2025 Reading Challenge discussion

TUNES AND TOMES
Duration: April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022

For this month’s theme of Creativity, this challenge celebrates one of the most globally appreciated forms of human creative expression: Music! April also happens to be International Guitar Month and Jazz Appreciation Month!

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For this challenge, open your favorite music playlist, put it on shuffle, and read books that somehow relate to the songs that come up!
This is YOUR challenge so the books you choose can relate to the songs in whatever way works for you. It could be the date the song/book was released, words in the titles, or even a personal experience the song makes you think of.
Note: You do not need to listen to the songs WHILE you are reading. Some of us need quiet!

Examples:
“Because I Knew You” from Wicked was my graduating class’s theme song so I’ll read a book set in high school: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We Don’t Talk about Bruno” from Encanto. The movie is set in Colombia so I’ll read a book set in Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (word in title match)

“Africa” by Toto – released in 1982
The BFG – published in 1982

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Participants:

Anissa: 0/3
Ashley: 2/5
Asma: 1/1
AurorainBookland: 1/2
Carmen: 5/5
Carri Carey: 10/10
Chrissie: 3/3
Christene Paula: 0/5
Debra Diggs: 5/5
D.L.: 1/5
eatsleepreadreview: 3/6
Jennifer: 0/25
Karin: 0/3
Kristina: 8/8
LAiNEY: 4/4
Lindsey: 4/5
Lynn: 5/5
Meg: 5/5
michelle-belle: 0/2
=MYSTIQUE=: 5/5
oshizu: 8/5
Rachael: 5/5
Saha: 3/3
Sarah: 10/10
SarahKat: 8/8
Suzanne: 0/5
TerryJane: 12/12
Theresa: 3/3
Ziggy: 3/3

I'm signing up for 8

The Hornburg (The Two Towers soundtrack)
Book in same trilogy:
Return of the King

The Adams Administration (Hamilton soundtrack)
Author named Adams:
No Exit by Taylor Adams

Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (Cats soundtrack)
Book the play is based on: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

Digee Dime (Burlap to Cashmere)
Release/Publication in 1998:
No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Be Anxious for Nothing
Night Watch

We Don't Talk About Bruno (Encanto soundtrack)
Character named Bruno: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

I'll Make a Man Out of You (Mulan soundtrack)
Set in China:
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Here I Am to Worship (Hillsong)
Monks in service of God: Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters

Alone (Marshmello)
Title match: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

I will sign up for 10. Thanks!

✅ 1. Oh, Sherrie - Steve Perry (released in 1984) 1984 - Read 4/8/22
✅ 2. Better Than Me - Hinder (duplicate word in title) Choose Me - Read 4/1/22
✅ 3. It's Time - Imagine Dragons (duplicate word in title) The Devil All the Time - Read 4/14/22
✅ 4. Show You How to Love - Pentatonix (five members in the band) Five Decembers - Read 4/9/22
✅ 5. Home - Damien McGinty (synonym in title) The Haunting of Hill House - Read 4/6/22
✅ 6. I Do - Astrid S. (wedding vow) How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days - Read 4/11/22
✅ 7. High Above the Ground - Daughtry (sky is high above the ground) The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Read 4/18/22
✅ 8. Rhythm of the Night - Moulin Rouge soundtrack (duplicate word in title) The Night Tiger - Read 4/4/22
✅ 9. Shout - Tears for Fears (horror novel) The Shadows - Read 4/20/22
✅ 10. Raise Your Hands - Bon Jovi (duplicate word in title) The Lightness of Hands - Read 4/26/22

I'm in for 3. Progress: 3/3




✔1. You Lucky Dog (Basset Hounds on the cover.)
Song: "Hound Dog," by Elvis Presley (Apr. 27)

✔2. One True Loves (Husband in the book named Jesse.)
Song: "Jessie's Girl," by Rick Springfield (Apr. 2)

✔3. Heart On A Leash (Dog on the cover appears to have a smile on it's face.)
Song: "Smile," by Uncle Kracker (Apr. 16)

Hola!
Count me in, please!

PROGRESS: 5/5🎼

❎🎵1. "Tacones rojos" by Sebastián Yatra (my last earworm!) The title means "red stilettos" so I'll read a book with red stilettos on the cover:


❎🎶2. "The girl next door" by Blink-182. I'll read a book with the same title:


❎🎵3. "The empire state of mind" by Alicia Keys. The song is all about New York, so I'll read a book about New York:


❎🎶4. "Malena" is a famous tango song from 1941, so I'll read a book whose title refers to the song:


❎🎵5. "All for love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting (The Three Musketeers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 1993) so I'll read:

Sign me up for 5, please. (Listing 6 just in case I get 1 more in.)

5/5
Completed

✔ 1. You're in My Heart, Rod Stewart (last name)
-- Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart

✔ 2. Red Red Wine, UB40 (alcohol)
-- Connecticut Bootlegger Queen Nellie Green by Tony Renzoni

✔ 3. Lola, The Kinks, (1997 release/publication date)
-- Independence Day: Silent Zone by Stephen Molstad

✔ 4. Let it Be, Beatles (word in title)
-- Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew by Susan Fletcher

✔ 5. Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum (a one-hit wonder)
-- One-Hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell

6. Free Falling, Tom Petty (word in album - Full Moon Fever)
-- The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

Let's aim for 3 and hope I can find more songs in my playlist that don't have weird titles and lyrics!

3/3

🎵1) Little Women based on Linkin Park - The Little Things Give You Away, from what I know of Little Women (the movie), there are a few romances that are subtle but given away by the little things.
🎵2) The Kite Runner based on Darude & Blake Lewis - I ran, because both seem to discuss running away from someone you love.
🎵3) The Great Alone seems to be about fragile mental states, so I will pair it with Papa Roach - Help.

Sign me up for 6 please:

3/6

'Walk this Way' The Long Walk
'First Things First' First Person Singular: Stories
'Trophy Eyes' The Trophy Child
'Stand by Me' The Stand
'Greatest' Great Expectations

Thanks!

I'm in for 5 books!
Progress 5/5

1. Let It Go by Idina Menzel - 🎵 The Last Woman in the World 🎵
about a lone woman and changing climates

2. Stay Awake by Julie Andrews - 🎵Night Games🎵
things my daughter would rather do than go to bed

3. Single Ladies by Beyonce - 🎵Herland 🎵
feminist classic

4. How Far I'll go by Alessia Cara - 🎵Faraway 🎵
"far" in the title

5. Happy by Pharrell Williams - 🎵 Sorrow and Bliss 🎵
happy and bliss are synonyms

What an awesome idea for a challenge! Please put me down for 5 books for now.

Progress: 1/5

** Love Story - Taylor Swift (a romance novel)
- 4/2/22

POSSIBILITIES

** A Baby Changes Everything - Faith Hill (a baby on the cover)


** It Must Have Been Love - Glee Cast (a Glee novelization)


** What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Idina Menzel ("New Year's" in title)


** White Christmas - Blake Shelton (Christmas-themed book)

** You're My Best Friend - Queen ("best friend" in title)

Welcome welcome everyone!

It always interests me to see fellow readers' tastes in other things like music!

🎶 TUNES & TOMES - Monthly Challenge
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2022
Progress: 12/12 -- COMPLETE

Showtunes Playlist
🎶 Westside Story (Somewhere) - Once Upon a Quinceañera
Connection: Characters Maria and Carmen are Latina.
🎶 Beauty & the Beast (Belle) - The Bookwanderers
Connection: Characters Belle and Tilly are booklovers.
🎶 Little Mermaid (Part of Your World) - When We Believed in Mermaids
Connection: "Mermaid" in show and book titles.
🎶 Dirty Dancing (I've Had the Time of My Life) - Instructions for Dancing
Connection: Show and book involve dance lessons.
🎶 Ghost (Unchained Melody) - Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories
Connection: "Ghost" in show and book titles.
🎶 Wicked (I'm Not That Girl) - Why Not Me?
Connection: Book title sounds like a response to the song title.
🎶 My Fair Lady (The Rain in Spain) - Fifty Words for Rain
Connection: "Rain" in both song and book titles.
🎶 Once Upon a Mattress (An Opening for a Princess) - Princess Academy
Connection: In the show, song and book, there's a search for a bride for the prince.
🎶 Jesus Christ Superstar (Superstar) - Higher Is Waiting
Connection: The show, song and book are about relationship with Jesus Christ.
🎶 Spamalot (Knights of the Round Table) - The Lost Book of the Grail
Connection: Show and book each have an Arthur who's obsessed with the Grail.
🎶 Bombay Dreams (Shakalaka Baby) - A Holly Jolly Diwali
Connection: Show, song and book are set around Indian culture.
🎶 Godspell (Day By Day) - Future Home of the Living God
Connection: Show and book have "God" in the title, and the song's refrain is based on a 13th century prayer.

Please sign me up for 5 books.

🎵 The Unbirthday Song from Disney's Alice in Wonderland ---> 📙 Unbirthday by Liz Braswell

🎵 Stay by Shakespear's Sisters ---> 📙 Richard III by William Shakespeare

🎵 Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen ---> 📙 Blood Queen by Joanna Courtney

🎵 Red by Taylor Swift ---> 📙 House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas (red cover)

🎵 Planet Earth by Duran Duran ---> 📙 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

COMPLETED: 5/5

Finished: 2022/04/21

Claiming my spot and adding a goal and list asap.

01. One more Light - Linkin Park ✓
02. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen ✓
03. Sind wir Freunde - Gestört aber Geil ✓

I will try for 5
2/5

Best Murder in Show - Riot Girl by Good Charlotte
11/22/63 - Bullets by Creed

TUNES AND TOMES
Duration: April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022

Progress:1/5

✔️ The Humans by Matt Haig
**Human by Christina Perri**

I will be signing up for 2!!

📕📚📖2022 READING CHALLENGES📖📚📕
April - Tunes & Tomes
April 1 - April 20, 2022
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅Challenge Completed✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Book Inspired Playlist

Progress: 5/5

✔️With or Without You by U2
- Vespertine 4/18/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Other songs inspired by this book:
* Good Mother by Jay Brannan
* Something’s Gotta Give by All Time Low

✔️Silent Night
- Interlude: First Noel 4/19/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️Amazed by Lone Star
- It Was Always You 4/19/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Other songs inspired by this book:
*My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion
*Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins

✔️Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheehan
- Five Dares 4/20/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Shameless by Garth Brooks
- Never Stay Gone 4/21/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Other songs inspired by this book:
*Cowboy Take Me Away by The Chicks
*Breathe by Faith Hill

Update on message #16: I will try for 3 books.

Hi Sarah,
This seems fun so sign me up, idk how much I'm going to read or which challenges, but I'll figure it out as I go along.
So for now, just put 1 down for me. Thank you

Please sign me up for two books. Its kind of funny how the songs already fit my April TBR. Also one of the songs from my fave band Hello Sister showed up. ;)

Perfect misfit by Liz Phair
Human in a school that doesnt accept humans.

Paralyzed by Hello Sister
Main character's crush is the son of the owner of her family bakery's rival for buisness a coffe shop. One of the songs lyrics is "love is blind."

Welcome everyone and Happy April! Here is to a musical month of meandering through manuscripts!

I'd planned to focus on the quarterly challenges this month, but I can't resist. Please sign me up for five books for now.
Thank you, SarahKat!

Progress: 8/5

✔️1. Long Flight by Taeyong Lee: Flights (word match)
✔️2. Miracle by WayV (2021); Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (pub. 2021)
✔️3. Kick It by NCT 127: Jade Legacy (shared wuxia theme)
✔️4. *Let It Go by Keyshia Cole. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (same family name)
✔️5. Superhuman by NCT 127 (2019). Gender Queer, pub. 2019
✔️6. Favorite (Vampire) by NCT 127. Proven Guilty (MC's sidekick is a vampire)
✔️7. Midnight Train to Georgia by Glady Knight and the Pips. Midnight at Malabar House (word match)
✔️8. Perfect Sky by Bonnie Pink. The Fated Sky (word match)

Tentatives:
*Asymmetry by Shikao Suga (2002). Before the Coffee Gets Cold (both musician & author are Japanese)
*Tell Mama by Janis Joplin. Love, Janis (her biography)

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 1/5

❎🎵3. "The empire state of mind" by Alicia Keys. The song is all about New York, so I'll read a book about New York:

Yes, I'm in! But I don't use playlists, so if it's okay am going to be creative in finding songs I like in a random way. Music is HUGE in my house--my son is a classical trumpet performance major, I am taking voice lessons, etc. I can just turn on the radio and use the first song playing, then put a CD in and put it on shuffle (or do the same with my desktop audio player) etc.

Or I might use the next piece of music he talks about for one of them, or a music link from one of my groups here where we do that.

I'm in for 3!




For this month’s theme of Creativity, this challenge celebrates one of the most globally appreciated forms of human creative expression: Music! April also happens to be International Guitar Month and Jazz Appreciation Month!

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For this challenge, open your favorite music playlist, put it on shuffle, and read books that somehow relate to the songs that come up!
This is YOUR challenge so the books you choose can relate to the songs in whatever way works for you. It could be the date the song/book was released, words in the titles, or even a personal experience the song makes you think of.
Note: You do not need to listen to the songs WHILE you are reading. Some of us need quiet!



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This sounds fun! I would like to sign up for 25 -- thanks 🙂

1/5 complete :)

Sign me up for 10 books

10/10-COMPLETED

✅ Cover Girl by New Kids on the Block
Code Red Lipstick(main character is a model)(39/4/22)

✅ Summertime by New Kids on the Block
Summertime Guests(word in title match)(15/4/22)

✅ Shake Your Love by Debbie Gibson-released in 1987
An American Childhood(published in 1987)(16/4/22)

✅ Dirty Dancing by New Kids on the Block
(a dancing couple on the cover)(3/4/22)

✅ None of Your Business by Salt-N-Pepa -released in 1994
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil-(published in 1994)(14/4/22)

✅ Free Your Mind by En Vogue
The Darkest Minds(word in title match)(28/4/22)

✅ Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa featuring En Vogue -released in 1993
The Virgin Suicides(published in 1993)(18/4/22)

✅ Angels On My Side by Rick Astley
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet(word in title match)(30/4/22)

✅ Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
The Hate U Give(word in title match)(24/4/22)

✅ One More Night by New Kids on the Block
If on a winter's night a traveler(word in title match)(19/4/22)

2022 Reading Challenge
April - Tunes and Tomes
Duration: April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022

Progress: 1 out of 1

For this month’s theme of Creativity, this challenge celebrates one of the most globally appreciated forms of human creative expression: Music! April also happens to be International Guitar Month and Jazz Appreciation Month!

🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

For this challenge, open your favorite music playlist, put it on shuffle, and read books that somehow relate to the songs that come up!
This is YOUR challenge so the books you choose can relate to the songs in whatever way works for you. It could be the date the song/book was released, words in the titles, or even a personal experience the song makes you think of.

Note: You do not need to listen to the songs WHILE you are reading. Some of us need quiet!

Examples:
(view spoiler)[“Because I Knew You” from Wicked was my graduating class’s theme song so I’ll read a book set in high school: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We Don’t Talk about Bruno” from Encanto. The movie is set in Colombia so I’ll read a book set in Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (word in title match)

“Africa” by Toto – released in 1982
The BFG – published in 1982 (hide spoiler)]

1. Orpheus by Sara Bareillus: Orpheus was from Greek Mythology, so I'll read a Greek book:
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis - **** - 4/24/2022 - 368 Pages

Updated msg #25: 1/5

✔️1. Long Flight by Taeyong Lee: Flights (word match)

Please add me to the list. Thanks!

Sorry I missed you oshizu! I remember reading your comment but apparently didn't update it right away and then forgot!

3/8

✔The Adams Administration (Hamilton soundtrack)
Author named Adams:
No Exit by Taylor Adams

✔Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (Cats soundtrack)
Book the play is based on: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

✔We Don't Talk About Bruno (Encanto soundtrack)
Character named Bruno: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Update msg 10 - progress 1/5
2. Stay Awake by Julie Andrews - 🎵Night Games🎵
things my daughter would rather do than go to bed

Meg wrote: "Update msg 10 - progress 1/5
2. Stay Awake by Julie Andrews - 🎵Night Games🎵
things my daughter would rather do than go to bed"

I love this connection! 😂

Updated msg 25: 2/5

Miracle by WayV (2021); Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (pub. 2021)

Thank you, SarahKat!

Tunes and Tomes
Duration: April 1-30, 2022

This challenge sounds amazing! Please sign me up for 3 books to start.

Goal: 3 ; Progress: 0/3

1.

2.

3.

How do I sign up?

Sierra wrote: "How do I sign up?"

@Sierra
To sign up, just post a comment in this thread to let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read.
Are you new to our group and its reading challenges? If yes, you can find more info about how to participate in our challenges in this thread

Update to message #4 - 4/10 read!

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 2/5

❎🎶4. "Malena" is a famous tango song from 1941, so I'll read a book whose title refers to the song:

Please sign me up for 4 books!

Tunes & Tomes
Duration: April 1-30, 2022

Read: 4/4

Furr - Blitzen Trapper
✘ The Mason List by S.D. Hendrickson

Older - Sasha Slone
✘ A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Sympathy - Goo Goo Dolls
✘ Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard

Yume Fuusen (yurikago version) - Aqua Timez
✘ Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Completed:

Tunes and Tomes
Duration: April 1-30, 2022
Progress: 8/8

✅ 1. Woman by Ke$ha: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
a book by a woman
✅ 2. As It Was by Harry Styles: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
a book released this year
✅ 3. Meant to Live by Switchfoot: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
title match in the album: the beautiful letdown
✅ 4. Mingulay Boat Song by Between Wind and Water: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
title match with boat & a book about boats
✅ 5. We Can't Stop covered by BASTILLE: Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
a book set in england
✅ 6. No Place in Heaven by Mika: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
a book about the afterlife
✅ 7. Iris covered by Phoebe & Maggie: 1984 by George Orwell
a book with an eye on the cover
✅ 8. Kill of the Night by Gin Wigmore: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
a book involving a murder

Update to Message #12: 8/12

Updated message 15: 1/5

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 3/5

❎🎵5. "All for love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting (The Three Musketeers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 1993) so I'll read:

TUNES AND TOMES
Duration: April 1, 2022 – April 30, 2022

I mainly listen to instrumental music: classical and jazz.
I rarely pay much attention to titles so this will definitely be a challenge for me. But I'll give it a try.

3/3 as of April 10!
I will hope to add 2 more before the end of April for the Barry White songs listed below!
5/5 by April 14! DONE!

Pachelbel's Canon by Johann Pachelbel
PAIRED WITH The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Connection: canon (cannon) makes me think of war and this book was set before/during/after the Korean War.
April 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I Had the Time of My Life (from one of my favorite movies ever, Dirty Dancing!)
PAIRED WITH Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
The movie is full of misconceptions based upon negative stereotypes and the book depicts a protagonist who is enlightened to consider others outside her fellow elite society members as valuable and deserving of respect and love, negating the high society negative stereotypes with which she was raised.
April 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Get Over It by the Eagles
PAIRED WITH Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Mainly due to this line in the lyrics:
"I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass"
I think this is how Camila thought about Oscar after witnessing his self-pity party when he had at least 3 successful novels, 2 adorable children, a house/home, and perhaps most importantly, a living mother who supported him emotionally, etc.--everything she didn't have...
April 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Barry White! This man's voice...I have always adored his singing. Not sure what book I can match with one or both of these in April, but surely something will work! These two songs especially:

You're the First, the Last, My Everything by Barry White
PAIRED WITH Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells
Mensah's partner is jealous of Murderbot, thinking he is in love with Mensah. Murderbot denies this, but Mensah is definitely his top priority and the partner definitely considers her to be the 'First, Last, and Everything' to him...
April 14 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe by Barry White
PAIRED WITH Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells
It is amazing to me just how much Murderbot is devoted to the humans! And then the complicated relationship between ART and Murderbot...is it "love"? Can it be?
April 14 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Update to message #51:
3/3 as of April 10, but trying to add two more for a total of 5!

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 4/5

❎🎵1. "Tacones rojos" by Sebastián Yatra (my last earworm!) The title means "red stilettos" so I'll read a book with red stilettos on the cover:

Update on message #16: finished 1 of 3.