I think this is my fifth time participating in Trope-ical Readathon. So bring it on, Trope-ical Readathon March 2024 season! I decided to stay in Team Fantasy again, mainly because I already own one of the books in the Team Challenges. Below are the Common Challenges and Team Challenges for this round. All Trope-icale Readathon March 2024 rules and information are here. You can register through March 10 at 11:59 pm (US Central Time).
Common Challenges
| PROMPT | ALTERNATE PROMPT | BOOK |
| Absent/dead parents | A book with more than one author | Wrath by Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus |
| Hand-picked crew | A cover-buy book | The Night Hunt by Alexandra Christo |
| Coming-of-age | A genre you don’t usually read | Fair Play by Katie Barnes |
| Multiple timelines | A book you previously DNFed | Weyward by Emilia Hart |
| Love triangle | Followers/friends choose between two books | The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten |
| Multiple POV | Multiple POC characters | |
| Mixed media | An audiobook or ebook | |
| Apocalyptic/dystopia | A comfort read | The Premonition by Michael Lewis [DONE] |
| Found family | A book in a series | Lirael by Garth Nix [DONE] |
| Twins | A book that shares its title | Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell |
| Revenge | A banned book | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson [DONE] |
| Bookish themes | A book with a pun in the title | An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson [DONE] |
| Retelling | A book with a TV or movie adaptation | The Martian by Andy Weir |
Team Challenges
Here are the challenges for Team Fantasy:
Team Challenge 1: Read a book with the “Urban Fantasy” trope
Team Challenge 2: Read a book with the “Powerful Artifact” trope
New Team Book: Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
Old Team Book: Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier
For Team Challenge 1 I chose SHANGHAI IMMORTAL by A.Y. Chao.
For Team Challenge 2 I chose ELRIC OF MELNIBONE (Book 1) by Michael Moorcock. [DONE]
I suppose this also more or less serves as my March TBR list. Or, rather, supplemental material. Do you plan to participate in Trope-ical Readathon March 2024? Let me know if you plan to read any of the books here, too!
Last updated March 30, 2024.
Enjoy! The Martian is one of my favorites!
Wonderful! It’s a book I’ve been saying I’ll read for ages! ????
I love the books you’ve picked. The Martian is so much fun, I loved Weyward, and Wrath is on my TBR. Good luck and have fun reading!
Thanks! I’m really proud of the fact that all but two (?) are from my bookshelves. I’m really trying to focus on books I already own!
This looks like a great month of reading. Elric of Melnibone really takes me back in time as I read all of them when I was in my late teens.
I hadn’t even heard of Elric of Melnibone until I had to ask on Twitter for fantasy books with the “powerful artifact” trope. There are a lot of books in that series!
There are. He’s written quite a few since I read them. I seem to remember there were several series with different main characters but they were all ‘the eternal hero’. I used to love them
I hope you have fun taking part
Thanks!
I still need to sit down and decide what team I want to join this time. None of the team prompts have really jumped out at me. So, I’m not sure what I’m going to do.
The Team prompts usually never stick out to me because I know I’ll probably never get to them, haha. So I only chose Team Fantasy because I own a copy of Faebound already.