2023 Challenges

 I've committed myself to three challenges this year, all in areas I want to improve.

NON-FICTION READERS  CHALLENGE

 

Shelleyrae@Book'dOut

 

Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories

Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories

Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category

Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal

Categories:

History
Memoir/Biography
Crime & Punishment
Science
Health
Travel
Food
Social Media
Sport
Relationships
The Arts
Published in 2023

 I am joining nonfiction grazer level and hope to read 6 books and will try and fit them into some of the categories listed.

 

1. I Belong to No One (Memoir)

2. Don't Make a Fuss: It's only the Claremont Serial Killer (Memoir)

3. Reaching Through Time (History)

4. Unsolved Australia (Crime)

5. Undefendable (History)

6. Grandparents (Relationships)

7. The Sunday Story Club (Mental Health)

8. Wild and Crazy Guys (The Arts)

9. The Girls (Memoir)

10. The Bells of Old Tokyo (History) reviewed on Goodreads

MOUNT TBR CHALLENGE

 

My Reader's Block 

 

Challenge levels:

Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancounver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro*: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s (*aka Cerro El Toro in South America)
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

 

For this challenge I am aiming to read 12 books from my TBR. The books must have been on my shelf from 2020 or earlier.

 

1. I Belong to No One - on my shelf since Oct 2015

2. The Secret Garden - on my shelf since 2015

3. At Night's End - on my shelf since Oct 2020 (reviewed on Goodreads) 2 ⭐s

4. Red Queen - on my shelf since Aug 2015 (reviewed on Goodreads) 4⭐s

5. The Dry - on my shelf since Feb 2017

6. Unsolved Australia - on my shelf since June 2019

7. The Doll Factory - on my shelf since April 2019

8. Black Ice - on my shelf since Jan 2015

9. The Little Paris Bookshop - on my shelf since Nov 2015 (reviewed on Goodreads) 2⭐s

10. Girl in the Rearview Mirror - on my shelf since June 2019

11. The Art of Discarding - on my shelf since March 2017 (reviewed on Goodreads) 2⭐s

12. The Dysasters - on my shelf since Jan 2019 (reviewed on Goodreads) DNF

13. The Sunday Story Club - on my shelf since June 2019

14. Wild and Crazy Guys - on my shelf since May 2019

15. The Emerald Tablet - on my shelf since June 2019

16. The Age of Light - on my shelf since Jan 2019

17. The Land Beyond the Sea - on my shelf since Jan 2020

18. Our Country Christmas - on my shelf since Dec 2018 (reviewed on Goodreads 3⭐s)

19. The Girls - on my shelf since August 2019

20. The Goldminer's Sister - on my shelf since June 2020

21. The Bells of Old Tokyo - on my shelf since May 2019 (reviewed on Goodreads 3 ⭐s)

 

MALE AUSSIE AUTHOR CHALLENGE

 

 

 I'm aiming to increase my male Aussie author books from 14 in 2022 to 20.

1. The Hemsworth Effect - James Weir (reviewed on Goodreads)

2. The Death of John Lacey - Ben Hobson

3. How to Be Remembered - Michael Thompson

4. Blood & Ink - Brett Adams

5. The Signatory - Stuart Black

6. Friendly Bee and Friends - Sean E Avery

7. A Man of Honour - Simon Smith

8. O2 - Nic D'Alessandro

9. Four Dogs Missing - Rhys Gard

10. The Connection Game - SS Turner

11. Mole Creek - James Dunbar

12.The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright - Reece Carter

13. Hockey Wars 12 - Euro Tournament - Ben Jackson

14. Sink or Swim - Wolf Girl 9 - Anh Do

15. Grandparents - Michael Carr-Gregg

16. Fat, Fifty & Fu*ked - Geoffrey McGeachin

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