32 & Married

Vancouver Island, Canada

I love my dog with my entire soul and heart. Her name is Kumi and she is a Japanese Mastiff.

I love reading. It's pretty much all I do in my spare time. My bookstagram, PageBound, and StoryGraph are aprilthebookqueen. I'm neurodivergent and disabled

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A chaotic mess of things I like such as fandom stuff, posts that resonate with me, aesthetics... Probably book stuff.

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Trauma Survivors Blog: @traumasurvivors

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I don't know how many readers follow me... But...

I spent way too many hours making a reading challenge spreadsheet for myself, so I figured I'd share it in case anyone else thinks it sounds fun.

I wanted a reading challenge that would take me a really long time to finish. Like, realistically, probably years if I ever decide to go for full completion.

The idea started with a simple question:

What if an alphabet challenge wasn't just one book per letter?

Instead of reading one book for A and moving on, you can keep working on A by finding books with different cover colours.

Maybe your first A book has a red cover. Then later you find a blue one. Then a green one.

The challenge combines an alphabet challenge with a cover colour challenge. Every letter has 12 colour prompts, so you can keep working on a letter instead of immediately moving on to the next one. Or you can jump all around. Whatever you want! There are different achievements and 'tiers' so you can still get them even if you don't complete letters! I did make the rules a bit lax for the letter part to make it more reader friendly. It can come from the title or the author name.

You can play casually and just fill in a few colours here and there, or go completely overboard and try to complete every colour for every letter.

Naturally, I went completely overboard and built a spreadsheet for it.

The spreadsheet includes:

-Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for every letter -28 achievements (these will fill in automatically if you tick in the tracker) -Automatic progress tracking -Reading statistics -A book log -Achievement tracking

My favourite part is probably the achievement system. It gives the challenge a bit of a game-like feel and breaks things up with goals beyond simply filling in boxes.

I had a lot of fun putting this together, and I'm excited to start using it myself. If it sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to check it out!

Rainbow ABC's Challenge Spreadsheet

Feel free to come back to this post and share when you get achievements or tiers! I’d so love to cheer you on!

Also don’t hesitate to let me know if something doesn’t work! I did my best to test every formula but I could have missed something.

Screenshots below the read more.

the Emily Wilde series by Heather Fawcett is lovely. follows an expert on faeries on an academic trip who is then joined by her colleague/friend who is totally chaotic and not bothered about academic rigour and is keeping something secret from her. there are 3 books in the series written in journal format. there is brief and mild spice in book 2 it's not very detailed or anything

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst. is about a librarian who flees the city during a violent coup to go back to her hometown. she takes several books with her to save them from the fires and wants to use them to help the town but this could get her in trouble so she sets up a jam shop as a front. it's very sweet. her best friend is a sentient spider plant

the Regency Faerie Tales series by Olivia Atwater. again there's 3 of these but not sure if more to come. I've only read 2. the first one is my favourite it's about a woman who had half her soul taken by a faerie so she can't feel emotions very strongly. she goes to London with her cousin to help her find a husband and she meets the kings magician who is very surly but also has a very strong moral compass. the second is about a maid who unknowingly tells a faerie her name and her desire to marry a well-to-do man she's fallen in love with, and his misguided attempts to help her

Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy is the first in a trilogy (the other two haven't been released yet) about a guy who is studying to be a scriver (someone who writes spells) who accidentally gets a spell on him that forces him to obey his rival's every command and to stay near him. they both set off to find a way to break the curse. there was no spice here but I could see there maybe being something in a future book

Thank you!

I have not heard of most of them but I have to excitedly share that I got to meet Heather Fawcett and get my books signed by her at a book signing and get a picture with her. (She is so nice.)

I was so stoked because I didn't realize she lived on Vancouver Island so I was so excited for the opportunity.

Thank you!

They’re technically in the same ‘universe’ but I haven’t really noticed the connections honestly.

I think (I don’t know a whole lot about the cosmere), they’re considered to be on separate worlds. And there’s a character that shows up in multiple series/books in the cosmere. I didn’t notice because his name changes but other people have really analyzed it and figured it out 😂 I put in research to look up a Cosmere reading order and I haven’t noticed a single thing about why the order is the order lol.