Here we go again! my favorite reading challenge, the one that is less pressure and most engaging to me for year round fun. It gets me to look carefully at the books on my shelves that need to be read.
The What’s in a Name Challenge Categories for 2024 are:
Double letters – Wellness or The Bee Sting or Happiness Falls
An NFL team – Florida by Lauren Groff (has a Panther on the cover, which is close to a Jaguar?! or links to Carolina?! LOL) or The Giant’s House by E McCracken
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:
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.
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?
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.
Here we go again! my favorite reading challenge, the one that is less pressure and most engaging to me for year round fun. It gets me to look carefully at the books on my shelves that need to be read.
The What’s in a Name Challenge Categories for 2023 are:
Btw, I deleted all my Twitter accounts. End of an era? I do miss it, but it was no longer the Twitter I knew and loved.
Let’s talk CHALLENGES. I’m looking at the few challenges I worked at in 2022 and picking books from what I read that satisfy as a last ditch effort – I was picky and in doubt about a few but at this stage in the game, WHO CARES!
The What’s in a Name Challenge is COMPLETE:
I’m not bothering to figure out if I posted to the host site (SORRY!) and just enjoying the accomplishment over here in my personal glory/reflection.
Moving on to the question of will I continue in 2023! YES! Yes, of course, and I have a stack of books picked out that will satisfy the new categories but will list more in a dedicated post here in the next few days or weeks.
Classics Club 50 Part 2 – I read a few classics from my lists and some I realized after that the publish date qualifies for this challenge so I will commit, once again, to a dedicated post in the future with what I’ve read so far and how many I have yet to read. Quick glance says I have to read between 20 – 25 by the end of year 2024. I’ll make it. Looking good.
Buddy Reads! Who is in for 2023? The Stephen King Fairy Tales is sure showing up in the publicity marketing machine! Anyone want to commit a date for that in 2023?
or is TOB going to suck up all the reading time and force me to say, “How About April?!”
Which brings me to the Tournament of Books. I am almost half way through the 18 on the short list. I think I’ll make this one, too. HUZZAH!
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