Did you participate in the By the Decade Challenge last year? Would you like to again? Or, if you didn’t take part in 2008, are you interested in doing so in 2009? We’d love to have you join us!
Decades ‘09 Rules:
- Read a minimum of 9 books in 9 consecutive decades in ‘09.
- Books published in the 2000’s do not count.
- Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.
- You may change your list at any time.
- Peruse the eligible book lists and reviews from 2008 or 2007. Any book from that decade is eligible; it doesn’t have to be on the list to qualify. A good source to find out when books were published is wikipedia. For example if you follow this link, you will see how easy it is to search books by a particular decade. Another resource is fantasticfiction.co.uk.
- Sign up through Mr. Linky below. Please use the url of your specific post for this challenge rather than just your blog url.
- Come back and post the links to your reviews into Mr. Linky. Look to the right under categories to find the links to the various decades. You don’t have to, but you are encouraged to post all the books you’ve read for that decade if you’re participating in Decades ‘09.
- Have fun reading your Decades ‘09 books, and have a great year!
on Oct 27th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Michelle - Could you please remove #2? I accidentally posted to my entire blog and not a specific link.
on Oct 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hi!
I would love to be in the Decades ‘09 Challenge. I have my post and my list up. I also have a link back here. Take Care!!
Sherrie
on Nov 1st, 2008 at 8:33 am
This sounds like a pretty interesting challenge. Sign me up.
on Nov 1st, 2008 at 9:59 am
I am having a hard time copying and pasting the icon. Can you post a link for the image?
on Nov 16th, 2008 at 5:13 am
That sounds interesting.
Sign me up!
Anni
on Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I just signed up for the great challenge!
Thanks,
Kisamuse
on Nov 18th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Instruction #7 says to sign up with the Mr. Linky, but there isn’t one? I thought there was the last time I came to this site, but I’ve been considering joining for 2009 and don’t see where to sign up. Help, please!
on Nov 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Go figure. You added my link for me and NOW the Linky reappears…thanks Michelle.
on Nov 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I’m in for 09. Thanks
on Nov 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Brittanie mentioned something about this…I think it’s a really neat idea! I’ll be participating…I’ll link up once I know what books I’ll be reading.
on Dec 6th, 2008 at 12:26 am
[...] Sign up here. [...]
on Dec 6th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I haven’t participated in any other challenges before but this looks like fun.
on Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Excellent. I have pages for all of my challenge lists and reviews and have created a new one for Decades.
on Dec 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
The new year hasn’t started and I am already having fun with this challenge. Here is the link to my list:
http://bookpsmith.blogspot.com/2008/12/ok-this-is-last-challenge.html
Thanks for hosting.
on Jan 1st, 2009 at 7:43 am
I am linked but not sure which decades yet. Happy New Year.
on Jan 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hi - I signed up (#17 up there in Mr. Linky) but don’t see my name on the participant’s list. I just signed up a second time with the link to my blog post about challenges. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t on the list, first signup was linked to my general blog.
Thanks! I’m starting now!
on Jan 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Looking forward to this one.
on Jan 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I saw Joanne’s list from lostinagoodstory and found several that I want to read. This should be fun and interesting. Thanks!
on Jan 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Hi!
I’m not quite sure how to post my books that I have read for this challenge. Do we post them one at a time or wait until we have read them all?
Sherrie
on Jan 29th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I’m also ready to share my posts of the books I’ve read for this challenge. This is my first year to participate so I’m not sure of the process. Help?
on Feb 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
I have the same question as Sherrie. I’ve read my first book for this challenge - are we supposed to post them somewhere or just wait until we’ve read all of them? Thanks!
on Feb 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am
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on Mar 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
When can we start posting our 2009 reads?
on May 11th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Hi, just so you know, I’ve changed the host of my reviews from 5-squared.blogspot.com to zenleaf.blogspot.com. Thanks!
on Jun 1st, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Hi, I linked 2 reviews (one in the 70’s section, and one is the 60’s).
on Jun 10th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Hi! Now that I’ve finished this challenge, where should I leave the completion link? I tried going to the completion category, but it didn’t have a linky set up for ‘09.
on Jul 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
The 2009 Mr. Linkys seem to be down (probably due to the general brokenness of Mr. Linky right now), so I’m checking in with a 1950s review: Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find.