Challenge Corner discussion

May Read-a-thon
Since April showers bring May flowers, let’s celebrate spring by making bouquets.

You can add any flower you like to your bouquet, provided you can find it in the book, on the cover, or can spell it from the title, author's name and/or series title.

If you need ideas here are some common flowers:

Rose
Tulip
Lily
Daisy
Hydrangea
Carnation
Iris
Aster
Lisianthus
Dahlia
Daffodil
Poppy
Freesia

This will start on May 21st (starting at your midnight time zone) and will end on May 31st (ending at your midnight time zone).

How to claim flowers for your bouquet:

Every time you FINISH a book, you will need to make a completion post like so:

Completion Post

Flower: Forget Me Not
How it Fits: Title

To add a flower to your bouquet to you can do any of the following:
1. Using any flower(s) on the cover (any edition works, no need to identify the specific flower)
2. Using the letters in title, series title, and/or author first/last name (in any order)
3. Finding the word in text (please state location and passage)
4. Finding “bouquet” or “flower” in text (please state location and passage)

What you need to do in order to participate:
Step 1 - Sign up on this thread!
Step 2 - Post your books when completed!
Step 3 - Have fun and read lots of good books!

Anyone is welcome to join! Unlike the other challenges, reviews are not required to participate in the read-a-thon.

I'm in - cute challenge, Jessica! :D

I'm in!

I'm in for sure!

Count me in! (I'll try really hard to remember to post lol)

Progress Tracker:

21-5: 68 pages (Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media and Gideon the Ninth)
22-5: 100 pages (Gideon the Ninth)
23-5: 130 pages (Gideon the Ninth)
24-5: 98 pages (Gideon the Ninth)
25-5: 32 pages (Gideon the Ninth),
+ Lavender!
26-5: 93 pages (Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable)
27-5: 133 pages (The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable)
+ Allium!
28-5: 5 pages (The Word for World Is Forest)
29-5: Lost track, lol
30-5: Lost track, lol
31-5: 41 pages (The Word for World Is Forest)
+Rose!


Flowers (books) total: 3! Lavender, allium, rose

Completion Post:

Pg. 23, "the flowers of which she was picking"

Completion Post:

Pg. 8, "in a garden of white roses"

Completion Post

Pg. 134 "... all made into flowers and bouquets in marchpane"

Aly wrote: "Count me in! (I'll try really hard to remember to post lol)"
Lol this is always me even when running it.

Completion post:
21st May

Rose - found in author (Elizabeth Strout)

(gave the book back to the library already - oops! Still managed to get a flower though lol)

Completion Post:
22nd May


From Chapter III, The Ingleside Children: "It had not been occupied for many years, but a grass-grown dyke surrounded it and inside was an ancient garden where the Ingleside children could find violets and daisies and June lilies still blooming in season.

Flower counter: 4 (this is just for myself for fun!)

Completion Post:

Pg. 16, "in the scent of a fresh bouquet"

Completion Post
23rd May


17% 'A wall of bursting jasmine hedges the sidewalk to one side...'

[My bouquet: rose, violets, daisies, June lilies, jasmine - 5]

Completion Post:

roses on cover/rose in title

Completion Post:

Pg. 11, "and getting flowers."

Ellen-Arwen wrote: "Completion Post
23rd May


17% 'A wall of bursting jasmine hedges the sidewalk to one side...'

[My bouquet: rose, violets, daisies, June lilies, ..."

Love that you are keeping track of your bouquet, I'm going to do that too.

Completion Post

Flower: Lisianthus, from title "how not To INveSt: tHe IdeAs, nUmberS, and behaviors that destroy weaLth"

Flower: Lavender
How it fits: pg.273 "...masses of lavender, bunches..."

Jessica wrote: "Ellen-Arwen wrote: "Completion Post
23rd May


17% 'A wall of bursting jasmine hedges the sidewalk to one side...'

[My bouquet: rose, violets, da..."

Glad you like the idea! I wish I could draw, and then I'd do a little image update :)

Completion Post:

Pg. 2, "when she stepped into a pot of lilies"

Completion Post:

52%, "my little iris"

Completion Post:

Pg. 138, "stroked the blue flowers of a hydrangea"

Completion Post

pg. 256 "her lavender eyes went dull and lifeless"

Completion Post:

Pg. 62, "I forgot my flowers"


Pg. 89, "honeysuckles and poppies"

Completion Post:
26th May

Lots of flowers!
Memo 2, cuckooflower; memo 3, gorse; memo 5, honesty; memo 6 yellow archangel; memo 7 early purple orchid; memo 10, red campion; memo 11, thrift; memo 43, bluebell; memo 46, yellow rattle; memo 48 foxglove; memo 53, common knapweed; memo 57, woody nightshade.

[My beautifully random bouquet: roses, violets, daisies, June lilies, jasmine, cuckooflowers, gorse, honesty, yellow archangel, purple orchids, red campion, thrift, bluebells, yellow rattle, foxgloves, common knapweed, woody nightshade]

Completion Post:

Flowers on cover

Completion Post:


Flowers on cover (roses)


Letters for ASTER in title


Letters for CARNATION in title/author's name


Letters for DAISY in title/author's name

Completion Post!

Letters for ALLIUM in title

Completion Post:

Flower: Rose
How it fits: pg.172 "...beautiful rose,..."

Completion Post:

Pg. 387, "A late primrose preserved between the pages."

Completion Post:

Pg. 69, "It's painted pale blue and daisy yellow."

Completion post:


pg. 475, 'Roses, jasmine, wisteria - all in perpetual bloom...'

[My beautifully random bouquet: roses (two lots!), violets, daisies, June lilies, jasmine (two lots!), cuckooflowers, gorse, honesty, yellow archangel, purple orchids, red campion, thrift, bluebells, yellow rattle, foxgloves, common knapweed, woody nightshade, wisteria]

Completion Post:

Pg. 185, "he puts a carnation in his lapel"

Completion Post:

Pg. 199, "He produces a bouquet of fresh flowers every color of the rainbow.."

Completion Post:
May 29th

pg. 107, "Its stained-glass windows were riots of scarlet, lavender and orange..."


(Also, lots of fantasy flowers! Hemlight, rhodofume and sweet peat to name but three :D)

[My beautifully random bouquet: roses (two lots!), violets, daisies, June lilies, jasmine (two lots!), cuckooflowers, gorse, honesty, yellow archangel, purple orchids, red campion, thrift, bluebells, yellow rattle, foxgloves, common knapweed, woody nightshade, wisteria, lavender, 'hemlight', 'rhodoflume', and 'sweet peat']

Completion Post:

Loc 809, "Night-blooming roses"

Completion Post

Rose - pg 466 "Oh, rose!"

Completion Post:

Pg. 103, "she packed every space with flowers"

Completion Post!

Letters ROSE in title

Completion post:

ARINICA found in the title


GOLDEN EYE found in author name

[My beautifully random bouquet: roses (two lots!), violets, daisies, June lilies, jasmine (two lots!), cuckooflowers, gorse, honesty, yellow archangel, purple orchids, red campion, thrift, bluebells, yellow rattle, foxgloves, common knapweed, woody nightshade, wisteria, lavender, 'hemlight', 'rhodoflume', and 'sweet peat', arnica and golden eye]

Completion Post:

1%, "gargantuan arrangement of irises and gladiolas"

Completion Post:

Pg. 58, "huge bags of daffodils and turmeric"

Thank you all for participating! Together we read 40 books and found a wide array of flowers. Ellen Arwen definetly ended up with the most colourful bouquet.

Jessica wrote: "Thank you all for participating! Together we read 40 books and found a wide array of flowers. Ellen Arwen definetly ended up with the most colourful bouquet."

Aw, congrats to everyone - and thank you Jessica, I really enjoyed the readathon :) [insert flower emoji here, as I don't have the option on my laptop :(]