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[readnburied]

13 Moons Reading Challenge 2024 — Announcement

So it’s finally time for the announcement of the 13 Moons reading challenge for 2024. Another year, another list of prompts that will make your reading journey exciting. This reading challenge is created by me for the entire reading community. So if you love reading or are looking for a reading challenge to try for the upcoming year, then here is one for you. 

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, 2024 and till December 31st, 2024.

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. I am trying to create a graphic for it, and if I succeed I’ll edit this post and attach the graphic later, but for now I will write it all down here in case you wish to participate and plan your TBR. So without further ado, here is the 13 Moons reading challenge 2024. 

13 Moons Reading Challenge 2024 

Wolf Moon

A Stand Alone novel

A furry creature on the cover

Hair on the cover

The words Straight, Waves or Curly in the title

Hair color in the title

A book about found family

A book about adoption

A book with a hierarchy

Snow Moon

The word White in the title

Blanket on the cover

Read a book while drinking a hot beverage

Read a book while burning a candle

Hat/Cap on the cover

A book about mountains

A book about a fresh start or a new beginning

A book with necromancy themes

Worm Moon

Read a book in a series with more than 5 books

A book about rebirth or reincarnation

A cozy book

Book about insects 

Continue a series

A book that gives you the creeps

A book you’re not sure about

A book you’re thinking of unhauling 

Pink Moon

A book with a princess

Book about women empowerment

A pink object on the cover

Book recommended by a celebrity 

Book that tickles you pink

A coming of age book

A celebrity memoir

Start a book on a new moon

Flower Moon

Book by a BIPOC author

Book about friendship

A book club pick

Book with an animated cover

Book with a character named after a flower

A speculative fiction

A book set in spring

Read a book at any time of the day 

Strawberry Moon

Read a book from your backlist

Read a book with Bubbles on the cover

A book with less than 400 pages

Book you see trending on social media

Read a book from an author which is new to you

A debut novel

Book with the word Leaf in the title 

Book about swimming 

Buck Moon

A book that has multiple editions

A Paperback

A book recommended by a friend

A biography

A book you’re seeing everywhere 

A 2024 release

A 5 star prediction 

Book with a Man on the cover 

Sturgeon Moon

Book with a map

Book that people have been forcing you to read

Book with a title that starts with the first letter of your name

Book you hauled recently

Book with a Tree on the cover

Book with the word Can’t in the title

Book with a dark cover 

A novella

Harvest Moon

An anthology

A book you had to read for an assignment

A book with a movie adaptation

Book you’d recommend to somebody else

A book chosen by somebody else

Book with a Fish on the cover

A fruit in the title

Book about a celebration 

Hunter’s Moon

Book about food

Book set in Europe

Book with an Umbrella on the cover

Book about a topic you’re curious about

An award winning book 

Read the 7th book on your shelf

Book with Buildings on the cover 

book divided into parts 

Beaver Moon

Book about a psychological phenomenon 

Book with the word Five in the title 

Book with a Street on the cover

Start a book in the evening

A book about a specific country 

A book from your monthly TBR

Book with a cover you don’t like 

Book about a single parent 

Cold Moon

Book set in the medieval times

Book with a Spider on the cover

Read a book while wearing a pair of socks

A memoir

Book about a historical event

Book with a character’s name in the title

Book you think you will love

Book from a Goodreads shelf

Blue Moon

Book with a unique format

Read a classic

Book with 3 or more people on the cover

Book recommended by your favorite social media influencer

Book with a dramatic title

Book with a Dagger in the story

Book set in high school

Book about a spy

And there you have it. This is the 13 Moons reading challenge 2024 for you all. Let me know if you like it. If you wish to participate I’d love it if you can comment below to tell me you’re participating in the challenge. If you don’t want to comment, that’s fine as well. As long as you enjoy doing the challenge, I’m happy. 

Happy Reading!!

[spicychamomilecafe]

Engaging in recreational media is like eating a meal.

You can technically eat whatever food you want however you want, but certain types of food must be eaten a certain way in order to be properly enjoyed. You can eat soup with a fork or with your hands, but that’s not the proper way to eat soup. If you choose to eat it this way, your experience with the soup might not be as positive as it could be (and in all likelihood you will make a big mess). But even if you do eat the soup properly, (ignoring the possibility that the food itself is poorly made) you may find that you don’t like it and don’t finish it; or you may find you simply don’t have time to finish it. But that’s okay, because you tried it.

You can engage with media however you want, but certain pieces of media are meant to be engaged with a certain way.

Descriptions in books are not written to be skipped.

Scenes in movies are not filmed to be skipped.

Some Video games have cutscenes and dialogue that is not meant to be skipped.

Most Episodes of TV shows are not made to be skipped.

You are allowed to do these things. No one is stopping you. And in some cases breaking the rules may be more fun. But you cannot judge something on its merits if you do not engage with it the way it is meant to be engaged with; doing so is dishonest to yourself, and forming an opinion based on something you’ve barely touched is unfair to the creator and dishonest to those who you spread your opinion to. Just like it’s unfair to judge food you haven’t eaten.

And just like food, it’s okay to not complete a run of a game, or DNF a book, or stop watching in the middle of a movie/tv show. But if you continue to order the same thing over and over again, continue to not finish it, then that is wasteful — of time, of energy, and of resources. And that waste will then go into a half baked opinion which will in the end be nothing but empty calories.

[soulisticreads]

Currently Reading:

1. Angels’ Blood 2. Archangel’s Kiss 3. Archangel’s Consort 4. Archangel’s Blade 5. Archangel’s Storm

6. Archangel’s Legion 7. Archangel’s Shadows 8. Archangel’s Enigma 9. Archangel’s Heart 10. Archangel’s Viper 11. Archangel’s Prophecy 12. Archangel’s War 13. Archangel’s Sun 14. Archangel’s Light 15. Archangel’s Resurrection 16. Archangel’s Lineage

All the novellas were written to to stand alone, so you can pick them up at any stage. However, if you’d like to read the series in strict chronological order, check out the list on this page.

Collected Novellas All four Guild Hunter novellas to date now available in a single volume, Angels’ Flight.

Individual Novellas

1. Angels’ Pawn (this is available as an e-book on its own, and as part of Angels’ Flight) 2. “Angels’ Judgment” in Angels’ Flight (this was originally part of the Must Love Hellhounds anthology) 3. “Angel’s Wolf” in Angels’ Flight (this was originally part of the Angels of Darkness anthology) 4. “Angels’ Dance” in Angels’ Flight

[carlyleandco]

YA book lovers!! An amazing new YA book adaptation has landed on Netflix which I highly recommend called LOCKWOOD & Co.!!

If you love mystery, the supernatural, found family, self discovery, sword fights, taking on the establishment, coming of age, comedy, horror, and romance, I HIGHLY encourage you to watch!

[misterrogers22]

Is Dr. Burke in The Lost World: Jurassic Park saying #procompsognathus or #compsognathus when he refers to the Compys? Because, whatever he's annunciating doesn't sound quite right.

You be the judge!

[messiah-girl]

Notice by Heather Lewis

It's funny how people find comfort and familiarity in reading what is often touted as the "most disturbing book ever written." Whether or not it really deserves that title, I'm not sure. Truth is, I'm only half way through the book myself, but it's gripped me in a way, sucked me in through the main character's incoherent and meandering way of navigating her emotional landscape. It's often not a pleasant read. Why, then? What is it about me that draws me to such a miserable, bleak story? What's so enthralling about literal trauma porn?

Perhaps, if you're anything like me, you've preferred unhappy endings since you could remember. In elementary and middler school, I hardly read the assigned books because, unconsciously then, I was frustrated with how sugar coated and sanitized they often were. I needed the pain, sex, suffering, and romance to be more intense, more true to life as I'd known it.

But life was cruel to me. It'd tossed me unmercilessly throughout my adolescence, and, having grown used to the dramatic ups and downs, the difficultly and the pain, I would in my adult life attempt to manufacture an outer world that matched the deep, darkness that existed within me. In my self hatred and nihilism, I would seek out thrills much the way our narrator in Notice did.

I was hyper-sexual, a term introduced to me by my first therapist at eighteen, when I went to rehab, and deeply masochistic, and I'd often find myself in situations wondering if I'd walk away alive. One night stands met on seedy parts of the internet; my offering myself up on a platter, they would salivate and threaten me with all I'd begged for. More than once, a partner claimed to have a knife, claimed he would stab me. It didn't happened, but it's moments like that that open your eyes to how vulnerable you really are.

Anyway, the narrator in Notice navigates all of this with a detachment. She does everything she can to not notice, to distract herself, for whatever is happening within her. Some force unnamed and unknown to the reader has compelled her into sex work, has entangled her with a murderer and his wife, who was complicit in the rape and slaying of their own daughter, has lead her to yearn for pain and suffering, has caused her to avert her eyes in moments that could yield an intimate glance. Her tone throughout the text is not one of anger or fear, it's one born out of dissociation. In one moment, she stares into the distance at an illuminated pool through the window as the murderer violently rapes his wife Ingrid. Later, after he's left and Ingrid muses about draining the pool, our narrator wonders what she'll have to look at when it inevitably happens again.

She is not trapped, though. She is a prostitute hired for the weekend, not their daughter, and has stayed beyond the expectation. Why does she stay? I believe the reasons for her staying and the enjoying of this book are rooted from the same thing. Whatever it is, the narrator has failed to articulate and the reader must deduce what it is through her cloudy and indirect recollections. It's likely much easier to understand if you have some basis of what that feels like in the real world, and perhaps that's why this book is so polarizing. Perhaps, to the people who enjoy it, it's validating at the least and perversely comforting at its best. Because if you've ever struggled to put words to your feelings, ones that felt like a death sentence, ever struggled to understand how or why you've done something abhorrent to yourself, the narrator's inexact way of relating the story speaks so clearly.

[star-reads-ya]

Snow White Origins Video Update 2:

Snow White notes are going well at the moment. Im learning a lot of stuff. Did you know the Dwarfs didn't even have names until a 1912 play? Or that Snow White might have been inspired by a real world Greman Countess?

I also have a runing website credit list as well as you alway need to show your sources.

[enlilwind]

Fata care a căzut în adâncurile mării de Axie Oh este un roman foarte alert și cinematografic, încadrând în acțiune numeroase elemente și referințe la folclorul coreean. Mina este o protagonistă ce mi-a plăcut mult: nu își plânge de milă și nu se oprește atunci când apare un obstacol, luptă pentru ea și pentru cei dragi, fără însă a înceta să fie modestă. Știe foarte bine că e o muritoare oarecare și totuși, din iubire pentru familia sa și pentru oameni, e dispusă să afle ce se întâmplă, de fapt, cu Zeul Mării și cum îl poate face pe acesta să se trezească și să redevină ceea ce a fost o dată: patronul oamenilor.

[reading-that-book]

Bridge to Terabithia

Author: Katherine Paterson Year of Publication: 21 October 1977 PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT: 5/5 Plot: The narrative describes the burgeoning friendship between two lonely children, Jesse Aarons and his new neighbour Leslie Burke. As the only boy in his family and expected to look after his sisters and run errands. Jess Aarons has been training all…

[avatar-state-kate]

Why does no one on booktok or book tube have any taste? Like none of these kids is going to recommend Kurt Vonnegut ya know?

[lovebooksforeversblog]

Books I'm excited to read this month

[confused-book-noises]

I’d like y’all to appreciate my psychotic sister on our booktok channel!

[bored-blackgirl]

The long awaited love hypothesis videos

For my first ever Books and Beauty video as well as reading vlog. I decided to reread "The Love Hypothesis" by Ali Hazelwood.

Here is the analysis video - Re-reading the published reylo fic… that I hated, The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood | Books and Beauty

And here is the reading vlog -Reading vlog #1, "The Love Hypothesis" by Ali Hazelwood

Dont forget to check out my channel too for more videos!

All video links

[misterrogers22]

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.

0:00 - Introduction

Find the episode webpage at: Episode 39 - Lex. www.jurassickparkcast.blogspot.com/2022/11/episode-39-lex.html

09:30 - Interview with terrific guest "Tom Jurassic" Fishenden.

29:00 - Details on his Youtube audiodrama, "Tales from a Jurassic World."

In this episode, my terrific guest Tom Fishenden joins the show to chat with me about: British dinosaurs, the Maidstone Iguanodon, Baryonyx, the Isle of Wight, Jurassic Park, Primeval, the Jurassic Park Podcast, fandom, audio dramas, the Dino Watch Podcast, World War Z, Battle of Big Rock, hypothetical dinosaur behaviours, the Lysine Contingency, the Lysine Contingency, engaging in fandom, Lex Murphy, Lewis Dodgson, the future of the Jurassic Park as an intellectual property, dinosaur designs, #StaySafeStayJurassic, more sense, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

02:25 - Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira (silesaurids!)

06:27 - Binocular Vision in Theropod Dinosaurs

00:34 - Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old Or Don't.

The Text: This week’s text is Lex, spanning from pages 210 – 217.

55:55 - Synopsis of the chapter Lex in Jurassic Park Synopsis: Tim finds Lex hiding in a culvert under the road, and they climb out to find Dr. Grant. Meanwhile, Ed Regis climbs out from the bounders in which he’d been hiding, feeling great shame for having abandoned the kids during the tyrannosaur attack. As Regis emerges, he’s tackled and eaten by the juvenile tyrannosaurus, which pushes Grant and the kids to escape further into the park, rather than following the road back to “safety.”

01:03:09 - Analyzing the literary and stylistic techniques in the chapter Tim

01:12:11 - Discussions surround Show Don't Tell, Daddy issues, What's in a name, Timeline, and Believe me, I know!

Corrections:

Side effects: May cause you to login to Zoom twice, creating a ghost account, which can only be spoken to via a Ouigji board.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time! #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

[forgottenbones]

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