Monday, 3 December 2012

Announcing: The Telling Tales Challenge 2013!!


Hello fellow lovers of all things fairytales! I've loved hosting this challenge in 2012, so I'm proud to announce that the Telling Tales Challenge will be back in 2013! If you participated in 2012 and want to again, we'll be glad to have you, ditto if you didn't, or if (like me) you signed up and then spectacularly failed in your aims! 

Here are the rules:
  • The challenge runs from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2013. You can sign up at any point throughout the year. 
  • Again, any genre counts as long as it is in some way related to fairytale and/or mythology. Once again, if you are unsure, as long as you can make an argument for its' inclusion, it counts! 
  • Re-reads count, and you are more than welcome to overlap books with other challenges. 
  • Please leave me your email address in the comments if you want to participate (I promise not to harrass you, it's just so that people get a reminder every now and again about the monthly link ups, and also so I can contact you for competitions etc). 
  • Please link up your reviews every month in the posts which will go up on this blog. 
  • In your sign up post, please indicate the level you aim to complete. You are entirely welcome to change this as the year progresses. You can make your lists beforehand, or as you go. Whichever you prefer! 
  • When you sign up, please leave the link to your sign up post, rather than just to your blog in general. 
  • You don't have to have a blog to participate - you can review on Goodreads, Amazon, wherever, just let me know where you will be reviewing! 
That's it! 

The levels are as follows: 

Pixie - read 2 books
Troll under the Bridge - read 5 books
Princess - read 10 books
Prince Charming - read 15 books
Evil Queen - read 20 books
Dragon - read 30 books
King/Queen of the Silver Screen - read any number of books and watch the film adaptations. 

It would also be great to spread the word a little about other fairytale challenges and blogs or website based around the theme, so if you have any feel free to let me know and I'll add them in here. So far the only challenge I've found is the Fairytales Retold Challenge. Then there's Sur la Lune Fairytales Blog which is great for upcoming releases of books and movies. That's pretty much it for now! 

If you'd like some inspiration on where to begin, the list of books read for the challenge in 2012 is here. 

So that's it. Sign up using the linky and leave your email address in the comments! 


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31 comments:

  1. Unknown4 December 2012 at 21:46

    Well, there's Project Fairytale going on in February, but signup is ended, I think.

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    1. Unknown4 December 2012 at 22:33

      Does this challenge include short stories and original fairy tales?

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    2. anarmchairbythesea4 December 2012 at 23:08

      Yes it does :-) anything related to the genre is included. Thanks for the link too!

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  2. Darlene5 December 2012 at 04:01

    Great challenge! Thanks for hosting!!

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  3. Anonymous5 December 2012 at 08:49

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  4. Anonymous5 December 2012 at 22:54

    Do you allow re-tellings only? I noticed your personal list include beastly, alice in wonderland, etc.

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    1. anarmchairbythesea5 December 2012 at 23:31

      No, literally anything related is fine, so original tales, retellings, whatever you want really :-)

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    2. Anonymous6 December 2012 at 00:03

      Alright then. BTW I sent you an email. I wanted to quote your rules on my reading challenge page along with the book list. The rules will attributed to you of course. :D

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    3. anarmchairbythesea6 December 2012 at 00:34

      Thats totally fine :-) thanks for checking!

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  5. Petra9 December 2012 at 17:39

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    1. Petra13 February 2013 at 21:13

      Eh, did I write something wrong?

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    2. anarmchairbythesea13 February 2013 at 21:25

      No I was on my phone and hit the wrong button and couldnt undo it!!

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    3. Petra16 February 2013 at 15:32

      That's happened to me a few times, too. :)

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  6. MicheleA12 December 2012 at 04:50

    I'm signing up again this year. Thanks so much for continuing to host this challenge!

    My email: admin@inkalicious.com

    Also, I made an image link that's 300x300 because I'm kinda hopeless about having all my images be boringly uniform in size. :p I'm happy to donate it for others to use, if that something you'd be okay with.

    It's at my sign-up post: http://michelealbert.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/challenge-sign-up-post-telling-tales-2013/

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    1. anarmchairbythesea12 December 2012 at 11:00

      Oh thats brilliant,thanks! I'm totally useless at the whole image thing!

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    2. MicheleA12 December 2012 at 17:00

      You're welcome! Your banner is pretty, I just wanted all uniform-sized banners for sidebar stuff. I don't expect anyone to cater to my peculiarities, so I'm happy to poke around my stock images and fonts folders and make my own.

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  7. Gabrielle24 December 2012 at 06:10

    I'm going for Princess level but hope to share tons of great fairy tales with my boys this year.

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  8. Auggie27 December 2012 at 00:50

    This one should be fun! I love fairy-tale twists and fable retellings!

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  9. Tanya30 December 2012 at 03:20

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  10. Anonymous30 December 2012 at 12:56

    I love fairy tales! And mythology! suiyoubieveryday @ gmail . com

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  11. Vasilly31 December 2012 at 20:35

    Count me in! I love fairy tales. Are children's books okay?

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    1. Vasilly31 December 2012 at 20:39

      I forgot my email: 1330vblog AT gmail DOT com

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    2. anarmchairbythesea1 January 2013 at 12:40

      Childrens books are great! Any genre counts so long as it's fairytale related!:-)

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  12. Becca1 January 2013 at 12:06

    I was wanting to read more fairy tales this year, so this fits right in! Thanks for hosting!

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  13. West Virginia Red2 January 2013 at 15:42

    Looking forward to trying this again. wvredreads[@]gamil dot com

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  14. Anonymous12 January 2013 at 00:50

    I'm excited to join in on this challenge! Thanks! ~Jen (jmsacklin AT gmail DOT com)

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  15. Anonymous12 January 2013 at 09:41

    good to be back - hope to do better this year:) rossalberta44@yahoo.co.uk

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  16. Rachael9 February 2013 at 02:12

    http://rachaelc94.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-reading-challenges.html
    rachaelc1020AtgmailDOTcom.

    I'm going for Pixie at this point. I may upgrade to a higher level later. I want to read Cinder by Marissa Meyer and Towering by Alex Finn.

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  17. Anonymous9 May 2013 at 02:36

    I love this challenge!! (ɔ ˘⌣˘)˘⌣˘ c)

    @lucktygs
    http://luckty.wordpress.com/

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  18. alberta ross7 August 2013 at 19:51

    old lady confused as to what is fairy tale what is fantasy - myths I just about get except I dont seem to recognise them in modern fiction - do trolls, shape shifters,talking animals count as fairytale? is it the occupants of the story or the format of the story? feeling a trifle dim witted:(

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  19. Rachael3 January 2014 at 04:16

    Thanks for hosting this challenge. I would love to join in 2014. I completed it and exceeded it in 2013.

    http://rachaelc94.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-year-in-reading-challenges-2013.html

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