Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2015 Bookish Resolutions & Challenges

Welcome to 2015 folks! Phew. It is already shaping up to be a wonderful year for the bookish nerds. As it is a brand new year, and this will be my first full blogging year, I accepted a few reading challenges. The challenges fit into my already busy schedule, and I hope I'm not being too ambitious here! While I will still do the Goodreads challenge of 100 books, there were a couple out there that caught my eye. I really don't need a challenge to motivate me to read; I would like to be more social in the blogosphere. With no further introduction, here are the challenges that I have accepted for the year, 2015.

Flights of Fantasy Challenge

Hosted by Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books and Rachel @ Hello, Chelly.
*I challenge myself to 25 books
Rules & Restrictions

    - The challenge runs from January 1-December 31, 2015
    - We're welcoming all readers to join us for this challenge!
    - Read as many books as you like. There are no levels!
    - Feel free to tweet about the challenge using our official hashtag #flightsoffantasy
How to Participate

    - Challenge yourself to read a certain number of fantasy books. Share your challenge number in a comment on either of these girls' blogs, a post on your blog or even a tweet!
    - On the last Sunday of each month, we'll be sharing our personal updates on the challenge. We'll be including a Linky, just in case you decide to do the same. (This is optional!)


Dusting off the Shelf Reading Challenge

Hosted by Emily @ Books & Cleverness!
*I challenge myself to 12 books

Rules & Restrictions

    - The challenge will run from Jan 1, 2015 – Dec 31, 2015.
    - Anyone is welcome to join. You do not need to be a blogger, just post your reviews and come back every month to link them up.
    - Any book is acceptable, as long as you’ve owned it and have been meaning to read it for a long time.
    - You can set any goal that you want for each month or the year. Whatever you think is attainable for you personally!
    - At the beginning of each month I will post a roundup post for you to add your reviews.
    - If you forget to link up one month it’s not a problem just add your reviews next month.


The Re-Read Challenge
Hosted by Belle of the Literati & So Obsessed With.
*I challenge myself to 12 books

The Re-Read Challenge Details

    - This challenge will run from January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015. The sign-up linky will remain open until the end of January, but join at any time by adding your intro post to any monthly re-read recap linky.
    - Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it's a re-read.
    - You don't have to follow our blogs to participate or be entered in the giveaways.
How You Sign Up

    - Write a post about joining The 2015 Re-Read Challenge on your blog. In the post, include the banner, a link back to our sign-up page, the number of books you'd like to re-read and list some books you're hoping to re-read for the challenge.
    - Add the direct link to your sign-up post in the linky on either girls' blog.
    - DONE. It's as easy as that to get started.
How You Participate

    - Re-read some books!
    - In the first week of each month, we will post a re-read recap on Belle of the Literati and So Obsessed With that includes a linky that will be open all month. Write a post detailing what you re-read the last month, and add the direct link to our linky to be entered in our giveaways.
    - If you write any re-read reviews (it's totally optional!), add those to the monthly linky for additional entries (one per post) in our giveways.
    - If you miss a monthly post, just link up your reviews and/or recap in the linky during the next month.

*My bookish New Year's resolution is to become more social in the blogging world! I would love to meet more people, fangirl about series loved, and participate in more events in 2015! I am hoping these challenges are just a small step in the right direction to achieve that goal. I will possibly add more challenges and events in the days to come... (:

17 comments:

  1. I haven't looked into any, "group" reading challenges yet! Now that I've seen your post, I'm considering, Dusting Off the Shelf!(:
    Ah - I also hope to be more social in the blogosphere. That's one thing I haven't invested as much time into as I should have!
    Thanks for posting this, Morrighan!
    - Cambrie @ and so the book begins

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    1. I completely agree Cambrie. I'm nowhere near as social as I'd like to be. I tend to get stressed out with classes; my profs seem to love to spring insane research papers or tests on us at the last minute. I never seem to have enough time to balance everything, but I'm going to give it a shot this year! I hope you find a challenge that fits into your reading style. There are tons of them posted throughout the bookish world right now (:

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  2. Good luck with all your goals for 2015! Looking forward to reading more of your posts. :)

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    1. Thank you so much Joy! I'm gonna head on over to your blog and check out your bookish resolutions (:

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  3. Some of these challenges look very neat! I'm not signing up for any this year but I'm trying to do the A-Z challenge one. I have all the books figured it out and I also wanna read more adult fiction and some classics.
    Good luck with your goals! And Happy New Year!

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    1. I haven't heard of the A-Z challenge but I am totally going to check it out. I have yet to pick out any books for these.. haha! I'm just hoping my slacker tendencies don't interfere with the ones I've already picked (:
      Thanks for stopping by girl. Here's to a wonderfully bookish new year.

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  4. Some great challenges! I've decided to only do the goodreads challenge for total number of books, but I do have some resolutions that you can see here: http://enchantedbyya.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-years-bookish-resolutions-2015.html

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    1. I totally agree with you about finishing a series. If all of the books aren't out yet, I tend to put it down and forget about it! I try to keep track of the ones I want to read on my blog, but it doesn't always work out! I wish you the best of luck in the new year girl, and I look forward to more great reviews! (:

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  5. So many great reading challenges! I wanna do a few, but I'm really bad at these, I slack off too much!
    All the best! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! :)
    Eclectic Introspections @ Flickering Lights

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    1. Oh yea, I hear you on that one! I'm hoping my slacker tendencies don't interfere with these challenges.. haha! Even if it does, I'll still end up reading some great books that I might not have gotten to otherwise. Thanks so much for stopping by! I wish you the best of luck and bookish goodness in the new year.

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    2. Hi again! I nominated you for the Sisterhood of Blogger Award! I don't know if you've already done it, but if you haven't then I would be very happy if you could! :)
      http://eclecticintrospections.blogspot.com/2015/01/sisterhood-of-world-bloggers-award.html

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  6. Girl you are getting it in with the challenges! I seen a couple that I want to attempt to do, but I'm not quite sure yet. I have so many other things I'm trying to get out the way first, then I want to get my hands dirty with some of these reading challenges. Good luck!

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    1. I hope you end up checking some of them out. I did see your resolutions and I left you a comment on them! I do hear you about not getting overwhelmed with too many goals (:

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  7. I didn't join any challenges this year, but I do like the idea you have here of doing it to be more social in the blogging world! Like you I have my challenge of 100 books this year. And the fantasy/dusting off the shelf challenges do look like good ones to me! I hope you are able to do them all ;)

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  8. You have signed up for some great challenges! I like the reread one, but I have so many books on my TBR already. I need to try to make a dent in that. Haha

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  9. Sounds like you're going to be pretty busy! :) I, too, would love to be more social in the blogging world.

    By the way, I've nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. Check it out here.

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  10. So many great challenges this year, I'm doing a fantasy challenge as well! :) Good luck<3

    Benish | Feminist Reflections

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