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Welcome to FBR's 2022 Monthly Reading Challenge!

March's Challenge: Either donate or read a few books you've been hanging onto for more than 10 years!

With all the new, shiny books coming out, it can be hard to remember those neglected little paperbacks you bought a decade ago keeping your shelf niknaks (I call them niknaks for obvious reasons) company. Let's dust off those tattered shelves and get ready for the new season by giving those old books some love. Let go of the ones you know you're never going to read and make time this month to crack the spine (figuratively... don't damage your books, you heathens) on at least a few of the others. :)

If you want to participate, create your own tracker thread in this folder if you haven't already. Then comment below to tell us which books you're considering for the challenge! :)

This is going to take some thinking. Does rereading count? :)

Sounds great, Niki...

I would think a reread would count if you wanted it to. Say you bought a new copy/version of a book you'd read before, or done the audio but still had the physical book laying about....

Hmmm possibly I have one or two from this category :)

I haven't got a book that I've been hanging onto for more than 10 years since I wasn't into books then but I have got a few that I've never really finished

The name of the wind
The mortality doctrine
Lagrimas por una medalla

Anything counts as long as it makes the challenge fun and helpful. :)

I just did this with The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs. I've had it forever. I guess I'll look for more of them to read in March! I've also got a whole box of books to donate.

Well maybe this is the time to read that copy of the Silmarillion that i have since 1997.

Filipe wrote: "Well maybe this is the time to read that copy of the Silmarillion that i have since 1997."

😂

Ok! I'm going for some rereads...

The Last Unicorn
The Diamond Throne
The Ruby Knight
The Sapphire Rose

Filipe wrote: "Well maybe this is the time to read that copy of the Silmarillion that i have since 1997."

That will be fun and a chore. Hahahaha

I'll use this theme to read older audiobooks that I've had for a few years. No idea what they are, but I'm sure they are on my tablet and feeling neglected. XD

Oh no... Most of my unreads on my shelves fit this description 😅
I'm not ready to do another round of donations again... but I'll read at least one from this list in March:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Anna Karenina
Devices and Desires
Magician: Apprentice
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I don't have any books from 10 years ago in my home (except Stephanie Plum) but in 2018 my son and I took a trip to Powell's Books in Oregon and I have a stack of fantasy books from that trip I haven't read. Will plan on getting through some of these for the month.

Hooray For Hellywood
An Excess of Enchantments
A Disagreement With Death
The Glaive
Majyk By Accident
Majyk By Hook or Crook
Enchanted Pilgrimage
Witch and Wombat

Oh gods...I have around 4,000 books, and they're all in boxes right now... and that's not even counting the ebooks and audiobooks... Going to have to update this post with the ones I have out of boxes later...

I could just put a link to my excel database of my books. :)

Off the top of my head though:
--Tide Child
--Draconis Memoria
--Ember in the Ashes
--Land Fit for Heroes
--Faithful and the Fallen
--Gideon the Ninth etc
--Shadow Campaigns
--Witcher
--The World of the Others
--Invisible Library
--Drowned Empire
--Green Bone Saga
--Breach of Peace & 2
....

I’ve been working on this all year so glad this got its own month.

1. The Mists of Avalon

For more than 10 years? Oh dear, I forget what books I bought last year, so more than 10 years will be a challenge.
Does it need to be books that you own or can it be books that you meant to get from the library ages ago?

Saar The Book owl wrote: "For more than 10 years? Oh dear, I forget what books I bought last year, so more than 10 years will be a challenge.
Does it need to be books that you own or can it be books that you meant to get f..."

It can be anything that sounds fun to tackle. Cleaning out old library holds sounds fun, maybe I’ll make that a category eventually

Okay, thanks, Niki!