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DECEMBER - Completed!❄️ 1. Winter ❄️
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a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER (you can use or ignore a, an or the)
To the Lighthouse (Jan 1)
❄️ 2. December birthdays: Jane Austen ❄️
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a. Read a book written by a female author.
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (Jan 16)
🎄 3. The Holidays 🎄
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a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December.
c. Read a book that features a family gathering.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
--> Related to Christmas, features family gatherings by the Cratchits and the dinner party of Scrooge's nephew.
❄️ 4. Winter sports: yukigassen ❄️
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a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Jan 8)
JANUARY - Completed!✨ 1. Happy New Year! ✨
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a. Read a book by an author who is new to you.
Lyntyven by Rick Riordan (Jan 5)
❄️ 2. January birthdays: Haruki Murakami ❄️
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c. Read a magical realism novel.
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Jan 2)
🎇 3. New Year Resolutions 🎇
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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).
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Jan 29)
--> Does both - the characters travel all throughout time.
🛷 4. Winter sports: bobsleigh 🛷
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a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND.
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.
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
--> Set in Ireland. (view spoiler)
FEBRUARY - Completed!💟 1. Valentine’s Day 💟
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a. Read a book with Romance listed as one of the top five genres on its Goodreads page.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (Jan 20)
--> Romance is genre #4
❄️ 2. February birthdays: Laura Ingalls Wilder ❄️
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b. Read a novel that features the wilderness.
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin (Dec 3)
--> The MC walks across almost a whole continent alone during the book, most of which is uninhabited wilderness.
⛷️ 3. Winter sports: Ski jumping ⛷️
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a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (Feb 15)
-->295 pages
❄️ 4. The Shortest Month of the Year ❄️
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c. Read a book that starts with a letter in the word SHORT.
Slaget på Vigrid by Kristine Tofte (Dec 16)
Around the Year in 52 Books
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1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Jan 1)
2. Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (Jan 16)
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Dec 9)
4. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Jan 8)
5. Lyntyven by Rick Riordan (Jan 5)
6. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Jan 2)
7. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Jan 29)
8. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Dec 8)
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (Jan 20)
10. City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin (Dec 3)
11. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (Feb 15)
12. Slaget på Vigrid by Kristine Tofte (Dec 16)