2025 Challenges

CHALLENGE 1: 2025 Discussion Challenge

• Create a sign-up post announcing your intention to participate and link up below. There’s no need to say what your discussion posts will be about–just tell us you’re joining and let us know your goal. (Can be in an update post or a post with other challenges–you’re not required to make a completely separate sign-up post.)
• Please link back to both challenge hosts and include the challenge button in your sign-up posts. Feel free to also link back in your actual discussions (we appreciate it, so more people can find us!), but that’s not required.
• The challenge runs from January 1st until December 31st, 2025. Sign-ups will remain open through December 28th, 2025. So, you can basically sign up all year long. Come join us!
• Share it! The more people we get to participate in this, the more awesome discussions we can all be a part of and the more fun it will be! So, invite your friends to join us!
• On the 1st of every month, a link-up will go up on both Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight where you’ll leave your links for that month’s discussions. Every month, I’ll update the Discussion Challenge widget in the sidebar with the new post–so you’ll always know where to find the latest link-up!
• There will also be a big yearly giveaway–multiple winners for multiple things!–so do keep entering and checking back!
• Use the hashtag #LetsDiscuss2025 to share your progress and connect with other participants on Twitter

The Levels:

1-10 – Discussion Dabbler
11-20 – Creative Conversationalist
21-30 – Chatty Kathy
31-40 – Terrifically Talkative
41+ – Gift of the Gab

I'm aiming for 25 this year...to start!

1. 2024 End of the Year Survey  [January]
2. Reading in the Car  [January]
3. Reading Essentials  [January]
4. The 50 Bookish Questions Tag  [January]
5. Blogoversary Reminiscing  [January]
6. Posting Times  [February]

CHALLENGE 2: Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge 2025

• The challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025
• The book must be published in the previous year or earlier
• You must start and finish the book in 2025 for it to count
• Any format, any genre. Re-reads count, you don’t have to own the book, and you can join at any time. Track your BTB reading separately or pair it with another reading challenge!
• Using the optional reading prompts? It’s one book per prompt!

1. Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray (10/3/17)  [January]
2. The King of Crows by Libba Bray (2/4/20)  [January]
3. The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli (10/2/17)  [January]
4. The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli (9/25/18)  [January]
5. The Sky Weaver by Kristen Ciccarelli (11/12/19)  [January]
6. Edgewood by Kristen Ciccarelli (3/1/22)  [January]