At the beginning of 2012, I said I was going to stop doing reading challenges for the time being.  It made sense at the time--I was just starting my second semester of graduate school and most of the reading I did was for class.  I've also noticed that since I've started working in professional library jobs (i.e. the job I had in Iowa and the one I have now) there's a lot more stuff that I feel obligated to read, even if it's something I want to read. For example, I feel obligated to make sure that I'm incorporating lots of middle grade into my reading, even though YA is my bread and butter.  I love MG too, so I ultimately don't mind doing this, but I do tend to think more about how reading a particular book could help me better advise the readers with whom I work.

While there is a lot that I feel obligated to read, I also know that if I only read that stuff, my reading diet will start to feel all off balance. In my Reading Imbalance and my Struggles with my TBR post, I introduced the three Lizes of reading (Inner Liz, Blogger Liz, and Librarian Liz) talked about how I try to make three different Lizes happy when I make my reading choices.  As 2015 began, I found challenges that would satisfy both Inner Liz and Blogger Liz.  Let's talk about what they are.