2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Monthly Challenges: January through June


January
Sight Reading (Post 12)
3. Blowing Your Own Trumpet:
Pride and Prejudice completed 01/10/20
4. Music to My Ears:
Rescue Me completed 01/18/20
7. Beat the Band:
Force of Naturecompleted 01/22/20

Marathon Challenge (post 50)
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy completed 01/29/20
The Nightingale completed 01/19/20

February
Monthly Challenge: Have Book, Will Travel
The Housekeeper and the Professor 02/18/20

Monthly Challenge: The 5 Love Languages 5/5
The Running Dream- gift 02/12/20
The Happiness Dare: Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire- self-help 02/21/20
The Closer You Come- service industry 02/01/20
First Time in Forever - "time" in the title 02/09/20
The Rosie Project- romance (ebook) - 02/24/20

March
Monthly Challenge: Earth Laughs In Flowers 4/8
1. Bloom of Youth: The Way You Make Me Feel 03/06/20
2. The Bloom is Off the Rose: The Great Alone 04/01/20
3. Your Year to Bloom: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
4. Bloom Where You’re Planted: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
5. Blood-Bloom: Marvels 3/16/20
6. Algae Bloom: Rosemary Cottage 03/10/20
8. “Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: Othello 03/11/20

Monthly Challenge: I've Put a Spell on You 2/4
W- Whatever Life Throws at You
A- Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City 3/13/20
R- Reading in the Wild 03/15/20
M- Maison Ikkoku, Volume 1 03/25/20

April
No monthly challenge--I'll finish books from March

May
June

Monthly Challenges: July through December


July
August
September
October
November
December

Q1 Challenges
MEET US AT THE BOOKSHOP
Duration: January 1 to March 31, 2020
In-challenge post: 48
Goal 9

Progress: 9/9 - completed 02/18/2020! ✌🏻

This quarterly challenge asks you to read any books of your choice, but each one must belong to a different genre or subgenre.

TBR tbd
*Children's literature, YA fiction
*Classics
*Fantasy, epic fantasy, high/low fantasy, historical fantasy, urban fantasy
*Fiction: literary, contemporary, and historical
*Folktales, fairytales, and their retellings
*History and true crime
*Hobbies & crafts
*Horror, suspense, and thriller
*Memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies
*Mystery and its subgenres (historical, culinary, paranormal, etc.)
*Myths, legends, and their retellings
*Nonfiction: history, science, technology, true crime
*Poetry
*Romance
*Science and technology
*Science fiction, dystopian literature, cli-fi, space opera, and alternative history
*Self-help books
*Westerns
*Special super-duper bonus prompt: Read a book set in a bookshop or about a bookshop owner.

(Sub)Genres:
Historical fantasy: Widdershins 01/04/20
Classics: Pride and Prejudice 01/10/20
Nonfiction, writing: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel 01/17/20
Contemporary romance: Rescue Me 01/18/20
Historical fiction: The Nightingale 01/19/20
Suspense: Force of Nature 01/22/20
YA: The Running Dream 02/12/20
Short stories, Western: Close Range 02/16/20
Literary fiction, Japanese: The Housekeeper and the Professor 02/18/20

Q2 Challenges

Q3 Challenges

Q4 Challenges

Yearly Challenge: Serial Reader
In-challenge post: #26

Progress: 7/10

Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Scythe
Thunderhead
The Toll
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone 04/11/20
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Whyborne and Griffin by Jordan L. Hawk
Widdershins (re-read) 01/04/20
Threshold 02/18/20
Stormhaven 05/06/20
Cursebreakers by Brigid Kemmerer
A Heart So Fierce and Broken 06/01/20

Yearly Challenge: Color Challenge
In-challenge post: #16

Progress: 12/18

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover

2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover.

3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover.

4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover

5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).
6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover.

7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover.

8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover.

9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).
10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover.

11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover.

12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover.

13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.

14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover (rainbows, stripes, polka dots, floral pattern, mosiac, etc...).
15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.

16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title (yellow gold, black & white, etc...)
17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.
18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, shiny, mosiac, etc...)

Yearly Challenge: Genre Bingo
In-challenge post: #54
Goal: 3 Bingos (some books may overlap)



B2: Memoir
I2: Horror
N2: Self-Help The Happiness Dare: Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire
G2: Classics Pride and Prejudice
O2: Crime

B5: General Nonfiction Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
I5: Romance Rescue Me
N5: Western Close Range
G5: Historical fiction The Nightingale
O5: Science, nonfiction:

B4: Young Adult The Running Dream
I4: Young Adult Fantasy Daughter of Smoke & Bone
N4: Suspense Force of Nature
G4: Literary fiction: The Housekeeper and the Professor
O4: Biography

Yearly Challenge: Clear the Shelves
In-challenge post: #46
Note: all books must be purchased before 12/31/19. I'm only going to count books for this challenge if they are e-books I'm reading for the first time, new physical books, or physical books I reread and decide to get sell or donate.

Total goal: 20/40

e-books: 7/20

physical books: 13/20

e-books:
Threshold
The Rosie Project
A Room of One's Own
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Simply Irresistible
Stormhaven
The Sweetest Thing

physical books:
Pride and Prejudice
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Rescue Me
The Nightingale
Force of Nature
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
The Closer You Come
First Time in Forever
Close Range
Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
Reading in the Wild
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Whatever Life Throws at You

*Reserved*