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2021 World War II Challenge
Host: Becky's Book Reviews (sign up here)
Dates: January - December 2021
Goals: Read, Watch, Listen, Share WWII related stuff
Books
- Fiction published during 1939-1945
- Fiction set during 1939-1945
- Fiction that is about the leading up to the war
- Fiction that is about the direct aftermath of the war
- Nonfiction books about the War
- Biographies or Autobiographies with sections about the war
- Poetry or verse novels with a WWII setting OR publication date
- Essays, Articles, Op-Ed pieces
- historical-historical (straight up historical with no sub-genres)
- historical romance
- historical mysteries
- historical coming-of-age
- historical thrillers/suspense/spy novels
Music
- 1940 POP Hits Chronology January to December
- 1941 Pop Hits Chronology January to December
- 1942 Pop Hits Chronology January to December
- 1943 Pop Hits Chronology January to December
- 1944 Pop Hits Chronology January to December
- 1945 Pop Hits Chronology January to December
- 1939 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1940 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1941 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1942 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1943 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1944 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- 1945 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
- bonus years 1938 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist), 1946 Hits Archive (alphabetically by song title) (alphabetically by artist)
Films and documentaries
- any film made/released during 1939-1945
- any film set during the war
- any documentary about the war
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If you would like check-in posts throughout the year, please mention it in your sign up comment. If you are neutral or don't like checking-back-in mention that too, if you don't mind. I'll do what most want--or try to remember to do so. Let's be honest, intentions at the start of the year don't always stick.
© 2020 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews
I'm in. I'm committing to the challenge in 2021. WWII stories are books I read anyway. I also love the music and film of this era.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for putting this together.
Annette of Impressions in Ink
So glad you're joining, Annette!
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ReplyDeleteOK, me! I have a bunch of WWII books I need to read.
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry. I like quarterly checkins, that suits me.
ReplyDeleteJean, I'm so glad you're joining!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds wonderful -- I have at least a dozen books about WWII and that era on my TBR shelves. I'm setting a goal of at least one per month and this will really inspire to read them!
ReplyDeleteOfficial sign-up: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2020/12/world-war-ii-reading-challenge.html
ReplyDeleteI will be enthusiastically joining your WWII reading challenge for 2021! I'm a writer of both mysteries and historical fiction set in WWII. I'll be publishing a series of three WWII books this year, so I'm immersed in the era anyway. I'll enjoy being challenged to find books I haven't read. Thank you for putting this challenge together. I'll be joining others as well, but I'll fill my list for this one first.
ReplyDeleteMy official sign-up post: https://curlingupbythefire.blogspot.com/2020/12/world-war-ii-reading-challenge.html
ReplyDeleteI'm in! https://avidseriesreader.blogspot.com/2020/12/2021-world-war-ii.html
ReplyDeleteAvid Series Reader
I’m joining. Love WW2 books and have a bunch on my Kindle.
ReplyDeleteI like check-ins IFF it is easy to find them.
ReplyDeleteShall we post links to our book reviews as comments?
I'm thrilled that this challenge includes movies! My husband is excited that I now want to watch all his faves with him. I am curious, do others plan to post reviews of the movies they watch?
Happy New Year fellow challengers!
Avid Series Reader
I'm in! I have a whole stack of unread books written in or about the WWII era, this will really inspire me to read them all.
ReplyDeleteHere's my signup post: https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2021/01/two-more-reading-challenges-wwii.html
I would love periodic check-ins but whatever is fine, I'm just happy to participate.
World War II is one of my favorite time periods, so this will be an easy one for me! :)
ReplyDeleteI don't remember if I already signed up, but I'd love to join in. Some of my favorite Christian authors write books set in WWII. :)
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28947842-wendy-ross
This sounds like so much fun! I'm a little late signing up - hope that's OK. I've put a sign-up post on my blog, here:
ReplyDeletehttps://jlshall.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-world-war-ii-challenge.html
And I've added the challenge to my list of challenge announcements for 2021, here:
https://jlshall.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html
Here's my sign-up. :-) https://luktenavtrykksverte.blogspot.com/2021/01/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-goals-for-2021.html
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