Snowflakes and Spider Silk

The Reading Quest ends tonight! I don't think I'll be binge-reading anything before the night is out, so I figured I would put up my final stats now! So I ended up at Level 5 with 200 XP! I also had 330 HP by the end of the challenge. I finished the Mage quest, just like I planned, but I only finished 1 book of the Knight quest. I did read a couple of books for side quests though. Here's a list of all the books I completed for the challenge: MAGE One word title: Foundation by Isaac Asimov Contains Magic: Flame in the Mist by Renee Adieh Mythology: Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana First Book in a series: Persepolis (part 1) by Marjane Satrapi Different World: ACOWAR by SJ Maas KNIGHT Verb in title: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon SIDE QUESTS Respawn (previously DNF) - The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi Animal Companion (animal in title) - The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera Mini-Game (poetry/graphic novel) - The Complete W...

I was on vacation for about a week, so that's why I haven't posted anything in a little while! Now that I'm back, I wanted to give you all an update on my first week of The Reading Quest. I ended up shuffling the books that I picked for the Mage, some of them I replaced and some I moved to side quests. I got a bunch of library books off of holds all at once, so I was trying to make most of them count towards the Reading Quest! And as always, I want to try to read more stuff by marginalized authors/about diverse MCs so I might end up shuffling some more if I can find more diverse books to read :) I also made a spreadsheet to keep track of points: Definitely spent waaaaaaaaaay too much time picking the perfect fonts for my headers HAHA So far I've finished two books for side quests and I'm currently reading two more for the Mage. The ones I've finished are The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (which was okay), and The Tiger's Daughter by K....

While I'm in the middle of my year-long SFF challenge, I thought it would be fun to join a month-long challenge along the way! I'm not sure if any books will overlap, but both challenges encourage reading diverse authors and own-voice books so I'll have double the reason to pick up more diverse sci-fi and fantasy :) I'm The Reading Quest by Aentee @ Read at Midnight (you can sign up here , sign ups are open until August 12!). I've chosen to be a Mage at first, but I'm hoping to finish the Mage squares and then do the Knight or Bard. Here's my character card! I couldn't get the base image from the original link to work, so I made up my own. (Shout-out to    CW of Read, Think, Ponder  for creating these characters, and for including characters of a bunch of different skin colors!) The challenge starts August 13, so I have a bit of time to change my mind on these, but so far here's what I'm planning to read for Mage: A book with o...