Tentative Future Plans Post!

[kalloway]

This is a post for general plans, vague plans, etc. for smaller challenges/readalongs/whatnot for the next $timeperiod.

If there's something you'd like to host, let me know in the comments and I'll add it. General theme/date if you have an idea. Or you can just up and do it, there's no need to plan in advance if suddenly you have an idea. (I'm also not a mod, none of this is official, do the thing you want to do how you want to do it!)

Or if there's something you'd like to suggest, that works too! Someone else may want to host it. (There are already a bunch of excellent ideas/requests in the comments, if you want to host something but aren't sure what!)


Upcoming readingtogether Plans

Semi-Regular, beginning December 10th Weekend - "Trainreads" (hosted by rmc28)

December 26-31 - Oldest Lingering To-Be-Read Book (hosted by kalloway)

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I've been flirting with the idea of a collaborative bingo challenge for a while. So, a collection of eclectic prompts (there are any number to harvest out there) and then over a period of time (say, two weeks) we see how many bingos we can achieve together. Easy mode is any finished book can tick off multiple prompts it fits; harder mode each one only counts for a single prompt. I have some ideas on how the mechanics of this might work, but I suspect they need to be user tested and then improved.

I think that some of the themes from fancake (their spreadsheet of historical themes is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11fYzrIQANQdpELv4lW9iRuDr6AxEFHac-csS6fuJR9E/edit#gid=0) could be an interesting option. Not all of them will transfer well to reading more traditional fiction, but there must be enough that will.

I'd like to suggest a week with the theme 'Something new for the New Year'. Whether we set that as 1-7 January for the calendar New Year, 1-7 February for the Lunar New Year, or some other New Year that the comm values, I don't have a strong preference. I figure that people can interpret this widely, as a new author, or a newly published book, or a newly acquired book (including library books here!).

I like the idea of a mix of shorter (one week) and longer (monthly) options; I'd be perfectly happy if they overlap. Also, a mix of what I'm going to call 'personal' challenges/read alongs ("I'm going to try and read four books on Topic in the next four weeks, and I could really use some cheering along") and group challenges (such as the November challenge).

I have some other amorphous ideas at the moment; will hopefully come back and write them up when they sort themselves into coherent ideas.