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2024 Challenges: Reading European Challenge 2024, Orwell 2024, Moomin Week, The Years Club 1970 and more – keeping a record of what I’ve read
My other challenges lists for 2024
I’m keeping the list of what I read for the rest of my 2024 challenges on this post.
Books read for any of the challenges I have signed up to may count towards more than one challenge.
Reading Orwell 2024
#ReadingOrwell24 is hosted by Brona’s Books it takes place across the whole year. The aim is simple – to read any or all of the Orwells or Orwell-related books on your TBR stack at any time throughout 2024. New books, old books, borrowed books, audio, rereads, adaptations, biographies, fiction and non-fiction are welcome.
I will post a link to my thoughts on the books I read for this challenge below.
Links to my #ReadingOrwell24 reads
2024 European Reading Challenge
Gilion at Rose City Reader is hosting for the twelfth edition of the Grand Tour of Europe through books! The European Reading Challenge has been going strong since 2012. Choose your own level of commitment to complete the challenge. There is a Jet Setter Prize for the person who visits the most countries between the covers.
I read a fair number of European books (in translation or in English) so I’m going for FIVE STAR (Deluxe Entourage). I hope I’m not being too ambitious as I have to ensure I read one book from five European countries. I will post the links to my thoughts on each book I read below.
Links to my 2024 European Reading Challenge reads
1. The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz – Germany
2. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie – U.K.
3. Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone by Alison Langley – Hungary
4. The Venus of Saló by Ben Pastor – Italy
5. Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen – Denmark
Moomin Week 26 August – 1 September 2024
In Mallika aka potpourri2015’s July Wrap Up Post or Paula at the Book Jotter’s Weekly Wind Up #340 or Chris at Calmgrove’s post A Moomin Memoir you will have noticed that plans are afoot for a celebration! The celebration will run from 26 August to 1st September 2024 and you are invited to share posts on anything Moomin. I will post the link(s) to my thoughts below.
Links to my #MoominWeek 2024 reads
Daphne Du Maurier Week, May 2024
© NPG, London
Daphne Du Maurier by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 24 July 1930
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Ali at Heavenali has hosted this in the second week of May the last few years; if it does take place this year I will be reading and sharing my thoughts on one book for this challenge. I’ll leave a link to it below.
Link to my #DDMWeek read – no DDM week this year.
The Years Club 1970
I joined in with The Years Club 1937 in April this year. The Years Club is co-hosted by Karen at Kaggsy’s bookish ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book.
During 14-20 October, 2024, the year to be reading and exploring books from is 1970!
I will leave a link to my thoughts on any book(s) I read below.
Links to my #Club1970 reads
20 Books of Summer 2024
I’ve been doing this challenge for several years now and it’s still a favourite because Cathy at 746 Books just makes it such an easygoing challenge.
The challenge runs from 1 June through to 1 September, you can do a 10, 15 or 20 book challenge.To find out all about it read last year’s announcement on Cathyblog where you’ll also find lots of links to book lists so if you need some inspiration I’m sure you’ll find it there. I’ll list the links to the thoughts on what I read below. Will I manage the full twenty? This is the place to find out.
Links to my #20BooksofSummer2024 reads
Novella November 2024
Another wonderful challenge hosted by Cathy at 746Books. This year’s challenge hasn’t been announced yet but I’m looking forward to it. You can read about last year on Cathy’s blog. Last year Cathy teamed with BookishBeck to host this event. I’ll list the links to my thoughts on all the books I read for 2024 below.
Links to the novellas I read in 2024
Janet - Love Books, Read Books 
Lots of great challenges there! Can’t wait for 1970 myself!
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Thanks. Lots of, hopefully good, books came out in 1970. Looking forward to it as well!
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Thanks for the link — this will be the fourth year in a row that Cathy and I have co-hosted Novellas in November. I hope you’ll be able to participate! We usually make the formal announcement in September (after 20 Books of Summer is out of the way).
I hadn’t heard of some of these other challenges; a good excuse to get some Orwell and Moomins books off the shelf or out of the library! I don’t expect Ali will host DDM week as she’s doing a Margaret Drabble reading project all year.
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Make that the fifth year; I’d lost track!
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Happy to link and I’m looking forward to joining in Novellas in November. Hope you enjoy any of the other challenges you may read for. Challenges are always a good way to read from our shelves or out of the library. I did wonder if DDM week would happen if Ali is doing the Margaret Drabble project. May is a busy non-reading month for me this year so that might be just as well. Thanks for the reminder.
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