Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Welcome to Winter
12/12

DECEMBER

1. Winter
a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER (you can use or ignore a, an or the)
Wild Dogs by Michael Trant 1/12 4.5★
b. Read a book with snow, snowflakes or a snowman on the cover OR a book with a person wearing winter clothing (scarf, hat, warm coat etc) on the cover.
c. Read a book that is between 89 and 128 pages long (you can ignore the 100 page requirement for this task).

2. December birthdays: Jane Austen was born on December 16th.
a. Read a book written by a female author.
Happy Hour by Jacquie Byron 11/12 5★
b. Read a novel set in the 19th century.
c. Read a romance novel.

3. The Holidays
a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December. (Some examples: Rosa Parks Day, National Cookie Day, Dewey Decimal System Day, Nobel Prize Day, Kwanzaa, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Hanukkah, etc.) - Christmas
The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde 9/12 3.5★
b. Read a book that has one of the gifts referred to in The Twelve Days of Christmas shown on its cover (ignore the numbers - eg a book with a gold ring works, you don’t need a book with five gold rings!)
c. Read a book that features a family gathering.

4. Winter sports: yukigassen
a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN.
b. Read a book in a series that is at least 7 books long
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay 8/12 4★
c. Read a book set in a country where yukigassen is played (Japan, Armenia, Canada, China, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, or Slovakia).

JANUARY

1. Happy New Year!
a. Read a book by an author who is new to you.
The Nail Knot by John Galligan 2/12 2.5★
b. Read a book from a genre that is new to you (you can use a sub-genre, eg urban fantasy, historical romance, etc if you already read books from most genres).
c. Read a book in which all the words in the title have the same number of letters (eg The Bat, Ninth House, The Old Man and the Sea).

2. January birthdays: Haruki Murakami was born on January 12th.
a. Read a book set in Japan.
b. Read a book that features a cat in some way - Don's cat, Lion
Flying the Nest by Rachael Johns 12/12 4★
c. Read a magical realism novel.

3. New Year Resolutions
a. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS (the title must be at leat three words long for this option)
b. Read a book that looks into the past (historical fiction, history, etc) or a book that looks into the future (science fiction, fantasy, etc).
c. Read a book that will help you keep one of your New Year resolutions OR if you don’t make resolutions then read a book related to one of the top ten New Years resolutions. Tell us what your resolution is when recording this task as completed. - get along with my sisters
The Gin Sisters' Promise by Faith Hogan 10/12 3★

4. Winter sports: bobsleigh
a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND.
Death on Demand by Paul Thomas 6/12 4★
b. Read a book in which a conflict between characters is a major part of the plot. Tell us what the conflict was (using spoiler tags if necessary) when recording the task as completed.
c. Read a book that is fast-paced.

FEBRUARY

1. Valentine’s Day
a. Read a book with Romance listed as one of the top five genres on its Goodreads page.
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan 11/12 3.5★
b. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in VALENTINE’S DAY.
c. Read a book written in or set in the Medieval period (usually defined as the 5th to 15th centuries).

2. February birthdays: Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7th.
a. Read a book set in the American midwest.
b. Read a novel that features the wilderness.
c. Read a coming of age story.
Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies by Jackie French 5/12 4.5★

3. Winter sports: Ski jumping
a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long.
b. Read a book published in a year in which the Winter Olympics took place (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)
A Summer Fling by Milly Johnson 8/12 3.5★ - 2010
c. Read a book where the plot “jumps” about (a non-linear narrative as it’s normally called).

4. The Shortest Month of the Year
a. Read a literary fiction novel.
b. Read a book that features a ghost.
c. Read a book that starts with a letter in the word SHORT.
A Spring Affair by Milly Johnson 7/12 4★