recognition of the collaboration necessary across many different organizations to ensure the conservation and enjoyment of Areas of Outstanding National Beauty (this season's bonus theme), read three books that all have multiple authors.
Book 1: Must have multiple authors AND the MPG "Anthology" or "Short Stories".
Book 2: Must have multiple authors and CANNOT include "Anthology" or "Short Stories" among its MPGs. (These may include collaborative fiction or nonfiction written by co-authors, ghostwritten books, books finished by someone else after the original author died, etc. so long as both/all authors are listed.)
Examples:
Book 3: Must be a translated work with both the original author and the translator listed on the GR page for the edition you read.
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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The 50 point task will require:
1. Only 3 options. These options may not include more than 2 "sub options" - 6 total in the task.
2. One book per option.
3. Three books totaling at least 750 pages. Your task idea may require a higher page threshold but this must be disclosed in your entry.
4. No books with the genres children or kids on the main book page may be used.
5. Books whose main page lists any of these genres: Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may not be used.
6. No “free choice” options will be allowed. This is a challenge, so tasks that have no element of challenge do not fit the purpose.
7. A task must be accessible to the majority of players, i.e. not limited to a specific format, edition, publisher, etc. and reviewable by the moderators.
Anyone eligible* to design a task may submit an idea for a task that follows the general guidelines above. Your idea should be a sketch that may be developed with the moderators.
* To be eligible to create a task, the player’s profile must be set up to accept Goodreads messages, and they must not have a task in the current challenge. Only one task per person per challenge.
The group will vote to determine the 50 point task. All ideas that fit the general guidelines will be included in a poll. The poll winner will develop their idea with the moderators to refine their task. The final task may differ from the original idea submission. The task will be posted as close to the midpoint as reasonably possible. The task creator will monitor and answer questions in the help thread.
Please include your Readerboard name and a title for your task. The entries will be listed by Readerboard name and task title in the poll. Please include only one task idea entry per post.
PLEASE DO NOT comment on people's entries in this thread - this is for submissions only - you will be able to comment when voting begins. Comments in this thread will be deleted.