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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.