Roxana's Summer 2023 Reading Challenge

[Roxana]

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🍉 June 🍉

1. Father's Day:
✅ a. Book whose main character is a father: Treason's Harbour
✅ b. Biography or history nonfiction book: Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season
✅ c. Author's initials can be found in PATERNITY: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Vol. 6 (Naoko Takeuchi)

2. Estival Solstice:
✅ a. Book with a title that is 5 or more words: Will They or Won't They
✅ b. Cover has plants on the cover: Magic or Not?
✅ c. Book is set in the Northern Hemisphere: The Boyfriend Candidate

3. Hibernal Solstice:
✅ a. Book that is at least 400 pages long: She Who Became the Sun
✅ b. Book with fire on the cover: The Drackenberg Adventure
✅ c. Book is set in the Southern Hemisphere: Daytripper: Deluxe Edition

4. Pride Month:
✅ a. Written by an author who identifies as LGBTQIA+: Wynd Vol. 1: Flight of the Prince
✅ b. A banned or challenged book: Big Hard Sex Criminals, Volume One
✅ c. A coming of age novel: An Embarrassment of Witches


🎆 July 🎆

1. Let's Play:
✅ a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND: Spinning Silver
✅ b. Includes a character who plays a sport: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
✅ c. Published in a year ending with 3: Zero Days

2. Travel Season:
✅ a. Set in multiple countries: The Thirteen-Gun Salute
✅ b. A book with a map: The El Dorado Adventure
✅ c. Cover has vehicle: The Road to Roswell (spaceship!)

3. Halfway there!
✅ a. Book with an even number of pages: People We Meet on Vacation
✅ b. The next book in a series: A Fatal Groove
✅ c. An author's second book: The Opposite House

4. Turn Up the Radio:
✅ a. Book featuring or about musicians: The Nutmeg of Consolation
✅ b. Set in the 19th century: Hotel of Secrets
✅ c. Author's initials can be found in GUGLIELMO MARCONI: Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)


🏖️ August 🏖️

1. Book Lovers Day:
✅ a. Book written by your favorite author: The Wine-Dark Sea
✅ b. Main character works in a book shop or library: A Discovery of Witches (she does her academic work in a library...does that count? as in, she literally works in a library?)
✅ c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
✅ a. Science fiction book: The Cybernetic Tea Shop
✅ b. Sun, moon, or stars on the cover:
✅ c. Inspired by or retelling myths: Little Thieves

3. Make Waves:
✅ a. Author's initials can be found in SURFBOARD: (Olivie Blake)
✅ b. Set in a coastal town or city:
c. A sea creature is on the cover

4. Go Camping:
✅ a. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies:
b. A ghost story
c. A book primarily set outdoors

[Roxana]

🍉 June: Notes/TBR 🍉

1. Father's Day:
✅ a. Book whose main character is a father: Treason's Harbour
✅ b. Biography or history nonfiction book: Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season
c. Author's initials can be found in PATERNITY: I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark or Juniper & Thorn

2. Estival Solstice:
✅ a. Book with a title that is 5 or more words: Will They or Won't They
b. Cover has plants on the cover: Going Bicoastal
c. Book is set in the Northern Hemisphere: That Self-Same Metal

3. Hibernal Solstice:
a. Book that is at least 400 pages long: She Who Became the Sun
b. Book with fire on the cover: Where Echoes Die
c. Book is set in the Southern Hemisphere: Pas de Don't or Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

4. Pride Month:
a. Written by an author who identifies as LGBTQIA+: Stormsong
b. A banned or challenged book: Beloved
c. A coming of age novel: The Davenports

🍉 TBR 🍉
✅ Invincible: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season
✅ Piranesi
🟩 Leeward
🟩 A History of What Comes Next
🟩 The Davenports
🟩 I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark
🟩 She Who Became the Sun
🟩 He Who Drowned the World
🟩 Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
🟩 Zero Days
✅ By Any Other Name
🟩 Beloved
🟩 The Opposite House
🟩 We Could Be So Good
🟩 That Self-Same Metal
🟩 A Darker Shade of Magic
🟩 A Curse of Roses
🟩 Vengeful
🟩 Stormsong
🟩 Can't Let Her Go
🟩 People to Follow
✅ Will They or Won't They
🟩 Pas de Don't
🟩 Where Echoes Die
🟩 Juniper & Thorn
🟩 Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

[Roxana]

🎆 July 🎆

1. Let's Play:
a. First letter of the book's title is in HORSE AROUND: Spells for Forgetting
b. Includes a character who plays a sport:
c. Published in a year ending with 3: The Only One Left

2. Travel Season:
a. Set in multiple countries:
b. A book with a map:
c. Cover has vehicle: The Road to Roswell

3. Halfway there!
a. Book with an even number of pages: Play to Win
b. The next book in a series: A Fatal Groove
c. An author's second book:

4. Turn Up the Radio:
a. Book featuring or about musicians:
b. Set in the 19th century: Ordinary Monsters
c. Author's initials can be found in GUGLIELMO MARCONI: Silver Nitrate


🎆 TBR 🎆

🟩 Spells for Forgetting
🟩 The Only One Left
🟩 The Road to Roswell
🟩 Play to Win
🟩 A Fatal Groove
🟩 Silver Nitrate
🟩 Ordinary Monsters
🟩 The Centre
🟩 The Saint of Bright Doors
🟩 Those We Drown
🟩 What Never Happened
🟩 Thief Liar Lady
🟩 A Guide to the Dark
🟩 The Sun and the Void
🟩 The Block Party
🟩 The Legacies
🟩 Sun Damage
🟩 Masters of Death
🟩 Mister Magic
🟩 Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts
🟩 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
🟩 The El Dorado Adventure
🟩 Business or Pleasure
🟩 This Woven Kingdom
🟩 Famous for a Living

[Roxana]

🏖️ August 🏖️

1. Book Lovers Day:
a. Book written by your favorite author
b. Main character works in a book shop or library
c. First letter of the book's title appears in BIBLIOMANIA

2. Perseid Meteor Shower:
a. Science fiction book
b. Sun, moon, or stars on the cover
c. Inspired by or retelling myths

3. Make Waves:
a. Author's initials can be found in SURFBOARD
b. Set in a coastal town or city
c. A sea creature is on the cover

4. Go Camping:
a. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
b. A ghost story
c. A book primarily set outdoors