April - Tunes and Tomes

[Thieryn]

DONE with my 3/3 :D

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #12: 12/12
Complete!

Thanks for the fun challenge, SarahKat!

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message 7: 2/5

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #4 - 7/10 read!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

I meant to post my list of showtunes and books when I completed the challenge yesterday, but forgot. Oops! I'm sharing the list now because I've enjoyed seeing particants' songs and books and connections, and thought some of my fellow readers might feel the same. Thanks again, SarahKat!

🎶 TUNES & TOMES - Monthly Challenge
Duration: April 1 - April 30, 2022
Progress: 12/12 -- COMPLETE

Showtunes Playlist
🎶 Westside Story (Somewhere) - Once Upon a Quinceañera
Connection: Characters Maria and Carmen are Latina.
🎶 Beauty & the Beast (Belle) - The Bookwanderers
Connection: Characters Belle and Tilly are booklovers.
🎶 Little Mermaid (Part of Your World) - When We Believed in Mermaids
Connection: "Mermaid" in show and book titles.
🎶 Dirty Dancing (I've Had the Time of My Life) - Instructions for Dancing
Connection: Show and book involve dance lessons.
🎶 Ghost (Unchained Melody) - Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories
Connection: "Ghost" in show and book titles.
🎶 Wicked (I'm Not That Girl) - Why Not Me?
Connection: Book title sounds like a response to the song title.
🎶 My Fair Lady (The Rain in Spain) - Fifty Words for Rain
Connection: "Rain" in both song and book titles.
🎶 Once Upon a Mattress (An Opening for a Princess) - Princess Academy
Connection: In the show, song and book, there's a search for a bride for the prince.
🎶 Jesus Christ Superstar (Superstar) - Higher Is Waiting
Connection: The show, song and book are about relationship with Jesus Christ.
🎶 Spamalot (Knights of the Round Table) - The Lost Book of the Grail
Connection: Show and book each have an Arthur who's obsessed with the Grail.
🎶 Bombay Dreams (Shakalaka Baby) - A Holly Jolly Diwali
Connection: Show, song and book are set around Indian culture.
🎶 Godspell (Day By Day) - Future Home of the Living God
Connection: "God" in the show and book titles, and the song's refrain is based on a 13th century prayer.

[oshizu]

Updated msg #25:

✔️3. Kick It by NCT 127: Jade Legacy (shared wuxia theme)
✔️4. *Let It Go by Keyshia Cole. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (same family name)
✔️5. Superhuman by NCT 127 (released 2019). Gender Queer, pub. 2019

Progress: 5/5
Challenge completed, but I expect to read 2-3 more books for this challenge. So fun!

[L A i N E Y (will be back)]

Update #45
Progress --> 2/4

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 5. Progress: 2/3

[Pandaaaaaa]

Hi,
I can't see what msg no. I am so I'm just going to say:

Update to Asma (3rd name in the list)

1/1 goal completed!

Song:
Nathan Evans - There once was a ship that put to sea (Wellerman)

Book:
Children of the Whales (Vol. 8) by Abi Umeda (5*)

The song is a sailer's song on being out at sea and this entire manga series takes place on a Mudwhale which is a ship that travels on a sea of sand rather than a sea of water.

Good luck to all those who are still participating :)

[Rachael]

Updated message 15: 3/5

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats everyone! I love seeing everyone's lists!!

[Carmen]

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 5/5🎼

❎🎶2. "The girl next door" by Blink-182. I'll read a book with the same title:


Thanks, SarahKat! So much fun! 👩‍🎤

[L Y N N]

Update to posting #51:
5/5 by April 14! DONE!

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats Carmen and Lynn!

[oshizu]

Updated msg 25: 7/5

✔️6. Favorite (Vampire) by NCT 127. Proven Guilty (MC's sidekick is a vampire)
✔️7. Midnight Train to Georgia by Glady Knight and the Pips. Midnight at Malabar House (word match)

[Chrissie]

Update on message #16: finished all of my 3 reads \o/

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #20

Progress: 5/5

Thanks for the reading adventure!!!

[Meg]

Progress 4/5 - updated message 10

. Single Ladies by Beyonce - 🎵Herland 🎵
feminist classic

. How Far I'll go by Alessia Cara - 🎵Faraway 🎵
"far" in the title

. Happy by Pharrell Williams - 🎵 Sorrow and Bliss 🎵
happy and bliss are synonyms

[Jim]

Wow I missed this.:(

[Kristina]

Updated message 46: 8/8, all complete! ✌️

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats on all the completions! Still a few more days to get another couple of books done!

I still have 2 hours left in my last audio book for this challenge...

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #4 - 10/10 read!

[oshizu]

Updated msg #25

8. Perfect Sky by Bonnie Pink. The Fated Sky (word match)

Progress: 8/5
Thanks so much for a delightful challenge, SarahKat!

[Lucy'sLilLibrary]

UPDATE - message #9

3/6

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 5. Progress: 3/3

[L A i N E Y (will be back)]

Update & finished! msg #45
Read: 4/4

Older - Sasha Slone
✘ A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger
Connection: "My parents are no heroes."

Yume Fuusen (yurikago version) - Aqua Timez
✘ Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Connection: Solitude



Thank you SarahKat for hosting this one. I'm not one to have playlists when reading books but this challenge shows me how it certainly could be fun from time to time!

And it's sweet to see all varieties of songs we all picked :)

[Rachael]

Updated message 15. Thought I wouldn't finish the challenge but just in time I have reached my goal 5/5

[Lindsey]

I never posted my first post....it's been a hard month....I wanted more but next month will be better


Goal: 4/5

✘ 1. "Blue" from Heathers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzqUT...) ---- blue in the title of the song so I will read Sapphire Blue

2. "Green Green Dress" from tick, tick.....BOOM! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8E-...) --- the color green is in the title so I will read Emerald Green which has the color in the title and the cover is all green

✘ 3. "90s kids" by Jax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKcW...) --- the song takes about kids from the 1990s so I will read The Great Book of 1990s Trivia: Crazy Random Facts & 90s Trivia

✘ 4. "Birthday Cake" by Dylan Conrique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDR_Z...) --- the artist wrote the song about her best friend's mom who passed away from cervical cancer so I will read When We Were Strangers because the characters father passes away.

✘ 5. "Stonewall" by Life on Eris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7n0_...) --- the artists are talking about breaking down the stonewall in their relationship so I will read The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets which is about the Stonewall riots for

[Ashley]

update message #17
2/5

[Meg]

Finished! 5/5

1. Let It Go by Idina Menzel - 🎵 The Last Woman in the World 🎵
about a lone woman and changing climates

2. Stay Awake by Julie Andrews - 🎵Night Games🎵
things my daughter would rather do than go to bed

3. Single Ladies by Beyonce - 🎵Herland 🎵
feminist classic

4. How Far I'll go by Alessia Cara - 🎵Faraway 🎵
"far" in the title

5. Happy by Pharrell Williams - 🎵 Sorrow and Bliss 🎵
happy and bliss are synonyms

[Sarah]

Message 31 Updated

10/10-COMPLETED

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message 7: 5/5
Completed!

Thanks for this great challenge.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats everyone on a great month of books and music!

I had great fun looking at all your playlists

[AurorainBookland]

Please update message 23

1/2 finished cake pop crush april 25th