Post by Chao on Dec 31, 2013 19:38:04 GMT -5
Welcome to 2014, welcome to another Reading Challenge!
For those of you who don't know what the Reading Challenge is about:
Every year first Wolf and now I are offering suggestions for all of the NTWF to see us read more and read a bit outside our usual range of books in form of this challenge. Of course we would like to see all participants proclaim at the end of the year that they won the challenge and are now proudly sporting the Reading Challenge Winner Badge, but as Reading and not Winning is the main goal, there is also the Reading Challenge Participant Badge.
How does it work?
How to participate?
The Challenges:
This year it's all about travelling... travelling the world and beyond, travelling time, of books travelling and minds wandering.
1) Travel the world (6 books)
2) Modes of travelling (4 books)
3) Travel in time (3 books)
4) The book travels (3 books)
5) Travelling on (2 books)
6) Places revisited (1 book)
7) Not at home (1 book)
8) There's no place like home (1 book)
Like every year before, there is also a Neopian Twist for this challenge, though the Neopian Twist will not qualify you for the Winner Badge. For the Neopian Twist, instead of books, it'll be Neopian Times works for you to read (articles, short stories, series).
1) Travel the world (6 entries)
2) Travel in time (6 entries)
3) Travelling on (5 entries)
4) The work travels (2 entries)
5) Authors revisited (2 entries)
For those of you who don't know what the Reading Challenge is about:
Every year first Wolf and now I are offering suggestions for all of the NTWF to see us read more and read a bit outside our usual range of books in form of this challenge. Of course we would like to see all participants proclaim at the end of the year that they won the challenge and are now proudly sporting the Reading Challenge Winner Badge, but as Reading and not Winning is the main goal, there is also the Reading Challenge Participant Badge.
How does it work?
Below you'll find a list of different challenges asking for different books to read in order to be counted as done. The challenges will never ask for specific titles, so you still get to choose something you are actually interested in reading.
You can count any book you actually finished in 2014, no matter which year you began to read it.
Cookbooks, manuals, TV-guides and such don't count, though non-fiction is allowed.
Also, you may read the book in whichever form you like best, be it in paper version or ebook version, whatever works to you. All that is required for the book to count is that you read it from first word to last word.
Each book can only be counted once, so for this year it's 21 books you'd have to read in order to win the challenge.
Of course you don't have to own the books, library books are just as fine. Though please don't forget to give them back in time as I doubt your librarian will accept the Reading Challenge as valid excuse.
Don't know what to read? Check out other participants' lists to see if anything interests you. Also, for that purpose, post your list of books you've read this year and are currently reading. (It also helps you to keep track of things.)
You can count any book you actually finished in 2014, no matter which year you began to read it.
Cookbooks, manuals, TV-guides and such don't count, though non-fiction is allowed.
Also, you may read the book in whichever form you like best, be it in paper version or ebook version, whatever works to you. All that is required for the book to count is that you read it from first word to last word.
Each book can only be counted once, so for this year it's 21 books you'd have to read in order to win the challenge.
Of course you don't have to own the books, library books are just as fine. Though please don't forget to give them back in time as I doubt your librarian will accept the Reading Challenge as valid excuse.
Don't know what to read? Check out other participants' lists to see if anything interests you. Also, for that purpose, post your list of books you've read this year and are currently reading. (It also helps you to keep track of things.)
How to participate?
That's the easiest part. You simply post in this thread, saying you'll participate, or simply post a list of your books.
It doesn't matter if you forget about it in three months, as in those three months you'll have perhaps read a book or two more than you'd usually have, so the goal of this challenge is already met.
You can start participating any time during 2014.
It doesn't matter if you forget about it in three months, as in those three months you'll have perhaps read a book or two more than you'd usually have, so the goal of this challenge is already met.
You can start participating any time during 2014.
The Challenges:
This year it's all about travelling... travelling the world and beyond, travelling time, of books travelling and minds wandering.
1) Travel the world (6 books)
Read a book each for the 6 different continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia & Oceania)
This could be either a book where at least half the story taking place in a country of the respective continent or the author of the book is from that continent. If you want, you can have the Arctic and the Antarctic as jokers, even if the Arctic technically is not a continent.
This could be either a book where at least half the story taking place in a country of the respective continent or the author of the book is from that continent. If you want, you can have the Arctic and the Antarctic as jokers, even if the Arctic technically is not a continent.
2) Modes of travelling (4 books)
In most books, the protagonists are not stationary, they will move around. For this challenge read a book each for the main mode of moving being
- by land (walking, riding, driving, etc.),
- by water (swimming, sailing, on board any type of watercraft, etc.),
- by air (flying in a balloon, a zeppelin, a plane, etc.)
- and beyond (by dreams to fantasy worlds or by spacecrafts to worlds beyond this earth).
- by land (walking, riding, driving, etc.),
- by water (swimming, sailing, on board any type of watercraft, etc.),
- by air (flying in a balloon, a zeppelin, a plane, etc.)
- and beyond (by dreams to fantasy worlds or by spacecrafts to worlds beyond this earth).
3) Travel in time (3 books)
Read a book that's either written or takes place in
- the past
- the present
- the future.
Now future does not necessarily need to be a Science Fiction book of some kind as I'm aware not everybody likes Science Fiction. It can also be a book in a real world series, where the author is simply writing so fast, time can't keep up with him, so he has to try and anticipate what will happen. Clive Cussler had this happen with his Dirk Pitt novels, where he wrote one in 1986 with the story taking place in 1989/1990. Of course he had no way of knowing that in those two years the Eastern Block would collapse... so, taking the year it was written in and the year the story is taking place in into account, I would count those books as 'taking place in the future'. Of course you could also count that book for the past, as it was obviously written in the past, but well... writing in the future and accessing it today is a little tricky
- the past
- the present
- the future.
Now future does not necessarily need to be a Science Fiction book of some kind as I'm aware not everybody likes Science Fiction. It can also be a book in a real world series, where the author is simply writing so fast, time can't keep up with him, so he has to try and anticipate what will happen. Clive Cussler had this happen with his Dirk Pitt novels, where he wrote one in 1986 with the story taking place in 1989/1990. Of course he had no way of knowing that in those two years the Eastern Block would collapse... so, taking the year it was written in and the year the story is taking place in into account, I would count those books as 'taking place in the future'. Of course you could also count that book for the past, as it was obviously written in the past, but well... writing in the future and accessing it today is a little tricky
4) The book travels (3 books)
Read a book that was passed on to you,
a book you'll pass on to someone else
and a book you'll keep.
Borrowing and lending is of course also acceptable here
a book you'll pass on to someone else
and a book you'll keep.
Borrowing and lending is of course also acceptable here
5) Travelling on (2 books)
Stories that end are great, but so are stories that don't end with just one book. Read 2 books from a series (the same series, not two books from two different series).
6) Places revisited (1 book)
Read a book you have read before and simply loved.
7) Not at home (1 book)
Read a book while travelling, or at least when not at home.
And yes, reading the book while camping in your backyard also counts.
And yes, reading the book while camping in your backyard also counts.
8) There's no place like home (1 book)
Read a book about/taking place in/written by someone from your home town.
Home town can be any town you have lived in for more than six months, so for those of you who have moved around a lot - congratulations, you have all the more options. If you have lived all your life in the same place and this place happens to be a town nobody ever wrote anything book-like worth reading about/in, try the county, state or even country.
Home town can be any town you have lived in for more than six months, so for those of you who have moved around a lot - congratulations, you have all the more options. If you have lived all your life in the same place and this place happens to be a town nobody ever wrote anything book-like worth reading about/in, try the county, state or even country.
Neopian Twist
Like every year before, there is also a Neopian Twist for this challenge, though the Neopian Twist will not qualify you for the Winner Badge. For the Neopian Twist, instead of books, it'll be Neopian Times works for you to read (articles, short stories, series).
1) Travel the world (6 entries)
Read a work each for 6 different Neopian Worlds.
2) Travel in time (6 entries)
Read works from 6 different years.
3) Travelling on (5 entries)
Read a series of at least 5 parts.
4) The work travels (2 entries)
Read a work that was recommended to you and a work that you'd recommend to others
5) Authors revisited (2 entries)
Read 2 entries from the same author.
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