Jillian's 2024 challenge

[Jillian]

50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024-

🪪🎧 The It Girl by Ruth Ware

I have mixed reviews of Ware's books fortunately, I really enjoyed this one. It was a solid mystery for me.

[Jillian]

51. A book published in 2024-

🪪🎧 The Husbands by Holly Gramazio 12/5/2024

The book started out really good and intriguing. Then about half way it got really boring a repetitive, and I started disliking the main character.

[Jillian]

52. A cozy mystery-

🎧 I'll Be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost 12/8/2024

This was a nice way to end the challenge. I enjoy, the cozy-mystery series set in Mistletoe and look forward to reading the next in the series every December.

[Jillian]

5 Star books that I read for the ATY Challenge

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

Any twists on the challenge? (ie in order, all nonfiction, all picture books, etc)
I read in order and did not use any rereads.

My most creative twist on a prompt
The multi-prompts land, sea, and air were all non-fiction books.

The prompt I "cheated" on
none

My 3 favorite prompts
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list (I don't do a rejects challenge so I love this one).
13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list (I'm not a list person, but I really enjoyed reading why the books were on the list).
33. A book involving travel (I had a small theme of traveling this year).

My 3 least favorite prompts

5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world (I'm not a fan of location prompts and this one felt superficial).
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea (I've just done this prompt way too many times).
34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs (I always struggle with this type of prompt. )

A book I might not have read if not for the ATY Challenge (but I’m so glad I did!)

Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck (A random library find when I was searching for "A book with a title containing 6+ words")

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (I was really glad this was suggested in the Weekly threads).

A book I might not have read if not for the ATY Challenge (and I wish I hadn’t!)
Al Dente's Inferno by Stephanie Cole (Mediterranean prompt looking at you.)