Bear species challenge 🐻 | The StoryGraph

Bear species challenge 🐻

Hosted by ancaciochina

4 participants, 35 books added

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

To say that I love bears is an understatement. I adore bears, I am obsessed with them. I also love reading. So, I decided to make a bear related reading challenge to spread some bear knowledge in a fun way and to keep my reading diverse.

Ursiade family has 8 species. There are 24 mandatory prompts, 3 for each bear species that still exists, and 6 bonus prompts with some not truly bears bears.
For each prompt you can find:

🧸️ some information regarding the bear type
📚 some books I think may fit the prompt – but you can read anything you want
🌐 an NGO that supports that species if you want to support them

Also, you can start and finish the challenge at any point.

Have fun!

PS: All information is available at the date of posting, in February 2024. I hope any future changes will be positive ones!

Challenge Prompts

1. 🐻 the brown bear – we can start by reading a Romanian book.

2. 🐻 the brown bear – let’s read a finish book.

3. 🐻 the brown bear – let's read a book with a found family.

4. ·ᴥ· the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) – let’s be basic, read a book a book set in Winter or in a cold place. Bonus points if any polar bear appears.

5. ·ᴥ· the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) – let’s read book set at sea or about sea/ocean

6. ·ᴥ· the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) – let’s read a book over 500 pages.

7. 🐻 the Asiatic black bear, also known as moon bear (selenarctos thibetanus) – let's read overlooked Asian literature or stories/narratives from a country that is not stereotypically though about when Asia is mentioned.

8. 🐻 the Asiatic black bear, also known as moon bear (selenarctos thibetanus) – let's read a book where the moon has an important role.

9. 🐻 the Asiatic black bear, also known as moon bear (selenarctos thibetanus) – you can find the moon bear in indian mythology as Jambavantha and in japanese mythology as the mountain spirit (yama no kami). Read a book with one of these characters or another book that has any mention of the moon bear.

10. 🐻 the American black bear – let’s read a narrative part of Migrant literature set in North America, by Asian-American writers.

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