2025 Reading Challenge Update - January

 I hope I can keep up with this because I think its going to look really cool by the end of the year.  I could probably tweak it a little but I like these.  I also decided to do author names for the A to Z because it sounded fun.  And I know Landline is not red but it's not orange either, ok.  I may have to add pink next year.

I think that my top ones would be with Lightlark by Alex Aster or One Way or Another by Kara McDowell.  Lightlark got the part of me that loves a good fantasy magic system.  One Way or Another was just a really cute read and I enjoyed it too. Saying Landline would be cheating because Rainbow Rowell is an old favorite author of mine and I just wanted to relisten to it on audio.  Three of these were listened to as audio if anyone likes to know that.

Also would like to suggest you look up books before picking them up, especially if your sensitive to certain themes or subjects.  Just a heads up.

My 2025 Reading Challenges

 I found someone on TikTok, Rusty Creek Designs, who makes book journals.  They put so many cool ways to organize books that you have read and books that you plan to read.  A TBR section, a place to describe your rating system, bookshelves to color in with the titles you've read, and so many challenge and tracker pages.  It's such a cute design and great idea.  I can't spend the money on the journal right now but thought a couple of the challenges would be fun to try regardless.

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CHALLENGES

A to Z - Read a book starting with the beginning of each letter of the alphabet.

'Read the Rainbow' - Read all the different colors in book covers.  Rusty Creek Designs has many shades of colors in their book.  I think I'm going to stick to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black, and White.

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Pretty straight forward.  A simple but fun way to keep track of what I read this year.  What challenges are you taking on this year?  Have a goal number of books for this year?

We Listen and We Dont Judge....

 We're not going to talk about the six year gap.  We're not going to talk about the lack of reading and writing that has been going on here.  Let's just agree to continue like nothing happened, mmkay? Great.

2025 is actually looking up for reading and writing productivity.  The writer's group I went to that closed during Covid is finally coming back! I'm going to be writing for them so I'm bringing the blog back too.  Why not?  BookTok has relit the reading fire for a lot of people, I think I'd include myself in that as well.  There are some reading challenges that I found there and I'll keep track of them here.

Do you have any challenges I should try?  Any books I should add to my TBR?  Let's swap ideas.