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Past Challenges2025:
2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge...
Completed: 17 (18?)/20
✔1. Welcome to the Red Carpet (I dont exactly understand the Queen reference, folks. Not what i thought of for this one 😅🤷♀️)
-The Maid (because the cover is red)(view spoiler)
2025 Read All the Books 12: Books by the Dozen...
Challenge Goal 7 books (possibly more)
Completed: 10/7
✔1 Breakfast of Champions -2/25(view spoiler)
I'm going to use this space for 2025 challenges again, and try to update the *first post and the second post* (every new year) with links to this and future posts in this thread or the posts in the challenge description threads.2025 Read All the Books 12: Books by the Dozen...
Challenge Goal 7 books (possibly more)
Completed: 10/7
✔1 Breakfast of Champions -2/25
✔2 Childhoods End 7/25
✔3 Once and Future King
4 Witch King
✔5 Fahrenheit 451
6 Brave New World
✔7 Emilie Wilde's Encyclopadia of Faeries -1/25
Alternates:
8 Pomegranate Gate
✔9 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 7/25
10 The Stand
11 Gunslinger
❌12 Annie Bot dnf
13 Ubik
14 Six of Crows
15 A Gathering...
16 Station Eleven
17 Island of Doctor Murough
✔+18 Dead Silence 8/25
✔+19 Nettle & Bone 8/25
✔+20 The Ghost Bride 9/25
✔+21 Salem's Lot 9/25
Might as well do one more post for the other 2025 challenge. I think I will put all of the new year's challenges in the first post, but make a copy here (in the body of this thread), since that first post will be cleared yearly. (this is all hypothetical if I manage to stick around here long enough. i spent a lot of time on GRs this year, but probably need to cut back a bit, although these threads might help save time.)2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge...
Completed: 17 (18?)/20
✔1. Welcome to the Red Carpet -The Maid (because the cover is red)
✔2. Suit Up -Childhood's End (Jan suits up to travel through space to the Overlords planet)
✔3. All That Glitters -Where the Library Hides (there are some glittering enchanted artifacts)
✔4. Let Your Hair Down -Long Live Evil (MC has long black hair)
✔5. Special Effects -The Book of Doors (a magical collection of books, each of which have a unique special power)
✔6. Six of One … Half a Dozen of the Other -The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Can I just say Six PLUS One?
7. Strike a Pose (tbr fin don knocks em dead)
✔8. Bohemian -To the Lighthouse (...)
✔9. Global Inspiration -A Wizard of Earthsea (...), also 1984
✔10. Dime a Dozen -The Phantom of the Opera (publishing date is 19ten, like a dime is ten cent. lol)
✔11. Slay -Godkiller (in the name)
12. Twelfth (tbr Midnight Library)
✔13. Cottagecore -Rock, Paper, Scissors (there is a cottage in most of the story) also, Emily Wilde...
✔14. Oh! the Horrors -Misery (by the King of horror)
✔15. Punk vs Prep -Fahrenheit 182 (Mark Hoppus memoir. He is so punk, but also loves books 😁👍)
✔16. Organic vs Synthetic -Poet Anderson?
✔17. Modern vs Traditional -Not Another Love Song (the main characters are orchestral musicians who play both classical staples as well as contemporary compositions, most self-made)
✔18. Avant-garde -The Time Traveler's Wife (...)
19. Bold Look (tbr A Gathering of Shadows- or did i read something else?)
✔20. Loungewear -The Seven Year Slip (a cozy romance) also Book Lovers
Making progress April! Glad we got to discuss Fahrenheit 451 and The Time Traveler this year. Keep on!
I am still not 100 percent sure how folks set these up, and i cannot seem to find the other 2026 challenge prompt. 🤔...2026 You Are What You Read message 37 in main thread
Completed: 12/20, 📚 denotes current reads
1. ✔Appetizer; selections from More deadly than the male : masterpieces from the queens of horror- started off the year (and this feast) with several short stories from 19th century authors, thoroughly whetting my appetite! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐,
2. ✔Snack Food; The Turn of the Screw⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -well, thought this would be a great "snack" in that it was kind of short, but i think it also had short chapters that i snacked each night.
3. ✔Kids Menu; A Wrinkle in Time ⭐⭐⭐⭐ -a great children's book
4. ✔Latin Flare; the familiar ⭐⭐⭐⭐-takes place in Spain
5. Asian Menu; the henna artist -henna
6. ✔European Fare; The English patient ⭐⭐⭐⭐ -takes place in Italy (Europe)
7. Lean Cuisine; Hollow City -because hollow is what might happen if something leans out too much from the inside out! lol
8. ✔Bad Apple; Mr. Mercedes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -Mr. Mercedes is a bad bad person.
9. In a Pickle; Undead and Unemployed #2, (will probably use this since it was in my plan already, and the whole series is about this new vampire trying to navigate being a vampire and each new "pickle." But "The Bell Jar" would have been great, because pickles often come in a JAR.)
?survive the night,
?the bell jar, ?doomsday book
10. ✔Recipe for Disaster; The Thursday Murder Club ⭐⭐⭐
11. ✔Food for Thought; The Speed of Dark ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐-this one is a thinker! It has you thinking about the ethics of messing with someone's brain, and how the brain works in general, ✔The godhead-complex ⭐⭐⭐- because thoughts are in our head, and complexes deal with mental/thought activity.
12. ✔Piece of Cake; Six of Crows⭐⭐⭐ -because six of makes me think of like 6 pieces of pie or cake!🤷♀️
13. ✔“Dammit Doughnut”: Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter 2022⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- because...,
14. Vegan; ? the perks of being a wallflower -I forgot why I thought this. I remember it amused me, but... maybe the "flower" in wallflower is a plant, so it's vegan? lol
15. ✔Spicy; The Wicked King⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -because Jude and Carden have a heated relationship
16. Homemade; The Housemaid is Watching #3 -the story deals with domestic things.
17. Comfort Food; ✔+The Breakaway by Jennifer Wiener⭐⭐⭐1/2 -just a cute old rom-com, Roomies Christina Lauren 2017 True Love Experiment (#2) Happy Place, 📚people we meet on vacation -comfort author/comfort read Love Hypothesis
18. Popcorn; Infinite Jest -because it's a little silly and you read it in lots of small bites (or I do), You’d look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace 2023, the night circus
19. Takeout; these violent delights - because takeout could mean take somebody out (knock em out), which is usually violent. Also, there is takeout Chinese and this story takes place in China (or about China) and i think, the author is Chinese as well (please correct me if i am wrong).
20. Dessert; 📚?City of-heavenly-fire, ?Paradise Lost ?The Brothers of Baker Street
Drafts(view spoiler)
Ah! Ok, i think i get it. So there is no thread where we list our possible reads and completed towards the 2026 Read All the Books (or i still cannot find it), so i will put it here.Edit- found the thread! I did end up retyping these all today. Bleh! I will make them all match now, hopefully! 😜😅
At message 39 SFFBCReadAllTheBooks 26-The Teen Years Challenge
Ok, starting with a goal of 5, but I will probably find a few more. It is just that I am trying to expand my knowledge of these genres, but also too booked up to experiment with so many. 😅
Completed: 06/05 📚 -denotes current reads
1. ✔The Prisoners Throne Black, Holly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. ✔The Time Machine Wells, H.G. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
4. ❌Witch King Wells, Martha -dnf
5. I Who Have Never Known Men Harpman, Jacqueline
6. The Handmaids Tale Atwood, Margaret
7. Remnant Population
8. ✔Speed of Dark Moon, Elizabeth 2002 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. The Memory Police
10 The Island of Dr. Moreau Wells,
11 ✔The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G. 1898 ⭐⭐⭐
12 The Princess Bride
13 The Snow Queen Vinge,
14 Hyperion
15 Assassin's Apprentice
+. ✔dracula ⭐⭐⭐
+. ✔Six of Crows ⭐⭐⭐
...
(I feel like I have typed these out before 🤔🤦♀️)- yeah, i did! 😅🤷♀️
I see you found it and last year it was 12 books, but this year it is 13 books
Cynda wrote: "Making progress April! Glad we got to discuss Fahrenheit 451 and The Time Traveler this year. Keep on!"Hi Cynda! Sorry for the delay, I've been going a little mad trying to figure out how to set everything up. I think I have got it now! See you around! Have a great year! I will try to stop by your thread soon so you actually see this message. 😅
CBRetriever- Thanks! I think I have finally figured it all out! 😁
Edit-Remembering how I planned this now. So, these are the current challenges, but I also post them in the thread, since this post will change every year. Ok?
Active Challenges
2026 You Are What You Read message 37 in main thread
And at message ?6 in this thread
and
SFFBCReadAllTheBooks 26-The Teen Years Challenge At message 39 in main thread
And at message 7 in this thread.