Recently, I was chatting with Rebecca @ Love at First Book and somehow we came up with the idea for a sort of bookish bucket list, which we’re titling 50 Bookish Things You Must Do Before You Die.
Most of the list we had in common, like these 35:
- 20 DIY bookish (& sophisticated) crafts
- Participate in creating or create my own Little Free Library
- Read 50+ classics
- Visit author/book locations (homes, parks, etc.)
- Do 10 new activities inspired by books
- Go to a book blogging conference
- Have cards in 10+ countries
- Stamp 100+ books
- Send/Receive 100+ PostCrossing cards
- Do 10+ video blog posts or podcasts
- Plan a few book-themed date
- Have a book-themed party
- Host an in-person book club
- Meet 20 authors
- Make blog bookmarks
- Consistently volunteer or work at a bookstore or library
- Work a Friends of the Library sale
- Guest post for a big deal book website or magazine
- Host a blogging event (see the Weekday Read-a-thon and Book Club I’m doing with Love at First Book) (completed)
- Write thank you notes to authors whose books make a difference
- Make postcards for the blog for PostCrossing
- Get 1,000 Likes on Facebook (completed)
- Get 1,000 followers on the blog (completed)
- Have a review posted/published by a national publication/website
- Be asked by Amazon to be a Vine member
- Be invited as a guest speaker for a blog/book-related conference
- Make enough money from blog to break even with blog costs
- Get 1,000 books donated to a cause (I’m currently working on this one at Books for Soldiers)
- Participate in online author discussions (completed)
- Plan a trip to meet other book bloggers
- Read the top most banned books (see my list)
- Participate often in BookCrossing
- Have a stamped book/leave a card in every state
- Have a stamped book in 10+ countries
- Participate in as many blogging events (Bloggiesta, read-a-thons, YoRWtFIW, etc) as I can (I’m hosting a Bloggiesta mini-challenge March 2013! (completed)
Then, there were some that we decided on independently. Here are my 15 individual goals:
- Discover new and debut authors
- Go inside the reading room at the Library of Congress
- Visit Presidential Libraries
- Read Pivotal Books (Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique)
- Visit the Top 10 Libraries in America
- Be in a book (completed)
- Write a personal history
- Have built-in bookshelves, preferably with a ladder
- Order business cards with my personal email (my current ones have no name or email)
- Attend a Great Gatsby Gala (themed)
- Edit a book that will be published (completed)
- Own a first edition classic
- Read a book about every U.S. President
- Get involved with starting a Changing Lives Through Literature chapter (check it out here)
- Host a “Blind Date With a Book” party
So Rebecca and I are challenging YOU! Create your own bookish bucket list!
Can’t think of 50? Think of however many you can!
Feel free to take my logo (above) or Rebecca’s logo and create your own 50 Bookish Things You Must Do Before You Die! Just make sure to link it back to The Book Wheel or Love at First Book!
Then share it with us!!!!! And check out Rebecca’s list of 50 Bookish Things You Must Do Before You Die!
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