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Topic: 2014 YA Reading Challenge???
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Is anyone creating a YA Reading challenge for next year? I guess if no one else wants to I can do one. I would need suggestions of topics Alice |
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Guess it is not a very high priority so perhaps we skip it this year. Alice |
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lol... I'd participate Alice if someone created it. I liked the way Jenna did it for this year...the categories were easier to achieve. I always hate the awards category because they tend to be books i'd never choose and always struggle through. thankfully i was able to do audiobooks for all of those this year! :) |
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I didn't finish the challenge this year, so I am not sure if I will participate in 2014, but I may do a mini challenge. I'm up for changing it around if y'all have ideas for changes. |
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A mini challenge sounds good Jenna. I didn't finish mine either. I did think of a good bonus category read x amount of books from our mountain of YA TBR (maybe between 5-10). I could really use to read down some of these books. A couple of category I always like is new author and finish a series. Alice |
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It might be cool to really change it up and do something like the Fantasy Challenge from this year. Basically there are several categories and each category has a few themes in in. You pick a theme and read 5 books that match that them. We could do a smaller number like 2 or 3 per theme. Our existing challenge might work as themes split up into categories, or we could modify the list they had. Everyone wouldn't have to pick the same themes (or even the same categories) to do, so it would be customizable to what you want to read. |
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This is just me playing around with their format to see how it would work for us... Instructions Number of books
Character theme
Location/Time Theme
Setting Element
Inspirational Theme
Structure Themes
Author Themes
Awards Themes
Unrelated Themes
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Jenna can you clarify which is the theme and which is the category? |
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The groupings are the categories and the bulleted lists under that are themes. So you would pick a category (for instance Setting Element) and then pick a theme under that (like Small Town) and then read 2 or 3 books that are all set in small towns. |
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I, too, have been waiting for someone to organize this challenge. And I loved the fantasy challenge. Lots of choices and what you have is much like it. I agree to take out: "No two books for the same theme can be from the same series." Many like to be able to continue with a series. However, can we look at it a different way? The classic challenge allows exchanging books from a specific list. Why not do the same here? Rather than a specific war why not just war? Why not countries outside of US rather than limit to one or do both? Maybe combine
Choose one or a combination of these: Circuses, labyrinths, schools, manor houses, ranches, etc Published in same year (or decade) And, I like reading award list books but may want to include nominees to expand the choices Last Edited on: 12/7/13 10:01 PM ET - Total times edited: 13 |
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However, can we look at it a different way? The classic challenge allows exchanging books from a specific list. Why not do the same here? I'm not sure what you mean by this. What kind of list? I would want to be able to read whatever I wanted that fit the category, not something from a list.
Rather than a specific war why not just war? There's a wartime theme under Setting Element. That could be any war or you could do the same war under Location/Time
Why not countries outside of US rather than limit to one or do both? I'd rather have both because just doing outside the US seems really easy and not much of a challenge (though that could be said for other categories as well)
Maybe combine
That's fine.
Choose one or a combination of these: Circuses, labyrinths, schools, manor houses, ranches, etc That's the intent - you would choose one if you chose that theme
Published in same year (or decade) Same Year is under Unrelated. Decade seems really broad. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
And, I like reading award list books but may want to include nominees to expand the choices Sure. I think that's how we've treated the awards categories in the past few years. Last Edited on: 12/7/13 11:12 PM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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Sounds great... I plan to do whatever challenge ends up being posted. Thanks in advance to whoever ends up finalizing the list. If I come up with any ideas to add I'll be back to suggest them. |
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Jenna will you create a list thread? |
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Thanks for asking for suggestions. Love to see all the input. When I suggested a list I meant one such as such as NPR recommended YA list or the GR best YA choices. The organizer chooses the list. The fantasy challenge allowed one to choose books either published in one year or decade. Sometimes it's hard to find the number specified for a year that you want to read. Last Edited on: 12/10/13 3:30 PM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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I don't really want to specify a list because everyone can choose whatever they want to read. Okay, the list thread is posted: 2014 YA Reading Challenge - Lists Only . I made a few changes, like you can read 2-5 books to fulfill a theme. You decide how many you'll read. Books can be repeated between themes if you'd like. Let me know if you have any questions! |
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Does anyone know how to create the banners that go on the bottom of our post. We could have 2014 YA challenge Banner? Last Edited on: 12/14/13 10:16 AM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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Okay I will not quit my day job to start making banners. Here is a site I used http://www.bannerfans.com/banner_maker.php. I am terrible at it but here some you can use
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