Sunday, January 1, 2023

2023 Reading Challenges

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Happy New Year! For those of you using the Gregorian calendar, welcome to the start of another year. I am lucky enough to have a four day weekend, and I'm getting some reading done. I've also decided to try reading challenges again. I took a break for a few years and I'm ready to try again. I picked four, all repeats except for the Thrifty Thursday. That's been a meme for several years and is now a challenge too. Click on the each challenge's name to go the sign up post, and get more information.

1) Library Love  I use my library a lot, both personally and professionally. I actually did this challenge in 2022 and ended up reading over 100, including books for my classroom. This year, I'm aiming for Library Card on Fire: Read 60+ books. 

2) Thrifty Thursday Between sales and author newsletters, I get a lot of freebies every month. Which, more books + no money = AWESOME. But...they tend to languish on my Kindle. So I'm aiming to read and review one a month, more if I can manage it.

3) Mount TBR I'm sure it's no surprise that I have a large pile, virtual and physical, of unread books. I'm going for level 2, Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s. Books owned, requested, or ordered before today, January 1st, 2023, count. Also, rereads count, yay! But ideally, they'll be books I haven't read yet.

And finally the, Goodreads challenge. I do this one every year. Last year's goal was 250 and I almost doubled that. Note: I count all books I read in the classroom, and count rereads. Cuz toddlers love repetition. If they only want to listen to a book once, they don't like the book. This year's goal is 300. 

Are you doing any reading challenges this year? Tell me about them! And, good luck and have fun reading.

10 comments:

  1. So happy to have you in the Library Love challenge and Thrifty Thursday. (Both options are no cost reading). They are also pretty low pressure. It's easy to try for one a month for me.

    Anne - Books of My Heart

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    1. I like low pressure so these should be doable for me. I'm excited to see Thrifty Thursday as a challenge.

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  2. Great job, Bea! I have my reading challenges post scheduled for tomorrow, but I'm doing Goodreads, Audiobook, #TBRChallenge, and the Romance Reading Challenge.

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  3. The Library Love challenge is tempting me but I have such a hard time linking up and tracking that I'm trying to resist. Good luck!

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    1. Yeah, in years past I haven't done well at linking. Honestly, for me, it's more to remember to use my public library and its services.

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  4. Happy New Year! Best of luck with your challenges.

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  5. Not doing any reading challenges, but I also Loooooooove the library! I also buy a lot of books. I just...I have a lot of books.

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    1. LOL I hear ya! I have 10 bookcases in a 1 bedroom apartment. That's a lot of books. Add in the ebooks and it's a ridiculous quantity,.

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