It’s very hard to believe almost an entire year of monthly challenges has past. January Jam Jar will be making its second appearance in 2019 and I couldn’t be more excited! Especially since this is also the first challenge that’s also being hosted in our new Goodreads-group, Devour Your TBR! Feel free to join us there!
For those of you who participated last year: nothing has changed concerning the challenge! For those of you who hadn’t heard of this challenge yet, here’s the deal:
January Jam Jar is dedicated to two things, being those readers who are able to use a jar to decide their next read and the books we really wanted to read in 2018 but didn’t succeed at. Putting those together, we get a month where we’ll try to use a TBR jar filled with the books we desperately wanted to have read by now!
Rules
◊ Post a blog post / Tweet / comment / whatever saying you’ll be joining me!
◊ Create your TBR jar by writing down the books you want to read during January on scraps of paper and put them in a jar / mug / whatever floats your boat!
◊ Share your list of books that you’ll be putting in the jar and maybe already pull out a book or two!
◊ If you’re sharing your updates on social media, use #JanJamJar so we can follow up on each other!
Important
It isn’t necessary to dedicate the whole month to my monthly challenges. I know a lot of us have ARC’s to get through as well, so simply trying to pick one or two books from the jar is plenty to participate! The more, the merrier after all.
And remember, it doesn’t matter how much you read. As long as you have fun reading.
And as long as we can tackle our TBR’s, bit by bit.
Participants
◊ Me, of course!
◊ Lila @ LilaTaylor
◊ Mandy @ Panda Luvs Books
◊ Aymee @ Nerdy Reader Girl
◊ Chapter Charms
◊ Grey @ Use Your Words
◊ Kelly @ Paperback Adventures
◊ Karis @ Karis Books
◊ Afi @ Highly Illogical
◊ Ashley @ Inside My Minds
◊ Mariah @ Mariah’s Nerdy Notes
◊ Destiny @ Howling Libraries
◊ Heba @ Bookaholic Throne
◊ Phannie @ Phannie The Ginger Bookworm
◊ Misty @ Mistysbookspace
◊ BookishOwlette
◊ YOU?
Here’s my sign up post!
https://bookishowlette.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/jan-jam-jar/
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Awesome! 😀
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Hey! I’m working on my post for this now, just wanted to ask, do you have an image of the banner without the word january in it? I want to use it as my feature image.
BTW: is this only running for a month or for the whole year?
Thnx 😀
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Oh yikes! Pretty sure I don’t have one without “January” in it since it’s monthly challenges.. I can’t even check right now since we’re in the middle of remodeling and my computer is all wrapped up in plastic for.. who knows how long..
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Okii… no worries. Thanks 😊
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I’m so excited to join you. and here it is my link: https://hebabookaholic.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/january-jam-jar-tbr/
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Yaay! Adding you to the participants as we speak. 😀
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Thank you 💕 i’m so excited can’t wait to pick up my first challenge soon 😍
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I love this idea. My Jam Jar hated me a little bit and gave me three books over 420 pages. The post about it over on my blog Mariah’s Nerdy Notes will be up tomorrow, 31 December! https://mariahsnerdynotes.blogspot.com/
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Awh! Those are definitely huge books to start the year with, haha. Hopefully it’ll turn out okay! Have fun! 😀
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Here is my link. Just went up tonight! https://pandaluvsbooks.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/january-jam-jar/
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Awesome! 😀
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I’m definitely joining in on this one! I’m getting my TBR ready for January slowly.
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Awesome! 😀
I have my list of books to put in my jar, but.. I’m lacking the colored paper I want to use, haha. We’re moving tomorrow so I’m hoping to unpack soon-ish and create the actual jar. 😛
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I’m so in!
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Awesome! 😀
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I would like to join you as well. I am so excited, I already made a post about it. 😊
https://lilataylorwriting.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/late-a-thon-and-january-jam-jar/?preview=true
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I’m so in!
Do you have a list of your monthly challenges?
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I do! Simply click “Monthly challenges” in my menu above orrr go here: https://booksandmunches.com/monthly-challenges/
And I’m having an overview post up later this month as well! 🙂
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I will be participating in this. Post coming soon! I used to do all my physical TBR this way, but got off track there for a bit.
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Awesooome! 😀
Ha, I really cannot use a jar for longer than a month. I end up ignoring the thing and picking up books according my mood. 😛
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Wooo! I’m definitely participating! I already posted my tentative TBR in the Goodreads group, but it can still change because I want to finish some of those books in December, so I’m not posting anythign on my blog yet. I’ll definitely link back when I do though. I love your monthly challenges 😀 they are a great way to help me narrow down my list without getting really overwhelming. Like, I love challenges with bingos and prompts, but they are usually pretty hardcore so I can’t do them every month without a break, but yours are nice and cozy.
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Awesooome!
Haha, I’m having the same “issue”. I’ve already drafted some kind of TBR but I want to wait a bit longer before I create my actual jar in case I end up reading some of the books already. 😛
Aawh, thank you so much! I’m glad they’re not only helping me out but others as well! I feel you on the bingos and such. They can be pressuring and overwhelming. I do love them once in a while, but I like reading with a low pressure challenge better. 🙂
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I’m thinking of not writing titles on the pieces of paper, just numbers, and then I can edit an excel list more easily and take out the ones that I already read? We’ll see 😀
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Ooh, that’s definitely an option as well!
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Hmm…since 2019 will be my year of big books (but not just big books), I may add a bunch of the big books into a TBR jar and see what ones I will start my year with.
Good luck with January Jam Jar!
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Definitely sounds like a good idea! I might just have to put A Song of Ice and Fire in my jar so I can maybe finally start my reread of those books – but in English instead of Dutch this time around, hah.
Thank you!!
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Very nice! Happy Reading.
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I’m participating. I’ve already got my jar set up and everything I just need to do a blog post on it.
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Awesome! 😀 I know what books I want to put in my jar, but I’ve yet to make my actual jar.. Hopefully later this week. 🙂
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I’ve been doing a lot of planning for next year already. I think I’ve gone a little overboard with everything I want to do lol.
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Even if that’s the case; you can still adapt your plans as you go, haha!
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Yeah it’s fun to try to do all of it I just know I’m going to fail lol 😂
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Well, at least you’ve already accepted that. Which means you can’t end up disappointed either way! 😛
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Yeah that’s true 😂
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Definitely participating in this. Sounds really cool
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Yaay! Awesome! Curious to see what books you’ll put in your jar. 🙂
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So am I. I’ll probably be making that jar after my exams are over
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Plenty of time still! I have yet to make mine as well anyway. 🙂
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This looks like fun!
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I’m way too much of a mood reader to do this challenge. But I am doing the Biannual Bibliothon.
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I get that! I’m a bit of a mood reader myself, so I’ll probably end up picking a book not from the jar once in a while, but I’m going to try and do that not too often. 🙂
Have fun with the Biannual Bibliothon!
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Thank you! It’s one of my favorites, I can’t wait to see what the reading challenges and blog challenges will be.
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That’s always the most fun to discover! Although I like putting my TBR together most when it comes to readathons and reading challenges. 🙂
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I only make TBRs for readathons with reading challenges, it makes things so much easier.
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Definitely true; guess I like making things harder for myself. 🙂
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Great idea, Kathy. I’m trying to stay away from challenges this year, but this sounds like fun, I might do it!
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Well, you know my challenges are never meant to pressure and are pretty low-key! 😀
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This is such a lovely idea, I can’t wait to join in 😊❤️
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Ooh, awesome! Looking forward to seeing what books you’ll put in your jar. 😀
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Thanks!!! 😊
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