Reading challenges for 2015 (Feb 2015 - Feb 2016)

These challenges don't start until Feb 1 so I decided to give them their own page. 

Ethereal Reading Challenge 2015

This challenge is for books that steps beyond the black and white of life, any mystical subject. (~ Spiritual, mystical, paranormal:  non-fiction, fictional, religious. ~ Serious studies:  dreams, near-death experiences, miracles, astrology. ~ Novels with clergy:  Sister Carol Anne O’Marie, Caroline Roe, Margaret Frazer. ~ Books with animals talking / doing more than what society credits them. ~ Fantasy is certainly otherworldly, as well as witches and fairies.) It is being hosted by Carolyn at Riedel Fascination.  It has the following levels:

Intuition:   1-5 books

Third Eye: 11-20 books

Healing:    21 - 30 books

The Soul:  31+ books

I will be doing the Intuition level.

1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

2. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

3. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

4. Dragons of Winter by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

5. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
6. Undertow by Michael Buckley
7. Nil by Lynne Matson

Gentle Spectrums 

Reading Challenge 2015

There are actually two different challenges here.  The first one is Gentle Colors and encompasses colors and words that represent colors : Colourful, colour, bright, light, iridescent, iridescence, dark, shade, hue, spectrum, rainbow, prism.

The second challenge is Gentle Subjects.  You should read one book for each of these 10 subjects. 

~ (1)  STONES  ~ 
Variations of the word, gems, jewellery, ruins, geological formations.
(“The Hidden Mountain”)

~  (2)  CHEERFUL  ~
Uplifting, positive messages;  conveys pleasant thoughts, images.
(“The Five People You Meet In Heaven”)  Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde

~  (3)  NATIONS  ~
Cultures, locations:  lakes, towns, even well-known places;  fictional included.
(“Made In Canada”) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

~  (4)  PLANTS  ~
Trees, flowers, lawns, fields, grasses, grains, and gardening paraphernalia.
(“Night Gardening”)

~  (5)  WATER  ~
Water bodies, proper names, closely-connected components:  taps, sinks, pools.
(“The Lake Of Dead Languages”) Undertow by Michael Buckley

~  (6)  SPACE  ~
The sky, its contents, spatial matter, concepts, tools.  Star Trek / Star Wars-related.
(“Clouds Of Witness”) Raging Star by Moira Young

~  (7)  DAUNTING  ~
Any title that has you thinking:  “Oooo!  That does not sound good”!
(“If Two Are Dead”) Uncaged by John Sanford

~  (8)  STRUCTURES  ~
A building, its rooms, proper names, any of a structure’s parts.
(“The Palace Guard”) Stealing Home by Sherryl Woods

~  (9)  TIME  ~
Any signifiers of time, like seasons.  Any unit-measurers, like watches and calendars.
(“Night Travellers”) The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Little

~  (10)  HUMOROUS  ~
Odd, or anything that gives you a grin.  I’ll accept a ‘pun laid on too thick’ grimace too!
(“The Dragon And The Dry Goods Princess”). 

This reading challenge is hosted by RIEDEL Fascination. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.