Challenges for 2026 Under Development

[Holly R W]

@Fran, I have a question about the Leapfrog challenge. Would we have to match tags for the themes of the books we leap to?

[Robin P]

I like the Grab Tag, and my way of doing it wouldn't be much work. I would read whatever I want and then just look up what tags it has. Except for very esoteric books (which I do read sometimes for my talks on historical women), most books have lots of tags. As with all our tag games, it wouldn't even matter if they are wrong - like anything before 20th century being tagged Regency, or a classic being tagged historical fiction when it was topical at the time, or even fiction and nonfiction being tagged wrong.

[Theresa]

@Robin - that's exactly what I would do! It fits how I read and mostly do challenges. Also works well with reading from my TBR.

[Holly R W]

@Anita, I'm interested in the Blind Date challenge. It sounds like fun! My question is about the cut-off date of publication (2022) for the books. My library tends to get rid of older books quickly and keep the newer ones. Would you consider having the cut-off date be 2023 or even 2024?

[Anita]

Yes, Holly, I am open to suggestions from the players should it be chosen. I just didn’t want people to be “forced” to purchase books. So we can discuss this “rule” and come to a general agreement before we begin.

[Linda]

Anita wrote: "One more before the vote.

GrabTag

This activity would be based on the top tag list for 2026 (the equivalent of the list below):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/......"

Let me see if I understand. We all get a copy of the top tags. Any book we read we go to the tags and see which 10 matches the book we read and we can claim/cross them off the list? We try to cross off as many as possible during the year?

[Linda]

Anita wrote: "Blind Date

This activity will take place once per month for all of 2026. Players do not need to play each month.

It will kick off with each player selecting a 5 star read from their own shelves. ..."

I like the idea of this activity. However I am afraid any book I selected would not have a great profile since I am not a great writer. (no one ever comments on the reviews I post, thus I review-- very few books)

[Anita]

Linda wrote: "Anita wrote: "Blind Date

This activity will take place once per month for all of 2026. Players do not need to play each month.

It will kick off with each player selecting a 5 star read from their..."

Honestly I wouldn't let that inhibit you. While I will definitely leave room for creativity - - mostly I'm going to provide prompts for the write ups, so you can answer the questions simply. It will be enough to help someone to choose the book or not. I think people can have more fun with it, but that's not going to be a requirement!

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

Anita wrote: "Linda wrote: "Anita wrote: "Blind Date

This activity will take place once per month for all of 2026. Players do not need to play each month.

It will kick off with each player selecting a 5 star r..."

A chance to promote our five star books merits a little extra effort to articulate the enthusiasm, methinks. I hope the challenge takes off.

[Hannah]

KateNZ wrote: "Not quite sure how ‘reverse harem’ ends up being included, mind … I honestly think I’ve never come across a book in that category, lol."

I was thinking that about 'fanfiction doujinshi'!

[KateNZ]

Hi Anita - quick thought about Grab Tag. Could we specify which tags we are claiming at the time that we review a book (rather than before we read or review it)?

That would prevent us from changing our mind afterwards - so would encourage people to be strategic, as you want, and would keep the complexity down for you (the last thing you need is trying to keep track of changes). But it would also mean that people wouldn’t have to finish a book that they started but hated. And we wouldn’t have to go into a tracking thread twice for every book: once to note the claimed tags, and once to log the review.

Any use?

[KateNZ]

I had to look that one up, Hannah! And I’m not sure I’m any the wiser!!

[Anita]

KateNZ wrote: "Hi Anita - quick thought about Grab Tag. Could we specify which tags we are claiming at the time that we review a book (rather than before we read or review it)?

That would prevent us from changi..."

Let me think about it. I have a reason I wanted the tags specified in advance.

My concern is I don't want people switching the grabbed tags after the book is read to a different set of tags because a subsequent book has overlaps.

People still wouldn't need to finish a book if they didn't like it.

I think what you are suggesting would work, but I just want to be clear that there's no switching the tags a given book covers after the fact.

[Anita]

I will be creating a general post in regard to this vote, but thought I'd open it up here first in case we need to do any troubleshooting!

https://forms.gle/vsBTS6Aiiobomqd5A

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

Anita wrote: "I will be creating a general post in regard to this vote, but thought I'd open it up here first in case we need to do any troubleshooting!

https://forms.gle/vsBTS6Aiiobomqd5A"

is this just for testing the form, or we can start voting?
Thanks for the hard organizing work

[Anita]

Please start voting! Just starting with my “experts” on the off chance something is confusing or problematic, but your votes will be counted!

[Holly R W]

I have a question for Fran about the Leapfrog challenge. Would we have to match tags for the themes of the books we leap to?

[NancyJ]

Anita, I voted, and it all looked good from my side.

[Booknblues]

Holly R W wrote: "I have a question for Fran about the Leapfrog challenge. Would we have to match tags for the themes of the books we leap to?"

No that would not be required. There will be extra points for matching the PBTag of the month.

[Anita]

NancyJ wrote: "Anita, I voted, and it all looked good from my side."

Thank you so much! The votes all look good so far!

[Booknblues]

I've made an amendment to Time Travel:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...