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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025
Overview
Welcome to the Read, Seed, Water, Feed - 2025 Challenge!
This challenge is designed to be intentionally reflective, however that shows up for you. The prompts were developed partly from my own reading and experiences, on topics very close to my heart, with a focus on authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or part of the global majority.
what's the soil like here?
The Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 Challenge is born out of disability—cognitive, invisible, physical—persistence, care, luck, and love for the people of the planet. As such, I understand that each person comes to reading in their own unique way.
- The prompts attempt to offer choice to allow for varying interests and preferences. But also since it’s the first year, I don’t know how the prompts will work. This is an experiment for me!
- It’s possible to complete the challenge in much fewer than 24 books for those who need it through the overlapping of categories
- There are a few bonus categories for those who want or need more
- What we do with anything we read, for ourselves or others, is often more important than how many books we read.
read, seed, water, feed
I share about books, and more, including this reading challenge, at http://water.ghost.io, or you can find me on bluesky at plantingneurons.
📚🌱: Hosting a reading challenge only became possible for me in the last week of 2024 and the first week of 2025. Lola Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, which I read recently, feels like the water the seed I was holding onto needed to feed the passion I have to create a world that refuses to sacrifice people in the goal of self-serving freedom. That, together with some external help with my brain.
plant seeds
📚🌱: I offered book suggestions for the prompts, many books I’ve read & want to share as well as from my TBR. I look forward to seeing what books get added! The seeds we plant for ourselves and share with each other, plants we rarely see how they grow until we witness change in the world. 🌧️🌻
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God Is Change.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
This is my first hosted book challenge. Thank you for joining me!
one more thing..
--> Read more books from African authors across the continent!
Please join maybak’s 2025 East Africa Reading Challenge and/or LipGlossMaffia’s The 2025 #SomethingBookishReadingChallenge. I was grateful to find the #SomethingBookish challenge last year and I want to acknowledge that it helped me think about how to write prompts. Please check out and join me in these challenges if it interests you.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025
4 participants (370 books)
STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025
Overview
Welcome to the Read, Seed, Water, Feed - 2025 Challenge!
This challenge is designed to be intentionally reflective, however that shows up for you. The prompts were developed partly from my own reading and experiences, on topics very close to my heart, with a focus on authors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or part of the global majority.
what's the soil like here?
The Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 Challenge is born out of disability—cognitive, invisible, physical—persistence, care, luck, and love for the people of the planet. As such, I understand that each person comes to reading in their own unique way.
- The prompts attempt to offer choice to allow for varying interests and preferences. But also since it’s the first year, I don’t know how the prompts will work. This is an experiment for me!
- It’s possible to complete the challenge in much fewer than 24 books for those who need it through the overlapping of categories
- There are a few bonus categories for those who want or need more
- What we do with anything we read, for ourselves or others, is often more important than how many books we read.
read, seed, water, feed
I share about books, and more, including this reading challenge, at http://water.ghost.io, or you can find me on bluesky at plantingneurons.
📚🌱: Hosting a reading challenge only became possible for me in the last week of 2024 and the first week of 2025. Lola Olufemi’s Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, which I read recently, feels like the water the seed I was holding onto needed to feed the passion I have to create a world that refuses to sacrifice people in the goal of self-serving freedom. That, together with some external help with my brain.
plant seeds
📚🌱: I offered book suggestions for the prompts, many books I’ve read & want to share as well as from my TBR. I look forward to seeing what books get added! The seeds we plant for ourselves and share with each other, plants we rarely see how they grow until we witness change in the world. 🌧️🌻
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God Is Change.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
This is my first hosted book challenge. Thank you for joining me!
one more thing..
--> Read more books from African authors across the continent!
Please join maybak’s 2025 East Africa Reading Challenge and/or LipGlossMaffia’s The 2025 #SomethingBookishReadingChallenge. I was grateful to find the #SomethingBookish challenge last year and I want to acknowledge that it helped me think about how to write prompts. Please check out and join me in these challenges if it interests you.
