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Melanie's Era Challenge
Taylor Swift / Debut
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.)
Track list:
Tim McGraw
Picture To Burn
Teardrops On My Guitar
A Place In This World
Cold As You
The Outside
Tied Together With A Smile
Stay Beautiful
Should’ve Said No
Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)
Our Song
I’m Only Me When I’m With You
Invisible
A Perfectly Good Heart
Please choose your first track to get your first task :)
A Place In This World
Tasks:
1: Read a book set in a country you haven’t been to yet.
2: Read a book with a teenage MC.
3: Read a book with a heart on the cover.
Book:
The Beach House Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Date completed: 7/9/2024
Task: Read a book set in a country you haven’t been to yet.
How it fits: Set in South Carolina, USA; a country I haven't been to yet.
Next song: A Perfectly Good Heart
A Perfectly Good Heart
Tasks:
1: Read a book with a heart on the cover.
2: Read a book with a heartbreak scene.
3: Read a book with the word "heart" in the title or text.
Book:
Pride & Prejudice Author: Stacy King
Date completed: 7/10/2024
Task: Read a book with a heartbreak scene.
How it fits: There is a heartbreak scene when Jane is told that Bingley has gone back to London without saying goodbye.
Next song: Picture To Burn please.
Your last song of this era: Picture To Burn
Tasks:
1: Read a book with either “burn”, “fire” or “flame(s)” in the title.
2: Read a book in which the MC breaks up with someone.
3: Read a book with a vehicle on the cover.
Book:
SidelinesAuthor: Karen Viggers
Date completed: 7/29/2024
Task: Read a book in which the MC breaks up with someone.
How it fits: After the big blow-up at the house, Katerina breaks up with Ricci.
Next song:
That's 2 points for the task and another point for finishing the era!
Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.) and for convenience will leave out the additions “Taylor’s Version” and “From the Vault” as well as the featured artists.
Tracklist:
Fearless
Fifteen
Love Story
Hey Stephen
White Horse
You Belong With Me
Breathe
Tell Me Why
You’re Not Sorry
The Way I Loved You
Forever & Always
The Best Day
Change
Jump Then Fall
Untouchable
Come In With The Rain
Superstar
The Other Side Of The Door
Today Was A Fairytale
Mr. Perfectly Fine
We Were Happy
That’s When
Don’t You
Bye Bye Baby
You Belong With Me
Tasks:
1: Read a book with MPG Humor.
2: Read a book tagged sports.
3: Read a book with a door on the cover.
Book:
Dirt Town Author: Hayley Scrivenor
Date completed: 8/21/2024
Task: Read a book with a door on the cover
How it fits: There is the door of the general store on the cover.
Next song: Bye Bye Baby please.
Bye Bye Baby
Tasks:
1: Read a book in which the MC calls someone baby.
2: Read a book with an alliteration in the title.
3: Read a book with a grey cover.
Book:
After She's Gone Author: Camilla Grebe
Date completed: 8/27/2024
Task: Read a book in which the MC calls someone baby.
How it fits: Malin's mum calls her baby.
"Malin," she says, pushing a lock of hair out of my face. "Sweet baby." - pg 353
Next song: We Were Happy please.
Your last song of this era: We Were Happy
Tasks:
1: Read a book that makes you happy.
2: Read a book featuring a circus.
3: Read a book with a character owning a farm.
Book:
Trust Author: Chris Hammer
Date completed: 9/13/2024
Task: Read a book that makes you happy.
How it fits: This book is set in Sydney, Australia; a city I love so that makes me happy.
Next song: N/A
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.) and for convenience will leave out the additions “Taylor’s Version” and “From the Vault” as well as the featured artists.
Tracklist:
Mine
Sparks Fly
Back To December
Speak Now
Dear John
Mean
The Story Of Us
Never Grow Up
Enchanted
Better Than Revenge
Innocent
Haunted
Last Kiss
Long Live
Ours
Superman
Electric Touch
When Emma Falls In Love
I Can See You
Castles Crumbling
Foolish One
Timeless
Better Than Revenge
Tasks:
1: Read a book of which the title has been changed.
2: Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in SABOTAGE.
3: Read a book with insects (at least two!) on the cover.
Book:
The Deep Author: Kyle Perry
Date completed: 10/1/2024
Task: Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in SABOTAGE.
How it fits: Title begins with T from saboTage when using the article.
Next song: Innocent please.
Innocent
Tasks:
1: Read a book with a character who finds redemption after a mistake.
2:Read a book with a cover featuring a phoenix rising from the ashes.
3: Read a book with "innocent" in the title or text.
Book:
The Next AccidentAuthor: Lisa Gardner
Date completed: 10/5/2024
Task: Read a book with a character who finds redemption after a mistake.
How it fits: Rainie is flighty in relationships due to previous trauma and in the last book and the beginning of this book, Quincy does all the wrong things that makes Rainie back away; at the end of this book he 'gets' it and reaches her so they can have a relationship.
Next song: Never Grow Up please.
Your last song of this era: Never Grow Up
Tasks:
1: Read a book about the passage of time.
2: Read a book with a character who experiences a loss of innocence.
3: Read a book with a character who longs for the simplicity of childhood.
Book:
Don't Look Twice Author: Andrew Gross
Date completed: 10/8/2024
Task: Read a book with a character who experiences a loss of innocence.
How it fits: Jessie is in a service station with her dad when a drive-by shooting occurs, the man behind them in line is killed with Jessie witnessing it. This is a traumatic experience for a young girl who experiences a loss of innocence.
Next song: N/A.
That's 2 points for the task and another point for finishing the era!
Red (Taylor’s Version)
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.) and for convenience will leave out the additions “Taylor’s Version” and “From the Vault” as well as the featured artists.
Tracklist:
State Of Grace
Red
Treacherous
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well
22
I Almost Do
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Stay Stay Stay
The Last Time
Holy Ground
Sad Beautiful Tragic
The Lucky One
Everything Has Changed
Starlight
Begin Again
The Moment I Knew
Come Back … Be Here
Girl At Home
Ronan
Better Man
Nothing New
Babe
Message In A Bottle
I Bet You Think About Me
Forever Winter
Run
The Very First Night
Everything Has Changed, please.
Everything Has Changed
Tasks:
1: Read a book with a character named Ed or Edward.
2: Read a book in which a big change happens (short explanation).
3: Read a book with the word EVERYTHING in the text (provide short passage and page number).
Book:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Author: J.K. Rowling
Date completed: 10/12/2024
Task: Read a book in which a big change happens (short explanation).
How it fits: On Harry's 11th birthday he gets told he is a wizard and can start at Hogwarts. Before that he was living a miserable life with the Dursley's who didn't treat him very well.
Next song: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, please.
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Tasks:
1: Read a book with a title that consists of 7 words.
2: Read a book with an MC who’s in a long distance relationship.
3: Read a book in which someone utters the words “I hate you”. Provide short passage and page number.
Book:
Looking For Eden Author: Caroline Overington
Date completed: 10/20/2024
Task: Read a book with an MC who’s in a long distance relationship.
How it fits: Aaron is in a long-distance relationship with Pearlie; he is in Australia and she is in the Philippines.
Next song: Treacherous, please.
Your last song of this era: Treacherous
Tasks:
1: Read a book with the forced proximity trope.
2: Read a book in which a character follows a new path (your interpretation).
3: Read a book that has the same word twice in the title (the, a, an do not count).
Book:
Force of Nature Author: Jane Harper
Date completed: 10/23/2024
Task: Read a book with the forced proximity trope.
How it fits: The characters are participating in a compulsory work team-building exercise; hiking for 4 days in the Giralang Ranges. Lets just say that none of the women like each other so it is a forced proximity situation.
Next song: N/A
That's 2 points for the task and another point for finishing the era!
1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.) and for convenience will leave out the additions “Taylor’s Version” and “From the Vault” as well as the featured artists.
Tracklist:
Welcome To New York
Blank Space
Style
Out Of The Woods
All You Had To Do Was Stay
Shake It Off
I Wish You Would
Bad Blood
Wildest Dreams
How You Get The Girl
This Love
I Know Places
Clean
Wonderland
You Are In Love
New Romantics
“Slut!”
Say Don’t Go
Now That We Don’t Talk
Suburban Legends
Is It Over Now?
Bad Blood
Tasks:
1: Read a book with the word BLOOD in the title.
2: Read a book in which the MC has a group of friends of at least 8 people.
3: Read a book with a gun, bullets or a bullet hole on the cover.
Book:
Mississippi Blood Author: Greg Iles
Date completed: 11/4/2024
Task: Read a book with the word BLOOD in the title.
How it fits: Blood in title.
Next song: I Wish You Would, please.
My apologies! Please feel free to use any fitting book you completed since November 5th.I Wish You Would
Tasks:
1: Read a book about regret or longing.
2: Read a book with a cover featuring a wistful or reflective scene.
3: Read a book that includes the phrase "I wish" in the text.
Book:
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella Author: Jack Charles
Date completed: 11/22/2024
Task: Read a book about regret or longing.
How it fits: This memoir is about the longing Uncle Jack had for family as a member of the Stolen Generation.
Next song: This Love, please.
Your last song of this era:This Love
Tasks:
1: Read a book with the word "love" in the title.
2: Read a book with a cover that features hearts or romantic imagery.
3: Read a book about enduring love or a long-term relationship.
Book:
It Starts with Us Author: Colleen Hoover
Date completed: 11/26/2024
Task: Read a book about enduring love or a long-term relationship.
How it fits: Lily and Atlas have loved each other since their teens and can finally share this love together.
Next song: N/A
That's 2 points for the task and another point for finishing the era!
Reputation
Note: I will not include songs that are on the track list twice (with the addition of “Pop Version” etc.)
Track list:
… Ready For It?
End Game
I Did Something Bad
Don’t Blame Me
Delicate
Look What You Made Me Do
So It Goes …
Gorgeous
Getaway Car
King Of My Heart
Dancing With Our Hands Tied
Dress
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Call It What You Want
New Year’s Day
I Did Something Bad
Tasks:
1: Read a book with a witch in the story.
2: Read a book with a 3 in the page count.
3: Read a book with an MC who has curly hair.
Book:
Unforgettable Author: Steve Thompson
Date completed: 12/15/2024
Task: Read a book with a 3 in the page count.
How it fits: 304 pages
Next song: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, please.
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I am a big swiftie, so I felt like this would be a good challenge! Of course, it should be fun for anyone who isn’t a fan as well :)
Sign-ups are open.
The challenge is open-ended.
The Challenge
1. Comment here to sign up and I will create a challenge thread for you.
2. We will go through all of Taylor Swift’s “eras” or albums. Starting with the debut album, you will be given the track list and you will choose a song. You will then be given a set of three tasks, of which you have to complete one. You will then choose another two songs of the album and then move to the next. The last task will be to choose your favorite era, and I will be giving you my favorite song of the album and the set of tasks for that song. Should you have chosen my favorite song of the album earlier already, I will choose my next favorite. For each completed task, you will receive two points. Another one point for completing an era and another ten points for completing the challenge.
3. If you feel stuck, you have 2 free skips. Just let me know in the thread that you will use it and please read a book that meets the guidelines instead. You can only use one skip per era. Should you need more than 2 skips, you can use 7 points to get a new skip.
4. Please make a completion post in your thread using this template:
Book:
Author:
Date completed:
Task:
How it fits:
5. If you don't have a personal point account thread yet, request one here.