Hooked on Books discussion

Assorted Personal Challenges for Myself, Created by Myself
If anyone would like to borrow a challenge/template, please feel free, but please credit me!

1. Seasonal reading plans and challenges created by me.

2. List of Series books I want to read or series' I need to finish.

3. Whatever else tickles my fancy!

Table of Contents

1. Summer Challenge 2024 (posts 3 - 5)

2. Sweater Weather Autumn 2024

Beach Bag
No Date Parameters


1. Books with a sandy beach on the cover
2. Book that takes place at/around a beach
3. Books with cover colors that are "sandy" or "beachy"
4. Books that start with any letter in BEACH
5. Author first or last name starts with any letter in SANDY BEACH

Read 5/1/24
Fits: Author LN starts with B
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Options:


Summer of Sisters


My sister's birthday is in June, mine is in August, so summer reminds me of our childhood birthdays a lot.

1. Read a book about sisters
2. Read a book with "sister(s)" or "girl(s)" in the title
3. Read a book by an author whose first or last initial is any letter in SUMMER SISTERS

Read: 7/9/24
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4. Read a book published in June or August of any year
5. Read a book with the word "Summer" in the title

Options:

The Getaway


1. Read a book with a vacation/travel plot
2. Read a book about someone on the run (or starting over in a new place)
3. Read a book with an inn or vacation home on the cover
4. Read a book with the words "inn" or "bed and breakfast" or "house/home" in the title
5. Read a book by an author whose first or last initial is in GETAWAY or VACATION or HOLIDAY

Options



Summer Colors


colors that make me think of summer (bright blue, yellow, bright pink, bright greens, peach, sand)

1. Yellow - Read a book with yellow on the cover
2. Pink - Read a book with pink on the cover

3. Green - Read a book with green on the cover

Read: July 1, 2024
Fits: Green on the cover

4. Blue - Read a book with blue on the cover

5. Orange - Read a book with orange on the cover


Options:

Cake by the Ocean


1. Read a book with an ocean/body of water on the cover
2. Read a book with "Ocean" in the title, or starts with a letter in OCEAN
3. Read a book that takes place near a body of water
4. Read a book about a baker
5. Read a book tagged "fun" or "summer" or "happy"

Options:



Summer Songs


1. Cruel Summer - Read a book with the MPG Romance
2. Espresso - Read a book with a coffee shop setting or barista character
3. Silk Chiffon - Read a sapphic romance
(also works for florist if needed)
6/13/24
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4. Flowers - Read a book with flowers on the cover or about a florist
5. Walking on Sunshine - Read a book with the word "sun" in the title (can be embedded, such as sunshine, or made up from letters in the title)

Options:

Left off updating from Animal Magnetism 6/14/24

Boy did I fall behind on updating this. Will need to dedicate some time to it soon!

Sweater Weather Autumn Challenge
Duration: September 1 - December 21



Rules: Can use one book to cover multiple options, if needed!

Objects on Cover
1. Sweater
2. Boots
3. Hot Beverage
4. Cat(s)
5. Blanket
6. Trees (Autumn colors a plus)
7. Anything cozy
8. Baked goods
9. Pumpkins
10. Cornucopia and/or cornucopia filling items (corn, acorns, gourds, nuts, berries)
11. Apple(s)

       

Genres to Read
1. Magical Realism
2. Witches
3. Paranormal
4. Horror
5. Thriller

                     

Spell-Out Words
Use: Title; Author first or last name; Series name; MC first or last name. One book can be used up to 3 times, as needed.

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Ugh, I never got around to updating my Autumn personal challenge and now I'm too lazy. Takes too long to go back through all my "read" books and add them in. I read books, I just did not update here.

Need to figure out what I want to do here next.

Start fresh in 2025?

I really dropped off the reading wagon this month, but I'm surprisingly eager to start again tomorrow! 😁

Sammy wrote: "Start fresh in 2025?

I really dropped off the reading wagon this month, but I'm surprisingly eager to start again tomorrow! 😁"

Yeah, that's my hope, lol. And I guess my intention! I'm in a bad reading slump right now, though :(

Hoping to start something cute tonight to lift my reading mood to kick me back into gear for 2025! Thanks for stopping by Sammy! :D

Sometimes I think I like planning my tasks and putting cute pics in here rather than updating with my actual results, lol.

It just feels like updating can be so tedious and cumbersome. I use assorted tracking methods but just have a hard time making it a point to get here and update things.

2025 Plans

Broken up by quarterly....for now!

First Quarter
1. Focus on my Impossible Solar System Challenge -- Doing great with this! Need to update my January and 1st Quarter Challenges before May 31.
2. Focus on my D&D Challenge -- dropped out
3. Focus on my Arrows of Fortune Challenge - Bit slow on this.
4. Focus on my Book Quest Challenge (Prose Pursuers). Scratch that. She did not last long
5. Work on mine and Summer's 2025 Challenge. (This needs updating)

I have a question? Why have you never applied to be a moderator? You look like you might have the ideas.

Donna wrote: "I have a question? Why have you never applied to be a moderator? You look like you might have the ideas."

Thanks for the question, Donna! I used to moderate AMMP and Game Night for years, years ago, and loved doing both, but it can be so time consuming and mentally taxing and I'm not sure I am capable of the commitment at the moment. I definitely considered applying this time, though! Believe me, part of me wants to! I miss all of the creativity and challenge creating, but my time is so limited that I hate to fall into the black hole of challenge creating and never having time to read, along with my other interests and hobbies. (And my dumb job that takes up 40 hours a week).

I did wonder about the admin moderator position and how time consuming that might be... :D

Aww, we just filled that position. I would like to let you know that we don't run things like AMMP & Game Night. I know because I was a mod there until recently myself. We are not on a set schedule like that. Each mod determines when their challenges run. RL comes first here. I don't want anyone wearing out if they can step back and take a break. Amanda was only running one yearly challenge (Road Trip - she didn't run it this year) and The Name Game. Other mods like Ashley or Michelle prefer to run multiple things at once. We prefer the laid-back approach. I really think you would fit in with our group.

Donna wrote: "Aww, we just filled that position. I would like to let you know that we don't run things like AMMP & Game Night. I know because I was a mod there until recently myself. We are not on a set schedule..."

Thanks for the info! I am intrigued 🤓

2025 Books for "Just Another Chapter" (RL book club)

My book club was founded by myself and my friend, Jackie. It consists of 8 women who are all friends (with Jackie currently inactive). We are laidback and do not require people to read the books in order to participate in the discussions. Most of us do not mind spoilers and sometimes the discussions are so rich and thoughtful that my dislike of a book can change if someone else makes a good argument for it!

At the end of the year, we each choose what month(s) we'd like to represent for the next year. We try to plan our books a few months out to account for library holds. Each person chooses 3 books to put to a vote to determine the monthly selection. We will read any genre! There are no rules.

*January (Brittany): - READ and discussed
*February (Christina): - READ and discussed
*March (Summer): - READ and discussed
*April (Melissa): - Did not read (discussion moved to May). May read in the future.
*May (Kelly): (Currently Reading) - DNF but did discuss (will go back and read it later)
*June (Me): - Read and discussed (Discussion moved to July)
*July (Michelle): - DNF. Could not get into this, but we had a great discussion about it, along with the pre-teen/teen daughters of the book clubber who chose the book. I wish I liked it more! Might try the second book in the duology, as it sounds more appealing
*August (Brittany): (TBR) - not feeling this genre/premise at all right now, but will give it a fair shot soon
*September (Melissa): (TBR)
*October (Christina): . Not interested. I read the sample and did not care for it. Will of course participate in the discussion to see what others though, and also because it's fun.
*November (Summer): (TBR). Not my choice of the 3 that were nominated, but I'll give it a shot. Not my favorite trope.
*December: Free-for-all. Everyone chooses whatever book they want, sometimes with a theme. We have not discussed a theme yet, but it tends to be something winter-y, or Christmas/New Year's holiday.

Teresa & Summer's 2025 Reading Challenge



My 2025 Bingo Challenge

2nd Quarter Update!

Ummmm... I read a lot of books LOL.

3rd Quarter Update!

Still reading. Looks like my reading this quarter has slowed a bit compared to quarters 1 and 2. I believe this is because during quarter 2, I was in a fun team challenge where I read quite a few large books and I think I needed to decompress from that.

I'd like to be reading more than I have this summer, but work has been hectic and weekends have been preoccupied with other things.

July I read 9 books. So far in August, I've finished 1 but I'm reading about 3 other books and hope to finish two of them today.

I should plan my September books/goals!