A full year reading event to widen your reading horizon!
Please feel free to use the chart on your posts. Just link back here!
Participating is pretty easy.
- You have all of 2014 to read a book for each square.
- A book can only count for 1 square. There will be 25 books for this challenge.
- The books read for this project can come from other projects you’re participating in: school, review books, other challenge or events, books for fun.
- If you blog, keep a post/page for the challenge. Update the post/page when you read a book for the challenge with a link to your thoughts/review of the book. Make sure to state which square the book counts for!
- If you feel like it, write check in posts every few months. Update us on how you feel about the ‘new’ books you’re reading.
- I’ll keep a page here for people to add review links to. It would be nice to see how others are feeling about the challenge. Add links to your reviews here.
That’s it! Hopefully by the end of the year we will be more adventurous in our reading.
Sign up here:
*Most of the categories are pretty self explanatory. Here are the details for the ‘questionable’ ones:
- Read a Chunkster: Read a book with 600+ pages.
- Reading by Ear: Listen to an audiobook
- Accidentally Watched the Movie First: You didn’t realize the movie was based on a book until after you watched it. Ideally you haven’t read the book yet.
- Relive the Magic: Reread a book you really enjoyed as a kid but haven’t touched it since then.
- Gathering Dust: You’ve had this book for years and you still haven’t read it.
- Loved By Others: Other people really love this book but for whatever reason you haven’t read it yet.
- Lost in Translation: This book was originally written in another language.
- Second Chance: You read this book a while back and didn’t enjoy it, didn’t finish it, or were on the fence about it. Time to give it another try!
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Is “a monster calls” middle grade book? =D
I don’t think so. It’s pretty YA with the themes. It’s still a great book though!
I have read somewhere… amazon I guess, that this is a children book what has pretty itritated me, because the story is kind of too heavy for children.
And I am having troubles finding a self published book, grrr. HOW to know if it is self published??? O.O
The illustrations might make it “childish” but you’re right it’s a pretty heavy book.
If you go to Amazon and scroll the towards the bottom of the page of book, look for the product details. If you don’t see a publisher listed or the publisher is CreateSpace (or the author’s name), then it’s most likely a self published book. You could also browse the free Kindle books on Amazon. Many of the those are self published.
Have you read the Grimm Chronicles? They’re short, self published, and amusing enough. If you keep an eye out on Amazon, you can get them for free. (Or at least I managed to get them for free). This is the first book: http://www.amazon.de/Prince-Charming-Grimm-Chronicles-episode-ebook/dp/B007V4JAO0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1402491620&sr=8-2&keywords=prince+charming+must+die
This is such a cool idea! I really need to expand my reading, but every time I start a romance or a mystery I get bored and give up.
I think the trick to trying different books is trying with a “hybrid” book. Romance might not be your thing but trying a fantasy (or other genre) book with a romance in it might work out better for you.
That’s good idea. I’d probably have better luck with a paranormal romances or maybe a young adult romance since they’re shorter. Thanks 🙂
Hey Alison,
I kind of put together some “badges” for Reading Outside the Box. I uploaded them to my blog’s media library thing (you can’t find them unless you have the URL).
Here’s the “winner” badge: https://booksandbark.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/readingoutsidetheboxchallengewinner.jpg
Here’s the “participant” badge: https://booksandbark.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/readingoutsidetheboxchallengeparticipant.jpg
I hope you like them 🙂 I couldn’t find our original conversation, so I just posted them here.
WOW! Those are fantastic Sabrina! I love them. Thank you so much for all your work. 😀
I just saw this, I may join, looks like fun, there isn’t a time limit is there?
Not really. I chose to work on it all through 2014 but you could tweak it and do it over a different time period if you’d like.