2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Congrats Rebecca!! :)

Library wrote: "Congrats Rebecca!! :)"

Thank you!

Update to message #15:
10/10 as of November 15

Goal raised to 15
11/15 as of November 22

Update to msg #4

📜7. Schezerazade Sez... Read an orally-transmitted tale in the form of a book, retelling, or adaptation or a story that mentions that kind of tale. ✔️In the Night Garden
This was such a delightful feat of storytelling.
A mysterious young girl tells stories to a young boy of royal nobility, with each character in her stories having another embedded tale of their own to relate. 4.5 stars

Progress: 15/20

Updated! Nice Job Lynn!

update to message #7

13/10 books read **Challenge Completed**
Thank You, Library, for leading this Fun Challenge!! :)

Storytelling:
√ 2. Look Who's Talking. Read a book with multiple narrators - Strange Practice

√ 6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods - 11/22/63

Culture:
√ 1. Food (cultivating, cooking, eating, cookbooks, etc.) - Live and Let Chai

√ 7. Ritual - City of Lost Souls

√ 10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another) - A Court of Mist and Fury...humans get turned into Fae and have to learn to adapt to immortality and a new way of life :)

Yay Alison! Thank you. :)

Message 21
8/8 challenge completed!

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 29/30

Culture
❎10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).
✔The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Chingiz Aitmatov blends cosmic speculation with the age-old legends of the Asiatic steppes/Kazakhstan)

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 29/30

Culture
❎10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).
✔The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Chingiz Aitmatov blends cosmic speculation with the age-old legends of the Asiatic steppes/Kazakhstan)

Update to msg 4

📜5. Applied Arts.
✔️Netherlands: Midnight Blue (#wit)

A historical fiction set in 1640s Holland about a youmg widow who flees her rural village to escape her past, landing eventually in Delft where she finds work in a pottery workshop, painting decorative ceramics.

Progress: 16/20

Good job Regina! :)

Update to message #18.
18/20 read.

Update to msg 4

📜3. Dress (fashion; weaving, dyeing, and other apparel-related crafts):
✔️Singapore (fashion): China Rich Girlfriend3.[

This novel was rife with descriptions of the obscenely wealthy, blinged out in the latest fashions.

Progress: 17/20

Update to msg 4

6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
The Peripheral

Progress: 18/20
Thank you, Library Queen.

Update to message #15:

15/15 as of December 4.

Goal raised to 20 on December 4:
15/20 as of December 4

Great job Lynn. :)

Updated to here.

oshizu wrote: "Update to msg 4

6. Where Does the Time Go? Read a book that leaps around to different time periods.
The Peripheral

Progress: 18/20
Thank you, Library Queen."

Thanks oshizu. :)

Update to msg 4

📜4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters.
✔️The Storyteller's Secret

Progress: 19/20
Just one more to go!

Yay oshizu!

Update to message 18. 20/20 read. Complete!

Thanks for the challenge, Library Queen!

Congrats TerryJane! :)

Update to msg 4

📜4. Fine Arts:✔️ This Terrible Beauty (Photography)

Progress: 20/20 Challenge complete!
Thanks so much for leading, Library Queen! Well done!

Great job oshizu! :)

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 30/30

Culture
❎10. Cultural diffusion (in which a culture spreads to another) or acculturation (where one culture's traits replaces those of another).
✔Colour Scheme (Acculturation of Maori People in New Zealand)

Challenge completed!
Thanks so much Library Queen! 🤗

Update to message #19:

Progress: 11/10 - Challenge Complete!

Thank you Library Queen! This was a fun an interesting challenge that really made me take note of story-telling and cultural elements in my reading.

Great Job Carmen and Margie! I'm glad everyone's had fun with this. :)

I realize it's a little late to ask, but would anyone who participated in this challenge be interested in leading one of the 2021 Q1 quarterly challenges?

We're still seeking someone to lead CHANGES (to go to the thread, click here.
If you're interested, please message me. Thanks for reading this post!

Edited to add: We found a wonderful challenge leader for CHANGES! Yay!

Also, I notice that our challenge leader -- Library Queen -- quietly completed this challenge without sharing the good news with us.
So here goes....

Congratulations, Library Queen, for meeting your challenge goal in late November! Awesome job! 😊

Thanks oshizu! :)

Guys, only 8 days are left! I hope everyone had fun. Happy Holidays!

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 32/30
Storytelling
❎5. Craftastic. Read a non-fiction or fiction that highlights the craft of storytelling, writing, or historiography. The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India✔
Culture
❎6. Language
✔From The Land Of Sheba: Yemeni Folk Tales (retold by Carolyn Han as translated from the Arabic by Kamal Ali Al-Hegri)

Update to message #15

DONE! 20/20 as of December 23!

Great job Lynn!

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 33/30
Storytelling
❎4. Do You Have Time for a Story? Read a book featuring a storyteller as one of its main characters. El hablador✔

Update to message : #9

PROGRESS: 34/30

Culture
❎9. Customs and traditions
✔Beyond the Rice Fields (Malagasy culture, religion, rituals, etc.)

Happy New Year! 🥂

Happy New Year!

Update to Msg. 20:

18/10

Thanks again to Library Queen for leading this challenge!
You did a wonderful job! 🧡