Challenge Corner discussion

Do you have an idea for a reading challenge?

Let us know what they are and we can try to incorporate them in the groups challenges!

One of my friends did a personal challenge. She called it Find Yourself. What she did was find books that she could relate to. Examples are:
A MC that is the same age.
A MC who works the same job as you.
A MC who did the same sports in high school.

Hope that helps.

It'd be nice to have a team challenge. :)

Thanks for the suggestion Jamie. I really like it!

Thanks for the suggestion, Jamie!

And Bookbuyer, we'll try out another team challenge soon. We just haven't had the best luck with them in the past. I think now that we're having more consistent participation they would go better. :)

Sorry, didn't see your comment Bookbuyer.
As Courtney said, we might try one soon, but we had problems with participation in the past. Now that we have more people joining the challenges, we might try something.:)

Jackie wrote: "Sorry, didn't see your comment Bookbuyer.
As Courtney said, we might try one soon, but we had problems with participation in the past. Now that we have more people joining the challenges, we might ..."

Courtney wrote: "Thanks for the suggestion, Jamie!

And Bookbuyer, we'll try out another team challenge soon. We just haven't had the best luck with them in the past. I think now that we're having more consistent p..."

YAY! That'd be fun! :D

How about word scavenger hunts using books?

team challenge based on clue

cover scavenger hunt

color challenge

Teresa in ohio wrote: "team challenge based on clue

cover scavenger hunt

color challenge"

Ev wrote: "How about word scavenger hunts using books?"

It’s funny that you both mentioned scavenger hunt. Mostly because our next TEAM and SOLO quarterly challenges will be exactly that. Solo will be looking for specific words. Team will be looking for a bunch of stuff: words, cover colors, something specific, or whatever else our evil minds came up with. The sign ups for those two will be up in March. The challenge itself will be from April to June. So get excited.

HELLO EVERYONE!

Does anyone want to see a particular challenge next year? Whether it's for yearly, quarterly, or monthly! If it's something we've done but you want us to jazz it up or switch things around OR if you want to see something that we haven't done yet!

I know I would love some ideas for next year but would love to hear from the members!

Maybe a bingo challenge.

Jazmyn wrote: "Maybe a bingo challenge."

We're actually in the middle of a bingo challenge right now! :D

Hello so, I REALLY need some suggestions because I can't seem to find much books that fit my criteria. Here are my requirements:
1) Fantasy or urban fantasy genre
2) time period doesn't matter
3) Female character or switching PoV
4) 400 pages or more (could be a little less)
5) Romance, but not main focus
6) Young adult, but could be New Adult
7) 4 or more star ratings (could be little less)
Extra simple preferences: Series, written after 2010,
For anyone that can help, thank you so much! Please no hate!

I have something for all of that but the YA or NA. :/

sure thats okay is it kids or adult? Thank you!

StarzIGE wrote: "sure thats okay is it kids or adult? Thank you!"

Adult.

Fantasy/Urban Fantasy
Female MC
433 pages (most rated)
Has romance but is not the main focus
Adult
4.28 star rating
It's a 5 books series
Published 2013

It's literally one of my favorite series. I should warn you it has some things that may trigger people. :)

OMG, thank you so much!! You are the absolute best! if anyone else has others, I'll be really grateful!

StarzIGE wrote: "OMG, thank you so much!! You are the absolute best! if anyone else has others, I'll be really grateful!"

NP

How does anyone feel about readathons? Maybe a weekend a month? Or more? Around holidays only? Let me know.

Alaina wrote: "How does anyone feel about readathons? Maybe a weekend a month? Or more? Around holidays only? Let me know."

That sounds like fun.

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How about a challenge theme based on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. !!!!! Pllleeaaaaazassseeeeeeee

Yana wrote: "How about a challenge theme based on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. !!!!! Pllleeaaaaazassseeeeeeee"

Hmm interesting.. I could try that out for a challenge next year.

I had a few ideas for some that have come to me recently. One is kind of similar to the last quarterly iSpy one, where we have to guess the topic. I got this idea from the group Challenges and Fandoms on Goodreads but basically you pick a book and identify one feature of it that can be identified from the Goodreads main page for that book, and then participants have to guess by matching books to various covers. For instance
if the original starting book was , I might guess
- MPG fantasy, my teammate might say
- orange cover, and a third person might say
- last book in a series.

We could play it similar to the iSpy game with 1-2 books per week that are the same for everyone, or the mods could each choose a variety of books and cycle them through.



My other idea is a book chain challenge. This could be done with an initial book that we have to link for the title and author, for instance, the prompt book might be A Ghost for Christmas, then I could read Christmas and Other Things I Hate, another player could read Hate List, and so on until we hit a wall. I know this one would be difficult to coordinate because it would require people to read books based on other people's books but if we did it as a December challenge or something it could work because a lot of people would be reading books with holiday words in the title.

In general I'd love to see more book and Goodreads-based challenges on here.

Also would love to see more genre based challenges with certain points for certain genres and maybe the point values are secret or something.

Ooh and also ones based on really old game shows like Classic Concentration or Supermarket Sweep. Or any game shows. Or based on a cooking show, especially an amateur one like Nailed It.

Ooh, and more song based ones. Not necessarily spell-outs like the summer one but more task based on titles or lyrics

Sorry I have way too many ideas lol

Ideas:
1. Read a book which takes place in a country you'd like to go to sometime.
2. Read a book written by a lgbtq+ person.
3. Read a book one of your teammates gave 5 stars.
4. Read a book about a book club.
5. Read a book about an AI character.
6. Read a book written by a poc.
7. Read a book that used to be banned.
8. Read a book in which a competition or race takes place.
9. Read a book you own but haven't read yet.
10. Read a book with numbers on the cover.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! :D

what the what.. how have I not gotten a notification for this?!?!

Alaina wrote: "what the what.. how have I not gotten a notification for this?!?!"

Terrible. -.-

Felicia wrote: "Alaina wrote: "what the what.. how have I not gotten a notification for this?!?!"

Terrible. -.-"

LMAO my bad man. My bad.

Anyone have any suggestions for next year? Whether it's for a quarterly or monthly challenge. New or revamped challenge. Let us know!

Me me, I do lol. 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

While I was getting new tires the other day I randomly came up with the idea of a boy band challenge, needless to say I was there a while. Made a whole chart and everything, do with it anything you want if you like the idea!

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Wow Crystal, that's awesome! Lol. I'm sure at some point we can make this a challenge! :)

Can we do something based on colors? Not sure how it would work but up to mods I guess

Could we do a scavenger hunt type thing? That would be FUN!

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Me me, I do lol. 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

While I was getting new tires the other day I randomly came up with the idea of a boy band challenge, needless to say I was there a while. Made a whole chart and everyt..."

this is awesome!

What about a carnival / circus theme challenge? You could title categories by names of rides/games or circus "freak show" people?

Or a cult challenge? title things after the famous cults or do a cult vs cult like the current author vs author? ;x

Kade wrote: "What about a carnival / circus theme challenge? You could title categories by names of rides/games or circus "freak show" people?

Or a cult challenge? title things after the famous cults or do a c..."

That could be a fun October or Fall Quarterly challenge.

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Me me, I do lol. 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️

While I was getting new tires the other day I randomly came up with the idea of a boy band challenge, needless to say I was there a while. Made a whole chart and everyt..."

IDK how I'm just seeing this, but I will definitely look into this.

Jamies (The Kansan Reader) wrote: "One of my friends did a personal challenge. She called it Find Yourself. What she did was find books that she could relate to. Examples are:
A MC that is the same age.
A MC who works the same job a..."

Thanks

I had a lot of fun with a yearly "Around the world" challenge in another group, can I suggest we do an "Around the World challenge" here, too (areas could be like South America, North America, etch.), and prompts could be linked to things famously related to those areas...

What do you think? :)

Andy wrote: "I had a lot of fun with a yearly "Around the world" challenge in another group, can I suggest we do an "Around the World challenge" here, too (areas could be like South America, North America, etch..."

We did do an "Around the World in 90 Days' challenge for the first solo quarterly this year.

Alaina wrote: "Andy wrote: "I had a lot of fun with a yearly "Around the world" challenge in another group, can I suggest we do an "Around the World challenge" here, too (areas could be like South America, North ..."

Ah! Wasn't here yet! :P :)
Would love a repeat! :)

I'm also liking this quarter werewolves vs. vampires vs. fairy, where you can choose where your points go in the three categories, by the way! :)

i really liked the clue and wheel of fortune ones. what about a hangman type? it'd be similar to the wheel of fortune i'm sure.

This is more long term collaborative challenge inspired by the Word Monster over at NaNoWriMo. The way it work there is that word monster starts 1 word big. You enter it's cave and to leave you either feed it words or slay it. Feeding it requires double words (eg if it's 4 words big, you have to feed it 8 by writing 8 words) and slaying it requires triple words but you can only slay it after it get to be bigger than 100 words.

This could be adapted to pages where everyone works together to build it up to some crazy number like 131,072 (2^17) and then work together to slay it (131,072 x 3 = 393,216). You could also do teams where both the teams build it up for X number days and then have to slay each other's created monsters.

Kade wrote: "i really liked the clue and wheel of fortune ones. what about a hangman type? it'd be similar to the wheel of fortune i'm sure."

Sorry for just seeing this now Kade! We have done a hangman type challenge before - I like to do some word ones every once in a while, in this group. So, we might be due for another soon.

Toshita wrote: "This is more long term collaborative challenge inspired by the Word Monster over at NaNoWriMo. The way it work there is that word monster starts 1 word big. You enter it's cave and to leave you eit..."

Ooo.. this does sounds like a good idea. Maybe it can be created into a quarterly challenge.

Oh when can we have the challenge where there are a couple tasks and 3 different person have to complete the same tasks to move on to the next round

I miss that

BabyLunLun wrote: "Oh when can we have the challenge where there are a couple tasks and 3 different person have to complete the same tasks to move on to the next round

I miss that"

Hmm... I'm not quite sure what the next quarterly will be about... so you might see it then.

For the monthly challenge, I will mostly likely do Disney Villains for September and then another movie-type challenge in October. Might make a 2-month challenge for November to December. So, you might see a task like that in that challenge too.

Lots of possibilities.