The Reading Challenge Group discussion

There are lots of great challenges that get us to stretch our horizons, try new things, or catch up on Classics. I find I get so busy with them that I forget to save time for favorites. I forget that I'm dying to read more books by authors I already love.

This challenge is a reminder to do that. Don't put off reading your favorite authors for the sake of strangers you may or may not enjoy. Allow yourself a little bit of self-indulgence.

For this challenge, choose those books you most want to read, by favorite authors, or maybe books in a favorite series. Seize the Day!

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
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Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
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Always like this one. I feel better about reading books I want to. LOL

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Amber wrote: "Always like this one. I feel better about reading books I want to. LOL..."

Same here :D

This is one of my favourite challenges.

Level 1 - Have a treat
1. Time Remembered by Miss Read
2. The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope
3. Reginald and Reginald in Russia by Saki

Level 2- Savour the moment
4. The Education of Uncle Paul by Algernon Blackwood
5. The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Mousetrap: A Play by Agatha Christie

Level 3- Seize the day
7. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
8. The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge by Laura Lee Hope
9. The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
10. I Have Been Here Before by J.B. Priestley

Seize the Day:
For this challenge, choose those books you most want to read, by favorite authors, or maybe books in a favorite series. Seize the Day!

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
1. Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb 1/8/2019
2. Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb 3/30/2019
3. Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb 4/20/2019

Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
4. Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb 7/7/2019
5. Witness in Death by J.D. Robb 7/31/2019
6. Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb 9/3/2019

Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
7. Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb 9/29/2019
8. Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb 10/22/2019
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I'm up for this one too please, Allison!

Running Total: 10/10 COMPLETED!

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
1. Public library and other stories by Ali Smith (08/01/19)
2. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (21/01/19)
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (05/02/19)

Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
4. Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies (23/03/19)
5. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble (23/04/19)
6. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (16/05/19)

Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
7. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (09/06/19)
8. Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson (19/07/19)
9. The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark (30/07/19)
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (31/08/19)

I'm in! One of my personal reading goals is to reread a couple favorites and to keep reading the backlists of my favorite authors:

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I definitely need this challenge!

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There are lots of great challenges that get us to stretch our horizons, try new things, or catch up on Classics. I find I get so busy with them that I forget to save time for favorites. I forget that I'm dying to read more books by authors I already love.

This challenge is a reminder to do that. Don't put off reading your favorite authors for the sake of strangers you may or may not enjoy. Allow yourself a little bit of self-indulgence.

For this challenge, choose those books you most want to read, by favorite authors, or maybe books in a favorite series. Seize the Day!

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
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Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
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Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
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Current Level: 0 Reflecting

I love this idea. I have a few books that I really want to re-read this year and a couple books from authors I love I plan to read!

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So...I'm late to the game but here are mine:

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
1. Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare
2. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
3. P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
4. The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu
5. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
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Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
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I finished the challenge-message 4.

Congrats on finishing the challenge, Paula! 🎊

Seize the Day: COMPLETED
For this challenge, choose those books you most want to read, by favorite authors, or maybe books in a favorite series. Seize the Day!

I bucketed this challenge into a couple categories for each level.

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
Fun, easy reads from Denise Grover Swank:
1. Only You - 8/10
2. Until You - 8/20
3. Always You - 9/1

Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
Most recent release by some favorite authors:
4. The Wanted - Robert Crais - 8/9
5. Written in My Own Heart's Blood - Diana Gabaldon - 11/21
6. The Night Fire - Michael Connelly - 12/27

Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
My guilty pleasure - true crime:
7. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray - James Renner - 1/12
8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann - 10/4
9. Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation - Paul Holes - 10/21
10. Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century - Peter Graham - 10/24

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the challenge-message 4."

Congratulations on finishing!

Welcome to the challenge, Brenda. Enjoy!

Thanks, Brenda!

I am in for Round 2 now that we are nearing December. I hope to have completed all my year-long challenges before December 6, Saint Nicholas Day. Then I get to read whatever I want!

Level 1- Have a treat
11. The Listener And Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood
12. Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney
13. Auf dem Staatshof und Bulemanns Haus. by Theodor Storm

Level 2- Savour the moment
14. The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood
15. Fantasiestucke in Callot's Manier. T. 1-2: Blatter Aus Dem Tagebuche Eines Reisenden Enthusiasten by Ernst T.A. Hoffman
16. Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray Williams

Level 3- Seize the day
17. A Little Book of Christmas by John Kendrick Bangs
18. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Alone at Ninety Foot by Katherine Holubitsky
20. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

Oh fun!!
I try to break up my "shoulds" with "wants" so this was easy...especially doing it in November!

Seize the Day

There are lots of great challenges that get us to stretch our horizons, try new things, or catch up on Classics. I find I get so busy with them that I forget to save time for favorites. I forget that I'm dying to read more books by authors I already love.

This challenge is a reminder to do that. Don't put off reading your favorite authors for the sake of strangers you may or may not enjoy. Allow yourself a little bit of self-indulgence.

For this challenge, choose those books you most want to read, by favorite authors, or maybe books in a favorite series. Seize the Day!

Level 1 - Have a Treat (3 Books)
1. Black Beauty
2. Evidence Dismissed
3. The Indifferent Stars Above

Level 2 - Savor the Moment (6 Books)
4. Digger's Izy
5. No Easy Answers
6. Knitting on the Road

Level 3 - Seize the Day (10 Books)
7. The Hot Zone
8. One Second After
9. Little Jars, Big Flavors
10. The Distant Summer

It's nice to read whatever strikes our fancy sometimes.

I finished Round 2, message 18.