Happy March 15th!
Today I have another tbr/announcement for another quarterly (three-month) challenge. This time it's for the Taylor Swift Quarterly Challenge! I found this on the Romance Readers Reading Challenges goodreads group (the same one hosting the Yahtzee Reading Challenge). You can check their post for all the details, but I'll go over the basics here and list out the prompts! First off though, this is a three month challenge that runs from March 15th (today!!) through June 14th, 2022.
Now where this is a little different, there isn't a bingo board or spinner wheel or anything. Depending on how many books you read, you can reach a certain level. In this case, they are sticking with the Taylor Swift theme. The levels are:
Level 1 - Read 5 books - I've heard a Taylor Swift song on the radio
Level 2 - Read 10 books - I have a Taylor album downloaded on my phone
Level 3 - Read 20 books - I have seen Taylor in concert or plan to in the future
Level 4 - Read 30 books - Taylor merch and vinyl albums are in my room
Level 5 - Read 40 books - I am a Swiftie!
You can set your level or goal beforehand or just read and see where you end up. I'll be going with the latter option and seeing how close I am to the next level once we reach the final couple weeks. There are 40 prompts provided, all based off of her songs. There are a few bonus options as well (which I'll post at the end of the prompts). If you complete all of the prompts and bonus options you'd end up with a total of 47 books read! Okay, let's get into the large list of prompts!
1. Tim McGraw- Read a book with a cowboy or a book set on a ranch or farm
2. Teardrops on My Guitar- Read a book that you think could make you cry or a book with an instrument on the cover or in the story
3. Fifteen- Read a YA story or a book with teens in the story or a book with a lot of angst
4. Love Story- Read any romance - guaranteed HEA!
5. White Horse- Read a story with a character who saves another or a book with white on the cover
6. You Belong with Me- Read a fated mates story or a book with a character who knows what they want
7. Mine- Read a book you own or a book that you really don't want to give back if you've borrowed it (hopefully you love it that much!)
8. Back to December- Read a book published in December of any year (any edition) or a Historical book
9. Dear John- Read a book that includes a text, letter or email or a book with a break-up in it.
10. Mean- Read a story with a mean character or a book with green on the cover (maybe they are jealous?)
11. The Story of Us- Read a book that is part of a series or a book with more than one person on the cover
12. I Knew You Were Trouble- Read a book with a bad-boy character or with someone who does a bad thing
13. All Too Well- Read a story with a fit character or an athlete or a book with a character who helps themselves in some way
14. 22- Read a New Adult book or a book with two of the same number together in the page count or publishing date (i.e. 133 or 441 pages, pub. 2022, 2011)
15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together- Read a second-chances romance or a book featuring a self-confident character
16. Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran)- Read a friends to lovers story or a book featuring magic or spells
17. Welcome to New York- Read a book set in NY or a story featuring a friendly character
18. Blank Space- Read a book with a character who works in the sciences (i.e. astronaut, chemist, doctor) or a character who uses a gun (hopefully shooting blanks)
19. Out of the Woods- Read a book with a character with a medical condition or a book set in an urban city
20. Shake It Off- Read a book with a character who likes the arts (i.e. dancer, singer, painter) or a story with a character you want to shake some sense into
21. Bad Blood- Read an enemies to lovers story or a book with red on the cover
22. Wildest Dreams- Read a book outside your normal romance sub-genre or a book with a wild cover (your interpretation)
23. Look What You Made Me Do- Read a suspense story or a book with eye(s) on the cover
24. Getaway Car- Read a road trip romance or a book with a vehicle on the cover or in the story
25. Lover- Read a book with an embrace on the cover or in the story
26. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince- Read a book set in the U.S. or a book with a ‘heartbreaker’ in the story
27. Cornelia Street- Read a story with a road or building on the cover or a small-town romance
28. Death By A Thousand Cuts- Read a story with a motorcycle club character or a book with over 1000 ratings
29. You Need to Calm Down- Read a story with a lawyer or a book with the color blue on the cover
30. ME! Ft. Brendon Urie- Read a story with a one word title or a book written by a duo/writing team
31. Cardigan- Read a book with clothes on the cover or a story you want to read while getting cozy by the fire
32. The Last Great American Dynasty- Read a book with royalty in the story or a wealthy character
33. August- Read a 'hot' story or a book with a character you would like to spend some hot times with
34. Betty- Read a book with a character who has an interesting name or a medieval story (Betty Rubble comes to mind)
35. Willow- Read a book with tree(s) on the cover or a book with a witch or witchy character in it (homage to Willow from Buffy)
36. Champagne problems- Read a book with a bar, bartender, server or alcohol in the story or a book that makes you feel hung over when you finish it
37. ‘tis the damn season- Read a holiday romance or a book with a scroogey character in it
38. No body, no crime feat. HAIM- Read a mystery or a book without a person on the cover
39. Happiness- Read a story that you think will make you happy or a book that finally came in for you at the library (online or in the building)
40. Ivy- Read a book with a college setting or with a college student in the story or a book with brown on the cover
Bonus:
S-W-I-F-T-I-E
For the bonus round, you can read a book for each letter. The qualification is that a word from the title, series, author's name or setting must start with that letter. That opens up the bonus options quite a bit, and if you aren't going for the full monty can use a bonus book to replace a prompt (meaning you could read 5 bonus books and meet level one).
As you can see (if you read through every prompt) a lot of them are generic enough to met really easily. I do have a few ideas I want to mention for the more specific prompts, but honestly I'm really just hoping a lot of my reads for Love Has Sprung will count for prompts here as well.
🎵 So Jenn from The Book Refuge recently announced that she'll be doing a Sarah J Maas readalong starting in April. We are starting with her Throne of Glass series which starts out as YA (young adult) and I've been told moves into NA (new adult). I should be able to at least use the first book for the YA prompt Fifteen.
🎵 Tim McGraw wants you to read something set on a farm or ranch or feature a cowboy main character. I have quite a few options on my list, but at this moment I'm leaning towards continuing Katie Lane's Deep in the Heart of Texas series or finally starting Kennedy Fox's Circle B Ranch series. I know at least the Kennedy Fox's have been highly rated by Shelby, so they should meet some of the Shelby based prompts for Love Has Sprung as well.
🎵 The Blank Space prompt wants a character that works in the sciences. Penny Reid is releasing a new standalone in April called Ten Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend that has both main characters working in science fields. She has a lot of STEM characters, so there could be other of her books that would work for this as well.
🎵 A couple of the prompts mention suspense or mystery elements. Outside of Penny Reid's Solving for Pie series, I was thinking of pick back up Pamela Clare. I need to get caught up on her Colorado High Country series, but she also has the suspense series I-Team that I've read a couple books from.
🎵 The Last Great American Dynasty needs a royal character. My first thought is finally picking up Twisted Games by Ana Huang or picking up Emma Chase's Royally series.
🎵 We also have a prompt for a holiday romance in 'Tis the Damn Season. There's aren't really any holidays during the reading challenge outside of St. Patrick's Day. I know there's a multi-author series called The Kelly Brothers that's St. Patrick's Day based. I think there's a couple others out there, but I'll probably pick up one of those for fun that weekend.
If I completely finish Love Has Sprung, that will give me 75 books, so that should cover most, if not all, of these prompts. Even just getting two boards complete would work since that'll be 50 books. What's nice is that this is slightly offset, so if I need to just focus on finishing a board for Love Has Sprung by May 31st I still have a couple weeks leeway to finish this one too. Also, I should mention that I'll be using the tag TSQC for my blog posts. Once I start getting reviews posted for books that I'm using you'll be able to find them all under the tag easily!
Will you be participating in the Taylor Swift Quarterly Challenge?
Bookishly Yours,
Stasi🍎
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