Welcome to the 3rd Annual Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge! This is a year-long challenge hosted by Bookmark To Blog. You can find full rules and the sign up post here.
For this challenge six key words are associated with each month in 2015. Your task is to read one book each month whose title includes one or more of the key words for that month.
MONTHLY KEY WORDS:
JAN – Bird, Girl, Ever, Silence, Bad, Truth, End
FEB – Key, Water, Lie, Chase, And, Once
MAR – Kind, Face, Power, City, Blue, Night, To
APR – Dream, Prince, Long, Wind, Rose, The, Rock
MAY – Ash, Road, Thief, Bend, In, Far
JUN – My, Together, Whisper, Win, Soul, Sleep
JUL – Sun, Unto, Energy, Fate, High, Look
AUG – Fall, Boy, Glass, Heart, Lost, Now
SEP – Color, Touch, Life, Day, How, Sweet
OCT – Ghost, Home, Beach, Away, Test, Number
NOV – Rise, Holiday, And, Little, Call, Dark
DEC – Space, Mirror, Over, Flower, Trap, Cold
My Books:
January
This month I read two books to count towards the challenge. I’m reading out of sequence at the moment, but it seems to be working, although documenting my progress has the potential to get very confusing. Still, I read:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – (October: Number)
The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher – (December: Over)
February
This month I’ve added three books towards this challenge:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – (January: Girl)
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo – (November: Rise)
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray (October: Number)
March
Only one addition to report this month:
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie – (April: Prince)
April
Paris for One by Jojo Moyes – (March: City)
May
The Day We Disappeared by Lucy Robinson – (September: Day)
June
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris counts in two categories – (March: Night) and (May: Road)
July
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab – (November: Dark)
August
Nothing new to report. My current total for this challenge is 10 books.
September
The Falcon Throne by Karen Miller – (January: Bird)
October
Nothing new to report. My current total remains at 11 books.
November
My total is 11 books
December
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King – (January: Bad) (April: Dream)
My final challenge total is 12 books.
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