Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Reporters 25

  I found another fun one being hosted on Goodreads by  Ellie in the challenge factory section.  


Rules: For this challenge – Each book can only be used once (If it fits more than 1 category – choose one – as it can only be used in 1 of the categories)
The bonus rounds are just an added challenge to kick it up a notch!
The challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.
You don’t have to choose your books in advance. If you do, you can change your list at any time during the year.
Books can be in any format – paper, ebooks, audio…
Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
Most of all—have fun

Who? What? Where? When? Why?
How? – 

Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category)
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category)
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)  <=  My Goal
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category)

Track progress on Goodreads  my post

BONUS CATEGORY:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books

EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY:
Nobel Prize for Literature (Newspaper Mogul plus Pulitzer Prize + Extra Bonus) = 31 books





Progress:  22/15

WHO
Protagonist is established in their business or career
Any Character who is a dead person (ghost, skeleton, vampire, zombie, etc.)
A Main Character who works with animals (K9, trainer, vet, etc.)
A Side Character who is fun/kooky (you’d want to be this person’s BFF)
A Character who works with books or writes (librarian/restorer/reporter/author/bookstore clerk)
WHAT
A number in the title
Food in the title
Title starts with any letter in your first name
Holiday in the title
Title is a play on words (ex: Mind Your Own Beeswax or Gluten for Punishment, etc.)

WHERE
Set in a city that starts with a C, an M or a T
Set in a hotel/B&B/Air Bnb (doesn’t have to be whole story)
Set in a Midwest state
Set in a popular vacation spot (Hawaii, cruise, island, etc.)
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England)

WHEN
Set during a celebration (not a holiday- birthday, business opening, wedding, etc.)
Set in the 1900s

Set during winter
Set during fall
Set during a storm (doesn’t have to be whole story)

HOW
Strangled
Stabbed
Shot
Poisoned
Blunt Instrument


BONUS CATEGORY – PULITZER PRIZE
WHO – A book where you figured out who did it before the protagonist figured it out
WHAT – Title is at least six words
WHERE – Set in a fictional place you would love to live
WHEN – During a holiday (not Halloween or Christmas)
HOW – Unpremeditated

EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY – NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Horoscope (from on-line or a newspaper or wherever)
Pick a horoscope from the 15th of any month. Then read a book that relates to that horoscope.
Example: Horoscope says – While you may feel the urge to put on a pair of boxing gloves and duke it out with your family, try putting on an oven mitt instead. Cooking a meal or performing other domestic chores will help take your mind off your troubles with your family.
For this horoscope, you could read a book about a boxer or a chef or a baker or a maid or a butler or a cleaner, etc. Something in the book must somehow relate to the horoscope.
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