2021 What's in a Name Challenge

 

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):

1. One/1 (example: One Second After; The 100)
2. Doubled word (ex: In a Dark, Dark Wood; Wolf by Wolf)
3. Reference to outer space (ex: The Fault in Our Stars)
4. Possessive noun (ex: The Zookeeper’s Wife)
5. Botanical word (ex: The Language of Flowers; The Sandalwood Tree)
6. 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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