My Reading Challenge

So, my idea to go ahead and start up another blog came from Sandra.  I love how she said that it's kind of like having notebooks meant for different things, which I do in real life.  Except I still end up mixing things together because I'm cluttered like that.  However, this shall be different (or not, I'm not worried about it).  I'm linking my original reading challenge post from our family blog to here. 

Kay's Reading Challenge 2010

The slight difference is, my To-Be-Read (TBR) pile is longer than that now and a bit more cluttered since I have physical books given to me by my brother-in-law and I've yet to sort out what's going on my list to be read.  I also have read some things that were NOT on my TBR list, but they count.

This blog will chronicle my annual reading challenges, reviews, author spotlights, personal favorites, and musings.  There are some simple rules I set for myself, if you want to join me.  I took some ideas from the 100 Species Challenge, as well as some of the reading challenges already going on everywhere.

1) This challenge is simply for the pleasure of reading.  There is no fixed amount of books that needs to be read except what amount you choose for your reading year.  For example, mine is 50.  I have seen people put down their goal of 70, 90, and/or 100 a year.  Or even just 3 books a month, 2 books a week, etc.

2) Every time you have completed a book, you should have a post that has a title of  # and title of book, and then the content about when you started and finished, and what you think of it.  It can be as detailed or as quick as you want it to be.  However, not all your blog entries have to be like this if you want to do an extended review or talk about an author or share some thoughts.  An example of a blog title for a completed book would be something like this:

#1 Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

And a blog title of a book in progress, a review, or anything else would be anything you want, like Review #1 : Author Name or whatever.

3) Books are books.  They can be physical book, e-book, audio book, etc.  Anything that required reading or listening more than several pages.

4) When you have accomplished a challenge of the reading you wanted to do, remember to tag or catalog the next challenge as the next challenge! The best example at the moment that I can give is this: as tags, you could have Reading Challenge #Year or Reading Challenge #Month.  Mine would be Reading Challenge 2010.  Next year, I'll have Reading Challenge 2011 tag.  I have seen some people choose to read a specific genre or author only for a long period of time, so perhaps that would look like Author Challenge # or Fantasy Book Challenge #.

I really enjoy seeing what other people do with their challenges.  My rules don't have to apply, only that you are participating in a reading challenge of some sort.  Just let me know and I'll check it out! I will also add you to my blogroll or in a list of participants.