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2018 Reading Challenges at My Reader’s Block

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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 2018

I’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

clipboard012018 Color Coded Reading Challenge

This will be my sixth year for this challenge and I continue to enjoy it as hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block. I try to read my own books for this as much as possible but sometimes I am forced to get library books because I just can’t find anything in my stacks.

Rules: Read nine books in the following categories during 2018.

The Colors and my TBR hopefuls:

1. A book with “Blue” or any shade of Blue in the title/on the cover. (A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch)
2. A book with “Red” or any shade of Red in the title/on the cover. (A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas)
3. A book with “Yellow” or any shade of Yellow in the title/on the cover. (A Touch of Gold by Joyce & Jim LaVene)
4. A book with “Green” or any shade of Green in the title/on the cover. (The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger with Daniel Paisner)
5. A book with “Brown” or any shade of Brown in the title/on the cover. (???????)
6. A book with “Black” or any shade of Black in the title/on the cover. (Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth)
7. A book with “White” or any shade of White in the title/on the cover. (cover-Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah)
8. A book with any other color in the title/on the cover. (The Darling Dahlia and the Silver Dollar Bush by Susan Wittig Albert or The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros)
9. A book with a word that implies color. (Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare)

2018 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge sign-up

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2018 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

The 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 2018 sign-up

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What's In A Name 2018 logoWhat’s In a Name 2018

The 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

One Little Word 2018

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It’s time again to choose my word for the year. It’s an attempt to choose a word that influences my state of mind throughout the year and creates a structure and framework for my life. Thanks to Ali Edwards for the idea. I love the idea and it has really impacted my life in many ways. I am again signed up for her workshop to document my word each month and create pages in my scrapbook that talk about my journey.

For 2018 I have decided my word is LIGHTEN. I want to lighten my life in many ways: my stress, my stuff, my body. I want to throw off the things holding me down. I’m looking forward to a great year!

Here are my past word choices:
2009-SERENE
2010-CREATE
2011-BALANCE
2012-VARIETY
2013-MEMORY
2014-MEMORY
2015-EMBRACE
2016-FOCUS
2017-CREATE