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message 1: by Marla (last edited Mar 11, 2025 04:59PM) (new)

Dec 24, 2024 04:17PM

2025 Challenge List

2025

I am planning to continue with the 2025 Finish What You Stared (FWYS) on my own again. And I'll also continue the 2025 Never Ending Series Challenge and keeping track of my reading 2025 Connections.

UPDATE:

Elsa and I are excited to do the Pick My Book challenge again for this TENTH year! I will also do the Pick One For Me challenge to help me choose monthly books (choice of 3).

The reading challenge that drove most of my reading since 2023 was ccc Series Finisher Challenge. I am getting lots of series books read but only in a month when I can count them :D. I think I am going to focus on finishing challenges and try to resist only reading series books for this challenge.

In 2022, 2023 & 2024, I joined more at your own pace challenges and plan to continue these sedate challenges in 2025. I plan to participate in LC Eye of Beholder, TCF Give Me 5 and ccc Letter Hunt with a new pick as you finish level with no book goals for the year. ~~ehrtbm Pick It Relay~~ was discontinued, but they brought it back ehrtbm 2025 Pick-It-For-Me-Relay.

I think I've been under-utilizing the challenges on Crazy Challenge Connection, as well as The Lost Challenges, The Challenge Factory and My Vampire Book Obsession.

I also started waaaay too many multi-year Reading Challenges in 2021 adding to the too many that I already had active. In 2023, I actually completed and abandoned a few of these long challenges. In 2024 I again joined too many multi-year challenges, since I made such great progress in 2023. In 2025, I will minimize starting multi year reading challenges (most from FloaB ~ For Love of a Book or ToaP ~ Turn of a Page) so I can make progress on the ones I have open. Ideally, I'd start less multi-year challenges than I finish, but we'll see if I can resist.

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Multi-Year Open Challenges:
scc All in the Cards,
ToaP Banned Books,
LC BINGO 2021,
ToaP Clean Up,
LC Crayons,
FLoaB Cryptid Hunt,
FLoaB Disney,
ToaP Disney on Broadway,
sfrc Disney Travelogue,
TCF Fantasy / SciFi,
FloaB Ghost Walk,
ToaP Happy Birthday Harry Potter,
scc Hurricanes Scavenger Hunt,
sfrc Lazy Challenge - The Book Itself,
ccc Moldy Books,
ToaP Holiday Movie Night,
ToaP Mabuhay Philipinas Challenge,
ToaP Restaurant Hopping,
ToaP Sassy 70s,
SOS Slump Busters,
ToaP Songs,
ccc Sudoku,
TJR Toss Of The Dice,
ammp Unusual Schools
ToaP Walking Dead,
LC What Should I Read Next

Completed: 0 | Started: 0

This year, I will continue with NBRC TBR Tackler and gn 2025 Clean Sweep Challenge and the monthly FloaB BOTM Puzzle Challenge again and MVBO Unclutter Your Graveyard.

In 2023, I started writing a short review when I finish a book so if I never return to finish a full review, at least a short review is there.

I've discovered something disturbing, I think I can only do ONE of the following things: read, write reviews or update my challenges. First I read a lot, then was behind on my reviews and my library account was locked. Then I caught up on my reviews and returned all my books and could borrow more. I was very late on updating my reviews in 2023, so I updated my challenges, and had TWO digital books automatically returned before I finished them. Ugh. And then I was behind on my reviews and my work that I brought home. In 2024, I tried to be better in updating my challenges, but then read & reviewed less. Vicious cycle.

I feel silly, it just occurred to me why my TBR never decreases. The vast majority of my reads are series books, so I read one and add the next one to my TBR. So in order to reduce my TBR, I must read more standalones, delete books, DNF books and finish more series than I add books in a year. Not sure that is possible...but realizing you have a problem is the first step in solving it.

2025 Yearly Challenges: (view spoiler)

Suggestion for 2026 ~
Wanderlust Challenges Group
ccc Countdown - INVERTED HALFSIES OPTION
MVBO

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message 2: by Marla (new)

Dec 24, 2024 04:22PM

CHALLENGE LIST BACK UP - 12/24/24

UGH, on 9/1/24, I accidentally deleted all my 2024 & Ongoing challenge links, so I'm belatedly going to start backing up my challenge list once a month.

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message 3: by Marla (last edited May 03, 2025 08:58PM) (new)

Dec 24, 2024 04:24PM