November - First Class

[Catsalive]

Updated msg 18: 5/5

[Frankie]

Update Message #6
3/5 Completed

[Amy]

Updated message 23--3/5

[Kendra]

update to msg #14

📚 Progress: 3 /8

[Carmen]

Way to go, girls! 👏👏

[Carmen]

Congratulations, Catsalive! 👏👏👏👏🎈🎊
Here's your Butterfly badge 🦋

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
― Beatrix Potter

[Kendra]

Update to msg #14:
📚 Progress: 4 /8


I read The Family Plot for the mystery/ Agatha Christie prompt, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

[Chalmation]

Updated message #17

4/4

Challenge complete

[Lina]

Update for message #5: 👩🏻‍🏫 Progress: 3/4 👩🏻‍🏫
Thanks! :)
I am having a lot of fun - would actually love for this to be longer to be able to complete each prompt!

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC, finished! 20/20, and I feel like I’ve been reading and/or listening non-stop as we move into cooler weather. Thanks for a great challenge.

1 woman author 18th century- Frances Burney- Evelina, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
2. Jane Austen or love story- Emma , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
3. Love story- The Switch, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
4. Sci Fi-Falling Free, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
5. First half of 20th century- Ngaio March, 1939, Overture to Death, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
6. Latin American -Little Eyes, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
7. Agatha Christie or mystery- The Man in the Brown Suit- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
8. Mystery- Paws and Effect, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
9. Mystery-The Cats Came Back, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
10. Mystery- A Night’s Tail, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
11. Mystery- A Case of Cat and Mouse-https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
12. Mystery- Hooked on a Feline, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
13. 2nd half of 20th - 1966, Over Sea, Under Stone, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
14. 2nd half-1974, The Dark is Rising, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
15. 2nd half of 20th-1994, One for the Money, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6853
16. LGBTQ -Timekeeper, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
17. POC-Instructions for Dancing, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
18. POC-Mia Manansala, Homicide and Halo-halo, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
19. POC- Mia Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
20. Rowling or male pen name- The Ickabog, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Beth]

Updating #8

5/4 complete

Thanks for an interesting challenge. I’m sorry this is such a busy month and I couldn’t get to all of them.

[Jen]

Update to message #16:

I've read the following to date in November:

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Jane Austen: Lessons in Chemistry

Edith Wharton: Strangers on a Train

I said I didn't know how many books I would read and that was marked down as 2. So I've read 3 of 2 books.

[Sherri]

Update message 15
Completed 7/10

[Sherri]

Updated message 15
Completed 7/10

[Frankie]

Update Message #6
5/5 Completed. Finished

[Laurie]

Update #29

4/5 Completed

✅ Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.


✅ Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.


✅ Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.


✅ Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.


Alice Walker: was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, for her epistolary novel, The Color Purple.

[Sarah]

Message 33 Updated

10/10-CHALLENGE COMPLETED

[Carmen]

Very well done, girls! 👏👏👏
Congratulations to our new butterflies! 👏👏👏👏🎈🎊🎈🎊

Beth 🦋
Chalmation 🦋
Frankie 🦋
Jen 🦋
Sarah 🦋
Sheila 🦋

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

[Kendra]

Update to msg no. 14:

Finished! This was a fun challenge that helped me expand my range -- thank you!

📚 Progress: 8 /8

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #7 : 11/11
Complete!

Thank you, Carmen! 🥰🤗

🎗️ 1. Mary Wollstonecraft: her pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is considered to be one of the most significant work of the early feminist movement.
• Read a book about feminism or women rights or a book written by a woman in the XVIII century or before.
The Vegetarian

🎗️ 2. Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.
• Read a book by Jane Austen or a love story written by a woman.
The Lover (The book I checked out from the library was only a discussion, not the story.)
Like Water for Chocolate

🎗️ 3. Mary Shelley: a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, there were few things Shelley couldn’t accomplish. Her seminal work, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, is widely considered to be the first sci-fi novel ever.
• Read a book by Mary Shelley or read a biography, sci-fi, or travel book written by a woman
The Memory Police

🎗️🎗️ 4. Edith Wharton: changed literature and history when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
• Read a book by Edith Wharton or a book written by another female writer in the first half of the XX century.
Chéri
The Last of Cheri

🎗️ 5. Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.
• Read a book by a female Latin American author or a book involving female activism
Eva Luna

🎗️ 6. Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.
• Read a book by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott or any mystery book written by a woman
The Perfect Nanny

🎗️ 7. Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.
• Read a book by Octavia E. Butler or a book written by another female writer in the second half of the XX century
Kitchen

🎗️ 8. Jeanette Winterson: made history with her 1985 coming of age novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is often considered the first mainstream novel about gay women.
• Read a book by Jeanette Winterson or by a LGBTQ+ author
Inseparable

🎗️ 9. Alice Walker: was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, for her epistolary novel, The Color Purple.
• Read a book by Alice Walker or a book written by another WOC
Ladivine

🎗️ 10. J.K. Rowling: is the first and only billionaire author, she is often credited with getting kids interested in reading again and revitalizing children’s literature. She also writes books for adults as Robert Galbraith.
• Read a book by J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith or a book written by a woman under a male pen name.
The Devil's Pool Author George Sand (pen name for Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin)

[Allie]

Update to Message #19
Progress 5/5

✔️1. Mary Wollstonecraft: her pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is considered to be one of the most significant work of the early feminist movement.
• Read a book about feminism or women rights or a book written by a woman in the XVIII century or before. Founding Mothers

✔️2. Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.
• Read a book by Jane Austen or a book about a love story written by a woman. A Court of Wings and Ruin


✔️5. Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.
• Read a book by a female Latin American author or a book involving female activism The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

✔️6. Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.
• Read a book by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott or any mystery book written by a woman A Caribbean Mystery

✔️7. Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.
• Read a book by Octavia E. Butler or a book written by another female writer in the second half of the XX century Milk and Honey

[Lina]

Update for message #5: 4/4 (unless multiple books can count for one prompt, then 6/4.
Thanks Carmen! :)

[Odette]

Update to message #25

Only able to read 3 books this month.
3/4 books completed.

[Carmen]

Way to go, girls!! Only two days left 💪💪🦋

We have a bunch of new Butterflies, congratulations!!! 👏👏👏👏🎈🎊🎈🎊

Kendra 🦋
TerryJane 🦋
Allie 🦋
Lina 🦋

Crysalis are also beautiful, Odette!! 👏👏

[Kendra]

update to msg no. 14:
Finished, plus one extra! The only one I didn't get to was the SF but I'm excited to read those soon.
📚 9 /8

[Carmen]

Kendra wrote: "update to msg no. 14:
Finished, plus one extra! The only one I didn't get to was the SF but I'm excited to read those soon.
📚 9 /8
[bookcover:Blood Feast:..."

Very well done, Kendra! 💪🦋

[Ariail]

Update to message #24, I finished on Wednesday but was traveling for work and forgot to log it. I loved this challenge and thought it pulled me out of my comfort zone!


1. Mary Wollstonecraft: her pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Women, is considered to be one of the most significant work of the early feminist movement.
• Read a book about feminism or women rights or a book written by a woman in the XVIII century or before.
Bright Young Women

2. Jane Austen: changed the literature with her now classic love stories which often examined women’s roles in society.
• Read a book by Jane Austen or a book about a love story written by a woman.
Business or Pleasure

3. Mary Shelley: a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, there were few things Shelley couldn’t accomplish. Her seminal work, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, is widely considered to be the first sci-fi novel ever.
• Read a book by Mary Shelley or read a biography, sci-fi, or travel book written by a woman
Iron Flame

4. Edith Wharton: changed literature and history when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
• Read a book by Edith Wharton or a book written by another female writer in the first half of the XX century.
Ethan Frome

5. Gabriela Mistral: was the very first female Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Not only did her writing influence Latin American poetry, but her work as a humanitarian transformed the education system in Chile and in Mexico.
• Read a book by a female Latin American author or a book involving female activism
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

6. Agatha Christie: is the best-selling novelist in history. Besides the mysteries she also wrote several dramatic novels as Mary Westmacott.
• Read a book by Agatha Christie/Mary Westmacott or any mystery book written by a woman
She Started It

7. Octavia E. Butler: a talented artist ahead of her time, broke down barriers of race, sex, class and genre with her writing.
• Read a book by Octavia E. Butler or a book written by another female writer in the second half of the XX century
The Hidden Staircase

8. Jeanette Winterson: made history with her 1985 coming of age novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is often considered the first mainstream novel about gay women.
• Read a book by Jeanette Winterson or by a LGBTQ+ author
Credence

9. Alice Walker: was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, for her epistolary novel, The Color Purple.
• Read a book by Alice Walker or a book written by another WOC
Spice Road

10. J.K. Rowling: is the first and only billionaire author, she is often credited with getting kids interested in reading again and revitalizing children’s literature. She also writes books for adults as Robert Galbraith.
• Read a book by J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith or a book written by a woman under a male pen name.
The Marquise: A Story Of Secret Passion