2025 Reading Challenge discussion

ADVENT CALENDAR CHALLENGE
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2021

Many countries around the world use advent calendars or Christmas calendars to celebrate the month of December. For some people, the calendar has religious significance, but for others it's a secular, non-religious tradition.

For this challenge, there are two options:

A) Starting on Dec. 1 and ending on Dec. 24, read a short story (or poem or essay) every day. Use stories or poems from collections, magazines, or the internet - there's lot of good short fiction available for free from many publishers.

B) Starting on Dec. 1: Split a novel into 24 chunks and portion your reading so that you read the last chunk on Dec. 24. (Ideally the novel has 24 chapters to start with! But as long as you can manage to count out fairly even-sized chunks, it'll work.)

If you'd rather keep reading past the 24th, you're welcome to try for the whole month!

This challenge will be led by Sunny. Thank you for volunteering, Sunny

🎄Welcome to this final challenge of the year! 🎄

Advent is a time to celebrate light in the midst of darkness.

I am looking forward to seeing what you choose to read to celebrate.

To have your challenge updated on the participants list, please post an update comment. Be sure to include both your original message number and progress:

Example: Updated msg #10: 2/8

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. Thanks!

I will post updates on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays.

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Participants: 29

Hello,
Please, sign me up for this challenge. I'm going to read short stories and poems from the Hungarian version of My Christmas Book of Stories and Carols by Linda M. Jennings. It contains 37 stories so I'll finish it after the challenge. Hope, that's not a problem.

For the challenge I'll read 31 stories, the rest is for January and I will add this book to my 2022 challenge.

0/31

Hi Sunny. Please sign me up for short stories. Thanks.

Completed

The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown

✔ 1. Imagine
✔ 2. It Didn't Happen
✔ 3. Recessional
✔ 4. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
✔ 5. Puppet Show
✔ 6. Nightmare In Yellow
✔ 7. Earthmen Bearing Gifts
✔ 8. Jaycee
✔ 9. Pi in the Sky
✔ 10. Answer
✔ 11. The Geezenstacks
✔ 12. Hall of Mirrors
✔ 13. Rebound
✔ 14. Star Mouse
✔ 15. Abominable
✔ 16. Not Yet the End
✔ 17. Etaoin Shrdlu
✔ 18. Armageddon
✔ 19. Experiment
✔ 20. The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver (I, II and III)
✔ 21. Reconciliation
✔ 22. Nothing Sirius
✔ 23. Pattern
✔ 24.The Yehudi Principle

Hi Sunny 🤗
I’ll have a go at a 24 part Christmas calendar book, please.

Days: 24
Read: 24

COMPLETE 🎅🏻
🎄 24 gode gerninger ✔️✔️✔️

For this challenge, I will read 3 short story collections - Bill Richardson's I Saw Three Ships: West End Stories which has 9 stories, The Necklace and Other Short Stories with 9 stories by Guy de Maupassant and O Henry's The World of O.Henry which has 22 stories.

30/31

I Saw Three Ships: West End Stories
✔ 1.Fa, la, la, la, la ✔01Dec
✔ 2. Since We've No Place to Go ✔ 05Dec
✔ 3. Everybody Knows a Turkey ✔ 08Dec
✔ 4. Snow on Snow on Snow on Snow ✔ 09Dec
✔ 5. With Man to Dwell ✔ 13Dec
✔ 6. Sinners, Reconciled ✔ 14Dec
7. Bless All the Dear Children
8. Sin Error Pining
9. Still Goodbying

The World of O.Henry
✔ 1. The Gift of the Magi ✔ 02Dec
✔ 2. The Reformation of Calliope ✔ 04Dec
✔ 3. One Thousand Dollars✔ 06Dec
✔ 4. The Pimienta Pancakes ✔ 07Dec
✔ 5. The Badge of Policeman O'Roon ✔ 08Dec
✔ 6. The Thanksgiving Day Gentleman ✔ 10Dec
✔ 7. Caught ✔ 11Dec
✔ 8. The Whirligig of Life ✔ 12Dec
✔ 9. Makes the Whole World Kin ✔ 12Dec
✔ 10. The Cop and The Anthem ✔ 13Dec
✔ 11. Memoirs of a Yellow Dog ✔ 14Dec
✔ 12. The Last Leaf ✔ 15Dec
✔ 13. A Newspaper Story ✔ 19Dec
✔ 14. The Skylight Room ✔ 21Dec
✔ 15. A Retrieved Reformation ✔ 22Dec
✔ 16. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball ✔ 23Dec
✔ 17. The Passing of Black Eagle ✔ 26Dec
18. The Green Door ✔ 27Dec
19. Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking ✔ 28Dec
20. The Furnished Room ✔ 29Dec
21. Springtime à la Carte ✔ 30Dec
22. A Madison Square Arabian Night

The Necklace and Other Short Stories
✔ 1. Boules de Suif ✔ 03Dec
✔ 2. The Necklace ✔ 08Dec
✔ 3. A Piece of String ✔ 08Dec
✔ 4. Mme Tellier's Establishment ✔ 16Dec
✔ 5. Mademoiselle Fifi ✔17Dec
✔ 6. Miss Harriet ✔ 24Dec
✔ 7. A Way to Wealth ✔18Dec
✔ 8. My Uncle Jules ✔ 20Dec
✔ 9. The Horla ✔ 25Dec

Hi Sunny,
Sign me up!

Advent Calendar
December 01 - December 31, 2021
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅COMPLETED✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

B) Starting on Dec. 1: Split a novel into 24 chunks and portion your reading so that you read the last chunk on Dec. 24. (Ideally the novel has 24 chapters to start with! But as long as you can manage to count out fairly even-sized chunks, it'll work.)

Mr. Frosty Pants

🎄🎄🎄Progress: 24/24🎄🎄🎄

✔️12/1 - Chapter 1
✔️12/2 - Chapter 2
✔️12/3 - Chapter 3
✔️12/4 - Chapter 4
✔️12/5 - Chapter 5 & 6
✔️12/6 - Chapter 7
✔️12/7 - Chapter 8
✔️12/8 - Chapter 9
✔️12/9 - Chapter 10
✔️12/10 - Chapter 11
✔️12/11 - Chapter 12
✔️12/12 - Chapter 13 & 14
✔️12/13 - Chapter 15
✔️12/14 - Chapter 16
✔️12/15 - Chapter 17
✔️12/16 - Chapter 18
✔️12/17 - Chapter 19
✔️12/18 - Chapter 20
✔️12/19 - Chapter 21 & 22
✔️12/20 - Chapter 23
✔️12/21 - Chapter 24
✔️12/22 - Chapter 25
✔️12/23 - Chapter 26
✔️12/24 - Chapter 27 & Epilogue

Hola Sunny!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 24/24 🎄


💝1. Change of Heart
💝2. Miracles
💝3. Daniel and the Angel
💝4. Hark! the Herald

💝5. Double Exposure
💝6. Gabriel's Angel
💝7. Yuletide Treasure
💝8. Five Golden Rings

💝9. He Sees You When You're Sleeping
💝10. All She Wants for Christmas
💝11. Turning Up the Heat
💝12. Baby, It's Cold Outside
💝13. A Blue Christmas
💝14. The Nutcracker Sweet

💝15. Hot Toy
💝16. Christmas Bonus
💝17. Naughty Under the Mistletoe

💝18. Christmas Letters
💝19. Rainy Days Kisses

💝20. Visions of Sugar Plums

💝21. Kissing Under the Mistletoe

💝22. Once Upon a Winter's Eve

💝23. The Perfect Gift

💝24. Merry Christmas, Baby

Please put me down for 24 days. I will be reading 2 books with 12 chapters each. I just need to find them! lol

ADVENT CALENDAR CHALLENGE - Monthly Challenge
Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2021
Progress: 24/24 days -- COMPLETE

I will read holiday audiobooks for about 60 minutes per day for 24 days. 🎄😊

🕯️ 1 - The Santa Suit
🕯️ 2 - "
🕯️ 3 - "
🕯️ 4 - Skipping Christmas
🕯️ 5 - "
🕯️ 6 - "
🕯️ 7 - Wishin' and Hopin'
🕯️ 8 - "
🕯️ 9 - "
🕯️ 10 - This Time Next Year
🕯️ 11 - "
🕯️ 12 - "
🕯️ 13 - "
🕯️ 14 - "
🕯️ 15 - "
🕯️ 16 - "
🕯️ 17 - Tinsel Tales
🕯️ 18 - NPR Holiday Favorites
🕯️ 19 - In a Holidaze
🕯️ 20 - "
🕯️ 21 - "
🕯️ 22 - "
🕯️ 23 - "
🕯️ 24 - "

I'm signing up. I'm going to read The Flame. It's Leonard Cohen's last book of poetry.

Progress: 24 of 24

I'm going to read the kindle edition of by Robert R. McCammon, which is 920 pages long. To read in 24 days, I'll need to read 38 pages a day. That's my goal. ADDENDUM: Since I enjoyed this book so much I just had to finish it tonight. So to offset my additional 4 days of the advent challenge I will read 4 short stories out of a short story collection .

24/24

Huzzah! I'm done! (unless I continue this week, but who knows!)
I am choosing option A: read a short story or poem or essay every day from Dec. 1 - 24.

Completed: 24 of 24 short stories/poems/essays done!!

I will be reading pieces from this rather eclectic collection (hopefully something from each book, but probably not all, sadly):
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including poems by these poets:
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✔ , ✔ , ✔ , ✔ , ✔ , , and any others I add along the way...

Here's my list so far (essays/stories/poems to be attempted are in the spoiler below:
✔1. done!! "Capitalism is Out of this World" by Jill Lepore (in New York Times, 11/7/2021)
✔2. done!! "Thanksgiving 2006" (page 31), "In Newport I watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin's Wet Back" (page 22), and "Ode to Masturbation" (page 61), all by Ocean Vuong and in Night Sky with Exit Wounds
✔3. done!! "How to Make Cornbread, or Thoughts On Being an Appalachian From Pennsylvania Who Calls Virginia Home But Now Lives In Georgia," by Jim Minick (p 356 in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy)
✔4. done!! "He Said/She Said" by Crystal Good (p 169 in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy)
✔5. "Keep Your “Elegy”: The Appalachia I Know Is Very Much Alive" by Ivy Brashear (p 157 in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy)
✔6. done!! The Foreward, "The Operating Instructions," "What It Was Like," "Genre: A Word Only A Frenchman Could Love," "'Things Not Actually Present,'" "A Response, By Ancible, From Tau Ceti," and "The Beast In The Book" (pages i through 34 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week by Ursula K. Le Guin)
✔7. done!! "The Problem With Alice Waters and the 'Slow Food' Movement" by Brashears and Alex Smith, published online at Jacobin Magazine, plus these essays and one poem from Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week by Ursula K. Le Guin, pages 35 through 46: "Inventing Language," "How to Read a Poem: 'Gray Goose and Gander,'" "On David Hensel's Submission to the Royal Academy of Art" (the poem), and "On Serious Literature"
✔8. done!! "Teasing Myself Out of Thought" and "Living in a Work of Art," two essays from Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week, pages 47 through 65.
✔9. done! The epigraph poem, "The Mind is Still," in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life andBooks, 2000-2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week by Ursula K. Le Guin, no page number.
✔10. done! "The Nameless City" by H.P. Lovecraft, page 35 in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
✔11. done!! "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (p. 192) by Virginia Woolf, in Virginia Woolf Reader, and Ms. Le Guin's National Book Award Acceptance Speech (p. 57) by Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
✔12. done!! "JAWS and the 2022 Hall of Fame Ballot: David Ortiz" by Jay Jaffee on FanGraphs (12/9/2021)
✔13. done!! "Threshold" (p. 3), "Telemachus" (p. 7), "Trojan" (p. 9), "Aubade with Burning City (p. 10), "A Little Closer to the Edge" (p. 13), "Immigrant Haibun" (p. 14), "Always and Forever" (p.17), "My Father Writes From Prison" (p. 19), and "Headfirst" (p. 20), all poems in Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
✔14. done!! "I remember anyway: Remember, you're already Vietnamese (after Mary Ruefle) by Ocean Vuong in Guernica Magazine, 6/14/2013, "I Remember, I Remember: On the handsome roofers, attentive cows, and sudden tears of youth" by Mary Ruefle in Poetry Magazine, July/Aug 2012, and "I Remember, I Remember" by Thomas Hood (found on PoetryFoundation.org on 12/14/2021)
✔15. done!! "Annunciation" (p. 162) by Denise Levertov, in Selected Poems
✔16. done!! A bunch of poems by Wendell Berry (found on PoetryFoundation.org on 12/16/2021)(I just couldn't stop reading!):

"Dust," "Before Dark," "How to be a Poet," "Sabbath 2001," "Enemies," "The Vacation," "They Sit Together on the Porch," "The Terrapin," "June Wind," "Be Still in Haste," "Prayer After Eating," "September 2," "Do Not Be Ashamed," "To Think of the Life of a Man," "Grace," "Burial of the Dead," "Marriage," and "Aristocracy"

✔17. done!! "Appalachian Elegy (Sections 1-6)" by bell hooks (found on PoetryFoundation.org on 12/17/2021)
✔18. done!! Introduction and "Faithful Johannes) (p. 3) in A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
✔19. done!! "Hansel and Gretel" (37), "The Seven Swallows" (51), "Brother and Sister" (69), "A Smile as Red as Blood" (83), and "The Three Golden Hairs" (115) in A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
✔20. done!! Various Poems in Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology, edited by Robert Pinsky & Maggie Dietz:

"Sentence" (Anna Akhmatova, "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" (Amiri Baraka), "One Art" (Elizabeth Bishop), "We Real Cool" (Gwendolyn Brooks), "Mother to Son" (Langston Hughes), "Come into an Animal Presence" (Denise Levertov), "Dirge Without Music" (Edna St. Vincent Millay), "Ode to My Socks" (Pablo Neruda), "The Summer Day" (Mary Oliver), "To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings" (Phạm Tiến Duật), 3 poems by Sylvia Plath ("The Night Dances," "Lady Lazarus," and "Polly's Tree"), "My Papa's Waltz" (Theodore Roethke), and "The lower leaves of the trees" (Sone no Yoshitada

✔21. done!! "Hansel and Gretel and the Broken Kingdom" (157), "Hansel and Gretel and the Dragon" (183), and "Hansel and Gretel and Their Parents" (217) in A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
✔22. done!! "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N.K. Jemisin (published in Jan 2020 issue of Lightspeed Magazine)
✔23. done!! "Having a Coke With You" by Frank O'Hara on Poets.org (12/23/2021)
✔24. done!! "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" by Wendell Berry, location 1257 in Essays, 1969-1990

What I may still include for this challenge (or at least what I wanted to include) I've put in a "spoiler". It became a little silly (my constantly moving down my list to change the list...
(view spoiler)[


"Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" (p. 101) by Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
A story or two from Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
"The Companions of the Holy Cross: A Vocation to Prayer Companionship" by Joanna Bowen Gillespie in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
"The Library of Babel," "A Dialog About a Dialog," "Three Versions of Judas," and "Shakespeare's Memory" by Jorge Luis Borges in his book Ficciones
"TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN" by Barton Gellman in the December 6, 2021 Atlantic Magazine.
"Catalysts for the Gospel: Adelaide Teague Case and Episcopal Women in Education, 1940-70" by Sheryl A Kujawa-Holbrook in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
"'Sacrificial Adventure': Episcopal Women and the Struggle for Racial Equality" by Jacqueline Schmitt in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
An essay from Be Gay, Do Comics
A poem or several by Nikki Giovanni
A story or two by Angela Carter
An essay from Make It Scream, Make It Burn A story from Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
"TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN" by Barton Gellman in the December 6, 2021 Atlantic Magazine.
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" (275) in The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
A poem or two by Alice Walker
"Johanna" by Jane Yolen in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories and "Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur" by Tanith Lee in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories

Maybe I'll have an after-advent list! (hide spoiler)]

edited 11/29/21 to reflect items that have "caught my eye along the way"! edited 12/6/2021 to add the "spoiler" section, so it looks a little less manic! Cheers! edited 12/8/2021 so I could better see what I'd finished and which books I have and have not used!

Hi Sunny! Sign me up with 24 poems, I'll be reading from here Poesia Portuguesa do século XII a 1915

Progress 24/24 🥳

1. Cantiga- Pedro da Ponte
2. Cantiga - D. Dinis
3. Cantiga de Amor - D. Pedro
4. Cantiga - D. João de Meneses
5. Trovas à Morte do Príncipe D. Afonso - Álvaro de Brito Pestana
6. Cantiga - Nuno Pereira
7. Décimas - Duarte de Brito
8. Cantiga - Tristão Teixeira
9. Cantiga - Garcia de Resende
10. Écloga Primeira - Bernardim Ribeiro
11. Cantiga - Cristóvão Falcão
12. Soneto - Francisco Sá de Miranda
13. Ode - Luís de Camões
14. Soneto - António Ferreira
15. Écloga - Diogo Bernardes
16. A Primavera - Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
17. Madrigal - Soror Violante do Céu
18. Lampadário de Cristal - Jerónimo Vaía
19. Versos - Soror Maria do Céu
20. Décimas - Tomás Pinto Brandão
21. Soneto - Paulino António Cabral
22. Ode - Pedro António Correia Garção
23. Ode - Domingos Reis Quita
24. Soneto - João Xavier Ramos

I'll be participating.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine: 101 Feel Good Stories

Progress: 24/24

Chapter 1
✔12/01 pages 5-6
✔12/02 pages 7-10
✔12/03 pages 11-12
✔12/04 pages 13-15
✔12/05 pages 16-18
✔12/06 pages 19-20
✔12/07 pages 21-23
✔12/08 pages 24-26
Chapter 2
✔ 12/09 pages 28-31
✔12/10 pages 32-33
✔12/11 pages 34-36
✔12/12 pages 37-40
✔12/13 pages 41-44
✔12/14 pages 45-47
✔12/15 pages 48-51
✔12/16 pages 52-54
✔12/17 pages 55-57
Chapter 3
✔12/18 pages 59-60
✔12/19 pages 61-63
✔12/20 pages 64-65
✔12/21 pages 66-67
✔12/22 pages 68-70
✔12/23 pages 71-74
✔12/24 pages 75-76

Hi Sunny,
I'll participate in this one. I'll be reading poems -- some long, some short, some happy, some sad, some funny -- but they are all related to Christmas. I'm getting them from 2 sites online and will identify the sites as I go.

24/24

Hi.Sunny
I'll be joining with part B and try and get through Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings Part 1. It has 592 pages or 36 chapters. I'm going to aim for 25 pages a day, but if part way through a chapter I will mostly likely finish that chapter

I'll be reading Ben Hur in 24 days.

3/24

Updated through Msg #18.

🕯️Welcome everyone who has signed up so far!🕯️

Reading begins on Weds Dec 1st.

I usually update once a week for a monthly challenge, but since this one is counted by days rather than books, I will be updating on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. So maybe I'll be able to keep up!

Will update again on Dec 2nd.

🕯️Happy Advent Reading!🕯️

This is a lovely idea! I’d like to sign up, please.

🎄 Angie’s Advent Calendar: 24/24 🎄

I’m going to read Agatha Christie - The Sittaford Mystery which can be divided nicely into 24 parts and also fits the season: On a winter night in a remote house a group of people hold a séance. Tension rises as the ghostly message spells out murder. 👻

🎄 1 - Chapter 1 ✅
🍵 2 - Chapter 2 ✅
❄️ 3 - Chapter 3 + 4 ✅
🕯 4 - Chapter 5 ✅
🎀 5 - Chapter 6 ✅
🎅 6 - Chapter 7 ✅
🎄 7 - Chapter 8 ✅
☃️ 8 - Chapter 9 ✅
⭐️ 9 - Chapter 10 ✅
🎁 10 - Chapter 11 ✅
🎄 11 - Chapter 12 + 13 ✅
🍵 12 - Chapter 14 ✅
❄️ 13 - Chapter 15 ✅
🕯 14 - Chapter 16 ✅
🎀 15 - Chapter 17 + 18 ✅
🎅 16 - Chapter 19 ✅
🎄 17 - Chapter 20 ✅
☃️ 18 - Chapter 21 ✅
⭐️ 19 - Chapter 22 + 23 ✅
🎀 20 - Chapter 24 ✅
🎄 21 - Chapter 25 + 26 ✅
☃️ 22 - Chapter 27 + 28 ✅
⭐️ 23 - Chapter 29 ✅
🎁 24 - Chapter 30 + 31 ✅

My favorite challenge! I'm in for 24, probably reading Agatha's short stories.

**edit
I'm re-reading Saga (54 chapters)

54/54 finished

24/24

I'm reading All I Really Want: Readings for a Modern Christmas by Quinn Caldwell.

I want to play.
I will be reading/listening to for 15 minutes while I have tea.

A Christmas Carol

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Day 24


Thank you!!! This was one of the best challenges I have done for a holiday!!

Hi! This is a great challenge for me to do with a TBR book I have for Christmas. I will be reading 13 Victorian Christmas Ghost stories from Dec. 1 - Dec. 24th. These stories come from: The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories.

Thank you! Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!

My favorite Challenge of the year!

Please add me for 24 short stories The name of the book is Orgullo Zombi #1

The stories that I read each day are:

1. Proyecto Reditus
2. Voodoo People
3. El misterioso grimorio de Lafayette
4. Licra
5. El anhelo
6. Protocolo Shelley
7. Don Quijote contra... ¿muertos vivientes?
8. Regreso mitológico
9. La peor muerte
10. Bancos de niebla
11. Tres páginas por cada alma
12. Antes de lo previsto
13. Fase 1
14. El despertar de Vincent
15. Una zombi bien educada
16. Como hablar con un zombi
17. Los Adán y Eva del Apocalipsis
18. Siempre hay que mirar antes de cruzar
19. No soy una cobarde
20. Ansia Roja
22. Veni, vidi, vici
23. Cuarentena
24. La fortuna sonríe a los valientes

Bonus:
25. Salta
26. Adiós

I am going to go for the whole month so sign me up for 31 short stories.

31/31-COMPLETED

✅1)Snow White and Rose Red(1/12/21)
✅2)Eleonora(2/12/21)
✅3)A Tiny Feast(3/12/21)
✅4)The Black Cat(4/12/21)
✅5)Hunted Down(5/12/21)
✅6)Schoolboy's Story, The(6/12/21)
✅7)The Seven Ravens(7/12/21)
✅8)The Robber Bridegroom(8/12/21)
✅9)The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage(9/12/21)
✅10)The Little Peasant(10/12/21)
✅11)The King of the Golden Mountain(11/12/21)
✅12)The Golden Goose(12/12/21)
✅13)The Bat and the Weasels Chatspeak Translation (13/12/21)
✅14)Cat-Skin(14/12/21)
✅15)The Purloined Letter(15/12/21)
✅16)Landor's Cottage(16/12/21)
✅17)The oval portrait(17/12/21)
✅18)The Angel of the Odd(18/12/21)
✅19)Berenice(19/12/21)
✅20)The Twelve Dancing Princesses(20/12/21)
✅21)The White Snake(21/12/21)
✅22)The Schoolmaster's Progress(22/12/21)
✅23)The Watkinson Evening(23/12/21)
✅24)A Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed Punsters(24/12/21)
✅25)Elder Brown's Backslide(25/12/21)
✅26)The Duplicity Of Hargraves(26/12/21)
✅27)How the Widow Won the Deacon(27/12/21)
✅28)The Day the Towers Fell(28/12/21)
✅29)The Color Collector(29/12/21)
✅30)Inky the Octopus: Bound for Glory(30/12/21)
✅31)Premium Harmony(31/12/21)

Thank you, Sunny. I will be breaking a novel into 24 parts.


December 2021
Progress: 5/24

(784 pgs.)
🕯️1. 1-34 12/1
🕯️2. 35-68 12/2
🕯️3. 68-103 12/3
🕯️4. 104-137 12/4
🕯️5. 137-170 12/5
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I'm in for option A & I'm going for 31 Poems!

Option A:
1. Half of She Felt Like Feeling Nothing
2. Half of She Felt Like Feeling Nothing
3. Half of I am The Rage
4. Half of I am The Rage
5. American Melancholy: Poems
6. Part of Chlorine Sky
7. Part of Chlorine Sky
8. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
9. "Fog" by Ruth Madievsky
10. Part of Identical
11. Part of Identical
12. Part of Identical
13. Part of Identical
14. Part of Identical
15. "We Are All God’s Poems" by Philip Metres
16. Part of Identical
17. Part of Identical
18. Part of Identical
19. Part of Identical
20. Part of Identical
21. Part of Identical
22. "Snow" by Charles Bertram Johnson
23. "The Mud Sermon" by Ishion Hutchinson
24. Part of Home Body
25. Part of Home Body
26. "Mistletoe" by Walter de la Mare
27. "Vaccinated" byJericho Brown
28. Part of Home Body
29. Part of Home Body
30. Part of Home Body
31. "Farewell" by Federico García Lorca

Goal Met So Far: 31/31

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 1/24 🎄

I'm in for 24 short stories and poems. I am (very slowly) working my way through Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems, this will give me a little bit of extra motivation to get through the next 24 pieces.

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(This is not a progress update. I'll do a 'progress update post' after I've finished a few poems)

My first poem, chosen randomly from "24 Christmas Poems for Kids: Festive Advent Calendar" at imagineforest.com:

"Snowball" by Shel Silverstein

I made myself a snowball,
As perfect as could be,
I thought I’d keep it as a pet,
And let it sleep with me.

I made it some pajamas,
And a pillow for its head,
Then last night it ran away,
But first – it wet the bed!

Update to Msg #3

1/31

Carol wrote: ""Snowball" by Shel Silverstein"

I just copied this cute poem into my family group chat. Thank you, Carol!

Update to message #4

1/24

Read a handful of short medieval poetry.

Update to message #4: 1/24

Update to message #12: 1/24

I didn't think I was gonna, but I'm gonna. In for 24. Reading one or two stories in several collections I own.

12/1: Read the first fifth of Enchanted Night, which turns out to be a novella rather that a book of short stories. Oh well; that works too.
12/2: Read "Laughter at the Academy" and "Lost" in Laughter at the Academy, because apparently not reading a full story last night was bothering me :-)
12/3: Finished Enchanted Night
12/4: Read "The Consultant" and "White Lines on a Green Field" in The Bread We Eat in Dreams ("White Lines on a Green Field" won the Locus for best novelette.)
12/5: Read "Mr. Fiddlehead" in The Woman Who Married a Cloud. Started "Uh-Oh City" in the same collection.
12/6: Continued "Uh-Oh City" - is it traditional to throw a novelette in the second slot of a collection now? Valente's book was like this too.
12/7: Continued slogging though "Uh-Oh City" - maybe it's more of a novella? (I may just not love this story very much though.) Going to have to make up a few stories. (Update: LOL it was a World Fantasy nominee for best novella.)
12/8: Finally finished "Uh-Oh City"! Read "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and "The City Born Great" in How Long 'til Black Future Month? and now I'm back on track. Good thing dinner took as long as it did tonight!
12/9: Started "Ghost Days" in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. (I have such a talent for finding the long short stories this year!)
12/12: Finished "Ghost Days". Now to make up for 3 stories again!
12/13: *sighs*
12/14: Started reading Bestiary of Souls (poetry)
12/15: *sighs some more*
12/16: finished Bestiary of Souls; started "A Strange Christmas Game" by Charlotte Ridell in Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season.
12/17: Finished "A Strange Christmas Game," "A Portrait" by Hume Nisbet, "Old Applejoy's Ghost" by Frank Stockton, "Transition" by Algernon Blackwood, "The Crown Derby Plate" by Marjorie Bowen, and "Green Holly" by Elizabeth Bowen in the same collection. Started "Christmas Reunion" by Andrew Caldecott.
12/19: Nada.
12/20: Finished Chill Tidings with the last of "Christmas Reunion," "A Christmas Meeting" by Rosemary Timperley, "Someone in the Lift" by L.P. Hartley, and "Told After Supper" by Jerome K. Jerome. (Oh, look I'm ahead by one! Won't last!)
12/21: Read "Rashoman," "In a Grove," and "Nose" in Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories. Not very Christmas-y! I was going to replace them but I think I'm just going to call it good enough at this point.

24/24

Updated message 15. Progress: 2/24

Updated message: #7

🎄🎄🎄Progress: 1/24🎄🎄🎄

✔️12/1 - Chapter 1

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 2/24 🎄

Day 2 - a haiku from "24 Christmas Poems for Kids: Festive Advent Calendar" at imagineforest.com:

"Funny Christmas Card" by @haikujam

A little card with
Only three handwritten words
“Santa Failed again”

Update to Msg #3

2/31

Update to message #4: 2/24

Update to message #13: 3/24
(I've already done tomorrow's entry, because I know that I will have absolutely NO time to do it tomorrow. Hope this is okay!

Updated through Msg #44.

🕯️Welcome everyone who has signed-up since my last update!🕯️

We now have 26 participants.

Will update again on Dec 3rd.

Note: You may update as often/when you want to. And you may read ahead if you need to. I know how busy things can get this time of year.

🕯️Happy Advent Reading!🕯️

Updated message 37: 2/24

i'd love to join this challenge! i'll be reading 'this is how you lose the time war' by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone one chapter at a time.

3 chapters/25 chapters

Updated message: #7

🎄🎄🎄Progress: 2/24🎄🎄🎄

✔️12/2 - Chapter 2

Updated message #12: 2/24

Update to message #8

PROGRESS: 3/24 🎄