2026 Reading Challenge discussion

DRAGON SPELLS
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Dragons are often depicted as huge, scary fire-breathing monsters with wings, claws and scales. But in many Asian cultures, the dragon is considered a friend to humanity. In Chinese culture, it is the token of authority, dignity, honor, success, luck, and capacity.

As the Year of the Dragon begins this month, you are invited to celebrate by spelling out your favorite dragon name(s) for this challenge. You may use the first letter of any main word in your books title (omitting a, an, the, etc.) and/or the author's initials.

Example: Spelling out Puff, the dragon of song, television, and picture book fame.
P - Pride and Prejudice
U - Once Upon a River
F - The Griffin's Feather
F - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Many thanks to Carmen, who suggested this challenge and will be its leader.

Hola, lovely people! 🙋🏻‍♀️
According to Chinese cosmology, each year is ruled by a zodiac animal, and the Year of the Dragon is one of the most revered and auspicious within this twelve-year cycle. The Dragon, considered a symbol of power, prosperity and good fortune, prepares to preside over the year 2024, bringing with it a special and significant energy for millions of people around the world.

The Dragon is one of the most revered animals and represents strength, bravery, wisdom and success. Often associated with royalty and power, the Dragon's presence is believed to bring blessings of good luck and great opportunities.

Let's celebrate the Chinese New Year spelling the names of our favorite dragons! 🐉🐲

Please, let me know how many dragons you want to spell, I'm looking forward to leading you all in another exciting challenge!!!
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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Updating your progress
When posting your progress, please include your original (sign-up) message number plus the current progress using the format below:

Update to msg #xx: books read/books pledged

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!
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🥚Eggs
🐣Amy (# 45) - 0/6
🐣Asheena (# 18) - 0/4
🐣Ashly (# 21) - 0/4
🐣Beth (# 22) - 0/8
🐣Blu's World (# 35) - 0/4
🐣Caraina (# 41) - 0/15
🐣Carmen (# 3) - 0/13
🐣Carri Carey (# 19) - 0/11
🐣Catsalive (# 34) - 0/12
Christene Paula (# 23) - 0/5
🐣Ciara (# 36) - 0/10
Dana (# 40) - 0/5
🐣Debra Diggs (# 9) - 2/5
🐣Dubhease (# 7) - 0/5
🐣Eva (# 39) - 0/6
🐣Frankie (# 11) - 0/12
gojenn (# 48) - 0/5
🐣Heidi (# 26) - 0/6
Jamie (# 44) - 0/9
🐣Janine (# 24) - 0/6
🐣JennH (# 14) - 0/9
🐣Jill (# 15) - 0/6
🐣Jupiter (# 17) - 0/5
🐣Kalyn (# 29) - 0/4
Katie (# 28) - 0/12
🐣Kendra (# 20) - 0/6
🐣Keri (# 38) - 0/13
Kristina (# 30) - 0/14
🐣Laurie (# 31) - 0/4
🐣Lina (# 6) - 0/5
🐣MYSTIQUE (# 33) - 0/6
🐣Nicole (# 81) - 0/5
🐣Rachael (# 4) - 0/5
🐣Regina (# 5) - 0/6
🐣Sahira (# 27) - 0/6
🐣Sarah (# 25) - 0/7
🐣SarahKat (# 10) - 0/5
🐣Sheila (# 8) - 0/9
🐣Suzanne (# 43) - 0/6
🐣TerryJane (# 16) - 0/9
🐣Word Queen (#107) - 0/44

🐉Baby dragons
Amy (# 45) - 3/6
Blu's World (# 35) - 3/4
Eva (# 39) - 3/6
Heidi (# 26) - 3/6
Jill (# 15) - 1/6
Kalyn (# 29) - 2/4
Nicole (# 81) - 2/5

🔥Firebreathers
🐲Asheena (# 18) - 4/4 Completed!
🐲Ashly (# 21) - 4/4 Completed!
🐲Beth (# 22) - 8/8 Completed!
🐲Caraina (# 41) - 15/15 Completed!
🐲Carmen (# 3) - 13/13 Completed!
🐲Carri Carey (# 19) - 11/11 Completed!
🐲Catsalive (# 34) - 12/12 Completed!
🐲Ciara (# 36) - 10/10 Completed!
🐲Debra Diggs (# 9) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲Dubhease (# 7) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲Frankie (# 11) - 12/12 Completed!
🐲Janine (# 24) - 6/6 Completed!
🐲JennH (# 14) - 9/9 Completed!
🐲Jupiter (# 17) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲Kendra (# 20) - 6/6 Completed!
🐲Keri (# 38) - 13/13 Completed!
🐲Laurie (# 31) - 4/4 Completed!
🐲Lina (# 6) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲=MYSTIQUE= (# 33) - 6/6 Completed!
🐲Rachael (# 4) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲Regina (# 5) - 6/6 Completed!
🐲Sahira (# 27) - 6/6 Completed!
🐲Sarah (# 25) - 7/7 Completed!
🐲SarahKat (# 10) - 5/5 Completed!
🐲Sheila (# 8) - 9/9 Completed!
🐲Suzanne (# 43) - 6/6
👑🐲TerryJane (# 16) - 21/9 Completed!
👑🐲Word Queen (# 107) - 44/44 Completed!


Participants: 41
Books Read: 288
Book Goal: 337
Completed: 27

Updated on March 4, 2024 .

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PROGRESS: 13/13
Norberta from Harry Potter's series and Smaug from The Hobbit are my chosen dragons for this challenge.

❌️N: The No-Show
❌️O: Ocean's Justice
❌️R: The Redbreast
❌️B: Braiding Sweetgrass
❌️E: Eaves of Destruction
❌️R: Remarkably Bright Creatures
❌️T: The Tower is Full of Ghosts Today
❌️A: An Affair in Winter

❌️S: Spiked Hot Chocolate
❌️M: Murder on The Isabella
❌️A: Murder in the Art Gallery
❌️U: Ursula
❌️G: The Leper of Saint Giles

I will be spelling out THORN which is the name of a dragon in one of my favourite series, The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.

T - Eric by Terry Pratchett
H - Magic Bitter Magic Sweet by Charlie N Holmberg
O - The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
R - What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
N - Will Supervillains be on the Final? by Naomi Novik

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COMPLETED: 5/5

1. Eric finished 7 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet finished 10 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Other Queen finished 17 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. What the River Knows finished 22 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. Will Supervillains Be on the Final? finished 23 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review

My choice is FALKOR from The Neverending Story.

6/6—Completed!
❎F A Fugue in Time
❎A Antidote to Venom
❎L The Longest Journey
❎K The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
❎O O Caledonia
❎R The Red Thumb Mark

⛩️ Dragon Spells - Monthly Challenge ⛩️
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024

⛩️Progress 5/5 ⛩️ - COMPLETED! 🔥Firebreather

I will be spelling Tairn - as I am currently reading Iron Flame and really enjoy his general attitude (sarcasm rules). (And also: 5 books seems manageable.)

T - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (🗸 Feb 14)
A - The Beekeeper of Aleppo (🗸 Feb 03)
I - A Passage to India (🗸 Feb 29)
R - Rouge (🗸 Feb 23)
N - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (🗸 Feb 21)



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I'm going to do Smaug
Progress 5/5

S - Shari Lapena - The End of Her
M - Madeleine L'Engle - Dragons in the Waters
A - First Among Sequels
U - Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
G - The Fisher Girl

Sheila from NC signing on. I’ll take Temeraire from Natalie Novik’s excellent series, Her Majesty’s Dragon.
9 books

February - Dragon Spells

5/5
Completed

Smaug

✔ S - Snowflakes by Ruth Ware
✔ M - The Magician by Colm Tóibín
✔ A - After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
✔ U - The Sleep Tight Motel by Lisa Unger
✔ G - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

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I'm also doing Smaug. I love Temeraire but I don't want to commit to 9 books on top of all my buddy reads!

🐉S: Siege and Storm
🐉M: Mexican Gothic
🐉A: The Armor of Light
🐉U: Under the Whispering Door
🐉G: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

DRAGON SPELLS
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024

12/12 Completed. Finished

Draco
01.D:Detroit-Jessica Gadziala 2/07/24
02.R:Right To My Wrong-Lani Lynn Vale 2/09/24
03.A:Alexandria House-Let Me Show You 2/03/24
04.C:Caught Up-Liz Tomforde 2/01/24
05.O:Otto: The Hawthornes-Nicole Jacquelyn 2/01/24


Rhaegal
06.R:Regan:Lisa Regan-My Child is Missing 2/08/24
07.H:Hollywood Yesterday-M.Z. Kelly 2/17/24
08.A:Adriana Locke-The Sweet Spot 2/10/24
09.E:Edge Of Fear-Freya Barker 2/04/24
10.G:Gerritsen:Tess Gerritsen-The Spy Coast 2/16/24
11.A:Audrey Carlan-Limitless Love 2/04/24
12.L:Love Me Today-A.L. Jackson 2/07/24

SarahKat wrote: "I'm also doing Smaug. I love Temeraire but I don't want to commit to 9 books on top of all my buddy reads!

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S: Siege and Storm
M: Mexican Gothic
A: Armor of Light
U: Under the Whispering Door
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Popular choice and the one I kept thinking of. However I can't make it with the books I have, so went to Temeraire (I've read all but the last of these), and there are many dragons in Temeraire, including Lily (only 4 letters.)

I wanted to do this since I love this suggestion, but am doing a year long team game and the books that fit that one don't spell any dragon I know if without using author names. I even found a list that names all of the dragon names for many of the Temeraire books, but not as far as when they went Australia and South America (different books), etc, but to no avail. I wish I'd saved the link.

I also thought of Smaug since 3 of the letters are a piece of cake, but it didn't work.

Welcome everybody!!! 🤗

It seems Smaug is stealing the show, but any dragon is welcome to our February Fest!

@Karin, you can use author's names for the spelling too.
Some links to lists of famous dragons that can be helpful in your search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

DRAGON SPELLS
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024

9/9

T - The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura 2/1/24
E -Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson 2/24/24
M - Cake and Punishment by Maymee Bell 2/5/24
E - The Dupin Stories by Edgar Allan Poe 2/25/24
R - One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle 2/6/24
A - Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews 2/3/24
I - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 2/23/24
R - The Lost Hero: The Graphic Novel by Robert Venditti 2/19/24
E - The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2/28/24

I’ll go with Drogon from ASOIAF. 1/6

D: Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery—finished 2/4
R: Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter—finished 2/23
O: Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
G: The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
O: Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
N: News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

🐉 DRAGON SPELLS - Monthly Challenge
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024
Progress: 21/9 -- COMPLETE

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

I will spell Firedrake from the Dragon Rider series by Cornelia Funke. If time allows, I would also like to spell either Falkor, the luck dragon from The Neverending Story and/or Festus from The Lost Hero. I don't much think I can read so many books in a short month, though, so I'll set my goal at 9.
*Read them all. Spelled them all. 💚🐉💚

🐉 F - Flowers for Algernon
🐉 I - The It Girl
🐉 R - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
🐉 E - Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand
🐉 D - As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success
🐉 R - The Sun Also Rises
🐉 A - Go Ask Alice
🐉 K - No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki
🐉 E - Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand

🐉 F - A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
🐉 A - Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
🐉 L - Murder at the Merton Library
🐉 K - What the Lady's Maid Knew
🐉 O - Our House
🐉 R - Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

🐉 F - Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
🐉 E - Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
🐉 S - Hurricane Song
🐉 T - Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town
🐉 U - Unlucky 13
🐉 S - Stay Gold

I'll be going for 5 with Kazul from The Echanted Forest Chronicles.

Progress: 5/5

K - The Lies of Vampires and Slayers by K.M. Shea
A - Eight Acts by A.L. Lester
Z - La vida privada de los árboles by Alejandro Zambra
U - Going Up by Amy Lane
L - The Sitcom Star by Jackie Lau

I'll go with Clay from The Dragonet Prophecy
Progress:0/4

I will sign up for 11 please!

✅ F: Flowers in the Attic
✅ A: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Read 2/15/24
✅ L: Legends & Lattes - Read 2/14/24
✅ K: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Read 2/7/24
✅ O: Once There Were Wolves - Read 2/24/24
✅ R: Renegades - Read 2/20/24

✅D: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
✅ R: Righteous Prey - Read 2/28/24
✅ A: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Read 2/12/24
✅ C: The Connellys of County Down - Read 2/26/24
✅ O: Ocean Prey - Read 2/12/24

I'm in! Thanks for the idea to include Falkor for this-- one of my all-time favorite dragons!

📚 FALKOR: 6 /6


✅ F: From Here by
✅ A: Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
✅ L: The Lover
✅ K: The Skull by Jon Klassen
✅ O: When No One Is Watching
✅ R: Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost

Stretch goal -- at least one other dragon ...


📚 OROCHI: 6 /6
Orochi from The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters

✅ O: This One Summer
✅ R: The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco
✅ O: The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
✅ C: Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods
✅ H: Bad Habits
✅ I: Who Is Vera Kelly?


📚 SKYSONG: 7 /7
...or Skysong (AKA Kitten) from The Immortals Quartet (Boxed Set): Wild Magic; Wolf-Speaker; Emperor Mage; The Realms of the Gods

✅ S: Sweetlust: Stories by Asja Bakić
✅ K: This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
✅ Y: Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
✅ S: Love in the Time of Serial Killers
✅ O: The Gilded Ones
✅ N: Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
✅ G: Go Big: The Secondary School Survival Guide

I will go with Haku from Spirted Away.

H- Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1, 2/28/24
A- Adulthood Is a Myth, 2/16/24
K- Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 1Kingdom of Without, 2/27/24
U- March Comes in Like a Lion, Volume 1 by Chica Umino, 2/29/24

PROCESS: 4/4 Read

I’m going with Camicazi’s dragon from the How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell.

S - Stephen King: Holly (Holly Gibney, #3)
T - Taylor Jenkins Reid: Daisy Jones & The Six
O - Ocean at the End of the Lane, The by Neil Gaiman
R - Ryan Douglass: The Taking of Jake Livingston
M - Matthew Quirk: The Night Agent
F - Feeney, Alice: Daisy Darker
L - Lacy,Ed: Dead End
Y - You (You, #1) by Caroline Kepnes

🐉 🐲 🐉 Completed 8/8 🐉 🐲 🐉

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Seeing as I'm currently reading another of Rick Riordan's spin off series, I'm going to go with Festus from the Heroes of Olympus. Sign me up for 6.

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I am going to spell out Scarlet, the red dragon from Terry Goodkind book series called The Sword of Truth. So I am going to read 7 books.

7/7-COMPLETED

✅S: The Story About Ping (3/2/24)
✅C: The Children's Blizzard (21/2/24)
✅A: Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer (22/2/24)
✅R: Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (4/2/24)
✅L: The Murder on the Links (15/2/24)
✅E: The End Of Men (2/2/24)
✅T: Girl Talk (14/2/24)

Going to give this a try with Falkor!

3/6 books completed

F - Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
A - All the Light We Cannot See- Anthony Doerr - Completed
L - Later - Stephen King - Completed
K - The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
O -Sam Mendes Presents: Oliver Twist (Audiobook) - Charles Dickens - Completed
R - The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams

I'm in for 6 books with Falkor as well! Love that dragon! 🙂

6/6 books completed

F - The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
A - Learn About Loss
L - A Deeper Love
K - The Christmas Killer
O - The Wicked Ones
R - The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

I’m going to shoot for 12 using my two favorite dragons: Tairn & Andarna from Fourth Wing!

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Sign me up for anything dragons lol! 4 books sound like a great goal to me, so I'm trying to spell HAKU from Spirited Away <3

Progress: 2/4

H- Twisted Love by Ana Huang ✔️
A- Twisted Games by Ana Huang ✔️
K- Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
U- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

DRAGON SPELLS
February 01 - February 29, 2024
Progress: 0/14

Sign me up for 14!

S: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
M: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
A: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
U: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
G: The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

T: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
O: The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
O: At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
T: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
H: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
L: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
E: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
S: The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
S: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

DRAGON SPELLS

4/4 challenge completed

I'm choosing Emmy from The Dragon in the Sock Drawer


🐲 E - Secrets and Snowflakes by S. Usher Evans
🐲 M - My Love Story by Tina Turner
🐲 M - Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
🐲 Y - The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

WELCOME!!! 🤗

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

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Hello, put me down for 6 please and thank you.

Progress: 6/6

🥀A: Aurora's Angel 2/6/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀U: It's Not Unusual to Be Loved by an Alien 2/16/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀R: Rosamund Hodge Cruel Beauty 2/9/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀O: Forsaken Fae: Book One 2/19/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀R: The Sixth Demon: Book Four 2/25/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🥀A: Alpha Deceived 2/15/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

12, maybe.

Dragon Spells
1-29/2/24
12/12
(first letter of any main word in the title (omitting a, an, the, etc.) or author's initials)

E- Beware the Past by Joy Ellis 2/2 4★
R- Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb 1/2 4★
R- The Rainbow Trail by Kathleen Gooding 3/2 2.5★
O- Lost Souls by Jenny O'Brien 16/2 3★
L- The Cat Who Solved Three Murders by L.T. Shearer 9/2 3★

S- The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan 10/2 4★
A- Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman 4/2 3.5★
P- Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs 6/2 4★
H- The Holly and the Ivy by Elisabeth Fairchild 12/2 2.5★
I- Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs 7/2 3★
R- Miss Chambers Takes Charge by Joy Reed 4/2 2★
A- A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia by Robert Whyte, Greg Anderson 8/2 5★

Scarlet, Thorn, Glaedr, Shruikan, Firnen, Puff, Belch, Barf

Hi all, this month I'm going to choose the dragons Barf and Belch from How To Train Your Dragon... A fun, not very serious dragon character. Although they're one of the same (two-headed dragon), for this challenge I'll only be doing BARF to make it easier on myself lol.

Please put me down for 4 books!

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F -

Though the creature may or may not be a dragon, for the purposes of this challenge, I'll go for the JABBERWOCK. In for 10 books!

WELCOME EVERYBODY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR OF DE DRAGON! 🤗🐲

“You know that in Latin, 'Festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the dragon?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

Ooo, sign me up for 13 books please!

I'll do Nonesuch from A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner.

N - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
O - The Opal Deception
N - Public Enemy Number Two
E - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
S - Shuna's Journey
U - Unbound (Yay!! I got to include an ebook)
C - The Striding Spire by Charlotte English
H - The Hero and the Crown



I will also do Errol from Pratchett's novel Guards! Guards!

E - Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
R - A Bend in the Road
R - Winter Rose
O- Noragami Omnibus 2 (Vol. 4-6): Stray God
L - The Light Fantastic

Sign me up for six! I chose Peleus, the guardian dragon of the camp half-blood, from the Percy Jackson series.

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E- The Elite
L-
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U-Under One Roof
S- The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure

I will update everytime I finish one ! ^^

Having just visited New Zealand and re-reading The Hobbit, I’m going for Smaug.

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DRAGON SPELLS - COMPLETED
Duration: February 1, 2024 - February 29, 2024

Completed: 15/15

Norberta
N: No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood 2/15/24
O: One of Ours - Willa Cather 2/12/24
R: Rebecca Boxall - Christmas by the Lighthouse 2/4/24
B: Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbø 2/14/24
E: Emily Giffin - Love the One You're With 2/3/24
R: Reluctantly Home - Imogen Clark 2/8/24
T: Toys - James Patterson 2/17/24
A: Ashton Lee - The Cherry Cola Book Club 2/4/24

Saphira
S: Suzanne Woods Fisher - The Letters 2/6/24
A: Alicia Hunter Pace - Sweet Gone South 2/5/24
P: Private India: City on Fire - James Patterson 2/12/24
H: Helena Hunting - Meet Cute 2/10/24
I: Ink My Heart - Jean Haus 2/9/24
R: Rigaud, Debbie - Simone Breaks All the Rules
A: Armentrout, Jennifer L. - Fall of Ruin and Wrath 2/10/24

WELCOME! 🤗🐲

“Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

2024 Reading Challenge
February - Dragon Spells
Duration: February 1 - February 29, 2024

Progress: 6 out of 6

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

Dragons are often depicted as huge, scary fire-breathing monsters with wings, claws and scales. But in many Asian cultures, the dragon is considered a friend to humanity. In Chinese culture, it is the token of authority, dignity, honor, success, luck, and capacity.

As the Year of the Dragon begins this month, you are invited to celebrate by spelling out your favorite dragon name(s) for this challenge. You may use the first letter of any main word in your books title (omitting a, an, the, etc.) and/or the author's initials.

F: Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah - ***** - 2/29/2024 - 279 Pages
A: Ali Hazelwood; Love, Theoretically - ***** - 2/19/2024 - 389 Pages
L: Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang - ***** - 2/15/2024 - 352 Pages
K: Kiera Cass; The Selection - *** - 2/4/2024 - 336 Pages
O: Out There by Seaerra Miller - ***** - 2/4/2024 - 232 Pages
R: Robyn Carr; Under the Christmas Tree - ***** - 2/5/2024 - 93 Pages

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I would like to join!
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F: Faye, Faraway
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K: Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
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R: Gone With the Rogue

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📚 FALKOR: 2 /6

I will make TAIRN from Fourth Wing

T - Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
A - A Boy & His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
I - Inspector Hobbes & the Common People by Wilkie Martin
R - Real Murders by Charmaine Harris
N - None of this is True by Lisa Jewell

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