Challenge Yourself discussion

Here are the Challenges for 2015.

All the familiar ones are still there and I have added a few more.

Double Dog Dare is a new challenge that you can use to keep track of the tasks that your favorite groups challenge you to complete. For example one of the groups to which I belong presents a different challenge each month as well as a book to read with the group AND periodic Read-A-Thons. I need to keep track of myself so I don't skip the books that I choose for these events.

Mid year Cheryl made a suggestion of reading books from/about a certain era or decade. I like that idea, it is different than reading books from a specific year. Look to Time Waits for No One if you want to create this challenge for yourself.

Since some people showed an interest in the book connections challenge, there is one included here for that called Chain Link Fence .

As always, feel free to ask me to add one that you have designed, if it does not fit within these listed. Be sure to let me know about any broken links.

I wish you the best for the coming year whatever challenges life presents to you.

Click the links in order to review Challenges By Subject:


 audio-books Hear Ye! Hear Ye! ! Reading a certain number of audio-books.

 author's work Authorization Reading a certain author's work.

 award winners And the Award Goes To… Reading books that received an award

 big books Doorstops Reading those big books that you've been avoiding.

 biographies, memoirs and autobiographies Getting to Know Them Reading about the lives of real people.

 book reviews Reviews To Do Taking the time to complete book reviews.

 books to movie or television Movie or Book? Reading a number of books and also watching the movie or television show based on the books.

 Boxall's Catalog of 1001 books Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Reading from Boxall's Catalog of 1001 books.

 Canada's provinces and territories O Canada Reading books set or from Canada.

 certain shelves Shelving Unit Reading a certain number of books from certain shelves.

 classics Now That Was Classic Reading the Classics.

 connecting books Chain Link Fence Reading books in connecting similarity order.

 eReader eDingus Reading material stored on your eReader.

 fictional genres That's Unreal Reading fictional genres.

 50 states of the United States of America USA State Challenge Reading a book from each of the 50 states of the United States of America.

 international reading World Tour Challenge Reading books from around the world.

 GoodReads authors GoodReads Authorization Reading books written by GoodReads Authors.

 Group Challenge Double Dog Dare Reading books that your group has dared you to read.

 Guardian's 1000 Guardian's 1000 Novels Reading selected works by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges.

 home library Home Alone Reading books from our private library.

 left over books Left Over Stew Reading books that were supposed to have been read in 2013 challenges or goals.

 local library Where's your card? Reading books borrowed from the library.

 moment of time Time Waits for No One Read books from a certain time period.

 non-fiction Reality Check Reading non-fiction.

 recent releases Hot Off the Press Reading books written very recently.

 published date Yearbook Reading books published in a certain year.

 second reading Another Chance Giving books that were abandoned as unread or partially read another try.”

 second language Rosetta Stone Reading books in a second language.

 self-improvement Help Yourself Reading Self-Improvement books.

 series Serial Eyes Catching up with the next books in our favorite reading series.

 small books and short stories Short Cut Reading books of 100 pages or less.

Click the links in order to review Challenges By Name:

•  And the Award Goes To… Reading books that received an award.

•  Another Chance Giving books that were abandoned as unread or partially read another try.”

•  Authorization Reading a certain author's work.

•  Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Reading from Boxall's Catalog of 1001 books.

•  Chain Link Fence Reading books in connecting similarity order.

•  Doorstops Reading those big books that you've been avoiding.

•  Double Dog Dare Reading books that your group has dared you to read.

•  eDingus Reading material stored on your eReader.

•  Getting to Know Them Reading biographies, memoirs and autobiographies.

•  GoodReads Authorization Reading books written by GoodReads Authors.

•  Guardian's 1000 Novels Reading works selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges.

•  Hear Ye! Hear Ye! ! Reading a certain number of audio-books.

•  Help Yourself Reading Self-Improvement books.

•  Home Alone Reading books from our private library.

•  Hot Off the Press Reading books written very recently.

•  Left Over Stew Reading books that were supposed to have been read in 2014 challenges or goals.

•  Movie or Book? Reading a number of books and also watching the movie or television show based on the books.

•  Now That Was Classic Reading the Classics.

•  O Canada Reading books set or from Canada.

•  Reality Check Reading non-fiction.

•  Reviews To Do Taking the time to complete book reviews.

•  Rosetta Stone Reading books in a second language.

•  Serial Eyes Catching up with the next books in our favorite reading series.

•  Shelving Unit Reading a certain number of books from certain shelves.

•  Short Cut Reading books of 100 pages or less.

•  That's Unreal Reading fictional genres.

•  Time Waits for No One Read books from a certain time period.

•  USA State Challenge Reading a book from each of the 50 states of the United States of America.

•  Where's your card? Reading books borrowed from the library.

•  World Tour Challenge Reading books from around the world.

•  Yearbook Reading books published in a certain year.

Woot! Double Dog Dare might be really helpful to me, as we have two yearlong challenges and several monthlies coming up in Bookworm's Cocoon.

Chain link fence does sound like a fascinating idea! I always get excited when I realise the books I am reading have unexpected connections. The trick might be working out what book to start with!

Darkpool (protesting GR censorship) wrote: "Chain link fence does sound like a fascinating idea! I always get excited when I realise the books I am reading have unexpected connections. The trick might be working out what book to start with!"

This will be my third year doing this challenge and is one of my two favorites, the other being Yearbook.

My advice for your first book is to just pick one that you want to read anyway, although it helps if there are lots of word in you first title!

You'd be surprised how easy it is to find connections among books. But when the challenge is there, and obviously perplexing, you will force yourself to consider books for which you gave no previous thought. Because of this your reading will take you to other genres and surprising fun.

Cheryl wrote: "Woot! Double Dog Dare might be really helpful to me, as we have two yearlong challenges and several monthlies coming up in Bookworm's Cocoon."

I started using this mid-year, because I couldn't keep track of all of the monthly group reads and challenge participation in the groups to which I belong.

If only I can remember to mark those books as shelved on Double Dog Dare!

I wonder if you should change the wording on the left-over stew challenge to "previous years" rather than specifying 2013?

Janice wrote: "I wonder if you should change the wording on the left-over stew challenge to "previous years" rather than specifying 2013?"

I did change the wording. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks Almeta. :)

Might be worth noting that the accessing the challenges from the group home page appears to only (only!?) show a maximum of 30 challenges. We have 31. Here Ye! is the one that has dropped off the bottom, and the only way I can see to get to it is via the link in this thread.

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Darkpool (protesting GR censorship) wrote: "Might be worth noting that the accessing the challenges from the group home page appears to only (only!?) show a maximum of 30 challenges. We have 31. Here Ye! is the one that has dropped off the bottom, and the only way I can see to get to it is via the link in this thread.
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Thanks for letting us know. Good thing I created the catalog. ☻