Reading Challenge | Picture Prompt Book Bingo 2024

 

The Picture Prompt Book Bingo Challenge for 2024 is hosted by Mayri at bookforager. The Picture Prompt Bingo is a loosey goosey reading challenge in which you match books that you’ve read to one of the pictures on the bingo card. The key thing is that you can be as creative in your interpretation of the picture as you like. For full details, see the link above. Here's the bingo card:

Reading Challenge | 2024 Book Bingo

 

The 2024 Book Bingo Reading Challenge is hosted by Shinjini at Modern Gypsy. 

Choose your bingo journey. There are 25 prompts on the book bingo reading challenge. You get to decide how many you want to do. For full details, see the link above. Here is the bingo card:

Reading Challenge | What's in a Name 2024

What's in a Name 2024 is hosted by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook. For this challenge, there are six categories and one book required for each one. The prompt must appear in the title of the book. For full details, see the link above. Here are the prompts:

Cruisin' thru the Cozies 2018 Reading Challenge

This year's cozy mystery reading challenge has two ways to participate. You can choose whichever suits you the best.

Craving for Cozies 2018 Reading Challenge

Feed your need to read cozy mysteries! 

Alphabet Soup 2018 Reading Challenge

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a TITLE starting with every letter of the alphabet.

Alphabet Soup 2017 Reading Challenge

This challenge is hosted by Lori at Escape with Dollycas.

Alphabet Soup Challenge

from Lori

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet. (Disregard the "A"s, "An"s, and "The"s from the beginnings of the titles.) The first Main word has the initial letter you are counting, except for those pesky Q, X and Z titles. The word that starts with Q, X and Z can be anywhere in the title.

This challenge will run from January 1st, 2017 until December 31st, 2017. You can join anytime. By December 31, your bowls must be full of one book for each letter of the Alphabet. Each Letter Counts As 1 Spoonful.

Make a page, or a post, or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls. You do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre. Books can be read in any order and all formats — print, e-book, audio — are acceptable for this challenge! Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!

Ready to join us??

Cloak And Dagger 2017 Reading Challenge

This challenge is hosted by Stormi at Books, Movies, Reviews. Oh My! and Barb at Booker T's Farm.

From Stormi:

This year Barb and I have decided to open up a facebook group for all of us who are addicted to mysteries, as we thought it would be fun to chat now and then about those mysteries we are reading. You read a really good one and want to give it a shout out, or if your curious to see what everyone is reading, or want to tease us with a tidbit from your current read, or just general chatter. 🙂 Here is the groups link:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/350512171977943/ It’s a closed group so just ask to join and we shall let you in. 🙂

Challenge Rules:

Purrfect Reading Challenge 2017

The Purrfect Reading Challenge is hosted by Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews.

from Yvonne:

Many years ago I found a cat mystery reading challenge on one of the blogs. Being both a cat and mystery lover, it was the *purrfect* reading challenge for me but then it suddenly disappeared and I never saw one again. So, I decided to create my own. It's very simple, this challenge is all about reading mysteries that have cats as the main characters. Here are a few examples...

What an Animal 2017 Reading Challenge

What an Animal Reading Challenge is hosted by Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews.

from Yvonne:

Welcome to the 2017 What an Animal Reading Challenge. I began hosting this challenge in 2010, when I took it over from Kristi at Passion for the Page. I love reading books that feature animals and am going to host this one again. I hope you will join me. 

Craving for Cozies 2017 Reading Challenge

This challenge is hosted by Lori at Escape with Dollycas.

Feed Your Need to Read Cozy Mysteries!

from Escape with Dollycas

Cozy mysteries, also referred to simply as “cozies”, are a sub-genre of crime fictionmysteries in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. The crime solver is an amateur sleuth, usually but not always a woman, who is thrust into the aftermath of the murder. The protagonist frequently has an occupation or hobby that brings appealing information to the reader.

Cruisin' thru the Cozies 2017 Reading Challenge

Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge is hosted by Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews.

from Yvonne:

Welcome to the seventh annual Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge! I'm changing things up a bit this year. Sometimes we get hooked on one type of genre or sub-genre and don't venture out of our comfort zone. Maybe some only read culinary cozies, maybe some only animals or crafts.

What's In A Name? Reading Challenge 2014

The What's In A Name? 2014 Challenge is hosted by Charlie at The Worm Hole.

The challenge runs from January to December. During this time, read a book from each of the following categories. Examples of books you could choose are in brackets.

1. A reference to time (Eleven Minutes, Before Ever After)

Foodies Reading Challenge 2014

Foodies Read 2014 is hosted by Vicki at I'd Rather Be At The Beach.

If you are new to a food/reading challenge, you may be wondering – what is a “food book?” A food book is a book which is centered around food and/or drinks. That could be a cookbook, a food biography or memoir, a non-fiction book focused around a specific food, wine, chef or restaurant, or a fictional story in which food plays a major role.

Here’s how the challenge works:

Decide how many food books you want to read in 2014. Pick one of the reading levels below: 

Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge 2014

This challenge is hosted by Lori at Escape with Dollycas into a Good Book.  

For the Alphabet Soup Challenge, by December 31, 2014, the bowl must be full — one book for each letter of the Alphabet. 

Each Letter Counts As One Spoonful.

The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.  You can drop the A's and The’s from the book titles.

Books can be read in any order.  All formats – print – e-book – audio – are acceptable for this challenge. Click here for more details, and to sign up.

I will be filling my bowl of alphabet soup on my 2014 Reading Challenges page.

Cruisin' Thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2014

I participated in this challenge in 2013.  Cozy Mysteries are my favorite genre, so I am signing up again. This challenge is again hosted by Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews.  

Here are the rules...

1. Choose the level you wish to participate:
        Level 1 - Snoop - Read at least 6 books
        Level 2 - Investigator - Read 7-12 books
        Level 3 - Super Sleuth - Read 13-20 books
        Level 4 - Sleuth Extraordinaire - Read 21 or more books

2. The challenge runs from January 1, 2014 and ends December 31, 2014.

3. Books can be in any format - paper, audio, ebooks....  It all counts!


For more info, and to sign up, go to Socrates' Book Reviews. 


For 2014, I shall be a Sleuth Extraordinaire.  I will list the cozies I read on the 2014 Reading Challenges page.

Murder Most Maine, by Karen MacInerney

Read from February 24 to 27, 2013

K is for Karen MacInerney, author of Murder Most Maine,  #3 in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series, about Natalie Barnes, a Texas native who moved to Maine, bought an inn and is running a bed-and-breakfast on an island near Bar Harbor.   Her guests enjoy themselves, and her inn seems to be very well run, other than an occasional dead body showing up every so often.  I recommend the book series, but can't recommend staying at the Gray Whale Inn.

Murder Most Maine follows Murder on the Rocks (#1) and Dead and Berried (#2) in the series.  Each book could be read as a stand-alone, but you could miss out on the progressions of the character relationships.

As a bonus, each book contains several recipes at the end that Natalie served her guests or friends.  I haven't tried any of them yet, but they all sound delicious! I have given each book in the series a four-kitty rating.   Try it, you'll like it!

This book qualifies for
2013 Goodreads Reading Challenge
Year-Long Alphabet Challenge 2013
Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2013
Finishing the Series Reading Challenge 2013 

Why Buy the Cow 2013 Reading Challenge co-hosted by On a Book Bender and Reading the Paranormal

Here's how it works:

• Should you choose to participate in this challenge, your goal is to read at least twelve (12) legally obtained FREE e-books. While twelve is the minimum there is no maximum limit.

• Anyone can join. You don’t have to be a blogger, and you don’t have to live in the United States.

• Any E-Reader will work for this challenge, including: iPad, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony Reader, enTourage.

2013 Challenges I've Joined

My goal for the 2013 Goodreads Challenge  is to read 104 books, an average of two per week.  

My original goal for the 2012 Challenge was 52 books.  About mid-year I changed it to 100 books, and read 110, so I feel confident I will meet or surpass my goal.  

I became a member of Goodreads in 2011.  My participation in other challenges, and this blog even, are due to Goodreads.

Finishing the Series Reading Challenge 2013, hosted by Socrates' Book Reviews

Here are the rules guidelines.