Friday, February 7, 2014

New Book Challenges for 2014

Not sure if any of my fellow book bloggers are doing these challenges.
I’m currently working on work related goals and one of those goals is to work on my Reader’s Advisory Skills.

Challenge #1: The Dewey Challenge 2014

Read one nonfiction book from each of the Dewey Classifications. (10 total)


000 – General works, Computer science and Information
100 – Philosophy and psychology
200 – Religion
300 – Social sciences
400 – Language
500 – Science
600 – Technology
700 – Arts & recreation
800 – Literature
900 – History & geography

If anyone would like to join me in this venture, The guidelines are pretty basic.

1.     Any book in each classification.
2.     Length does not matter
3.     Books can overlap any other challenges

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Challenge #2:  The 2014 Genre Challenge

Read at least one book from each genres listed: (15 Total)

Adrenaline Genres: 
  1. Adventure
  2. Romantic Suspense
  3. Suspense
  4. Thrillers
Emotions Genres: 
  1. Gentle Reads
  2. Horror
  3. Romance
  4. Women's Fiction
Intellect Genres:
  1. Literary Fiction
  2. Mysteries
  3. Psychological Suspense
  4. Science Fiction
Landscape Genres:
  1. Fantasy
  2. Historical Fiction
  3. Westerns

I got this list of Genres from "The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction" 2nd Edition.
If anyone would like to join me in this venture, the guidelines are pretty basic.

1.     At least one book from each classification. (15 total)
2.     Length does not matter
3.     Books can overlap any other challenges

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