The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Welcome to the Spring 2025 Challenge! The weather's warming up, greenery's beginning to poke its head up from the soil, and it's a perfect time to lace up your walking boots and hit the trail with us in search of new reads.

Welcome back returning players! Thank you for making this group so much fun. If you are just joining us as a new player, we are glad you are here.

If you need help getting started please see Getting Started, SRC Explained, and Welcome Newcomers.

The Spring 2025 bonus theme is: It's A Wonderful World - Long Distance Trails

The predicted task breakdown is as follows, but may be subject to change:

There are 54 tasks.
The Challenge point total is 910.

10 x 5 points = 50
10 x 10 points = 100
10 x 15 points = 150
10 x 20 points = 200
6 x 25 points = 150
7 x 30 points = 210
1 x 50 points = 50

Many of the tasks have already been posted. The remaining tasks will be posted as they are available. All tasks are draft until 5 days after the last task is posted. Please carefully review the task descriptions after the task become final as task requirements may have changed during the review period. Task 50.1 will be posted around the season midpoint on April 15.

Please read the task descriptions thoroughly!

We strongly recommend that you review the Rules of the Challenge, Posting Requirements and Default Rules and FAQs.

The Spring Challenge Folder holds or will soon hold: Challenge Tasks, Completed Tasks, the Readerboard, Questions/Problems, the current Challenge Rules, the season's Group Reads discussion threads, Task Ideas, the Calendar and submission threads for the season's Logo Contest and Review Raffle.
The topics can be sorted by clicking on the topics heading.

The Spring 2025 challenge will end at midnight (24:00) ET on May 31st, 2025.

Many thanks to Lucy-Bookworm for our group icon and masthead banner this season.

We hope this season's tasks lead you to some great books. Happy reading!

All tasks are now posted (with the exception of 50.1) and will become final on March 20th.