With Christmas less than a week away, here are some more Christmas funnies. I told you I wasn't done yet! Some are old, some are new.
Doing this one again. The challenge is to read the original fairy tale or a retelling.
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Will be doing this again, getting as many and filing as many squares as I can.
The goal, as always: read books focusing on LGBTQ+ characters and stories. New releases, upcoming releases, backlist titles, fiction, nonfiction—these are all okay as long as they feature queer main characters/cast and fit our prompts!
Of course, there’s a book bingo and review template waiting for you! For the prompts this year, there’s a bit more focus on new themes and topics (Robots and mechas, anyone?). Different prompts for authors of color are still here! (“SWANA” in the SWANA Author prompt refers to Southwest Asia and North Africa).
Here’s a full list of the #ReadQueerly2025 prompts!
This was a new one to me this year, and I can't resist joining again. I will try to get one at least one beak for each category, then see how much farther I can go with the list.
Rules & Levels
The rules for this reading challenge are simple. First of all, this is just for fun so no need to feel pressured into doing anything or reading anything you don’t want to. You can also be flexible with the prompts if you choose to do so. The challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 till December 31st, 2025.
There are a total of 104 reading prompts divided into 13 categories. There is a list of levels given and you can choose which level you wish to participate in based on your preference. The levels you can participate in are as follows:
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 13 books — fulfill one prompt from each category
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 26 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Central Lunar Eclipse: 52 books — fulfill at least one prompt from each category
Total Lunar Eclipse: 104 books — fulfill all the prompts
The reading challenge is given below. You can choose which level you want to go for and choose your prompts accordingly. So without further ado, here is the 13 Moons reading challenge 2025.
Wolf Moon
Snow Moon
Worm Moon
Pink Moon
Flower Moon
Strawberry Moon
Buck Moon
Sturgeon Moon
Harvest Moon
Hunter’s Moon
Beaver Moon
Cold Moon
Blue Moon
I just now remembered that I started this blog on December 15, 2008, 16 years this past Sunday. I can't believe it's been that long and that I'm still here! Many of my early posts were seemingly ignored, with no comments. M=y posts were often just random stuff (which I still do today). But it got better once the years went on. Now I have some regular commenters/visitors. And many blogs I read and comment on as well. Some blogs I read early on have disappeared, or are still out there but haven't been updated in years. I stopped following many of those blogs at some point. But there are many I follow now.
This soon-to-be past year, I began participating in two new-to-me blogging events. One is the Book Blogging Challenge. After years of looking at the sites that co-host this event (and perusing through some of the participants' posts), I decided to join this year.
1-10 – Discussion Dabbler ⬅️ My Goal
11-20 – Creative Conversationalist
21-30 – Chatty Kathy
31-40 – Terrifically Talkative
41+ – Gift of the Gab
Another new blogging challenge I discovered this year is The Thursday 13. I found about it at the beginning of the year, but didn't begin participating until June. I've been going at since then, though I missed some weeks in September and November. I already have my post for this week scheduled. I've even combined the Thursday 13 with the Book Discussion Challenge a few times. I like how the Thursday 13 allows bloggers to choose a topic for their posts. Since they don't have any official graphics for Thursday 13 posts, I made one myself because I felt my posts need one. I plan to do this one again in 2025, whether or not I get to it each week.
And since 2021, I've been doing the A to Z Blogging each April. It wasn't until that year, that I got brave enough to take the plunge into this yearly challenge. I'd seen A to Z posts on there people's blogs and wondered if I would ever join them. I plan to join in 2025, if I can find a theme. I have some in mind, I just have to narrow them down by March, when the theme reveals and the signups begin. The host blog already has the them reveal graphics for next year!
It wasn't until 2013 that I began getting into various reading challenge. I began hosting my own around 2016. For those of you who might be wondering, books can cross over between challenges. I already have "Sunrise or sunset on the cover" twice for the coming year, for example, so I plan to use the same book for both.
See you again in 2025. How many years have you been on your blogs?
