I love this idea!! Hard to decide though! Maybe I’ll have to do both sides. 😅😂 I had already planned that in 2024 I want to read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and reread some/maybe all of my LMM books, so this is perfect. Thanks for all of the work you do to put this together each year!
I’m in! (A little late, but I’ll catch up!) I’m so bad about reading the books I already have, so this will be a fun challenge. Thanks so much for creating it! 📚
So excited! And how fun! Last year I did it on my own, but this year, I'm suggesting it to my virtual book club as an option. Thanks for creating this fun challenge!
Im late to the party this year, but I'm reading to catch up! Probably going to stick to the Doyle side for most if thd year... At least until later on. Great idea! You always have such fun ideas for reading your own shelves!
This sounds like so much fun! I will be starting on the LM Montgomery side because I scoured my entire tbr shelf and the only book I physically own with either animal is George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. The cover is a classic painting and there's a white kitty in the foreground. I wasn't originally going to read this in January, but here we go! This is great motivation. 👍
Super excited about this!!! Plan to ask my kiddos if they want to join me!! Your annual bookshelf challenge is always so fun!! (hence all the !!! in my post)
I am super duper excited!!!! This looks like so much fun, and I am planning on starting off on the Doyle side and excited to switch over and just have a lot of fun with this!!!
For the Sherlock prompt for December check out The Ghost of Marlow House Series. There’s like 15-20? cozy mysteries. I Read the first one earlier this year & it was very good
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am so excited. You know I've been watching for this, and here it is. Gotta say. THE LOST MELODY! For music. Because Music! ;) Now... to create the TBR. MMMMWWWAHAHAHA! So excited!
Did you read Roseanna M. White's "A Song Unheard/sung" (can't remember which it is). It's got one of my favorite girl characters ever i it. Margo is SO fun. She's not the main character, but she steals the show in my opinion.@@ChantelReadsAllDay
Love this! I just found your channel(s) mid 2023, so excited to join in on this for 2024. I think I'll see if my teen daughter wants to do this with me....she'll leave me in the dust as she usually reads 150-175 books\year without any prompting😄
sounds like a fun challenge. I've enjoyed the 2023 challenge. I am not sure which direction I will go yet, though I do believe I'll have to use my library more than I did this past year.
I can't wait to get started! I think I may try to do both sides of the reading prompts. I'll have to look at my bookshelves and see what all will fit. Then after Christmas I can go buy any books that can fill the empty spaces. Always love a good reason to go book shopping! I could let my son pick the books on one side and I pick books on the other. We shall see.
I am glad you said it did not have to be on our shelves. For some reason none of my books on my shelves started with A or The this year. It would be cool to see numbers around selected paths.
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I will let the group vote for one side to follow or let them choose between the two each month without making them stick to one side.
I enjoy this reading challenge every year. I believe this will be my 4th. Love the new setup. I will be following the Conan Doyle side. I’m a huge Sherlock fan 🥰
Oh I'm so glad you're doing this again this year. I intended to join in last year, but ... Well, yeah, I didn't. Ended up barely reading for the first half of the year. I have no idea which side I'll choose! I may have to do both 😂
While I don't think I'll be following prompts, I am planning to do a Read Your Bookshelf challenge next year. Maybe in January. However, your challenge does sound like fun!
So cool. I haven´t even finished listening to the video clip but I am already in. I am starting a book channel so this is an exciting way to get into it. I have so many books at home that I had decided to read.
❤📚📚❤️ This sounds so fun! I'm trying very hard to read the books on my shelves this year, so I'll be following the Montgomery side...thank you for all your work on organizing this challenge!
I've been wanting to read more, but life has made it difficult. my 2024 goal is to read and this challenge is perfect for me. I already went through the list and put my books together. I read ebooks and was able to find all the books either already purchased or free.
Yay! This is so creative!! Hopefully this year I will stick with it. I think every year I stop doing the challenge half way through the year. Not sure why, because I always think this is so creative and fun. It might have more to do with me wanting to mood read at a certain point and then I feel like I'm behind and don't finish the challenge. I don't know. 🤷♀️🙈 Thanks for always taking the time to put this challenge together, Chantel!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay thank your! 😊 Also, I was sad to miss the zoom on Sunday. Another one of our kids ended up sick and all my plans for Sunday went out the window. I'm hoping I can finally get on the one in December. I've been praying for you guys today. ❤️
Looks like fun, Chantel. I have to admit the first prompt is kind of throwing me, apparently I don't read books with cats or dogs on the cover....but I will figure something out!!😆
ohh my goodness this turned out so awesome! I love all of your creativity in the prompts and the choose your own adventureness of it! I am excited to start in January!
I am loving this challenge so far! Looking ahead to April, would Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets work? If not, not to worry, I'll try and find something else x
This looks like a lot of fun! I might actually join in this year-I never want to say a hard yes of no due to my mood reading, but I would certainly love to!
This looks like so much fun! I really want to do the Conan Doyle side because I love Sherlock, but I'm going to have to think long and hard about that first prompt 😅
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I went looking after I watched this video, and I was surprised at how much harder it was to find a book with a cat on the cover than one with a dog.
First comment yay! 😂. We run a family baking business out of our house, and every Monday morning I make granola. It can be quite tedious so I rely on your videos every Monday to keep me entertained 😂
Wow this sounds like fun! I just looked quickly through my bookshelves and I don't think I have a book with a cat or a dog on the cover... but I have loads of horses and birds for some reason! I'll try to think of something! Or I have one that's a fox, this could work for a dog maybe? lol I think I'll switch sides depending on the prompts!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I found one with a cat! Yay! (A man called Ove, there's a little cat at the bottom :) ) It's been on my shelves for years, so it's perfect!
Hi Chantel I am already reading Books from my own Shelves. I just don’t like to be pressured into doing the prompts. I want to be able to read any book that I want from my shelf. I am already doing one of the Prompts on my own which is a Cat on the Cover. The name of the book is called Out Of Circulation by Miranda James. The other book that I am reading from my Shelf is Little Town On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I hope that you will enjoy the Books you will be reading from your Shelves. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗🙏☕️📖📒🔰📚❤️
This is such a cool idea! I’m a new follower but I love both L.M Montgomery and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but I feel like I’ll be starting out with Montgomery 🤔
Looks like I'll be Team ACD! I only have 1 cat (actually a tiger😅) and I'm not feeling the mood for that right now...I have 4 with a dog.... but I may switch over to Montgomery at some point through the year
I know right?? I really tried to find a cat... I'll have to totally decide the last week of December tho because...mood. maybe I'll try the first ch and see if it captures me.
I’m excited for this even though I am little late🙈 Can I still enter with January and February’s books in the giveaway or do I have to start with march? 🥰
I’m doing: 1. Dog Show Disaster by Missy and Mia Robertson 2. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 3. Auralia’s Colors by Jeffery Overstreet 4. Out Of The Silent Planet by CS Lewis 5. Waste Lands and Other Writings by Elliot it’s not a poetry book but it has poetry/short stories 6. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Writings by Tolstoy 7. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink 8. Miracle in Music City by Natalie Grant or The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 9. Jungle Pilot by Russell T Hitt 10. The Carr Family 1-3 Collection 11. The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan For the redhead one I’ll be rereading either the Mortal Instruments or The Selection but I don’t own them and forgot what month they were Also I have a YT channel if you could check it out that’d be great!
That would be fun! Unfortunately a lot of people do the giveaway entries in a batch at the end of the year but I could potentially share the current stats and see how it changes at the end of the year.
@@ChantelReadsAllDay sorry, maybe I was confused/confusing… I know people will probably be commenting on each month’s post with their pick for the month’s prompt for giveaway entry. But I was thinking it might be fun if you also did a simple poll each month (for example) which did you choose: dog / cat / both. And share whether team Doyle or team Maud are in the lead at the end of the month 😊
Hi its going to be my first time trying to do a book Challenge and I got 2 questuons: 1) Most of my books don't really have covers (I have only ebooks of very old books 😅) can the ones that are about dog/cat/house/sea shore be bend a bit and be books were those elements are part of the books, like for example a book about cats/dogs/a house or the sea? And 2) can I follow both sides at the same time? 😊 It sounds fun💖
Can I do the two themes simultaneously? Like they still will be in order. And if I do both, does this mean I'm participating a second time this way since each month I will do the two themes? So at the end of the year, I will have 24 entries and not 12 as usual?
I only have 1 shelf so shouldn't take long. Haha 😄
So fun!! A choose your own adventure!!🎉🎉🎉
Yesssss!
I love this idea!! Hard to decide though! Maybe I’ll have to do both sides. 😅😂 I had already planned that in 2024 I want to read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and reread some/maybe all of my LMM books, so this is perfect. Thanks for all of the work you do to put this together each year!
Definitely feel free to do both sides!
I’m in! (A little late, but I’ll catch up!) I’m so bad about reading the books I already have, so this will be a fun challenge. Thanks so much for creating it! 📚
I am working through this ... unofficially...because I am not entering in to the prize part ...but it is fun and challenging!
So excited! And how fun! Last year I did it on my own, but this year, I'm suggesting it to my virtual book club as an option. Thanks for creating this fun challenge!
Oh yay, have fun with it!
Im late to the party this year, but I'm reading to catch up! Probably going to stick to the Doyle side for most if thd year... At least until later on. Great idea! You always have such fun ideas for reading your own shelves!
Ooh. This is quite the set-up. I think I'll be switching sides a time or two.
I probably will as well!
Sounds like fun. I will probably switch sides when i can since some of the prompts seems easier on certain sides.
Can't wait!!
This will be hard! I'm going with LM Montgomery since Anne of Green Gables is my all time favorite. I even drove from Texas to PEI!
This is a great challenge!! I think I am going to try both Doyle and Montgomery! Being retired I have lots of reading time 😂. 📚🇱🇷
That sounds great!
Eeeek……I think I’ll have to do both sides then possibly I’ll get through 24 books on my shelves😮
This sounds like so much fun! I will be starting on the LM Montgomery side because I scoured my entire tbr shelf and the only book I physically own with either animal is George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. The cover is a classic painting and there's a white kitty in the foreground. I wasn't originally going to read this in January, but here we go! This is great motivation. 👍
I've never done this before but Doyle here I come! I downloaded the printable version - thank you for doing that.
Have fun!
Super excited about this!!! Plan to ask my kiddos if they want to join me!! Your annual bookshelf challenge is always so fun!! (hence all the !!! in my post)
☺ I can't wait to hear what you guys all pick!
Im so excited to do this!!
I am super duper excited!!!! This looks like so much fun, and I am planning on starting off on the Doyle side and excited to switch over and just have a lot of fun with this!!!
For the Sherlock prompt for December check out The Ghost of Marlow House Series. There’s like 15-20? cozy mysteries. I Read the first one earlier this year & it was very good
Great challenge. I really want to focus on the books on my shelf in 2024 so this is perfect. Can’t wait to start planning.
Thanks for joining in!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am so excited. You know I've been watching for this, and here it is.
Gotta say. THE LOST MELODY! For music. Because Music! ;)
Now... to create the TBR. MMMMWWWAHAHAHA! So excited!
100% yes on The Lost Melody, the only problem is that I've already read it! But it's a great idea for others!
Did you read Roseanna M. White's "A Song Unheard/sung" (can't remember which it is). It's got one of my favorite girl characters ever i it. Margo is SO fun. She's not the main character, but she steals the show in my opinion.@@ChantelReadsAllDay
What a great reading challenge, thank you so much for organising. I think I may do both sides as I can't decide which one I prefer.😀📚
Fair enough! I'm sure I'll hop from side to side a few times.
I already printed it out. I adore the foot prints detail! I'm going to try to convince my friend to join the challenge.
I love the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge! This version sounds great! I will really have to study it to see which path to take.
Yay, I hope you have fun with it this year!
Love this! I just found your channel(s) mid 2023, so excited to join in on this for 2024. I think I'll see if my teen daughter wants to do this with me....she'll leave me in the dust as she usually reads 150-175 books\year without any prompting😄
Haha, oh to have all the time that teenagers have! I hope you both have fun with the challenge!
Sounds soo fun- thanks
Sounds like I'll be following Doyle next year.😊
sounds like a fun challenge. I've enjoyed the 2023 challenge. I am not sure which direction I will go yet, though I do believe I'll have to use my library more than I did this past year.
I can't wait to get started! I think I may try to do both sides of the reading prompts. I'll have to look at my bookshelves and see what all will fit. Then after Christmas I can go buy any books that can fill the empty spaces. Always love a good reason to go book shopping! I could let my son pick the books on one side and I pick books on the other. We shall see.
Hehe, I love your thinking, Jaime!
What a great challenge! This is so creative and fun.
Chantel, this looks and sounds fantastic! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it with all of us!
Thanks Amy, I hope you have fun with it!
I am glad you said it did not have to be on our shelves. For some reason none of my books on my shelves started with A or The this year. It would be cool to see numbers around selected paths.
I'm so excited! My book club uses your prompts for deciding what to read. I'm looking forward to another year of reading.
I hope this works for you guys, Ashlea, let me know how you end up making it work for your book club!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I will let the group vote for one side to follow or let them choose between the two each month without making them stick to one side.
I enjoy this reading challenge every year. I believe this will be my 4th. Love the new setup. I will be following the Conan Doyle side. I’m a huge Sherlock fan 🥰
Yay, thanks for joining in for so long!
Oh I'm so glad you're doing this again this year. I intended to join in last year, but ... Well, yeah, I didn't. Ended up barely reading for the first half of the year.
I have no idea which side I'll choose! I may have to do both 😂
I’m excited because I’ve never done reading challenges and this year I want to challenge myself. This seems like so much fun!!
Yay, I hope you enjoy it!
While I don't think I'll be following prompts, I am planning to do a Read Your Bookshelf challenge next year. Maybe in January. However, your challenge does sound like fun!
So cool. I haven´t even finished listening to the video clip but I am already in. I am starting a book channel so this is an exciting way to get into it. I have so many books at home that I had decided to read.
Welcome to the challenge!
Sounds like fun! This will be my first year joining in. 💕 😊
Yay, I hope you have fun with it!
I am so excited to watch this!!! Currently at work but will make it the number 1 priority later!
☺ Enjoy the rest of your shift, Anne!
How fun! Can't wait to look at my TBR and pull books for these prompts!
These are great prompts!
Thanks Courtney!
I love your creativity! Thank you so much for a direction to follow.
Thanks Kami!
This is such a fun idea! I just found your channel with this video, I will be doing this challenge, seems like a lot of fun!
Welcome here! I hope you enjoy the reading challenge!
❤📚📚❤️ This sounds so fun! I'm trying very hard to read the books on my shelves this year, so I'll be following the Montgomery side...thank you for all your work on organizing this challenge!
Thanks for joining in!
I've been wanting to read more, but life has made it difficult. my 2024 goal is to read and this challenge is perfect for me. I already went through the list and put my books together. I read ebooks and was able to find all the books either already purchased or free.
Yay! This is so creative!! Hopefully this year I will stick with it. I think every year I stop doing the challenge half way through the year. Not sure why, because I always think this is so creative and fun. It might have more to do with me wanting to mood read at a certain point and then I feel like I'm behind and don't finish the challenge. I don't know. 🤷♀️🙈 Thanks for always taking the time to put this challenge together, Chantel!
I'm normally bad at challenges too so I'm not judging you for not completing it!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay thank your! 😊
Also, I was sad to miss the zoom on Sunday. Another one of our kids ended up sick and all my plans for Sunday went out the window. I'm hoping I can finally get on the one in December.
I've been praying for you guys today. ❤️
Such a fun idea, this is the best reading challenge I have seen so far for 2024!
Thanks, I hope you have fun with it!
This sounds so fun!!
I’ll be participating! I have it printed!
This sounds like fun!!
Looks like fun, Chantel. I have to admit the first prompt is kind of throwing me, apparently I don't read books with cats or dogs on the cover....but I will figure something out!!😆
Considering all the books I own I was surprised to find it as hard as it was too!
I am so excited! This is going to be fun. Doyle for me!!
ohh my goodness this turned out so awesome! I love all of your creativity in the prompts and the choose your own adventureness of it! I am excited to start in January!
Just found your channel and this sounds like a fun challenge!
Simply amazing!!!!
Looking forward to this!
I am loving this challenge so far! Looking ahead to April, would Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets work? If not, not to worry, I'll try and find something else x
Yes for sure!
This sounds so fun - can’t wait to map out a plan! Side note - Spinning Silver is delightful!
I'll try to complete the challenge next year. The prompts seem easier this time 😅. I'm going to start on the Montgomery side.
Loved it ❤ I am definitely in 🤗
I love this! I need to read the books on my bookshelf and slow down buying books 🤣
I can’t wait. A question I am going to the on mongomery books. I have. Only one read and have a ton. As long as it fits her prompt
Think im going to do both sides or at least stick to one side and then if i have time do the other.
This looks like a lot of fun! I might actually join in this year-I never want to say a hard yes of no due to my mood reading, but I would certainly love to!
This is AMAZING! I am so excited by this and cannot wait to share it on instagram!! This is amazing, Chantel! :)
So fun! I'm going to try my best to participate 😊
A book with a cat of cover a twisted skein a cozy mystery for anyone is looking for a book
This looks like so much fun! I really want to do the Conan Doyle side because I love Sherlock, but I'm going to have to think long and hard about that first prompt 😅
It's surprisingly harder than I expected!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I went looking after I watched this video, and I was surprised at how much harder it was to find a book with a cat on the cover than one with a dog.
Yeah if I don't have a cat (or dog), I'll probably see what's at the library for this one
I have GOT TO STOP consuming bookish media! Now I have to check out The Tarnished Garden! My tbr will NEVER GET SMALLER!!!
This was so creative!
Thanks Robin!
I will no doubt be on the Doyle side the entire year! What fun!
I couldn't decide so I'm going for both LOL. Is there a group or anything where we can share our progress??
First comment yay! 😂. We run a family baking business out of our house, and every Monday morning I make granola. It can be quite tedious so I rely on your videos every Monday to keep me entertained 😂
I love that, Victoria! Glad I can keep you company. ☺
This sounds like a lot of fun! It may take me all the way until April to figure out what book I have with a MC that has red hair! LOL
Love it!! 🎉
(I'll be doing the Doyle path)
I am hoping to read The six Tudor queens series next year. I would be up for buddy reading it
Hi! This will be my first time joining this very excited does this have a StoryGraph?
Wow this sounds like fun! I just looked quickly through my bookshelves and I don't think I have a book with a cat or a dog on the cover... but I have loads of horses and birds for some reason! I'll try to think of something! Or I have one that's a fox, this could work for a dog maybe? lol I think I'll switch sides depending on the prompts!
I was surprised at how hard the first one was! I'll totally give you permission to use a fox as a dog.
@@ChantelReadsAllDay I found one with a cat! Yay! (A man called Ove, there's a little cat at the bottom :) ) It's been on my shelves for years, so it's perfect!
I'd like to join unless it is for patrons only. I have a lot of ARC's I should read and review.
Hi Chantel
I am already reading Books from my own Shelves. I just don’t like to be pressured into doing the prompts. I want to be able to read any book that I want from my shelf. I am already doing one of the Prompts on my own which is a Cat on the Cover. The name of the book is called Out Of Circulation by Miranda James. The other book that I am reading from my Shelf is Little Town On The Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I hope that you will enjoy the Books you will be reading from your Shelves.
Take Care & Happy Reading
❤️🤗🙏☕️📖📒🔰📚❤️
I can totally understand that, there's no pressure to participate in the challenge.
This is such a cool idea! I’m a new follower but I love both L.M Montgomery and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but I feel like I’ll be starting out with Montgomery 🤔
I'm leaning to starting with Montgomery as well!
My only book with a cat on the cover is by Montgomery! Emily of new moon :)
Sounds fun! I think I’ll be doing the Doyle challenge! 👍🏻
Sweet!
Looks like I'll be Team ACD! I only have 1 cat (actually a tiger😅) and I'm not feeling the mood for that right now...I have 4 with a dog.... but I may switch over to Montgomery at some point through the year
But cat is literally in your username, how can you start with the dog side?!?! Haha.
I know right?? I really tried to find a cat... I'll have to totally decide the last week of December tho because...mood. maybe I'll try the first ch and see if it captures me.
I’m excited for this even though I am little late🙈
Can I still enter with January and February’s books in the giveaway or do I have to start with march? 🥰
I’m doing:
1. Dog Show Disaster by Missy and Mia Robertson
2. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. Auralia’s Colors by Jeffery Overstreet
4. Out Of The Silent Planet by CS Lewis
5. Waste Lands and Other Writings by Elliot it’s not a poetry book but it has poetry/short stories
6. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Writings by Tolstoy
7. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
8. Miracle in Music City by Natalie Grant or The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
9. Jungle Pilot by Russell T Hitt
10. The Carr Family 1-3 Collection
11. The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
For the redhead one I’ll be rereading either the Mortal Instruments or The Selection but I don’t own them and forgot what month they were
Also I have a YT channel if you could check it out that’d be great!
That sounds like a nice, diverse list for the year!
Hello!
What if we read the books that inspired the prompts 🤔
That would be a fun option!
Can we read «for the wolf» for the dog prompt? On the back it has a silhuette of wolf. But it can be mistanken for a dog?
It would be fun to see the tally each month to find out which author is leading!
That would be fun! Unfortunately a lot of people do the giveaway entries in a batch at the end of the year but I could potentially share the current stats and see how it changes at the end of the year.
@@ChantelReadsAllDay sorry, maybe I was confused/confusing… I know people will probably be commenting on each month’s post with their pick for the month’s prompt for giveaway entry. But I was thinking it might be fun if you also did a simple poll each month (for example) which did you choose: dog / cat / both. And share whether team Doyle or team Maud are in the lead at the end of the month 😊
@@covergirlbooks that would be an easier way to do it!
Hi its going to be my first time trying to do a book Challenge and I got 2 questuons:
1) Most of my books don't really have covers (I have only ebooks of very old books 😅) can the ones that are about dog/cat/house/sea shore be bend a bit and be books were those elements are part of the books, like for example a book about cats/dogs/a house or the sea?
And 2) can I follow both sides at the same time? 😊
It sounds fun💖
Absolutely to both!
@@ChantelReadsAllDayGreat!😁
Ooh, this sounds like fun! Question: Do rereads count, or do they have to be new books?
Re-reads totally count!
Can I do the two themes simultaneously? Like they still will be in order. And if I do both, does this mean I'm participating a second time this way since each month I will do the two themes? So at the end of the year, I will have 24 entries and not 12 as usual?
You can do both but for the giveaway you can only enter once per month, I hope that answers your questions!
@@ChantelReadsAllDay It does, thank you!
I finished Where the Red Fern Grows at work. Not good.😐
Oh dear. Yeah, I feel like that's a read in a room by yourself kind of book.
@@ChantelReadsAllDay
Definitely!