NancyJ's Fall Challenge

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🍁NancyJ's ATY Autumn Reading Challenge 2021🍁
Our Fall challenge starts on September 1, 2021 and finishes on November 30, 2021. For this challenge, you will be given a set of words and phrases, and you must match books to these phrases in one of four ways.

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial) = 2 books
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The) = 4 (5) books
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation) = 2 books
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word) = 4 books

NancyJ ATY Autumn Reading Challenge 2021
Completed September 1-30, 2021

Completed Books:



The Phrases:
1. autumn - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - (4 - 'autumn' in text)
2. fall - Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - (2 first letter in title)
3. foliage - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - (3- foliage on cover, and 2- first letter in title)
4. cooler weather - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (2- first letter in title T or L)
5. Halloween - When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal (4-'Halloween' is in the text)
6. scarf - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (4 - 'scarf' in text)
7. harvest - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (2 - A or T - first letter in title)
8. pumpkin spice - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2-S first letter in title)
9. orange She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan. (3 - Orange sun or harvest moon on the cover)
10. hot chocolate - They Both Die at the End -(4-they drink 'hot chocolate' in the text)
11. spooky season - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (1-author initials)
12. schooltime - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (1-author initials)

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Completed Books:




✅(A) Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - #11 Spooky season - author initials
✅(B) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - #8 Pumpkin Spice - S First letter in title)
✅ (C) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (bookclub) - #6 Scarf - Word in text
✅ (D) When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - #5 Halloween - Word in text
✅(E) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - #12 Schooltime - Author initials
✅(F) The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker - #7 Harvest - first letter in title
✅ (G) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz - #3 Foliage - Foliage on cover, and first letter in title
✅(H) The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson OR cover spooky season
✅ (I) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - #10 Hot chocolate - phrase in text. OR Cover - Cooler weather
✅ (J) The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - #4 Cooler weather - L or T - First letter in title

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Potential books for a second round.



Other potential books:

Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama
1 G T -
2 W - 4, 5
3 cover - foliage
4 Fall, harvest, orange

The Secrets Between us, By Thrity Umrigar
1. T U (1)
2. S (6,7,8.11.12)
3.cover - orange
4. fall, scarf, harvest, orange,

Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
1. T E (4, 7,10, 12)
2. G (Folder foliage)
3. (hazy spooky - spooky season
4. Autumn, fall, Foliage scarf, harvest orange,

Bad Muslim Discount by Syed Massood -
1. S M - Pumpkin Spice

Night Watchman Louise Erdich
1. L E Foliage, cooler weather, halloween, hot chocolate, schooltime
2, N (1, halloween, pumpkin spice, orange, spooky season

Father of the Rain by Lily King
1. L K -
2. F - 2, 3, 6, Fall

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1. MK - none
2. U - 1, 8
3. cover - autumn, fall,

The Aviator's Wife
Whereabouts -
The Giver of Stars

Fall Flurries:
The Book of Magic

Feminist tags (October)

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Completed Books Sept 1-30:




Completed:
✅(A) Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - #11 Spooky season - author initials
✅(B) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - #8 Pumpkin Spice - S First letter in title)
✅ (C) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (bookclub) - #6 Scarf - Word in text
✅ (D) When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - #5 Halloween - Word in text
✅(E) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - #12 Schooltime - Author initials
✅(F) The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker - #7 Harvest - first letter in title
✅ (G) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz - #3 Foliage - foliage on cover, and first letter
✅(H) The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson
✅ (I) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - #10 Hot chocolate - phrase in text.
✅ (J) The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - #4 Cooler weather - L or T - First letter in title
✅ (K) She Who Became the Sun - Orange - #3 Cover
✅ (L) Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - #2 First letter in title