i really enjoyed this reading challenge last year and apparently so did lots of you guys :) here's this year's version, the same but a bit different to keep things interesting
(transcript of the prompts and taglist below the cut)
CHALLENGE RULES
☁︎ one book per prompt, meaning the challenge calls for 16 books in total
☁︎ it is a 2023 challenge, so it's gonna run january 1st - december 31st
☁︎ reblog this post to participate
☁︎ once you read a book, cross the prompt out on the above template and post your update! bookish photos/playlists/etc. are of course also welcome
☁︎ tag your updates (templates with crossed out prompts, text posts, etc.) with the tag #2023 genre bingo so i can see and reblog them
that's it, if you have any questions at all, send them my way, otherwise i wish you a fun year, filled with *chef's kiss* books!
Alrighty, here are the genres this challenge calls for:
☁︎ fantasy
☁︎ new adult
☁︎ thriller
☁︎ contemporary fiction
☁︎ non fiction
☁︎ horror *
☁︎ urban fantasy
☁︎ classics
☁︎ lgbtq+ literature
☁︎ graphic novel
☁︎ romance
☁︎ short story
☁︎ mystery
☁︎ children's literature *
☁︎ science fiction
* the horror and children's lit prompts are bonus, meaning you don't have to complete them to successfully finish the challenge
taglist:
Like the other reading challenges, this one is also on Storygraph - check the notes for the link xx
Ooohh for the warmup doodles, maybe Tale of Teo Towns? :] Or Island of Happiness/Sunshine Islands!
thank you so much for the suggestion, reese!!
georgia and mikhail are definitely my favorite marriage candidates from tott. and i actually haven't played ioh or si yet, but basing off their events, i think denny and sabrina would be right up my alley!
We're back with another reading bingo! welcome to the Winter Mini Reading Challenge ❄
RULES: like with all our challenges, the rules are pretty flexible, since the whole point of this is to motivate you to read just a little bit more :)
the challenge starts on december 1st and ends with february 28th, but you're welcome to finish it at your own pace
-> use the tag #studyblr w/knives reading challenge when you post your updates/pics
-> reblog this post if you're participating
once you’ve read a book that fits a prompt, cross it out on the above template and/or share your thoughts on it in a post here on tumblr; make sure to mark any spoilers (hide them under a cut etc.), so people can avoid them if needed :) you can also have just one post and update it as you go, or you can post good ol’ aesthetic book pics!
as always, if you have any questions, my asks are always open
❄ FIND PROMPT EXPLANATIONS & OUR RECS FOR EACH UNDER THE CUT ❄
Any book that features twins - they don't have to be main characters.
❄ The Secret History - D. Tartt
❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir
❄ The King Is Dead - B. Dean
❄ The Magic Between - S. Hoyt
Either second chance as the trope, or give a book you'd previously DNF'd another go.
❄ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - T. Jenkins Reid
❄ One True Loves - T. Jenkins Reid
❄ Persuasion - J. Austen
❄ Beach Read - E. Henry
A book with a single word in the title.
❄ Piranesi - S. Clark
❄ Hamlet - W. Shakespeare
❄ Icebreaker - A.L. Graziadei
❄ Bloodchild - O. E. Butler
A classic or modern classic.
❄ Rebecca - D. du Maurier
❄ The Alchemist - P. Coelho
❄ The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams
❄ The Little Prince - A. de Saint-Exupéry
A book with a pretty cover (this is obviously highly subjective, but here are some we think look amazing):
❄ A Marvellous Light - F. Marske
❄ The Starless Sea - E. Morgenstern
❄ How to Kill Your Family - B. Mackie
❄ All That's Left in the World - E. J. Brown
Any book with festive vibes - any holiday/festivity during the timeframe of this challenge goes :)
❄ A Christmas Carol - C. Dickens
❄ The Mistletoe Motive - C. Liese
Some neurodiverse main characters:
❄ The Charm Offensive - A. Cochrun
❄ Turtles All the Way Down - J. Green
❄ The Gilded Wolves - R. Chokshi
❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo
The nonfiction prompt for fiction lovers lol
❄ Crush - R. Siken
❄ Shakespeare's Sonnets - W. Shakespeare
❄ The Anthropocene Reviewed - J. Green
❄ Bitch Doctrine - L. Penny
Any book that a friend's recommended to you - or you can read one of our server faves:
❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir
❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo
❄ Red, White & Royal Blue - C. McQuiston
❄ The Raven Boys - M. Stiefvater
As a Sofia the first fan for a decade, who’s your favorite princess? Was the show part of your childhood or adulthood like mine?
Oooh okay
I know that lots of ppl don’t like her but I love Sofia, I feel like we had similar looks when I was younger so I just liked her
Also Amber, I mean you could really tell when there was like a different writer or director for each episode because her character development will get forgotten for a few episodes lol
Also Clio and Hildy bc they’re just so iconic
And don’t get me started on Vivian - SABRINA CARPENTER
Ik those are like ‘the main princesses’ but like they had screen time for a reason
It was definitely a show of my childhood, idk when it came out, it came out 2013, so definitely my childhood, I would have been five 😭😭
I used to spend Friday nights at my Nana’s house up until she moved out of town (I am in fact her favourite, she’s admitted it) and stf was my fav on Disney junior 
And then during Covid I BEGGED my parents to get Disney and I ended up binging stf and I realized the plot was so good, especially in the later seasons?!?!
And that was middle school for me and I had a whole Disney phase of being a Disney theorist (grandmum being sisters with queen Rita and Zandar being the lead ones) and my first time ever reading fanfiction was Sofia the first
I’m also doing my French project on Sofia the first…
Idk I was like in the Wattpad (oh god) fandom like 4 years ago
Idk I’m a girls girly, so like I’m in it for the princesses (and the other girls) and the female villains, I love the aesthetics of the show, the nostalgia, and the season 3/4 over arching plot
(WIP) Music (not) Monday | Tagged by @nightbloodbix
The rules: Post a song that is relevant to your WIP or inspires it. I’m also including the lyrics
Can you hear us?
The sound of a million forgotten souls
Screams in the distance, cries from the mountains, our voices echo
Their hands painted scarlet
Hidden in shadows so nobody knows
They'll pay for the bloodshed
Legends are made from the stories untold
Through the fire
Under the gallows
Facing a trial
Justice will follow
Can you hear them?
The sound of their lost, unforgiven souls
Voice of the victims roars through the valleys, now everyone knows
What's done in the darkness, deep in the shadows, the light will expose
There's nowhere to go
Dearly departed
Sins of the heartless
Legends are made as the stories unfold
Through the fire
Under the gallows
Facing a trial
Justice will follow
Signs on my skin
Plying lines where your hands have been
Scribing me
So tell me what it's for
Why the wilds want you, Riverborn
All our bodies shorn
But the dust adorns you, ever more
Pines on the brim
And in time the storms will snow us in
But believe--
And believe--
That i know what it's for
Why the waters mourn you, riverborn
Both our bodies formed from the dust that haunts you, ever more
Just tell me what it's for
What the wines afford you, Riverborn
All my solace torn
That I may never know your winter's morn
They do what we do
They might look crazy
From a low point of view
Yeah that's why we're doing it
For the thrill of it
When you find the thing that
Puts a smile on your face
Don't try to fight it
Let yourself be embraced
Yeah that's why we're doing it
For the thrill of it
Hello, my love, the wind is weeping
Stars on the ceiling, guide you into the unknown
Beautiful to the bitter end
In the night you call out to me
Oh, the sound of your voice is crashing like waves down, waves down
In my dreams
Oh, in the night it's harder to breathe
Oh, I wish you could know that nothing's the same now, same now
Since I lost you
You
You
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