2012 January Monthly Challenge - Suggestions Thread

[Vi]

January Monthly Challenge

This thread is the suggestions thread for the different categories. The participants thread is located HERE .

1. 'J' is for January: Read a book that starts with 'J' or a book whose author's first or last name starts with 'J'.

2. Happy Birthday!: Read a book from a January birthday celebrant's GR bookshelf whose name/nickname starts with the same letter as yours. If no one has the same letter, choose someone with the closest letter to yours alphabetically. January Birthday List

3. Geography: Read a book whose author, character or setting is from South Africa.

4. First-in-Series: Read a book which is the first book in a series.

5. Friday the 13th: Read a horror book or a book with monsters in it or the word 'monster' in the title.

6. Elementary, my dear Watson: Read a classic Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle or adaptations of the same or any mystery book.

7. Year of the Dragon: Read a book with dragon on the cover or on the title or a book with dragon-shifter.

8. Australia Day: Read a book by an Australia author or set in Australia or a book with at least two of these colors: Blue, Red or White in the cover.

9. New Year : Read a book by a new-to-you author.

10. Reader's Choice: Read any book of your choice.

Challenge Duration: January 1 to January 31, 2012

You can choose 3 , 5 , 8 or all 10 categories depending on your reading speed, books availability and/or time commitment.

When posting your challenge progress, please make sure to put the date/s when you finished your book/s.

Please repost your progress as it helps when updating.

Happy Reading Everyone!

[Vi]

GR shelf for books set in SA

FF link for authors from South Africa

GR Mystery Shelf

GR shelf for books set in Australia

[Sandra]

List of Aussie Authors who are members of GR, as listed in the group Aussie Readers :)

Aussie Authors

[Lynne]

For the Sherlock Holmes category you might want to try this great series by Laurie R. King about a young girl who moves to England from America and stumbles across her neighbor, the now retired Sherlock Holmes. It begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice. It's not a YA series.

[Nicola]

I may have misunderstood YEAR OF THE DRAGON. Does the book HAVE to have a dragon I the title or on the cover, or can it actually have dragons in it?

[Vi]

Nicola, it can have dragons in the book.

[Nicola]

Vi wrote: "Nicola, it can have dragons in the book."

Thanks for the clarification.y book is good to go then!