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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Wrapping Up 2020's 50 Books Challenge

 

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2020 is finally over, but we've still got a couple loose ends. And I KNOW you want to hear my thoughts!

No? Well, come for the snark then.

At any rate, like most carbon-based life forms, 2020 caught me by surprise. I knew going into this challenge that I might not make fifty given how my schedule has changed since I used to do the challenge, but I wasn't expecting the level of comfort food rereads I was going to need, or the way that doomscrolling and other 2020 interruptions would interfere with my plans.
Still, we've got a solid 14 books reviewed, and I'm going to talk about them! I actually have finished three more, but didn't get the reviews written in the holiday chaos. I debated what to do, and decided to put them with 2021's books, both for clarity's sake and for the fact at least one of the 2020 reviews I started in 2019, so it all comes out in the end.

I MAKE THE RULES OF THE CHALLENGE, MIND!

I liked the old "year in review" categories I used when I wrote about this before, so I'm going to keep them, but I'm adding a new one. Watch 'til the end for a special shoutout!

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Introducing the Fifty Books Challenge!

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So on my old, still active blogs, I used to review books.

I had a lot of fun doing it. It was called the Fifty Books Challenge.

I started in 2009. The last year I did it was 2015 and I stopped about halfway through and didn't pick it up again.

UNTIL NOW.

My leisure time is different now. A good portion of the reading I currently do isn't for a book I can review on this platform. I don't know for sure if I'll make it to fifty, or have time to document all of them. But it's a goal and I'm going to try.

That's part of what this blog is about! My old blog sites where I posted reviews are sadly abandoned places (even though I still check in and keep active, although not with the frequency I once did). This new venture is a way to keep the project active.

Why? Because I absolutely loved doing it, I miss doing it, and it's a great way to talk about books I've read.

So welcome to the new Fifty Books Challenge!

I'm holding my old rules: I don't count books I've read before, and I don't count books I don't finish. I can't promise any kind of regularity, but I can promise that I'll do my best to stick with it.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

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