2025 Reading Challenge discussion

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2023

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.
– Yoda

For December's theme of Wisdom , this open challenge encourages you to choose books based on the wisdom of Master Yoda. When you have the opportunity, follow Yoda's advice to Pass on what you have learned.

To join this challenge, post a comment below telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. Do or do not. There is no try.

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).

Thanks to Carmen for creating and leading this Obi-Wan-derful challenge. Yoda best!

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… there was a group in Goodreads which yearly theme was "To boldly go"…
It seems there were a lot of Trekkies among them, but maybe some Warsies there were too…so, eventually, they decided, with a reading challenge, to pay tribute to Master Yoda, unquestionably, one of the characters that had most influenced the last generations of Earthlings.

Hi, lovely people! 🙋🏻‍♀️
Yoda’s iconic quotes have become a staple in pop culture, inspiring fans all over the world to find their inner strength and purpose.

Are you in a rut and need some motivation to moving forward? Look no further, the words of wisdom of the legendary Jedi Master, will help you to follow the path of the Force, you just have to sign up and tell me how many books you'll be reading.
From his unconventional syntax to his profound insights, Yoda’s quotes can inspire us to become better versions of ourselves.

May the force be with you!
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Much to learn you still have… my old padawan. This is just the beginning!
―Master Yoda

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Updating your progress
When posting your progress, please include your original (sign-up) message number plus the current progress using the format below:

Update to msg #xx: books read/books pledged

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!
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📓Initiates
🪪Beth (# 10) - 0/5
🪪Brianna Raquel (# 14) - 0/12
🪪Carmen (# 3) - 0/5
🪪Ciara (# 13) - 0/3
Elizabeth (# 17) - 0/12
🪪JennH (# 8) - 0/3
🪪Kendra (# 12) - 0/4
🪪Kristina (# 16) - 0/5
🪪Laurie (# 5) - 0/5
🪪Lina (# 4) - 0/3
🪪Sarah (# 18) - 0/5
Sheila (# 6) - 0/10
🪪Sherri (# 20) - 0/10
Suzanne (# 22) - 0/5
🪪TerryJane (# 7) - 0/10
🪪Theresa (# 9) - 0/2

🥋Padawans

🥷Knights
Beth (# 10) - 5/5 Completed!
Brianna Raquel (# 14) - 12/12 Completed!
Carmen (# 3) - 14/5 Completed!
Ciara (# 13) - 20/3 Completed!
JennH (# 8) - 3/3 Completed!
Kendra (# 12) - 8/8 Completed!
Kristina (# 16) - 5/5 Completed!
Laurie (# 5) - 5/5 Completed!
Lina (# 4) - 3/3 Completed!
Sarah (# 18) - 5/5 Completed!
Sherri (# 20) - 10/10 Completed!
TerryJane (# 7) - 13/10 Completed!
Theresa (# 9) - 2/2 Completed!

STATS
Participants: 16
Books Read: 105
Book Goal: 103
Completed: 13

Updated on January 2, 2024 .

May the force be with you
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PROGRESS: 14/5

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.


✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.


✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.


✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.


✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).

Signing up for 3 for now, thanks!

🔥 May the Force Be with You - Monthly Challenge 🔥
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2023

🔥 Progress: 3/3 🔥

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.
– Yoda

For December's theme of Wisdom , this open challenge encourages you to choose books based on the wisdom of Master Yoda. When you have the opportunity, follow Yoda's advice to Pass on what you have learned.

To join this challenge, post a comment below telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. Do or do not. There is no try.

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel you can identify with.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (finished Dec 24)

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
Norse Mythology (finished Dec 27)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (sadly did not quite manage to finish this book)

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
The Benefits of Being an Octopus (finished Dec 27)

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (TBD) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (sadly didn't quite finish this on time)

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COMPLETED - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

5/5 Read

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with. (friend group)
The Wednesday Sisters

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
Transcendent Kingdom

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been. (Maine)
The Vanishing Hour

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read books written for a young adult audience.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Sheila from eastern NC signing on for 10. Thank you for creating and leading. May the force be with you.🖖🏻

🤺 MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - Monthly Challenge
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 13/10 -- COMPLETE

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.
– Yoda

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
🤺 Once Upon a Wardrobe
🤺 Christmas at Holiday House
🤺 Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
🤺 The Christmas Box

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
🤺 Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
🤺 A Sunlit Weapon
🤺 The Secret Chord
🤺 Small Things Like These

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
🤺 Forever...
🤺 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (TBD) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).
🤺 11th Hour
🤺 Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
🤺 Brief Answers to the Big Questions

I'm going for 3.

3/3

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2023

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
Witches of Brooklyn: S'More Magic by Sophie Escabasse 12/3/23

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen 12/5/23

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol 12/1/23

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).

I'm setting a goal of 2 books for this one.

Progress: 2/2

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
✔The Seven Year Slip (Dec. 9)

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
✔Pigture Perfect: A Wish Novel (Dec. 14)

Going for 5. Thanks!

5/5 complete!

💫 Your world is a reflection of you: Read books you feel identified with.
— Identified with Opaline when her mother died and she called herself an orphan - The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
💫 Unlearn what you have learned: Read books that make you see life in a different way.
— Many new insights on historical events - A Promised Land by Barack Obama
💫 Your path you must decide: Read books set in places you’ve never been.
— Jonesborough, TN - In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2) by Scott Pratt
💫 Truly wonderful the mind of a child is: Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
— MPG of Childrens - Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
💫 Win, we shall together: Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).
— Done - Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

Sheila from eastern NC signing on for 10. Looks like some of them are pretty challenging. Thanks for creating and leading.

Love this challenge, and love Master Yoda! I'm signing on for 4

Update - I met my goal of 4, so I'll bump it up to 8

Progress: 8 /8
   

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
✅ Hamlet is Not OK
✅ I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
✅ Babel
✅ Krampus: The Yule Lord

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
✅ Omen of Ice
✅ Evergreen Chase: A Shady Hollow Mystery Short Story

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
✅ Breadcrumbs
✅ Nura and the Immortal Palace

Progress: 20/3

I am in for (at least) three. I imagine I'll be reading more than one book that would fit a certain category. It seems like most books reflect me or make me think differently about something, you know?

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades - Rebecca Renner
Mister Magic - Kiersten White
The Moth for the Star - James Reich
Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood
Sing Her Down - Ivy Pochada
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive - Carolyn Prusa

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
The Late Americans - Brandon Taylor
Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang
Happiness Falls - Angie Kim
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - Debra Magpie Earling
Vintage Contemporaries - Dan Kois

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
The Guest - Emma Cline (Long Island, NY)
The Apology - Jimin Han (Seoul, South Korea)
The Witching Tide - Margaret Meyer (England)
With Love, from Cold World - Alicia Thompson (Florida)
The New Earth - Jess Row (Israel & Palestine)
Voyager: Constellations of Memory - Nona Fernández (Chile)
Independence Square - Martin Cruz Smith (Russia, Ukraine, & Crimea)

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Reador a Buddy Read.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking

I'm trying for 3 of each!

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
1. This Spells Love, completed 12/8
2. The Mark of Athena, completed 12/8
3. Promise Boys, completed 12/9

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
1. We Want What We Want, completed 12/2
2. Sing Me to Sleep, completed 12/9
3. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, 12/14

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
1. A Fatal Glow, completed 12/1
2. A Shimmer of Red, completed 12/1
3. The Time Traveler's Wife, completed 12/2

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
1. The House of Hades, completed 12/11
2. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, completed 12/12
3. The Blood of Olympus, completed 12/16

Welcome everybody! 🤗

Patience you must have, my young Padawan.
―Master Yoda

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
December 01 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 5/5

Sign me up for 5 books!

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.
✅ Maurice by E.M. Forster
✅ Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
✅ The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
✅ Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
✅ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
12/1-31/23
Goal: 0/12

Task: YOUR WORLD IS A REFLECTION OF YOU. Read books you feel identified with.
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Task: UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED. Read books that make you see life in a different way.
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Task: YOUR PATH YOU MUST DECIDE. Read books set in places you've never been.
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Task: TRULY WONDERFUL THE MIND OF A CHILD IS. Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
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3.

Task: WIN, WE SHALL TOGETHER. Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance)
I am not completing this task.

Sign me up for 5 books

5/5-COMPLETED

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
✅1)Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (25/12/23)
✅2)The Monster at the End of this Book (16/12/23)
✅3)Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (17/12/23)
✅4)Corduroy (18/12/23)
✅5)Harold and the Purple Crayon (19/12/23)

Welcome, girls! 🤗

“When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.”
―Master Yoda

Looking at the above posts it looks like I don't have to do all the prompts. I can pick and choose. I hope it's right. I'm going to try for 10 books but I don't know which ones yet.

Task: YOUR WORLD IS A REFLECTION OF YOU. Read books you feel identified with.
1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, 3/5*, 12/23/23
2. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina, 3/5*, 12/10/23
3.

Task: UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED. Read books that make you see life in a different way.
1. Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom, 4/5*, 12/12/23
2. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, 5/5*, 12/14/23
3.

Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.
1. Iceland - Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indriðason, 4/5*, 12/2/23
2. Trinidad - Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein, 2/5, 12/5/23
3. Pakistan - Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, 3/5*, 12/19/23

Task: TRULY WONDERFUL THE MIND OF A CHILD IS. Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.
1. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, 5/5*, 12/7/23
2. Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, 4/5*, 12/4/23
3. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, 5/5*, 12/21/23

Sherri wrote: "Looking at the above posts it looks like I don't have to do all the prompts. I can pick and choose. I hope it's right. I'm going to try for 10 books but I don't know which ones yet."

You're absolutely right, Sherri. For all of our challenges, you choose a goal that suits you and your reading pace. Also, you can change your goal, should you wish. Happy reading!

2023 & 2024 Reading Challenge
December - May the Force Be with You
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2023

Progress: 0 out of 5

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.
– Yoda

For December's theme of Wisdom, this open challenge encourages you to choose books based on the wisdom of Master Yoda. When you have the opportunity, follow Yoda's advice to Pass on what you have learned.

To join this challenge, post a comment below telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. Do or do not. There is no try.

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with.

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been.

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read or re-read books written for a children to young adult audience.

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions) or a Buddy Read (you need not sign up in advance).

Welcome, Sherri and Suzanne! 🤗

“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
―Master Yoda

Sign me up for 2 please!

Progress 0/2

Update to post 10: 5/5 complete

Thanks!

Congrats, Beth! 🎉👏👏

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”
―Master Yoda

updated msg 14, 12/12

Update to msg 12:

Progress so far: 7 /8

Update to Message #7 : 10/10

I still have a few more books for this month, but won't change my goal just in case.

Update to message #13: 20/3 completed!

Congratulations to all the new Knights:

✴️Brianna Raquel
✴️Ciara
✴️TerryJane
We are very proud of you all! 🎉👏👏👏👏

“Feel the force!”
―Master Yoda

Update to msg 12:
Finished!
Progress: 8 /8
   

Congratulations, Kendra! 🎉👏⭐️

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
―Master Yoda

Update to message 20
Completed 10/10

Update #5

COMPLETED - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

5/5 Read

✴️ Your world is a reflection of you.
Read books you feel identified with. (friend group)
The Wednesday Sisters

✴️ Unlearn what you have learned.
Read books that make you see life in a different way.
Transcendent Kingdom

✴️ Your path you must decide.
Read books set in places you’ve never been. (Maine)
The Vanishing Hour

✴️ Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Read books written for a young adult audience.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

✴️ Win, we shall together.
Join this month's Group Read (Brief Answers to the Big Questions)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Message 18 Updated

5/5

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

Update to message #8

Progress: 3/3

Challenge completed!

Final update to Message#7 : 13/10

Thanks again, Carmen!

Congratulations to all the new Knights:

✴️Sherri 🎉
✴️Laurie 🎉
✴️Sarah 🎉
✴️Jenn 🎉
A big round of applause for all of you!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Master TerryJane, hats off to you! 🎩

The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.
―Master Yoda

HAPPY 2024!!! 🎉🥂📚

Update for Message #4:
🔥 Progress: 3/3 🔥
Thanks Carmen! Happy New Year to you! :)

Update to message 16 - 5/5 books read, challenge complete!

Congratulations, Knights Lina and Kristina!!
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“Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter.”
―Master Yoda

I forgot to post updates. Oops!

Updated message 9. 2/2 books.

Happy New Year!

Congratulations, Knight Theresa! 🎉👏👏

“Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.”
―Master Yoda