#berrybooksnovember

[berry-books]

Berry Book Challenge: November Edition

What is it?

As a writer, November has always been writing challenge month. This year, since I've had to step back from writing, I decided to bring the spirit of nanowrimo to my reading life too.

Rules:

- Pick a page count. Keeping the nano spirit, this challenge goes by the number of pages read rather than books. You can either select one from the Reading Tiers list below, or customize your own. If you'd like to add a book goal, that's good to! Pages are just the focus.

- Pick your books. This step is optional, but can help make sure you're picking books that fit nicely into your page count. If you have a large TBR pile or no idea where to start, try using some of the prompts provided in the Prompts list

- Read! Starting November 1st in your local timezone, dig into your books and knock out those pages. The challenge ends on November 30th.

- Share your progress. If you decide to participate, use #BerryBooksNovember to chat about how things are going for you! Challenges always work best when others doing it can interact and have fun together!

Reading Tiers

Casual: 300 pages (10p/day). Roughly 1 novel.

Dedicated: 750 pages (25p/day). Roughly 2 novels.

Avid: 1500 pages (50p/day). Roughly 4‐5 novels.

Enthusiastic: 2250 (75p/day). Roughly 7-8 novels.

Voracious: 3000 pages (100p/day). Roughly 9-10 novels.

Nano: 5000 pages (167p/day). A special November tier. Roughly 16-17 novels.

Prompt List

(below the cut)

This or that

Shortest on your TBR / Longest on your TBR

Oldest on your TBR / Newest on your TBR

Highest goodreads rating / Lowest goodreads rating

A cover you love / A cover you hate

A debut author / An author with 10+ published works

1st person / Multiple POVs

About the book

2 authors

From an indie publisher or self published author

From a trans or nonbinary author

The first in a series

Has discussion questions inside

Published in November

Published in 2021, 2011, or 2001

Has a show or movie

An anthology

Has a blue cover

About the reader

Book you've been avoiding

Next in a series you already started

Book you started but never finished

Genre you don't normally read

Outside your age group

Seen a lot on social media

A gift

Recommended to you

Picked by a loved one

[mirasmirages]

Berry Book Challenge Update 1: Starting strong with 424 pages read!

1.11.21:

Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey (page 137/137) - This book let me read a hundred pages in twenty minutes, it feels like cheating!

A Different Dog by Paul Jennings (page 82/82) - This was a little weird? I wish I could ask my ten year old self what they think of it.

Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele (page 82/173) - This is a comic! And yet I can only read a few pages at a time before my head goes buzz.

Collection of Bertolt Brecht's poetry: 102/369 - This is the first time I've read a book of poetry from start to finish, including the 25 page biography at the start. 102 pages in and I've found one poem I like so far.

Affinity by Sarah Waters (page 67/416) - I am mostly confused, don't love this one yet, but I've been told it will all come together in the end.

Trivium: the Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic & Rethoric (page 32/389) - I love this book but can only read a few pages at a time. Reading about what letters sound like should not be this heavy.

The Revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch (hour 11:10/30:25) - I think maybe I should count one page every two minutes instead of on per minute, to make it more precise, but that means this challenge requires a lot of minutes. Not sure what I'll do.

Total: 424 pages, not counting the audiobook

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

Berry Books November Update: Week 4, November 22-28

I finished four books this week: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (303 pages), The Upside of Unrequited (336 pages), Leah on the Offbeat (368 pages), and Love, Creekwood (128 pages) by Becky Albertalli. I adored Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, but I was disappointed by The Upside of Unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat, and Love, Creekwood. Reviews of everything I read this month will be posted Tuesday!

My November TBR:

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

2. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune

3. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas

5. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall

6. Love, Simon by Becky Albertalli

7. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

8. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

9. Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli

10. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

11. Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

+ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

+ Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

+ Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

+ In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

+ Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

+ Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

Read this Week: 4 books, 1135 pages

Total Read this Month: 13 books, 3455 pages

[notwritinganyflufftoday]

Voilà~ my sister's birthday present for me. Will be reading "I am a Cat" for @a-berry-existential-crisis 's November reading challenge.

I'm so excited to start reading this!

[berry-books]

I had to give up on my yearly challenge for this year because i ended up not reading basically anything for 6 months 😂. But now I've started a monthly challenge for myself that I find much more doable and flexible. Am currently at 4 books for November

Weekly Bookish Question #259 (November 17th - November 20th):

In case you are or have been participating in any, how is it going with the reading challenges this year?

[berry-books]

Reading Challenge Week 1 Update

Weekly target: 700-1050

Pages read: 791

Books Finished:

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater - 404 pages

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 387 pages

I had a bit of a rough start this week. Couldn't get into reading enough to hit my pages, then read almost an entire book in one day 😂. I'm hoping i can get a bit more consistent with it next week, but I'm still on track for my lower target right now.

[Challenge Rules] | [My November TBR]

[berry-books]

Berry Books November Update 2

Week total goal: 2,200-3,300

Current total: 1,547

I've had a busy November. Between preparing to leave the state for a month, my birthday, and actually traveling, I havent gotten much reading done. Buuuuut since getting here I've gone to a few bookstores and a library, so I have no shortage of things to read. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up somewhat with all the new books i have

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

Berry Books November Update: Week 1, November 1-7

I’m in a slight book slump — I’m still in book shock from the Darker Shades of Magic trilogy — but I still managed to finish one book this week. I read (and adored) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448 pages) by V.E. Schwab.

In reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I’ve officially read all of V.E. Schwab’s adult novels! V.E. Schwab’s young adult novels (published under Victoria Schwab) are on my TBR, but I’ll be switching authors for the month of November.

My November TBR:

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

2. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune

3. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas

5. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall

6. Love, Simon, Becky Albertalli

7. The Upside of Unrequited, Becky Albertalli

8. Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli

9. Love, Creekwood, Becky Albertalli

10. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

11. Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Read this Week: 1/12 books, 448/4672 pages

Total Read this Month: 1/12 books, 448/4672 pages

[berry-books]

Good luck! I hope this challenge can help you get back into reading 😄 thats a big part of why I made it for myself initially as well

Yo

Hey so uh. I’m a writer (obvi) but I don’t read NEARLY as much as I should. Like, I haven’t picked up a book in months which is absolutely terrible of me and I know it.

I want to get back into reading for my own personal enjoyment, (so I can tell people YEAH I like to read and not feel guilty about it), and hopefully to refresh my creativity/inspiration as a writer as well.

That’s why I’m gonna try to participate in the Berry Book Challenge: November Edition by @berry-books !

I’m not gonna go too crazy here, nothing intense or all that impressive. I’m going to make my own tier, which is a solid 20 pages per day. That way I’d end the month with around 600 pages, enough for an average sized novel and a smaller one.

This month’s to be read list:

Les Misérable by Victor Hugo - 321 pages

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - 192 pages

I’m hoping this can kickstart my love for reading again. And hey! If it can renew my creativity and help me read faster then that’s great too! I’m mainly just wondering if I can do it though. And if it all goes well, then I might make this a habit! Who knows?

We’ll just have to try it and see

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

Berry Books November Update: Week 3, November 15-21

I finished six books this week: Every Heart a Doorway (176 pages), Down Among the Sticks and Bones (192 pages), Beneath the Sugar Sky (176 pages), In an Absent Dream (208 pages), Come Tumbling Down (208 pages), and Across the Green Grass Fields (176 pages) of the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. I devoured each of them in a day! Each book is under 200 pages with a short, but comprehensive plot. I’d definitely recommend them if you’re in the midst of a book slump!

My November TBR:

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

2. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune

3. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas

5. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall

6. Love, Simon by Becky Albertalli

7. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

8. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

9. Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli

10. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

11. Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

+ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

+ Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

+ Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

+ In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

+ Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

+ Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

Read this Week: 6 books, 1136 pages

Total Read this Month: 9 books, 2320 pages

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

Berry Books November Update: Week 2, November 8-14

I finished two books this week: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (384 pages) and Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (352 pages). Both books dealt with themes of grief, loss, and death as well as family, friendship, and love. As a result, both books were thoughtful and emotional reads. (I teared up while reading Cemetery Boys and I outright cried while reading Under the Whispering Door.)

My November TBR:

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab

2. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune

3. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

4. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas

5. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall

6. Love, Simon by Becky Albertalli

7. The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

8. Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

9. Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli

10. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

11. Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Read this Week: 2 books, 736 pages

Total Read this Month: 3 books, 1184 pages

[mirasmirages]

Berry Book Challenge Update 6: 289 pages. No updates or anything for a week now.

13-14.11.21

Affinity by Sarah Waters (page 205/416)

[My favorite fic] (page 500/500) = 167 pages

[Favorite fic pt. 2] (page 35/35) = 12 pages

[Favorite fic pt. 3] (page 86/86) = 29 pages

The Revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch (hour 14:10/30:25)

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

I am participating in the Berry Book Challenge: November Edition by @berry-books ! I am planning to attempt the “Voracious” tier. I am hoping to read 12 books, but I’ll be content if I read 8-10 of them. Here is my TBR for the month of November:

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab — 448 pages

2. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune — 384 pages

3. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Benjamin Alire Sáenz — 528 pages

4. Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas — 352 pages

5. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall — 432 pages

6. Love, Simon, Becky Albertalli — 303 pages

7. The Upside of Unrequited, Becky Albertalli — 336 pages

8. Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli — 368 pages

9. Love, Creekwood, Becky Albertalli — 128 pages

10. She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan — 416 pages

11. Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri — 577 pages

12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid — 400 pages

Total: 12 books, 4672 pages

[berry-books]

November Challenge TBR

Paper Towns by John Green - 305 pages (carried over from October tbr)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas - 342 pages (carried over from October tbr)

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater - 404 pages

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - 387 pages

The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy by B.T. Gottfred - 406 pages

If We Were Us by K.L. Walther - 355 pages

The Dangerous Art of Blending in by Angelo Surmelis - 315 pages

The Beholder by Anne Bright - 429 pages

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros - 480 pages

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell - 432 pages

Page total: 3,855 - 129p/day

Realistically i won't be reading all of these, but I'm gonna try for at least 6 of them. As long as i stay roughly in the 100p/day range I'll consider this month a success

[Berry Books November Challenge]

[berry-books]

For the book challenge, have you thought about whether picture books/comics/audiobooks count? Poetry? E-books? (I use the apple books app and each page is very short compared to printed books) I kinda wanna join but a lot of what I read would be hard to count.

For pictures books/comics: A page is a page. It all counts the same. If you personally want to add your own rules, go for it! But you don't have to. These challenges are always going to be very flexible. They're meant to encourage people to challenge themselves to read more. Whether thats novels or comic books or anything else in between is up to you.

Poetry: you can either go by page like said above for poetry books or, if you tend to read things more individually, count by poem

Audiobooks/Ebooks/other formats: typically I just look up the hardcover page count and use that as my number. If you don't want to do that, you can also just make separate goals for different formats (ie. Go by minutes instead of pages for your audiobooks).

Hope this helps!

[mirasmirages]

Berry Book Challenge Update 7: 202 pages. Have been traveling and didn't bring any books, but did have some stuff saved to my phone.

14-20.11.21

[Favorite fic pt. 4] (page 285/285) = 95 pages

[Favorite fic pt.5] (page 68/68) = 23 pages

[Favorite fic pt.6] (page 93/93) = 31 pages - The notes of this promises a part seven but the author switched fandoms since then so it may never happen 😔😭

[Fic I found on my phone while bored on a plane] (page 160/390) = 53 pages

The Revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch (hour 14:20/30:25)