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I like all of those ideas for extra points! I'll throw out a couple others, but don't feel obligated to use any of them :)- Author's name is the same as your name (first or last)
- Author's birthday is the same month as yours
- Author lives (or has lived) in the same state as you (maybe country if outside of the U.S.?)
- Author's standard genre is not one you normally read (ie. horror: Joan Lowery Nixon or sci-fi: Scott Westerfeld)
- Author's born in the same decade as you
- Author's born before you
- You start or contribute to discussion about the author on WT
- Author has less than 100 fans on GR (hidden gem kinda thing)
How about also adding the author has an award winning book or you can do more than one award winning book? I like the A to Z author idea.
These are great. Loved the A to Z challenge. I might actually be able to participate in this one. :-)
Extra points when you hit 5 books, 10 books, 20, etc. during the challenge period?
Yay! Glad you guys are excited. Maybe an bonus 50 points when you get one by each letter?
Oh I like the extra points one! Then how about extra bonus points (like maybe a hundred) when you finish the entire challenge?
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I love the A-Z idea! I can't wait to see how it all comes together!
I'm just hoping I can stick to this challenge. I started out great with the other one then got off track.
I am excited:) I wasn't going to participate in the next challenge (I need fun reading time), but I think this will let me have some fun reading- Yay!
The challenges are fun but then I get stressed out when I make my list and don't stick to it. So next challenge, so lists. Maybe I'll do better that way.
Amy that is how I did the summer A to Z challenge - I read what I wanted but not based on any real lists. It was a lot of fun.
I really like the A - Z type stuff because then any book I read counts as long as it's YA or MG fiction. :) Glad to get you guys excited! I'll probably put up the challenge details next week sometime so if you have any other brilliant ideas, let me know!
Sounds like fun. This will be my first challenge.
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Go vote!!
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Wild Things: YA Grown-Up
Authors mentioned in this topic
Scott Westerfeld (other topics)Joan Lowery Nixon (other topics)
I thought if no one objected I would head up the next reading challenge starting in January and going through the end of March. I was thinking of doing something similar to the A-Z books, only doing it with authors.
So you would get a certain amount of points for the first author with the last name A and so on.
I was also thinking about extra points and wanted some more suggestions - I was thinking of extra points if the author is a Goodreads author, if it's the first time you've read that particular author but beyond that I don't know what else I should add. Maybe if it's their debut novel and even more points if it's a 2011 debut novel.
What do you guys think?