Kathy E -Fall Reading Challenge

[Kathy]

SEPTEMBER

✅ - Read Round 1 ➡️ - Currently reading

4/4 4/4
1. First Day of Fall
a. Read a book that contains a 2 in the page number.
✅Clouds of Witness - Dorothy Sayers (288p)
b. Read a book published in September, October, or November.
✅This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger (Sept.)
c. Read a book in which a significant event takes place at night.

2. National Read a Book Day
a. Read a book by a new-to-you author.
✅Freckles - Gene Stratton-Porter
b. Read a book that is the next in a series you've already started.
✅Lavender Blue Murder - Laura Childs
c. Read a book that can be read in one day.

3. Fall or Autumn?
a. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in FALL or AUTUMN.
✅Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippman
b. Read a book by an author whose first or last name starts with A or F.
c. Read a book that shows leaves on the cover.
✅Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

4. September Birthday: Shel Silverstein
a. Read a humorous book.
✅Something Fresh - P.G. Wodehouse
b. Read a book written between 1930 and 1999.
✅The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence (1964)
c. Read a book by an author named Sue or with a character named Sue (reasonable variations like Susan, Susanne, or Suzette are allowed.)

[Kathy]

OCTOBER
✅ - Read Round 1 ➡️ - Currently reading

4/4 4/4
1. Pumpkin Spice Everything
a. Read a book that has orange on the cover.

✅ The Bookshop on the Shore - Jenny Colgan
b. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in SPICE.
✅The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
c. Read a book in which food plays a role in the book.

2. October Birthday: R.L. Stine
a. Read a children's or YA book.
✅A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
b. Read a book in which the title starts with a letter in GOOSEBUMPS.
✅The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - Abbi Waxman
c. Read a book by R.L. Stine or Ray Bradbury.

3. World Mental Health Day
a. Read a book where one of the author's initials is found in MENTAL HEALTH.
✅Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
b. Read a book featuring a healthcare worker.
c. Read a book featuring a character who struggles with their mental health.
✅Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Allie Brosh

4. Halloween
a. Read a horror book.
✅The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft
b. Read a book in which the main character has a disguise.
✅The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
c. Read a book that won or was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award or the Shirley Jackson Award.

[Kathy]

NOVEMBER
✅ - Read Round 1 ➡️ - Currently reading

4/4 4/4
1. National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
a. Read a book that has brown on the cover.
✅The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
b. Read a book featuring a main character whose name starts with a letter in HERSEYS.
✅A Kind of Freedom - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Evelyn)
c. Read a book featuring an eccentric ("nutty") character.

2. November for Beginners
a. Read a book whose title features at least one word that is mentioned in the poem (word must be 4 letters or longer)
b. Read a collection of poetry or a book written in verse.
✅An American Sunrise: Poems - Joy Harjo
c. Read a book by an author who won or was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Award, NAACP Image Award, or a National Book Award.
✅There There - Tommy Orange

3. But it's spring?
a. Read a book with a green or yellow cover.

✅Someone We Know
b. Read a book whose author's initials can be found in the phrase SMELL LIKE DIRT.
✅The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
c. Read a book found on one of these lists:

4. November Birthday: C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle
a. Read a fantasy novel.
b. Read a book with religious themes.
✅Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott
c. Read a book written by either C.S. Lewis or Madeleine L'Engle.
✅Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

[Kathy]

Finished so far in my first round of the Fall Challenge:

2/4 September, 4/4 October, 2/4 November

I might do a second round...

[Kathy]

3/4 Sept; 4/4 Oct.; 3/4 Nov.

Finished:

[Kathy]

My 1st and 2nd rounds are all combined and I can hardly keep them straight!
More books finished, for "whatever' round...

[Kathy]

Finished for round 1:


One more to go for round 1:
Currently reading


Four more to go for round 2: