Flights of Fantasy discussion

Oh boy. This again! It's already 5 days into the year and I've been more bad than good! I haven't finished a book, I have purchased MORE books (though I did donate more than a few, so I guess I evened things out a teensy bit), and I haven't even thought about what I want to do this year with this whole "reading thing".

So here's my thread where I shall talk about those things. Stay tuned.

2016 Owned TBR Reduction Challenge

Read: 1 / 50

1. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

2016 Audiobook TBR Reduction Challenge
Goal: Listen to 2 audiobooks per month.

Read: 10 / 24

1. The History of the Ancient World
2. The Hollow Ground
3. Yellow Crocus
4. God Is Disappointed in You
5. Bream Gives Me Hiccups
6. Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Not My Father's Son
9. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
10. Fledgling

2016 Series Continuation Challenge
Goal: Read 12 books that continue a series I've previously started. Does not include re-reads.

Read: 0 / 12

2016 Finally Read Books That I've Had For Too Dang Long Challenge

✓ = Read
Read: 0 / 12

2016 Group Read Catch Up Challenge
Officially, this is for FOF, but I will also include any group read books from any other group that I'm in that I want to read but haven't yet. It'll probably be a 12 book goal, but I haven't really thought it all out yet.

✓ = Read
Read: 0 / ?

2016 Genre (AKA: I'll Read Anything) Challenge
✓ = Read
Read: 8 / 50

Genres:
Adventure
Art
Autobiography or Biography
Award Winner
Banned or Challenged
Chick-Lit
Children's
Classics
Cyberpunk
Dystopian
Educational
Espionage
Fantasy
Graphic Novel
✓ GoodReads Author -- Yellow Crocus
✓ Gothic -- The Ghost Writer
✓ Historical Fiction - The Hangman's Daughter
✓ Historical Nonfiction -- The History of the Ancient World
Horror
Humour
✓ Juvenile Fiction -- The Hollow Ground
Literary Fiction
✓ LGBT -- Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls
✓ Memoir -- Not My Father's Son
Music
Mystery
Mythology
Noir
Nonfiction (general)
Paranormal - Fledgling
Political
Post-Apocalyptic
Psychology
✓ Religion -- God Is Disappointed in You
Romance
Science Fiction
Science Nonfiction
Secular
Steampunk
✓ Supernatural -- It by Stephen King
Thriller
Time-Travel
Travel
True Crime
Urban Fantasy
Victorian
War
Western
Young Adult
Zombies!

2016 DNF Graveyard Challenge.
Continued from 2015 (in which I EPICALLY failed) I will try to read or officially DNF 12 books which I've backburnered.

✓ = Read
Read: 0 / 12

Earth Abides
The Twelve
Les Misérables
Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
Phantoms
Women and Fiction: Stories By and About Women
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Monster Hunter International
The Fever
The Warded Man
Mistress of the Art of Death
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories

2016 PopSugar* Reading Challenge

✓ = Read
Read: 10 / 40

1. A book based on a fairy tale
2. A National Book Award winner
3. A YA bestseller
✓ 4. A Book you haven't read since high school -- Black House
✓ 5. A book set in your home state -- The Hollow Ground
✓ 6. A book translated to English -- The Hangman's Daughter
7. A romance set in the future
8. A book set in Europe
9. A book under 150 pages
10. A NY Times bestseller
11. A book that's becoming a movie this year
12. A book recommended by someone you just met
13. A self-improvement book
14. A book you can finish in a day
✓ 15. A book written by a celebrity -- Bream Gives Me Hiccups
16. A political memoir
17. A book at least 100 years older than you
✓ 18. A book that's more than 600 pages -- It by Stephen King
19. A book from Oprah's Book Club
20. A science fiction novel
21. A book recommended by a family member
22. A graphic novel
23. A book published in 2016
✓ 24*. An audiobook -- God Is Disappointed in You
25. A book that takes place during summer
26. A book and its prequel
27. A murder mystery
28. A book written by a comedian
29. A dystopian novel
✓ 30. A book with a blue cover -- Annie's Day
✓ 31*. A book by a new-to-me author -- I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
✓ 32*. A non-fiction book -- The History of the Ancient World
33. A classic from the 20th century
34. A book from the library
✓ 35. An autobiography - Not My Father's Son
36. A book about a road trip
37. A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with
38. A satirical book
39. A book that takes place on an island
40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy (????)

*I modified a couple of the tasks on this one because I think it would be very hard to find a book where the protagonist does my job (or even anything close to it), I'm not trying to buy new books, and I just plain dislike poetry, so there.

40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy (????)

You just read It.

Chris wrote: "40. A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy (????)

You just read It."

LOL - I know right?! I dunno if IT would qualify for this one, as much as I love it... I think probably HP would fit the bill though.

I was thinking HP too. That "guaranteed" is almost required to be a reread, since you don't know if you will like something before reading it.

Favourite author maybe.

I'm out on 16, 19, 26. But that's me.

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Favourite author maybe.

I'm out on 16, 19, 26. But that's me."

There are some really good books in the OBC, but they get a bad rap because of her name.

Becky wrote: "2016 PopSugar Reading Challenge
1. A book based on a fairy tale
2. A National Book Award winner
3. A YA bestseller
4. A Book you haven't read since highschool
5. A book set in your home state
6. A ..."

Now THAT's a reading challenge.

Updated. (Also bumping this so it will show on my homepage. :P)

Looking good, Becks. Now I need to get my ass in gear, lol.

Bump. Updated some stuff.

I just looked through this again and this might be the craziest amount of stuff I've seen for one year worth of challenges.

Crazy is my middle name! :P

It's not a challenge unless it's challenging! I wish I were this motivated. I'm semi-motivated to read... But to track what I'm reading across pre-determined goals? Pfft. I'm lazy.

I forget all the time and then have to come back and update a bunch.

And then there are the books I'm reading that don't really count because they aren't books I own, they don't really fit exactly into a genre I need to fill, and/or they don't fit a PopSugar task.

*sigh*

Plus I'm 13 books behind on my 2016 challenge already. Awesome.

True, it isn't a challenge unless it is challenging. I may have to re-evaluate my so-called challenges.

Becky wrote: "I forget all the time and then have to come back and update a bunch.

And then there are the books I'm reading that don't really count because they aren't books I own, they don't really fit exactl..."


^this

I just read and then later go "my challenges!"

LOL Pretty much!

I sometimes miss challenges as well, like the group ones we used to do in B&B. But then I'm also like.... That was a lot of work. And I wanna read what I wanna read when I wanna read it!