Hi, everyone! Today, I’m committing to TWO bookish reading challenges. I know, me with the horrible attention span and extreme mood reading tendencies… Yep, me. I recently catalogued all the series I’ve read, and the ratio of completed to abandoned is… *shudders* (more of that in a separate post maybe next month), so when I saw that Berls & Michelle @ Because Reading were hosting a Can you read a series in a Month? challenge, I felt like it was the universe telling me to read a series end-to-end. 😂 THEN I saw a handful of people signing up for Cathy @ 746books‘s 20 Books of Summer challenge (which is on its 10th year anniversary!), and was like, sure, let’s go!
This is just my sign-up post for both challenges.
Here’s how I chose my series for Can You Read a Series in a Month? challenge:
This challenge runs from June 1st to June 30th. Rules and sign ups are here. Here’s a bit of my thought process for how I finally made up my mind:
- I know I have a bunch of series I’ve started and still want to finish, but I kind of wanted a *new* series to read for this challenge. Something where I might be going in kind of blind, just so I don’t have a lot of preconceived notions about it.
- I was definitely feeling a dystopian series for this challenge. I feel like I haven’t read many dystopian books recently!
- I wanted to choose something I probably wouldn’t have picked up on a whim. Something I’m slightly intimidated by, but really want to try.
…So I decided on The Broken Earth trilogy! *quakes in fear*
I’ve been seeing a couple of people whose tastes I trust loving The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. And I’m definitely intrigued by the concept. I know it’s heavy, and people say that it can get confusing, so I’m kind of scared to pick it up. BUT that’s the challenge part, right? I’m not sure if I’ll be able to read all three books in one go, or if I’ll need some buffers in between, but either way, I hope I love it.
And here are the books I’ll be reading for the *10* Books of Summer challenge:
This challenge is just to encourage readers to cross off 20 books from their TBRs in the span of three months. It runs from June 1st to September 1st. Rules and sign ups are here.
The host did say that the number is flexible, so I’m going with 10. A quick note for why I’m going with only 10 books: I KNOW I can read more than 10 books in this timeframe, but for this challenge to really cross off items on my current TBR, I’ll only be counting books I list here for the challenge. I won’t let any sudden mood reads or NEW TBR additions count, and I won’t swap out any books. 😂
If you know me at all, the Legend trilogy (series?) is one of my all-time favorites, and I’ve been wanting to read everything Marie Lu has written since then. I was thinking that I should take the time to catch up with her other dystopian series. I need to finish both Warcross ans The Young Elites, but for this challenge, I’m going for 1.) Warcross (which will be a re-read) and 2.) Wildcard.
I also just finished The Poppy War and am definitely going to finish the rest of the trilogy, so I’m adding 3.) The Dragon Republic and 4.) The Burning God to the mix.
I have couple more “wildcards” here (AKA, I don’t really know how to categorize them) to read. We have:
5.) The Red Palace because I absolutely adored A Crane Among Wolves and will basically read anything this woman writes,
6.) Iron Widow because I just purchased a physical copy and need to guilt myself into reading it,
7.) Powerless because FOMO, and
8.) Piranesi because my cousin recommended it to me!
Lastly, I’ll throw these 2 ARCs in here, which are both September releases! So my last two reads for the challenge are 9.) To the Bone, and 10.) This Fatal Kiss.
Let’s chat!
Do you think these picks are good ones? Have you read The Broken Earth trilogy? Have you read my picks for the 10 books of summer challenge? Are you doing any challenges? Let me know your thoughts and please hype me up in the comments! 💖
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