Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!
Today marks my first entry into helping my co-hosts highlight some of the most lovely surprises we have as hosts – which is finding out how everyone is responding to our #WyrdAndWonder Challenge prompts! You’ve been apprised about whose blogging their replies in the book blogosphere and you have caught sight of those who are filling #bookstagram with their challenge replies as well – but today, I want to highlight those of us who are using the prompts on #bookTwitter! As I think we tend to get overlooked a bit for those who are following the prompts on blogs & on #bookstagram!
For years now, I wish we had a cool tag like #bookstagram to use on Twitter!
This is a place I regularly haunt myself and earlier in the month I was getting my rhythm to respond to the prompts and share my own replies by way of book photography and #unboxing videos! I had to take a short break from uploading those replies but will be resuming them this week. Today, I want to take a moment to look back at some of my favourite representations of Wyrd And Wonder and how this event is encouraging everyone to consider the prompts and to respond to them in a way which suits each individual who is participating!
I am going to be sharing 3x posts with you like this one today – as I wanted to highlight this prompt challenge in sequencing of 10x prompts per post. Therefore, today I am featuring Prompts One through Ten – in order to properly talk about them, showcase our Wyrd And Wonder community and to help you visit the tweeters who are creating such fantastical content right now! Part II will feature Prompts 11 through 20 and Part III will feature Prompts 21 through 31.

I am using the search feature on Twitter to find the responses to our challenge – if I’ve missed your post, please leave a comment and send me the link to your tweet – I’ll include it on this post as soon as I see you. These are the prompts in case you haven’t had the chance to find the full list – you can go in order, respond as it suits your mood & inspiration or even group them together – there are no hard fast rules to how you can respond! Also – you don’t have to share photos or videos – you can respond with your words, too!
Like some of us participating this year, I didn’t quite have my act together at the start of #WyrdAndWonder – I had fully planned to have my sequencing of the which posts I wanted to feature and which interviews I wanted to space out throughout the month, whilst keeping mindful of which kinds of posts outside of reviews & guest features I wanted to post as well. Those were best laid plans – as I entered May with horrid seasonal allergies and a migraine. I lost my footing for a few days and somehow, as of now, I’m still finding my traction.
A whole fortnight was consumed and I’m still feeling as if I’m treading water for Wyrd And Wonder. The only good news though is that I’m finding I can resume reading and blogging again with a renewed sense of passion unlike I’ve felt in the past several months. I am sure I am not alone in feeling like reading hasn’t quite been able to hold my focus as it has in the past – if you’ve visited my feeds on Twitter you’ve noticed how oft I’ve been talking about my love of #AcornTV – as apparently #CosyCrime and police procedural dramas have been more my jam lately with Cosy Mysteries and sophisticated comedies!
When I went to look through the feeds early-on in the month, just as our event was starting to kick-off I was most impressed by the content being generated by our participants. They were honing in on the prompts which spoke to them and how they responded to those prompts is a burst of joy for us as co-hosts, as Lisa, Imyril and I love seeing how each prompt itself is interpreted and responded too.
PROMPT ONE: YOUR WYRD AND WONDERFUL TBR
→ This one is a curious one – you can either respond with your ENTIRE TBR or just portions of it – which is the route I took myself. Let’s see how others elected to respond, eh? As I love peeking into everyone’s readerly life during our event and seeing (like everyone else!) what I can spy out to add to my own expanding TBR!
Kicking-off Wyrd And Wonder with a s/o about their first book to be read was @DragonsnZombies wherein they showed a beautiful spread from “Wundersmith” by Jessica Townsend. Although this tweet wasn’t quite a TBR – I felt it was a good place to start because ‘to be read’ could also imply the ‘book you’re currently intending to read’ or ‘are reading’ as Wyrd And Wonder gets underway. I decided to show their official ‘first’ tweet s/o for Wyrd And Wonder – as the event started a day ahead of us as their in Australia!
It's the 1st of May in Australia, so officially #WyrdandWonder month!
I'm going to cuddle up on the couch and will be spending my time with
📚 Wundersmith &
📚 The Shadow Risingtoday ✌🏻#amreading #TwitterOfTime pic.twitter.com/P9Sk3hLHla
— zhan ge didi ai ni (@Mad_Blankeyy) April 30, 2020
Caroline (@asweetdevouring) followed suit – happily exclaiming how happy she was to begin reading “Priory of the Orange Tree” – a novel I was thankful to get back from my own library once they reopened! I have yet to actually ‘start’ PRIORY but that’s a story for another hour! lol
The blogger whom I think caught most people’s attention with her creatively ‘outside’ stack of #WyrdAndWonder loveliness was Annemieke (@signourney). I admit, I nearly re-fetched a copy of Islington books myself until I was happily informed they are a bit too gritty on the violence angle for me to fully appreciate them. Likewise, after reading a review for “Ten Thousand Doors of January” – realised this was also not going to be my cuppa. However, I do enjoy hearing other readers read these stories because of how they’re talking about their readerly experiences. I like to takeaway something from those experiences even if I cannot follow them into the story directly.
#WyrdAndWonder TBR
These aren't set in stone but right now are on my really want to. What should i pick up first? pic.twitter.com/v43EBMurTg— 🐉 Annemieke | inactive (@Signourney) May 1, 2020
My delightful co-host Lisa (@deargeekplace) shared her lovely stack of stories she most wants to dive into this #WyrdAndWonder wherein I spied several authors we share in common! Or at least, common curiosity I ought to say? I borrowed the first audiobook for the Memoirs of Lady Trent series from my library this month whilst I am still trying to make progress into the #OctoberDaye series (currently seeking book two!) and “Gods of Jade and Shadow” is also a book I was curious about reading myself.
And here we go. #wyrdandwonder #tbr #whoneedsaplananyway pic.twitter.com/Qn8T2mgZzB
— Lisa (@deargeekplace) May 1, 2020