2025 Reading Challenge discussion

WHETHERING AND WEATHERING THE STORM
Duration: 1, June - 30, June 2020

Many weather-related words have multiple meanings. Pick one word and read multiple books with variations of that word in the title or feature the different meanings of a word.

Examples:
Rain, reign, rein: Read books with these variations in the title, or
-Read a book that has a Rainstorm
-One where a monarch reigns
-One that features animals led by reins or reindeer.

Weather, whether,: Read books with these words in the title, or
-Read a book in which a weather event plays an important part
-A book where there is doubt- such as a romance with an uncertain outcome or a mystery

Storm: Read books with this word in the title or read:
-A book featuring a summer storm (tsunami, thunderstorm)
-Featuring a winter storm (blizzard)
-Featuring a wind storm (tornado, hurricane)
-A book with a character with a "stormy" attitude
-A book where it's necessary to "storm the keep"

Snow: Read books with "Snow" in the title or
-Read a book featuring snow (the weather)
-Read a book featuring drugs or addiction (snow is a slang term for certain white powdery drugs)
-Read a book featuring television or a dystopia where technology has stopped working (that fuzzy "snow" on cable television)

Wind ,wind, whined, wynd, wined: Read books with these words in the title or
-Features a windstorm
-Features a clock or steampunk (wind-up)
-Features a complex journey (winding road)
-Has a whiney character
-Features an alley (wynd)
-Features a change (the winds of)
- Set in a pub, café or restaurant (wined and dined)

Also: Ice, Cloud, Sun (son), Hail (hale), Squall, Air (heir, ere, err), Breeze, Dew (do, due), Fair (fare), Fog, Shower

Feel free to get creative as you are not limited to the above examples. Post below with the number of books you would like to read and the prompts you are using.

This challenge was created by SarahKat. Kelly will be leading it. Thank you!

When posting your progress, please include your original (sign-up) message number plus your current progress using the format below:

Update to msg #xx: books read/books pledged #xx/#xx

There may be multiple participants with the same name so using your original message# makes it a lot easier for me to accurately update the challenge!

Participants:

Mess. 3: Megan- 0/3
Mess. 4: Lynn- 5/5- Completed!!
Mess. 5: Naomi-3/4
Mess. 6: Kelly- 1/2
Mess. 7: Audrey Margaret- 0/3
Mess. 8: Carmen- 18/14- Completed!!
Mess. 9: Katerina- 1/3
Mess11: Lainey-0/4
Mess12: Alison- 5/5- Completed!
Mess15: Oshizu- 7/7 Completed!!
Mess16: Sunny-2/2- Completed!
Mess20: Dar- 0/10
Mess21: Sarah- 3/3- Completed!
Mes.23: Regina- 2/6
Mess24:Sandra- 1/6
Mess26: TerryJane- 18/6- Completed!
Mess27: Suzanne- 0/5
Mess28: Octothorpe Reader Leora K: 5/3- Completed!

Please put me down for 3 books.

I haven't decided the prompt yet, but I'm leaning towards "rain" variations.

WHETHERING AND WEATHERING THE STORM
Duration: 1, June - 30, June 2020

Wow. This is going to be a complex one to figure out! (At least for me! lol) Although there are so many options that hopefully books I have planned to read in June will fit!

I'll start with a goal of 5 books and have no idea which prompts!

5/5 books read as of June 20
DONE!

Many weather-related words have multiple meanings. Pick one word and read multiple books with variations of that word in the title or feature the different meanings of a word.

Examples:
Rain, reign, rein: Read books with these variations in the title, or
-Read a book that has a Rainstorm
-One where a monarch reigns
-One that features animals led by reins or reindeer.

Weather, whether: Read books with these words in the title, or
-Read a book in which a weather event plays an important part
-A book where there is doubt- such as a romance with an uncertain outcome or a mystery
✔️ The Martian by Andy Weir
DOUBT of the outcome!
June 4--5/5 stars
✔️ Lou in lockdown by Jojo Moyes
DOUBT of outcome of the pandemic and mystery as to Lou's "illness."
June 4--5/5 stars
✔️ Stargirl (Stargirl #1) by Jerry Spinnelli
Much doubt of the outcome of the budding romance between Susan and Leo.
June 20--5/5 stars

Storm: Read books with this word in the title or read:
-A book featuring a summer storm (tsunami, thunderstorm)
-Featuring a winter storm (blizzard)
-Featuring a wind storm (tornado, hurricane)
-A book with a character with a "stormy" attitude
-A book where it's necessary to "storm the keep"

Snow: Read books with "Snow" in the title or
-Read a book featuring snow (the weather)
-Read a book featuring drugs or addiction (snow is a slang term for certain white powdery drugs)
-Read a book featuring television or a dystopia where technology has stopped working (that fuzzy "snow" on cable television)

Wind ,wind, whined, wynd, wined: Read books with these words in the title or
-Features a windstorm
-Features a clock or steampunk (wind-up)
-Features a complex journey (winding road)
-Has a whiney character
-Features an alley (wynd)
-Features a change (the winds of)
- Set in a pub, café or restaurant (wined and dined)
✔️ Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Definitely CHANGE!
June 9--5/5 stars
✔️ The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Tons of change throughout these short stories, and it is classified as SILKpunk (as opposed to Steampunk).
June 15--5/5 stars
The Ten Thousand Doors of January-COMPLEX JOURNEY

Also: Ice, Cloud, Sun (son), Hail (hale), Squall, Air (heir, ere, err), Breeze, Dew (do, due), Fair (fare), Fog, Shower

I will read four books but I am unsure of which prompts right now.

I will join for 2 books

I will join for 3 books for the month of June.
As soon as I know my books I will list them.

Hola, Kelly!
Sign me up for 14, please

PROGRESS: 18/14 🌈

❎Weather/Wether
Bellwether✔
Belle weather: Mostly sunny with a chance of scattered hissy fits✔

❎Vane/Vain
Strong Poison (where Lord Peter meets Miss Vane)✔
Vain ✔

❎Wind/Wind/Whine/Wine
A high wind in Jamaica ✔
Winding up the serpent ✔
New uses for old boyfriends (There is a bar in the series called "The Whinery")✔
Death of a ghost (wined and dined almost to death...)✔

Precipitations and suspensions
Rain, hail, sleet & snow ✔
First frost ✔
Lágrimas en la lluvia✔
La niebla y la doncella✔

❎Books including storms
Under the yoke (thunderstorm and blizzard)✔
All the birds in the sky (Super-storm and flood)✔
Dark Matter (Frightful snowstorm during the polar night)✔
They came to Baghdad (rain storm and dust storm)✔
Doctor Zhivago (The never ending winter: snow, snowstorms, snow, blizzards, snow, snow, and more snow, and so on for 40 years...brrr☃️)✔
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Sandstorm)✔

SarahKat and Kelly, thanks a lot for creating and leading this great challenge! 😍

I'm in for 3 books, please!

1. -One where a monarch reigns
Mary Queen of Scots

2. - "Storm" in the title
Butterfly in a Storm: Lady to Watch: The True Story of Giselle Rufer Delance

3. - "Snow" in the title
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

COMPLETED: 0/3

Carmen wrote: "Hola, Kelly!
Sign me up for 14, please

PROGRESS: 0/14 🌈

Weather/Wether
Bellwether
[bookcover:Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits|28647..."

You are welcome! Thanks for joining!

I’m in for 4 please :)

Read: 0/4

1. “Weather” in the title:
☐ Weather by Jenny Offill
2. “Stormy” attitude:
☐ Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
3. “Snow” in the setting:
☐ The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
4. “Wind” in the title:
☐ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Completed:

Hi...I would like to join for 5 books please :)

Read: 5/5 as of 6/29/2020

Air (Variations: Ere, Err, Heir):
√ 1. The Drowner...Ere (written previous to 1980 which is a prompt in the 2020 June "Singing in the Rain" challenge)

√ 2. Words of Radiance...Heir (a character is Heir to the throne)

√ 3. The Queen of Nothing...Air (this is the third book in the Folk of Air Series)

√ 4. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here...Air (book about climate change and the air we breathe)

√ 5. Beard Necessities...Err (second chance romance - the hero and heroine have a history together but somehow it went wrong, time passed and they have a second chance together...one of my favorite tropes!)

Very challenging!

I'm in for 3.

1.
2.
3.

Updated to message 13

Happy Reading Everyone!

I cannot resist a monthly challenge...
Please sign me up for seven books. Thank you, Kelly

Progress: 7/7

Rain, reign, rein:
*Read a book where a monarch reigns (1812 England, King George III).
✔️Where Shadows Dance

Weather/Whether:
*Weather event forms crucial plot element:
✔️The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
✔️The Martian
* Read a book where there is doubt, such as a mystery.
✔️Payment in Blood

Storm:
✔️Read a book with a storm-related word in its title:
Silent Thunder
*Read a book featuring a windstorm (hurricane). Dead Man's Island

Snow:
*Read a book set in a snowy climate (Greenland)
The Girl Without Skin

Wind ,wind, whined, wynd, wined
✔️A book featuring a long and winding journey:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
✔️A book set in a bakery cafe (wined & dined):
Spells and Scones

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I'm in/inn for 2, please.

2/2

🌈Weather, whether:
Read books with these words in the title. Bellwether

🌈Wind, wind, whined, wynd, wined:
Read books with these words in the title. Second Wind

updated to message 16

oshizu wrote: "I cannot resist a monthly challenge...
Please sign me up for seven books."

But really, oshizu, what challenge can either of us resist? lol :)

Lynn wrote: "oshizu wrote: "I cannot resist a monthly challenge...
Please sign me up for seven books."

But really, oshizu, what challenge can either of us resist? lol :)"

Haha, got me there! But I'm neglecting some of my yearly challenges to read as my whims take me. I deserve that! 😁

Hello! Sign me up for 10 books please. :)

Sign me up for 3

3/3-COMPLETED

✅1.Reigns-One where a monarch reigns-Queen Elizabeth(18/6/20)
✅2.Wined-Set in a pub, cafe or restaurant-The Pub Across the Pond(30/6/20)
✅3.Read a book with "Snow" in the title-Snowflake Bentley(30/6/20)

updated to message 21

Hi Kelly,
Please sign me up for 5 books.

3/6
Weather, whether,: Read books with these words in the title, or
-A book where there is doubt

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution --Darwin did not doubt his theory, but many people did and some still do to this day.

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage--Agatha and her love interest have doubts about their relationship.


Air (heir, ere, err)
The Night Watch
--This novel is set in London during and after WWII. The Blitz (air raids) plays a major role in the plot.

Please sign me up for 6 books.

FINISHED: 1/6

Warm, warn
A scenary taking place during a warm summer:
Det blinde punkt, Julie Hastrup
Blodig genvej, Julie Hastrup

Bring warned about an outcome:
Den hemmelige datter, Shilpi Somaya Gowda


Heat
In the heat of the moment:
Battle Royale, Koshun Tagami

heat of a fire:
Branden - Gåden om Scandinavian Star, Lars Halskov


Snow
The fuzzy (snow) look of technology that stopped working
Reached, Ally Condie, 04.06.2020

updated to message 24

You can't give me so many fabulous prompts and expect me to work with just one word. Six of my June titles fit into this challenge already, and maybe I'll find a whiney character or one with a stormy attitude, etc. Sometimes you just don't know in advance. I'll do 6 for sure, but may wish to increase that as I go. 😊

WHETHERING AND WEATHERING THE STORM - Monthly Challenge
Duration: June 1-30, 2020
Progress: 18/6+ -- COMPLETE

Many weather-related words have multiple meanings. Pick one word and read multiple books with variations of that word in the title or feature the different meanings of a word.

💧💧💧 Rain/Reign/Rein 💧💧💧
🔹 Flashback rain
🔹 Crewel World rain
🔹 The Star-Touched Queen reign
🔹 Riders of the Purple Sage reins
🔹 The Giver of Stars reins, flood
🔹 The Virgin Suicides rain

🌦️🌦️🌦️ Weather/Whether 🌦️🌦️🌦️
🔹 Into the Wild flood, gale, ice, snow, rain
🔹 A Tale of Two Citizens drought/dust storms
🔹 One of Us Is Next doubt/mystery
🔹 Peony in Love doubtful romance
🔹 Darling Rose Gold doubt/mystery
🔹 The House of Secrets doubt/mystery

⚡⚡⚡ Storm ⚡⚡⚡
🔹 A Stitch in Time blizzard
🔹 The Bookish Life of Nina Hill character with stormy attitude

❄️❄️❄️ Snow ❄️❄️❄️
🔹 Framed in Lace snow
🔹 The Dog Stars snowy radio and weather-related extinction event
🔹 Secrets of the Chocolate House snow
🔹 Lethal White Lethal White is the name of a dangerous cocaine-like powder. It also refers to a genetic defect in certain white horses in this book. (Reins, too. Ha!) Oddly enough, 'white horse' also refers to cocaine or heroin.

2020 Reading Challenge
June - Whethering and Weathering the Storm
Duration: 1, June - 30, June 2020

Progress: 2 out of 5+

Many weather-related words have multiple meanings. Pick one word and read multiple books with variations of that word in the title or feature the different meanings of a word.

Examples:
Rain, reign, rein: Read books with these variations in the title, or
-Read a book that has a Rainstorm
-One where a monarch reigns
-One that features animals led by reins or reindeer.

Weather, whether,: Read books with these words in the title, or
-Read a book in which a weather event plays an important part
-A book where there is doubt- such as a romance with an uncertain outcome or a mystery

Storm: Read books with this word in the title or read:
-A book featuring a summer storm (tsunami, thunderstorm)
-Featuring a winter storm (blizzard)
-Featuring a wind storm (tornado, hurricane)
-A book with a character with a "stormy" attitude
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig - ***** - 6/8/2020 - 385 Pages
-A book where it's necessary to "storm the keep"
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran - **** - 6/10/2020 - 446 Pages



Snow: Read books with "Snow" in the title or
-Read a book featuring snow (the weather)
-Read a book featuring drugs or addiction (snow is a slang term for certain white powdery drugs)
-Read a book featuring television or a dystopia where technology has stopped working (that fuzzy "snow" on cable television)

Wind ,wind, whined, wynd, wined: Read books with these words in the title or
-Features a windstorm
-Features a clock or steampunk (wind-up)
-Features a complex journey (winding road)
-Has a whiney character
-Features an alley (wynd)
-Features a change (the winds of)
- Set in a pub, café or restaurant (wined and dined)

Also: Ice, Cloud, Sun (son), Hail (hale), Squall, Air (heir, ere, err), Breeze, Dew (do, due), Fair (fare), Fog, Shower

Feel free to get creative as you are not limited to the above examples. Post below with the number of books you would like to read and the prompts you are using.

WHETHERING AND WEATHERING THE STORM
Duration: 1, June - 30, June 2020


-One where a monarch reigns Crown of Midnight

-A book where there is doubt- such as a romance with an uncertain outcome or a mystery Obsidio

-Read a book featuring snow (the weather) A Curse So Dark and Lonely

-Features a change (the winds of) Daughter of Smoke & Bone

-Features a change (the winds of) Normal People


5/3 Books Completed

updated to message 28

great to see everyone so enthusiastic about this challenge!

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 1/14 🌈

Updated #16

1/2🌀

Update to #24:

1/6 read

Reached, Ally Condie

update to Message #12

2/5 books completed as of 6/4/2020

My Word is Air...I am reading variations of this word (Heir, Ere, Err)

2. Words of Radiance...Heir (a character is Heir to the throne)

5. Beard Necessities...Err (second chance romance - the hero and heroine have a history together but somehow it went wrong, time passed and they have a second chance together...one of my favorite tropes!)

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 4/14 🌈

Update to message #9

3. - "Snow" in the title
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - on 06/06/2020

COMPLETED: 1/3

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 6/14 🌈

Update to msg 15:

Progress: 4/7

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 7/14 🌈

updated to message 38

great job everyone!!

Update to message 23.
2/6 completed

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 8/14 🌈

Message 5 3/4

Every Storm by Lori Wick “Storm” in the title
In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund takes place in a blizzard
In the Field of Grace by Tessa Afshar has a sun on the cover

updated to message 42

Update to msg 15

Progress: 7/7
Challenge completed!
Thank you so much for leading, Kelly!

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 9/14 🌈

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 11/14 🌈

update message 13 -

I withdraw from the challenge.

Thank you for creating it! it looked really fun. I just over extended myself with other challenges.

Thanks again!

Update to message #4:
5/5 books as of June 20! DONE!

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 13/14 🌈

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 14/14 🌈

Challenge completed but I'll be reading some more books 😉