2017 Monthly Keyword Reading Challenge
This challenge was hosted by My Soul Called Life and is a challenge I’ve done in the past but took off a couple years to do other challenges. I did it again this year, but during the year the host disappeared and we haven’t been able to post monthly reviews. Her blog is now gone. But I decided to carry on and finish it up anyway.
Six keywords are associated with each month in 2017 and we read one book each month whose title includes one or more of the keywords for that month. The book title chosen can be a variation on one of the keywords. Meaning, we can tweak the keywords. At the beginning of the year I looked at my stacks and chose books to fulfill the challenge. Those are in italics. Actual books read are in red. You can see how well I stuck to my original plan, 5 of 12. On the bright side, 3 of the others were from my TBR stacks, so still a win in clearing out shelves.
2017 Keywords, my list of TBR hopefuls, my list of reads:
JAN– Court, Fall, Of, Way, Deep, Thousand (A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas)
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam, M.C. Beaton
Death of a Greedy Woman (Hamish Macbeth #8), M.C. Beaton
Watchers of Time (Inspector Ian Rutledge #5), Charles Todd
FEB– And, Rose, Promise, Every, Deception, Blazing (The Darling Dahlias & the Confederate Rose, by Susan Wittig Albert)
The Darling Dahlias & the Naked Ladies, by Susan Wittig Albert
MAR– Shall, Go, By, Silence, Her, Saga (Rose Wilder Lane: Her Story by Rose Wilder Lane & Roger Lea MacBride)
APR– From, Trigger, Tale, His, Crown, Mist (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski)
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
MAY– Four, Wind, All, Fury, Days, Shade (All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou)
JUN– Without, Know, Good, Watch, One, Have (The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate)
JUL– Before, Final, All, Freedom, Life, Dream (The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons)
AUG– Sun, Infinite, Big, My, Wherever, Most (My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira)
SEP– Sand, From, Between, Ever, Reasons, Clash (The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar)
Rebel of the Sands (Rebel #1), Alwyn Hamilton
OCT– Darker, You, Ashes, Out, House, Sea (The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier)
To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14), Jan Karon
NOV– Place, War, Heart, Why, Give, Meet (The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou)
Death of a Valentine (Hamish Macbeth #25), M.C. Beaton
DEC– Forget, Twilight, Only, Crystal, On, Will (Theft on Thursday (Lois Meade Mystery #4), Ann Purser)
Terror on Tuesday (Lois Meade Mystery #2), Ann Purser
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