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FEBRUARY - LOVE CHALLENGE



GOAL: Complete as many love prompts as possible

STYLE: Individual

RULES:
1. No cheating: only log the books you've started (even if you started it in any other month) and finished [in February] entirely.
2. Have fun! This isn't meant to “taunt” your reading any way, but to, rather, add up to the fun!

INSTRUCTIONS:.
February is a month of love. Now, I’m not just talking about romantic love. February has Valentine’s Day, but it is also Black History Month and Friendship Month. Therefore, this challenge is dedicated to love. Love of all kinds. Platonic, romantic, and familial. Love of culture and love of all types of people.

For this challenge, there will be a points system. You’ll get 1 point for each book you read, plus points for the page count of the book chosen and 2 bonus points if you’ve never read the book you chose (you will get 0 points extra if you are rereading a book). You will also get points depending on which type of prompt you read. Fiction prompts are worth 1 point, while non-fiction books are worth 2 points. For each genre/book type resolution section you complete, you get five points.

Page count point system:

0-99 pages: 0.5 points
100-199 pages: 1 point
200-299 pages: 2 points
300-399 pages: 3 points
400-499 pages: 4 points
500-599 pages: 5 points
600-699 pages: 6 points
700+ pages: 7 points

HOW TO LOG YOUR BOOKS:

Name: [sign-up name]
Book: [book title]
Author: [book's writer]
Page Count: [number of pages of your copy]
Resolution Section: [fiction/nonfiction prompt] ~ [prompt section]
Prompt: [number prompt]
Resolution Section Completed: [whether you completed a section or not]
Read Before: [yes/no]
Points: [how many points you have for logging specific book]

FICTION EXAMPLE:

Name: Alexia
Book: Children of Blood and Bone (+1)
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Page Count: 544 (+5)
Love Section: Fiction Prompts ~ D. Cultural Love (+1)
Prompt: 1. Read a book written by an author of color
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: Yes
Points: 7

NONFICTION EXAMPLE:

Name: Alexia
Book: Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (+1)
Author: Eva Mozes Kor
Page Count: 154 (+1)
Love Section: Nonfiction Prompts ~ H. Familial Love (+2)
Prompt: 1. Read a book with siblings
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: Yes
Points: 4

PROMPTS INFORMATION:

Fiction

A. Platonic Love
1. Read a book about friendship
2. Read a book with a character who has a best friend of the opposite sex (who don’t end up in a relationship together)
3. Read a book with LGBTQIA+ rep
4. Read one of your friends’ favorite books
5. Read a book you haven’t read by an author you love

B. Romantic Love
1. Read a book with an LGBTQIA+ couple (major or minor characters)
2. Read a book with a love triangle
3. Read a fantasy romance book
4. Read an enemies-to-lovers book
5. Read a friends-to-lovers book
6. Read a romantic classic
7. Read a summer romance book
8. Read a book based on a fairytale
9. Read a romance book with a prince or princess

C. Familial Love
1. Read a book with siblings
2. Read a book where a family goes on a road trip
3. Read a book with a brother-sister team
4. Read a book where a child/teen has a single parent
5. Read a book where a child/teen has both parents
6. Read a book with twins
7. Read a book where the protagonist has a foster family
8. Read a book with a child/teen that is adopted
9. Read a book recommended by a family member
10. Read a book your mother loves
11. Read a book your father loves
13. Read a book where the protagonist has a step-parent or a step-sibling(s)
14. Read a book involving the found family/family of choice trope

D. Cultural Love
1. Read a book written by an author of color
2. Read a book with a protagonist who is a person of color
3. Read a book with a person of color on the cover
4. Read a book that takes place in Africa
5. Read a book that takes place in the country you live in
6. Read a book that has been translated into your first language
7. Read a book with a character who shares your heritage/culture

E. Other
1. Read a book with a red cover
2. Read a book with a pink cover
3. Read a book where Valentine’s Day is celebrated
4. Read a book with a heart on the cover
5. Reread a favorite book
6. Reread a childhood favorite
7. Reread the book that made you fall in love with reading (or the first book you remember falling in love with)
8. Read a book that begins with one of the letters in LOVE


Non-Fiction

I. Platonic Love
1. Read a biography about best friends (human or animal)
2. Read a non-fiction book about friendship
3. Read one of your friends’ favorite nonfiction books
4. Read a book about a nonfiction topic you love

J. Romantic Love
1. Read a biography about a couple
2. Read a nonfiction book on dating
3. Read a biography about a Romanticism author* (examples: Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Bronte sisters, Alexandre Dumas, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, etc.)

*Yes, I am aware that Romanticism wasn’t a period of stereotypical, standard romance; I’ve still elected to include it regardless

H. Familial Love
1. Read a memoir about motherhood
2. Read a memoir about fatherhood
3. Read a memoir about siblings
4. Read a nonfiction book recommended by a family member

L. Cultural Love
1. Read a biography about an African-American woman
2. Read a biography about an African-American man
3. Read a biography about the country you live in
4. Read a nonfiction book about your heritage/culture
5. Read a biography about a president
6. Read a book of folklore/mythology from your culture/country

E. Other
1. Read a biography about Valentine’s Day
2. Read a book with a red cover
3. Read a book with a pink cover
4. Read a book with a heart on the cover
5. Read a book that begins with one of the letters in LOVE

Name: Alexia
Book: Mae Jemison: A Space Biography (+1)
Author: Della A. Yannuzzi
Page Count: 48 (+0.5)
Love Section: Nonfiction Prompts ~ L. Cultural Love (+2)
Prompt: 1. Read a biography about an African-American woman
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 5.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson (+1)
Author: Dolores Johnson
Page Count: 64 (+0.5)
Love Section: Nonfiction Prompts ~ L. Cultural Love (+2)
Prompt: 2. Read a biography about an African-American man
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 5.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Hispanic Culture (+1)
Author: Christy Steele
Page Count: 48 (+0.5)
Love Section: Nonfiction Prompts ~ L. Cultural Love (+2)
Prompt: 4. Read a nonfiction book about your heritage/culture
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 5.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Nicole's Story: A Book about a Girl with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (+1)
Author: Virginia Tortorica Aldape
Page Count: 40 (+0.5)
Love Section: Nonfiction Prompts ~ I. Platonic Love (+2)
Prompt: 4. Read a book about a nonfiction topic you love
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 5.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Melanie (+1)
Author: Carol Carrick
Page Count: 32 (+0.5)
Love Section: Fiction Prompts ~ C. Familial Love (+1)
Prompt: 8. Read a book with a child/teen that is adopted
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 4.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Just Like Everybody Else (+1)
Author: Jim Pierson
Page Count: 40 (+0.5)
Love Section: Fiction Prompts ~ D. Cultural Love (+1)
Prompt: 5. Read a book that takes place in the country you live in
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 4.5

Name: Alexia
Book: I Am Learning All The Time (+1)
Author: Rain Perry Fordyce
Page Count: 40 (+0.5)
Love Section: Fiction Prompts ~ C. Familial Love (+1)
Prompt: 5. Read a book where a child/teen has both parents
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: No (+2)
Points: 4.5

Name: Alexia
Book: Monday with a Mad Genius (+1)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Page Count: 110 (+1)
Love Section: Fiction Prompts ~ E. Other (+1)
Prompt: 6. Reread a childhood favorite
Love Section Completed: N/A
Read Before: Yes
Points: 3