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Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue

For 2024, I wanted to make a different challenge from our successful name challenge. It works very similar to the name challenge.

The aim of the challenge is to look for colour within the books you choose to read during 2024. But you can be as creative as possible, you can keep your challenge very simple and choose the primary colours such as red, yellow or blue. Or you can decide to make it slightly tougher and use more specific colours such as lilac, rose, olive green or teal. There are no limits to the number of colours you can use. I would love to see how many you guys can come up with.

To give you an example I will use the colour blue. For this colour, I can use Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse, or I can choose a book which has a blue cover, such as The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. You can even be more creative and use the colour of an item of clothing you’re wearing when you finish the book, such as your blue socks on your feet, but that is if you want to make the challenge easy for yourself. I have noticed that a lot of special editions have coloured edges on their pages, you can even use that if you like.

If you finish early on in the year, don’t forget you can come back and re-do your challenge. If you like, you can use two reds, three blues or four greens.

Members can use this thread to update their progress do the challenge in their personal challenge thread, I have already set it up if you want to get started.

COLOUR CHALLENGE

1. Scarlet
*READ* 25.03.2024 ✔️



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My spot. I'm not going for a goal but want to see how many I can get.

I like it! A colourful year! 😄
I'll try to use a lot of colours.

✅- Tangerine Criaturas luminosas by Shelby Van Pelt
✅- Bubblegum Pink Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
✅- Kelly Green Un grito de amor desde el centro del mundo by Kyōichi Katayama
✅- Crimson Red Crímenes exquisitos by Vicente Garrido & Nieves Abarca
✅- Salamander Orange Desafiante by Brandon Sanderson
✅- Blue El ángel de piedra by Margaret Laurence
✅- Yellow La Casa de 1908 by Giulia Alberico
✅- Mustard Yellow Casa de Muñecas by Henrik Ibsen
✅- Green El abanico de seda by Lisa See
✅- Blue La luz que no puedes ver by Anthony Doerr
✅- White Cartas desde el manicomio: Experiencias de internamiento en la Casa de Santa Isabel de Leganés by Olga Villasante
✅- Gray El cuaderno de las recetas perdidas by Jacky Durand
✅- Emerald Green La isla del tesoro by Robert Louis Stevenson
✅- Red Los señores del norte by Bernard Cornwell
✅- White Historia desconocida de la Edad Media by J. Vilmont

I'm going to try this too. It will be fun to "color-in" the books as I read them!
❤️🧡 💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

Okay--I'm going to have some fun with this!

Scarlet - Quicksand. At one point, she is called a "scarlet woman" for the glamorous clothes she prefers.
Cream - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She calls her best girls "creme de la creme"
Countryside Green - China Court for the cover and scenery around the country house.
Orange - This Year You Write Your Novel for its bright orange cover
Sea Green - Cannery Row Because you can smell the sea when you read it.
Red - A Red Death for the title

Looks like fun. I will try my best.
Red: ,
Orange:
Yellow: ,
Green:
Blue: ,
Indigo:
Violet
Pink: ,
Black: ,
White: , ,
Brown:
Gold:
Lavender:

Great idea for the challenge Alannah! I love the flexibility; I think that I will start off easy and make it more specific as the year progresses if the mood takes me.

I am tempted to reread my Travis McGee mysteries (which all have a color in their title such as The Deep Blue Good-By). However I guess that I'll leave that option until the autumn in case I need it!

I was thinking about this challenge and posted in my 2024 thread but then it occurred to me that others might be interested... Hopefully a few of these books will inspire someone!

Possible books for the color challenge

Easy Rawlins series:
Devil in a Blue Dress
A Red Death
White Butterfly
Black Betty
A Little Yellow Dog
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Little Scarlet
Cinnamon Kiss
Little Green
Rose Gold
Charcoal Joe

Misc. others:
My Name is Red
The Red and the Black
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Red Tent
Red Mandarin Dress
The Scarlet Letter
A Study in Scarlet
Scarlet
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Golden Fool
Anne of Green Gables
Jade Island
Shades of Grey (the Jasper Fforde one!)
A Clockwork Orange
Orange Is the New Black
The Blue Castle
Gathering Blue
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Black Sheep
The Black Dahlia
The Woman in Black
The Woman in White
The Devil in the White City
White Oleander

Ooh, what a fun challenge! This is my spot! Let's read the rainbow 🌈

❤️ Any shade/name of red:
Murder at the Royal Ruby
A Study in Scarlet Women (re-read)

🧡 Any shade/name of orange:
The Priory of the Orange Tree

💛 Any shade/name of yellow:
Half of a Yellow Sun

💚 Any shade/name of green:
Green Rider

💙 Any shade/name of blue:
Blue Monday

💜 Any shade/name of violet:
The Violets of March

🎉 03.19 Challenge completed!

EJ, I like the way you organized your challenge, especially the colorful hearts.

Leslie wrote: "EJ, I like the way you organized your challenge, especially the colorful hearts."

☺️ Thanks Leslie!

I'm in, and I'll copy Leslie's idea:

❤️ Titles and/or covers in any shade of red:


🧡 Titles and/or covers in any shade of orange:


💛 Titles and/or covers in any shade of yellow:


💚 Titles and/or covers in any shade of green:


💙 Titles and/or covers in any shade of blue:



💜 Titles and/or covers in any shade of violet:


🤍 Titles and/or covers in any shade of white:
Lettera da Pechino

🖤 Titles and/or covers in any shade of black:


🤎 Titles and/or covers in any shade of brown:

Reading now

Hmmm let’s see: A Rainbow for 2024


🌈 Red

🌈 Orange

🌈 Yellow

🌈 Green

🌈 Blue

🌈 Indigo

🌈 Purple


&
🌨️ White


Finished :


Hmm despite having read 150 books this year I seem to have failed miserably on the colour challenge!

Never mind it was fun thinking about it.

Possibles for the colour challenge from my bookshelves:

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black." GK Chesterton

Tony Porter The Great White Palace (2002) READ

Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019)

Bruce Chatwin On The Black Hill (1982)

“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. … Let me see how your blue is my turquoise, and my orange is your gold.” Naomi Shihab Nye

Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2019)

Ellen Meloy The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2002)

Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Benjamin Myers The Perfect Golden Circle (2022)
AND/OR
Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child (1977)

"I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil." Vincent Van Gogh

Chris Riddle Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (2015)

Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox (1973) READ

Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004)

”A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” William Carlos Williams

Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959)

Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021)

Annie wrote: "Possibles for the colour challenge from my bookshelves:

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black." GK Chesterton

To..."love your Chesterton quote

Here's my list for January:

7 books covering red (and rose), green, blue, white, brown

Red - Red Mandarin Dress, A Red Death & The Rose in Darkness
Green - The Green Man
Blue - Devil in a Blue Dress
White - A Corner of White
Brown - The Complete Father Brown

My list for January:

Pink (cover) Choice by Jodi Picoult
Red (cover) These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
White (main text on cover) The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind by Cheryl Paradis
Olive Green (cover) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

I seem to be finding lots of blue & black titles in my TBR and already-owned stacks!

Just bumping up the thread...

Leslie wrote: "I seem to be finding lots of blue & black titles in my TBR and already-owned stacks!

Just bumping up the thread..."

I'm finding the same.

February roundup -

7 books: yellow, blue, black, purple
Yellow - Yellowface
Blue - The Blue Lotus, Out of the Blue, Blue Horses
Purple - One Lavender Ribbon
Black - A Blade So Black, The Black Sheep

My list for February (won't be including the headway books):

Maroon (cover) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Black (cover) Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

2024 A Colorful Year

💙 Blue Covers
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (3/7/24) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

♥️ Red Covers

💛 Yellow Covers

💚 Green Covers

💜 Purple Covers

🧡 Orange Covers

🩷 Pink Covers

AAB - 2024 - The Colour Challenge

Total: 40

❤️ Red Titles:
Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings from the Coming Crisis - ⭐️
Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible - ⭐️⭐️
Healing with Red Light Therapy: How Red and Near-Infrared Light Can Manage Pain, Combat Aging, and Transform Your Health - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One Red Paperclip: Or How an Ordinary Man Achieved His Dream with the Help of a Simple Office Supply - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pink Floyd: The Early Years - ⭐️⭐️
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - ⭐️⭐️
Red Flags: How to Spot Frenemies, Underminers, and Toxic People in Every Part of Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution - ⭐️⭐️
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China - ⭐️⭐️
Red: The History of a Color - ⭐️⭐️
The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War - ⭐️⭐️
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All - ⭐️⭐️

🧡 Orange Titles:
Orange Is the New Black - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

💛 Yellow Titles:
Chasing Gold - ⭐️⭐️
Go Suck A Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️
Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work - ⭐️⭐️
Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a Yes! Attitude for a Lifetime of Success - ⭐️⭐️
Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors - ⭐️⭐️
Red Blood, Yellow Skin: A Young Girl's Survival in War-Torn Vietnam - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company - ⭐️⭐️
Three Feet from Gold: Turn Your Obstacles Into Opportunities! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yellow: The History of a Color - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

💚 Green Titles:
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence - ⭐️⭐️
Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Green Living Made Easy: 101 Eco Tips, Hacks and Recipes to Save Time and Money - ⭐️⭐️
The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners - ⭐️⭐️

💙 Blue Titles:
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds - ⭐️⭐️
Blue: The Color of Noise - ⭐️⭐️
It's Not OK to Feel Blue and other lies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll - ⭐️⭐️
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Little Blue Reasoning Book: 50 Powerful Principles for Clear and Effective Thinking - ⭐️⭐️

💜 Purple Titles:
If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - ⭐️⭐️
What's Your Purple Goldfish? How to Win Customers and Influence Word of Mouth - ⭐️⭐️

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Yearly Challenges > 2024 - The Colour Challenge
January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024
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❤️ Titles and/or covers in any shade of red:


🧡 Titles and/or covers in any shade of orange:


💛 Titles and/or covers in any shade of yellow:


💚 Titles and/or covers in any shade of green:


💙 Titles and/or covers in any shade of blue:


💜 Titles and/or covers in any shade of violet:


🩷 Titles and/or covers in any shade of pink:


🤎 Titles and/or covers in any shade of brown:


🤍 Titles and/or covers in any shade of white:


🖤 Titles and/or covers in any shade of black: