Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Read Together Challenge


Even though the new year has already begun and everyone has made most of their challenge choices for the year, we're going to give you one more opportunity. Find someone special and read together.

There are a variety of ways to accomplish this: take turns reading aloud, read to someone with a visual impairment, read a school-assigned book with your teen, volunteer to read to nursing home residents. If you aren't comfortable reading aloud, pass the book between you, with each of you individually reading a chapter or chosen number of pages at a time. However it works for you - the idea is to be involved in the story simultaneously. And then discuss what you're reading. Throw out your crazy theories for whodunit...debate the hero's next move...compare your reactions...giggle!

There are very few rules for this challenge. Set a goal for the year - 12 books, 6 books, even 1 book - and stop back occasionally to let us know how you're doing or leave a link to your book review. Overlap with other challenges is not only acceptable, it's encouraged.

We are setting our goal at 12 books - 1 per month. Leave us a comment with your goal, your chosen reading partner, your blog info (if you're a blogger), and/or an email address where we can reach you. This challenge runs through 12/31/2010. Each book you read together gets you one entry into a drawing for the book of your choice ($25 value or less) from Amazon.com.

Tell all your friends, challenge other couples to beat your total, get the whole family involved....Happy reading!

Challenge Entries:  We're pretty low-tech here at Just One More Thing... so just leave a comment with the name of what you read and who you read with.  Leave a link to your review, if you wrote one.  We'll do the bookkeeping the old fasioned way - pencil and paper.  :)  Remember - each book you mention here is one entry in the prize drawing.

14 comments:

  1. Would trying to read a book a day with my Little One count? We set that as a goal together this year, and it might be fun to put this on my blog for me and him to update together!

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  2. Absolutely! Anything that spreads the love of reading qualifies - we're easy. :)

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  3. My husband Jay and I are going to join the challenge. We are going to promise four to begin with go from there. Thanks for sponsoring this.

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  4. I just read about this great challenge on Margot's site. I LOVE the idea and will run it by hubby (and perhaps my two older daughters) and see if they might be interested.

    Thanks for hosting!

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  5. We have finished our first read-together book of 2010 - Deeper Than The Dead by Tami Hoag. Hope you are all finding someone to share a story with. http://tdreads.blogspot.com/2010/01/deeper-than-dead-by-tami-hoag.html

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  6. Our 2nd entry - The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch. http://tdreads.blogspot.com/2010/02/13th-hour-by-richard-doetsch.html

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  7. Read-Together #3 completed. We just finished Agathat Christie's "And Then There Were None" Oddly enough, my (Tami's) fifth-grade teacher read this book aloud to the class (an odd choice for that age, don't you think?) Dave was familiar with the story but had never read the book - so we both enjoyed it. The dated language and unfamiliar British phrases gave us a few chuckles, and sometimes totally confused us, but it was a good read-aloud because there were so many possible solutions to discuss. Maybe that's why the teacher chose it.

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  8. We finally did it! We read the same book and wrote our reviews. Stop by to see Andy's first ever book review in the blogosphere of The Lovely Bones, and see if he felt the same way I did.

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  9. 4 down for 2010. We shared a quick read - Golf in the Year 2000 by J. McCullough. Read about it here - http://tdreads.blogspot.com/2010/04/golf-in-year-2000-by-j-mccullough.html

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  10. #5 is complete, also - The Spellman's Strike Again by Lisa Lutz. Review coming soon.

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  11. #6 - Blockade Billy by Stephen King

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  12. #7 - Postcard Killers by James Patterson
    #8 - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    #9 - Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich

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  13. #10 - Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins

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