44 - Read a book during the season it is set in

[L Y N N]

Milena wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "In a complete coincidence, I picked up The Shell Seekers on the last day of February - a very cold, gray day - and found that the book begins..."

Cool!

[Thegirlintheafternoon]

Lynn wrote: "Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "In a complete coincidence, I picked up The Shell Seekers on the last day of February - a very cold, gray day - and found that the book begins on a cold, g..."

Oh, it was so wonderful. So, so wonderful.

[Thegirlintheafternoon]

Lynn wrote: "Milena wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "In a complete coincidence, I picked up The Shell Seekers on the last day of February - a very cold, gray day - and found that ..."

It gave me happy goosebumps :)

[Bhavna]

I know the season means winter, summer, etc - but currently in India we are going through the 'election season' - elections will be in May so everywhere you are hearing election talk. And in my book club we are reading a book on Indian Elections - can I use it for this prompt?

[Nadine in NY]

Bhavna wrote: "I know the season means winter, summer, etc - but currently in India we are going through the 'election season' - elections will be in May so everywhere you are hearing election talk. And in my boo..."

Yes! a season is a season, the category didn't specify. I think someone else in the group is reading a book set in baseball season!

[Christine]

I'm procrastinating doing chores, so here are some more ideas:

Late Spring/Early Summer:
Three Men in a Boat
To Say Nothing of the Dog

Summer:
The Events at Poroth Farm
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
And Then There Were None

Fall:
Paper Girls, Vol. 1
The Halloween Tree
Dark Harvest
The Supernatural Enhancements
Interlands

Winter:
The Wendigo
Dark Matter (this may technically be in spring/summer but it's in the Arctic so it's snowy and cold)
At the Mountains of Madness (same, but Antarctic)
The Werewolf

All-in-one:
Different Seasons

[KF-in-Georgia]

Nadine wrote: "...I think someone else in the group is reading a book set in baseball season!

Me! I've got The Boys of Summer to read.

[Laura]

Lynn wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Chocolat by Joanne Harris takes place during Lent/Easter and would work for spring. I just read it for the holiday other than Christmas category. Does anyone have any oth..."

It starts on February 12 so you should still count it!

[KF-in-Georgia]

Many of Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian murder mysteries are set at holidays--especially the earlier books. Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving, Father's Day, Mother's Day, etc.

[Baroness Ekat]

I just did:

The Game of Love and Death. The majority of the book takes place between mid-March and the first week of July.

It is a hauntingly beautiful story that I highly recommend, especially as an audiobook.

[Yoo]

So I missed reading the 'winter' books I had as possibilities and thought I would be fine with the 'summer' book that was on my tbr but I found myself near the end of the 2019 challenge struggling to find a 'spring' book. I didn't get my timing right and I'm limiting myself to what's available on my library's ebooks :)
Fortunately, they had a set of anthologies edited by Melissa Harrison conveniently titled Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Autumn: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
and (yay!) Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

They are based on the wildlife and countryside of British seasons and has an interesting collection of old and modern writings. TBH it took me a while to get into Spring as the extracts at the beginning of the book I found to be a bit repetitive but some of the later essays and extracts were fascinating. I learnt about water voles, otters, badgers, cherry blossom, returning migrant birds, adders etc.

It was a nice book to dip in and out of, especially as I can see the effects of Spring around me.

[Sarah]

I was really struggling with this one but I accidentally fulfilled it yesterday with A Night to Remember. I rushed to read it because it was due back at the library on Monday and midway through it dawned on me that I was reading it one day shy of the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. It was a fascinating break down of the events of that fateful night. The season doesn't really have much to do with it (apart from how cold it was) but I'm counting it.

[Kimberly]

I'm having a hard time finding a spring book that I want to read, so I'm definitely stretching this one - since it's almost mother's day, I'm reading a book about a MIL - The Mother-in-Law

[Alison]

I have Spring Skies Over Bluebell Castle on my TBR but if I do not get to it in the next month, I plan to read Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile in September to kick off Football Season!

[Angela]

Can someone who has read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn tell what, if just one, season it takes place in? The synopsis makes it seem a likely candidate for a story that doesn't last too long in 'character time' but I was afraid to delve too deeply into reviews for fear of spoilers.

[Linda]

Angela wrote: "Can someone who has read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn tell what, if just one, season it takes place in? The synopsis makes it seem a likely candidate for a story that doesn't last too long in 'ch..."

A quick look using the "look inside" feature on Amazon says that the opening scene in Chapter One is May 12th, so that would seem very promising.

I have read the book. It was a while ago, so I don't remember it all that well, but I think the book takes place over a fairly short period of time.

[Karen]

Noting some of my backlist for each the remaining seasons

Summer
Instructions for a Heatwave
We Were Liars
Barefoot
The Upside of Unrequited
Dumplin'
When Dimple Met Rishi

Fall
Practical Magic
The Night Circus
Fangirl
The Thirteenth Tale
Anne of Green Gables
The Shadow of the Wind

Winter
Concealed in Death
Winter Street
The Winter People

[Angela]

Linda wrote: "Angela wrote: "Can someone who has read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn tell what, if just one, season it takes place in? The synopsis makes it seem a likely candidate for a story that doesn't last ..."

Linda, thank you!

[Katy]

Karen wrote: "Noting some of my backlist for each the remaining seasons

Summer
Instructions for a Heatwave
We Were Liars
Barefoot
[book:The Upside of Unrequited|306..."

I don't know about the rest, but don't both Practical Magic and Anne of Green Gables take place over more than a year, and thus not all during the same season.

[Ann]

Aaron Stander's Ray Elkins series of thrillers each take place in a specific season. The 1st in the series is Summer People. I've enjoyed them so far.

[Maureen]

I recommend The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms.
She is a school librarian and the story takes place during her summer break. It also works for ‘published in 2019’.

[Johanne]

So I planned to read Us Against You that takes place in summer. But now I am less than halfway through the book, and summer has turned to autumn... sucks to be a literalist sometimes...

[KF-in-Georgia]

Johanne wrote: "So I planned to read Us Against You that takes place in summer. But now I am less than halfway through the book, and summer has turned to autumn... sucks to be a literalist sometime..."

Put it aside for a couple of months, then come back to it?

(I read a baseball book: much longer season to read through, and the weather wasn't an issue.)

[Johanne]

Yeah, I thought of that, but I think I will just finish it and use something else. This was actually one of the few books I had planned (apropos the question of the week) so I think I will just stick to mood and random reading :)

[Rachel]

I read Lumberjanes, Vol. 9: On a Roll, which was okay but not the best of the series.

[Jen]

Heather wrote: "Currently reading The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater; set in October-November."
November 1st is the day it starts. :)

[Katie]

Finished Little Green last night for this prompt. Takes place over a week or two in mid-June. Couple of flashbacks, but predominately summertime at the cabin.

[Nancy]

I'm so excited! I just finished Summer of '69 for this prompt. Not only was it in the season that it was set in, it was also the year I was born! So cool!

[Monica]

According to wikipedia, Anne of Green Gables begins when she is 11, and wikipedia discusses what happens to her when she is 16.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of...

Since the book obviously takes place over the course of a number of years, I don't know if it should be counted as a book that takes place in one season, since it takes place in all of the seasons.

[Emanuel]

I'm reading Verão Quente.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Monica wrote: "According to wikipedia, Anne of Green Gables begins when she is 11, and wikipedia discusses what happens to her when she is 16.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of...

Since the book o..."

It depends though, because it doesn't necessarily focus on all seasons equally just because it takes place over years. I don't remember with that book specifically (I suspect it does have big scenes in most or all of the seasons, but couldn't say for sure), but I know I have read books that take place over the course of a year, but some seasons are skipped over in a sentence or two.

[Monica]

In message #169, Karen listed Anne of Green Gables as a Fall book. Since the book begins when she moves into her new home, and some time passes before she starts school, I would say that that part of the book takes place in the summer. Then she goes to school for years, and there's a very important scene after she finishes school at the age of 16, which I am sure does not occur in the fall. That's why I'm wondering why Karen considers it to be a Fall book.

"I know I have read books that take place over the course of a year, but some seasons are skipped over in a sentence or two. " That does not seem to be the case with Anne of Green Gables. I don't know if there are many books that take place over the course of five years in which three of the four seasons are skipped over regularly.

[Johanne]

I just finished Sommerbogen (The Summer Book) by Tove Jansson (mother of Moomin). A wonderful little book that is absolutely not plotdriven, with little scenes of summers spent on an island in the Finnish skærgård. A little girl and her grandmother, the father in the background and nature, weather, the changing of the season in the center. Would also work well for "nostalgic" for me.

[Angela]

If anyone is looking for a summer read, Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward is perfect for right now. It takes place over 12 days in August.

[Ingrid]

I'm reading "Summer of '69" by Elin Hilderbrand right now and it is a fantastic summer read.

[Barbara]

For this prompt I read Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool.

[Lisa]

A couple of days left and I can read my last book of the challenge- a book read in autumn that is set in autumn. I still haven’t picked the book. Any suggestions?

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

A lot of books I have shelved as 'fall weather' are also 'winter weather', and I don't always remember specifically, but I suspect in a lot of those the fall weather is just a transition into winter. I do have a few books I really enjoyed that are at least primarily set in the fall:

The Plastic Magician (YA alternate history fantasy)

Austenland (contemporary romance with overtones of Regency)

Squirrel Meets World (middle grade superhero adventure)

The Mutual Admiration Society (historical, 'precocious 11 year old girls who do detective work'--that's a genre, right?)

Death Be Not Proud (historical version of a fairy tale, novella)

One of Us Is Lying (contemporary YA mystery/thriller)

[Lisa]

Lisa wrote: "A couple of days left and I can read my last book of the challenge- a book read in autumn that is set in autumn. I still haven’t picked the book. Any suggestions?"
Thank you! So many books in the Goodreads lists for autumn are not really set then. It can be hard to tell.

[Monica]

The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum begins on a Friday in October and ends 10 days later (obvously it encompasses more than a weekend), so it definitely takes place in autumn.

[Alex]

Hmmmm I’m struggling with this one as I live in New Zealand and in a completely different season to all you Northern hemisphere peeps. Just entering into spring but I may wait for summer and read a super traditional summer book lol.

[Trish]

I read One of Us Is Lying for this prompt! Just happened to read it now in September and it takes place in September-October. It's a really addictive read that is slightly predictable, but I wasn't sure enough that I NEEDED to know if I was right. Interested enough in trying out the sequel that's coming out in Jan 2020.

[Lizzy]

I read A Place to Come Home to.

[Melanie]

Can someone tell me does Practical Magic take place in fall? Thank you!

[Leona]

I found The Pumpkin Killer by Stacey Alabaster on my Kindle I had downloaded.

[Pie]

For young adult Monday's Not Coming has parts broken down by months September-June and The Grace Year is by seasons autumn-summer

[Joana]

The Book of Life

[Sue]

I have just read a very good YA book, Wave Length by AJ Betts, set here in Western Australia. The story happens during the week before the main character's final school exams - it is just that time here with the final exams happening right now. Exam season!

[Harry]

Read Louise Penny newest A Better Man. It takes place during the spring floods in Quebec.

Yeah, I know it's out of season but I don't care. I like Louise Penney's books.

[Ilham]

A historical horror novel called, “The Winter People”, by Jennifer Macmohan. Recently finished reading it and very very creepy