2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge - Title Edition

 

2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

Book Title Edition

JUST FOR FUN!

The Alphabet Soup Challenge means that 

by December 31, 2023

your bowls must be filled with one book for each letter of the Alphabet.

Each Letter Counts As 1 Spoonful

Details

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2023 until December 31st, 2023.

You can join anytime. You do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre.

Children's Books and Novellas are acceptable, but they need to be over 50 Pages. 

You do not need to link up each spoonful.

Grab a notebook or make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls.

Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.

You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles as shown below.

 

THE FIRST MAIN WORD NEEDS TO BE
THE LETTER YOU ARE COUNTING 

EXCEPT FOR THAT PESKY Q, X, AND Z TITLES THEN THE WORD THAT STARTS WITH THE CHALLENGE LETTER CAN BE ANYWHERE IN THE TITLE.

So there are two different ways you can set up your own A-Z Reading Challenge.

A - How I plan to do it: Make a list from A-Z. Throughout the year, as you go along, add the books you are reading to the list. Towards the end of the year, you can check and see which letters you are missing and find books to fit.

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B - Make a list now of 26 books, picking one for each letter of the alphabet, and check them off as you read them.

For example:

A - Annie's Rainbow by Fern Michaels

B - A Bride's Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman

C - A Courage Undimmed by Stephanie Graves

D- Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery) by Erica Ruth Neubauer

Books can be read in any order and all formats – print – e-book – audio – are acceptable for this challenge!

Ready to join?

Go to this reading challenge's sponsor, Escape With Dollycas Into a Good Book, HERE!

 

Non-bloggers you can join too! Just keep track any way you wish. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!  It is super easy, Just click the MY BOOKS tab at the top of the page. When that page opens just click - ADD A SHELF in the left-hand sidebar. Title it Alphabet Soup Challenge and you are all set. 

If you post about your books on Social Media please use this hashtag #AlphabetSoupChallenge

Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book as there may be special announcements made about the challenge.

There is also a very active group on Facebook where you can share your books read and converse with others taking part in the challenge. Alphabet Soup Challenge 

You can share your accomplishments throughout the year there. Right now they are finishing this year's challenge but it will switch over to the new year on January 1. 

The sponsor asks that everyone sign up for the challenge using Google Forms. 

Sign Up Here. 

This way she has your email address in case she needs to contact you about any changes to the challenge or about special events. 

In 2021 we added Monthly Mini-Challenges that have been a lot of fun!

If you would like to take part in these mini-challenges be sure to join the Facebook Group!

IMPORTANT - You must fill out a form to join the challenge before joining the Facebook Group and be sure to answer the group membership questions completely or your request for membership to the group will be declined.

GOOD LUCK!!

Thank you to this Reading Challenge Sponsor!

Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent

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2023 Alphabet Soup - Author Edition - Reading Challenge

 2023 Alphabet Soup - Author Edition - Reading Challenge

Author Edition Reading Challenge!

Just for Fun!

It's An Alphabet Challenge!

Start keeping track of your authors and by December 31, 2023
your bowls must be filled by one author for each letter of the Alphabet.
Be sure to include the book title too.

 

Details

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2023 until December 31st, 2023.

You can join anytime. You do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre.

You do not need to link up each spoonful.

Make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls. 

Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has an author whose first name, middle, or last name starts with every letter of the alphabet.

So there are two different ways you can set up your own A-Z Reading Challenge.

A – How I plan to do it: Make a list on your blog from A-Z. Throughout the year, as you go along, add the authors with the book you read to the list. Towards the end of the year, you can check and see which letters you are missing and find authors/books to fit.

OR

B – Make a list now of 26 books, picking one for each letter of the alphabet.

For example:

A – Jennifer S. Alderson - Death by Puffins

B – Laurien Berenson - Killer Cupid

C – Cleo Coyle - The Ghost and the Stolen Tears

X - Diana Xarissa - Anxious in Nevada (A Midlife Crisis Mystery)

Y- Kate Young - Crime for the Books

Z- Chad Zunker - The Tracker (Sam Callahan Book 1) 

Books can be read in any order and all formats – print – e-book – audio – are acceptable for this challenge!

Ready to join??

Go to the Reading Challenge sponsor, Escape with Dollycas here!

Non-bloggers you can join too! Just keep track any way you wish. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!  It is super easy, Just click the MY BOOKS tab at the top of the page. When that page opens just click – ADD A SHELF in the left-hand sidebar. Title it Alphabet Soup Author Edition Challenge and you are all set. 

Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book as there may be special announcements made about the challenge.

If you post about your books on Social Media please you the hashtag #AlphabetSoupAuthorChallenge

Thank you to this Reading Challenge Sponsor!

Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent

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2023 Craving For Cozies Reading Challenge

Read as many cozy mysteries as you can in 2023!

The challenge runs from

January 1, 2023, and ends on December 31, 2023.

This challenge is hosted by 

Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book here!

Rules

1. Choose the level at which you would like to participate: (I'm going to start at Level 1 - Peckish 1 - 25 Cozy Mysteries.)

Levels

• Peckish – 1 – 25 Cozy Mysteries
• Famished – 26 – 51 Cozy Mysteries
• Yearning – 51 – 75 Cozy Mysteries
• Starving  – 76 – 100 Cozy Mysteries
• Ravenous – 101 – 125 Cozy Mysteries
• Voracious – 126 – 150 Cozy Mysteries 
• Overindulged – 151 – 200 Cozy Mysteries
• Pigged Out – 201 or more Cozy Mysteries

You can always go up a level, but you can’t go down. 

2. You can Feed Your Need To Read with print, digital, or audiobooks.

3. You do not have to post a review, but the authors would appreciate it if you did. If you need help, just let me know. 

4.  You do not need to have a blog to participate. If you do have a blog, take the button above, put it on your blog, and post about the challenge. 

 

5.  Join the Craving for Cozies Facebook Group here and share your progress with everyone. 

6. Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book (click here!) for cozy giveaways and reviews.  

7. You can keep track any way you wish. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!  It is super easy. Just click the MY BOOKS tab at the top of the page. When that page opens, just click – ADD A SHELF in the left-hand sidebar. Title it "Craving for Cozies Challenge," and you are all set. 

8.  SIGN UP HERE!

The form has a spot to request a copy of your responses so you can save it and be able to refresh your memory as to which level you signed up for.

If you post about your books on Social Media, please use the hashtag #CravingCozies

HAVE FUN! 

Your Escape With A Good Book Travel Agent

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Karen's 2023 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge

Never. Say. Die!

This year I'm going to participate in the 2023 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge hosted by Celebrity Readers AGAIN. I'm all over the place with reading series, so this is OBVIOUSLY a true challenge for me to be more disciplined in my reading choices. I'm going to go for the "C-LIST" and hope for the best. Aim low, achieve high? Crossing my fingers.

I'm going to opt-in on the C-LIST SERIES FINISHER ⇒ COMPLETE 1 - 4 SERIES.

These are my target series this year.

(1) Jimm Juree series - Colin Cotterill (3 books) - 0 completed

(2) Shinobi Mystery series - Susan Spann (3 books) - 0 completed

(3) Bernie Rhodenbarr series - Lawrence Block (3 books) - 0 completed

(4) Kitty Pangborn series - Linda L. Richards (1 book) - 0 completed

(5) Ali Reynolds series - J.A. Jance (4 books) - 0 completed

(6) Thistle & Twigg series - Mary Saums (1 book) - 0 completed

(7) Melkor & Purity - Kim Faulks (1 book) - 0 completed

This is a total of 7 proposed series with 16 books. As of today, I have completed 0 of the 16.

#FinishingTheSeries2023

Guatemala Paula's Log for the 2023 Literary Escapes Challenge

 

Participation Log for my progress in  

Escape with Dollycas Into a Good Book's 

2023 Literary Escapes Challenge

To sign up just fill out this form.

Challenge Runs from January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

Challenge - Try to read 1 book set in each of the 50 states + the District of Columbia. (51 Points). If you complete the challenge you earn 50 Bonus Points. You also can earn Bonus Points for books set in Countries around the world. 1 Bonus Point for each country. (No repeats - only 1 point can be earned for each country.)

Your books can be fiction or non-fiction and can be in any format, print, digital, audio. 

So how do you decide what state a book is categorized under?

1.  In a fiction read it would be the State or Country that the book spends the most time in.  (Ie. If your main character is from Wisconsin but the book is all about his/her time in college in California – the books should categorize under California….)

2. Nonfiction reads categorize in whatever State or Country it is about (Ie…. a book about fly fishing in Colorado is a Colorado point, and a book about women in Afghanistan is an Afghanistan point.

3.  If the book goes from one state to another… go with the state that most of the time is spent.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

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Michigan

Minnesota

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Missouri

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