2025 Reading Challenge discussion

oshizu wrote: "Woooo, Carmen! Only 3 more to go!"

Yess!

progress: 41/37

April #9. Church/Minister/Religion has major role: What Remains of Heaven

Also, death by blunt instrument, multiple deaths by different means)

Ain't gonna lie. I've enjoyed this challenge so much that I might do it again in 2020. LOL!

PROGRESS: 68/70

🔖May #3 - Primary action takes place in this month: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

oshizu wrote: "Ain't gonna lie. I've enjoyed this challenge so much that I might do it again in 2020. LOL!..."

Bye bye to our good intentions for next year, 🤣🤣

Carmen wrote: "oshizu wrote: "Ain't gonna lie. I've enjoyed this challenge so much that I might do it again in 2020. LOL!..."

Bye bye to our good intentions for next year, 🤣🤣"

@Carmen
Haha, my participation in yearly challenges has been quite streamlined for 2020.
In 2019, I did all 15 of this group's yearly challenges plus Calendar of Crime, 2019 Reading Women Challenge, and my personal Reading Food challenge. 18 yearlies!

For 2020, I'll only be joining 8 of this group's yearlies (no PopSugar!), plus Just the Facts and my personal Reading Food Challenge again. So only 10 yearlies--that's almost a 50% reduction, right?

So, I think my good intentions for joining 2020 yearlies are holding up okay so far, LOL! My only problem is that my reading lists are really loooooong already.
How about you?

PROGRESS: 69/70

🔖December #8 - Month-related item on cover (Christmas tree/other decor, snow, winter scene, etc.): by Leslie Meier

One more book, Carmen!!!

oshizu wrote: "How about you?..."

More or less the same as you.
I'll be joining 8 yearlies also (Popsugar included), plus "Just the facts" that will be a great help in my listopia: "The Golden Age Queens of Mystery". Another bee in my bonnet is to read mysteries around the world, but it's just an idea I have 😉
But the "adventurers club" is soooo tempting that I think I'm going to read one fiction & one nonfiction book for each prompt (if possible.)
And then we have to let room for the quarterlies and the monthlies...😁

Carmen wrote: "oshizu wrote: "How about you?..."

More or less the same as you.
I'll be joining 8 yearlies also (Popsugar included), plus "Just the facts" that will be a great help in my listopia: "The Golden Age..."

I considered doing Genre Jammin' twice (with different genres), but I'm holding back. I want to have time for not only monthlies and quarterlies but books I want to read that don't really fit anywhere (gasps!).

Last update for this challenge.

September #2: Author's birth month: Carlos Luis Zafon (Shadow of the Wind)

Progress: 43/37

PROGRESS: 70/70

🔖December #4 - Christmas: Christmas Bliss


Challenge completed! 🎉🎉

Happy Holydays! ☃️

Carmen wrote: "PROGRESS: 70/70

🔖December #4 - Christmas: Christmas Bliss


Challenge completed! 🎉🎉

Happy Holydays! ☃️"

Yay! Congratulations, Carmen!
70 books is a mini-mountain of mysteries! :D

oshizu wrote: "Yay! Congratulations, Carmen!
70 books is a mini-mountain of mysteries! :D..."
Thanks, oshizu

I'm looking forward to starting new year's challenges and mysteries, of course!

I'm starting this challenge here. Since I'm reading so many mysteries this year, I'd like to do each month 4 times.

January
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month - Born in Death
4. New Year's
5. Other January holiday (Penguin Awareness Day, 1/20) - Penguins and Mortal Peril
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "J"
8. Month-related item on cover (snow, winter-related scene, top hat, party scene, etc.) - Finding Justice
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Snowbound country-house mystery - Snowed in with Death
- - - - - -
February
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month - This Old Homicide
4. Valentine's Day
5. Other February holiday (Walking the Dog Day 2/22) - In the Dog House
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "F" - Finding Courage
8. Month-related item on cover (a heart, a couple, bow and arrow, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Couple/romance/love triangle has major role
- - - - - -
March
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month - Creation in Death
4. St. Patrick's Day
5. Other March holiday (Doctor's Day, 3/30) - Ice Cold
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "M" - Memory in Death
8. Month-related item on cover (shamrock, something green, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Money/fortune/inheritance has major role
- - - - - -
April
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month - A is for Alibi
3. Primary action takes place in this month - Eternity in Death
4. Easter
5. Other April holiday (Zoo Lovers' Day 4/8) - The Silence of the Snakes
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "A" (the words "A" or "An" don't count) -
8. Month-related item on cover (rabbit, fancy hat, church, cross, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Church/Minister/Religion has major role The Sinner
- - - - - -
May
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Memorial
5. Other May holiday
6. Original publication month - Finding Answers
7. Title has a word starting with "M" - Murder Can Mess Up Your Masterpiece
8. Month-related item on cover (graves, flags, a mother, flowers, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Military figure or Mother has major role - Sleep Like a Baby
- - - - - -
June
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month - Vanish
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Father's Day
5. Other June holiday
6. Original publication month - Ice Cold
7. Title has a word starting with "J" - The Julius House
8. Month-related item on cover (a father, a necktie, a bride, a wedding, church, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Father or Wedding figures prominently
- - - - - -
July
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Independence Day or Canada Day
5. Other July holiday
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "J"
8. Month-related item on cover (flag, fireworks, maple leaf, etc. )
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Takes place in U.S. or Canada - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
- - - - - -
August
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Academic setting
5. Other August holiday (?)
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "A" (the words "A" or "An" don't count)
8. Month-related item on cover (summer scene, beach/water, school, bus, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR -
9. Summer holiday setting (beach, resort, etc.)
- - - - - -
September
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Labor Day
5. Other September holiday
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "S"
8. Month-related item on cover (people working, means of travel, picnic scene, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Setting = place of employment (workplace)
- - - - - -
October
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Halloween
5. Other October holiday
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "O"
8. Month-related item on cover (pumpkin, mask, spooky scene, fall scene, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Costume/disguise/mistaken identity has major role
- - - - - -
November
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month - Dead Over Heels
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Thanksgiving
5. Other November holiday
6. Original publication month - 4:50 from Paddington
7. Title has a word starting with "N"
8. Month-related item on cover (turkey, family dinner, poppies, etc.)
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. Family relationships play major role
- - - - - -
December
1. Month in the title
2. Author's birth month
3. Primary action takes place in this month
4. Christmas - Finding Christmas
5. Other December holiday
6. Original publication month
7. Title has a word starting with "D" - Divided in Death
8. Month-related item on cover (Christmas tree/other decor, snow, winter scene, etc.) - Boxes in the Basement
9. If your birthday, wild-card book, OR
9. House Party/Family Gathering plays major role

Deanie wrote: "I'm starting this challenge here. Since I'm reading so many mysteries this year, I'd like to do each month 4 times.."

Hello, Deanie!

I was actually about to archive this challenge as it was a 2019 challenge.
You are, of course, welcome to copy the challenge to your personal Member's Corner and track your own progress.
The 2020 mystery challenge is Just the Facts, Ma'am. You can read about it here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I hope you'll join us!