2024 Reading Challenge - Update 8

 With the posting of Spare comes my eighth and final 2024 Reading Challenge Update! As it's a book featuring the life - thus far - of someone actually born into a royal family, it easily fits the "A Book That Features Royalty" tile. Hooray!

        I completed the self-created Challenge in the fifth month of the year. Subtracting $48 for the first four months in which I did not complete the Challenge, I donated $96 to my local church. Last Sunday, a check went into the Offering plate as a donation to the General Fund.

        Overall, this was a fun Challenge. At the outset, I felt gung-ho about making this an annual thing, but I've now changed my mind. As fun as it was, it added a layer of stress that I didn't need. Yes, it forced me to read books that I might never have read, but I also sometimes felt stressed reading library books to fulfill tiles when I have a full TBR shelf. Since this is undue stress that I can control, I don't plan to create a 2025 Reading Challenge.

        For the initial 2024 Reading Challenge post, click here.

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 7

Update 7 comes thanks to reading The Black Swan of Paris. It fulfills two tiles and leaves me just one tile away from completing my Reading Challenge!

        1. "A Book with a Color in the Title": Black.

        2. "A Book with a Place in the Title": Paris.

    Yes, I did purposely search for a novel that contained both a color and a place in the title. It also happened to be at my local library, which was an added bonus.

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 6

My "A Book Chosen for its Cover" selection was Snowglobe. The cover art is striking, but what initially drew me to the cover were the Korean characters (Hangul) and the author's Korean name. I was the first checkout for this YA novel from my local library, on the request list while it was on order!

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 5

This update finds me having read They Both Die at the End. It fulfills one tile, in which I read "A Banned Book." I put a Note at the end of the YA story's post, so I won't repeat it here. I'm now two-thirds of the way through my 2024 Reading Challenge!

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 4

 A Twisted Tale Anthology fulfills one tile. It is "A Book with More Than 500 Pages." I'm now over halfway to completing my Reading Challenge. Huzzah!

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 3

For my latest update, I am here with "Persuasion" by Jane Austen. It fulfills two tiles, both self-explanatory. The cover I'm using for this post is the cover of the copy I own from a boxed set. The back cover states that the book "was Austen's last-published novel, published posthumously in 1818."

            1. "A Book with a One-Word Title"

            2. "A Classic You Haven't Read Before"

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 2

Yesterday's book, Haunted Holiday, fulfills one tile. It is "A 2024 Release."

        I'm now one-third of the way through my personal Reading Challege. Hurrah!

2024 Reading Challenge - Update 1

The book I posted about yesterday, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, is starting off my 2024 Reading Challenge strong. It fulfills three tiles!

            1. "A Book Set in a Country You Want to Visit": I have visited Korea once before. That was in 2009, and I'd so love to go back.

            2. "A Book Written by a Person of Color": The author, Hwang Bo-Reum, is Korean.

            3. "A Book First Published Outside the U.S.": The book was first published in Korea.

    With this one book, I'm already one-quarter of the way there. Happy reading!