The Robot Librarian's Reading Challenge discussion

Many of us like to do reading challenges -- which ones aside from the Robot Librarian challenge are you doing? PopSugar? All Through the Year? Your own personal challenge? Share with us!

Definitely 52 book club challenge and then I’ll see what the others have.

I usually do Popsugar every year, but last year I was not impressed by the prompts, so I will probably see what they have for 2024.

The last couple of years I've wound up filling the ATY prompts by accident while doing Popsugar/other reading, so I might look at participating in the ATY challenge if Popsugar isn't up my alley next year.

Popsugar is what got me started with these challenges, and I'll probably continue... it depends on what the prompts look like for 2024. I'll also do ATY and the 52 Book Club.

I tend to do Popsugar, 52 Book club, and Books in the Freezer. This year I added Reddit's Alternative fiction Bingo. More than likely, I will do these next year as well.

This year i did pop, 52 and aty. 52 had most personality. ATY was most obscure. Pop i didn't enjoy as much this year except for the obscure 10 they had?

Plan Popsugar and 52 Book as well The Robot. I am.also working on back years of 52 as just started this year and have this year, 2018 and 2019 done and have some done for 2020, 2021 and 2022.

This year I have done Popsugar and ATY (All through the Year). I like the ATY challenge as the members vote on the prompts. in 2024 I will drop Popsugar and do this challenge. I only get through about 110 books a year so 2 challenges is all I can manage. I don't use books for multiple prompts.

What are people's thoughts about using books for multiple prompts (both within a challenge and across other challenges)? I don't do this but might be open to it.

I use the same book for different prompts in multiple challenges, but not multiple prompts within the same challenge.

Sonia wrote: "What are people's thoughts about using books for multiple prompts (both within a challenge and across other challenges)? I don't do this but might be open to it."

Like Jen, I will use the same book for multiple challenges but not for multiple prompts in the same challenge. It's part of the fun at the beginning, planning books that work over multiple challenges, but, especially since some challenges have names like "52 books" I feel like part of the challenge is reading the same number of books as there are prompts in a challenge.

Also, since I have gone back and done challenges from past years that I didn't do, if I am doing two years of the same challenge, the books have to be different for those as well.

I do a lot of them! I can never say just how many. And that includes short ones (eg, ones held during each season). I even host some on my blog. They will be arriving within the next month or so. Meanwhile, my blog is at https://jannghi.blogspot.com.

Some of the challenges I've done over the years seem to disappear after a while, some even during the current year! The hosting blog gets taken down! This happened with one this year. I thought about finishing it up, but decided to call it off to have less reading for the rest of the year.

Same as Jen and Jeanne.
This year mid october i have one to finish for pop and two to read for ATY. I do read a good amount of free reading (either for book club or my buddy reading) that don't fit any.

I will be doing Popsugar and ATY, probably 52 books also. There is a classics bingo that I have been doing for a few years now.

In the past, I've done PopSugar, Monthly Keyword, Color Coded (though I don't think that one was active in 2023), and 52. I create a spreadsheet for myself and some friends that lists all the prompts from a selection of challenges each year and we track them. I've been doing this since 2015 (wow!) ... this all began with an attempt at a reading group on GoodReads called Fire the Canon!. Not many continued with it, but I still create a new list on on our Google Sheet every year with prompts from multiple challenges.

In 2023, I added Flourish & Botts (HP) and also created one of my own on Fire the Canon! (My goal with FTC is to create a static list of prompts that can be applied to multiple genres; for example, a book that includes a National Park, Monument, Preserve, Forest, etc.)

In 2024, I plan to add The Robot Librarian. I've continued to include PopSugar mainly because it was the first challenge our little group listed back in 2015, so for nostalgia!

My challenge approach differs from many: sometimes I do look for a book that fits a prompt, but I often read what I want and then find a way to fit it into one or more challenge's prompts (not multiple within the same). I'm not concerned with finishing a particular challenge, but find the prompts a fun way to track my own reading and sometimes be creative with how a book fits into one or more prompts.

I am doing 52 different reading challenges in 2023. I have less than 25 books to go to have finished all of them. I already have my 2024 spreadsheet started. There are challengesvthat Ido every year and that don't change like 52 countries and 50 states so I have started on those since I finished the 2023 versions months ago. My 2023 spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Wow, Mary! I do a SFF BINGO challenge that I enjoy each year, and a MG 10 book challenge I also enjoy, both from groups here on GR. For 2024, I plan to add this one and an A-Z challenge. I'll use the same book for different slots in different challenges.

I checked out the SFF challenge but I don't care for fantasy. I did 52 different challenges in 2023 so here is the link for that if you wantbto look for more. I usually do Popsugarbut I don't likevthe prompts for 2024 so I am skipping that one. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

That's really awesome, Mary! Thanks for sharing!

You are very welcome!

Jamie, those challenges on your blog look great! (Nice blog, btw) Thanks for the info. I may try to do the nerdy bookworm 50 book challenge.

Where do I find the prompts for the Robot Lirarian's Challenge?

Too many to count. I'm guessing it's 30 of them, and, yes, I use books for prompts across multiple challenges.

I did 52 and ATY last year. I'm adding this one and Popsugar this year. But I DO use the same book across all the challenges (it only one prompt PER challenge).

I'm going to read challenges or not, I have fun truing to see how many prompts I can fit a book into. And if I reach a slump, the prompts help me choose a book

I tend not to manage challenges very well. The only two I had success with was an A to Z with one of my groups where I was able to run the full alphabet by title and again by author (different books) and then in another group, a Wheel of Historical Mystery game with 24 wedges to be completed (up to 2 times per wedge spun) each requiring a different type of hist-myst book. I’m closing in on completing that challenge and I challenged myself to use only books in my extensive home stash.

I do love following several challenge groups just for the book ideas.
I might just give this group’s challenge a try in ‘25.

I completed this challenge. Thank you for the prompts