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ATY52 WINTER 2022-2023 CHALLENGE
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DECEMBER
1. Winter
✅a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER: Wild Women: History's Female Rebels, Radicals & Revolutionaries by Pamela Robson* 16 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅b. Read a book with snow, snowflakes or a snowman on the cover OR a book with a person wearing winter clothing on the cover: Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht 22 Jan 2023⭐⭐�� my review
✅c. Read a book that is between 89 and 128 pages long: The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America by Unknown* (Greenland) 29 Jan 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐�� my review


2. December birthdays: Jane Austen
✅a. Read a book written by a female author: In the Country of Others by Leïla Slimani* (Morocco) 28 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅b. Read a novel set in the 19th century: The Bark Cutters by Nicole Alexander (Australia) 5 Jan 2023 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅c. Read a romance novel: The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary 19 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


3. The Holidays
✅a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December: You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty* (Australia) 3 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅b. Read a book that has one of the gifts referred to in The Twelve Days of Christmas shown on its cover: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland (Faroe Islands, Australian author) 11 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a book that features a family gathering: Scarlet Lies by Lani Wendt Young* (Samoa) 5 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review


4. Winter sports: yukigassen
✅a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN: Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina* (Russia) 9 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅b. Read a book in a series that is at least 7 books long: The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb 24 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a book set in a country where yukigassen is played (Japan, Armenia, Canada, China, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, or Slovakia): Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Japan) 15 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


JANUARY
1. Happy New Year!
✅a. Read a book by an author who is new to you: Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko* 15 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅b. Read a book from a genre/ subgenre that is new to you: The Islands by Emily Brugman 16 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a book in which all the words in the title have the same number of letters: The Proxy Bride by Zoe Boccabella (Italy) 11 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


2. January birthdays: Haruki Murakami
✅a. Read a book set in Japan: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (Japan) 14 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐�� my review
✅b. Read a book that features a cat in some way: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht* (Serbia) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a magical realism novel: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel* 26 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


3. New Year Resolutions
✅a. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS:A Woman Of Endurance by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa*(Puerto Rico) 25 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅b. Read a book that looks into the past (historical fiction, history, etc) or a book that looks into the future (science fiction, fantasy, etc): Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi* (Japan) 18 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a book that will help you keep one of your New Year resolutions: Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird* (Australia) 2 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review


4. Winter sports: bobsleigh
✅a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND: My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia's First Women by Marlee Silva* (Australia) 13 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅b. Read a book in which a conflict between characters is a major part of the plot: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz* (Egypt) 29 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review (controlling father)
✅c. Read a book that is fast-paced: Odin's Game by Tim Hodkinson (Iceland/ Ireland) 20 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


FEBRUARY
1. Valentine’s Day
✅a. Read a book with Romance listed as one of the top five genres on its ŷ������ page: Christmas at Coorah Creek by Janet Gover 24 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review AA
✅b. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in VALENTINE’S DAY: Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq*(Canada) 2 Jan 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅c. Read a book written in or set in the Medieval period (usually defined as the 5th to 15th centuries): Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen (Nigeria) 7 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


2. February birthdays: Laura Ingalls Wilder
✅a. Read a book set in the American midwest: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Native American) 22 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Nature of Ice by Robyn Mundy
✅c. Read a coming of age story: Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen (Bolivian author) 1 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review


3. Winter sports: Ski jumping
✅a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long: The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes* (Ecuador) 30 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅b. Read a book published in a year in which the Winter Olympics took place: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland* (Australia) 12 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
✅c. Read a book where the plot “jumps�� about (a non-linear narrative as it’s normally called): The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha* (Thailand) 25 Dec 2022 ⭐⭐�� my review


4. The Shortest Month of the Year
✅a. Read a literary fiction novel: The Stranger by Albert Camus* (Algeria) 31 Jan 2023 ⭐⭐ my review
✅b. Read a book that features a ghost: Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (Mexico) 17 Jan 2023 ⭐⭐�� my review
✅c. Read a book that starts with a letter in the word SHORT: The Switch by Beth O'Leary 21 Feb 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review