Spring Reading Challenge Introduction and FAQs

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

SPRING SEASONAL CHALLENGE

Spring is here (thank goodness!) and we are watching for new growth and new opportunities as the weather improves.

But you know the saying... April Showers. And April showers come with rainbows! So this quarter, you're doing a cover color challenge for all of the colors of the rainbow.

How you choose to define it is up to you. You can challenge yourself and use books that fit the color with the majority of the cover, or you can count any book that has that color on it, no matter how big or how small.

For example, both of these could count for RED:
and


This challenge will run from March 1, 2024-May 31, 2024.

Feel free to copy and paste this into your own tracking thread in this folder:

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GRAY:
5+ COLORS:

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

[Edie]

Wahoo...Now I have a place to slot in some upcoming reads. Thanks for posting.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I am thinking there could be other ways to do this than color of cover. For instance, the title has one of the words in it, or something about the word/color is important to the story. (Like searching for gold or getting to wear royal purple)

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Can you do one or two of the words, rather than all five?

Robin P wrote: "I am thinking there could be other ways to do this than color of cover. For instance, the title has one of the words in it, or something about the word/color is important to the story. (Like search..."

That sounds great, too - I already have a green and a gold title in my immediate TBR.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

You can approach this challenge however you want! For some people, 17 books is a breeze. For others, they may want to try to knock out 5 or 7 or the first 12 but not the challenge. Totally up to you.

Robin, the intent is that it is a cover color challenge, but, like I said, approach it however you'd like!

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Emily wrote: "You can approach this challenge however you want! For some people, 17 books is a breeze. For others, they may want to try to knock out 5 or 7 or the first 12 but not the challenge. Totally up to yo..."

The first question was a misread on my part - for some reason I read it as spell-it-out for the five words, not just a "title starting with ONE of the letters". Doh.

[Jennifer W]

I assume this starts March 1?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yes! March 1-May 31.

[Rosemary]

Thankyou for setting this up. Gives quite a scope. Now off to search for books!
SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GREY:
5+ COLORS:
RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Hey Rosemary, this thread is for FAQs! Please start a new thread in this folder for your planning and tracking purposes.

[Rosemary]

Sorry Emily. I don’t know how to start a thread.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Go to the folder this thread is in (on a desktop, you can scroll to the top of this page and click on Spring Reading Challenge 2024), then click Add New.

[Rosemary]

Thank you.

[Nike]

Can I switch colour Gold to colour pink? Pink wasn't mentioned (and is easier to find).

[Yesica]

what would be "5+ COLORS"? 5 additional colors? A cover with 5 colors?... not sure what you mean...

[Gloria]

I think it means more than 5 colors on the cover

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Nike, totally your call. I would just make sure you indicate that you used Pink instead of Gold when you're tracking your reads so other people know (in case they are looking for recommendations).

Yesica, Gloria had it correct. It means that there are at least 5 different colors on one cover.

[Keli]

March 1 - May 31

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GRAY:
5+ COLORS:

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

[Vanessa]

I'm in!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Hey Keli and Vanessa, please create a new thread in this folder for your tracking! This thread is for questions about the challenge. Thanks!

[L Y N N]

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
March 1-May 31

RED
The Maid (Molly the Maid #1) by Nita Prose
March 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

ORANGE
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
March 7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

YELLOW
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa
March 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

GREEN:

BLUE
Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman
March 24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

PURPLE:
WHITE

BLACK
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
March 21 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

BROWN
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence #4) by Agatha Christie
March 31 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

GOLD
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree
March 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

GRAY:
5+ COLORS:

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

[CJ]

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
*completed June 20th*

Pink

Red

Orange

Gold

Yellow

Green

Turquoise

Blue

Indigo

Purple

White

Black

Brown

Grey


Complementary Colors




Tertiary Colours

[Robin H-R]

RE: Bonus Challenge...When a title starts with a number, can you use the spelling? Or do you use the first word after the number?

20 would be Twenty

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

You would spell out the number, so 20 would be with a T.

[Allegra]

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE
RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GREY:
5+ COLORS:
RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

[NancyJ]

SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE

RED:
ORANGE:
YELLOW:
GREEN:
.
BLUE:
PURPLE:
WHITE:
BLACK:
BROWN:
GOLD:
GRAY:
5+ COLORS:

And if you want a bit of a bonus challenge, try to find titles that start with a letter in these words:

RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH

March 2024





April 2024





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March 2024

T MThe Maid by Nita Prose
O The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
G The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
G A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
I I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
I I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
C Chemistry by Weike Wang
W When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten
N Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
W Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
H Home by Nnedi Okorafor
M Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
A Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
I I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
W Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
H Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
P The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
M My Side of the Mountain byJean Craighead George
O Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt
C Cinder by Marissa Meyer
H Heartstopper: Volume Three vol 2 - 5 by Alice Oseman
T G The Graveyard Book by Neil Gainman
A The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
I - Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
TC The Colony by Audrey Magee
TC - The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange
M - The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
E - Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
F- Finding Me by Viola David
J- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
P The Patron Saint of Liars byAnn Patchett

May



E - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
N- Never Lie
M -Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
M - A Morbid Taste for Bones
I - The Island of Dr. Moreau
A- The Ardent Swarm

On deck
The Heavens May Fall
Winter- Marissa Meyer
The Last House on the Street
The Murmur of Bees
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Solo

RAINBOW
SHOWER
SPRING
COLORFUL
GROWTH