2023 Challenge Status Updates

and what nots….

We be talkin’ ’bout CHALLENGES. And stuff.

I completed the What’s in a Name Challenge and also, my town’s library’s 12 Category Challenge #ReadICT. I have added a few classics to my 5-year block of 50 goal but I’ll save that for the Recap Post in a few weeks. (YIKES!! I have to the end of 2024 to get it all done. I better start paying better attention...)

I’m back to blogging, Baby! Woot.

What’s in a Name? √

Read a book from each of the following categories:   

• Punctuation – √ Honey, Baby, Mine
• 7 Deadly Sins – √ A Little Book of Sloth
• You or Me – √ 100 Things to Do in Wichita Before YOU Die
• Chess Piece – √ The Once and Future King (DNF), Bandit Queens
• Celebration – √ Anna Quindlen’s Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
• Q, X, Z – √ All Quiet on the Western Front

I have a *new* system that I go to the host site when I complete a book and LIKE the category post, then I write a review post and return to that post to add my comment with link to the review. I realized yesterday that I hadn’t written a review post for the Chess Piece category, so got that done. √ And now, I write this post.

I do want to say that for the last 2 years, I’ve been saying I’ll read a book on Listening that always seems to meet a challenge somewhere, and I still haven’t read it. Maybe 2024 is the year I was (am) supposed to read it.

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I made a lot of pie: Mulberry Hand Pies, Quince Pie, Rhode Island Coffee Milk Pie, a lot of Apple – which is weird for me because I usually don’t like making Apple Pie (#shrug), Peach, Lemon Meringue, and probably more I don’t recall. Oh Pecan! for Thanksgiving. I’ll make Pumpkin for Christmas. I am experimenting with a Cherry Cranberry Pie per my brother’s request, and want to try making Sunny Anderson’ s Grandma Williams’s Squash Pie which has some lemon hints. What pie will you be making for the Holidays?

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Wichita KS #ReadICT √

The #ReadICT Challenge has 12 Categories and I’ve read multiple books for almost all of them. I announced it all on Facebook, but here’s somewhat of a pictorial completionist shot:

Which brings me to the Tournament of Books. I am working through a few of the long list, but will get REALLY frenzied when the short list is announced. Sometime within the next 2 weeks.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Eat some pie.

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