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BRRRRR READING CHALLENGE



PROGRESS

Round One
December = 4/4
January = 4/4
February = 4/4

Round Two
December = 3/4
January = 3/4
February = 3/4

December

1. Winter
Read a book with snow, snowflakes or a snowman on the cover

The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale

Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

2. December birthdays: Ann Patchett
Read a book that has won or been nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (2019 longlist)

Read a book published between 1992 and 2019
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang (pub. 2017)

3. Christmas
Read a book on one of the Christmas reading lists
Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak ()

Read a book that has one of the gifts referred to in The Twelve Days of Christmas shown on its cover

The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka (birds)

4. Winter sports: yukigassen
Read a book set in a country where yukigassen is played
In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie (China)

January

1. Happy New Year!
Read a book by an author who is new to you
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko

Read a book in which all the words in the title have the same number of letters
(The) Wolf Road by Beth Lewis

2. January birthdays: A.A. Milne
Read a book that has been translated into Latin
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

Read a book by an author who is usually known by their initials
Child of a Mad God by R.A. Salvatore

3. New Year Resolutions
Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Read a book that looks into the past or a book that looks into the future
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

4. Winter sports: bobsleigh
Read a book in which a conflict between characters is a major part of the plot
Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach (explores complicated relationship between twin sisters)

February

1. Valentine’s Day
Read a book with Romance listed as one of the top five genres on its Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ page
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

2. February birthdays: Toni Morrison
Read a book that was first published in the 1970s
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (pub. 1973)

Read a book with a colour in the title
The Green Road by Anne Enright

3. Winter sports: Ski jumping
Read a book that is at least 253 pages long
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (323 pages)

Read a book published in a year in which the Winter Olympics took place
I Still Dream by James Smythe (2018)

4. Leap year
Read a book that is part of a series and that has a series number that is a multiple of four
Planetfall by Emma Newman

Read a book in which the numbers 2 and 9 appear in the number of pages
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (299 pages)