2025 Reading Challenge discussion

📘 2 0 2 2 :

📗 reading goal

📙 2 0 2 3 challenges

🥇wishlist

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÷ deep water
÷ notes on a scandal
÷ the vanishing half
÷ i must betray you
÷ sorrow and bliss
÷ anxious people
÷ nothing girl
÷ joan is okay
÷ very cold people
÷ this will end badly
÷ the fates will find their ways


+ pretty girls
+ perfume
+ the appeal
+ the simple wild
+ i who have never known men
+ notes on an execution
+ small pleasures
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📚 23 in 2023

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buzzword challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 6/12

jan - "life" and "death"

✅️ feb - verbs

mar - secret

apr - emotions

✅️ may - flavours, spices, seasonings

jun - "other"

jul - weather related words

✅️ aug - body parts

✅️ sep - game related words

oct - magic related words
✅️ nov - "good"

✅️ dec - sound related words

📚 pile high

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

pile: /2

faceless/incomplete face cover pile:

#thisbookwillselfdestruct

whodunnit readathon

start date: jan 1
end date: jan 31

read:

professor plum: we had to remove this post
revolver: nothing more to tell move back home
colonel mustard: blood sugar
knife: blood sugar backstabbing
dining room: blood sugar

dr. orchid/mrs. white: the sense of an ending
wrench: the sense of an ending
billiard room:
conservatory: the sense of an ending nothing more to tell

miss scarlett: nothing more to tell
lead pipe: we had to remove this post all toxic stuff!
kitchen: love triangle? too many cooks in the kitchen!

𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗

start date: feb 1
end date: feb 28

team *NSYNC +2+3+3+6+6 points

✅️#3 'heart' in title +2 points

✅️#5 set in florida +3 points

✅️#6 lowest rated books on tbr +3 point


**steal: team hanson**
✅️#5 set in the southwest (texas) +6 points

✅️#7 a hyped bookstagram book +6 points

🎧 the listener 🎧

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31
listened: 48/50

÷ j a n ÷
✅️ 1. our wives under the sea by julia armfield 🔊 robyn holdaway

÷ f e b ÷
✅️ 1. blood sugar by sascha rothchild 🔊 allyson ryan
✅️ 2. hearts and bones by niamh mulvey 🔊 breffni holahan 💯
3. a friend is a gift you give yourself by william boyle 🔊 barrie kreinik💯

÷ m a r ÷
✅️ 1. harris and me by gary paulsen 🔊 steven boyer 💯
✅️ 2. prisoner b-3087 by alan gratz 🔊 steven kaplan 💯
✅️ 3. the miraculous journey of edward tulane by kate dicamillo 🔊 judith ivey
✅️ 4. starfish by lisa fipps
✅️ 5. al capone does my shirts by gennifer choldenko
✅️ 6. a place to hang the moon by kate albus
✅️ 7. the fort by gordon korman 💯

÷ a p r i l ÷
✅️ 1. it's the end of the world as i know it by matthew landis 🔊 matt godfrey 💯
✅️ 2. even if this love disappears tonight by misaki ichijo 🔊 yuuki luna
✅️ 3. friction by sandra brown 🔊 stephen lang
✅️ 4. nothing more to tell by karen m. mcmanus 🔊 jesse vilinsky, andrew eiden
✅️ 5. when the world was ours by liz kessler
✅️ 6. fault lines by emily itami 🔊 lydia wilson 💯

÷ m a y ÷
✅️ 1. the stranger by albert camus
✅️ 2. animal farm by george orwell
✅️ 3. never saw me coming by vera kurian
✅️ 4. the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde by robert louis stevenson 🔊 martin jarvis
✅️ 5. how to kill your family by bella mackie 🔊 charly clive 💯
✅️ 6. magma by thóra hjörleifsdóttir
✅️ 7. an inconvenient ward by audrey harrison 🔊 elizabeth klett
✅️ 8. i must betray you by ruta sepetys

÷ j u n e ÷
✅️ 1. the only survivors by megan miranda
✅️ 2. i love you, michael collins by lauren baratz-logsted
✅️ 3. in the beautiful country by jane kuo 🔊 sura siu
✅️ 4. all systems red by martha wells
✅️ 5. a children's bible by lydia millet
✅️ 6. a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers 🔊 em grosland 💯
✅️ 7. the devotion of suspect x by keigo higashino 🔊 david pittu 💯
✅️ 8. hard luck by jeff kinney

÷ j u l y ÷
✅️ 1. kim jiyoung, born 1982 by cho nam-joo
✅️ 2. the body in question by jill ciment
✅️ 3. project hail mary by andy weir 🔊 ray porter 💯
✅️ 4. election by tom perrotta

÷ a u g u s t ÷
✅️ 1. nobody, somebody, anybody by kelly mcclorey🔊sarah naughton 💯
✅️ 2. no vacancy by tziporah cohen
✅️ 3. lady fortescue steps out by marion chesney
cursed bread by sophie mackintosh 🔊 genevieve gaunt
dead-end memories by banana yoshimoto 🔊 kathleen li
cat lady by dawn o'porter 🔊 daisy haggard
the diver's clothes lie empty by vendela vida
happy all the time by laurie colwin 🔊 lisa flanagan

÷ s e p t e m b e r ÷
✅️ 1. everything you ever wanted by luiza sauma
✅️ 2. assembly by natasha brown
✅️ 3. idol, burning by rin usami
✅️ 4. fantasticland by mike bockoven 🔊 angela dawe 💯
✅️ 5. dark places by gillian flynn 🔊 rebecca lowman 💯
✅️ 6. passing by nella larsen

÷ o c t o b e r ÷
✅️ 1. chess story by stefan zweig 🔊 dan mellins-cohen 💯
✅️ 2. the patient by jasper dewitt

÷ n o v e m b e r ÷
✅️ 1. nestlings by nat cassidy

read your bookshelf

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 9/12

✅️ january: a, an, the;

 ➥ the roanoke girls by amy engel

✅️ february: complementary color on cover/spine;

 ➥ even if this love disappears tonight by misaki ichijo

✅️ march: title starts with the next letter in alphabet;

 ➥ friction by sandra brown

✅️ april: different genre;

 ➥ we need to do something by max booth iii

✅️ may: more pages;

 ➥ ode to a nobody by caroline brooks dubois

✅️ june: half as many letters in title;

 ➥ the appeal by janice hallett

✅️ july: set in different country;

 ➥ animal farm by george orwell

✅️ august: same genre;

 ➥ goodnight mister tom by michelle magorian

september: word found in page 50 in the title;

october: first letter of title or author's last name;

✅️ november: a different time period;

 ➥ in the beautiful country by jane kuo

december: page count is within 20;

completed:

🌹🥀 what’s in a name

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 4/6

1. punctuation:
beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney
🎧 a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers
✅️ 🎧 prisoner b-3087 by alan gratz
can you see her? by s.e. lynes
2. 7 deadly sins:
✅️ the simple wild by k.a. tucker
3. you or me:
eyes on me by sara cate
i’m sorry you feel that way by rebecca wait
the wall of winnipeg and me by mariana zapata
4. chess piece:
✅️ 🎧 i must betray you by ruta sepetys (rook=con, betray!)
I capture the castle by dodie smith
5. celebration:
✅️ the waltzing widow by joan smith
the last party by clare mackintosh
6. q, x, z: quite, quiet, crazy
anxious people by fredrik backman
love from a to z by s.k. ali
such a quiet place by megan miranda

completed:

middle grade march readathon

start date: mar 1
end date: mar 31

read: 7/?

1. won awards other than newbery:
✅️ 🎧 starfish by lisa fipps
✅️ 🎧 a place to hang the moon by kate albus
✅️ 🎧 the miraculous journey of edward tulane by kate dicamillo
2. scifi/dystopian:
✅️ 🎧 prisoner b-3087 by alan gratz
3. sky or sea on cover:
✅️ 🎧 harris and me by gary paulsen
heidi by johanna spyri
4. neurodivergent characters:
✅️ 🎧 al capone does my shirts by gennifer choldenko
5. released in 2022:
✅️ 🎧 the fort by gordon korman

completed:

𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖓

start date: apr 1
end date: apr 30

realm: cyrus
points: 441
read: 8

✅️ mg, mental health, new, spell name, source of light, 320p. (34pt)
✅️ ya, new, emotion, spell name, light source, cyrus, 240p. (45pt)
✅️ multi povs, mental health, emotion, spell name, light source, hybrid, cyrus, 416p. (63pt!)
✅️ play with time, did not buy, dysfunctional fam, own voices, sci-fi word (world), peace talk!, 352p. (45pt.)
✅️ initials, new to u, weather, emotion, host fav, cyrus, peace talk!, 402p.kindle (65pt!)
✅️ ya, initials, mental health, new to u, spell name, peacetalk!, 358p. (42pt)
✅️ play w/ history, pov, mental health, new to u, spell name, hybrid, cyrus, 368p. (45pt)
✅️ mental health, new to u, emotion, spell name, light source, indie, peacetalk!, 224p. (56pt)
✅️ mental health, new to u, emotion (cracks), spell name, light source, 224p. (46pt)

positive point prompts
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Map A Black Hole - Book With A Map(+1)

Research The Rifts - An ebook (+1)

Better Together - Buddy Read (+1)

Make A Fracture In Time - A Book That Plays With History(+2)

Expand Your Rift - A Book Out Of Your Comfort Zone (+2)

Distract The Other Realm - a book with multi povs (+2)

Cross To Enemy Territory - YA or Middle Grade(+3)

Indulge in something magical - Title is Cursive Font? (+3)

Continue To Exist - Underrated Book (+3)

Regroup and Rejuvenate - A book with mental health rep (+4)

Conserve Your Energy - A Retelling (+4)

Hide Your Rifts - Author Uses Initials (+4)

First Contact - New to you author (+5)

Call forward a rift storm - Weather related word in title (+5)

Meditate - A title with an “emotion” (+5)


Send A Message To An Ally - Spell Your Name On The Book (+6)

Build An Energy Source - Sources Of Light (title or on cover) (+6)

Cultivate more power - Read A Host Favorite (any team) (+6)


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negative point prompts
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Bind The Rifts - Read A Dark Cover (-1)

Intercept A Realms Signal - Read an audiobook (-1)

Study The Other Realms Origin - a debut book (-1)

Use Outdated Technology - a 2022 Release (-2)

Learn To Bind - a 2023 Release (-2)

Focus all night - A TBR Vet (-2)

Send Rift Creatures Over - A Monster On The Cover (-3)

Lose Yourself Looking In The Void - Illustrated Spine (-3)

Use Mind Games - Title Is A Place But Not A Proper Noun (A descriptor IE The Cavern or The Deep ) (-3)
Deep water? Coventry? On the island?

Expeditie Process - A Book That Plays With Time (-4)

Deflect An Enemies Rift - A book you didn’t buy (-4)

Cease To Exist - An Isolated Setting (-4)

Uncover A Secret Rift - Author Uses Pseudonym (-5)

Pretend You’ve Already Won - Title is a movement (-5)


Convince ppl to switch sides - Dysfunctional Family (-5)

Steal Their Energy - Steal A Book from an Enemy TBR (-6)

Convert An Enemy Rift Into Your Own - Own Voices (-6)

Block A Realms Energy Source - A Word Related To Another Realm (not your own) In The Title , horror (ghost, haunting etc) , sci-fi (project, space, science etc) fantasy (magic, mage, spell etc), romance (love, heart, red etc) (-6)
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mental health, initials, new to u, emotion, light source, hybrid, cyrus, indie!, 132p., (54pt)
ebook, underrated, new to u, spell name, light source?? plane!,
A Place But Not noun, didn't buy, isolated, Pseudonym, Dysfunctional Family, hybrid, cyrus, 352p.
Initials, emotion, spell name, hybrid, cyrus, 306p.
cursive, mental health, emotion, spell name, light source, cyrus, 320p. (44pt)
play w/ history, out of comfort, new to u, spell name, light source, hybrid, indie, 337p. (51pt)
ebook, underrated, cursive, emotion, spell name, cyrus, peacetalk!, 281p. (48pt)

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start date: mar 1
end date: mar 31

old school april readathon

completed:
1994 neon

escape the readathon

start date: may 1
end date: may 31

team: vacationers
doors: 3/5

#1.

#2.

#3.

#4.1

#4.2

#5.

may readathon:
misery may


escape the readathon


may of the moderns
or d.e. stevenson's books

spoonies readathon
comfort read
easy to read format (manga?)

smutden


dystopian readathon (5/29 - 6/4)


tarot readathon - team wand


battle of the bookish?

ancient wonders readathon

start date: june 1
end date: june 18

team: rhoades
points:
wonder: the colossus

🎪build a circus🎪

start date: july 1
end date: july 31

🪞funhouse mirror🪞 x
🎩disappearing act🎩 x
🎙ringmaster🎙 x
🤸acrobats🤸‍♂️ x
🎀pretty assistants🎀 x
🤹‍♂️juggling🍎 x
⚔️knife throwing⚔️ x
🍿popcorn🍿 x




🎩🎩🗡🪞🍎🍅🍿🍦🎂🧃🫖🦉🤡🧐

the amazing readathon

team: yellow

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shorty september readathon

1. Pedro Pascal Shorts: An Unexpected Purchase
2. Dolphin Shorts: A Book with Water on the Cover (summerwater)
3. Shorty Shorts: A book from the 70s or 80s (who will run the frog hospital? in 70s)
4. Half n' Half Shorts: Read a book then watch the movie (mrs. Harris)
5. Spanx: A Book with Magic or Witchcraft
6. Hoochie Daddy Shorts: A Spicy Read or a gossipy biography (slow days?)
7. Lodge Shorts: A Book you bought because you were trying to cool. (Play it as it lay? The undefeated?)
✅️ 8. Denim Shorts: The Lottery
9. Mom Shorts: Read a Comfort Read
10. Ripped Shorts: Read a Mystery or Slasher
11. Elizabethan Shorts: Historical Read
12. Lederhosen: A Translated Book

completed:

🩸the vampire diaries readathon🩸

team: stefan

✅️ clock tower: supernatural element: (seven ghosts?)
✅️ mystic grill: featuring a friendship: the regrets
✅️ mystic falls high school: school setting: (a good girl's guide?)
✅️ salvatore boarding house: historical element: (frankenstein?)
✅️ lockwood mansion: a popular book: (remarkably bright creature? murderbot #2?)
✅️ wickery bridge: a thriller: (the risk? lie to me?)
✅️ mystic falls cemetery: dark cover (performance?)
gilbert house: a romance: (part of your world?)
✅️ forbes house: a book with a party in it: (assembly? my husband?)
mystic falls: read a vampire book: (a dowry of blood? serpent and the wings of night? dracula?)

🦘 straya 🐨




🏨 sufferathon hotel 🏨

week#2 × fav breakfast food cover
chopped omlette (on congee)

week#3 × been putting off reading for a year+

• punishment • popular book you expected to hate


week#4 × 'polarising/controversial' book


movement

victober

the game is afoot! a whodunit readathon: 2023

victim + stern family patriarch: a classic


weapon + blunt instrument: one color cover

witness + tearful widow: a sad book


clue + the half-burned will: fire on cover

suspect + the flighty socialite: with party scene


✅️ alibi + train timetables: transportation on cover


motive + to eliminate a rival lover: enemies-to-lovers

the revelation + the ambiguous ending: mixed narratives/tenses

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

trunk: the happy couple

branch 1: (same country)
☘️ 1: snowflake
🍀 2: the rachel incident

branch 2: (similar books)
☘️ 1:
🍀 2:

branch 3: (same cover style)
☘️ 1:
🍀 2:

branch 4:
☘️ 1:
🍀2:

branch 5:
☘️ 1:
🍀 2:

mini december bookemon readathon

moon stone


earth stone


sky stone


tools:

✅️ hat - read outside for 6 hrs (3 of books for ⚔️ can be less than 250 pages)
bag - read embrarassing book in public cover to cover (clam or pearl prompt)
✅️ binoculars - last book in series (get monthly bookemon outside month) kono oto tomare vol.29
✅️ tent - char on vacation (get 💣 or fungus prompt!) kono oto tomare
torch - create&share your character (skip one month for🐥 or ⚔️)
✅️ shoe - share fav socks/shoes (can count one dnf at 20%)
notebook - share book review (read less then 250+ page for 1 prompt)
✅️ packed lunch - share fav food (double up 2 food item prompts except 🐤, 🥩, 🍭)
✅️ umbrella - read 250+ pages book during sprints (skip one prompt for 🪄 or 📿 or ⚔️)
✅️ sun screen - 50% white cover (get seasonal bookemon when its season has passed) kono oto tomare
sleeping bag - share fav reading spot (can skip a book & month for volcanic rock)

🍭🍭🍭🍭
chicken - yellow/orange + black& white on cover every month




legendary necklace -
(1 necklace)

(1 earring)

(1 ring)

(1 nose ring)


steak - 3 books with 3 differing shades of red on cover


volcanic rock - heyer gr club?


magic wand -
(1 fairy godmother)


(1 fairytale retelling)
(cinderella) (red riding hood)

(1 involving wishes)


lengendary sword -
(carrie) (animal farm) (p&p) (when harry met sally) (scarlet letter) (romeo & juliet) (camilla) (king lear) (mcbeth)

bookemon 2024

seeds - two 'e' in title

bread - comfort read
carrot - nonfiction

slime - 50% green cover

lizard - reptile on cover yikes

fungus - title starts with 'f' and ends with 's' ✅️ use **⛺️**
bow & arrow - on cover
legendary Necklace - (1 necklace) (1 earring) (1 ring) (1 nose ring)
fern - nonfiction about nature/ climate change/ environment
hand buzzer - an anti-villian
log - 3 trees+ on cover

phone - audiobook

pearl - read 250p+ book beside a body of water

clam - read 2 books in same week that have pearl on cover **🎒**

magic wand - read these 3 prompts within 3 months (1 fairy godmother) (1 fairytale retelling) (1 involving wishes) **☂️**
tiara - royalty
ladder - hierarchy system

catnip - book with cat
sunflower - 50% yellow on cover
ant - less than 100 pages

rubbish bin - professor merb fav
legendary sword - 6 different retellings 250p+ within 6 months **👒 & 🩰 & 🔦**
hammer - a tool on cover

ball - toy or sports equipment on cover
doll house!
volcanic rock - 6 books from 6 book clubs in 6 months **🛌**
lollipop - colorful cover

bomb - a hard hitting book

teddy bear - a happy book
dagger - a weapon on cover
chicken
ufo - finish 400p+ in one day **📘!**
moon rock - alien

steak
worm - misunderstood character

peach - plus size mc
bone - bone on cover

fossil - a historical read
flashlight - bright cover

perfume - read romance book
hanger - an outfit that you like on a cover

milk - set on a farm

teacup - pretty cover

cute potion - zoologist recommend

acorn - a popular book
cog - something round on cover

krill - a crustacean on cover

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I
13. Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
She wore her orange camp t-shirt and… God I Feel Modern Tonight
6. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind
People who deny the existence of dragons are often… Ex-Wife | Happy All the Time

II
5. Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
History has failed us, but… Here Is the Beehive

III
4. Yann Martel,Life of Pi
Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at… the Sea of Tranquility | Scenes of a Graphic Nature
10. Kate Chopin, The Awakening
There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of… The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty | an Ex-Wife

IV
2. BTS, Butter, 2021
Smooth like butter, like a… Sin
9. Eminem, Lose Yourself, 2002
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are… Completely Normal
9. Eminem, Lose Yourself, 2002
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are… Remarkably Bright Creatures

V
9. Like a cat on a hot tin… I Laugh Me Broken
10. Your guess is as good as… an Ex-Wife

Books Unbound Stardew Valley Book Tag

-Farmer: a book that doesn’t say much but is good anyway
-Grandpa: a book you read a long time ago but still think about
-Sebastian: A book that would wear a leather jacket and smoke cigarettes if it were a person
-Harvey: a book about a niche interest
-Shane: a book that’s a bit of a mess
-Penny: a book that’s quietly beautiful
-Sam: a book that grew on you
-Abigail: a book with a purple cover
-Elliott: a book about a writer/writing
-Maru: a book that’s smarter than you
-Haley: a book with a very pretty cover
-Emily: a character who loves arts & crafts
-Alex: a book about sports
-Leah: a book set in the woods
-Krobus: a book by a reclusive author

(✯ᴗ✯) 🔜➿©️™️🔝 T▪R▪A▪V▪E▪L 🅐🅦🅐🅡🅓🅢

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