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It's time for our Spring Seasonal Challenge!Happy spring, everyone! Whether it's still cold and snowy for you, or the flowers are starting to sprout, or you're actually going into autumn (for our southern hemisphere friends), this challenge will bring a bit of joy and life into your reading.
When
March 1, 2025 through May 31, 2025
What
You are given a set of words and phrases, and you must match books to these phrases in one of three ways.
The Phrases
1. springtime
2. bloom
3. sun shining
4. baby animals
5. eggs
6. tulips
7. jellybeans
8. rainstorm
9. sprout
10. warming
11. spring break
12. raincoat
13. green
14. earth day
15. pastels
How to Fill the Prompts
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
For those of you who have done a read-a-thon for the this group in the past, this should look familiar. If you're new to this, allow us to explain!What do I have to do to participate?
If you are interested in participating and can commit to actively engaging in the read-a-thon, then please sign up in the comments below. We have chosen the categories so this group activity is fair and fun for readers of all speeds.
Please only sign up if you can commit to checking in with your team (on Goodreads) at least 5 times during the March 1-9 schedule.
How many teams will there be?
It will greatly depend on how many people sign up and how much they think they will be able to read. We are targeting 8-10 people per group.
QUESTIONNAIRE (This helps us sort teams!)
1. What is your availability this week, and how many books do you anticipate reading during the Read-a-Thon?
2. Which time zone do you live in?
3. Can you commit to checking in with your team frequently during the read-a-thon?
4. Are you interested in being a team leader for your group? (i.e. keeping track of team totals, needed tasks, updating spreadsheet, etc. -- We aim to have two captains per team so you can share the responsibility.)
Robin, probably wouldn't recommend for you.NancyJ, just using the shortlist for this year here:
Science, technology, environment, ocean - Orbital, Beautyworld
Evolution, extinction, animals, nature - Irena Rey
Politics - Great Expectations (though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it lol), and if you're looking at Politics as "political", Someone Like Us features immigrants
Religious Ritual - there's a wedding in The Book of George
Non-Prose elements - Rejection has text message chains and emails, what Kathy said about The History of Sound, Beautyland has some faxes (lol)
Depending on what you consider harder prompts:
Beautyland for Do Ri Me (far a long long way from home)
Headshot for underworld
History of Sound or Rejection for short stories
A lot of them are on the NPR list
The Book of Love and Beautyland both have alternate universes
Welcome Fee! Its a fun world to be in.I just finished Rejection and this feels like such a quintessential Tournament of Books book, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes pretty far in the brackets. It's a weird one, and bit too on the nose, but the way that the author played with the bounds of literature and point of view made it fun to read.
I am so excited! I think this will be the first year I'm a completionist - I have read (at least a little bit of) every book in the tournament. I'm listening to The Book of George and reading Rejection right now, so all I have left after that is Irena Rey.
We didn't want to archive this entire thread, as there were some 2025 list questions on it. The previous year questions are not really relevant anymore, so deleting the comments is fine. In the future, we will start a new thread at the beginning of each year to avoid confusion!
February 20: Hey everyone! While our Read-a-Thon doesn't officially start until March 1st, we have a fun game going on now that will build a list of books we will use in our Read-a-Thon!To join in the fun (whether you are participating in the Read-a-Thon or not!), check out this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hey everyone!While our Spring Read-a-thon doesn't start until March 1st, we have a fun game that will tie into this Read-a-Thon.
If you've seen our The Person Below Me thread, you'll understand what we are doing here. The goal is to compile a list of recommendations that we will then use as a list option for our Read-a-Thon.
The theme is "The Person Below Me Recommends".
Person 1: The person below me recommends a book that will make me cry.
Person 2: Beartown by Fredrik Backman. The person below me recommends a book with an X in the title.
Person 3: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. The person below me recommends a book from the Tournament of Books shortlist this year.
Person 4: Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe.
And so on.
So I'll get us started here.
The person below me recommends a book featuring a character with a pet.
Jennifer, you have a few days to wait! We are working on the Read-a-Thon right now (a much bigger project), and then will focus on the Spring Reading Challenge. We don't usually post those until the day they go live, though we occasionally post a few days before, depending on how life is going at the moment. There will be an announcement in the mod thread and the monthly newsletter when it's available!
If you go to your downloads and right click on the item, you should be able to say Open With -> Excel!
I wish, Rose, but I don't think we can! Might go through and delete the posts that do not relate to the 2025 list though.
Oh man, I LOVED The Fox Wife and did not love Gods of Jade and Shadow haha!
What Jillian said! We generally have a 100 page (200 page for graphic novels/poetry) requirement for our read-a-thons and whatnot, but we let you handle the main ATY challenge as you choose! We've had people complete it with children's books!
I'm also very excited about The Dark Maestro! His books on audio are always so good.I listened to How to Say Babylon this month and it was a wonderfully written memoir - the author is a poet and it shows in her prose!
