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It's that time--we are going to start preparing for 2017.

To answer some questions:
- Yes, the group will continue into 2017!
- Yes, we will archive all of your 2016 challenges and corners so you don't lose your info!
- Yes, we will have a bunch of new yearly challenges for you!

We are super excited and hope you are too. You'll notice that the group name just changed to reflect that it'll continue on next year. Please post any questions you may have about the transition here.


Here's a high level schedule:

Late November/Early December:
- Start posting yearly challenges (these will be posted one at a time over the span of a week or two to give everyone a chance to read through them)
- Create the new folders for personal challenges and member corners
- 2017 themes posted
- Post January challenges
- Post Q1 challenges

First week in January:
- Change group name
- Archive 2016 threads

The member corner folder is up: /topic/show/...

And the 2017 personal challenge folders: /topic/show/...

Feel free to start making your topics anytime - we'll post the first 2017 yearly challenge later today!

The first challenge is ready: Genre Bingo

Stay tuned for new challenges in the next week or so!

Our nonfiction challenge this year is Dewey Decimal

I think my main challenge will be reading most of the books I bought from 2016 in the first quarter of 2017.

I did that last year! I'll admit that I wasn't super successful, but I tried to do a whole year of reading books I'd already purchased.

If you try for a quarter, you can keep telling yourself that you'll read the books that aren't part of your 2016 haul later in the year. Good luck!

Cassandra wrote: "I did that last year! I'll admit that I wasn't super successful, but I tried to do a whole year of reading books I'd already purchased.

If you try for a quarter, you can keep telling yourself tha..."

I think you did well! There is lots of temptations out there in books and at least you probably read more than you bought. I did the opposite lol.

I'm trying that now to read more than buying :)

Listopia is back for another year!

I put this in the mod corner but I am going to put it here just to try and make it easier on you girls. do you all know how many yearly challenges there will be this year? I made a mess of my corner last year hard to admit being as OCD as I am I'd like to try and be as neat as possible this year. thanks

I responded in the thread you asked the question, but copying and pasting here. :)

Usually we aim for around 10 yearly challenges - it may end up being 9-12, but in that range for sure!

As a tip, you can hold a bunch of posts in your topic (more than you need), and then if you end up not needing them, you can delete the extra posts.

sorry hon didn't see it and thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

No problem! Hope that helps you organize. :)

Personally, I already had to scoot things around my corner since I decided to Listopia, which I didn't have in my original "plan". It just proves how hard it is to decide which ones to do, even when I have the inside scoop!

I'm so excited for 2017! We have our Yearly Theme of Around the World!

In honor of our theme, today's posted yearly challenge is Around the World Through Language

Even if English is not my first language, I don't suppose that Irish, Canadian, American and British counts as 4 languages, do they? ;-)

Will the popsugar reading challenge be a yearly one this year?

It sure will! :)

KellI wrote: "Will the popsugar reading challenge be a yearly one this year?"

I posted it in the yearly challenges!

Do you think there will be a random challenge this year? I am new and I don't know whether to set up under a personal challenge or wait for random to show up since that is what I am going to do. Thank you!

My goal is to reduce the amount of unread books that I have on my Nook, Kindle and the ones I've bought at thrift stores. I know I won't be able to get them completely down since I've been downloading free books on about a daily basis.

Tim wrote: "My goal is to reduce the amount of unread books that I have on my Nook, Kindle and the ones I've bought at thrift stores. I know I won't be able to get them completely down since I've been download..."

Oh man, you could be my twin! For me it is two kindles though. That's beauty of the random challenge. Whatever comes up, you have to read!!

I am so excited about the yearly challenges, that I have entered and can't wait to get started!!!
And as I am hoping to combine them with some monthly and/or quarterly challenges, I am really curious as to what you come up with.

I know, that you are probably already busy preparing them :-) so just letting you know, that I look forward to it!

Yes, the Randomizer challenge is coming back again!

In fact, the TBR Randomizer challenge is live now. :)

Is the ŷ������ Choice Yearly Challenge coming back?

It won't be coming back as a yearly challenge, but look for it as a Challenge later in the year.

I want to do the challenge that I read the books from my want to read 2016 shelf ...

Hi Stacy, how about the TBR randomiser challenge 2017? You can randomly pick a number of books from your TBR 2016 shelf and read them :)

Very new to this. How do I sign up for a 2017 challenge and where do I find out about the different challenges?

Hi Mary! Welcome.

We have 2017 yearly challenges posted, which you can sign up for now if any of them look interesting to you.

We also have quarterly challenges and monthly challenges, which are ongoing for the 4th quarter and December. In late December, we'll post the 1st quarter challenges and January challenges in the same folders.

Does that help?

Okay, what happened to the Reporter Challenge? It was there, then poof, now it's gone, lol.

❀�� Gem ✿❀ wrote: "Okay, what happened to the Reporter Challenge? It was there, then poof, now it's gone, lol."

The person who posted it meant to post it in another group they are a part of so the mods moved it to archived/deleted it since it wasn't an official challenge for this group.

Ah, thank you!

Is there going to be a A-Z Character Challenge for 2017?

Not this year. While we love the A to Z challenges, we have done them several years in a row, and have not been able to come up with a new twist on it for this year. If anyone has an idea, I would be more than happy to present it to the mods.

Things that have been done: Book Titles, Authors, Character Names

Thanks Brianna for answering Gem's question! I did post a comment in that thread - she belongs to The Challenge Factory, so if you're super psyched for that challenge you can find it there. :)

Cassandra wrote: "Thanks Brianna for answering Gem's question! I did post a comment in that thread - she belongs to The Challenge Factory, so if you're super psyched for that challenge you can find it there. :)"
I saw it right after it was posted and then hours later it was gone. No, not super psyched, just confused... it doesn't take much, lol.

Hi is there going to be an I-Spy Challenge this year? I've enjoyed it this year. It's been my first challenge and now I've got the challenge bug. Thank you

There won't be an I-Spy Challenge this year, but we have the My Favorite Things Challenge that has an I-Spy feel about it. You should check it out.

Hey, mods! Just curious, are all the yearly challenges posted? Also, when will the quarterly and monthly challenges be posted? Thanks for all your hard work!

We aim to post the quarterly and monthly challenges around the 25th of each month.

Now that Book Riot is up, all of the yearly challenges have been posted. :)

Follow up question to Megan's:
How many quarterly and monthly challenges do you usually do? Just asking to make sure my corner is organized appropriately :)

We try and post 2 quarterly and monthly challenges. Last year we were also able to throw in a few one day challenge in as well.

Cool, thanks!

I'm new here can someone explain what do we do, because I'm confused

Sarbjot wrote: "I'm new here can someone explain what do we do, because I'm confused"

For all of new members, you should receive a Welcome message that will direct you through our group, but if you don't, please go to this thread: New Members, Start Here.

Hi! I am new to this group. I have a few questions about the book assigned for the month. Will there be assigned reading and questions to answer and discuss or is just read at your own pace and just post what you liked or didnt like? I will try to join in on different threads as much as i can. Please let me know, so i know what the requirements are. Thank you.

2016 fizzled out for me in March, which is kind of sad. Really looking forward to doing better in 2017!! \o/

Cassandra wrote: "In fact, the TBR Randomizer challenge is live now. :)"

Has there been a challenge mentioned yet to where physical book copies trump over kindles, nooks etc? I've noticed many people in forums (especially this one), and people I personally talk to wish they would have spend 2016 reading books they already own on their personal bookshelves versus buying new books or continuing to download items onto their devices. It's something I want to do with my thrift store books I'm not personally attached to. That way I can make more room on my shelf, AND I can donate them to Little Free Library when I'm done. :) (Which I know was a challenge for the groups anniversary but I didn't donate as many as I wanted to).

I know that's something you spent your time doing, Cassandra. :)
So I was wondering if it's already a challenge but I just haven't seen it yet. If not, I can mention it on the Challenge Ideas page. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

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Cindy, for group reads we post discussion topics where you can discuss parts of the book. There isn't a formal discussion schedule or questions list, but sometimes the monthly group read leader will ask some questions to get discussion moving. Read at your own pace and comment when you can! :)

Nik, I know the feeling. All things considered, I did okay on reading this year, but I failed most of my challenges and my goal. I'm excited for a clean slate! Best of luck in 2017. :)