Reading Challenges

[Tien]

I think it's pretty common to overlap between challenges :)

Btw, what's RISI book club?

[Terri]

RISI = read it swap it ... I think it's the UK equivalent to paperbackswap or something similar? Not sure if I've got that name right!

[Tien]

They're reading challenges you can find on the net (most of them are on blogspot accounts however Round the World Passage is one that I came up with myself) Most of the rules are on my blog (which I rarely ever use but feel free to check out all the rules for the challenges :))

http://babemuffin.blog.friendster.com/

and yes, TNBBC is a group on GR, it stands for The Next Best Book Club

[Donna]

I am doing the A-Z Title challenge and also 60+5 challenge for the year(60 books can be whatever but 5 must be classics)

These are my first challenges. I never have done any before so I thought it would be interesting!

Good luck to you all and wish me luck as well!!!

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

That Round the World Passage Challenge is sort of like a literary Amazing Race, Karen. Neat idea.

[Tien]

oh, thanks Susanna. I liked the continents' reading challenge but I wanted to make it more 'fun' :)

[Cathy]

My best friend and I challenged each other to read all the books in the school library fiction shelves - she started at Z and I started at A. it was a grand idea but I don't think I got past Joan Aikin! Now I read on the train and in bed but with bursts of extra reading when on holidays, so no real program.

[Rachel]

I like personal challenges, like assigning myself to read a certain number of books a month or a year. This year I joined the 50 Books 2008 group and surprised myself by keeping track of all the books I read - I read 118 this year!

At the moment I'm aiming to read 6 books from my TBR each month, and these books must include:
* One Teen Novel
* One Adult Novel
* One Classic (Kids or Adult)
* One Non-Fiction Book
* One Borrowed Book
* The last can be whatever I pick :)
I think this will be a good way of breaking down my TBR evenly, without leaving all the obscure classics and non-fiction to the end.

[Fiona (Titch)]

My book challenges:

50 Books (2008)
50 Books (2009)
75 Books (2009)
100+ Books
TNBBC - Winter Challenge & December Read
RISI Monthly challenge
Pick-A-Shelf