Hosted by: Andrea @ Carolina Book Nook
Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2021
● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up post HERE.
Guidelines (from announcement post):
- The challenge runs from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. You can sign up any time, but only count books that you read between those dates.
- Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits into each category.
- Don’t use the same book for more than one category.
- Creativity for matching the categories is not only allowed, it’s encouraged!
- You can choose your books as you go or make a list ahead of time.
Categories for 2021 (with links to review pages):
- One/1 (example: One Second After; The 100)
- Doubled word (ex: In a Dark, Dark Wood; Wolf by Wolf)
- Reference to outer space (ex: The Fault in Our Stars)
- Possessive noun (ex: The Zookeeper’s Wife)
- Botanical word (ex: The Language of Flowers; The Sandalwood Tree)
- Article of clothing (ex: Bossypants)
MY READING LIST (books read, with links to reviews):
- Category 1: 1066 And All That, by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, illus. by John Reynolds (1930)
- Category 2: Dead Dead Girls, by Nekesa Afia (2021)
- Category 3: Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X (Tom Swift Jr. #17), by Victor Appleton II (1961; audiobook 2007)
- Category 4: Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg; trans. by Tiina Nunnally (1992)
- Category 5: Oranges and Lemons (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit #17), by Christopher Fowler (2020)
- Category 6:
POSSIBILITIES:
● Category 1 (One/1 - word or numeral):
● Category 2 (Doubled word):
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Tom Franklin
- Dead Dead Girls. Nekesa Afia
- Three Times Time. Jack Matthews
● Category 3 (Reference to outer space):
- Full Wolf Moon (Jeremy Logan #5). Lincoln Child
- The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins
- Number the Stars. Lois Lowry
- Star Trap (Charles Paris #3). Simon Brett
● Category 4 (Possessive noun):
- Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #3). Ellis Peters
- Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #4). Ellis Peters
● Category 5 (Botanical word):
● Category 6 (Article of Clothing):
- The Bluebonnet Betrayal (Potting Shed Mystery #5). Marty Wingate
- The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink (Perry Mason #39). Erle Stanley Gardner
- The Case of the Singing Skirt (Perry Mason #60). Erle Stanley Gardner
- Death in a White Tie (Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7). Ngaio Marsh
- Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins #1). Walter Mosley
- The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole #1). Robert Crais
- Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #3). Ellis Peters
- The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son. Catherine Besterman
- Red Mandarin Dress (Inspector Chen Cao #5). Qiu Xiaolong
- The Scarlet Slipper Mystery (Nancy Drew #32). Carolyn Keene
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