2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I will go in for 6, please!

Progress: 6/6

1. Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
The It Girl
completed 10/27/24

2. Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.
Seven Days of Us
completed 11/16/24

3. Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
War Brides
completed 11/20/24

4. Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Lightning Strike
completed 11/27/24

5. Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
To Kill a Mockingbird
completed 12/9/24

6. It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Memory Man
completed 12/21/24

Updating # 5 with 2/5 read :)

Updated message 39-- 5/10

Welcome, Sophia! 🤗
Well done, girls! 👍

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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Update to message #10: 4/5

Updated message 39-- 6/10

Updated msg #6: 2/7

Update to message #19 : 2/7
Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels. A Corruption of Blood
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.

I'm in for 6 books.

✅1. Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme. - The Strangest Forms

2. Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.

✅3. Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration. The Nightmare Before Kissmas

4. It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.

5. Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.

6. Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.

✅7. Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting. - Hakumei & Mikochi: Tiny Little Life in the Woods, Vol. 11

8. Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.

✅9. Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover. - Trixie

✅10. Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories. - Chang’e on the Moon

11. Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.

✅12. Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season. - The Haunted Mask: The Graphic Novel

6/6 Read

Update to message 22. 1/12

update to message 13: 1/5

Update to msg #8: 5/24

Hi, update to message #19:2/7
Thanks !

update to #11:
5/12

Welcome, Ashly! 🤗
We're doing great! 👍

“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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STATS
Participants: 35
Books Read: 43
Book Goal: 431
Completed: 0

Updated on October 14, 2024 .

Updated msg #6: 3/7

Hi, update to message #19: 3/7
Thanks !

2 books;
Happy Thanksgiving: Sharon Brous's book The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Remembrance: Thomas Hardy's look at times in a pastoral England Far from the Madding Crowd

Updated message 4: 1/5

Update to msg. #11:

7/12

Welcome, Jordan! 🤗
Hi, guys! Are you enjoying the season? 🍂🍁🧡

“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”
― John Banister Tabb

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STATS
Participants: 36
Books Read: 57
Book Goal: 433
Completed: 0

Updated on October 21, 2024 .

Update to message #24: 3/12

Hi, I've updated message 5
3/5

Update message #20 2/12

update to message 13: 2/5 books read

Update to Message #68: completed 1/2

Update to message 7: 2/5

Updated message #20: 4/12

Updated msg #6: 4/7

Hi, I'm updating message #5 to
4/5

Hola!
Are you ready for Halloween?🎃👻🍬

“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
― Ray Bradbury

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STATS
Participants: 36
Books Read: 78
Book Goal: 433
Completed: 0

Updated on October 28, 2024 .

Update message 51

Progress 1/6

Updated message 39-- 7/10

update to message 13: 3/5 books read

Sorry I'm late in signing up....had a health issue in October so I am just getting to signing up!! Thank You!!
I'm in for 5 books (it may be more)

Back to School: Read books set in a school or with an academic theme.
Orchard Outing: Choose books set in an orchard or involving fruits and harvest.
Oktoberfest: Find books with a festive or cultural celebration.
It’s a Killer Thriller Night: Pick thrillers or mystery novels.
Monster Mash: Select books featuring monsters or supernatural elements.
Sweater Weather: Read cozy books set in fall or winter.
Woodland Wander: Choose books with a forest or nature setting.
Enjoy the Golden Season: Find books that embrace autumn coziness.
Fall Foliage: Read books with a vivid autumn setting or cover.
Remembrance Day: Select books related to historical events or honoring memories.
Happy Thanksgiving: Choose books about gratitude or family gatherings.
Days Until Christmas: Pick books with a holiday theme or set during the festive season.

Updated message 7: 5 / 7

message 9 update - 7/9!

Updated message 39-- 8/10

Welcome Lisa Marie! 🤗

“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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STATS
Participants: 37
Books Read: 95
Book Goal: 440
Completed: 0

Updated on November 4, 2024 .

Happy November!

Updated msg #6: Challenge increased to 14, read 8/14.

Updated message 39-- 10/10-- Challenge completed but will keep going

Updated message 7: 8/8 challenge completed

update to msg #11:

8/12

Update to message #19: 6/7
Thanks :)

CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 🎉👏👏

🥳BELLS OF THE BALL
Amy (# 39) - 10/10 Completed!
Carmen (# 3) - 51/50 Completed!
Gail W (# 7) - 8/8 Completed!

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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STATS
Participants: 37
Books Read: 124
Book Goal: 448
Completed: 3

Updated on November 11, 2024 .

Update to Message #5

5/5

Update to Message #68 2/2 books read

Update to message #10: 6/5
Challenge completed.
:)

Update message 51

2/6

Updated message 39-- 11/10