2025 Reading Challenge discussion

WHERE YOU READ QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2013 – March 31, 2013

The focus in on where you read, not what you read. This challenge could help you find new reading places, expand your reading habits, or help you overcome motion sickness. Under each category, you would keep track of where you read, not what you read.

Example: For the Home category, you could read in the laundry room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, etc. For the Outside section, track the places outdoors you read. In Vehicles, you could put down bus, car, boat, airplane, etc. The Travel category is for anywhere you go away from where you currently reside.

Choose how many places you're going to shoot for in each category (you do not have to do five in each).

Home
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Outside
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Vehicle
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Travel
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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Thank you to Kai for creating since a unique challenge and agreeing to lead it!

Question! For the travel category does that include places like work/school, or just vacations?

I'll let Kai answer, but my guess is that it's cities outside of the one in which you live.

Updated Feb 7

Participants!
Devynne: 0/13
Grace: 0/10
Michelle: 0/9
Brittany: 0/10
Zara: 0/12
Trevor: 3/12
Morgan: 0/12
Johanna: 0/16
Talia: 0/10
Gecko: 1/15
Kai: 8/10
Katrina: 12/15
Lilac: 4/infinity
April: 0/?
Lindsay: 4/9
Colby: 0/9
Kara: 0/15
April: 0/20

Trevor wrote: "Question! For the travel category does that include places like work/school, or just vacations?"

I was thinking of places beyond where you live initially, but we could either allow for places or we could make another category that would better encompass that.

I'd like to include as many places as possible for everyone, so we'll work it in.

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In other news: I will be MIA from this group for the next week or so. I'll be getting married and have limited Internet access until then. But I'll try to chime in every chance I get.
Thanks for understanding the predicament I'm in!

Congratulations! That's wonderful! I hope everything is perfect for you :)

Home:
1. Bedroom, 2. Livingroom, 3. Kitchen

Outside:
1. Backyard, 2. Pasture, 3. Swing

Vehicle:
1. F150 Truck, F350 Truck, 3. 05' Toyota

Travle:
1. Lousianna, 2. Fort Worth Stock Show, 3.Copper Lake, Show ring, 4. College

Lets give it a whirl


Home
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Outside
1.
2.


Vehicle
1.
2.

Travel
1.

I'm up for it too



Home
1. Bedroom
2. Living Room
3. Bathroom (tub)
4. Kitchen


Outside
1. Porch swing
2. Garden


Vehicle
1. Buick
2. Dodge Dakota

Travel
1. Cleveland

I can't read in moving vehicles, so that category is out for me, and I probably won't be reading outside in the winter or traveling anywhere in the next few months, so I will try to read in 10 different places at home and I'll add an category for at least 5 other indoor places besides my house, like school, stores, etc.

Home
1. Bedroom: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
2. Study: Leaving
3. Loungeroom: The Hunger Games
4. Ensuite: My Sister's Keeper
5. Dinningroom:

Kai wrote: "Trevor wrote: "Question! For the travel category does that include places like work/school, or just vacations?"

I was thinking of places beyond where you live initially, but we could either allow ..."

okie dokie! Thanks. :)

Is this about where the book is set?? or what they do, go etc?

I will give it aq try

Lindy wrote: "Is this about where the book is set?? or what they do, go etc?"

This is about where you read the book. On the bus, or in your home, or even at work. This challenge is all about you!

This mkight not work for me. I am blonde, so it is diffiuclt going outside alone. Can I read it inside???

Ill do 3 places for each category :)

I´ll try for 4 in each :)

Lindy wrote: "This mkight not work for me. I am blonde, so it is diffiuclt going outside alone. Can I read it inside???"

The great thing about this challenge is that you could tailor it to how you want. So you could choose not to do the outside category at all, and focus on where you read in your home. Like do you read in your bedroom every evening? How about in the kitchen or laundry room while you're doing household chores? You could also change the outside category to be inside buildings, like school or the post office or grocery store.

You also don't have to finish a book in a specific place. If you only get 5 pages into a book on the bus I would count it, especially if you're branching out and reading in new places!

But really, this challenge is all about where you want to read, so if any of the categories don't work for you, or you think that there is one that should be included then let us know!

Where You Read Quarterly Challenge
Duration: January 1 2013 – March 31 2013
Gaol: 0/15

Home
1. Kitchen:
2. Library:
3. Bathtub:
4. Toilet: ;)
5. Bedroom:
6. Livingroom:


Outside
1. Coffee Shop
2. Workplace
3. Park
4. Restaurant
5. Pub
6. Queuing at the post-office and trying not to go postal Der Samuel-Pepys Companion

Vehicle
1. Tram
2. Bus
3. Train
4. Walking

Travel(maybe):

Where Do You Read?
Duration: January 1 - March 31

8/10

Home
1. Bedroom - The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
2. Living Room - The Stranger
3. Bathroom - American Born Chinese
4. Kitchen - The Walking Dead, Book One
5.

Outside
1. Cook-Walden Funeral Home (work) -Angela's Ashes
2. HEB (work) - Are You My Mother?
3. Sidewalk - Fahrenheit 451
4.
5.

Vehicle
1. Capital Metro Bus - A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories
2.
3.
4.
5.

Travel
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

I would like to do this challenge if its still open! Ill do five in each catagory except the vehicle one please.

3/12 so far for me. :D I love that this challenge isn't about how many books I finish!


Home 1/3
1. Bedroom (Owls in the Family)

Outside Home 1/6
1. Hospital (The Treason of Isengard)

Vehicle 1/3
1. Dad's Car (The Catcher in the Rye)

April wrote: "I would like to do this challenge if its still open! Ill do five in each catagory except the vehicle one please."

You can certainly still join!

I forgot about this challenge. I'll join but I won't set a goal, I'll just see how many I can do.
Sor far I've got:

Home
1. Bedroom
2. Living Room
3. Bathroom
4. Kitchen

Vehicle
1. Van
2. Bus
3. Train

Other
1. Asha's house
2. School
3. Marcia's house


So, Completed - 10

WHERE YOU READ QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2013 – March 31, 2013

I'm going to shoot for all but the vehicle one. Plus I don't travel much so I am going to change that to places other then home, I spend a lot of time waiting on kids all kinds of places ;)

15/15

Home
1. Bedroom
2. Family room
3. Bathtub
4. Dining room
5. Kitchen

Outside
1. LAJH soccer field
2. Front Porch
3. FFA Barn
4. Navy College (waiting outside)
5. Greenscape annual tree sale

Places other then around the house
1. Dr. Elliston's office
2. Library (waiting on the other bookworms)
3. NAS JAX Pharmacy
4. NAS JAX Same Day Surgery Clinic
5. Dr. Field's office

COMPLETED!!!!!

I'm coming into this challenge a little late so I'll choose 3 places, 3 books each (can I do that?)

WHERE YOU READ QUARTERLY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2013 – March 31, 2013
Progress: 7/9

Home
1) Guilty Pleasures - 1/28/13
2) After The Rising - 2/1/13
3) Before The Fall - 2/1/13

Car
1) The Hobbit - 2/12/13
2)
3)

Work
1) Goody Goody Gunshots - 1/29/13
2) Taking Shots - 1/27/13
3) Exclusively Yours - 2/11/13

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Lindsay wrote: "I'm coming into this challenge a little late so I'll choose 3 places, 3 books each (can I do that?)"

You can do whatever you want! Welcome to the challenge and good luck!

I will shoot for 3 in each category. Do I post it when I do it?

Colby wrote: "I will shoot for 3 in each category. Do I post it when I do it?"

You can post whenever you want. You don't actually have to finish the book in the location, just where you're reading. Good luck!

Whoops--totally forgot to say that I was in for this one. Put me down for 15. Thanks, Kai!

Kara wrote: "Whoops--totally forgot to say that I was in for this one. Put me down for 15. Thanks, Kai!"

10-4!

It is almost the end of February and that leaves us with one month left to complete this challenge!

To answer some unasked questions that may help you with this challenge.
1. You don't have to use a location once. For example, I don't drive and solely commute by bus, so all of my vehicle ones will be Capital Metro Bus.
2. You can make your own categories. Don't travel much? Add 5 more to the home category. It's kinda like an all-you-can-eat-buffet, you just pick and choose what you want.
3. Don't forget to update your challenge here!

Home
1. Couch
2. Bed
3. Dining table

Vehicle
1. Airplane
2. Car

Travel
1. Scottsdale, AZ
2. Foster City, CA
3. San Jose, CA
4. Mahwah, NJ
5. Newark, NJ

Completed: 10/15

Completed this one, yay me!!!

Travel
6. Phoenix, AZ

Completed: 11/15

It's possible that I travel too much. Upcoming: San Francisco and Chicago.

I'm going to end up a tad short, I think. I may need to find more places in my house to curl up and read. :)

Kara wrote: "I'm going to end up a tad short, I think. I may need to find more places in my house to curl up and read. :)"

You can use the same place multiple times too!
I don't drive, or enjoy being in cars in general, so all of my vehicles are Capital Metro Bus.

Katrina wrote: "Completed this one, yay me!!!"

WAY TO GO KATRINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kai wrote: "Updated Feb 7

Participants!
Devynne: 0/13
Grace: 0/10
Michelle: 0/9
Brittany: 0/10
Zara: 0/12
Trevor: 3/12
Morgan: 0/12
Johanna: 0/16
Talia: 0/10
Gecko: 1/15
Kai: 8/10
Katrina: 12/15
Lilac: 4/infi..."

Hi Kara. Can I change my goal to 5 please instead of 12. The reason for this is that many of the books I read I read in the same places. For example all the ones mentioned above I have predominately read in the ensuite but have read in the other places mentioned.

Zara wrote: "Hi Kara. Can I change my goal to 5 please instead of 12. The reason for this is that many of the books I read I read in the same places. For example all the ones mentioned above I have predominately read in the ensuite but have read in the other places mentioned. "

We can change the goal no problem, but it is okay if you read in the same place. This challenge is to expand and recognize the places we read, so if you tend to be limited in your reading places (which I am), then that is okay!

Done:


Home
1. Bathroom
2. Living Room
3. Kitchen
4. Family Room
5. Computer Room

Outside
1. Deck
2. out to lunch
3. Back Yard
4. David's yard
5. Library Gazebo

Vehicle
1. my car
2. David's Car
3. Mom's Car
4. JUlie's car
5. Sister's car

Travel
1. Milford
2. Vernon
3. New Haven
4. Newington
5. Wallingford