After taking a challenge hiatus for 2024, I am ready to participate in challenges again! I am looking forward to participating in several challenges in 2025 and hope to see you around the challenges as well 😀 Let's cheer each other on and have some fun! Please click on the banner (or link) to be taken to the host for each challenge to see all the details and sign up.
Okay, first off, this in not an official challenge per say, but Chautona Havig was chatting on her Book Tube and decided she was going to get rid of 55 books before her 55th birthday in July. I LOVED this idea, so I will be joining her. I will be getting rid of 47 books before my 47th birthday on July 19. There are no hard and fast rules, just getting rid of books (unless she sets some). I am going to be getting rid of fiction and nonfiction. Obviously, as a book nerd, books will still be coming in, and that is okay! The point is to clear off some books I know I will never read again.
The Mount TBR Reading Challenge is hosted by Bev over at My Reader's Block. There are specific levels you can sign up for and I committed to 48 books (Mount Ararat) from my physical (owned) TBR shelf prior to the start of 2025.
The VIRTUAL MOUNT TBR CHALLENGE is for those of us who have a long "wish-list" of TBRs and who would like a chance to tackle those mountains. I signed up for: Mount Munch: Read 36 books from your Virtual TBR/Wish List/Library.
Wow. that's a lot of challenges! They do look like fun. I don't know that I'll sign up for any this year; they tend to cause me stress. Mostly because I put pressure on myself to review and post about all the books. and then halfway through the year I run out of steam on them. ;D But I wish you lots of luck with all of these. Especially the getting rid of 47 books before you're 47.
ReplyDeleteLark, that's why I took a break last year, I WAY overdid it in 2022, and it carried over in 2023. I put so much pressure on myself, but while this looks like a lot, I read mostly from my virtual TBR (Goodreads list), and from my shelves, so that's helpful. Plus, I can use the books I own to fill the other prompts if I want to. I did NOT mean to sign up for this many, but sigh, LOL.
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DeleteHappy reading and purging. I don't set challenges I just read to read and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteHena, some years I do challenges and some I don't..
DeleteI'm not planning on joining any new challenges as I have quite a few already. But I am always interested in reducing my TBR pile, so I might just add my list to that.
ReplyDeleteMarianne, my unread books never used to bother me, but now I feel wasteful if I don't work on getting that list down!
DeleteNono, you are just giving them a good home. ;)
DeleteLOL, true :) They are loved!
DeleteThe Mount TBR reading challenge sounds like an excellent idea! I may do this year next year. My challenge agenda is full for 2025.
ReplyDeleteOlivia, I totally understand! What challenges are you participating in?
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