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2017 Newbery Reading Challenge

This is the fourth year of the Newbery Reading Challenge and I’ve participated every year at the L’Engle level. It’s helping me accomplish my perpetual challenge to read all the winners. So I’m in for another year. Thanks to Julie of Smiling Shelves for hosting. Click on the challenge logo if you want to join us.

Here are the rules:
Each book you read is worth points. You get:
3 points for a Newbery Medal Winner
2 points for a Newbery Honor Book
1 point for a Caldecott Book

In addition to that, you pick a level to aim for:
L’Engle: 15 – 29 points
Spinelli: 30 – 44 points
Avi: 45 – 59 points
Lowry: 60 – 74 points
Konigsburg: 75+ points

2017 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

The Alphabet Soup Challenge is hosted by Escape with Dollycas Into A Good Book and means that by December 31, 2017 your bowls must be full of one book for each letter of the Alphabet.
Each Letter Counts As 1 Spoonful

Details: This challenge will run from January 1st, 2017 until December 31st, 2017.
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.

I’m not going to pick my list ahead of time but work on it as I go throughout the year.

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Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017

I’ve done this challenge every year of its existence so this will be year #5. I sign up every year for Mt. Ararat and manage to wheeze to the top by December. I’m going to sign up for Mt. Ararat again in 2017 but hope to level up as I’m doing something different with my other challenges this year. At sign-up I’m identifying books in my TBR stacks that fulfill the challenge requirements so that hopefully I can stay focused on reading my own books. I was inspired to do this by the host of this challenge, Bev at My Reader’s Block.

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

Read your own books in 2017!

Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year. For the first time I didn’t complete a reading challenge, but I also did a huge jump from 10 to 17 this year so maybe that was too ambitious.

Books read: 162
Pages read: 50,718
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 14
New-to-me authors: 33
Continuing series books: 49
Re-reads: 30
Audio-books: 68
Various book club reads: 12
Challenges completed: 16 of 17
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 73 of 95
5 star ratings by me: 21 [Read more…] about 2016 Reading Stats