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December - Advent Calendar
YAY!PARTICIPANTS.
Carmen: 17/24
Caro: 16/24
Cassandra: 0/31
Catka: 15/24 + 15/31
Clare: 12/24
Cristina: 7/31
Debra: 16/31
Fiona: 14/31
Gail: 0/24
Jannah: 8/28
Jeannine: 16/24
Jennifer: 16/24
Jennifer: 14/31
Karina: 17/31
Kristin: 4/24
Lauren: 0/31
Lulu: 12/31
Megan: 9/24
Megan BG: 0/24
Nicole: 16/31
Paul: 0/24
Rebecca: 2/24
Reija: 15/24
Samantha: 1/24
Sarah: 17/31
SarahKat: 0/24
Sonsoles: 8/24
Sunny: 11/24
Sunshine: 2/24
Suzanne: 17/24
Tasha: 14/24
TCampbell: 16/31
TerryJane: 0/24
Theresa: 16/24
Valerie: 12/31
Ziggy: 17/25
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When you sign up, let me know how many days you’re in for - 31 for all of December, or 24/25, or whichever amount of days best suit you!
December happens so fast! Which causes me mild comcern sometimes, so it’s fortunate I get to squeeze so much merriment out of this advent calendar. :)What are you planning to read? Stories, essays, poems, chapters, graphic novels? I save especially interesting short story collections through the year with December in mind, and this year I’m starting with The Outcast Hours.
10/311. From the void, by Sarah Gailey (Shimmer magazine)
2. This book will find you, by Lauren Beukes + (The Outcast Hours)
3. It was a different time, by Will Hill (The Outcast Hours)
4. Ambulance service, by Sami Shah (The Outcast Hours)
5. Blind eye, by Frances Hardinge (The Outcast Hours)
6. The town that wasn't anymore, by C. Robert Cargill (We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories)
7. We are where the nightmares go, by C. Robert Cargill (We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories)
8. As they continue to fall, by C. Robert Cargill (We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories)
9. The Drowning Eyes (novella by Emily Foster)
10. Sleep walker, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Outcast Hours)
I would like to sign up for 31 days :) I will read chapters and I will put in the link to the book when I am not on the app :)So I'm reading Breaking Dawn and divided it in chapters/chunks.
31/31
Done!
I'd like to participate for the 24 days. I think I'm planning to read The Simple Gift as of right now.1) pg. 1-10
2) pg. 11-18
3) pg. 19-26
4) pg. 27-34
I would like to participate for 24 days. I will be reading 2-3 “tales” a day from
I would like to join:4 books for 24 days:
✔️ The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien
✔️ Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
✔️ Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
✔️ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
Progress: 4/4 books, 24/24 days
✔️ Dec 1. Tolkien's letter from 1925 and two stories by Leacock: "Half-hours with the Poets", "A, B, and C"
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 2. Tolkien's letter from 1926 and two stories by Leacock: Back to the Bush, A Model Dialogue
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 3. Tolkien's letter from 1927 and two stories by Leacock: The Passing of the Poet, Self-made Men
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 4. Tolkien's letter from 1928 and two stories by Leacock: Hints to Travellers, A Manual of Education
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 5. Tolkien's letter from 1929 and two stories by Leacock: Reflections on Riding, Saloonio
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 6. Tolkien's letters from 1930 and 1931
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 7. Tolkien's letters from 1932 and 1933
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 8. Tolkien's letters from 1934 and 1935 and two stories by Leacock: Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas, The Life of John Smith
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 9. Tolkien's letters from 1936 and 1937 and two stories by Leacock: Aristocratic Education, The Conjurer's Revenge
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 10. Tolkien's letters from 1938 and the last letter and two stories by Leacock: Getting the Thread of It, Telling His Faults
Few pages of Tom Robbins
Finished The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien - it was lovely and fun. Heartily recommend.
✔️ Dec 11. Two stories by Leacock: A New Pathology, The Poet Answered
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 12. Two stories by Leacock: The Force of Statistics, Men Who have Shaved Me. Sedaris' short story Christmas Means Giving
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 13. Two stories by Leacock: On Collecting Things, Society Chat-Chat. Sedaris' short story The Cow and the Turkey
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 14. Sedaris' short story Based on a True Story, short story by Leacock: My Financial Career, few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 15. Two stories by Leacock: How to be a Doctor, The New Food. Sedaris' short story Us and Them
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 16. Two stories by Leacock: A Christmas Letter, How to Make a Million Dollars. Sedaris' short story Six to Eight Black Men
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 17. Two stories by Leacock: How to Live to be 200, How to Avoid Getting Married. Sedaris' short story Dinah, the Christmas Whore
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 18. Two stories by Leacock: Boarding-House Geometry, The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones. Sedaris' short story The Monster Mash
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 19. Two stories by Leacock: A Study in Still Life.—The Country Hotel, An Experiment With Policeman Hogan. Sedaris' short story Jesus Shaves
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 20. Two stories by Leacock: My Financial Career, Lord Oxhead's Secret. Sedaris' short story Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 21. A short story by Leacock: Insurance up to Date. Sedaris' not-so-short story SantaLand Diaries
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 22. Two stories by Leacock: A Lesson in Fiction, Helping the Armenians. Sedaris' short story Let It Snow
Few pages of Tom Robbins
✔️ Dec 23. Two stories by Leacock: Winter Pastimes, Number Fifty-Six. Sedaris' short story Front Row Center Thaddeus Bristol
Few pages of Tom Robbins
Finished Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
✔️ Dec 24. A short story by Leacock: Borrowing a Match, last few pages of Tom Robbins
Finished Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
And done with the challenge
Hola!Please, sign me in for 24 days and 4 books (2 anthologies, 1 novel and 1 short story)
PROGRESS: 4/4 books 24/24 days
🕯1.
Tenth of December🍭1. Victory Lap
🍬2. Sticks
🍩3. Puppy
🍫4. Escape from Spiderhead
🎈5. Exhortation
🍬6. Al Roosten
🍪7. The Semplica Girl Diaries
🍭8. Home
🍩9. My Chivalric Fiasco
🍫10. Tenth of December
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Sugar and Spice🍬11. The Christmas stocking by Fern Michaels
🍩12. Ghost of Christmas past by Beverly Barton
🍭13. Twelve desserts of Christmas by Joanne Fluke
🍫14. Twelve days by Shirley Jump
🕯3.
Christmas Bliss🍬15. Chapter 1 to Chapter 4
🍩16. Chapter 5 to Chapter 8
🍫17. Chapter 9 to Chapter 12
🍪18. Chapter 13 to Chapter 16
🍭19. Chapter 17 to Chapter 20
🍬20. Chapter 21 to Chapter 24
🍩21. Chapter 25 to Chapter 28
🍫22. Chapter 29 to Chapter 32
🍬23. Chapter 33 to Chapter 35
🕯4.
🍫24. The Christmas Island Story
I would like to sign up for 31 days I plan on reading short books on my TBR list all books are under 75 pages.1.Rag Doll 12/1
2.Into The Shadow Of Dark: The Mysterious World Of Professor Darkk And Miss Shadow12/2
3.The Other Girl 12/3
4.The Dreamer 12/4
5.The Shopkeep : A Morbid Tale12/5
6.The Queen's Army12/6
7.They Killed In Secret12/7
8. Employment Interview With a Vampire 12/8
9. Strange Start12/9
10.The Wish Doll: The Next Chapter: A Horror Short Story12/10
11.Croaked12/11
12.Silent Night 12/12
13.If My Name Was Amanda 12/13
14.JUSTINE 12/14
15. Everlee & Lee 12/15
16.The Gift of Love: Barry Holmes Investigates12/16
17.The Blank Slate: A Sweet Romantic Comedy12/17
18.The Immortal Part of Myself12/18
19.The Visitor12/19
20. The Nightcomers 12/20
21.A Dream 12/21
22.To be young and in love 12/22
23. A Midnight Curse 12/23
24.The Day I Died 12/24
25. Where the Monsters Live: A Dark Revenge
Thriller 12/25
26.The Baby on the Back Porch: A Short Story 12/26
27.Facebook Stalker, Book 1 12/27
28. The Voyeur 12/28
29.Forced Entry12/29
30.1 Night12/30
31. To Kill A Critic12/31
I would like to join! Planning to read:Short stories from The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition
December 1: The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich
0/31
Hello, I'd like to sign up for the challenge! (31 days)I'm choosing a novel, a novella and some short stories, starting with:
1. Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies
2. The Chimes by Charles Dickens
3. La liste de Noël by Jojo Moyes
4. At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov
If I need more, I'll hunt down some classic Christmas short stories :)
1. Book 1 Chapter 1 ✔
2. Book 1 Chapter 2 ✔
3. Book 1 Chapter 3 ✔
4. Book 1 Chapter 4 ✔
5. Book 1 Chapter 5 ✔
6. Book 1 Chapter 6 ✔
7. Book 1 Chapter 7 ✔
8. Book 1 Chapter 8 ✔
9. Book 1 Chapter 9 ✔
10. Book 1 Chapter 10 ✔
11. Book 1 Chapter 11✔
12. Book 1 Chapter 12✔
13. Book 1 Chapter 13 ✔
14. Book 1 Chapter 14 ✔
15. Book 1 Chapter 15 ✔
16. Book 1 Chapter 16 ✔
17. Book 1 Chapter 17✔
18. Book 1 Chapter 18✔
19. Book 2 1st Quarter ✔
20. Book 2 2nd Quarter ✔
21. Book 2 3rd Quarter ✔
22. Book 2 4th Quarter ✔
23. Book 3 ✔
24. Book 4 ✔
25. The Little Match Girl ✔
26. Casse noisette et le roi des rats ✔
27. The Snowman, Raymond Briggs ✔
28. Coming Home, Michael Morpurgo ✔
29. The Snowman and the Snowdog ✔
30. The Steadfast Tin Soldier ✔
31. Conte de Noël, Guy de Maupassant ✔
Please sign me up for 31 days, reading short stories! (Also hi Karina!)12/31
Stories of Your Life and Others — 8/8, complete
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How Long 'til Black Future Month? — 4/22
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13. The Effluent Engine (38 pages)
14. Cloud Dragon Skies (13 pages)
15. The Trojan Girl (24 pages)
16. Valedictorian (20 pages)
17. The Storyteller’s Replacement (13 pages)
18. The Brides of Heaven (14 pages)
19. The Evaluators (17 pages)
20. Waking Awake (20 pages)
21. The Elevator Dancer (4 pages)
22. Cuisine des Mémoires (16 pages)
23. Stone Hunger (26 pages)
24. On the Banks of the River Lex (16 pages)
25. The Nacromancer (37 pages)
26. Henosis (8 pages)
27. Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows (13 pages)
28. The You Train (8 pages)
29. Non-Zero Probabilities (11 pages)
30. Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters (24 pages)
31. A Dead Djinn in Cairo
I am also signing up and doing short stories.True?
1. Staycation
2. Better Than Jail
3. Summer School
4. Because I love him
5.Shrodinger's Scoop
6. Don't Tell Mum
7. Dumped After Decades
8. Cuffed as Fuck
9.The Sword of Damocles
10. Truth or Dare
11. Kiss you While you Sleep
12. The People's Choice
13. Cloud Nine
14. Underground
15. Mengistu
16. That Tingling Sensation
Eight The Hard Way
17. Paydown
18. Off the Leash
19. Mr. Mockingbird Drive
20. Ladies' Weekend
21. Veritas: Concubine
22. Divide and Conquer
23. Recidivist
24.Return of the bride
I'll sign up for 24 days. I don't have a lot of short stories, so I'll probably just read a chapter of Psalms every day or something.
Oh I love this and did not manage to finish it last year!Please sign me in I will read till the 24 and will be short stories. Still not sure which book but please add me :)
I am withdrawing from this challenge.I've decided to simply read whatever I want for the remainder of 2019.
I'm in for 24 days.I'll be reading:
Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
and the other 11 stories from:
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
Progress: 24/24
Completed!
Sorry, but I’m going to withdraw. I’m just not feeling short stories at the moment.
I would like to participate in this challenge by reading a poem each day of December, so sign me up for 31 days. Not sure what I will read, yet. I have a few books of poetry I might pull from and I am sure I will also use the internet. I'm thinking of sharing some of the poems I read on Facebook with my friends, and I will probably try to stick to a winter/holiday theme.1. "The Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay
2. "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
3. "Lines: The cold earth slept below" by Percy Shelley
4. "A Winter Daybreak above Venice" by James Wright
5. "Stopping By The Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
6. "Choices" by Tess Gallagher
7. "Wynter Wakeneth Al My Care" (author unknown)
8. "Journey of the Magi" by T. S. Eliot
9. "To Know the Dark" by Wendell Berry
10. "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper
11. "Ice" by Gail Mazur
12. "A Winter Solstice Prayer" by Edward Hays
13. "Snow" by Derek Wolcott
14. "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
15. "An Old Man's Winter Night" by Robert Frost
16. "At Christmas" by Edgar Guest
17. "A Friend's Greeting" by Edgar Guest
18. "The World" by Jennifer Chang
19. "Snow" by Naomi Shihab Nye
20. "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
21. "Winter-Time" by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. "Toward the Winter Solstice" by Timothy Steele
23. "White-Eyes" by Mary Oliver
24. "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by
25. "little tree" by e.e. cummings
26. "Tell Me" by Jean Toomer
27. "Mosaic" by Linda Pastan
28. "Blizzard" by Linda Pastan
29. "Snow Day" by Billy Collins
30. "Snow" by Robert Frost
31. "The Exposed Nest" by Robert Frost
31/31
Sign me up for short stories for 31 days in December. I have so many short stories I've been looking forward to reading and this challenge will help me get through at least some of them.
ADVENT CALENDAR CHALLENGEDuration: December 1, - December 31, 2019
Progress: 24/24 -- COMPLETE
I'll be going with Option A. I've had Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances on my TBR for some time. Since it has 24 works, it nicely fits into the Advent Calendar Challenge. And, would you look at that? One of the works is called Calendar of Tales. How apropos!
Table of Contents
🎄 12/1 Making A Chair -- An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer CD, 2011
🎄 12/2 A Lunar Labyrinth -- Shadows of the New Sun, 2013
🎄 12/3 The Thing About Cassandra -- Songs of Love and Death, 2010
🎄 12/4 Down To A Sunless Sea -- The Guardian, 2013
🎄 12/5 The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains... -- Stories, 2010
🎄 12/6 My Last Landlady -- Off the Coastal Path, 2010
🎄 12/7 Adventure Story -- McSweeney's #40, 2012
🎄 12/8 Orange -- The Starry Rift, 2008
🎄 12/9 A Calendar Of Tales -- A Calendar of Tales, 2013
🎄 12/10 The Case Of Death And Honey -- A Study in Sherlock, 2011
🎄 12/11 The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury -- Shadow Show, 2012
🎄 12/12 Jerusalem -- BBC Radio 4, 2007
🎄 12/13 Click-Clack The Rattlebag -- Impossible Monsters, 2013
🎄 12/14 An Invocation Of Incuriosity -- Songs of the Dying Earth, 2009
🎄 12/15 And Weep, Like Alexander -- Fables of the Fountain, 2013
🎄 12/16 Nothing O'Clock -- Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, 2013
🎄 12/17 Diamonds And Pearls: A Fairy Tale -- Who Killed Amanda Palmer, 2009
🎄 12/18 The Return Of The Thin White Duke -- V Magazine, 2004
🎄 12/19 Feminine Endings -- Four Letter Word, 2007
🎄 12/20 Observing The Formalities -- Troll's Eye View, 2009
🎄 12/21 The Sleeper And The Spindle -- Rags and Bones, 2013
🎄 12/22 Witch Work -- Under My Hat, 2012
🎄 12/23 In Relig Odhráin -- Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 2011
🎄 12/24 Black Dog
Please put me down for 24 short stories14/24
✔️Giovanni’s Farewell by Claudia Gray
✔️Scenic Route [The Forest of Hands and Teeth] by Carrie Ryan
✔️Red Run by Kami Garcia
✔️Things About Love [As You Wish] by Jackson Pearce
✔️ [Soul Screamers] by Rachel Vincent
✔️Merely Mortal [Wicked Lovely] by Melissa Marr
✔️Facing Facts [Darkest Powers] by Kelley Armstrong
✔️Bridge by Jeri Smith-Ready
✔️Skin Contact by Kimberly Derting
✔️Leaving by Ally Condie
✔️At The Late Night, Double Feature, Picture Show by Jessica Verday
12✔️ Gargouille by Mary E. Pearson
13✔️Automatic by Rachel Caine
14✔️The Statement of Randolph Carter
Lulu wrote: "(Also hi Karina!)"Merry helloes! o/
...And hi, all of you! I love seeing so many of you returning to the advent calendar. :)So many interesting reads, too!
I'll sign up for 24 short stories and/or poems, thanks!Ended December with 22/24 days/poems/stories read.
December 1: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios from The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel
December 2: Manners of Dying by Yann Martel
December 3: The Vita Æterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last till Kingdom Come by Yann Martel
December 4: The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton by Yann Martel
December 5: Stone from Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
December 6: The Time Invariance of Snow by E. Lily Yu
December 7: The Hundredth House Had No Walls by Laurie Penny
December 8: Powder by Matthew Kneale
December 9: Leaves by Matthew Kneale
December 10: Pills by Matthew Kneale
December 11: Taste by Matthew Kneale
December 12:Weight by Matthew Kneale
December 13: Missed this day
December 14: Metal by Matthew Kneale
December 15: Sound by Matthew Kneale
December 16: Sunlight by Matthew Kneale
December 17: Seasons by Matthew Kneale
December 18: Numbers by Matthew Kneale
December 19: White by Matthew Kneale
December 20: The Future by Neil Hilborn - Section I
December 21:The Future by Neil Hilborn - Section II
December 22:The Future by Neil Hilborn - Section III
December 23:The Future by Neil Hilborn - Section IV
December 24: Didn't read this day
Advent Calendar is one of my favorite challenges all year! Thanks for hosting. :)
This is a great challenge!! I will sign up for 24 with a combination of poems and short stories/short books
I am going to go for 31 short storiesProgress: 31/31-COMPLETED
1)The Semplica-Girl Diaries(1/12/19)
2)The Yellow Wallpaper(2/12/19)
3)The Proxy Marriage(3/12/19)
4)Bella's Diary(4/12/19)
5)The School(5/12/19)
6)The Happy Prince(6/12/19)
7)The Mark on the Wall(7/12/19)
8)The Black Cat(8/12/19)
9)The Gift of the Magi(9/12/19)
10)Nobody's Story(10/12/19)
11)Queenie(11/12/19)
12)Boys and Girls(12/12/19)
13)The Twelve Days of Christmas(13/12/19)
14)The Little Christmas Tree(14/12/19)
15)Address Unknown(15/12/19)
16)The Poor Relation's Story(16/12/19)
17)Little Red Riding Hood(17/12/19)
18)A Christmas Tree and a Wedding: Short Story(18/12/19)
19)The Fir-Tree(19/12/19)
20)The Story of the Other Wise Man(20/12/19)
21)A Tale of Three Kings(21/12/19)
22)The Velveteen Rabbit(22/12/19)
23)The Elves and the Shoemaker(23/12/19)
24)Twas the Night Before Christmas(24/12/19)
25)Bullet in the Brain(25/12/19)
26)Brace Mouth False Teeth(26/12/19)
27)The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar: Short Story(27/12/19)
28)The Masque Of The Red Death: Short Story(28/12/19)
29)The Fall of the House of Usher(29/12/19)
30)The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle(30/12/19)
31)Father and Son(31/12/19)
December happens TOMORROW! Are we ready?
Karina wrote: "December happens TOMORROW! Are we ready?"Yes. My advent calendar with a piece of chocolate and a name of a short story for the day is ready. Can't wait.
Hello!I want to participate for 24 days and I will be reading short stories by Gabriel García Márquez from Todos los cuentos
1. Diálogo del Espejo
2. Amargura para tres sonámbulos
3. De como Natanael hace una visita
4. Ojos de perro azul
5. La mujer que llegaba a las seis
6. La noche de los alcaravanes
7. Alguien desordena estas rosas
8. Nabo, el negro que hizo esperar a los ángeles
I will update more next week
Hi!I would also like to participate. It would be for 31 days and I'll be reading short books on my TBR list (poetry or prose).
PROGRESS: 9/31
1. A Christmas Carol
2. blud
3. Corazón
4. Tesoro
5. Hermosa
6. Oliver Twist
7. Cel mai bogat om din Babilon
8. War of the Foxes
9. Ordinary Beast
Thank you.
And I will try harder next year.
I'd like to sign up for 24 short stories/poemsProgress: 1/24
1. A Christmas Carol ✔️
2. A Country Christmas
3. Christmas or The Good Fairy
4. The Snow Queen
5. A Christmas Inspiration
6. The Christmas Masquerade
7. The Romance of a Christmas Card
8. The Gift of the Magi
9. Tilly's Christmas
10. Christmas Every Day
11. The Cricket on the Hearth
12. The Snowman
13. The Frost King, the Original Short Story
14. A Christmas Tree
15. The History of the Nutcracker
16. What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
17. Star-Child: A Fable by Oscar Wilde
18. Jack Frost. Russian Folk Tale Morozko: Illustrated Children's Book
19. The Chimes
20. The Ice-Maiden
21. The Nightingale and the Rose (Original 1888 Edition): Annotated
22. The Elfin Hill
23. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
24. A Visit from St. Nicholas
I'm in. I read Exhalation: Stories* and Sukkanauhatyttö ja muita kertomuksia+1. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate *
2. Maria Kallion ensimmäinen tapaus+
3. Ruma juttu+
4. Exhalation*
5. Joulutähdet*
6. What’s Expected of Us*
7. Ruumiin kulttuuria+
8. The Lifecycle of Software Objects*
9. Sydänverellä+
10. Verenpunaiset kivet+
11. Ruusuja ja kivääreitä+
12. Tuhoisat tähdet+
13. Ennustaja+
14. Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny*
15. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling*
16. Varastettu elämä+
17. Sukkanauhatyttö+
18. The Great Silence*
19. Omphalos*
20. Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom*
21. Joulun taikaa by Cathy Kelly
22. War Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah
23. Vuosikausia by Anna Gavalda
24. Kuusi by Tove Jansson
24/24
Quick Question -- Did you want us to update our progress like we'd normally do in these challenges? Or will the 24-31 messages by the twenty or so participants be overwhelming?(In case we are updating... 1/24 read for message #29.)
I would like to join...I have dozens of back issues of conservation magazines that I want to read, but never get to. Each day (31) I will pick one and read an article or two. Updated #42 : 31 of 31 challenge complete1. Sierra Nov/Dec 19
2. Nature Conservancy Spring 2017
3. Rails to Trails Fall 2019
4. National Parks Fall 2017
5. Nature Conservancy Summer 2017
6. National Parks Spring 2017
7. National Parks Fall 2019
8. Nature Conservancy NJ Sp/Summer 2019
9. Nature Conservancy Summer 2019
10. Nature Conservancy Winter 2019
11. Preservation Fall 2017
12. Sierra Sept/Oct 2019
13. Gateways Winter 2019
14. Nature Conservancy Fall 2019
15. National Parks Summer 2019
16. Sierra May/June 2019
17. Sierra Jan/Feb 2019
18. National Parks Spring 2019
19. The Jersey Sierran Jan-Mar 2020
20. Sierra Jul/Aug 2019
21. Outdoor Photographer June 2016
22. National Parks Winter 2020
23. Rails to Trails Sp/Summer 2019
24. Preservation summer 2019
25. Our Parks Spring 2018
26. The Jersey Sierran April-June 2018
27. Sierra Mar/April 2018
28. National Parks Summer 2016
29. National Parks Fall 2015
30. Sierra Jan/Feb 2020
31. National Parks Summer 2015
I would like to sign up for the 24 short stories please.24/24 Completed
1)Kentucky Christmas
2)Snowed In
3)Christmas at Whisper Beach
4)The Poor Relation's Story
5)What Christmas Is as We Grow Older
6)The Little Match Girl
7)The Gift of the Magi
8)The Fir Tree
9)Where Love Is, There God Is Also
10)A Christmas Tree
11)The Elves and the Shoemaker
12)The Legend of the Christmas Tree: Gift of the Magi and Other Wise Men Read The Legend of the Christmas Tree
13)A Short Christmas Sermon: Keeping Christmas
14)The Velveteen Rabbit
15)Christmas at Sea
16)The three kings
17)The Night Before Christmas
18)A Christmas Carol
19)Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoes - A Christmas Story
20)How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
21)A Letter from Santa Claus
22/)The Legend Of The Christmas Rose
23)The Snowman
24)The Steadfast Tin Soldier
I'm signing up. Reading Walt Whitman, a poem a day, for each of hte 31 days.
I will read one story each day. I still have to decide the book.Book 1: Cuentos macabros
Day 1. Berenice
I am going to sign up for 24 days and use the time to read through some religious books that I have had on my TBR for a while without reading at a rate of 1 chapter per day, which is modifying the challenge just a bit:PROGRESS: 2/24
Book 1 (Days 1-11): The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
Day 3: Chapter 3
Day 4: Chapter 4
Day 5: Chapter 5
Day 6: Chapter 6
Day 7: Chapter 7
Day 8: Chapter 8
Day 9: Chapter 9
Day 10: Chapter 10
Day 11: Chapter 11, Appendix 1-3, Afterwards
Book 2 (Days 12-18): The Man God Uses
Book 3 (Days 19-24): Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals
KarinaMy apologies but I've decided to withdraw from this challenge.
I'm in for Option A for 31 days, please!1. Let It Be Forgotten by Sara Teasdale
2. December Morning in the Desert by Alberto Ríos
3. The Same and the Other by Gina Franco
4. Personal History by Adrienne Su
5. Inheritance by Camille Rankine
6. Faith by Arthur Caswell Parker
7. Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. Let Me Not Lose My Dream by Georgia Douglas Johnson
9. Legend by Helena Mesa
10. Gratitude by Jon Davis
11. Taharah by Miller Oberman
12. Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd”
by Kimiko Hahn
13. Gravel by David Baker
14. Hello by Sean Hill
15. December by Christopher Pearce Cranch
16. Yearnings For Home by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
17. The Psychic by Victoria Redel
18. You Won’t Find Consolation by Katharine Coles
19. Raven, Helsinki Harbor by Stephen Kuusisto
20. What Big Eyes You Have by Heather Christle
21. How I Became a Madman (Prologue) by Kahlil Gibran
22. Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set] by George Santayana
23. House Call by Joanie Mackowski
24. Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More by Matt Donovan
25. Christmas Trees by Robert Frost
26. Child in Big Toy by Mario Chard
27. XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] by Emily Dickinson
28. I Am Like A Leaf by Yone Noguchi
29. Nunataq by Joan Naviyuk Kane
30. Altitude by Cyrus Cassells
31. Song for the New Year by Eliza Cook
1. the shared patio
2. the swim team
3. majesty
4. the man on the stairs
5. the sister
6. this person
7. it was romance
8. something that needs nothing
9. I kiss a door
10. the boy from lam kien
11. making love in 2003
12. ten true things
13. the moves
14. mon Plaisir
15. birthmark
16. how to tell stories to children
The rest of the days I still haven't decided and I'm doing option A. I don't think I would be able to handle option B, because I would want to read the book and wouldn't be able to spend so many days just to finish the book
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2025 Reading Challenge
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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance (other topics)The Future (other topics)
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Duration: December 1, - December 31, 2019
Many countries around the world use advent calendars or Christmas calendars to celebrate the month of December. For some people, the calendar has religious significance, but for others it's a secular, non-religious tradition.
For this challenge, there are two options:
A) Starting on Dec. 1 and ending on Dec. 24, read a short story (or a poem!) every day. Use stories or poems from collections, magazines, or the internet - there's lot of good short fiction available for free from many publishers.
B) Starting on Dec. 1: Split a novel into 24 chunks and portion your reading so that you read the last chunk on Dec. 24. (Ideally the novel has 24 chapters to start with! But as long as you can manage to count out fairly even-sized chunks, it'll work.)
If you'd rather keep reading past the 24th, you're welcome to try for the whole month!
Karina will be leading this challenge. Thank you!