Out On a Limb - 2024

[✨ Brianna Raquel ✨]

updated msg 16, 3/16

[Carmen]

Update to message #18

PROGRESS: 7/70 🌳

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

🌲❄🌲❄ JANUARY WRAP-UP ❄🌲❄🌲

We have 49 participants, 19 of whom have posted at least 1 update!
Those 19 have read 112 books out of a total goal of 1,425

Did you have a favorite book this month?
Fourth Wing was my favorite. "Romantasy" is my guilty pleasure. Also I refuse to say "romantasy" without ironic quotes.

Do you have a favorite tree or tree-related memory?
There was a tree at the park a block away from my house growing up. My dad and I would walk to the park and he would juggle under this tree while I sat and read or explored. We called it the Juggling Tree. It has since been cut down. If I had a little more artistic talent, I'd try to paint the scene just to have it.

[Crystal]

Update to message 26
Branch 2
Leaf 2

[Laura]

Update to message 21: Progress 5/30

[Suzanne]

2024 Reading Challenge
Out On a Limb - 2024
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

Progress: 0 out of

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

What better way to mark the passing of seasons but with the changing of trees? Will you have a mighty Yggdrasil with all your branches connected to one giant trunk? Or an Amazon Rainforest with lots of different trees of every variety?

Instructions:

1. Choose a book that will be the trunk of your tree. This can be a book you read this year, or an old favorite.
2. Read books that somehow relate to your trunk for the branches of your tree. You should have at least 5 branches for each tree.
3. (Optional) Each branch may also have unlimited leaves, where books relate the branch book instead of the trunk book.

Connections include but are not limited to:
-same author
-same genre
-same publication or setting year
-same subject matter
-part of the same series or collection
-both made into movie/tv
-same format (play, epistolary, etc.)
-same color or type of cover
-same character names
-same setting
-recommended to you by the same person
-won the same award
-on the same listopia
-on the Goodreads section “readers also enjoyed”

Your tree should have at least 5 branches, but you can have as many as you want and you can have as many trees as you want. This challenge is very open. Have fun with it and get creative. For any of those artistically inclined, I would love to see visual renderings of your trees at the end of the year (this is of course not required).

TRUNK:

Branch 1: Same Author
1.

Branch 2: Same Genre
1.

Branch 3: Same Color of Cover
1.

Branch 4: Same Publication Year
1.

Branch 5: On the Goodreads Section “Readers Also Enjoyed”
1.

[Suzanne]

Reserved

[Lina]

Update for message #12 (sorry its a bit late)
🌳 Progress: 11/15 🌳

I think my favorite book in January was Trust.
That sounds like a lovely tree-related memory! I am sorry the tree got cut down! What kind of tree was it? :)
We have this one apple tree at my parents place we would always climb while growing up (and I still sometimes climb up when I go there) - it is also the one with the best apples (in my opinion) - so I would say that one is my favorite. We also had a small tree house there when we were younger.
But it is hard to pick, because there is also a very old weeping willow in my university town - which I loved - and which would always lend a listening ear when I needed one.

[Crystal]

Update to message 26
Branch 2
leaf 3

[Carmen]

SarahKat wrote: "🌲❄🌲❄
JANUARY WRAP-UP
❄🌲❄🌲

We have 49 participants, 19 of whom have posted at least 1 update!
Those 19 have read 112 books out of a total goal of 1,425

Did you have a favorite book this mont..."

😍

[Betty]

Msg 31 updated
Progress: 3/30

[Betty]

SarahKat wrote: "🌲❄🌲❄
JANUARY WRAP-UP
❄🌲❄🌲

We have 49 participants, 19 of whom have posted at least 1 update!
Those 19 have read 112 books out of a total goal of 1,425

Did you have a favorite book this mont..."

I’m enjoying the uniqueness of this challenge. I’m glad I read the two books I read in January, but neither was a favorite.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Lina wrote: "Update for message #12 (sorry its a bit late)
🌳 Progress: 11/15 🌳

I think my favorite book in January was Trust.
That sounds like a lovely tree-related memory! I am sorry the tre..."

I think it was some kind of pine maybe but I have no clue. I try to google it every once in a while and can never figure it out.

[Greg]

Update to message 24:

Branch 1: Holly by Stephen King
Genre Horror Mystery

2/50

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 41. Progress: 4/15

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 17/25

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:6/15

Trunk: The Cruel Prince

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)
Leaf 1:A Court of Thorns and Roses(published in 2015)

Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)
Leaf 2:Forget Me Not(published in 2023)

[Karin]

Update to my goal in Message 48

25 books :)

[Karin]

Update to number read in Message 48

19/25

[Laura]

Update to message 21: Progress 6/30

[Susan]

Update message 27
3/10

[=MYSTIQUE=]

SarahKat wrote: "🌲❄🌲❄
JANUARY WRAP-UP
❄🌲❄🌲

We have 49 participants, 19 of whom have posted at least 1 update!
Those 19 have read 112 books out of a total goal of 1,425

Did you have a favorite book this mont..."

That’s awesome… I absolutely LOVE this challenge.

Did you have a favorite book this month?
I have two…

More Than Life (friends to lovers)
I was surprised by how much I liked this book, I randomly picked it for one of my branches and at the end I was like 5⭐️’s.


The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love (HUMOR)
I was surprised by how much I laughed reading this book. It’s just non stop laugh’s.

Do you have a favorite tree or tree-related memory?
My family and I would go camping and there was this one tree that I would always climb and just spend all my time in. I always loved climbing trees.

[=MYSTIQUE=]

🥀

Updated message #17

🌿Branch 2 (E) Ends of the Earth 2/12/24 5⭐️
🌿Branch 6 (C) Cruel Beauty 2/9/24 5⭐️
🌿Branch 5 (N)/(&) Naughty & Nice 2/7/24 4⭐️
🌿Branch 4 (A) Aurora's Angel 2/6/24 5⭐️

🌳Progress: 11/95

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 18/25

[Vanessa]

OUT ON A LIMB
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

11/15 books

🌳 Trunk - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth 8/18/2023

🌿 Branch #1 - Same genre Horror
Gyo by Junji Ito 1/27/2024
🍁 Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley 2/3/24

🌿 Branch #2 - Goodreads “Readers Also Enjoyed”
🍁

🌿 Branch #3 - Same Listopia Bubblegum Horror Books
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins 3/31/24
🍁

🌿 Branch #4 - Pink Cover
Mister Magic by Kiersten White 2/8/2024

🍁 And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin 3/25/24 (pink cover)

🌿 Branch #5 - Published 2022
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau 2/3/24
🍁 Dear Laura by Gemma Amor 2/10/24 (horror novella)
🍁 You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann 2/10/24 (horror novella)
🍁 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones 2/11/24 (horror novella)
🍁 We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III 2/16/24 (horror novella)
🍁 The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke 3/18/2024 (horror novella)

[Laura]

Update to message 21: Progress 7/30

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message #5: 19/35

[Greg]

Update to Message 24:

Branch 2: Star Splinter by J.G. Cressey Genre: Fiction Science Fiction

3/50

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #30 : 42/200

[Greg]

Update message 24:

Branch 3: Radigan by Louis L'Amour Genre: Fiction Historical Fiction Western Fiction

4/50

[Betty]

Updated Message 31
Progress: 4/30

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:7/15

Trunk: The Cruel Prince

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)
Leaf 1:A Court of Thorns and Roses(published in 2015)

Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)
Leaf 2:Forget Me Not(published in 2023)

Branch 3:Orphan Train(Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee)

[Crystal]

Update to message 26

Branch 3
Leaf 2

6/60

[Laura]

update for message 21: Progress 9/30

[Eva (hordekitten)]

I'll put a ✅ for every completed book
Trunk : The Lightning Thief

Branch 1 : The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (same author)
Leaf 1: La academia (same year of publication as the branch)
Leaf 2: The Atlas Six (same genre)
Leaf 3: The Sunbearer Trials (Readers also enjoyed)



Branch 2: Indigo Ridge (same color as the cover of the book in the trunk)

Leaf 1: The Queen of Nothing (same genre)
Leaf 2: Los Dones de la Muerte (same year of publication)
Leaf 3: Alaska sin ti (same listopia)


Branch 3: Princess Academy (Same year as the trunk)

Leaf 1: These Violent Delights (same genre as the branch)
Leaf 2: Paper Princess ("Princess" in the title)
Leaf 3: Amigas de verdad nº 01 (Same author) ✅


Branch 4: Starfish (same genre as the trunk)

Leaf 1: Frizzy (readers also enjoyed)
Leaf 2: Lore (same listopia)
Leaf 3: Firekeeper's Daughter (same genre)


Branch 5: And Then There Were None (same listopia)

Leaf 1: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (same author)
Leaf 2: A Darker Shade of Magic (same colors as the cover)
Leaf 3: Dentro de casa (same genre)

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message #41. Progress: 5/15.

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message #5: 24/35

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:8/15

Trunk: The Cruel Prince

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)
Leaf 1:A Court of Thorns and Roses(published in 2015)

Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)
Leaf 2:Forget Me Not(published in 2023)

Branch 3:Orphan Train(Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee)

Branch 4:Fourth Wing(Readers also enjoyed)

[Karin]

I've updated message 48
21/25

[Lindey]

Update to Message 51

Trunk - relationships
Branch 1 - couples
Leaf 1 - My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach
Leaf 2 - Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Leaf 3
Branch 2 - siblings
Leaf 1 - The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Leaf 2
Leaf 3
Branch 3 - kids
Leaf 1 - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
Leaf 2 -
Leaf 3 -
Branch 4 - friends
Leaf 1
Leaf 2
Leaf 3

Trunk - milestones
Branch 1 - holidays
Leaf 1
Leaf 2
Leaf 3
Branch 2 - babies
Leaf 1 - Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
Leaf 2
Leaf 3
Branch 3 - endings (graduation, retirement, funeral)
Leaf 1
Leaf 2
Leaf 3
Branch 4 - weddings, anniversaries
Leaf 1 The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Leaf 2
Leaf 3

[Janine]

Update to message 60, 9/12.

Trunk: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo


Branch 1: That Self-Same Metal (same genre: YA fantasy)
Leaf 1: Heartstopper: Volume Five (same publication year: 2023)

Branch 2: A Tempest of Tea (same plot element: heist)

Branch 3: Fourteen Days (number in title)
Leaf 1: The Eternal Ones (same publication year: 2024)

Branch 4: The Sword of Summer (same publication year: 2015)
Leaf 1: The Hammer of Thor (same series)

Branch 5: Where Sleeping Girls Lie (bird on the cover)

Branch 6: Divine Rivals (same award: Goodreads Choice YA Fantasy & Sci Fi)

[Betty]

Message 31 updated
Progress: 5/30

[Rachael]

Updated message 6: 2/10

[Carmen]

Update to message #18

PROGRESS: 19/70 🌳

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

❤️🌹💕 FEBRUARY WRAP-UP 💕🌹❤️

We have 52 participants who read 135 books this month, out of a total of 247 books so far this year!

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 25/30, raising my goal along the way

[Karin]

Hi, I've updated message 48 with new goal and new number read.

32/60

[Lina]

Update for message #12:
🌳 Progress: 15/20 🌳 -
Edit 04.03: Raising my goal to 20.

[Betty]

Message 31 updated
Progress: 6/30

[JennH, Cheerleader]

Update to message #22

Increasing my goal to 32 books.

12/32