I went from doing next to no challenges to doing ALL the challenges for 2018 (well, signing up. . . whether I complete all of them or not remains to be seen. There’s a lot to keep track of so I thought I’d put it all in one place here!
Beat the Backlist A Series a Month Commenting 365 Blog Discussion
Beat the Backlist
Hosted by NovelKnight 🙂
Goal: 100 books
This challenge is all about reading books published in the previous year or earlier! All goals are set set by you, the reader, and every book read and retail review posted earns points for your team. I’ll be joining Team Novel Knights for the challenge!
Books Read:
- Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler
- Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen
- Gilded Cage by Vic James (re-read)
- Saga Volume 3 by Brian Vaughn
- Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nel Yomtov & Berenice Muniz
- The Rebels of Gold by Elise Kova
- Mistwood by Leah Cypess
- Lady Be Bad by Megan Frampton
Potential TBR:
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- Weather Witch by Shannon Delany
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
- Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes
- The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
- The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr
- Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- Dangerous Highlander by Donna Grant
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour
- Breath of Life by Beth Cato
- The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood
- Flashfall by Jenny Moyer
- Freya by Matthew Laurence
- Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts
- Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody
- Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
- Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett
- Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
- Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn
A Series a Month
Hosted by Dani Reviews Things
Goal: 12 series (1 per month)
This fabulous challenge is about reading series that are new to you (i.e. you haven’t started yet) and tackling one series per month (not for completing series you’ve already started).
January
- FAIL. . . . . . *sigh*
Potential Series TBR:
- Dark Sword series by Donna Grant
- Dark Warriors series by Donna Grant
- Silver trilogy by Kerstin Gier
- Night and Nothing series by Katherine Harbour
- Sky Fall series by Shannon Messenger
- Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater
- All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
- The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson
- Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
- The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken
- The Young Elites series by Marie Lu
- Red Rising series by Pierce Brown
Commenting 365 Challenge
Hosted by ReadWriteLove28
Goal: 365 comments on different blogs
This isn’t a reading challenge, but a blogging one! The goal here is to comment on 365 blogs throughout the year (either one a day, multiple some days and skip others, etc). I love this idea and look forward to finding some awesome new (to me) bloggers!
(Potential) Blog List:
*Ones with a strikethrough have already been commented on. I also added the date that I commented the first time (any comments beyond that I’m not counting since the goal is to comment on 365 different blogs).
Afternoon Literature1/1/18- Books. Bags. Burgers.
Bookworm Cafe1/2/18- Fervently Curious
Here There Be Dragons… also magic1/1/18Howling Libraries1/1/18Jamishelves1/2/18Jill’s Book Blog1/1/18- Literary Me!
Meanderings of a Bookworm1/2/18- Rattle the Pages
- ReadWriteLove28
Book Blog Discussion Challenge
Hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction & It Stars at Midnight
Goal: “Chatty Kathy” (21-30 posts)
Another blog challenge! I love the idea of focusing on discussion posts more and it’s one of my new year resolutions so I’m aiming for at least 2 discussion posts per month for a total of 24 by the end of the year. Maybe I’ll even do more!
Discussion Post List:
January
- My eReader Solution to Migraines
- What 7 Years of Book Blogging Taught Me
- Knowing Why You Blog is Important
- Your (Blogging) Stats Matter, But YOU Matter More
- I Received an Unsolicited Book. Now What?
Hey there!
So, we have never had any conversations together up to this point. *Waves* I am loving all these challenges, and I am going to give them a shot, too! See you in 2018. Thanks for sharing these challenges.
Hey!
I am participating in pretty much the same challenges you are. Hopefully we will both complete these by the end of this year.
As exciting as it is to plan and participate in these challenges, it also worries me. Since I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself. Let’s see how this year goes.
Oh cool! Good luck to you!! And I’m looking at it this way: nothing bad happens if I don’t complete a challenge and if I do, great! They should be fun, not stressful 🙂
Thank you! Wish you the best as well. That’s a good way to look at it. I will keep that in mind.
Heeey, I’ll be participating in the Discussion Challenge as well! It’s the only one I signed up for. Good luck with yours!
ALL of these challenges sound great and look fun! I sihned up for Beat the Backlist and I’m super excited to see which team I’m on! I’ve participated in a similar discussion challenge last year, but since my laptop crashed I’ve not been able to blog. It tears me up inside. Hopefully I can get it fixed or get a new one soon, so I can get back in the blogging game and join in on the awesome discussion challenge! Discussions are my favorite blog posts besides reviews, so I’ll definitely be on the lookout for all of your discussion posts this year!!