Winter 23 Read-a-Thon: Individual Challenge Tracking Thread

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Track your progress on the individual challenge here!

The Tasks:
Gingerbread people: a classic
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery
Rugelach: a book with a twist
Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[Kendra]

Kendra's Individual Challenge
(I changed the cookies to reflect my family traditions🤫)

My Grandmother's Shortbread: a classic
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe - Dec. 3rd

Meringues: a sweet light book
Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld - Dec. 2nd

Pepermint Oreos: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher - Dec. 10th

Christmas Crack: a book with a bite to it
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo - Dec. 2nd

Decorated Sugar Cookies: a book connected to arts of any kind
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - Dec. 4th

Cinnamon Butter Cookies: a book with an elderly character
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - Dec. 6th

Lindt Lindor Chocolates: a book in a hot setting

Egg-Nog Cookies: a book with an adult aspect
The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are by Aaron Ahuvia - Dec. 6th
Loki by Melvin Burgess - Dec. 8th

Haystacks: a mystery
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 9 by Hiromu Arakawa - Dec. 10th

Candy Cane Cookies: a book with a twist
The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 1 by David M. Booher - Dec. 5th
The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 2 by David M. Booher - Dec. 6th
The Gospel According to Jayne, Vol. 3 - Dec. 7th

Black & Whites: a playful book

Butter Tarts: a long book

[JennH]

JennH's Individual Challenge

The Tasks:

🍪 Gingerbread people: a classic - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 12/2/23

🍪 Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole 12/6/23

🍪 Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo - Who Were the Wright Brothers? by James Buckley Jr. 12/4/23

🍪 Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 12/8/23

🍪 Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind - How the Finch Stole Christmas! 12/9/23

🍪 Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character - A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen 12/5/23

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

🍪 Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren 12/3/23

🍪 Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery - 12th of Never by James Patterson 12/3/23

🍪 Rugelach: a book with a twist - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 12/5/23

🍪 Checkerboard sables: a playful book - Witches of Brooklyn: S'More Magic by Sophie Escabasse 12/3/23

🍪 Cranberry orange chews: a long book - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler 12/8/23

[Robin H-R]

7/12

Gingerbread people: a classic - The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo - Death in the Devil's Acre by Anne Perry

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it - The Queen's Constables by David Field

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind - Not From the Stars by Christina Britton Conroy

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting - The Gold Seekers by E.C. Tubb

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - Without Fear or Favour by David Field

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery

Rugelach: a book with a twist - She Died Unshriven by David Field

Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[Roxana]

🍪Roxana's Individual Challenge🍪


🍪Gingerbread people: a classic: Sense and Sensibility
🍪Sugar cookies with buttercream icing: a sweet light book: Heartstopper: Volume Three
🍪Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo: A Darker Shade of Magic
🍪Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it: The Society For Soulless Girls
🍪Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
🍪Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character: What Feasts at Night
🍪Butter pecan meltaways: a book in a hot setting: Where Echoes Die
🍪Rum balls: a book with an adult aspect: Same Time Next Year
🍪Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery: The Curse of Penryth Hall
🍪Rugelach: a book with a twist: The Sanctuary Sparrow
🍪Checkerboard sables: a playful book: The Message
🍪Cranberry orange chews: a long book: Fourth Wing





🍪In Progress🍪
🍪The Unburied


🍪TBR🍪
🍪Animal Life


🍪Completed🍪
🍪Fourth Wing
🍪A Darker Shade of Magic
🍪The Society For Soulless Girls
🍪Sense and Sensibility
🍪The Curse of Penryth Hall
🍪Where Echoes Die
🍪Same Time Next Year
🍪100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
🍪The Message
🍪What Feasts at Night
🍪Heartstopper: Volume Three
🍪The Sanctuary Sparrow

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Robin P Individual Challenge

Gingerbread people: a classic - A Christmas Carol - 12/5
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book - The Mistletoe Temptation - 12/3
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo - Up on the Woof Top
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it - Knit One, Drop One - 12/2
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind - Roaming 12/4
Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character - Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Goose - 12/5
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting - The Neon Bible - 12/6
Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - All the Tea in China 12/4
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery
Rugelach: a book with a twist - On Earth as It Is on Television - 12/9
Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[LeahS]

Gingerbread people: a classic

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Luna [finished 2/2/12; 100/176 pages]
(a children's story set around Christmas)

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
One Plus One [finished 2/2/12; 114/544 pages]

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
The Fire Court [finished 7/12/23; 440 pages]
(several people bite or are bitten)

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
Little Wing [finished 5/12/23; 375 pages]
(MCs include an artist and a photographer)

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character
Sarah's Gift [finished 4/12/23; 348 pages]
(One character is 96)

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect
The Year of the Cat: A Love Story [finished 8/12/23; 305 pages]
(Thoughts and concerns about parenthood)

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery
Candle Flame [finished 4/12/23; 231 pages]

Rugelach: a book with a twist
Blood on Snow [finished 3/12/23; 198 pages]

Checkerboard sables: a playful book

Cranberry orange chews: a long book
The Fraud [finished 9/12/23; 464 pages]

Books read: 9/12. Pages read: 2,575

[Tanu]

Tanu's Individual Challenge:

🍪Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect: Last Night at the Telegraph Club (COMPLETE)
🍪Butter pecan meltaways (hot setting) - Murder Under a Red Moon (COMPLETE)
🍪Pizelles Moon Over Soho (COMPLETE)
🍪Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery Whispers Under Ground (COMPLETE)
🍪Pizelles (arts) Echo (COMPLETE)
🍪Raspberry jam thumbprints Death in the East (COMPLETE)
🍪Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery The Binding Room (IN PROGRESS)
🍪Pizelles (arts) Music of the Ghosts (IN PROGRESS)
🍪TBC Eileen (IN PROGRESS)

[Nancy]

Nancy's individual challenge:

Gingerbread people: a classic
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character - Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - So This is Christmas by Jenny Holiday
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery - Blackmail and Babingka by Mia P. Manansala
Rugelach: a book with a twist - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

[Sue]

✔︎Gingerbread people: a classic - The Promise
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
✔︎Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character - The Banksia House Breakout
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
✔︎Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery
Rugelach: a book with a twist
Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[Trish, Annular Mod]

So I didn't finish, but at least I got half!

Gingerbread people: a classic

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book - She and Her Cat: Stories, Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa - 03/12/23

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo - Sour Apples, Sheila Connolly - 05/12/23 (includes a working duo, as well as a couple)

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it - Before, After, Alone, Emma Newman - 08/12/23 (metaphorical bite as having read the four novels, I already knew what was coming - and the characters in the stories didn't)

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind - Blizzard in the Bay, Kathi Daley - 04/12/23(writers' retreat)

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery - Note in the Nutcracker, Kathi Daley - 03/12/23

Rugelach: a book with a twist

Checkerboard sables: a playful book - Purring around the Christmas Tree, Liz Mugavero - 07/12/23

Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[NancyJ]

Track your progress on the individual challenge here!

The Tasks:
Gingerbread people: a classic
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character - Snow Road Station
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting -
Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - How to Lose a Guy Before Christmas
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery -
Rugelach: a book with a twist -
Checkerboard sables: a playful book -
Cranberry orange chews: a long book -

[Anastasia]

Anastasia

Gingerbread people: a classic - The Horror Of Christmas: Collection of the Best Ghost Stories, Supernatural Mysteries & Gothic HorrorsRobert Louis Stevenson

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book

✔️Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo - Book of Night

✔️Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it -Snowball: A Christmas Horror Story

✔️Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind - On the Ravine

✔️Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character -The Christmas Heist

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect - The Husbands

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery - Murder on the Christmas Express

Rugelach: a book with a twist Small Things Like These

Checkerboard sables: a playful book - The Twisted Christmas Trilogy

Cranberry orange chews: a long book - Empire of Silence

[L Y N N]

INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE
11/12 as of December 10
ALMOST!!

Gingerbread people: a classic
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
December 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (Rescuers #6) by Margery Sharp
December 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
This Winter (Solitaire #0.5) by Alice Oseman
December 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
December 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange
December 7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Nora
December 10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
Next Year in Havana (Perez Family #1) by Chanel Cleeton
December 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect
System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
December 9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery
Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (Rescuers #7) by Margery Sharp
December 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rugelach: a book with a twist
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
December 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes #0) by Travis Baldree
December 6 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Cranberry orange chews: a long book
...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
Didn't get to finish this one due to fitting in others to fulfill team readathon prompts!

[Louise]

Off to gather cookies! :-)
🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🎅

Gingerbread people: a classic

Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Marie Curie - Et lys i mørket Done

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
If I Survive You Done

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery

Rugelach: a book with a twist

Checkerboard sables: a playful book

Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[[deleted user]]

The Tasks:

Gingerbread people: a classic
Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo
Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character
Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting
Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect
Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery

Rugelach: a book with a twist - Mariana, by Susanna Kearsley - 12/4/23

Checkerboard sables: a playful book
Cranberry orange chews: a long book

[NancyJ]

Cookie Swap
Everybody brought cookies to the party and you are filling up your tin to bring home. Decide which types of cookies you'll be grabbing based on what you're reading! Interpretation of the prompts is left entirely to your discretion and creativity is encouraged.

Gingerbread people: a classic

✅Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book
🍪Last Christmas in Paris

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo

✅Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it
🥠Open Throat by Henry Hoke

✅Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind
⭐️The Christmas Star: An Audible Original

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character

Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect
🧉How to Lose a Guy Before Christmas

Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery

Rugelach: a book with a twist

Checkerboard sables: a playful book
🦊Unlikely Animals

✅Cranberry orange chews: a long book
🪞Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

[Sophia]

Gingerbread people: a classic


Sugar cookies with Buttercream icing: a sweet light book

Peanut butter chocolate blossoms: a book with a great couple, pair, or duo

Peppermint biscotti: a book with a bite to it

Pizelles: a book connected to arts of any kind

Snickerdoodles: a book with an elderly character


Butter Pecan Meltaways: a book in a hot setting

Rum Balls: a book with an adult aspect


Raspberry jam thumbprints: a mystery

Rugelach: a book with a twist


Checkerboard sables: a playful book

Cranberry orange chews: a long book