Full House Reading Challenge 2018I had so much fun with this challenge the last two years that it has made the cut for my reduced challenge load this year. Thanks to Book Date for hosting. Complete the card and read in any order during the year. Let’s go!
Although I am paring down my reading challenges this year to stay true to my 2018 One Little Word of LIGHTEN, I am going to repeat two of favorite challenges hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block. She is taking over the Monthly Keyword Challenge I’ve done before, but I’m not taking the bait, mostly because having a monthly assignment adds stress to my reading with two book clubs to manage. So here are my favs:
Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2018I’ve done this challenge every year of its existence so this will be year #7. (She miscounted and I went with her number last year). I sign up every year for Mt. Ararat and manage to wheeze to the top by December, but last year I was one book short of Kilimanjaro. I’m going to sign up for Mt. Ararat again in 2018 and see where I end up!
Challenge Levels:
Pike’s Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s
2018 Color Coded Reading ChallengeRules: Read nine books in the following categories during 2018.
The Colors and my TBR hopefuls:
2018 Alphabet Soup Reading ChallengeThe Alphabet Soup Challenge is hosted by Escape with Dollycas Into A Good Book and means that by December 31, 2018 my bowl must be full of one book for each letter of the Alphabet. I did this challenge last year for the first time and really had fun with it, so I’m ready to give it another go. I am carefully evaluating my reading challenges for this year and only keeping a few, so this one made the list.
The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet. You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles. The First Main Word Needs To Be The Letter You Are Counting, Except For those pesky Q, X AND Z titles where the word that starts with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.
What’s In a Name 2018The eleventh annual What’s In A Name challenge is once again hosted by The Worm Hole. I began the fun in 2009 so I’m playing again, although in keeping with my One Little Word for this year, LIGHTEN, I am carefully evaluating my reading challenges and paring down. This year I am repeating my attempt to identify books on my shelves that will fulfill my challenges so that I stick to my TBR stacks. This was pretty successful last year.
The rules are simple-Read one book from each category during the year. [Read more…] about What’s In a Name 2018 sign-up
Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year. Fun Fact: I read the exact number of books this year as last year! What? My re-reads were down, audio-books up, and series books really up. Looking forward to a great reading year in 2018!
Books read: 162
Pages read: 49,126
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 14
New-to-me authors: 32
Continuing series books: 94
Re-reads: 22
Audio-books: 78
Various book club reads: 9
Challenges completed: 14 of 14
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 75 of 96
5 star ratings by me: 20 [Read more…] about 2017 Reading Stats