Bookish Challenges discussion

Join us in a reading challenge about losing time, gaining time, and everything in between. Twice a year, one hour disappears, one hour returns.
And yet, nothing else really changes. Or at least, it’s not supposed to.
But we end up spending our day, or even days, adjusting to the daylight saving time change across the globe, as part of our work, friendships or our adventures.

Sign-ups are open until April 30st, 2026
The challenge is open until June 31st, 2026

The Challenge
Please copy the tasks in the below message and post them in this thread. No new thread will be created.
This challenge is for 4 books. Pick one task from each round. For each completed task, you will receive 2 points. Additionally, you will receive 10 points for completing the challenge.
There are no skips available for this challenge.
Put the completion post below each book completed in your message:

Title:
Author:
Date Completed:
Task:
How it fits:

If you don’t have a personal point account thread yet, please request one.
Only books completed from April 1st, 2026, will be accepted.

Happy Reading!

⏩ Time moving forward
A) Read a book where something important is lost early in the story.
B) Read a book where a character has to deal with a sudden change or disruption.
C) Read a book where time pressure affects the outcome of the story.

⏪ Time going backwards
A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
B) Read a book where something that was lost is found again.
C) Read a book where a second chance plays an important role.

⏸️ No change
A) Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
B) Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
C) Read a book where progress is slow or unclear.

🌍 Out of Sync
A) Read a book where timing creates distance between characters.
B) Read a book where communication is affected by timing or distance.
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations.

Participants

Daylight Savings Time Challenge
4/4 - FINISHED!!

⏩ Time moving forward
Book: The Outcasts of Time
Author: Ian Mortimer
Date completed: April 6, 2026
Task: Read a book where time pressure affects the outcome of the story.
How it fits: John is given 7 more days to live, each 99 years from the last. In this time, he is supposed to find out the purpose of life, or he will be cursed to spend the afterlife in hell.

⏪ Time going backwards
Book: The Burning World
Author: Isaac Marion
Date completed: April 2, 2026
Task: Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
How it fits: R has dreams and visions of his past life as a human.

⏸️ No change
Book: Seeing Other People
Author: Austin Siegemund-Broka; Emily Wibberley
Date completed: April 7, 2026
Task: Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
How it fits: Zach Harrison and Kennedy Raymond are ghosts with 'unfinished business' and unable to move on.

🌍 Out of Sync
Book: In the Long Run
Author: Haley Cass
Date completed: April 21, 2026
Task: Read a book where communication is affected by timing or distance.
How it fits: Brooke and Taylor have known each other their entire lives but haven't been close because Taylor has been traveling and exploring the world and Brooke struggled with the distance and constant leaving.

Daylight Savings Time Challenge
COMPLETED!!

✔️⏩️Time Moving Forward
A) Read a book where something important is lost early in the story.
⏰B) Read a book where a character has to deal with a sudden change or disruption.
Book/Author: Wicche Hunt, Seana Kelly.
Date Completed: 4/4/26
How it Fits: Aralyn is stalked and almost kidnapped several times. One of the people behind it is her cousin who has turned evil and once is from a serial killer who is influenced by her cousin.
C) Read a book where time pressure affects the outcome of the story.

✔️⏪ Time going backwards
⏰A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
Book/Author: Bewicched, Seana Kelly
Date Compketed: 4/2/26
How it Fits: Arwyn is able to see what has happened in the past due to psychic abilities. This helps the police discover a serial killer who preys on kids.
B) Read a book where something that was lost is found again.
C) Read a book where a second chance plays an important role.

✔️⏩️No change
A) Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
Completion Post:
⏰B) Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
Book/Author: The Coordinate, Marc Jacobs
Date Completed: 4/1/26
Task: Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
How it Fits: There are repetitive numbers and number patterns discovered in a secret room in the ruins.
C) Read a book where progress is slow or unclear.

✔️🌍 Out of Sync
A) Read a book where timing creates distance between characters.
Book/Author: The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, Caitlin Rozakis
Date Completed: 4/8/26
Task: Read a book where timing creates distance between characters.
How it Fits: In this book, Vivian and Daniel, a loving couple thrown into the supernatural worl, slowly come apart as events happen and the “timing” is never right.
B) Read a book where communication is affected by timing or distance.
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations.

2/4

⏩ Time moving forward
A) Read a book where something important is lost early in the story.
B) Read a book where a character has to deal with a sudden change or disruption. Desperate Measures by Katee Robert - Jasmine has to deal with sudden change of being under Jafar's control
C) Read a book where time pressure affects the outcome of the story.

⏪ Time going backwards
A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
B) Read a book where something that was lost is found again.
C) Read a book where a second chance plays an important role. Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon - second chance MC gets to perform a medicsal surgery plays the most pivotal point in book

⏸️ No change
A) Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
B) Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
C) Read a book where progress is slow or unclear.

🌍 Out of Sync
A) Read a book where timing creates distance between characters.
B) Read a book where communication is affected by timing or distance.
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations

0/4

⏩ Time moving forward
A) Read a book where something important is lost early in the story.
B) Read a book where a character has to deal with a sudden change or disruption.
C) Read a book where time pressure affects the outcome of the story.

⏪ Time going backwards
A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
B) Read a book where something that was lost is found again.
C) Read a book where a second chance plays an important role.

⏸️ No change
A) Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
B) Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
C) Read a book where progress is slow or unclear.

🌍 Out of Sync
A) Read a book where timing creates distance between characters.
B) Read a book where communication is affected by timing or distance.
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations.

Read: 4/4 FINISHED

Please put the points under BeanBunHeaven's Point account.

⏩ Time moving forward
A) Read a book where something important is lost early in the story.
Under the Whispering Door
The main character loses his life early in the story and deals with the grief of moving on.
Read: 4/13

⏪ Time going backwards
A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
The Alice Network
Read: 4/11
Many timeskips to the past of one of the main characters as they revisit an old grudge.

⏸️ No change
A) Read a book where a character feels stuck or unable to move forward.
Hamnet
Read: 5/5
After the son's death the mother was unable to move on.

🌍 Out of Sync
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations.
F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics
Read: 4/18
In most fairy tales, there are many misaligned communications that lead to death (or romance, haha). Almost all folk tales or fairy tales in this book has the misaligned timing and plans as the backdrop.

Daylights Savings Time
4/4

⏩ Time moving forward
B) Read a book where a character has to deal with a sudden change or disruption.
Book: The Boy and the Dog Tree by Fiona Wood
Date: 27/4 5★
Fit: MC Mitch has had to move from Sydney to Melbourne, staying with his grandmother while his parents are away, & starting at a new school

⏪ Time going backwards
A) Read a book where a character revisits the past in a meaningful way.
Book: Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Date: 30/4 4★
Fit: MC revisits the past in the shape of his some old comrades, the Special Investigators of the 110th MP, as they search for some missing members of the same team

⏸️ No change
B) Read a book where routines or patterns repeat.
Book: Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 1/5 3.5★
Fit: routines repeated in the book & series

🌍 Out of Sync
C) Read a book where characters struggle to align with each other’s timing, plans, or expectations
Book: The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Date: 4/5 3.5★
Fit: Kiela & Larran struggle to align with each other as their expectations are so different

Completed at msg9.