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Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here - 2023 Edition

Our group has a wide variety of challenges that will help motivate you to reach your reading goals, expose you to new books and authors, and bring you into contact with other group members. We hope you will join us!

Where do I find the group challenges?
All our Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly challenges are shown within their respective sections on the group discussion board. Scroll down on our group home page to find them.

You’ll also find links to current and/or upcoming challenges in the group newsletter each month, which is available in the Announcements! section of our discussion board. Depending on your personal settings, you may receive a copy of the newsletter via email or Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ message as well.

Lastly, you can click the links below to go directly to discussion board sections for our challenges:
2023 Monthly Challenges
2023 Quarterly Challenges
2023 Yearly Challenges

When can I sign up for a challenge?
Our challenges are of limited duration. Once a challenge’s specified duration ends, that challenge is over.

Yearly challenges open on a staggered schedule in December. Quarterly and monthly challenges open about one week in advance. Challenges are posted in advance so that you can plan your reading ahead of time.

You may join a challenge already in progress and count any relevant books you read during the challenge dates. For example, if you join a January challenge on the 14th, you may count all qualifying books you’ve read since January 1st.

How do I join a challenge?
Simply go to the challenge thread, then post a comment to inform the challenge leader of your goal.

The second post of each challenge thread provides instructions on how to participate. In addition, each challenge has a leader who facilitates the smooth running of the challenge and tracks the reading progress of its participants.

In all of our challenges, you set your own reading goal in terms of tasks, books, or pages turned. We all read at different paces, but we can each choose a personally suitable goal. Some participants prefer to start out with a modest goal, since it can always be increased later. Also, there’s no shame in lowering a challenge goal. We all know that real life can sometimes disrupt the best-laid reading plans.

It’s fine to sign up for a challenge before deciding on your challenge goal. If so, your challenge leader may temporarily give you a minimum goal at their discretion. Once you determine your goal, simply post another comment (which includes the number of your original post) to pledge your reading goal for the challenge.

Many participants use their original (sign-up) post to track their current progress and list books they’ve read for a challenge. Another option is to state your current progress then post a link to the book list in your Members� Corner thread. More information on this approach is in the next post in this thread.

Sample sign-up post:
Please sign me up for 10 books.
0/10

Which books qualify for my challenge?
Pay close attention to the rules of each challenge you join. Some challenges only allow one book per prompt, while others allow repeating prompts.

Within each challenge, a book may count for just one prompt. However, if you participate in multiple challenges, each book may count toward other challenges. For example, if you join two yearly challenges and a Q1 quarterly challenge, you could choose one book that satisfies a different prompt in each of the three challenges.

Why isn’t my progress being updated on the Participants� List?
The challenge leader tracks and updates the progress of a challenge’s participants based on their update comments, not by checking everyone’s original (sign-up) posts.

To have your progress updated, please post a comment with your original message number and your current progress, using the format below.

Update to msg x: (current progress)/(challenge goal)

If you posted an update comment but your progress wasn’t updated, you may have forgotten to share your current progress or you posted a list of books without tallying your own progress. If it seems like your comment was simply overlooked, just message your challenge leader.

Please remember that the challenge leaders of all of this group's challenges are volunteers and have real-life demands on their time, just like you do. After you post a progress update, the Participants List is not updated automatically. Update frequency depends on the challenge leader.

How do I format and edit my challenge posts?
The How Do I�? thread has useful how-to info, including a segment on Posting. This covers adding books/authors to your posts, formatting with bold, italic, etc., adding spoiler tags, and more.

What if I change my Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ user name?
Please inform the challenge leaders of any challenges you’ve joined, either by posting in the challenge thread or sending a message. This will ensure that they can continue to smoothly track your challenge progress.

After a challenge ends, may I still update my progress?
Once a challenge ends, its challenge leader will continue checking the challenge’s thread for only about 7-10 days. If you wish to have your progress included, be sure to make your final update post in a timely manner.

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If you would like to join a challenge and have a question on how to participate, you can post your question in that challenge's thread and the leader or one of the mods will be happy to answer it.

How to Link Your Member's Corner Post to a Challenge Thread

The linking described below is optional for those who can't resist joining multiple challenges. If you're tracking a challenge outside this group in your Members� Corner thread, you can also create a link in your Member’s Corner thread back to your post in the other group, or vice versa.

The more challenges you join, the more time you might have to spend organizing your reads for each challenge and updating your challenge progress. After signing up for a challenge, you track your challenge in your original (sign-up) post by recording your books read and current progress (books read/books pledged), but track the details of your challenge in your corresponding linked post in your Member’s Corner.

To inform the challenge leader of your progress, post a new comment that includes your original msg # and current progress.

If you've created your own Member's Corner to manage your various challenges, you can save time and effort by creating links between your Member's Corner posts and your original (sign-up) posts in the corresponding challenge threads. This allows you to post your books/pages read in only your Member's Corner.

We'll use the Let's Turn Pages Challenge as an example, but the following steps work for any challenge.

(1) First, you need to have already signed up for Let's Turn Pages and created a Let's Turn Pages post in your Member's Corner.
Open two browser tabs, one for each thread.

(2) At the Let's Turn Pages thread
Go to your original (sign-up) post, right-click the time stamp in the upper right corner of that post, then choose the dropdown menu option to copy the post's link ("Copy link address" for Chrome; wording varies with the browser).

(3) At your Member's Corner thread
Go to your Let's Turn Pages post and click "edit" at the bottom right corner of that post to allow editing.
Position your cursor where you'd like your link to be, then right-click to "Paste" the link to that spot.

Congratulations! You no longer need to list your books in both your original message in that challenge thread and your Member's Corner thread, because your new link directs the viewer to the corresponding post in your Member's Corner.

Hello,
How do I find out about any of the below - group reads, readathons, or. Buddy reads? thank you!


3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)

Laureen wrote: "Hello,
How do I find out about any of the below - group reads, readathons, or. Buddy reads? thank you!"

Hi, Laureen!

Those group activities are in the Discussion section of the Reading Challenge Group home page, within the monthly newsletter in the Announcements! folder, and in that same monthly newsletter that you may have in your GR Inbox or personal email, depending on your settings.

The Group Read is decided by poll each month from books nominated by members. The poll will be up in a couple of days for October. The September Group read is The Hobbit as shown above the Discussion board.

Our last team readathon for this year is coming up in September, and open for sign-ups now. Go to the Readathon folder to learn more.

You can learn about Buddy Reads in this sign-up thread and you can join one of the September Buddy Reads if you wish.

Since the prompts you asked about are from the Bibliopoly Yearly Challenge, I will be moving your question and my response into that thread in a few days where the discussion could benefit other participants.

For the record, you can always ask your challenge leader for help or clarification in the challenge thread. In the case of Bibliopoly, that's me. 😊