I really love reading challenges because of the way it stretches your reading comfort zone, but I've always sucked at actually completing them.
In 2015, over at Goodreads, we kicked off our most outrageous challenge ever, borrowing The Beatles Reading Challenge from another group I was a part of, which had turned their songs into reading tasks. And in 2016, we whipped up The REM Reading Challenge. (I really sucked at this one. I couldn't even complete one album, but man was it fun trying!). And then to honor David Bowie's passing, in 2017, we pulled together the Bowie Reading Challenge! In 2018 I decided to take a break from our music theme and challenged everyone to read whatever the fuck they wanted in our RWTFYW challenge. The only rule was that there were no rules : ) In 2019 I spread my love of Guster around, 2020 was all about Ani DiFranco, and 2021 had us fan girling over PJ Harvey.
I decided to stick with kickass 90's female artists again for 2022 and am thrilled to annouce that we're hosting a Liz Phair Reading Challenge!
Similar to my history with Ani DiFranco and PJ Harvey, I outplayed all of my Liz Phair cassettes in the mid nineties. Exile in Guyville contains some of my favorite Phair songs!
Whether you know and love Liz Phair, who released her first album in over 10 years this past year, or this is the first time you are hearing of her, what I think is most cool about these kinds of reading challenges... is that you don't even have to be a fan of the musicians to participate. You just have to be a fan of READING!!
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The Liz Phair (2022) Reading Challenge
So here's how this works:
*The goal is to cross off as many of Liz Phair's songs as you can throughout the course of 2022.
You can challenge yourself to complete one entire album, focus on completing one decades-worth of albums, or build your own challenge by hitting your favorite song titles... it's totally up to you!
*You cross off the songs by reading a book that meets the criteria listed after each song title.
If the book meets multiple reading tasks, cool! You can apply it to multiple song titles, OR you can make the reading challenge more challenging by limiting yourself to one song title per book.
*There may be built in redundancy with some of the tasks.
They are repetitive on purpose, to give you an opportunity to read more than one type of book and still get credit for completing a task. (Sneaky, I know!)
*Please copy and paste the entire list, or your customized challenge list, into your own thread in this goodreads folder and strike through the song titles as you complete them, OR, you can simply copy and paste each song title and its criteria from the master list here as you complete it. (obviously put your name in the thread title so we know whose challenge it is).
*Do not add your list directly to Rule and List thread.
*YOU MUST LIST THE BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR that coincides with the song as you complete it for the challenge so we know what you read!
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An example of a completed song title task in your Challenge thread would look like this:““This Bouquet” – Read a book that features flowers on the cover - The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
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Exile in Guyville (1993)
“6’1” – Read a book that’s more than 400 pages long
“Help Me Mary” – Read a book in a genre people make fun
of you for liking
“Glory” – Read a book that was published in (or is set in)
the nineteen eighties
“Dance of the Seven Veils” – Read a book that features music
or dancing
“Never Said” – Read a book you see everyone else talking
about
“Soap Star Joe” – Read a book in which the lead character
has a hero complex
“Explain it to Me” – Read a book that’s complicated to describe
to others
“Canary” – Read a book featuring birds or that has a bird
on the cover
“Mesmerizing” – Read a book that captures you right from
the start
“Fuck and Run” – Read a book that involves a one night
stand
“Girls! Girls! Girls!” – Read a book written by an author
who identifies as female
“Divorce Song” – Read a book that makes you ugly cry
“Shatter” – Read a book that changes how you feel about a
particular author or genre
“Flower” – Read a book with flowers on the cover
“Johnny Sunshine” – Read a book with a man’s name in the
title
“Gunshy” – Read a book you’ve been hesitant to pick up
“Stratford-on-Guy” – Read a book that involves an
airplane/airport, or read a book while on/in one
“Strange Loop” – Give in and read a book that someone’s
been recommending to you
Whipsmart (1994)
“Supernova” – Read a scifi book
“Support System” – read a book club pick
“X-Ray Man” – Read a medical drama or a book that features
doctors/nurses
“Shane” – Read a book with a one word title
“Nashville” – Read a book written by a musician or that
features one
“Go West” – Read a western
“Cinco De Mayo” – Read a book that features a victory
and/or celebration
“Dogs of LA” – Read a book that features a dog
“Whip-Smart” – Read a book that taught you something
“Jealousy” – Read a book that you’ve seen others rave
about
“Crater Lake” – Read a book that takes place in or near a
body of water
“Alice Springs” – Read a book that takes place during a
day and a night
“May Queen” – Read a book that features mythology
Whitechocolatespaceegg (1998)
“Big Tall Man” – Read a book in which the main character
doesn’t fit into binary norms
“Perfect World” – Read a book that takes place in the
future
“Johnny Feelgood” – Read a book that you’re obsessing over
“Polyester Bride” – Read a book that features a wedding
“Love is Nothing” – Read a book that left you feeling meh
“Baby Got Going” – Read a book that features some
erotica/romance elements
“Uncle Alvarez” – Read a book in which the protagonist is
a dreamer /follows their dreams
“Only Son” – Read a debut novel
“Go On Ahead” – Read a book that doesn’t fit any of these
prompts and take credit for it here
“Headache” – Read a book that hurt your head
“Ride” – Read a book while on a road trip / traveling
“What Makes You Happy” – Read whatever you want and take
credit for it here
“Fantasize” – Read
a fantasy book
“Shitloads of Money” – spend some money on a book you really
want and take credit for it here when you read it
“Girls’ Room” – Read a book with a female lead protagonist
“Freak of Nature” – Read a bizarro book
“Hurricane Cindy” – Read a cli-fi book / that features weather
Liz Phair (2003)
“Red Light Fever” – Read a book with a red cover
“Why Can’t I” – Read a book about breaking up/falling in love
“It’s Sweet” – Read a book that takes place in a city
(the darker, dirtier, the better)
“Rock Me” – Read a book that rocked your world
“Take a Look” – share your TBR on social media and let
someone pick your next read
“Little Digger” – Read a book that really got up under
your skin
“Firewalker” – Read a book about a character with special
abilities
“Favorite” – Read a book and if you predict if will be
favorite of the year, take credit for it here
“Love/Hate” – Read a book that pushes all your buttons
“HWC” – Read a book that has initials in the titles
“My Bionic Eyes” – Read a book that has robots in it / in
which the main character is not of this world
“Friend of Mine” – Do a buddy read and take credit for it
here
“Good Love Never Dies” – Read a book by your favorite
author
Somebody’s Miracle (2005)
“Wind and the Mountain” – Read a book that takes place
outdoors or that has mountains on the cover
“Stars and Planets” – read a space opera / a book that
takes place in outer space
“Somebody’s Miracle” – Read a book that features religion
“Got My Own Thing” – Read a book you haven’t seen anyone
else reading yet
“Count on My Love” – Read a book with a number in the
title
“Lazy Dreamer” – skip your chores and read a book instead,
and take credit for it here
“Everything to Me” – Read a book about unrequited love
“Closer to You” – Read a book that someone you know has read
and loved
“Table for One” – Read a book that deals with mental health
“Why I Lie” – Read a book you’d be embarrassed to have
people seeing you read
“Lost Tonight” – Read a book in one sitting / straight
through the night
“Everything (between us)” – Curl up in your favorite
reading spot with a good book, warm blanket, and favorite hot beverage and take
credit for it here
“Giving it All to You” – Read a book that was gifted to
you
“Can’t Get out of What I’m Into” – read a book from your
favorite genre
Funstyle (2010)
“Bollywood” – Read a book and then watch the movie
version and take credit for it here
“You Should Know Me” – Read a small press book (because you
should know me by now!)
“Miss September” – Read a book with a month in the title
“My My” – Read a book that’s written in first person POV
“Oh, Bangladesh” – Read a book that’s set in a foreign country
“Bang! Bang!” – Read a thriller
“Beat is Up” – Read a book that leaves you feeling happy
/ a book with positive vibes
“And He Slayed Her” – Read a murder mystery
“Satisfied” – Read a book that hit the spot
“U Hate It” – Read a book that just plain sucked
Soberish (2021)
“The Game” – Lay out some books from your TBR pile in a
circle, play spin the bottle to choose your next read and take credit for that
book here (bonus points if you post it in your social media feed)
“Hey Lou” – Read a book and then review it in as many
places as possible
“In There” – Read a book that’s kinda horror kinda
thriller kinda get in yer headish
“Good Side” – When you’ve read what you consider the best
book of an author’s backlog, take credit for it here
“Sheridan Road” – Read a book in which the main
characters go on a road trip
“Ba Ba Ba” – Read a book with repetitive words in the
title
“Soberish” – Read a book that features drinking
“Soul Sucker” – Read a book that nearly killed you
“Lonely Street” – Read a book when you are home alone
“Dosage” – Read a book that deals with drugs or drug
abuse
“Bad Kitty” – Read a book that features animals, or has a
cat on the cover
“Rain Scene” – Stay in on a rainy day and read
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