250 Book Challenge 2011

[BookChallenge]

~* The 250 Book Challenge *~

What it says in the title! I challenge you to read 250 books in a year. Think you can do it? Get reading!

 

The Rules:

 

1. You have between August 1st 2011 (00:00am GMT), and August 1st 2012 (at 11:59pm GMT) to read 250 books. There are smaller milestones for those of us who can’t/won’t reach the 250 mark, and to help participants feel like they’re getting somewhere.

 

2. You can join at any time during the year, but you still only have until July 31st 2011 to reach the target! You can start straight away, we'll try and add you as soon as possible, if you've been left off the list or your username is misspelled, feel free to shoot a PM towards this account or one of the thread mods (mods names are in the sig).

 

3. Books that you've read and finished before your join date do not count, even if you join after August 1st. (E.g. you join on 3rd Sept - you can only count books from 3rd September onwards).

 

4. Reply to this thread once you've finished a book with the code below. You can, if you like, give a short review and/or a rating, but please don't reveal spoilers as others may not have read it.

 

5. If you've just started a book, or are half way through one when you begin the challenge, then that will count towards your total.

 

6. The only books that do not count are textbooks, or books with less than 100 pages. So you can read children books (provided they meet the 100 page mark), young adult, biographies etc. Any genre is accepted. Manga is only accepted if it's 500 pages or more. Online unpublished fiction is allowed if it has 20,000 words or more (please post the link to the story and the number of words, however if the story could be considered unsuitable for minors post the link to either this account or freddyness via PM)

 

7. Re-reads count, though I would prefer it if you label them as such (just for the records). Each time you re-read a book it counts as a point.

 

8. Participants are listed below, with their current book count next to their usernames.

 

9. There is no way to prove or disprove you’ve read the books you say you have, so please, I ask that you be honest (^^) I will, however usually check the page length of books - someone's gotta keep an eye on you lot!

 

10. Get reading and have fun! *shoos you*

 

11. This is a new rule, we want a summary of the book you read in less than 100 words. but more than 10 words.

 

[b]Book Number:[/b]
[b]Number Of Pages:[/b]
[b]Book Title:[/b]
[b]Author:[/b]
[b]Summary:[/b]
[b]Rating:[/b] (optional)
[b]Review:[/b] (optional)

 

 

Example:

Book Number: 1

Number Of Pages:500

Book Title: Go Dog Go!

Author: P.D. Eastman

Summary: This book entails a story of a dog that runs, the dog is the main character of this story and the author expresses how the dogs feels beautiful. (Never read this book before in my life; but you catch my drift)

Rating: 5/5

Review: --

 

Here is a banner for the competition, feel free to use it to advertise the challenge.

 

Made by nepenthe.catharsis.

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Many people got busy over the duration of the challenge, so to help new budding readers when you reach one of our milestones they will be a graphic given to you marking your commitment.

 

Milestones

 

1

 

5

 

10

 

25

 

50

 

75

 

100

 

125

 

150

 

175

 

200

 

225

 

250

Edited August 1, 2012 by BookChallenge

[BookChallenge]

~* The 250 Book Challenge *~

 

Readers

 

Join Date - Name - Books So Far

 

 

13/08/11 - Aamaranthine

03/08/11 - AAurion - 10

01/08/11 - Aerouant – 13

29/07/11 - Agleka - 5

28/07/11 - AmberEmber

 

09/09/11 - Backup77

23/12/11 – beyzoar 9

01/08/11 - BlueApollo

 

16/10/11 - CCPhoenix

07/09/11 - Caius

01/08/11 - Chiaki - 22

29/07/11 - Chicogal

27/07/11 - Clara954 - 25

03/08/11 - coralkiki - 12

05/08/11 - Cougaar - 2

 

27/07/11 - Danne – 3

16/02/12 - danegrrrl

15/09/11 - DarkXcalibur

01/10/11 - Dragon and Cat Tamer

08/08/11 - dracodoctorwhofan - 4

01/08/11 - DragonLady86 - 5

18/10/11 - dragon_mando - 9

15/08/11 - DragonNeko - 21

20/08/11 - dragoon1234

01/10/11 - Dream_Thief – 23

 

26/07/11 - evangeline5432 – 63

10/10/11 - Exastiris

 

21/12/11 - Fire-Ice

01/08/11 - Foxpaw - 2

28/10/11 - freadom7

26/07/11 - freddyness - 3

 

09/12/11 - gistofeverything - 2

 

04/08/11 - hotbottleo'water1 - 27

 

14/08/11 - Kanaye - 21

26/07/11 - kauzlina - 24

26/07/11 - Kestra15 - 37

28/07/11 - klinneah – 11

29/09/11 - Kokay - 1

02/11/11 - Krys

02/09/11 - ksew - 2

 

27/07/11 - Lagie

09/08/11 - lanette

31/07/11 - Ldyfsh – 20

13/08/11 - Le_Dragon – 28

20/12/11 - leseratte12 – 6

28/07/11 - lightbird – 19

02/08/11 - LightningRip - 2

01/08/11 - Lila - 5

28/07/11 - Little-Star

 

09/08/11 - mackie0501 – 70

21/10/11 - MichiyoSaitou - 3

29/08/11 - Missingheart - 3

30/07/11 - MissVampire13 – 188

16/04/12 - momomojo09

27/01/12 – MysticTiger - 1

 

28/07/11 - nezumi_chan

27/07/11 - Nimrodel – 70

02/08/11 - nuttymeg3 - 13

 

18/09/11 - padfoot – 15

02/08/11 – pippaesq

12/01/12 - PointOfOrigin

15/12/11 - Princess613

04/10/11 - psyshock - 3

 

13/11/11 - QAndais – 112

15/11/11 - rabbit lover101

28/07/11 - Raistlin24 – 50

10/08/11 - Ramica - 24

07/08/11 - RheaZen - 6

15/02/12 - Rekha

 

30/07/11 - sfate - 5

01/08/11 - Shalarean - 35

27/07/11 - shieldwielder

02/08/11 - Sir Barton

26/07/11 - Sister of the Dragon - 7

01/08/11 - Skypool - 10

16/08/11 - SolarCat - 4

09/10/11 - Sparx1996

26/07/11 - SPQR - 20

10/10/11 - StarDebut

25/08/11 - St. Jimmy – 10

26/08/11 - stromzone

 

26/09/11 - taliaangeni - 4

23/09/11 - Torene - 15

 

30/08/11 - Winged-Kitty – 13

 

18/08/11 - XLaurentX - 1

 

03/09/11 - YoukoRayah - 28

 

18/09/11 - zipzin - 1

Edited July 30, 2012 by BookChallenge

[kauzlina]

I'd like to sign up for the 2011 challenge. Do I need to send a PM, or does this post count?

 

I don't want to be "that guy", but in the first post part 2, it says you must be complete by July 31 2011. I'm guessing you ment 2012 'cause I was a little confused and wanted to clarify.

 

I would really really love to take part in this though.

[Evangeline]

Signing Up! Can't believe its been a year.

[Carmelita-Fox]

Another year! Add me please

[SPQR]

Sounds fun, sign me up please!

 

By the way, sig code doesn't work. It should be:

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Edited July 27, 2011 by SPQR

[shieldwielder]

I would like to sign up for the reading challenge! Sounds fun, and I love reading.

[Nimrodel]

I'm in!

[clara954]

I'm signing up! Would you count fanfiction if it was at least 20,000 words?

[Lagie]

Please sign me up. Maybe I'll make 100 this time round.

[Danne]

Count me in for this year!

[lightbird]

I'm signing up! Would you count fanfiction if it was at least 20,000 words?

I was already told earlier this summer that only original fiction counts, no fanfiction.

 

I'll sign up, I guess. Since next is my thesis year, I'll try to reach 50 books this time, since I'm already failing to reach the 75 I set as a goal this year. :T

[clara954]

I was already told earlier this summer that only original fiction counts, no fanfiction.

Thank you!

[AmberEmber]

I'll sign up. But 250 doesn't seem like it will be too hard to reach

[nezumi_chan]

Oooh! Pick me! I WANNA SIGN UP! Please pick me? This sounds really interesting and fun and I enjoy reading so this is perfect for me.

[Raistlin24]

I'd like to sign up, too. I just have to remember to post the books, so that it doesn't happen like this last yeat that I forgot to post half of what I read.

 

And I don't mean to sound annoying, but shouldn't it be "summary"?

[Little-Star]

I'm interesting in that, that sounds nice. I want to sign up!

 

for mangas, if it less than 500 pages each but read a whole series does it could count as one book?

 

 

Edited July 28, 2011 by Little-Star

[klinneah]

Sign me up please!

[Nimrodel]

Psst - I don't want to be a bother, but the name is "Nimrodel", not "ninrodel"

[Agleka]

I'm in too!

[Chicogal]

I'd like to join. c:

[sfate]

hmm... I shall join too. Do manga count as well? ^^

[MissVampire13]

Count me in! I can't believe I've never heard of this before.

 

I'm going to be a little mad at myself if I don't get to 250 in a year, since I consider myself an excessive reader.

 

Okay, here's a question: I expect that some of the books I read will be volumes of multiple books that were originally published separately. Does this count as one book, or however many there originally were? (For example, this book by L J Smith was originally published as three separate books, but has now been collected into one volume. Does it count as one book or three?)

Edited July 30, 2011 by MissVampire13

[Ldyfsh]

Count me in again, this year Hopefully I'll remember to post all of the books this time... think I forgot to post at least a dozen or so last year :s

[BookChallenge]

Books that have 3 books in one or something do count as individual books as long as they have more than 100 pages.

 

Manga is aloud if its a 400 pages or more. but to get a manga with 400 pages or more in a volume is hard so you can for instence;

 

Book name: Bleach volume one and two

 

 

 

 

GET READING GUYS