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message 1: by Carrie (last edited Jan 09, 2025 01:21PM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ***Carrie's Chronicled Corner of Chaos 2024***

I don't know what I am doing but if I am going to continue doing challenges I want a way to remember them so this will be it.....

My first year tracking challenges in this group was so much FUN! It may have led me to overextending myself in the next year's challenges.

Final Stats:
104 Books
41,952 pages

11 📖 (Physical Copy)
42 📔 (Kindle only)
41 🎧 (Audio only)
10 📔🎧 (Kindle and Audio combo)

3 out of 4 Monthly Challenges Completed
2 Quarterly Challenges Completed
2 Personal Yearly Challenges Completed
1 Team Readathon


message 2: by Carrie (last edited Oct 28, 2024 06:39AM) (new)


message 3: by Carrie (last edited Jan 01, 2025 11:19AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments 💖📚📖2024 Personal Challenges📖📚💖

🅰️ 101 Books in 2024
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
Current Status = 104/101 COMPLETED
🅱️ A-Z in Summer of '24
---must be read in order and only the first letter of the first word (excluding "the" and "a") qualifies
Current Status = 26/26 COMPLETED


message 4: by Carrie (last edited Jan 01, 2025 11:20AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments 💫📚📖2024 Goodreads Challenges and Group Reads📖📚💫

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Monthly Challenges


📆October 2024

🎃SHADES OF ORANGE🎃 6/6 Completed

🍭SUGAR RUSH🍭 10/10 Completed


📆November 2024

📣RAISING OUR VOICES 📣 9/10 Failed Challenge - finished 10th book in December



📆December 2024

💗Kindness Counts💗5/4 Completed


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Quarterly Challenges

⌛4th Quarter 2024

🌱BALANCING IT OUT: Earth 🌱 18/18 Completed

🍂FALL INTO BOOKS🍂 12/12 Completed

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Monthly Group Reads

🍁November 2024 Group Read: The Hate U Give Completed 11/25/24
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas

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Read-a-thons

💫 2024 Summer Readathon: I Spy Team Readathon 11/10

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message 5: by Carrie (last edited Oct 28, 2024 06:47AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments 💖📚📖 2024 Personal Challenge 🅰️
Part 1 January - June


💕101 Books in 2024💕
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
Mid-point progress 40/101


(view spoiler)


message 6: by Carrie (last edited Jan 01, 2025 10:29AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments 💖📚📖 2024 Personal Challenge 🅰️
Part 2 July - December


💕101 Books in 2024💕
---all books in any format qualify including re-reads
Current Progress 104/101


(view spoiler)

COMPLETE!!!


message 8: by Carrie (last edited Sep 30, 2024 01:28PM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Read-a-thons⭐

💫2024 Summer Readathon: I Spy Team Readathon
August 2 to August 11, 2024

I Spy Sign-ups and Instructions

I Spy: Caught Read-Handed Team Thread

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Carrie's I Spy Tracking Post

My Totals
Pages Read: 3321
Books Read: 11/10


Team Totals
Pages read: 22,474
Books read: 72 for prompts (also 14 non-prompt entries (some incomplete))
Prompts Completed: 38 (All of them!)
Total Points: 28,324

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message 9: by Carrie (last edited Oct 31, 2024 09:38AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Monthly Challenges⭐

📆October 2024 #1

🎃SHADES OF ORANGE 🎃
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

For October's theme of Orange, this open challenge invites you to read books with orange covers, orange shades in their titles, or by authors with orange names. Some orange words are shown below, but you are not limited to these particular shades. Orange you glad it's October?

October-Shades of Orange Group Thread

My Shades of Orange Tracking Post

Progress 6/6 COMPLETED

Currently Reading:

Completed:
✔️1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
✔️2. When We Had Wings
✔️3. The Mountains Sing
✔️4. The Seven Year Slip
✔️5. Meadow Falls
✔️6. Wrong Place Wrong Time

The Priory of the Orange Tree did not finish in October


message 10: by Carrie (last edited Dec 20, 2024 09:17AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Monthly Challenges⭐

📆October 2024 #2

🍭SUGAR RUSH 🍭
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

Get ready to indulge in a sweet and spooky reading adventure with our Candy Challenge! This month, we're drawing inspiration from popular candies and their unique histories to guide our reading choices. From books with twists like Twizzlers to dark tales like a Hershey bar, there's something for everyone to savor.

October-SUGAR RUSH Group Thread

My SUGAR RUSH Tracking Post

Progress 10/10 COMPLETED


✔️1. M&M's: starts with a M
🍭 The Mountains Sing
✔️2. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: bestseller
🍭 Remarkably Bright Creatures
✔️3. Hershey Bar: war/military
🍭 When We Had Wings
✔️4. Snickers: running(marathon)
🍭Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
✔️5. Kit Kat: book about witches
🍭The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✔️6. Twix: two authors
🍭X🍭
✔️7. Twizzlers: a twist
🍭The Boyfriend
✔️8. Skittles: set in the UK
🍭Wrong Place Wrong Time
✔️9. 3 Musketeers: number in title
🍭 The Seven Year Slip
✔️10. Baby Ruth: adapted into a movie
🍭The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story


message 11: by Carrie (last edited Dec 30, 2024 06:22AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Quarterly Challenges⭐

⌛4th Quarter 2024 #1

🌱BALANCING IT OUT🌱

Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024

In traditional Chinese culture, there are Five Elements -- Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal. Each element generates one of the others, strengthening it, while controlling or weakening another. This forms a never ending, balanced circle, the yin and yang.

Q4-Balancing It Out Group Thread

My Balance It Out Tracking Post

COMPLETED: 18/18


I will do 5 for Generating Cycle and 5 for Controlling Cycle plus 8 for my zodiac sign for a new goal of 18.

Generating Cycle: 🌲 → 🔥 → 🌱 → 🔧 → 🌊 → 🌲 → …
✔️1) Wood: Green Cover
🌲The Last Green Valley🌲
✔️2) Fire: Examines hate/predjudice
🔥 X 🔥
✔️3) Earth: Mother/Child
🌱Remarkably Bright Creatures🌱
✔️4) Metal: White cover
🔧The Boyfriend🔧
✔️5) Water: Winter and blue cover
🌊 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches🌊

Controlling Cycle: 🌲 → 🌱 → 🌊 → 🔥 → 🔧 → 🌲 → …
✔️6) Wood: Cover with Trees
🌲The Apple Orchard🌲
✔️7) Earth: Rights/Freedoms of Others
🌱 The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story🌱
✔️8) Water: Medical/Feminism/Catastrophe
🌊 When We Had Wings🌊
✔️9) Fire: Mars or bitterness
🔥Morning Star🔥
✔️10) Metal: Persistance and determination
🔧 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption🔧


May also attempt zodiac sign:

🌱 Earth 🌱
✔️Season: Change of Seasons / Transformation
🔁A Court of Mist and Fury🔁
✔️Associated with: harvest time, abundance, nourishment, fertility, mother-child relationships, stability/reliability, logic, governed by duty to others
🤱Wrong Place Wrong Time🤱
✔️Color: Yellow
🟡Yellowface🟡
✔️Body: digestive system, sense of taste
The Storyteller
✔️Direction: Center
🎯The Center of Everything🎯
✔️Planet: Saturn
🪐Saturn Run🪐
✔️Taste: Sweet
🧁Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet🧁
✔️Symbol: Yellow Dragon or birds that prefer the comfort of the earth
🐦‍⬛Weyward🐦‍⬛


message 12: by Carrie (last edited Jan 01, 2025 11:01AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Quarterly Challenges⭐

4th Quarter 2024 #2


FALL INTO BOOKS: AUTUMN READING PARTY
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2024


Q4-Fall into Books: Autumn Reading Party Group Thread

My Fall into Books Tracking Post

Progress 12/12

(view spoiler)


message 13: by Carrie (last edited Dec 02, 2024 09:58AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Monthly Challenges⭐

📆November 2024

📣RAISING OUR VOICES📣
Duration: November 1 - November 30, 2024

Here is another challenge inviting you to explore the various voices we hear in literature.
Raise your voice! Lift it up to heaven! Raise your voice! Come on, don’t be shy! If you feel it, why conceal it. Let your soul rejoice! Raise the stakes! Raise your game! Raise your voice! (Sister Act: Musical)


📣RAISING OUR VOICES Group Thread 📣

📣My RAISING OUR VOICES Tracking Post 📣


Final: 9/10 - Failed challenge (finished 10th book in Dec)
✔️ A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) by Stephen King The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas ..... Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult


message 14: by Carrie (last edited Jan 01, 2025 11:45AM) (new)

Carrie | 348 comments ⭐Monthly Challenges⭐

📆December 2024

💗Kindness Counts💗
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2024

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. -- Barbara De Angelis

Many worldwide holidays, both religious and secular, are observed during December. What a perfect time to share all types of kindness! For this open challenge, inspired by a printable at happierhuman.com, choose books that relate to one or more of these types of kindness.

💗Kindness Counts Group Thread 💗

💗Kindness Counts Tracking Post 💗

Final Progress: 6/4 COMPLETED

▪ Kindness to Self
1. Weyward

▪ Kindness to Family
1. The Apple Orchard
2. Winter Garden
3. Come Sundown

▪ Kindness to Others
1. The Storyteller

▪ Kindness to Planet
1. The Good Earth


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