2025 Reading Challenge discussion

update to msg. #7:
1/10

Update to message #37 3 books read

Sign me up for 25 books

25/25 - COMPLETED

Blue Covers
✅In for a Penny (6/1/25)
✅What Would Dewey Do? (6/3/25)
✅China Rich Girlfriend (1/1/25)
✅Bookishly Ever After (9/1/25)
✅The Years She Stole (5/1/25)
✅Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One's Most Remarkable Military Hospital (12/1/25)
✅Girls That Never Die: Poems (10/3/25)
✅Call Us What We Carry (10/3/25)
✅Little People Big Dreams Audrey Hepburn /anglais (12/3/25)
✅Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town (11/3/25)

Titles Containing Sadness-Related Words
✅Cry, Heart, But Never Break (1/2/25)
✅The Body Broken (5/2/25)
✅Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (3/2/25)
✅Grief and Spiritual Healing: Surviving Life After Loss (3/2/25)
✅State of Sorrow (4/2/25)

Sadness Synonyms Spelt Out Using Book Titles
✅H- Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love (7/1/25)
✅E-Easy Beauty (8/3/25)
✅A-Annabelle (6/2/25)
✅R-Rags to Riches (8/1/25)
✅T-Tilly: Edwardian Candlelight 4 (2/3/25)
✅B-Black Cat, Vol. 2: On The Run (12/1/25)
✅R-Regency Gold (6/3/25)
✅E-Everything Is OK (12/3/25)
✅A-Amaryllis (3/3/25)
✅K-Kitty: Edwardian Candlelight 6 (1/3/25)

Update to message #36 - 1/7

Update to msg. #7:
2/10

I would like to sign up for 15!

Update to message #36 - 2/7

Updated message 8: 2/6

updated msg 19, 5/15

Updated message 39-- 2/20

I'm in for 4/10 books.

EMBRACING THE BLUES
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2025

This quarterly challenge invites you to explore stories that connect with the theme of sadness, while also celebrating resilience and hope. Choose books with blue covers, titles containing sadness-related words, or ones that evoke powerful emotions. You can even spell out sadness synonyms using book titles! Whether the stories make you cry or help you heal, let them remind you of the strength that emerges through struggle. “Through the pages, find your strength.”

blue cover
out of the silent planet
skellig
silence

words in deep blue
this may end badly


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Bringing Me Back - Beth Vrabel 1/14-21

spell out despair

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P Gary Paulsen - Brian's Winter 1/27-2/11
A Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz 1/11-16
I I Love the Earl - Caroline Linden 2/4-
R The River - Gary Paulsen 1/9-13

Welcome everyone! The stats have been updated today through message 61. I have a tendency to update often and will always have the date updated in message 2, likely won't post much here. If you see anything "out-of-whack" for your stats, please let me know.

Update to message number 37 4/10

Update to Message #9 : 7/21

Updated message 39-- 3/20

I want to sign up to read five books with blue covers.

Progress: 8/6

Update to msg #4: 7/20

Updated message 39-- 4/20

Update to #29 - completed 1/4

Update to message number 37 5/10

Update to message #12: 7/12

Updated message 39-- 5/20

I would like to join for 10 Books

01/10

01) For Whom the Belle Tolls
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Update to msg #25: 1/10

Update to message 37 6/10

Bex's Bookshelves | Bookstagram | Book Reviewer wrote: "Update to message 37 6/10"

You are doing great!

Welcome to new joiners and to all those making updates, thank you. Updated stats in message 2

Updated message 39-- 6/20

Update to message # 29:

I'd like to update my goal to 6 - so I've read 3/6 so far.

Got them. You are both doing well.

Update to msg. #7:
3/10

updated msg 19, 11/15

✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ wrote: "updated msg 19, 11/15"

Wow! This is great!

Update message 27: 4/8

update to msg. #7:
5/10

# 29 Update - 7/8 and I'd like to update my goal to 8, please!

Updated message 39-- 7/20

#15 Update

Completed - 9/9

S: Sharp Objects
O: The Once and Future Witches
R: Rebecca
R: Rock Paper Scissors
O: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
W: Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Iton wrote: "#15 Update Completed - 9/9 "

Congratulations!! (you can always continue to add more if you wish! 😊)

Updated message 8: 3/6

Update to Message #9 : 15/21

Update to message 66

Susan wrote: "Update to message 66"

Susan, please provide the numbers in your message: x / y

Thanks!

Updated message 8: 4/6

Hi! We are a third of the way through the challenge and many of you are doing great, getting off to a quick start! Stats in message 2 updated through message 94.

Just a reminder: when updating your status please provide the number you have completed and your goal. Thanks!

Update to message #32

PROGRESS: 14/22

my tracking post

Nice work Carmen!

Update to msg #26 please! Progress: 2/3

I'm in for 10 books, focusing primarily on spelling out a sadness synonym.

Embracing The Blues
Duration: 01/01/25-03/31/25

Goal: 10 books; Progress: 0/10

Sadness Synonyms (Spell Out)

M: Mafia King by Cala Riley; (Completed:)
E: Empire of Lust by J.L. Beck; (Completed:)
L: Lock Me Inside by C. Hallman; (Completed:)
A:
N: Never Fall for Your Fiancée by Virginia Heath; (Completed:)
C: Cities of Smoke and Starlight by Alli Earnest; (Completed:)
H: Heart of a Monster by Shain Rose; (Completed:)
O: Once You're Mine by Morgan Bridges; (Completed:)
L: Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller; (Completed:)
Y: You Only Love Twice by Elizabeth Thornton; (Completed:)

Welcome, Anissa! You are now on the list.