The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

2021 Theme: Choose Your Story

Annual Challenges:
✧ Tackle That TBR, Vol 4: Choose Your Story
✧ Book Count 2021

Quarterly Challenges
✧ Q1 (Jan-Mar): Drink Your Tea
✧ Q2 (Apr-Jun): It's All A Game
✧ Q3 (Jul-Sep): Pick Your Word
✧ Q4 (Oct-Dec): Catch-Up Bingo

Seasonal Challenges
✧ Blind Date With a Book: Pick Your Prompt (Feb-Mar)
✧ Bobbing for Apples (Sep-Oct)

Team Challenges
✧ Summer Days (Jun/Jul)
✧ Winter Wars (Nov/Dec)

Thank you all for your suggestions and recommendations!

General side note: We might have pop-ups throughout and there may be delays because life happens.

Happy reading, and we hope to see you in these games!



♥ the mods

I enjoy the variety of challenges so much! Also wonderful themes, covering seasons which is a lot of fun xx

The levels are great, as feel gives everyone a chance to take part/achieve goal as can pick your own pace. Whether looking for easy or difficult theres an option for all types of readers 😊

In terms of ideas im not sure at the moment, maybe some movie themes or tv could be entertaining? Or relating to tropes/themes in books?

I really like all the challenges with flexible prompts (such as asian author, or red cover, etc) and I also love the group challenges because there are a lot of interesting buddy reads!

Levels are great too! It's a way to not feel intimidated by people that read 150+ books a year haha

A crazy idea that I had now (?) is a "choose your path" challenge? Like with a set of prompts to read and choose a path? I loved one challenge from another group of "making your tea" and you have to pick the temperature, tea, etc and make your own tea with different prompts.

I'd rather stay only on goodreads to just stay in one social media and stop procastinating more

I'm loving the tackle your tbr list this year and would love to do that again. I also enjoy the generic prompts as they make it more likely that I have something that fits them on either my bookshelf, or can borrow it from the teen library I manage. Especially when they're in things like the bingo card we're currently doing.

Levels work well for me as I work full time and am a slower reader at times (dyslexic).

I like Bopeep's idea about having a sort of "choose your own adventure" challenge. Over on booktube, some people recently hosted the "1000 Doors Readathon" where each video asked you a question about the book you read, and then you branched off on different paths. It could be sort of a running challenge/game, so people could complete it multiple times to get all the prompts? I'm not sure exactly how that would work on Goodreads, since they just had unlisted videos for each part of the readathon except for the intro videos, but it might be an idea!

I'm also really glad we're doing Summer Days and Winter Wars, which will actually allow some time to breathe. I felt like this year, with only September "off" in between Summer Days and Fright Nights, it was a little overwhelming. It may be worth coming up with a spring theme so we can alternate doing a spring and fall one year, then summer and winter the next year so it's a bit more spread out.

I personally really enjoyed the Rainbow Reads challenge this year and would love to do it again next year. As for other ideas I think having a challenge that relates to reading diverse authors would be fun. Maybe an Around the World challenge where you have to read one book written by an author from every continent (probably excluding Antarctica cause I don’t think there are many books written from there). I also like Bopeep’s Choose Your Adventure idea!

I like the prompts that allow me to not have to search so hard for a book. So prompts like the color of a book, the genre of a book, or reading diversely are great. Something super specific like the lost princess one for this years Tackle that TBR I don’t enjoy that much, especially for challenges that are meant to target my TBR pile just because I would prefer to not have to search outside my TBR for a book 😅

I’m on the fence about the idea of using other social media platforms for challenges. I need a little more information of what that would be like.

As for the different levels I really appreciated them! It allows for people to read at their own pace. I also agree with Katie about only doing two team challenges a year and alternating seasons. Having a little more than a two month break between them would allow for more time to recover before the next challenge.

This was my first year with the group and I loved all the challenges you guys put together! I’m excited to see what you guys come up with next year!

Why haven't I seen this sooner? 😃 Good thing I saw Raquel wrote something in a 2021 challenges thread

I haven't participated in other games except the Team challenges and the Tackle your tbr (still have to do 2, I think, to finish the challenge 😅), but I'm loving those. And I like Katie's idea to make them Spring-Fall and Summer-Winter games, this way I think there could be more ideas for prompts (I don't know what prompts exactly because my brain screams "set in spring" and then it refuses to have some other idea).

I like Bopeep's idea of path reads 😃 I'm actually really interested in that, the tea one sounds fun. Now when I think of paths, I can't stop imagining it like a board game type; you have to pick between this and that, this brings you to read book that has something-something while that brings you to read something else. Raquel's idea of a World Wide Read is good too, one that could do good for me because I tend to read mostly US authors 🙈 and I would like to expand.

The color, genre tasks are great, because you can mostly find something for it on your tbr, and as a book community we know to get a bit crazy with our tbr and then complain how there are so many books 😅 And the diverse characters/authors, #ownvoices taks are great becase it pushes you a bit out of your comfort zone, at least that's the case with me.

The level games are good because people can read how much they want and finish a level, and not feel bad if they can't read as much as some others.

Oooooh these are all great ideas!

I think I know how we could do a choose your own adventure, make your tea and a board game challenge.

And I do agree that Summer/Fall games with only one month break was...not ideal (for you all or me lol). Next year we'll do Summer/Winter, and then alternate to Spring/Fall. Maybe Spring Fling (hehe Mean Girls)/Fright Night?

For 2021's Tackle That TBR, I'm thinking that levels might have more options, like "All books must be published in 2021" or "All books published before 2021" to get folks to look that backlist.

Updated the first thread.

Based on everyone's comments, it's looking like 2021's theme is going to be Choose Your Story.

Quarter 1's challenge is Drink Your Tea, which will be something similar to Bopeep's idea.

Quarter 2's challenge will be It's All a Game, which is either going to be a choose your own adventure or board-game style, depending on how much time I spend thinking on it.

Quarter 3: ???? Something simple because...Summer Days

Quarter 4: Catch-Up Bingo, as always :)

Tackle That TBR Vol 4 will have a similar theme with levels! There will be lots of prompts on colors, genres and diverse prompts.

Uuu, I like the "All books published before 2021" I definitely have those 😂 I'm not that confident in the 2021 books but that will be fun too.

As for Q3 what about an Alphabet read? You pick up a couple of numbers=letters and we have to read a book by that letter, or we have a word and have to find books for every letter in that word.

mina wrote: "Uuu, I like the "All books published before 2021" I definitely have those 😂 I'm not that confident in the 2021 books but that will be fun too.

As for Q3 what about an Alphabet read? You pick up a..."

I like that option for Q3! Thank you :)

😊 you are welcome. I don't know what would be more easier than that 😂

I just joined this group a short while ago so was a little late to join all the challenges but I am definitely interested in all the ideas listed here :)

I was able to join the Fright Night quarterly challenge which has been really fun.

The only ones I have done have been the group read which I love. I get a bit competitive and all I end up doing is reading. Seriously I need to slow down a bit. I do end up reading things I normally wouldn't. Thanks for organizing and making all of these great things happen.

Everything sounds great for next year. Mixing different social media platforms would make it harder for me to keep up I think. (waste more time).

Blind dates sound fun too!! Looking forward to next years reading already!!

Michelle wrote: "The only ones I have done have been the group read which I love. I get a bit competitive and all I end up doing is reading. Seriously I need to slow down a bit. I do end up reading things I normall..."

The blind dates are super fun! You should definitely try them out!

Blind dates are amazing! It's nice to have them back!

Also, the "read only 2021 books" would be so nice for me as long as I'm suscribed to some boxes but I don't read the books hahaha

And I'm glad that you liked the drink your tea idea! It's nice to help somehow! ^__^

Bopeep wrote: "Blind dates are amazing! It's nice to have them back!

Also, the "read only 2021 books" would be so nice for me as long as I'm suscribed to some boxes but I don't read the books hahaha

And I'm gl..."

Thank you for your ideas! I really appreciate them :)

This looks AMAZING!!! Beyond excited and thankful for all the mods hard work!!

So excited for Winter Wars! That said, I'll miss Fright Night. Is it gone for good? It's always my favorite challange.

Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "So excited for Winter Wars! That said, I'll miss Fright Night. Is it gone for good? It's always my favorite challange."

We interchange between Winter Wars and Fright Night each year! So it's definitely not gone. It just means that next year is when we'll be doing Fright Night but not Winter Wars :)

The months are just too close together for us to host both every year 😅

Althea | themoonwholistens ☾ wrote: "Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "So excited for Winter Wars! That said, I'll miss Fright Night. Is it gone for good? It's always my favorite challange."

We interchange between Winter Wars and Fright ..."

That's what I was hoping! Winter Wars makes more sense next to Summer Days, but Fright Night is just so much fun. 😁

Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "Althea | themoonwholistens ☾ wrote: "Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "So excited for Winter Wars! That said, I'll miss Fright Night. Is it gone for good? It's always my favorite challange."

We interc..."

Fright Night my favorite. I already have the team names ready for 2022! They are so punny it hurrrrrrtsssss.

laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "Althea | themoonwholistens ☾ wrote: "Alex (The Scribe Owl) wrote: "So excited for Winter Wars! That said, I'll miss Fright Night. Is it gone for good? It's always my f..."

Oh no 🤦‍♀️ 😂