Travel the World in Books Reading Challenge

 

Travel the World in Books is a reading challenge cooked up by the lovely ladies at Mom's Small Victories, I'm Lost in Books, and Savvy Working Girl. It aims to be a "no-stress, no-worries, kind of challenge that helps you expand your reading and cultural horizons" where you can set your own goals.

Interested? Check out the Sign Up Post to find out more!

I'm horrible at reading challenges - they usually stress me out because I'm such a spontaneous reader-reviewer that I just cave under pressure. So when I saw this reading challenge was a "choose your own adventure" type of thing where I could set my own parameters, I decided to join in.

Also, I think this fits in nicely with my own personal challenge to get more diversity in my reading fare (#WeNeedDiverseBooks) and my interest in immigrant stories. Just please don't I don't have any goals, I just go for it. :)

I have also been wanting to create a Google Map with all my existing reads and I think this project will get me jumpstarted!

So here are my goals (which could possible change along the way!):

1. Length of time: Let's put 5 years. Although honestly I think this will be a perpetual challenge for me.

2. How many countries: As many as humanly possible.

3. How I'll track the countries visited in books: Google Maps here I come! I'll also track in good ol' Goodreads and tag in my blog.

Update July 13:
My right sidebar now has a dropdown menu "Travel the World in Books" ... and ta-DAH: My Guiltless Reading Around the World Book Map has been created! Please check it out!

4. Book list or genre: I'm leaving this wide open, though I aim to read a mix of fiction and non-fiction.

Well, that was painless! Let's see how this goes!