Book Talk Reading Challenge: May 2025 **RESULTS P.45** - Page 50

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

Typo tha lol

I'm reading Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating (ya i didnt choose henna wars in the end, even though I like enemies to lovers trope, but this one looked more interesting)

and im about to buddy read God of Fury by Rina Kent, with Lizzie

Yeah, I just read that one too. I didn't even mean to, but my cousin visited and she'd brought along this book, so I thought why miss the opportunity

Ooh there's been sm hype around Rina Kent books lately!! I'll be keeping an eye on your buddy thread 👀

V, your dp is so pretty! 😍

Originally posted by: Bee222

Yeah, I just read that one too. I didn't even mean to, but my cousin visited and she'd brought along this book, so I thought why miss the opportunity

Ooh there's been sm hype around Rina Kent books lately!! I'll be keeping an eye on your buddy thread 👀

What did you think of it?

Feel free to join our buddy read if you like, we are just reading 2 chapters per day. Thats nothing for you.

Originally posted by: Bee222

V, your dp is so pretty! 😍

Thank you so much, Bee!!

I edited the post. It was a misunderstanding. Please ignore this post.

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

Oh yeah I forgot to mention, my stalking list keeps getting longer every month. First I was stalking Lizzie and WD's logs, now Shibani too. Some of those thrillers look really tempting.

I stalk through every familiar user name's page logs . My never ending TBR is bursting at the seems with all these constant additions

Originally posted by: ThaneOfElsinore

Vera, you got the top badge! Above 10,000 pages! Congratulations! I told you earlier, your reading count was abnormal for us lesser mortals. Remember this GIF? I think you took it extremely seriously.

Hehe, tbh I aimed for the G.O.A.T badge this time and got it too

Bro, people like Shibani / Butterscotch_11 exist They managed to read 13k and 15k pages, magine

Originally posted by: Shirsha

She's a reading monster.

Nope, I just don’t have any other way to entertain myself, that’s all Not watching any series or shows—literally nothing. So it’s just books or naps for me, and I’m doing both equally. So I'm left with either reading books or napping, both of which I'm doing in equal measure

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Hello Hello folks!

Ready for the results of the May 2025 Reading Challenge?

First off, thank you all who participated and helped your team get to their totals. Each of your contributions are very much valued.

Another thing of note this month was that many of you managed to better your reading totals from last month despite your busy schedules! We do have more Pro badges this month than Star badges, so yayy for y'all!

Again, thank you to Tiara (Dreamofendless) for making the tags and the beautiful badges!

Thank you, Shibani (oh_nakhrewaali) for the lovely Quidditch themed team tags and the siggies!

Thank you to Vera (missFiesty_69) and Parm (WildestDreams) for being the captains for their respective teams, and helping me out with this challenge!

I had thought of making changes to the reading levels this time round because so many of you did amazing! But then have kept them the same as last month (for now) starting from 200 which was the minimum required to earn a participation badge.

May 2025 Reading Challenge Badge assignments

(Based on totals from the Google sheet as of today. If you do not find your name here or find that there is an error in your page totals, please let me know!)

200-1000 pages (Star Reader)

1. Rosyme
2. tellyme
3. Swetha-Sai
4. mushat
5. Srijeeta06
6. m4manju

1001 - 4000 pages (Pro Reader)

1. heavenlybliss
2. Sambhavami
3. Shirsha
4. So-so
5. --Priyaa--
6. Gags05
7. GumnaamhaiKoii
8. Queen0fdarkness
9. Dreamofendless
10. Arya212002
11. Exoticdisaster
12. Moonstique
13. Rdigest
14. Amru4krish
15. foreverlazy
16. SoniRita
17. Moodymango
18. ssttuuttii
19. LadyWhistledown
20. CID-fan-394
21. Bluehue

4001 - 7000 pages (Ace Reader)

1. Leprechaun
2. Minionite
3. Bee222
4. ThaneofElsinore
5. minakrish
6. Clochette

7001- 10,000 pages (Whiz Reader)

1. LizzieBennet
2. LizzynDarcy
3. aryapdane
4. DMGThings

Above 10,000 pages (G.O.A.T)

1. Butterscotch11
2. oh_nakhrewaali
3. missFiesty_69
4. WildestDreams

Moving on to the Team tallies!

Team Story Seekers posted a grand total of 41390 pages! Great job you guys!

Team Chronicle Chasers posted a total of 47698 pages. Full props to the team!

And the winning team for May 2025's Reading Challenge is

Team Biblio Beaters !!!

who bamboozled their way to the top with an earth-shaking 74262 pages!!!

(I have created reading monsters!)

Particularly these two Colossuses on this team - oh_nakhrewaali, and Butterscotch11!

Congratulations Biblio Beaters! You sure beat everyone hollow!

Here's your siggy!

And now for the MVP of the month.

Please give it up for Butterscotch11

who posted a whopping 15815 pages

setting a new benchmark for an individual total (that I'm sure will be broken very soon by one of you reading monsters!)

Congratulations!

Here's your siggy!

Again, thank you all for participating!

Onwards and upwards for June 2025 and some more fantastic reads!

Siggies and team tags: oh_nakhrewaali

Badges and tags: Dreamofendless

Should have been Rajdhani Express beaters would have been fitting!! I mean 74k ?

Thank you so much, Lizzie. I’m having such a great time doing this challenge. I'm glad I got the G.O.A.T badge too

Originally posted by: Clochette

Wow! What an impressive result

I like my green badge

My first time reading challenge participation made fun (so much that I'll continue in June). And it's so interesting to read what others have chosen (even made a list for future readings/listenings).

big, big

to the four making the challenge so endearing

Thanks Clochette! Congratulations to you too 🤍