We are thrilled you’ve chosen to embark on the first ever Authologie’s Promptastic Book Club Challenge, an adventure created to deepen your love of books by taking part in reading challenges. Choose your own books but with a little help along the way and an option of sharing your reading journey with many others too. This isn't any ordinary reading journal, this book club challenge isn’t any old reading challenge.

 

‘The Circle’ welcomes you, ‘The Challenge’ awaits. Welcome!

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To begin Year One of the challenge, travel into the corridors of the Authologie Promptastic Book Club’s headquarters. After entering the organisation’s building, you will first, through the door on the right, be shown into ‘The Prompt Library’ where you’ll discover prompts designed to inspire you to choose a book based on the descriptions and clues included. The prompts are designed to broaden your reading experiences and create more fun! There is one prompt for every week of Year One — but you set the pace.

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After experiencing The Prompt Library, in order to contemplate the challenge ahead, we have the most comfortable corner of the building designated to you, a place to call your own. We have provided you with a beautifully imagined space, a dedicated office filled with every one of your requirements and desires. A warm book nook full of cushions, a crackling fireplace and warm mugs filled with hot chocolate and marshmallows, perhaps a soft fluffy rug to sink your toes into? Yup! Those too! A place of calm, warmth and hidden cosy corners — this incredible place is yours and yours alone, a sanctuary to call home while planning your reads, immersing yourself in your incredible books and accomplishing your challenge.

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Here waiting for you on the rug, you’ll find ‘The Prompt Archives’ — a set of the most beautiful pages adorned with tags holding each of the challenge’s prompts. The archives are bestowed upon you to document each prompt you master and capture the essence of each book you read — create sketches, decorate with book covers, store quotes, review, question, record your thoughts and feelings about the books and preserve your reading experience. They will become the most precious of all your possessions, a place to ensure the wisdom and knowledge gained from your reading adventures are not lost. By completing these pages as you experience the books you read in the challenge, you shall build a record of your progress and achievements and create a glorious keepsake of your reads!​​​

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You will discover that each Prompt Archive is adorned with ‘The Keeper’s Ribbon’, which shows 11 crests pinned along it. These crests are the badges of ‘The Side Quests’ that you can choose to take part in, if you wish. Within the Prompt Archive pages, you should mark your progress in colour as you read towards each side quest. Once all 11 are completed, you earn the right to proudly display your badges for all to see and your achievements will be rewarded! At the very top of The Keeper’s Ribbon, you will see a swirling portal. This belongs to the twelfth and greatest side quest of them all, ‘The Dodecagon Quest’. It’s a reading experience to cherish and look forward to, its rewards are desired by most. Completed throughout the twelve months of Year One, this exciting quest will grant you access to a portal into the next realm and the highest honours given out to our challengers and shall be offered to those who conquer The Dodecagon Side Quest as it requires skills we value most highly to complete.​​​​​​

 

The side quest files can be found in ‘The Side Quest Vault’, hidden within your office walls, you must seek out the vault before you begin the challenge. They are designed to run alongside the main Promptastic Challenge. Eleven of the twelve side quests require no extra reading, making them achievable even to the most stretched of challengers. They are there to add enrichment and fun to your challenge, the ultimate objective for all!

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Once you’ve relaxed and processed everything you’ve discovered so far, you may wish to venture back out of your office and continue along the organisation’s corridors. The next room to discover is the heavily guarded ‘Bookcase Room’. You may not see the guards, but they are watching! Here you’ll find a fantastic array of records and files to keep your mind on task and your log books filled. Be sure to return any files or documents you’ve taken from the room, the consequences can be severe and merciless should a file be ‘misplaced’.

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Inside The Bookcase Room, you will be shown your own bookshelves, they are there for you to fill with your challenge reads, a place for your precious books to be admired, browsed through and for your progress in the challenge to be fully and visually appreciated. You’ll also find a place to show the book covers of your reads too, you can draw these or print and stick them in, perhaps you’d prefer to write the book titles instead — it’s yours to use as you wish.

 

The files housed in The Bookcase Room may be used in any way you please, they’re the foundation of our organisation’s desire to create keepsakes and progress reports. They are there should you wish to use them, many do, but others don’t, the choice is yours. Be assured, the room offers a secure place to store your challenge documents and stash away confidential information provided to The Promptastic Book Club to further Authologie’s collective goals.

 

The final room in the organisation’s building is ‘The Trophy Room’, a place too exciting and magnificent for words! Take a look for yourself when you’re ready. Now, let’s head back to ‘Your Office’ and digest all that’s been discovered today — with a cat curled up on your lap while you relax in your snuggly armchair.

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This challenge and the side quests begin when you decide, others may have gone before you, many after you, but you will forge your own path in your own time! You should aim to complete the challenge within twelve months if you can, but this is a special adventure you’re embarking on, so if you are needing more time to enjoy it, then that’s welcomed

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Ooh! I nearly forgot 'The Prompt Library Annex’ — you may, we believe, find this resource incredibly helpful when planning what to read.

 

 

 

 

This invitation to join us within the online world also extends to offer you free membership of our secret discussion forum known as ‘The Circle’. You will always be welcome in our online community to share your wisdom, experiences and reading recommendations, and enjoy those of others too. All of our challengers are highly valued, so giveaways and events will be shared. Developed as time passes, by those working within the Authologie organisation and all our highly valued Circle members, these resources will help any challenger lost along the way or looking to share their joy of books, connecting them with others, stamping out isolation. 

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The journal is your guide, your map, the record of your reads and a celebration of all your achievements. Remember, you can also share your reading challenge triumphs and ask for support within The Circle too. Before you begin, make sure you reflect upon the challenge ahead and record your thoughts, you’ll find papers to do so in your office. Once you’ve completed the Challenge, there’s post-challenge debrief papers waiting for you to fill in too! 

 

Now take a look around. This journey is yours to command. Your decisions will shape your path. Your dedication will earn you the rewards. We hope you enjoy discovering new books and sharing your discoveries within The Circle — together our wisdom is stronger.

 

May your challenge begin!