2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Duration: March 1 – March 31, 2022

This challenge is based on lyrics from the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music.

🎵 When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad. 🎵

To join, post a comment to let the challenge leader know how many books you will read for the challenge. Limit two books per prompt.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, please take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.

Debra Diggs created this happy challenge, and Sunny graciously offered to lead it for us. Thank you both!

One of my favorite things: Vintage Valentine's Day Cards

Welcome to this fun challenge!

I love The Sound of Music and am looking forward to seeing the books you all choose to fit some of your favorite things.

To have your challenge updated on the participants list, please post an update comment. Be sure to include both your original message number and progress:

Example: Updated msg #10: 2/8

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. Thanks!

I will post updates on Thursdays.

Signed Up

Gretchen Msg #85 0/3
Kiawi Msg #17 0/5
Kylie Msg #29 0/8
Nicole Msg #31 0/8
Sarah (1) Msg #22 0/9
Suzanne Msg #27 0/9

Reading

Ana Msg #12 2/4
Asma Msg #30 1/3
Christene Msg #40 4/9
Lynn Msg #24 7/9
Megan BG Msg #11 2/4
Shari Msg #32 8/9
Tracy Msg #19 5/9

Completed

Alison Msg #9 6/5
Allie Msg #26 5/5
Amy Msg #25 5/5
Ariail Msg #23 9/9
Ashleigh Msg #14 2/2
Carmen Msg #15 9/9
Carri Carey Msg #4 9/9
Debra Diggs Msg #6 9/9
Karin Msg #10 3/3
Kelly Msg #7 3/3
Lindsey Msg #18 10/9
michelle-belle Msg #21 2/2
Mie Msg #5 3/3
=MYSTIQUE= Msg #13 9/5
rika Msg #28 9/9
Sarah (2) Msg #33 5/5
Sarah (3) Msg #34 9/9
SarahKat Msg #35 9/9
Sunny Msg #3 3/3
TerryJane Msg #20 18/18
Theresa Msg #8 3/3

34 have joined us
7 are reading
Favorite things collected 169/223
Completed Collecting: 21

Progress: 3/3

Please sign me up for all 9! Thanks, Sunny!


✅ 1. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Heartless - Read 3/27/22

✅ 2. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Read 3/2/22

✅ 3. Brown paper packages tied up with strings Speaks the Nightbird - Read 3/9/22

✅ 4. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Writers & Lovers - Read 3/22/22

✅ 5. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Read 3/21/22

✅ 6. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings Muse of Nightmares - Read 3/18/22

✅ 7. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes The Almost Sisters - Read 3/16/22

✅ 8. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - Read 3/11/22

✅ 9. Silver-white winters that melt into springs Spinning Silver - Read 3/8/22

Please put me down for 3 books 📚

3/3 - Complete ✔️

Possibilities:

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.
📗 The Stone Sky

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
📗 Network Effect

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
📗 A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Hi Sunny. Thanks for leading. Please sign me up for nine.

9/9
Completed

✔ Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

✔ Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.
Casablanca: Script and Legend by Howard Koch

✔ Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

✔ Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.
The Grey Horse by R.A. MacAvoy

✔ Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
Amok by Stefan Zweig

✔ Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

✔ Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
The Red Dress by Paul Nicholas Mason

✔ Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
Already Dead by Jaye Ford

✔ Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

I will join - 3 books!

I am joining with a goal of 3 books. Progress: 3/3

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.
✔The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae (cream cover)--Mar. 27--

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
✔Meet Me in the Margins (dress on the cover)--Mar. 12--

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
✔Left Fur Dead (cute little bunny face on the cover)--Mar. 21--

Hi Sunny...Please sign me up for 5 books :)

6 / 5 books read ...**Challenge Complete**

√ ---Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover - Get a Life, Chloe Brown

√ ---Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate -

√ ----Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover. The Blessing Way

----Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

√ ---Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover -

√ ----Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story - Wife of the Gods

√ ----Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

----Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

Yes, yes, yes! My mother's original Broadway recording of The Sound of Music was my favourite record--even more than my copy of Mary Poppins.

No doubt I'll be changing this number, but I'll start with 3 because I don't have time to go through all of the books I will be reading right now, etc.

3/3

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

🎵 Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold has a number of crimes in it.

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

🎵 Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

has the giant eagles that play important roles PLUS Smaug the dragon



Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

🎵 Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
Barrayar


Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

Goal: 4

Completed: 2

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

Read a book involving a mystery or crime ...
The Golden Couple

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
A Train to Moscow

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

Hi, sign me up for 4 books, thanks!

Progress 2/4

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

✅Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover. This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi

📕📚📖2022 READING CHALLENGE📖📚📕
March - A Few of My Favorite Things
March 01 - March 31, 2022
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅Challenge Completed✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

Progress: 9/5

✔️Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.
- Interlude: First Noel 3/4/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold 3/23/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
- Enemies of the State 3/3/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.
- Pumpkin Spiced Omega 3/7/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
- Prince of Midnight 3/4/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.
- Blood Moon 3/6/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
- Firelight 3/14/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
- Psycho 3/14/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
- A Vigil in the Mourning 3/15/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Please sign me up for 2 :)

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Tracking

2/2

1. Face on the cover - Children of Earth and Sky
2. Brown in the cover - The Vanishing Half

Hola!
Sunny, count me in, please!

PROGRESS: 9/9 🥰

❎❤️Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.


❎❤️Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.


❎❤️Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.


❎❤️Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.


❎❤️Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.


❎❤️Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.


❎❤️Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.


❎❤️Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.


❎❤️Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

🐈

I have updated the list in Msg #2 through Msg #15

Looking forward to reading wth y'all!

👒

I'd love to participate and I'll try for 5 books. :)

0/5 books completed.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

I'm going to start with 9 but aim for 18



Goal: 10/9

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.
✘

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.


Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
✘

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.
✘

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
✘ ✘

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.
✘

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
✘

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
✘ ✘

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
✘

💧 A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS - Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1 - March 31, 2022
Progress: 18/18 -- COMPLETE

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

💧 Such a Fun Age
💧 Dog on It

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

💧 Before I Let Go
💧 On What Grounds

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.

💧 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
💧 The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator Kindle

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

💧 The Scorpio Races
💧 Stories from Xenophon

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

💧 Jazz
💧 A Night Divided

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

💧 Half Moon Bay
💧 Survive the Night

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

💧 The Chosen and the Beautiful
💧 Sasha Masha

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.

💧 The Red Lotus
💧 Tomorrow is Forever

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

💧 The Four Winds
💧 The Tilted World

Sign me up for 2 prompts please!

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…”
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover

“…Wild feeds that fly with the moon on their wings…”
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover

Please sign me up for all 9!

I would like to join for 9 and will update as I go!

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Duration: March 1 – March 31, 2022

This challenge is based on lyrics from the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music.

🎵 When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad. 🎵

7/9 as of March 25!
I missed my goal of 9 for the month, but it was quite an eventful and monstrously busy month for me, so I'm considering it a win! 😊 (I should have set my goal a bit lower!)

✨1. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth, illustrated by Raoul Vitale
March 15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

2. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.
The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

✨3. Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown on the cover.
The Truth (Lionboy #3) by Zizou Corder
March 11 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✨4. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream-colored cover.
Son of the Black Stallion (Black Stallion #3) by Walter Farley
March 19 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

5. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
*Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

✨6. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.
Murder at Queen's LandingMurder at Queen's Landing (Wrexford & Sloane #4) by Andrea Penrose
March 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✨7. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life Events #2) by Dusti Bowling
March 16 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✨8. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.
I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán
March 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✨9. Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs #1) by Jean Webster
March 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I will go for 5!

Progress: 5/5-- Challenge Complete!

1. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover: A Tale of Two Cookies

2. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover: All Things Coffee

3. Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover: Real Murders

4. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

5. Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

6. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.

7. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story: Next Year in Havana

8. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

9. Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

I will go for 5

Progress 5/5

✔️Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.


Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.

✔️Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.


Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

✔️Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.


Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.

✔️Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.


✔️Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

2022 Reading Challenge
March - A Few of My Favorite Things
Duration: March 1 – March 31, 2022

Progress: 9 out of 9

This challenge is based on lyrics from the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music.

🎵 When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don’t feel so bad. 🎵

If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, please take a moment to check out the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly Challenges - Start Here thread for more information on how our challenges are run.

Debra Diggs created this happy challenge, and Sunny graciously offered to lead it for us. Thank you both!

To join, post a comment to let the challenge leader know how many books you will read for the challenge. Limit two books per prompt.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover:
Ghost of a Chance by Yasmine Galenorn - ***** - 3/7/2022 - 354 Pages

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.
Sakina's Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi - **** - 3/15/2022 - 80 Pages

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - ***** - 3/2/2022 - 338 Pages - Crime

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover:
Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper - ***** - 3/10/2022 - 304 Pages

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
Gather 'Round the Sound by Paulo Coelho - *** - 3/15/2022 - 36 Pages - Featuring Music

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover:
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling - **** - 3/17/2022 - 308 Pages

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
Curse on the Land by Faith Hunter - ***** - 3/8/2022 - 328 Pages - Dress on Cover

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover:
Here We Go Again: My Life in Television by Betty White - **** - 3/30/2022 - 320 Pages - Face on cover

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover:
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - **** - 3/24/2022 - 368 Pages - Spring Setting

Please sign me up for 9

9/9


Read a book with a small animal on the cover. -Peanuts: Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown! by Charles M. Schulz 11/03

Read a book set in a cold climate. - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon 20/03

Read a book involving a mystery or crime - We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth 30/03

Read a book with food on the cover - The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink by Kevin Young 11/03

Read a book featuring music - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 21/03

Read a book with the moon or night sky on the cover. - The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin 29/03

Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover - Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake 29/03

Read a book with snow on the cover. - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran 15/03

Read a book with a winter or spring setting - A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos 31/03

I'm in for 8 books!

Hi Sunny,
Sign me up for 3 books.
I've picked or chosen 6 books for 6 prompts but that's so I can have some freedom in my reading.

1. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens - Book with animal on the cover = A Man and His Cat vol 4 by Umi Sakurai (manga)

2. Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens - Book set in cold climate = Cold Christmas by Alastair Gunn

3. Brown paper packaged tied up with strings - Book involving mystery or crime = The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

7. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes - Book with dress on cover = The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

8. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes - Book with face on cover = Silenced For Good by Alex Coombs

9. Silver white winters that melt into springs - Book with winter setting = The Winter Ghosts by Kate Moss

I wish us all good luck and happy reading (✷‿✷)

I'm in for 8!

I would like to join. I'll sign up for 9.

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Duration: March 1 – March 31, 2022

Progress: 8 / 9

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.


Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.


Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.


Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.
The Apartment

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.


Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.


Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.


Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

I'll go for 5 please - 5/5

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with flowers on the cover.


Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover


Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book with the night sky on the cover.


Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a ribbon on the cover


Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Read a book with snow on the cover.

Sign me up for 9 books

9/9-COMPLETED

✅Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens(Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover)- (20/3/22)

✅Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens(Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a cafe, or set in a cold climate)- (2/3/22)

✅Brown paper packages tied up with strings(Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover)- (5/3/22)

✅Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels(Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover)- (22/3/22)

✅Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles(Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany)-The Piano Teacher(Die Klavierspielerin)(24/3/22)

✅Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings(Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover)- (28/3/22)

✅Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes(Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story)- (27/3/22)

✅Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes(Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover)- (26/3/22)

✅Silver-white winters that melt into springs(Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover)-Trapped(25/3/22)

Hi Sunny! Please sign me up for 9!

Updated Message #10
1/3

Update to #14

1/2

Face on the cover - Children of Earth and Sky (the sun has a face).

🐈

Welcome to everyone who signed up since my last update!

I have updated the list in Msg #2 through Msg #37

Thus far,

32 have joined us
208 favorite things is the goal

I am still deciding my goal. I'll have it by the end of the day.

👒

Tracy wrote: "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Read a book with a drink on the cover, a boo..."

Hi Tracy!
Please let me know how many books you plan on reading. Thanks! =)

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Duration: March 1 – March 31, 2022

7/9

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
✔️ Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.


Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
✔️ Read a book with a drink on the cover, a book set in a café, or set in a cold climate.


Brown paper packages tied up with strings
✔️Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.


Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
✔️ Read a book with horses or food on the cover, or with a cream cover.


Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Read a book featuring music, a translation originally written in German, or set in Germany.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
✔️ Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.


Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
✔️ Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.


Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
✔️ Read a book with snow, a face, or eyes on the cover.


Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.

Updated message 25-- 1/5

Update to message #6: 4/9

update message 7
1/3

Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
Manhattans & Murder

Update to #21
1/2 favorite things!

I read for the lyric prompt:
"Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover"

Updated message 25-- 2/5

Update to Message #26
Progress 2/5
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens


Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

message 11

Completed: 1

Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
The Golden Couple

message 11

completed: 2

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Read a book with a dress or ribbon on the cover, or a coming of age story.
A Train to Moscow

Update to message #4 - 1/9 read!

Update to Message 35: 4/9

✔Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Read a book with rain, flowers or a small animal on the cover.
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (flowers)

✔Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Read a book involving a mystery or crime, or with brown in the cover.
The Considerate Killer by Lene Kaaberbøl (mystery/crime)

✔Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Read a book about a flying creature, or with the moon or night sky on the cover.
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (all 3!)

✔Silver-white winters that melt into springs
Read a book with a winter or spring setting, a weather event, or silver on the cover.
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (winter/weather event)

Updated message #10 - 3/3 read