Traci's Spring Reading Challenge

[Traci]

Prompts completed

MARCH (4/4, 4/4, 4/4)
X Spring
1. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in SPRING (you can ignore or use a, an, or the)
The Refugees
2. Read a coming-of-age or inspirational book
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
3. Read a book with themes related to nature
Small Wonder

X March Birthdays: Gabriel García Márquez
1. Read a book set in Colombia.
Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
2. Read a book with themes inspired by the author's life or values (family, magical realism, Latin American politics/social issues).
A Long Petal of the Sea
3. Read a book by an author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Old Man and the Sea

X March Madness
1. Read a book with a page count that appears in the number 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
White Dog Fell from the Sky (368 p)
2. Read a book published between 1931 and 1968.
The Wall
3. Read a book set in Kansas, North Carolina, California, or Tennessee.
Before We Were Yours (Tennessee)

X St. Patrick's Day
1. Read a book written by an author whose initials appear in Maewyn Succat.
Gold by Chris Cleave
2. Read a book with a theme of good vs. evil.
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
3. In honor of the famous Shamrock, read a book that is third or fourth in a series.
Advanced Physical Chemistry (3rd book)

APRIL (4/4, 4/4, 4/4)
X April Fool's Day
1. Read a humorous book.
Red, White & Royal Blue
2. Read a book with a fish on the cover.
The Bone People
3. Read a book whose author's initials are found in APRIL FOOLS DAY.
The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon

X Spring Sports: Baseball
1. Read a book written in OR set in the 1800s.
Inland (set in the 1800s)
2. Read a book with a 3 in the page number.
Behold the Dreamers (380 p)
3. Read a book off of one of these lists that feature sports:
⚾️ 30 Best Sports Books
⚾️ 25 Best Baseball Books
⚾️ Best Nonfiction Books about Sports
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

X Earth Day
1. Read a book with a green cover OR with a plant on the cover.
One Plus One
2. Read a book in which the character travels through more than one country.
This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II (US, France)
3. Read a cli-fi book.
Dry

X April Birthdays: Maya Angelou
1. Read a banned book.
Thirteen Reasons Why
2. Read a book by an author who has more than 30 published works.
This Could Change Everything by Jill Mansell (32 books [I think])
3. Read a book featuring the Civil Rights movement.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

MAY (4/4, 4/4, 4/4)
X May Day
1. Read a book that has the letters MAY (in any order) in the title.
All Systems Red
2. Read a book with a colorful cover.
The Nobodies
3. Read a book where a character is a tradesman who works with their hands.
NW (mechanic and barber - note: I struggled with this prompt. I wasn't going to count NW originally since the mechanic and barber both played minor roles, though there was a section about the mechanic. In looking for other tradesmen, I kept finding books that I didn't quite think fit, so I'm going with NW, especially because it doesn't really matter!)

X Cinco de Mayo
1. Read a book written by a Mexican or Mexican American author.
The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition by Reyna Grande
2. Read a book set in Mexico.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
3. Read a book that is part of a series that contains a multiple of five books in the series (5 books, 10 books, 20 books, etc. in the series, but you can read any book of the series).
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1st of 20)

X May Birthdays: Frank L. Baum
1. Read a children's/middle grade/YA book. (You can ignore the 100 page rule.)
The Turtle of Oman
2. Read a book with a female main character that leaves home.
The Time in Between
3. Read a book that was made into a movie.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

X Mother's Day
1. Read a book that starts with a letter in MOTHERS DAY.
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
2. Read a book that features someone's relationship with their mother.
Under the Udala Trees
3. Read a book featured on one of these lists:
🌸 20 Books for Moms
🌸 15 Important Books about Motherhood
What We Lose
🌸 25 Modern Mom Must-Reads

[Traci]

Books in March (not necessarily for March prompts)

Read:
The Nobodies by Liza Palmer (272 p)
March: Spring (1-begins with SPRING)
March: March Madness (3-set in California)
April: April Fool's Day (3-Initials in APRIL FOOLS DAY)
May: May Day (2-colorful cover)

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children by Melissa Fay Greene (472 p)
May: Mother's Day (1-begins with MOTHERS DAY, 2-features relationship with mother)

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (342 p)
March: Spring (2-Inspirational/Coming of Age)
March: March Madness (3-set in Tenessee)
April: Baseball (2-3 in pgs)
May: Frank Baum (2-female character leaves home)

White Dog Fell from the Sky by Eleanor Morse (368 p)
March: St Patrick's Day (1-Maewyn Succat)
March: March Madness (1-9,223,372,036,854,775,808)

The Time in Between by Maria Duenas (615 p)
March: Spring (2-Coming of Age)
April: Earth Day (2-travels>1 country)
May: Mother's Day (1-starts MOTHERS DAY, 2-relationship w/mother)
May: Frank Baum (2-Leaves home)

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (512 p)
Could say inspirational or featuring relationship with mother
-going with nothing for now.

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (337 p)
May: Cinco de Mayo (3-20 books in series)
April: Earth Day (2-travels>1 country)

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
March: Gabriel García Márquez (2-Latin America)
April: April Fool's Day (3-Initials in APRIL FOOLS DAY)

The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon (324 pages)
April: Baseball (2-3 in pgs)
April: April Fool's Day (3-Initials in APRIL FOOLS DAY)

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (328 p)
March: Spring (2-Coming of Age)
April: Baseball (2-3 in pgs)
May: Mother's Day (2-features relationship with mother)

[Traci]

Books in April

Read:
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali (188 pages)
March: Spring (2-Coming of Age)
March: St. Patrick's Day (1-Maewyn Succat)

What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
May: Mother's Day (3 - list 2 -- this is only book on my TBR on any list)

Gold by Chris Cleave (384 p)
March: St. Patrick's Day (1-Maewyn Succat)

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (209 p)
March: Spring (1-starts SPRING)
May: Mother's Day (1-starts MOTHERS DAY)

This Could Change Everything by Jill Mansell (416 p)
April: Maya Angelou (2-over 30 books)

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre (400 p)
March: St. Patrick's Day (2-Good vs Evil)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (144 p)
March: St. Patrick's Day (1-Maewyn Succat)
May: Mother's Day (1-begins with MOTHERS DAY)
May: Cinco de Mayo (3-5 books in series)

NW by Zadie Smith (296 p)
May: May Day (2-colorful)
May: May Day (3-tradesman -- note in message 1)

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes (368 p)
April: Earth Day (1-green cover)
March: March Madness (1-9,223,372,036,854,775,808)

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
May: Cinco de Mayo (1-Mexican author)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
April: Maya Angelou (1-banned book)

Dry by Neal Shusterman
April: Earth Day (3-Climate fiction)

Advanced Physical Chemistry
March: St. Patrick's Day (3-3rd in series)

[Traci]

May

Read:
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
April: Baseball (3-list 3)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (553 p)
April: Baseball (2-3 in pgs)
April: April Fool's Day (2-fish on cover)

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
March: March Madness (2-pub b/t 1931 and 1968)

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
May: Cinco de Mayo (1-Mexican author or 2-Set in Mexico)

Red, White & Royal Blue
April: April Fool's Day (2-humorous)

Small Wonder
March: Spring (3-related to nature)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
March: Gabriel García Márquez (3-Nobel Prize for Lit)

Behold the Dreamers (380 p)
April: Baseball (2-3 in pages)

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
May: Frank L. Baum (3-Made into movie)

The Turtle of Oman
May: Frank L. Baum (1-middle grade)

Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt (228 p)
March: Gabriel García Márquez (1-set in Colombia)

Inland
April: Baseball (1-set in 1800s)

Currently Reading:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
April: Maya Angelou (3-Civil Rights)

Book Options:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness or Honeymoon in Paris
May: May Day (1-MAY in title)