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231 System Jan 2021 03
Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot [3/5] reviewRR
Discworld Graphic Novels by Pratchett, Ross [1/5] review01
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson [5/5] review
231 System Feb-Mar 2021 02
Modern Penny Dreadfuls by Ana Neimus [4/5] review03
In the Morning of Time by Charles G.D. Roberts [3/5] reviewRR
The Science of Discworld by Pratchett, Stewart, Cohen [4/5]01
The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell [3/5] review02
Ulysses by James Joyce [4/5] review03
The Clone Army Attacketh by Ian Doescher [2/5] RR
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne [3/5]
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So aswell as books i have a secondary reading goal which is to read every appearance by an X-Men character ever (not just the main X-titles).. with a few exceptions like solo-Wolverine who i have no interest in :P . Made it all the way from 1963 to 1994 so far.
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The Last Man by Mary Shelley [4/5] review 02
Extraordinary X-Men, Vol.2 by Lemire, Ramos [4/5] 03
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline [4/5] reviewRR
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans [4/5] 01
Spider-Man:The Mutant Agenda by Steven Grant, Scott Kolins [2/5] review
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Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P.L.Travers [3/5] review03
Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix by Scott Lobdell, Gene Ha [4/5]RR
Mammoth Book Of Seriously Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley [3/5] review01
Infinity War by Jim Starlin [2/5] 02
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card [4/5] review03
The Golden Apple by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson [4/5] review
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The Doctor of Souls by W.Kobold Knight [4/5] review
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I've seen feats of strength before but Golly!
231 System Jun-Jul 2021RR
How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee [4/5] 01
The Doctor of Souls by W.Kobold Knight [4/5] review02
Infinity Crusade Vol.1 by Jim Starlin [3/5] 03
Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge by Ian Doescher [4/5] reviewRR
LoEG:The Tempest by Moore, O'Neill [4/5] 01
Lud in the Mist by Hope Mirrlees [2/5] review02
Captain America: Steve Rogers, Vol.2 by Nick Spencer [4/5]03
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heryerdahl [5/5] review
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Both of these might be stretching the definition a bit but i'm gong to count them.Achievement Unlocked
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231 System Aug 2021RR
Legends by various [3/5] review01
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart [3/5] review02
Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell [5/5] review03
Infinity Crusade Vol.2 by Jim Starlin [2/5] RR
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Star-Begotten by H.G.Wells [2/5] review02
X-Men:Phalanx Covenant by various [2/5] review03
Leviathan by Shea, Wilson [4/5] reviewRR
Happyslapped by a Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington [3/5] review01
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr.Seuss [4/5] review02
The Cleft by Doris Lessing [3/5] review03
Lysistrata by Aristophanes [4/5] reviewRR
Exploits of Engelbrecht by Maurice Richardson [5/5]01
All New X-Men vol.3 by Hopeless, Bagley [3/5]02
Here comes a Candle by Fredric Brown [4/5] review
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The canterbury tales, might be a bit of a stretch since it may not be separately written stories but... i'm going to count it anyway.
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Connections, shakespeare plays, the Odyssey, the Odyssey again, lovecraft stories, Flatland.
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So i didn't finish The Worlds Desire but i'm still counting it ;) , also I have no proof Episode of Flatland is related to the earlier Flatland.
However i also can't prove the films Armaggedon and Deep Impact or Volcano and Dantes Peak are related but i'd count those too if they were books :P .
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Dreams from the Witch House by various [4/5] reviewRR
The Return by Shatner, Reeves-Stevens [4/5] review01
Complete Age of Apocalypse, Book 1 by Scott Lobdell [2/5] review02
Complete Age of Apocalypse, Book 2 by Scott Lobdell [2/5] review03
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer [4/5] reviewRR
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis [3/5] review01
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis [5/5] review02
An Episode of Flatland by C.H.Hinton [3/5] review
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Wreade, I have been lurking around this thread for quite a while. I love me a gamification kind of reading strategy, and your achievement idea is just brilliant! It is so fascinating to see how other readers motivate themselves!Personally, I am an Excel geek, so I have designed a sheet that assigns points to all my tbr books according to how many categories they fit in. This way I hope to develop some kind of higscore over the years :D
To spice things up, I would like to borrow your achievements part. If you don't mind, that is. I had some different achievements in mind, like "Read 10 out of the 50 oldest books on your Goodreads TBR shelf." (This is going to be a constantly evolving system, I guess.)
BTW, congrats on completing 16000 pages!
Sam wrote: "Wreade, I have been lurking around this thread for quite a while. I love me a gamification kind of reading strategy, and your achievement idea is just brilliant! It is so fascinating to see how oth..."Thx Sam! and glad to be of use :) . Yes feel free to design your own version. I tried the bingo-challenge a couple of times and liked it but wanted something a little more specific to my style.
And yes the achievements change every year depending on my mood, i have a number of others for specific genres or decades, next year i'm adding these two just for fun,
PEOPLE-PAPERS: Read 3 books with titles that include (but are not limited to) a name.
PAPER-PEOPLE: Read 3 books with titles that consist only of a name.
its a very easy to modify system :) .
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@Sam, I'm curious how you set this up in Excel. Multiple categories almost warrants a database! Are you using Power Query/Pivot or Power BI to tabulate your results?
@Jillian The more the merrier! Love your calligraphy by the way :) .Oh for anyone doing something like this i have noticed a slight issue, towards the end of the year its hard to stop myself from putting books off i would otherwise read because i know they fit some category i need for next year.
I imagine its a common problem with many types of challenge.
Not really ideal though, you design these things to get you to read more so any procrastination they create i'd have to categorize as a flaw :P .
Thanks to Jillian, I discovered this personal challenge and am so inspired. I want to make my own as well. I'll do that, probably tomorrow or Sunday. Thanks both of you for inspiring me. It takes a booknerd to know one and I don't know anymore how a life without GoodReads would look like. How did I manage all those years I lived without you all? Nobody would understand me! (Except for my partner since six years, I finally in life met a nerdy booklover like myself - even though I'm probably the nerdier of us.) The two of you have now after I've read through this lit another sparkling chamber of reading challenges in my heart. I will for ever be greatful to both of you!I hadn't found the thread for personal challenges before Jillian showed me the way.
Wreade1872 wrote: "Sam wrote: "Wreade, I have been lurking around this thread for quite a while. I love me a gamification kind of reading strategy, and your achievement idea is just brilliant! It is so fascinating to..."The names for each achievement alone are highly entertaining. I can't wait to set up a thread for next year and try it out myself :)
LiLi wrote: "@Sam, I'm curious how you set this up in Excel. Multiple categories almost warrants a database! Are you using Power Query/Pivot or Power BI to tabulate your results?"LiLi, I have to admit it is a very basic sheet with my categories as coloumns and one book title per line. Cells are usually marked with an x to signify the book falls in a category, depending on the category they might contain other values (like year of publication). If a book doesn't fit the category, the cell remains empty. The number of points equals the sum of categories a title fits.
I wanted the system to be super easy and flexible, as my tbr changes shape over time and I might be interesting in varying categories.
Several people mentioned reading the oldest book on their TBR, i like that idea but modified it for more flex. So adding this one for next year.LOVE-IT-OR-LEAVE-IT: Read the oldest remaining book on your TBR, after any removals.
My logic is that if i can't bring myself to read it within a year there's no point leaving it on my list ;) .
So i'll remove as many as i need to till i get too something i can read.
One way or another my TBR will get a bit smaller :) .
I want to try something similar with my "Read 10 out of the 50 oldest books on your TBR" task. It boggles the mind: I joined GR summer 2011 and still have some unread books I added that year ... Over the years I definitely became a pickier reader and don't feel like I must finish each book, so I dnf books I don't enjoy. And those do not stay on the tbr shelf. Over time and with a little more focus the problem should solve itself. I hope :)
@Sam, I have some older listings on there, too! I joined in 2016. When I joined, I added every book on my shelf, several of which are still unread. I'm making progress, though.
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Is this the trashiest-looking version of _Jane Eyre_ you could find? :D
LiLi wrote: "Is this the trashiest-looking version of _Jane Eyre_ you could find? :D"That image is actually remarkably similar to the version i read, mine might be slightly more battered actually :P .
I was reading it on the ereader but when the battery died i searched the house and found that version, from 1965 i believe :) .
My version of Treasure island is slightly better looking than the version there though, or at least less blurry ;) .
I realise i never made an achievement for x-men apocalypse wars which really deserves one if i ever get to the end of it, so... based on what i've read so far i think this will be appropriate... ;)CASHGRAB-EDGELORD-HOTMESS-BOOMBOOM: Complete the X-men Age of Apocalypse epic crossover.
Final Update:231 System Nov-Dec 2021
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The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge [3/5] reviewRR
Prince Caspian by C.S.Lewis [3/5]01
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [3/5] review02
Extraordinary X-Men, Kingdoms Fall by Lemire, Ibáñez [3/5]03
Chivalry by James Branch Cabell [4/5] reviewRR
Star-Trek Odyssey #3 by Shatner, Reeves-Stevens [4/5] review01
News from Nowhere by William Morris [2/5] review02
Age of Apocalypse 3 by Scott Lobdell et al [3/5] review03
Brick Moon by Edward Everett Hale [3/5] reviewRR
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson [5/5] review
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One of which is Unquels, a term i made up and define as
Unquel: A work significantly related (usually unofficially) to a previous work by a different author.
Should be fun.
My simple but flexible system is:
I will read 2 OR 3 new books (depending on mood) and then 1 reread.
Possible Achievements 2021:
BEAT-THE-TIDE: Complete all Owned unread books.
CALLIGRAPHY: Write 40 reviews.DEJA-VIEW:Complete 4000 pages of Rereads.WAR-OF-WORDS: Read 3 books from the 1940s.HAPPY-DAYS-HISTORIES: Read 3 books from the 1950s.THE-FIRST-SEX: Read 10 books by female authors.PAINT-WITH-WORDS: Read 10 graphic novels.AUTHOR-ALT: Read 5 new non-sequels by authors you've read before.REAL-FICTION:Read 5 non-fiction books.CRY-UNQUEL: Read 5 books connected to a work by a different author.READ-MY-SHORTS: Read 3 new collections of short stories.NOBODYS BUSINESS: Read 1 new book that has never been rated.POETRY-SMOETRY: Read 2 new poetry collections.SEQUELITIS: Read 10 books in series you've already started.FRESH-PERSPECTIVE: Read 15 books by authors you've never read before.CENTURY-SWEEP: Read books from 10 different decades.SESQUICENTENNIAL-SWEEP: Read books from 15 different decades total.BICENTENNIAL-SWEEP: Read books from 20 different decades total.CLEVER-FELLOW: Read 3 books from the Biography of Manuel.MERRY-MERRIL-MEDLEY: Read 5 books from the Merril Collection.X-EMPLARY: Read 5 months of X-Men comic appearances.DO-LOOK-NOW: Read 3 Looking books.
ET-TU-SITH?: Complete the Star-Wars Shakespeare prequels.FULLY-ILLUMINATED:Complete the Illuminatus trilogy.THROUGH-THE-NIGHT: Complete the Darkness and Dawn trilogy.
JERRY-RIGGED: Complete the Cornelius Quartet.
DON'T-PANIC: Complete the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
BANKS-ACCOUNT: Complete the Mary Poppins series.
LEAVING-ORBIT: Complete the 10 volume Sci-Fi Collection published by Orbit.
STANDARD-PRACTISE: Read 60 items.MAKE-IT-COUNT: Read 16,000 pages.LITERARY-GOLD: Read 5 Five-Star books.CRUD-COMPOSITIONS: Read 5 One-Star books.