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I tried to make most =prompts general to make them easier to fulfill.

Please keep an open mind as the goal is to help us read more widely, get out of our comfort zone and have fun.

I thought it would be fun to make a few prompts connected to the new year 2025. As you can see I made the list a combo of whimsical and more straight forward prompts. I also tried to think up a few new prompts that we haven't done before.

I remembered that it was requested that one prompt be to re-read a book. So I included that.

I'll leave this post open for comments until the challenge begins.

A big Thank You to all who are joining in ! I look forward to seeing the books everyone selects.

Alias Reader wrote: "I thought it would be fun to make a few prompts connected to the new year 2025. As you can see I made the list a combo of whimsical and more straight forward prompts. I also tried to think up a few new prompts that we haven't done before..."

I liked that, as well as the titles that begin with R, E, A, or D. Clever.

Thanks. I have been working on this for awhile now. I hope everyone enjoys it.

Love the prompts Alias! Thank you!

I especially love how all of the "Bonus"/alternate prompts a mix of those in which some of us love and others do not love. Don't know if I explained that well... but it is quite a thoughtful list :)

Thank you, Lindsey. I did try to take people's likes and dislikes into consideration.

Thank you, Alias, for setting up the challenge. The prompts are very interesting and I think some of them will help me clear my determination list, too. :)

Madrano wrote:
Well done, Alias. Thank you for pulling this together. And thank you for the instructions about how to set up our threads. I'll probably wait on this until after the 28th, when our daughter leaves. That way, i've got something neat to look forward to, rather than too sad to move. lol

Thank you deb.

Enjoy this time with your daughter. That is the best present of all!

Samanta wrote: "Thank you, Alias, for setting up the challenge. The prompts are very interesting and I think some of them will help me clear my determination list, too. :)"

I'm glad to hear that, Samanta. I know all our TBR are like TBR Mountains !

Alias Reader wrote: "Thank you deb.

Enjoy this time with your daughter. That is the best present of all!"

Thank you. It has been a gift of her time & we are all pleased as "all get-out" with this visit.

Awesome list, Alias! This one is going to take a bit more work finding books for me, but I'm up for that.

John wrote: "Awesome list, Alias! This one is going to take a bit more work finding books for me, but I'm up for that."

Thank you, John !

I glad you are up for the challenge.

John wrote: "Awesome list, Alias! This one is going to take a bit more work finding books for me, but I'm up for that."

It takes a bit of work for me, too, but I believe it'll be worth it.

Well, I've managed 24 titles! "Published in 2025" will wait until later in the year for library New Books shelf, perhaps?

Great beginning, John! I'm afraid i'll have to wait until my beloved guest (daughter) leaves before i truly buckle down on this one. You are now Ready!

John wrote: "Well, I've managed 24 titles! "Published in 2025" will wait until later in the year for library New Books shelf, perhaps?"

Wow ! Well done, John.

Usually as the new year starts I just read randomly and see what fits a prompt. I guess I tend to read a variety of books as this seems to work. Later on in the year I have to hunt out books for some specific prompts. I think there are a few prompts that are really going to take some thought for me. However, the hunt is half the fun.

Speaking of specific, I am going to try and work on my 2025 Determination List. I think this year i will pull a few out of that black hole of my Kindle. I am making progress on writing down all the books on my Kindle that I purchased by year. Amazon makes it easy to see. For me, if I write them into a dedicated notebook for that purpose, I am hoping I will actually remember I own the books and read a few.

Apparently, I started buying eBooks in 2012. So, far I've recorded all the books up to 2019. I have to work on the rest of the years.

I love my Kindle. However, not being to peruse my personal library of paper books is a negative. I always loved doing that.

I'm going through my huge TBR list and finding a lot of books that fit the prompts.

Bella (Kiki) wrote: "I'm going through my huge TBR list and finding a lot of books that fit the prompts."

Nice. And after that the fun part is scouring the book sites for ideas.

Right now I'm working on writing down my list of books that are on my Kindle.

After that, I'll work on my 2025 Determination List.

Alias Reader wrote: "Bella (Kiki) wrote: "I'm going through my huge TBR list and finding a lot of books that fit the prompts."

Nice. And after that the fun part is scouring the book sites for ideas.

Right now I'm wo..."

Have fun! :-)

Alias Reader wrote: " For me, if I write them into a dedicated notebook for that purpose, I am hoping I will actually remember I own the books and read a few..."

Good luck on that front, Alias. It's thoughtful of Amazon to keep good tabs for you, at least. :-)

Harshi wrote: "Will Audiobooks count?"

Absolutely audio counts !

I realized I wrote zoology twice. I took one away and put in technology.
14- ...OLOGY --- Any field of study that ends in the suffix ology.

For example: psychology, sociology, archology, cardiology, dermatology, zoology, ecology, oceanology, biology, technology etc.

Can be non fiction or a fictional character that is involved in that field.

Well, Alias, it's funny that no one here mentioned it before today. It's been available almost a month now, right? lol

That category is proving to be one of my tougher ones this time.

John wrote: "That category is proving to be one of my tougher ones this time."

I find it helpful to go to Amazon and look at what books they have listed under those categories. It's really a very wide range of topics.

John wrote: "That category is proving to be one of my tougher ones this time."

That's unfortunate, John. I just got the one i want to read. Of course it's about archeology. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age--Kathleen Sheppard.

John wrote: "That category is proving to be one of my tougher ones this time."

https://www.scribd.com/doc/160897048/....

Bella (Kiki) wrote: "John wrote: "That category is proving to be one of my tougher ones this time."

https://www.scribd.com/doc/160897048/......"

Very useful list !

Remarkable list! Thanks, Bella.

This one is better:

https://www.litscape.com/word_tools/e...

Just enter ology in the box.

Thanks, Bella !

Alias Reader wrote: "Thanks, Bella !"

You're welcome!