This year I made a capital-D blogging Decision: I will be participating in exactly zero reading challenges for 2012.
Not the Debut Author Challenge. Nor the POC Reading Challenge. Nor any of the other challenges I attempted this year, even though they were great and I do encourage you to try them and will be cheering you on from the sidelines.
I realized that I'm lazy. That I'm worn out. And that constantly worrying about meeting challenge goals takes the fun out of reading for me. I'll be reading and reviewing what I want and am able to in 2012, and we'll see how that works out.
I want to thank you all for a truly spectacular blogging year: the wonderful community I stumbled into when I started this blog is the only reason I didn't quit right after I started. Bloggers, authors, editors, agents, bookish people all, you rock. Happy New Year, and may 2012 be even better than we hope.
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7 comments:
Happy new year! And I totally agree with you about no challenges - I've never even done one, because I think it would put too much stress and pressure on me. And that's not what reading is about! Good luck in 2012.
I agree with you on the challenges as well. I forgot about the challenges to be honest and a lot of the debuts I read just didn't WOW me like I was hoping (except for a few, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was amazing). Have a happy new year and I hope to read more of your reviews!
I support your decision--I'm also not participating in any challenges. I think a lot of challenges exist to help people expand their reading (more debuts! more POC books!) but I'm actually pretty happy with how diverse my reading is already. I also don't like having to link up reviews or write up little posts about what I'm planning to read. I support your decision and say read what you want to read! Happy new year, Maggie!
It was a surprising amount of pressure! Trying to keep track of linking my reviews, etc. just got to be a lot of tedious work. I know they really motivate some people, and that's great, but I'm not one of them, I guess.
I forgot about most of mine, too! *blushes* Yet again I win the Bad Book Blogger of the Year award.
I agree, and I think they're great if someone feels they need to expand their horizons. The PoC challenge in particular is great. I just couldn't keep track of it all, and I felt bad for not participating, so I think it's better to just sit this year out.
Happy New Year to you, too!
Yep, linking the reviews was the killer for me. I tried to do the Social Justice Challenge a year ago, but found I spent less time reviewing and more time on the technical stuff. I know it's important to have those links but maybe the bloggers who participate should task one person with doing it for everyone. If everyone puts in the right tags (and that's a big "if", as I'm finding with The Pirate Tree), it shouldn't be that hard to compile the reviews.
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