Sunday Night Music- Before the Light Takes Us

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Quote of the Week – September 12, 2025

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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#HRCYED Rainbow

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Last Ten Years: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • Red: The Book of Witching – CJ Cooke
  • Orange: Persephone Station – Stina Leicht
  • Yellow: A Study in Sherlock – ed. Laurie R King & Leslie S Klinger
  • Green: Earthsea (the first 4 books) – Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Teal: Voyage of the Damned – Frances White
  • Light Blue: Lady Franklin’s Revenge – Ken McGoogan
  • Blue: Winter of the Gods – Jordanna Max Brodsky
  • Purple: The Family Game – Catherine Steadman
  • Pink: The Female Marine – ed. Daniel A Cohen
  • Black: Cackle – Rachel Harrison
  • White: Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Silver/Gold: The Continental Op – Dashiell Hammett
  • 7+ Colors: Adventures in Yarn Farming – Barbara Parry

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Sunday Night Music- Barton Hallow

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Quote of the Week – September 5, 2025

You must be the judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen

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#HRCYED The Last Ten Years

This is what I’m planning to read for the HRCYED Last Ten Years: (Note, I am trying to do this challenge with only books I own or can get from the library.)

  • 2015: Work Rules! – Laszlo Bock
  • 2016: Breath of Earth – Beth Cato
  • 2017: Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King & Owen King
  • 2018: The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
  • 2019: Murder Most Stupid (ebook) – David Brooklyn
  • 2020: The Christmas Heist (ebook) – Landis Wade
  • 2021: The Personal Librarian – Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
  • 2022: Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
  • 2023: The Kingdom of Sweets – Erika Johanson
  • 2024: The Bog Wife – Kay Chronister
  • 2025: The Sun Was Electric Light – Rachel Morton

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Sunday Night Music- Making Circles

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Quote of the Week – August 29, 2025

Change is not made without inconvenience.
Richard Hooker

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Books to Read- August 2025

  • Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Silent Corner – Dean Koontz
  • Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
  • Cook County ICU – Cory Franklin
  • White Trash Warlock – David R Slayton
  • Spillover – David Quammen
  • Underland – Robert Mcfarlane
  • The Secret Life of Groceries – Benjamin Lorr
  • The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  • The Nazi Hunter – Alan Elsner

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#HRCYED Progress Update

It’s been a little over a month since I started working on the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do (HRCYED) 2.0. 

While I’ve been putting up reading lists for each prompt, I might not always read exactly as planned. Part of the challenge for myself is trying to do as much of these prompts as possible using the books that I already have on hand. This is my round up of what progress I’ve made so far: 

Completed Prompt: Subgenres of Choice

Books Read: 

  • Can’t Spell Treason without Tea (Teas and Tomes #1) Rebecca Thorne
  • A Matter of Death and Life – Simon R Green
  • This Body’s Not Big Enough for the Both of Us – Edgar 
  • Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher
  • The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London) – Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl (#1) – Matt Dinniman

In Progress: 

  • By the Hundreds: 3/7
  • Series Staircase: 3/10
  • The Last 10 Years: 2/10 or 11 if you want to earn +5 points
  • Adaptations: 3/8
  • Around the World: 1/7
  • Spooky Creatures: 1/8
  • Become the Avatar: 1/4
  • Animals: 3/5
  • Queer Alphabet: 2/9
  • BIPOC Authors: 1/10
  • New Releases: 2/12
  • Challenge Yourself: 1/??
  • Non-Fiction: 3/5

So, I’ve definitely found myself reading a lot more because of this challenge and I am getting through my TBR. All in all, I think this has been a good challenge to take on even if it’s one more piece of stress I probably shouldn’t be taking on. 

Anyway, if you’d like to learn more about HRCYED, you can find the announcement here: 

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