April's Challenges Thread

[April]

Hello! I would like to keep track of my challenges for future challenges here (like for 2026). And in the next post, I will write up my past (2025) challenges.

[April]

Past Challenges
2025:
2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge...
Completed: 17 (18?)/20
✔1. Welcome to the Red Carpet (I dont exactly understand the Queen reference, folks. Not what i thought of for this one 😅🤷‍♀️)
-The Maid (because the cover is red)(view spoiler)[
✔2. Suit Up -Childhood's End (Jan suits up to travel through space to the Overlords planet)
✔3. All That Glitters -Where the Library Hides (there are some glittering enchanted artifacts)
✔4. Let Your Hair Down -Long Live Evil (MC has long black hair)
✔5. Special Effects -The Book of Doors (a magical collection of books, each of which have a unique special power)
✔6. Six of One … Half a Dozen of the Other -The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Can I just say Six PLUS One?
7. Strike a Pose (tbr fin don knocks em dead)
✔8. Bohemian -To the Lighthouse (...)
✔9. Global Inspiration -A Wizard of Earthsea (...), also 1984
✔10. Dime a Dozen -The Phantom of the Opera (publishing date is 19ten, like a dime is ten cent. lol)
✔11. Slay -Godkiller (in the name)
12. Twelfth (tbr Midnight Library)
✔13. Cottagecore -Rock, Paper, Scissors (there is a cottage in most of the story) also, Emily Wilde...
✔14. Oh! the Horrors -Misery (by the King of horror)
✔15. Punk vs Prep -Fahrenheit 182 (Mark Hoppus memoir. He is so punk, but also loves books 😁👍)
✔16. Organic vs Synthetic -Poet Anderson?
✔17. Modern vs Traditional -Not Another Love Song (the main characters are orchestral musicians who play both classical staples as well as contemporary compositions, most self-made)
✔18. Avant-garde -The Time Traveler's Wife (...)
19. Bold Look (tbr A Gathering of Shadows- or did i read something else?)
✔20. Loungewear -The Seven Year Slip (a cozy romance) also Book Lovers (hide spoiler)]

2025 Read All the Books 12: Books by the Dozen...
Challenge Goal 7 books (possibly more)
Completed: 10/7
✔1 Breakfast of Champions -2/25(view spoiler)[
✔2 Childhoods End 7/25
✔3 Once and Future King
4 Witch King
✔5 Fahrenheit 451
6 Brave New World
✔7 Emilie Wilde's Encyclopadia of Faeries -1/25
Alternates:
8 Pomegranate Gate
✔9 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 7/25
10 The Stand
11 Gunslinger
❌12 Annie Bot dnf
13 Ubik
14 Six of Crows
15 A Gathering...
16 Station Eleven
17 Island of Doctor Murough
✔+18 Dead Silence 8/25
✔+19 Nettle & Bone 8/25
✔+20 The Ghost Bride 9/25
✔+21 Salem's Lot 9/25 (hide spoiler)]

[April]

I'm going to use this space for 2025 challenges again, and try to update the second post (every new year) with links to this and future posts in this thread or the posts in the challenge description threads.

2025 Read All the Books 12: Books by the Dozen...
Challenge Goal 7 books (possibly more)
Completed: 10/7
✔1 Breakfast of Champions -2/25
✔2 Childhoods End 7/25
✔3 Once and Future King
4 Witch King
✔5 Fahrenheit 451
6 Brave New World
✔7 Emilie Wilde's Encyclopadia of Faeries -1/25
Alternates:
8 Pomegranate Gate
✔9 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 7/25
10 The Stand
11 Gunslinger
❌12 Annie Bot dnf
13 Ubik
14 Six of Crows
15 A Gathering...
16 Station Eleven
17 Island of Doctor Murough
✔+18 Dead Silence 8/25
✔+19 Nettle & Bone 8/25
✔+20 The Ghost Bride 9/25
✔+21 Salem's Lot 9/25

[April]

Might as well do one more post for the other 2025 challenge. I think I will put all of the new year's challenges in the first post, but make a copy here (in the body of this thread), since that first post will be cleared yearly. (this is all hypothetical if I manage to stick around here long enough. i spent a lot of time on GRs this year, but probably need to cut back a bit, although these threads might help save time.)

2025 TBR Cleanup Challenge...
Completed: 17 (18?)/20
✔1. Welcome to the Red Carpet -The Maid (because the cover is red)
✔2. Suit Up -Childhood's End (Jan suits up to travel through space to the Overlords planet)
✔3. All That Glitters -Where the Library Hides (there are some glittering enchanted artifacts)
✔4. Let Your Hair Down -Long Live Evil (MC has long black hair)
✔5. Special Effects -The Book of Doors (a magical collection of books, each of which have a unique special power)
✔6. Six of One … Half a Dozen of the Other -The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Can I just say Six PLUS One?
7. Strike a Pose (tbr fin don knocks em dead)
✔8. Bohemian -To the Lighthouse (...)
✔9. Global Inspiration -A Wizard of Earthsea (...), also 1984
✔10. Dime a Dozen -The Phantom of the Opera (publishing date is 19ten, like a dime is ten cent. lol)
✔11. Slay -Godkiller (in the name)
12. Twelfth (tbr Midnight Library)
✔13. Cottagecore -Rock, Paper, Scissors (there is a cottage in most of the story) also, Emily Wilde...
✔14. Oh! the Horrors -Misery (by the King of horror)
✔15. Punk vs Prep -Fahrenheit 182 (Mark Hoppus memoir. He is so punk, but also loves books 😁👍)
✔16. Organic vs Synthetic -Poet Anderson?
✔17. Modern vs Traditional -Not Another Love Song (the main characters are orchestral musicians who play both classical staples as well as contemporary compositions, most self-made)
✔18. Avant-garde -The Time Traveler's Wife (...)
19. Bold Look (tbr A Gathering of Shadows- or did i read something else?)
✔20. Loungewear -The Seven Year Slip (a cozy romance) also Book Lovers

[Cynda]

Making progress April! Glad we got to discuss Fahrenheit 451 and The Time Traveler this year. Keep on!