2008 Themed Reading Challenge
January 1, 2008 - June 30, 2008
SIGN UPS EXTENDED through January 2nd - Due to Mr. Linky being down (due to exceeding their bandwidth) until January 1st, I am extending sign ups for this challenge until midnight (PCT) January 2nd.
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**UPDATE August 17, 2007: When signing up below, please link to your post about this challenge on your blog (not just to your main page). If you have already signed up and have not created a list yet, that is okay. Just come back when you post your list and re-sign up on Mr. Linky, making the link directly to your challenge list (I will delete your link to the main blog at that time). Thanks for all the enthusiasm about this challenge! It is really fun to host a challenge that gets people excited!
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If you’re like me, you have a stack of TBR books a mile high and you are just looking for an excuse to read them! I’m hosting a Themed Reading Challenge beginning January 1st and running 6 months. Here are the rules:
1. Choose at least 4 books that share a theme - such as historical romances or books with animals as the central character or books set in a particular part of the country or books about family secrets. It doesn’t matter what the theme is - your choice!
2. Sign up here using Mr. Linky to link to your post of book selections by DECEMBER 31, 2007.
3. Write a review about each book you complete and a final wrap up at the end of the challenge.
4. Feel free to use the banner above on your blog.
5. Come back in January when I will have a Mr. Linky set up for you to link to your reviews of the books you have read.
Sound like fun? Sign ups below:
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August 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
yay another challenge!and it only starts in january so it’s perfect!I’m gonna join.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I have signed up - any challenge which helps me reduce the towering TBR pile is one for me
August 14th, 2007 at 8:29 am
What a great idea! Hopefully my life will not be too crazy next year and I’ll be able to join. If I do, I’ll probably make my theme WW2, since that’s something I’ve been meaning to read more about.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Nymeth: Great idea for a theme! Hope you’ll come back and sign up later
August 14th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
This is one for me! Thanks for hosting. I will give it some thought and time to see where my TBR stands (besides just being tall and ominous).
=) Jill
August 15th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I’m in!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Great idea! I was putting my massive TBR list into LibraryThing today and I noticed quite a few themes, so this will be fun and easy!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:01 am
My first challenge for 2008!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Glad you’ll be joining us!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:37 am
LOL, Jill - glad you’ll be joining in!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Tiny Librarian - It’s amazing how we amass books, isn’t it?!??! Thanks for joining!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:39 am
I knew I could count on you joining up, Alisia!
August 17th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Ooops, just noticed I didn’t actually make a link to my themed list (don’t have it yet) just to my regular blog. Sorry about that!
August 21st, 2007 at 1:09 am
I’m in! I’m reading books about buildings (both non fiction and fiction). My list is on my livejournal site but my reviews will be both on my main blog: http://www.pussreboots.pair.com and syndicated on livejournal: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/caligula03/
August 21st, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I definitely want to participate. I’ve even announced the challenge on my blog. But I don’t have a list ready, and probably won’t for quite a while!
Becky (Becky’s Book Reviews)
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:56 am
Becky, You have plenty of time to sign up! Whenever you come up with your list, just come back and sign up then. You can change your list until the challenge actually starts
August 26th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Well I am very excited. I saw this a while ago but just had too many choices and possiblities of what to read about. Hopefully I will have chosen well. Maybe you have some feedback on my choices? Let me know here. Thanks for the great challenge. -Julie
August 27th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
What a cool challenge! I’m in!
August 27th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Glad to have you aboard Chris and Julie!
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:03 am
I’ll get a list up well before December 31. I tend to read in themes anyway, so this will be fun!
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Glad you’ll be joining us!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Question… Can it be a combination of fiction and non-fiction on the same theme?
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hi, Wendy: I finally decided on a theme! =) Can you delete my original link (#9)? I entered a new link in, which goes to my choices. Thanks for hosting!
=) Jill
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Sorry to have posted my name to Mr. Linky twice, but I’ve now put up a proper post about the challenge — it will contain my list by December 31st.
(so please delete the first link, and keep the most recent… thanks!)
MizB17 of The Book Zone
September 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I can’t believe I haven’t already signed up for this. I know I decided to do it in my head, I even ordered some books, I just haven’t written about it yet. I’ll update with a link when I get it written, on paper, not just in my head. I’m reading books about books, or with books as a theme.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:14 am
glad to have you on board…. I’m in the process of possibly moving blogs. follow the link in the sidebar to the new sign up place
October 3rd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Does this get me in? Still having problems joining, i have 400 unread books in my bedroom. Will pick from them.Post later.
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Lindy, You’re all set - You are listed #25 on the list and don’t need to do anything else to sign up
October 21st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Looking forward to this one - hope I’m up to the challenge. I’m hoping joining these challenges, my TBR pile will drop
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:08 am
Please delete #33. I now have my page set up.
Would love to be able to use the graphic also.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Woo Hoo! I’m in! I have a lame theme, but it helped me make book selections.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Hi Wendy! I finally posted my list for the challenge. Thanks for hosting it
November 26th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I’d love to join in the fun! I’ve got my books listed already!
December 1st, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I’m in! I’ve chosen my theme. Not the most inspired one…
My list.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Finally settled on a theme. I bought a new book and desperately needed to weave a theme around it ;>). You can find my list here. I also signed up with Mr. Linky.
Kristi
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I’m in! Here’s my list.
Amanda
December 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
This was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but count me in. See my list here.
December 29th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
I joined
December 31st, 2007 at 9:05 am
i posted –now to wait for mr linky
you know if some people didn’t go out of town at this CRUCIAL time of year in the life of a crazy reader
December 31st, 2007 at 11:01 am
I changed my theme to books in translation.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Michelle - no problem
Dana - I know … can you believe anyone would be so self-centered as to leave town!??!?! Geez.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Can you change my link to:
http://1morechapter.com/2007/08/13/themed-reading-challenge/
Or, if not, just delete that one, and I’ll enter the new one.
Thanks!
December 31st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
All fixed, Michelle
December 31st, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I have discovered reading challenges and am totally addicted! Can’t wait to get started. Here’s my link to my list: http://neelia76.wordpress.com/reading-challenges-2008
My theme is books set in Asia or about Asian Culture.
Thanks!
January 1st, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I am so excited to have found this reading challenge and others. I’m still deciding on my theme as I’m somewhat of a serendipitous reader. I’ll post back when I can state for certain.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
I think I will finish reading Picoult! I already read seven of her book.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I really hope I’m not too late to join in. Here’s my list and my theme is “Guys” - all the books I’m reading for this challenge have a male name in the title.
Thanks so much for hosting this.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Good to have you on board
Thanks for joining!
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
My theme is cats in honor of my four fierce felines. I’ll be reading three cat mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun and Roger Caras’ Treasury of Great Cat Stories.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
um… I can’t remember if I officially signed up for this challenge or not. I posted a list last year, but I don’t see me anywhere… So, yeah, I am doing this challenge.
I posted my first review and everything in the linky for it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
You’re there, Kailana - #18!!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Librarian Mom: I like it!!!
January 5th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Mr. Linky was still up, so I signed up even though I’m about 3 days past the deadline. I hope I can still participate! My chosen theme is “celestial titles, but not sci-fi! Should be fun!
http://readermandy.livejournal.com/12408.html
January 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Cool theme, Mandy
I’m not so rigid that I turn away late comers 
Glad to have you here!
January 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Mr. Linky was still up for me and I’m 4 days past due. My theme is Merry Ole England, past and present.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I finally settled on the theme: Our Feathered Friends and I’ve read and reviewed #1, which is this year’s Costa Children’s Novel Award Winner - The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley. Review at:
http://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-bower-bird-ann-kelley/
February 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I justed clicked on my name in the #9 slot and it did not go to where is should have gone. I just “signed up” again in spot 61 with the correct URL this time. Hope that is OK.
Juli