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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2023 – Read a Rainbow – May

By April 27, 2023News

Thank you so much to everyone who has joined in with our new challenge in 2023, lots of you in our book group have been sharing your reads. It’s not too late to join in and read along.

As you know, we are keeping with an inclusive challenge again this year with the three options, Easy, Hard, and Super Reader. This year’s monthly category will be, “Read the Rainbow”, a different colour will be picked each month, and you can choose to either read a book with that coloured cover or with the colour in the title. There will also be an alphabetical challenge, once again by author’s name.

Hopefully, this will mean that everyone can join in, whether you read one book a month or three or more!

May’s categories are:-

EASY – ALPHABETICAL CHALLENGE

Read a book by an author whose name begins with an I or a J.

Here are just a few suggestions for each letter:

Eowyn Ivey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Laila Ibrahim, Naomi Ishiguro, Eva Ibbotson, John Irving, Christopher Isherwood, Camilla Isley.

P.D. James, Rachel Joyce, Henry James, Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Ruth Jones, Milly Johnson, Tayari Jones, James Joyce, Marlon James, Balli Kaur Jaswal.

HARD – MONTHLY CATEGORY CHALLENGE

Read a book with Blue in the title or with a Blue cover.

Here are a few suggestions from the members of The Cwts Club Discussion Group.

Blue Skinned Gods – S. J Sindu

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Tom Robbins

Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell

The Blue Castle – L. M Montgomery

Blue Shoes and Happiness – Alexander McCall Smith

The House by the Cerulean Sea – T. J Klune

Girl in the Blue Coat – Monica Hesse

Black and Blue – Anna Quindlen

The Blue Fox – Sjon

SUPER READER – READ HARDER CHALLENGE

Read a book by an author whose name begins with an I or a J (or both) and read a book with Blue in the title or with a Blue cover.

As with all our previous challenges, pick a book from our list, pop along to your local bookshop or library, order something online, or pick up something that’s already in your TBR pile.

Don’t forget to share what you are reading in our Cwts Club Discussion Group.

Happy reading in 2023!

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