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.

OR

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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Progress to date (01/01/23): 0/26

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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Progress to date (01/01/23): 0/26

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

My List!

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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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Minnesota

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Missouri

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Ohio

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Classics Club Reading Challenge - Spin #31: Results

On September 18, 2022, the Classics Club blog posted CC Spin #31, a random number from 1 to 20, and the selection was Number 2! As the challenge is to read and review whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List (see below) by the October 30, 2022, it looks like Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray will finally get its turn. Although the Classics Club has been at this for quite awhile (Spin #31!), this is only my 2nd time to participate.

Duration of Challenge: September 18 - October 30, 2022

Number selected for Spin #31 - #2

Spin List

1. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles

*2. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde*

3. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

4. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan

5. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

7. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi

8. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King

9. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle

10. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

11. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

12. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

13. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling

14. The Martian – Andy Weir

15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne

16. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

17. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

18. The Odyssey – Homer

19. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

20. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis

RESULTS:

Wait for the next post!

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Classics Club Reading Challenge - Spin #31

Here is my current "Spin" List of 20 books for the "Classics Club Reading Challenge." This list was developed from the poster "100 Essential Books" Scratch Off Bucket List. However, since I've already read and scratched off a number of the original books, my ending number is 72 (as of September 13, 2022.) This "master list" is shown below.

On September 18, 2022, the Classics Club blog will post their CC Spin #31, a random number from 1 to 20. The challenge is to read and review whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by the 30th of October, 2022. Although the Classics Club has been at this for quite awhile (Spin #31!), this is only my second time to participate. My first spin was Misery by Stephen King.

Duration of Challenge: September 18 - October 30, 2022

Number selected for Spin #31 - 2

Spin List

1. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

3. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

4. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan

5. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

7. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi

8. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King

9. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle

10. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

11. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

12. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

13. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling

14. The Martian – Andy Weir

15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne

16. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

17. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

18. The Odyssey – Homer

19. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

20. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis

The following is the Master List of what I have left to read on this poster. Some of the selections shown on the poster are actually whole series so I have listed the books in those series which I've not completed further down the page. As I complete a series book from the master list, I will replace it with the next one the series. In order to get my Spin List, I used a Table of Random Numbers to generate 20 numbers from 1 to 72 (the total number of books in the Master List.

Master List

1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne

2. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles

3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin

4. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

5. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

6. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi

7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X

8. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan

9. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

10. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder

11. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

12. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

13. A Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela

14. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

16. The Color Purple – Alice Walker

17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

18. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling

19. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

20. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

21. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

22. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

23. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

24. Macbeth – William Shakespeare

25. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien

26. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

27. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

28. Ulysses – James Joyce

29. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

30. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

31. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle

32. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

33. Dracula – Bram Stoker

34. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis

35. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

36. The Odyssey – Homer

37. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

38. 438 Days – Jonathan Franklin

39. How to be Champion – Sarah Millican

40. The Romanov Sisters – Helen Rappaport

41. The Martian – Andy Weir

42. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) – Deborah Harkness

43. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King

44. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown

45. Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

46. The Fireman – Joe Hill

47. The Radium Girls – Kate Moore

48. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

49. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

50. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

51. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion

52. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński

53. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

54. Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs

55. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin

56. A Death in the Family – James Agee

57. Blindness – José Saramago

58. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

59. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

60. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

61. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

62. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) – Laura Ingalls Wilder

63. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

64. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

65. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

66. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

67. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

8. Watership Down – Richard Adams

69. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

70. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

71. The Stranger – Albert Camus

72. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Series books to add as needed. (34)

Replaces #1 - The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #2) – Jules Verne

Replaces #2 - Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) - Sophocles

Replaces #2 - Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) – Sophocles

Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot (Percy Jackson, #2.5) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - The Titans Curse (Percy Jackson, #3) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon (Percy Jackson, #3.5) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson, #4) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #8 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson, #5) – Rick Riordan

Replaces #12 - Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) – J.K. Rowling

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) – J.K. Rowling

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) – J.K. Rowling

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) - J.K. Rowling

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) – J.K. Rowling

Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) – J.K. Rowling

Replaces #25 - The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) – J.R.R. Tolkien

Replaces #25 - The Return of the Kind (The Lord of the Rings, #3) – J.R.R. Tolkien

Replaces #34 - Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #34 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #34 - The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #34 - The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #34 - The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #34 - The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) – C.S. Lewis

Replaces #41 - Artemis – Andy Weir

Replaces #42 - Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) – Deborah Harkness

Replaces #42 - The Book of Life (All Souls, #3) – Deborah Harkness

Replaces #43 - Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) – Stephen King

Replaces #43 - End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) – Stephen King

Replaces #44 - Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2) – Pierce Brown

Replaces #41 - Artemis – Andy Weir

Replaces #62 - These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Replaces #62 - The First Four Years (Little House, #9) – Laura Ingalls Wilder

List of completed Spins!

Spin #30 - Misery by Stephen King (August 9, 2022)

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