Spring Reading Challenge: May Prompts Discussion

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Use this thread to talk about what you’re reading for March prompts or ask for recommendations.

For more information about the challenge see this thread: Spring Reading Challenge: Introduction & Tasks

MAY

May Day
May Day is a May 1 celebration with a long and varied history, dating back millennia. Throughout the years, there have been many different events and festivities worldwide, most with the express purpose of welcoming in a change of season (spring in the Northern Hemisphere). In the 19th century, May Day took on a new meaning, as an International Workers’ Day grew out of the 19th-century movement for labor rights and an eight-hour work day in the United States.

1. Read a book that has the letters MAY (in any order) in the title.
2. Read a book with a colorful cover.
3. Read a book where a character is a tradesman who works with their hands.

Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. More popularly celebrated in the United States than Mexico, the date has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture.

1. Read a book written by a Mexican or Mexican American author.
2. Read a book set in Mexico.
3. Read a book that is part of a series that contains a multiple of five books in the series (5 books, 10 books, 20 books, etc. in the series, but you can read any book of the series).

May Birthdays: Frank L. Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of 20th-century cinema.

1. Read a children's/middle grade/YA book. (You can ignore the 100 page rule.)
2. Read a book with a female main character that leaves home.
3. Read a book that was made into a movie.

Mother's Day
The origin of Mother’s Day as we know it took place in the early 1900s. A woman named Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official holiday honoring mothers in 1905, the year her own mother died. The first larger-scale celebration of the holiday was in 1908, when Jarvis held a public memorial for her mother in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia. Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation making Mother’s Day an official holiday, to take place the second Sunday of May.

1. Read a book that starts with a letter in MOTHERS DAY.
2. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their mother.
3. Read a book featured on one of these lists:
🌸 20 Books for Moms
🌸 15 Important Books about Motherhood
🌸 25 Modern Mom Must-Reads

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MAY
4/4 as of April 21 DONE! :)

✅May Day
1. Read a book that has the letters MAY (in any order) in the title.
2. Read a book with a colorful cover.

March 9--5/5 stars
3. Read a book where a character is a tradesman who works with their hands.

Cinco de Mayo
1. Read a book written by a Mexican or Mexican American author.
2. Read a book set in Mexico.
✅3. Read a book that is part of a series that contains a multiple of five books in the series (5 books, 10 books, 20 books, etc. in the series, but you can read any book of the series).
A Fistful of Collars-book 5 in the series of 10 books
April 21--5/5 stars

✅May Birthdays: Frank L. Baum
1. Read a children's/middle grade/YA book. (You can ignore the 100 page rule.)
2. Read a book with a female main character who leaves home.
Circe
Circe is exiled to an island.
April 5--5/5 stars
3. Read a book that was made into a movie.

✅Mother's Day
1. Read a book that starts with a letter in MOTHERS DAY.
The Midwife's Apprentice
March 25--5/5 stars
2. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their mother.
3. Read a book featured on one of these lists:
🌸 20 Books for Moms
🌸 15 Important Books about Motherhood
🌸 25 Modern Mom Must-Reads

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

For the Mexican prompt, I chose The Murmur of Bees, which I have on audio. I'm really struggling to get through it, it's SOOO SLOOOW and has 100 chapters (I think over 14 hours). I like the narrators but it's very repetitive and the magical realism is inconsistent.

[Dana]

4/4 5.12.2020

May Day
1. Read a book that has the letters MAY (in any order) in the title.
✅2. Read a book with a colorful cover: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
3. Read a book where a character is a tradesman who works with their hands.

Cinco de Mayo
1. Read a book written by a Mexican or Mexican American author.
2. Read a book set in Mexico.
✅3. Read a book that is part of a series that contains a multiple of five books in the series (5 books, 10 books, 20 books, etc. in the series, but you can read any book of the series): A Conspiracy of Bones

May Birthdays: Frank L. Baum
1. Read a children's/middle grade/YA book. (You can ignore the 100 page rule.)
✅2. Read a book with a female main character that leaves home: Oona Out of Order
3. Read a book that was made into a movie.

Mother's Day
1. Read a book that starts with a letter in MOTHERS DAY.
✅2. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their mother: The Grace Kelly Dress
3. Read a book featured on one of these lists:

[Rachel]

I'm a bit frustrated that the one and only set of prompts I couldn't complete for the entire challenge was the Cinco de Mayo group. None of my books fit, and it was the only group I couldn't do!

[Lieke]

I had the same problem Rachel, but luckily yesterday I found the audio for a children's book series that has 5 books so I will finish my challenge tomorrow.