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Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I definitely want to keep doing the #greekmythologychallenge but I‘ve been taking a break from it. Eventually when I feel like doing it again, I will. I‘m not in the mood for it right now but I was having fun doing it. Maybe in 2025, I‘ll come back to it but it‘s going to be on hold for now. I‘m narrowing down my reading challenges on StoryGraph but I‘m not getting rid of this one. This one is fun.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on my reading challenges on StoryGraph. I‘m looking at these challenges and I‘m thinking that I need to narrow them down to three that are the most important to me and remove the rest because I have too many challenges. I feel overwhelmed looking at this. I like to challenge myself a little bit with my reading but I don‘t feel like challenging myself this much right now especially since my dog passed away on 10/25.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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This is the way the Goodreads Challenge looks if you try out the beta version of it. I‘m all for it. It looks better than the regular version. Goodreads needs to update their app. They don‘t update their app enough. I‘m not where I want to be with my challenge yet but I‘m glad Goodreads is cheering me on.

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Lauredhel
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I've signed up for three 2025 #readingchallenges already, and it's not even December! #WickedWords is a given of course if it's running, #ISpyBingo I very much enjoy, and I like the look of the prompts for #booklistqueenchallenge25 too. And I'll be running Four Fours again, hashtagged #fourfoursin25 this time.

What are you thinking of signing up for? Or running?

#readingchallenge #2025readingchallenges

OriginalCyn620 I totally dropped the ball with this year‘s Pantone challenge, but if it comes back for 2025, I will do better! 🤪 1mo
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PuddleJumper I completely forgot about the Pantone challenge. #Roll100 #GottaCatchemAll #QueerBC will continue in 2025. I've also got a prompt maze #FrozenSick which is a whenever thing and #ReadYourDamnDanmei I think that's all 1mo
Lauredhel @OriginalCyn620 I've just starting yoinking colours for a #pantone2025 colour chart, so if no one else steps up to do it, it will still be happening! 1mo
Lauredhel @PuddleJumper OMG so many to explore! 1mo
Jas16 I think that 2025 is going to be a challenge free year for me. 1mo
Lauredhel @Jas16 enjoy your reading! 1mo
AmyG I am only doing a challenge that requires books I own. It‘s out of control over here. 🤣 So….Bookspin, Author-a-Month if I have the author, TBR Tarot. My only exception to my rule is the Sunday Buddy Read. 1mo
Enchanted_Bibliophile Another one on my 2025 list 🤩 1mo
Born.A.Reader @AmyG that's the one I need to do. My owned TBR is soo out of control 😅 1mo
thebacklistbook I'm doing a few challenges. For next year I'm still plugging away at read the world, the owls, #fictionaltraveler , and #tbronly2025, I am still deciding about #frozensick . I am of course running my #yuletidereads starting December 21. 1mo
willaful Definitely doing BookSpin , QueerBC, and adding Roll100 this year. I love Four Fours! Will continue #BacklistReadathon and #TBRTarot if they're on. And finishing up #192025!

@Jas16 Do what makes you happy!
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willaful Oh, I forgot @Faranae's #URC. 1mo
Faranae @willaful 😭How could you forget my URC? (😆) 1mo
willaful @Faranae I know! I've got a list a mile long of possible prompts! 1mo
mariaku21 I'm always game to do Pantone reading @Lauredhel amongst any others but I'm not thinking about 2025. I still have books this year 😭🤣 1mo
BookwormAHN I'm not sure how many challenges I'm doing now. I host #StarWarsBuddyRead and I've joined #BookSpin with #ReadOrDonate plus #TBRTarot #LosersClub #AuthorAMonth and a few others however I'd Iike to Pantone again since I usually can match the books I'm already reading and don't usually have to look to hard for them. 1mo
Lauredhel @Enchanted_Bibliophile Cool, I haven't seen many others doing Booklist Queen's challenge on Litsy!



@TheBacklistBook Just added #FictionalTraveler to my list. The more the merrier, I can always trim later if I'm not managing.



@willaful #URC I have not heard of before *scuttles off to join* @Faranae 



@mariaku21 @BookwormAHN I'll be organising #Pantone2025 over the next week or so. Stay tuned 

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TheAromaofBooks Lots of fun challenges in this thread!! I'm already entangling myself in way too many buddy reads as usual 😂 I'm especially excited about once again trying to read all of Agatha Christie's books in published order, this time lead by @Librarybelle I'm also finishing her #192025 challenge. #ISpyBingo will be back, and I also do my personal challenges of trying to read the USA and read at least one book from every year of the last 100 years. ⬇ 1mo
TheAromaofBooks I'm also joining @julieclair 's challenge for #FictionalTraveler as well as whichever #GottaCatchEmAll region @PuddleJumper chooses - plus #Roll100 !! I'm interested in the Pantone Challenge which I did in 2023 but not last year, so I'll keep my eye out for that one as well!! 1mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I'll add you to the pantone tag list 1mo
julieclair @lauredhel I‘ll add you to the #FictionalTraveler tag list! Glad you‘re joining us! 1mo
julieclair I‘m doing too many, but I can‘t resist! Several of the ones already mentioned here, as well as #LiteraryCrew with @Librarybelle , #BookedInTime with @Cuilin , #LittensLoveRomance with @StayCurious , and #RandomClassics with @TheAromaofBooks . 1mo
julieclair I‘ll be hosting #FictionalTraveler , #ThematicCozies (will post about that soon) , and continuing #ReadOrDonate for 2025. 1mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I‘ve decided that I‘m going to participate in #nonfictionnovember this year to help me get through my Netgalley ARCs. I have a feeling that I will have a lot of nonfiction books to read in November just like I do this month. This month has been a very nonfiction heavy month but at least I have some nonfiction that‘s perfect for Halloween and Fall. I also have some nonfiction books on my TBR this month that I want to save for next month.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s how I‘m doing on #30booksin3months. I read 5 books last month so I got to add them on to this graphic. I will not be finished with this by September 2 so I‘m going to be reading past the end date.

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cewilf
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I will be posting on TikTok (@ c_5315) as I start to actually go on a reading journey of ALL my physical books! I have 200 to get through… and I‘d like to do it in under two years. Reviews will be posted here and on TikTok!

KateReadsYA This is impressive and I commend you 🙌☺️ 5mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on #30booksin3months.

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LibrarianRyan
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I did it I completed the Birth and Beyond Reading challenge for 23-24. It was by the skin of my teeth but I did it!! #bbrc.

PuddleJumper 🥳🥳 6mo
Crazeedi Congrats!!🎉 6mo
Deblovestoread Well done! 6mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on my series tracker. This is the first page of my tracker and I DNF‘d 1 series last month but that‘s okay because it‘s still getting taken off my list either way. At any time when reading these series, I can DNF if I don‘t like where the story is going for whatever reason or if it has something that bothers me in it. I want to finish All‘s Fair In Love And Football this month. I‘ve only read the first book.

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LibrarianRyan
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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The #BBRC is back for the new year. This is a Fiscal year challenge so it runs July -June. The purpose of the BBRC is to get everyone reading books for all age rangers.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/e6a3e36d-cb34-4e87-8cf6-e532013...
This years objective: a picture book for every letter of the alphabet - WRITTEN by a celerity. (or about a celebrity if some of the letters are harder, here's looking at you X).

LibrarianRyan Many of the other prompts look at various types of PUNK. Punk definitions, history, subgneras of literature, etc. We also look more at celebrities. Both those who were celebrities before the wrote a book, and those how are celebrities because they write books.

The rest are there to include variety, and make some easier prompts to complete. Yes I do give prizes who complete my reading challenge.

This challenge is about funn and seeing your
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LibrarianRyan interpretations of the prompts.

Happy Reading!
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monkeygirlsmama We all know I suck at challenges, but I'm signing up and will try. 6mo
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LibrarianRyan @monkeygirlsmama YEAHHHHHH. You might make it more then you think since so much of it is quick read kids books. Helps knock's out 30 books pretty quickly. 6mo
Librarybelle Signed up!! 6mo
LibrarianRyan @Librarybelle Yeahhhhhhh. Let's Rock! 6mo
Faranae I said I would sign up and so I have. This will be tough for me just because I can't stand YA and NA, although YA/NA graphic novels are at least over quickly. (Note: nothing wrong with the genres, I just do not enjoy them at all). 6mo
LibrarianRyan @Faranae well they are age ranges not genrres and I am willing to help find some you might like. I have the same feelings on NA. I get it but it annoys me. 6mo
Faranae @LibrarianRyan YA/NA are in some nebulous territory between genre and age bracket, I find. They have certain traits and themes in common across literary genres, and I think those are part of what are nails on a chalkboard for me about them. I've tried and tried, and even favorite authors' acclaimed YA endeavors have not worked for me, so I'm just resigned to not like them. To be fair, I also hated teenagers when I was one. 😂 6mo
LibrarianRyan @Faranae I totally get that. I really do. There is only one teen ager I like so far, and that is only some of the time. 😁 6mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on my reading challenge I made for myself to help me read what I own. I have 3 books left to read. I should make one of these graphics for my Kindle books since it‘s been helping me not be overwhelmed by my physical TBR. I would do the same thing. I would choose a small number of books, put them in a graphic and just read them whenever I want to. I don‘t feel overwhelmed with a small number of books.

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gabriellegabby
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Want to reach your reading goals and finish your TBR list faster? 🤩 Join a readathon!

Readathons are a fun way to discover new books, meet new friends, and push yourself to exceed all your reading targets this year. 📖⭐

👉 Check out our thrilling list of upcoming readathons and lock in your spot for the ultimate bookish ride: https://blog.getbookly.com/2024-readathons/

#readathon #readathons #readingchallenge #readmore

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on #30booksin3months. I completed the first row of the graphic and started the second row. I‘m hoping to read more books from my #bookspinbingo list this month. I‘ve read 5 books from my #readyourkindle list and now, I‘m working on my #bookspinbingo list. I haven‘t posted my progress on my bingo board yet but I will after I‘ve made more progress.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I decided to change the name of my reading challenge to help me read my physical books. It used to be called “Physical Books I‘ve Been Ignoring” but I didn‘t like that name so I changed it to “Read Your Physical TBR”. I like the new name better. I think it‘s clever. I feel like I‘m calling myself out with that name because I tend to ignore the books on my shelves and just read something I don‘t own.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates

I‘ve started some reading challenges for myself to get me to finish series I‘ve started, read my Kindle and read my physical books. I‘m thinking that I should‘ve started a 24 books in 2024 list to help me get through my TBR but if I start it now, it‘ll be too late because it‘s already June. I wish I would‘ve thought about doing that but I didn‘t know what books to pick. Maybe next year, I can make a 25 books in 2025 list. I like lists.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on the #greekmythologychallenge. I still have a long way to go but the book I‘m currently reading will work for this challenge. I think adding more prompts from this reading challenge to my #bookspinbingo list each month would be fun and that would give me a chance to complete more prompts from this reading challenge. I‘ve been working on this whenever I‘ve wanted to do it. If I don‘t feel like it then I don‘t do it.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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One of my favorite reading challenges is back for the 6th year this Summer. I always read past the end date just so I can fill in this graphic with the books I‘ve read. I haven‘t decided if I should count DNFs towards this but I feel like maybe I should if I start bailing on a lot of books. I would just have to type DNF over the book image but I could do that.

#30booksin3months

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s how I‘m doing on reading these physical books that I own. I have 5 books left to read. When I get done with this, I‘ll choose more books from my shelf to read. I started a little reading challenge for myself to read my physical books but I didn‘t give myself a deadline. I‘ve added the last 5 books on this graphic to #bookspin lists every month to motivate myself to read them.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I made a reading challenge for myself to read my physical books and these are the books I chose. I‘ve added the rest of these books to my #bookspin list hoping that it will help me to prioritize the physical books I own. I‘m doing good. I have 6 books left to read on this graphic. After I finish reading the books on here, I‘ll choose more to read.

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IMASLOWREADER
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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good time to clean out my kindle @CBee #readyourkindle #readinglife #readinggoal

CBee Thanks for joining 😊 11mo
IMASLOWREADER im trying to declutter my kindle tbr lol 11mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on my reading challenge for this month. I‘m not going to read any more books this month. In 2023, I discovered that I like taking a break from reading during the last week of every month so I‘m going to be continuing to do that this year.

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PaperbackPirate
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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🙌 My library hosted a fun reading challenge in 2023! I didn‘t get a blackout but I filled 2 complete rows.
✅ I used one copy for tracking prompts completed, and another for photos of the books I read for the prompts. I loved using my book stamps and washi tape for this challenge.

#LitsyCrafters @Catsandbooks
#BookJournal #justreadppl

Catsandbooks Love this! 👏🏼🩷 11mo
PaperbackPirate Thank you @Catsandbooks ! 💙 5mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress for my reading challenge this month. I can‘t believe January is almost over and I‘ve only finished 2 books this month. I DNF‘d a lot of books this month.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s my progress on this challenge. I‘m not off to a great start. I‘ve been reading every day but I haven‘t finished any books yet. I‘ve been reading my Netgalley ARCs and I DNF‘d them because I didn‘t like them. I‘m trying to improve my ratio on Netgalley and bailing on books isn‘t helping but if I don‘t like the book then I don‘t like it so I‘m not going to force myself to finish books I‘m not enjoying.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I got an email from Whitney and I saw that she posted about the private paid community she made for #theunreadshelfproject. I enjoyed participating in this challenge because of the prompts and guides and the community but I didn‘t have to pay. I‘m not sure if I want to join. There won‘t be new prompts or guides but I miss #theunreadshelfproject community.

kelli7990 (Continued in comments) Now that I think about it, the place where I‘ve found the most literary connections is Litsy. I‘m on Bookstagram, Threads and BookTok but it‘s not the same as being on here. I‘ve had a hard time getting people to see my posts on those apps. (edited) 12mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I‘m sharing my Goodreads reading challenges from years past and I see that I have been on Goodreads for 10 years. I can‘t believe it‘s been 10 years.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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For this year, I set my goal to 1 book on Goodreads and StoryGraph like I did last year. I set it to 1 book last year and as I read books, I gradually increased it and that worked out really well for me because I ended up reading 84 books last year.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I decided to join this reading challenge hosted by StoryGraph. I decided to start an audio ARC from Netgalley that is being released this month. I started reading Only If You‘re Lucky by Stacy Willingham. This is my first book by this author.

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Jerdencon
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Well - not going to make it this year - although I did read about the same as last year. I definitely get too wrapped up in tv…. Have to set a more realistic goal because I haven‘t met it in 2 years 😔

Jas16 66 books is still great! 12mo
AmyG That‘s what I read,too. So good job! 12mo
Deblovestoread You did well! 🙌🏼🎉 12mo
Bookzombie 66 is great! 12mo
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melissajayne
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I am going to be hosting a TBR challenge again. I am doing it through StoryGraph again. It's quite simple: read at least two books each month that have been on your TBR since January 1, 2023. I hope you will be able to join #litsyevents

Here is the sign up link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/14611b90-7d15-4a52-8663-53f98eb...

Birdsong28 Signed up for this. It was so good. I really enjoyed it. 12mo
julieclair I‘m in! Just signed up on StoryGraph. Thanks for hosting this again this year! 12mo
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I thought this article was interesting.

Link to the article: https://bookriot.com/reading-goals-and-mental-health/

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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#theunreadshelfproject is closing down. This is the Instagram post that Whitney shared today and the comment that I made on the post. My username is kelli_booklover on Instagram. I‘m sad that this is coming to an end but as the saying goes,”All good things come to an end.” I enjoyed being a part of the community. It helped me prioritize my unread books and I will continue to prioritize my unread books when I can.

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Charityann
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s how I did on #theunreadshelfproject this year. There were 2 books I borrowed from the library because I didn‘t have a book to fit the prompts and I bought 2 audiobooks to fit 2 more prompts but other than that, I did really well. I haven‘t done the last 3 prompts and at this point, I‘m not going to stress myself out trying to complete this challenge. Christmas is coming up. Why stress myself out if I don‘t have to?

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I was on Instagram and I saw that there‘s a challenge for next year to read Agatha Christie so this is what I commented on that post. I‘ll have to see if I can find time for it next year. If I don‘t get around to it next year, it‘s not a big deal. The only reason I haven‘t read more of her books is I don‘t know what to read next by her. She has written so many books and there‘s a lot to choose from.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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Here‘s how I‘m doing on my reading challenges for the year. I‘m not going to finish any of them this year. The only one that has a deadline is The Unread Shelf Project but I didn‘t participate in it for October or November and I probably won‘t read anything for it this month either. For the Greek Mythology challenge, I‘m just adding books to it that I‘ve already read this year.

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kelli7990
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I completed 2 more prompts for the #greekmythologychallenge. I‘m counting Demon Next Door for a true crime novel and I‘m counting When God Doesn‘t Make Sense for a challenging book about a heavy topic.

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kelli7990
Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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I just fulfilled 2 more prompts for the #greekmythologychallenge that I‘m doing this year. I read these 2 books last month. I‘m counting the book The Spider for a book somehow related to or featuring spiders and the book Charlie Brown‘s Christmas Miracle will count for a book that makes me nostalgic. I feel like reading the Charlie Brown book was nostalgic for me because I‘m 33 and I became a fan of Peanuts comics when I was 19.