Happy 2020, y’all!
I can’t believe we’re into a new year much less a new decade. To kick off a new year/decade, Linda and I are kicking off a self-challenge: Unearthing a Bookish Bounty. I’m sure we’ve all participated in challenges where we read books we own. Well, I decided I wanted to read exclusively (almost) what I own in 2020 because I know I have quite a bookish bounty on my shelves. And Linda was gracious enough (she’s such a wonderful blogger wife!) to agree to participate as well. Here’s a little glimpse into why this challenge is essential to me:
As you can see, I have more than enough physical books to keep me reading for quite a long while. And I didn’t show you the number of ebooks I own. 😉 These are the rules governing our Unearthing a Bookish Bounty challenge.
Rules:
- We WILL READ books we already own!
- We will not accept ARCs unless they’re from our lists of ARC Team authors
Brandee’s List:
Jana Aston
Julie Huss
Tara Lain
Michelle Mankin - Linda’s List:
Jana Aston
Sawyer Bennett
Lori Foster
Julie Huss
Tara Lain
Christina Lauren
Michelle Mankin
Tiffany Reisz
Kennedy Ryan
Jill Shalvis - When reading books from a series where we don’t own all the books, there’s no buying the next book unless we’re going to read it immediately.
- Any books we purchase must be done with a gift card. The only exceptions for Brandee are: 1) audiobooks since I have an Audible subscription, and 2) any book required for book club that I don’t already own and can’t procure any other way.
- Linda has an exception for audibooks as well, as she, too has an Audible subscription.Plus, she also has a The BookwormBox subscription for e-books.
If you want a place where you can chat about the Unearthing a Bookish Bounty challenge, join the Unearthing a Bookish Bounty Facebook Group 🙂
What do y’all think? Can we do it? I think it’ll be a challenge 😉 for us both but maybe more so for Linda. LOL We’ll keep you posted. 😀
About Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Brandee is a mom of 3 and a soon-to-be empty nester. She is also an avid reader, a genre omnivore, and a compulsive one-clicker - but she's in recovery. Besides being a reader, she's also a writer and hopes to divide the vast quantities of spare time she'll soon have between reading and finally publishing her first book.
I love this! I have really thought about doing something like this but I was afraid that I really wouldn’t stick with it. I like that you both have a list that you can accept review copies from and rules for buying. That make the plan flexible enough to work. Good luck!
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LOL, we really needed to do something to make sure temptation wouldn’t totally ruin the challenge before the first week of the year 🙂 thanks, Carole!
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oh wow….that is an amazing challenge you have there. And my goodness…..look at all those beautiful books on all of those shelves. I am so envious. Good for you on working on reading the books you already own.
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Yeah, Brandee’s shelves are totally made of awesome, aren’t they?
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i can’t do this one… i borrow mine from the library! but it will be cool to see yours
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That’s even better – it means you’re not adding too many books to your shelves at home 🙂
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Oh I’m so impressed! And very envious of your shelving system – though I suspect I, too, would stack it with allll those books, or ones like it:). Best of luck, Linda! I look forward to hearing of your progress.
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Thanks Sarah! 🙂
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OMG – and I thought my pile of unread books is huge *lol* My TBR is nothing compared to Brandee’s shelves … Great idea. Wishing you both happy reading and good luck.
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I’m pretty sure the book cons we’ve been to together are partly responsible for all those unread books 🙂 It’s almost impossible to say ‘no’ to free books, right?
Thanks, Vi!
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I’m impressed with your challenge, well, self-challenge and I’m definitely envious of those bookshelves. 🙂 I haven’t done anything “official” like a challenge but I have made the decision to request less ARCs and clear up my own TBR pile. I kept a notebook of books bought last year – and it’s embarrassing how many I still need to read – so that’s an unofficial plan for me this coming year. I wish you both a huge success on this. Your determination and self-restraint is pretty amazing. 🙂
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gah. Forgot to say : Marsha @ Keeper Bookshelf. the mind is going I’m afraid lol
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We’ve started a Facebook Group for this challenge if you want to join us 🙂
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