Beth's Autumn Reading Challenge

[Beth]

I'm falling (no pun intended!) behind a little on my ATY challenge this year so I'm going to try one of the seasonal challenges for the first time. I plan to fit in as many of my ATY books as possible so I can get ahead before the end of the year.

🍂 Challenge duration: 1st September - 30th November 🍂

The Phrases:
1. autumn

2. fall

3. foliage

[✔️] cooler weather
(cover)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick


5. Halloween
[crawdads - title]

[✔️] scarf
(author's name SR)
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney


7. harvest
8. pumpkin spice
9. orange
10. hot chocolate

[CR] spooky season
(title)
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo


12. schooltime

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

[Beth]

Current TBR:
🍂 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea ✔️
(cover - cooler weather)

🍂 It's Not About the Burqa
(title - foliage, pumpkin spice, schooltime)

🍂 The Butcher's Hook
(phrase inside?)

🍂 Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
(title - autumn, pumpkin spice, orange, spooky season)

🍂 Tender Is the Night
(title - autumn, harvest, hot chocolate, schooltime)

🍂 Stay with Me
(title - schooltime, spooky season)

🍂 Death on the Nile
(author - hot chocolate)

🍂 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(X)

🍂 Mend the Living
(title - autumn, schooltime, pumpkin spice)

🍂 Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
(title - schooltime, spooky season)

🍂 Don't Touch My Hair ✔️
(X)

🍂 Where the Crawdads Sing
(title - halloween)

🍂 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
(author - foliage, schooltime, hot chocolate)

🍂 There There
(cover - orange)

🍂 Half of a Yellow Sun
(title - harvest, schooltime, hot chocolate)

🍂 My Sister, the Serial Killer
(title - schooltime, spooky season)

🍂 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
(author - harvest)

🍂 The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
(title - schooltime, spooky season)