2025 Reading Challenge Update - March

I was way more productive this month than I thought I would be.  I filled four new letters on the Titles and one on the Authors.  The Rainbow only has one color left before theres one in each.  Thank goodness I have several months left before I have to resort to browsing the libray based solely on certian colored book covers.

I may be cheating a little as I added a book that I am almost done with because I'm writing this update early.  Busy traveling next week.

I read some really good ones this month.  The front runners being Nightbane, The Grandest Game, and The Betrayed.  I'm a logic puzzle fan so Jennifer Lynn Barnes is speaking my language right now.  The other two are sneaking up on me because I'm finding out I'm a fan of complicated relationships that shouldn't work or are in denial.  I'm embarrassed to admit that I might be becoming a hopeless romantic.

Is it ok that I'm putting these covers on colors based on vibes?  Looking at Nightbane and The Grandest Game I feel like I could've put them on either color, blue or black.  But The Grandest Game just says blue and Nightbane says black.  I can't decide if I'm putting them on based on what's in the background or foreground.

Anywho, what are you reading?  Have you read any of these?  Have any suggestions?

Blogging From A to Z Challenge

So years ago when I first started blogging I found out about this website that ran a challenge, in April post on your blog with a theme based on each letter of the alphabet.  Well, on the busiest month of the year for me I have decided to take the challenge again.  My theme?

"Hey Siri?" - Asking my phone for random words and seeing what I can write with them.

I realize there may be some confusion between 'Blogging A to Z' and my Reading A to Z challenges.  Hopefully it's not too confusing.

Anyone else up for a challenge?  Let me know if you'd like to join me or will be following along.

2025 Reading Challenge Update - February

A monthly update halfway into the next month.  I'm a teacher.  Don't come for me on late updates. I'm just trying to survive.

But it was another lovely month of reading.  A lot from Kiera Cass just as I had a double feature of Rainbow Rowell last month.  I tend to read like I eat.  If I have a taste for it I'm eating it for weeks straight and then one day just be done.  Kiara Cass is another reread for me.  Fun Fact: When I started reading the first of the series, The Selection, for the very first time I thought it was ridiculous.  It felt like a mash up of Hunger Games and the reality show 'The Bachelor' and I was laughing at it and cringing.  Then I found myself several books in later and invested.  I went to buy I believe The One at a book signing.  So glad I got into her series and her other stories.

I can officially scroll unworried on social media because yes, I have finished Onyx Storm. Please send me all of the theories that you have but respect spoiler bounderies for others.  I will not hold it against someone if they haven't read it yet.  I only got it as soon as I did because I have the greatest friends that know my little reader heart and heard my despair as I lemented how long I'd have to wait for it at the library and one of them bought it for me.  I almost cried.

As the other books this month are all rereads I think that I'd have to choose Onyx Storm as my favorite this month just purely because it brought new feelings rather than rekindled the old ones that I have for my rereads.  You know what I mean?  Just sounds fair.

Updated pictures below.  Little pictures are books I read last month and the big ones are this month.  For author and title, the red names are last month and the blue the new adds.  I honestly think I have my work cut out for my on the A-Z's.  Any recommendations?

Until next time!

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.