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message 1: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (new)

Kristie | 5911 comments

Welcome to our December challenge!

Rules:

✒︎ You may choose how many tasks you’d like to complete from 1 to all 7.
✒︎ Each task can only be completed once and each book can only be used for 1 task.
✒︎ Books must be at least 150 pages long.
✒︎ Any book format may be used: physical, electronic, audio.
✒︎ For audio pages just use the first edition of the book that pops up when you do a search for the book.
✒︎ All books must be started and finished within the challenge month.

Tasks:
🌟 Write a Friend Month
~Read an epistolary book. (letters, diaries, etc)

🌟 1st - Eat a Red Apple Day
~Read a book with an apple on the cover.

🌟 7th - International Civil Aviation Day
~Read a book with a plane on the cover or where a main character flies a plane or travels by plane.

🌟 10th - Human Rights Day
~Read an "own voices" book. (**see below for more information.)

🌟 21st - Forefather's Day
~Read a historical or historical fiction book.

🌟 25th - Christmas Day
~Read a book set around a holiday. It can be any holiday.

🌟 31st - New Year's Eve
~Read a book from a new-to-you author.

** "Own Voices" are books in which the protagonist and the author share a marginalized identity. You can find some lists with some suggestions here. These lists are not exhaustive, but may give you some ideas.


Mark (Day 20 Cairns to Adelaide) Porton I'm new to this group Kristie, this is a wonderful idea! Love it :-)


message 3: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (new)

Kristie | 5911 comments Mark wrote: "I'm new to this group Kristie, this is a wonderful idea! Love it :-)"

Thanks, Mark! Welcome. :) Hope you enjoy it.


Eva The Dinosaur I love this Idea! I think I am going to try at least 2!


message 5: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (new)

Kristie | 5911 comments I think I've finished as many as I will have time to this month. 5 out of 7

Tasks:
✓� Write a Friend Month
~Read an epistolary book. (letters, diaries, etc) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (not really an epistolary, but there was letter writing)

✓� 7th - International Civil Aviation Day
~Read a book with a plane on the cover or where a main character flies a plane or travels by plane. The Fifth To Die

✓� 21st - Forefather's Day
~Read a historical or historical fiction book. This Tender Land

✓� 25th - Christmas Day
~Read a book set around a holiday. It can be any holiday. Hercule Poirot's Christmas

✓� 31st - New Year's Eve
~Read a book from a new-to-you author. The Christmas Box


message 6: by Veronica (new)

Veronica F | 11 comments Completed 5 of 7, couldn't find anything for the other 2.

🌟 Write a Friend Month
~Read an epistolary book. (letters, diaries, etc)~ A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

🌟 7th - International Civil Aviation Day
~Read a book with a plane on the cover or where a main character flies a plane or travels by plane.~ Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

🌟 21st - Forefather's Day
~Read a historical or historical fiction book.~ Titanic Young Survivors by Allan Zullo

🌟 25th - Christmas Day
~Read a book set around a holiday. It can be any holiday.~ Kringle by Tony Abbott

🌟 31st - New Year's Eve
~Read a book from a new-to-you author.~ The Naked Eye by Iris Johansen


message 7: by Sherri (new)

Sherri | 20 comments Completed 6/7

🌟 Write a Friend Month
~Read an epistolary book. (letters, diaries, etc) -- 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, , 12/17/19, 3/5*

🌟 1st - Eat a Red Apple Day
~Read a book with an apple on the cover.

🌟 7th - International Civil Aviation Day
~Read a book with a plane on the cover or where a main character flies a plane or travels by plane. --- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, 12/8/19, 4/5*

🌟 10th - Human Rights Day
~Read an "own voices" book. -- The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman, 12/3/19, 3/5*

🌟 21st - Forefather's Day
~Read a historical or historical fiction book. --- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 12/2/19, 5/5*

🌟 25th - Christmas Day
~Read a book set around a holiday. It can be any holiday. -- Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich, 12/25/19, 4/5*

🌟 31st - New Year's Eve
~Read a book from a new-to-you author. -- Miles from Nowhere by Barbara Savage, 12/11/19, 2/5*


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