Hello, readers! After seeing lots of reading challenges around the Internet, I wanted to make my own, but I couldn’t come up with anything especially original.
So, I did what any forward-thinking book-lover would do…I went to a random word generator on the Internet and did some clicking. Here are the words and corresponding challenges I came up with. Enjoy! You can bookmark this list, or print the graphic below and use it as a reminder. Be sure to check off the book that qualifies for each month!
January
Word: lost
Challenge: A book you should have read in school but didn’t. (Interpret that however you like!)
February
Word: change
Challenge: A discounted or sale book/ebook.
March
Word: advance
Challenge: A novel set during wartime.
April
Word: complication
Challenge: A book that shows you the main plot problem in the title/cover.
May
Word: language
Challenge: A prestigious award-winning book.
June
Word: favorite
Challenge: A re-read of a childhood classic.
July
Word: popcorn
Challenge: A book that has been or will be made into a movie.
August
Word: idea
Challenge: A nonfiction book on a topic that interests you.
September
Word: refer
Challenge: A recommendation from a friend (or librarian or bookstore owner).
October
Word: grandmother
Challenge: A book where one of the main characters is 65+.
November
Word: freeze
Challenge: A novel with ice or snow on the cover.
December
Word: selection
Challenge: Free space! Pick anything that looks interesting.
On Instagram, we’ll be choosing one book per month that fits into the categories above and tagging our picks with #BHPChallenge2020. Feel free to join us if you like!
After looking at the categories above, do you have any books you’d recommend to others, readers?
I love this! Thanks. And don’t get me started on books that I would recommend to others . . . . it would be an epistle.
March—-Snow On Tulips by Liz Tolsma
It is about the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands during WW2.
Lorraine Boyd,
Yes! That is a great book.😍❣️
Thank you I am not thinking of anything at the moment but I love this idea!
Wonderfully fun! Thanks!
Fun, fun, fun!!
For October, I recommend Echoes Among the Stones by Jaime Jo Wright! Mumsie falls into the 65+ age group!
Fun post!!
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