2025 Reading Challenge discussion
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Q3 - Once Upon a Time
ParticipantsAlaina (msg. 45): 44/50
Ashleigh (msg. 12): 4/6
Crystal (msg. 10): 0/5
D.L (msg. 6): 3/6
Jennifer (msg. 26): 0/25
Nathalia (msg 75): 0/5
Rebecca (msg. 9): 16/20
Regina (msg. 16): 10/12
Taisha (msg. 59): 0/10
Completed Challenges
SarahKat (msg. 15): 6/6
Bailey (msg. 7): 6/5
Aubrey (msg. 51): 6/5
Library (message 13): 25/25
TerryJane (msg. 20): 30/30
Brittany (msg. 46): 9/6
Karin (msg. 18): 12/12
Carmen (msg. 4): 20/20
Sarah (msg. 17): 35/35
Lisanne (msg. 5): 9/9
Sunny (msg. 3): 11/11
Lucy (msg. 14): 25/25
Lynn (msg. 8): 5/5
I'm in and had fun coming up with my books!Progress: 11/11
Completed!
🐺Little Red Riding Hood🐺
🐺Little - Big Little Lies
🐺Red - Everybody Dies (Cover Color)
🐺Riding - By the Shores of Silver Lake (Cover Illustration)
🐺Hood - Sherwood: Original Stories from the World of Robin Hood
🐺Wolf - The Big Bad Wolf
🐺Grandmother - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
🐺Woods - Little House in the Big Woods
🐺Huntsman - Snow White & the Huntsman
🐺Cake - Amelia Bedelia Takes the Cake
🐺Wine - Dandelion Wine
🐺Bucket - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie's last name is Bucket)
Hola Ashleigh, sign me up for 20 books, please 😉For my A-Z Challenge: Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales, I'm using "White Snow" as thread (characters, objects, personality traits, appearance,etc.) so following with the same theme I've selected 3 quotes from this tale and chose several words to search for books with them in their titles. Besides I'm going to try to read all the books I can on my list for the - A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales
PROGRESS: 20/20
July:
"How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night."
❎1. DAUGHTER: My fathers’ daughter
✔❎2. SNOW: Snow, glass, apples
✔❎3. BLOOD: Petals of blood
✔❎4. NIGHT: Keeper of the night
✔August
"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
❎5. MAGIC MIRROR: Magic mirror
✔❎6. WALL: The yellow wall-paper
✔❎7. THE FAIREST ONE OF ALL: Fairest of them all
✔September
"Spare me this mockery of justice! I will run away into the forest and never come home again!"
❎8. JUSTICE: Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption
✔❎9. FOREST: Circles in a forest
✔❎10. HOME: A map of home
✔From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales:
❎11. DWARF: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
(Red Dwarf series)✔❎12. PRINCE: Prince Caspian
✔❎13. FOREST: Dealing with Dragons
(Enchanted Forest Chronicles series)✔❎14. HUNTSMAN: Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman
✔❎15. REIGN: Witch's Reign
✔❎16. OLD: There Was an Old Woman
✔❎17. JEALOUS: Wicked Jealous
✔❎18 - NARCISSIST: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
✔❎19 - QUEEN: The Queen Of The Tambourine
✔❎20 - BEAUTY: Black Beauty
✔
Hi there! I'm in for 9 books!For this challenge I picked three fairytales with three elements each.
Progress: 9/9
Snow White 🍎
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Little Red Riding Hood 🐺
✓
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the Crow (Slavic fairy tale) 🌟
✓
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Progress: 3/6Beauty and the Beast
Belle: Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
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Hansel and Gretel
Sweets: Peppermint Twisted because it has sweets (candy) on the cover
Sleeping Beauty
Sleep: Sleeping Beauties
Snow White
Snow: A Snowglobe Christmas: Yuletide Homecoming / A Family's Christmas Wish
✓
Jack and the Beanstalk
✓
Golden Eggs: Eggs in a Casket
Please sign me up for 5 books!Progress: 6/5 COMPLETE but I'll keep going :)
Snow White
Beauty: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Love: Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (I'm counting this because of Nic's relationships with his family and also romantic partners)
Dwarves: Sword of Destiny (There were halflings, I’m counting it lol)
Red Riding Hood
Red: We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction (The cover is red)
Hansel and Gretel
Boy: The Nickel Boys
Siblings: Dune
ONCE UPON A TIMEDuration: 1 July - 30 September 2020
Many of us have grown up with fairy tales, folk tales and fables. For this quarterly challenge, we are inviting you to go on a scavenger hunt and choose words/themes from these stories to inspire the books you read. These keywords can appear in the title, on the cover, or as part of the plot. If you want something a bit more challenging, you could also see if you could find the word inside the book you are reading.
5/5 as of September 29!
DONE!
Jack and the Beanstalk
Growing UP into the sky...
Establishing a moon base.
✔️ The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
July 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Continuing to grow FURTHER into the sky...
Exploring Mars.
✔️ The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
August 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Establishing a base from which to hunt for the giant!
* The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
August 16 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Meeting the GIANT
And he is a terrorist!
✔️ The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal
September 29 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Traveling further to unknown planets! Beyond the Beanstalk!
✔️ All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
July 7 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I've been thinking about this one, and I think I want to make an initial goal of 20 books. Five from each of four fairy tale themes. If I get on a roll with this one though, I could potentially read more.Progress: 16/20
Jack and the Beanstalk:
Snow White, Rose Red:
The Little Mermaid:
1. Mermaid:
The Snow Queen
2. Bees:
3. Troll:
5. Rose:
I'm going to do this, but lemme have a couple of days to figure out what I'm doing. I'll go with at least 25. 25/25Beauty & the Beast
Prisoner The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Beast The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
France No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rose - An Accidental Family
Beauty Mermaid Moon
The Little Mermaid
Mermaid - A Little Princess
Prince - I Give Up: The Secret Joy of a Surrendered Life
Witch - The Thing From the Lake
Sisters - The Line Between
Mulan
Sword The Tutor's Daughter
Dragon Day Zero
Honor Chasing the White Lion
Aladdin
Monkey The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
Orphan - The BFG
Thief 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
Marriage Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
Rapunzel
Tower Mountain Hostage
Hair The Way of the Brave
Kidnapped The Alienist
Peter Pan
Pirates Cress
Crocodiles One Little Lie (alligators)
Fairy The Wheel Spins
Chronicles of Narnia
Lion The Mystery Of The Stolen Statue
Faun The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Winter The Professor
Q3 – Once Upon a Time - 25 Please! 25/25
Beauty & the Beast
Aladdin
Mulan
Tangled
The Pink – Brothers Grim
Little Red Cap – Brothers Grimm
Robin Hood
I'll sign up for 6. I have no idea what I'm doing yet.I've completed 6/6! I'll see if I can't fit more books into more tales but I'm not going to increase my official goal.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice - Force of Nature by Jane Harper (missing person is Alice)
Time - Recursion by Blake Crouch
Queen of Hearts - (Queenie) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
Jack and the Beanstalk
Giant: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Beanstalk (tree): Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Magic Beans: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (magic)
The plan, such as it is
Hi Ashleigh. Please sign me up for 12 books. Thanks!
Progress: 10/12
Red Riding Hood
✅Red cover: A God in Ruins
✅Red: All Systems Red
✅Woods/Forest: Death in Her Hands—Main character is an old woman who lives in a cabin in the forest.
✅Red cover: A Burning
Cinderella
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: Emma
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: Wakenhyrst
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: The Pull of the Stars
✅Midnight: Still Midnight
Folk tales and folklore
✅Djinns: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
✅Will o' the wisp: The Crossing Places
Progress: 10/12
Red Riding Hood
✅Red cover: A God in Ruins
✅Red: All Systems Red
✅Woods/Forest: Death in Her Hands—Main character is an old woman who lives in a cabin in the forest.
✅Red cover: A Burning
Cinderella
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: Emma
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: Wakenhyrst
✅Orphan/Dead Mother: The Pull of the Stars
✅Midnight: Still Midnight
Folk tales and folklore
✅Djinns: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
✅Will o' the wisp: The Crossing Places
Sign me up for 3535/35-COMPLETED
~Beauty and the Beast(5/5)~
✅Bella-Belle(9/8/20)
✅Beauty-Beauty From Pain(19/9/20)
✅Beast-In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin(19/9/20)
✅Rose-A Court of Thorns and Roses(27/8/20)
✅France-Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769(19/9/20)
~Cinderella(6/6)~
✅Cinderella-Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture(6/7/20)
✅Wicked Stepmother-Seriously, Cinderella Is SO Annoying!(5/7/20)
✅Ugly Stepsisters-The Ugly Stepsister(20/7/20)
✅Prince Charming-The Secret Life of Prince Charming(11/7/20)
✅Fairy Godmother-Fairy Godmothers, Inc.(12/7/20)
✅Glass Slipper-The Glass Slipper(20/9/20)
~Sleeping Beauty(6/6)~
✅Sleeping-The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty(29/8/20)
✅Beauty-Beauty from Surrender(20/9/20)
✅Briar Rose-Cursed: Briar Rose's Story(2/9/20)
✅Maleficent-Maleficent(18/7/20)
✅Spindle-Spindle and Dagger(20/9/20)
✅Kiss-Air Kisses(17/7/20)
~Snow White(6/6)~
✅Snow-Blood on Snow(17/7/20)
✅White-The White Queen(13/7/20)
✅Magic Mirror-Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror(10/7/20)
✅Poisoned Apple-Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty(6/7/20)
✅Evil Queen-The Princess and the Evil Queen: A Lesbian Romance Retelling of the Classic Fairytale Snow White(7/8/20)
✅Seven Dwarfs-Rapunzel and the Seven Dwarfs: A Maynard Moose Tale(6/7/20)
~Rapunzel(4/4)~
✅Rapunzel-Ravishing Rapunzel(29/8/20)
✅Sorceress-The Sorceress(28/7/20)
✅Tower-Boy In The Tower(14/7/20)
✅Let Down Your Hair-Let Your Hair Down(20/9/20)
~Little Red Riding Hood(8/8)~
✅Little-Little Fires Everywhere(18/7/20)
✅Red-Blood Red, Snow White(28/8/20)
✅Riding-South Riding(20/9/20)
✅Hood-The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood(17/9/20)
✅Wolf-Wolf Hall(17/9/20)
✅Grandmother-Chicken Soup for the Grandmother's Soul(11/7/20)
✅Woods-Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood(28/8/20)
✅Huntsman-Snow and the Seven Huntsmen(31/8/20)
Q3 challenge : 12 to read in total Update and progress : 12/12 , ALL COMPLETE
The Pink -COMPLETE
Angel – Angels & Demons ✔
Death - The Green Mile ✔
Dog - 11th Hour ✔
Little Red Riding Hood-COMPLETE
Hood-Robin Hood * changed to Wolf-Shiver ✔
Wine-Dandelion Wine ✔
Red-Everybody Dies ✔
Snow White -COMPLETE
Sleeping-Strange the dreamer ✔
Mirror-A winter's Promise ✔
Animal Companions-Where The Crawdads Sing ✔
Sleeping Beauty-COMPLETE
Maleficent-Maleficent ✔
Spindle-Spindle and Dagger ✔
Cursed: Briar Rose's Story ✔
UPDATEDIt is July 1 here for me. Good luck everyone :D
ONCE UPON A TIME - Q3 Quarterly ChallengeDuration: July 1 - September 30, 2020
Progress: 30/30 -- COMPLETE
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Alice, Key, Watch/Time, Tea Party, Queen of Hearts
🧚🏻♀️ What Alice Forgot
🧚🏻♀️ The Turn of the Key
🧚🏻♀️ In Another Time
🧚🏻♀️ Eat, Pray, Love
🧚🏻♀️ Queenie
HANSEL & GRETEL
Origin story, Children, Lost, Witch, Oven
🧚🏻♀️ Hansel and Gretel
🧚🏻♀️ Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
🧚🏻♀️ Disappearing Earth (lost children in plot)
🧚🏻♀️ Akata Witch
🧚🏻♀️ A Burning
CINDERELLA
Origin story, Stepmother, Stepsisters, Invitation, Ball/Dance
🧚🏻♀️ Cinderella
🧚🏻♀️ All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
🧚🏻♀️ Searching for Sylvie Lee (sisters)
🧚🏻♀️ The Guest List
🧚🏻♀️ The Court Dancer
🧚🏻♀️ Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and Other Stories (A book of many fairy tales collected by Charles Perrault, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm.)
SNOW WHITE
Origin story, Snow White, Queen, Mirror, Dwarf House, Apple
🧚🏻♀️ Snow White
🧚🏻♀️ Into White
🧚🏻♀️ MirrorMask
🧚🏻♀️ The House at the Edge of Night
🧚🏻♀️ Left Neglected (apple on cover)
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Origin story, Girl, Red Hood, Forest, What big eyes you have!
🧚🏻♀️ Little Red Riding Hood
🧚🏻♀️ A Girl Like That
🧚🏻♀️ Red, White & Royal Blue
🧚🏻♀️ The Last Woman in the Forest
🧚🏻♀️ Little Eyes
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Origin story, Princess, King, Sleep/Dream
🧚🏻♀️ Sleeping Beauty
🧚🏻♀️ The Ice Princess
🧚🏻♀️ A Crown of Wishes
🧚🏻♀️ The Dream: Hercule Poirot
This sounds really fun. Sign me up for 25 books :).
Update to msg #5: 2/94.5 stars. My favourite character was the main character's grandmother, Nanny Noo.
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 2/20
"How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night."
DAUGHTER: My Fathers' Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging
✔SNOW: Snow, Glass, Apples
✔
Update to message #20. 7/30. BTW, I increased my goal from 16 to 30, as I've found at least five books for each of six fairy tales.
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 3/20
From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales Challenge:
DWARF: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
(Red Dwarf series)
Update to msg #5: 3/9 "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." - 4.5 stars.
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 4/20
"How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night."
BLOOD: Petals of Blood
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 5/20
From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales Challenge:
PRINCE: Prince Caspian
Update to message #182/12 , also made some changes to Little Red Riding Hood and removed Rapunzel , but added Sleeping Beauty, which still leaves me with 12 in total.
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 6/20
"How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as night."
NIGHT: Keeper of the Night
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 7/20
From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales Challenge:
FOREST: Dealing with Dragons
(Enchanted Forest Chronicles series)
Updating to message 12 (and have decided I am 100% cheating for this challenge and using a fairytale from a fictional story - I really wanted to include deathly hallows in it lol)1/6
Tale of the Three Brothers (From Tales of Beedle the Bard, JK Rowling)
Deathly Hallows - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Brothers -
Death -
Power -
Resurrection -
Invisibility -
Update to msg #71/5 books read
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 8/20
From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales Challenge:
HUNTSMAN: Lolly Willowes: or, The Loving Huntsman
ONCE UPON A TIMEDuration: 1 July - 30 September 2020
Completed: 45/50
CINDERELLA:
Midnight: The Midnight Bargain
Shoe: Cinder (retelling)
Prince: The Last Prince
Evil Stepmother: See No Evil
Marriage: A Marriage Made In Italy
BEAUTY & THE BEAST:
Curse: A Curse of Ash and Embers
King: The Hidden King
Love: Text 2 Lovers
Rose: Den of Vipers
RED RIDING HOOD:
Wolf: Scarlet (retelling)
Red: Puddin'
Forest: Forest of Souls
Hunting: My Calamity Jane
Hunter: The Hunter
RAPUNZEL:
Hair: Cress (retelling)
Stars: The Map of Stars
Crown: You Should See Me in a Crown
SNOW WHITE:
Apple: Winter (retelling)
Snow: Winter Is Not Forever
Queen: The Ice Queen
White: All Your Twisted Secrets
Poison: Girl, Serpent, Thorn
SLEEPING BEAUTY:
Dragon: The Last Wish
Fire: Girls of Paper and Fire
Wings: Wicked Wings
Rose: Mageborn
Curse: How to Break an Evil Curse
THE LITTLE MERMAID:
Mermaid: Their Siren
Water: Just For The Summer
Song: A Song Below Water
Sisters: Before We Were Yours
Boat: Loveboat, Taipei
MULAN:
Sword: Gideon the Ninth
War: The Last Memory of a Phoenix
Hidden Identity: Fable
ALICE IN WONDERLAND:
Clock: The Lost Girls of Paris
Rabbit Hole: The Green Door
Queen of Hearts: The Red Door (retelling)
RUMPELSTILTSKIN:
Gold: A Curse of Gold
ROBIN HOOD:
Sword: Firefrost
King: Homecoming King
THE TWO BROTHERS:
Twins: Twin Daggers
Feather: Of Flesh and Feathers
Magic - Christmas Before the Magic
The Fire-Fairy/The Dancing Fire Maid:
Fire: The Last Song of a Phoenix
I'm in for 6 for sure but probably more9/6
Red Riding Hood
Woods -
coverWolf -
Cover and MCRed -
Dress on cover and Scarlet King in storyPossible prompt ideas
Little Mermaid
Mermaid
Bargains -
Transformation/change/shift
Witch
Aladdin
thief
desert
princess
tiger
flight
genie
Update to message #4PROGRESS: 9/20
From A to Z: myths-legends-fairy tales Challenge:
REIGN: Witch's Reign
Update to Message 9: 2/20Used Kingdom of the Blind for a hospitality prompt for Snow White, Rose Red because the Gamache's have several people staying in their house during a snowstorm. Also Three Pines is quite a hospitable place (except for the murders).
UPDATEDIt's up to you, but you can set yourself a challenge. Just remember to post an updated post whenever you read another book so I can update, because I don't scroll back so won't notice if you don't post a new one to let me know :)
Also, well done everyone! You guys are smashing it!
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Northanger Abbey (other topics)Seriously, Cinderella Is SO Annoying!: The Story of Cinderella as Told by the Wicked Stepmother (other topics)
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror (other topics)
South Riding (other topics)
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
J.K. Rowling (other topics)Terry Pratchett (other topics)
Sylvain Neuvel (other topics)
Blake Crouch (other topics)
Katherine Applegate (other topics)
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Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2020
Many of us have grown up with fairy tales, folk tales and fables. For this quarterly challenge, we are inviting you to go on a scavenger hunt and choose words/themes from these stories to inspire the books you read. These keywords can appear in the title, on the cover, or as part of the plot. If you want something a bit more challenging, you could also see if you could find the word inside the book you are reading.
Some examples:
Alice in Wonderland
Alice - Still Alice
Time - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from A Tale of Two Cities
Tea - Fishing for Tigers because it has a teapot on the cover
Queen of Hearts - Heartless (a retelling)
Cinderella
Stepsisters - Stepsister
Ball - Summer Ball
Fairy Godmother - The Godmother
Shoe - Ballet Shoes
Pumpkin - Pumpkinheads
Momotaro (Peach Boy, Japanese folk tale)
Peach - James and the Giant Peach
Talking animal companions (Monkey, Dog, Pheasant) - Dr. Doolittle (Original Illustrations & Text) or A Brace of Pheasants
From Aladdin to Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks to Rumpelstiltskin, The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Tortoise and Hare, it's completely up to you which fairytales, folk tales or fables you choose for this challenge. If you want to include retellings or the actual stories, that's fine too. Post below if you would like to take part.
This challenge is based on an idea by Ashleigh who will be leading it. Thank you!