Kate’s Comments (group member since Nov 25, 2015)

Kate’s comments from the Christian Fiction Devourers group.

Mulling things over. What would you think of a 'Pick a List for Me' challenge? This would combine the Pick for Me and the Listopia challenges.
Rather than giving a list of 10 books with 2025/2026 pub years, you would give me . . . say 5 different Listopia lists that would be 'featured' to choose from during your month?

Kate wrote: "I've been looking forward to reading The Christmas House all year long and am so excited to finally get to read it!"
finished this just now!

finished The Christmas House just now

nice!

well done!

love it!

nice!

Let's say Monday morning (15 December) at 10 AM Mountain Time.

thank you for the suggestion!

Got my 7 letter word!

11. a seven-letter word ~ Where Treetops Glisten: Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II (finished 7 December) ~ 'glisten'

And, with that, I'm done! Thanks for the fun challenge, Andrea!

1. a pun ~ Some Like It Scot (finished 7 August)

2. an adverb ~ Happily Ever After on Huckleberry Hill (finished 19 November) ~ happily

3. word beginning with a letter blend (STReet, BLeak, etc.) ~ Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes {GM children's} (finished 1 July) ~ 'THousand'

4. familial relationship (sister, husband, etc.) ~ A Mother's Love (finished 30 August) ~ 'mother'

5. ocean life (shrimp, dolphin, coral, etc.) ~ Don't Trust Fish {GM children's} (finished 17 September) ~ 'fish'

6. a name ~ Levi's Will (finished 7 October) ~ both 'Levi' and 'Will' are names in this title (the former referring to the latter's father)

7. this or that (titles featuring the word "this" or "that") ~ This Promised Land (finished 8 November) ~ 'this'

8. a word including a Q, X, or Z ~ The Masquerade (finished 30 October) ~ 'masQuerade'

9. a color ~ Tarnished Silver (finished 4 December) ~ 'silver'

10. a title (Miss, Doctor, Lady, Earl, etc.) ~ Winning Miss Winthrop (finished 28 September) ~ 'Miss'

11. a seven-letter word ~ Where Treetops Glisten: Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II (finished 7 December) ~ 'glisten'

12. type of crime (murder, shooting, hanging, etc.) ~ The Highland Heist (finished 25 August) ~ 'heist'

13. type of school event (race, game, fundraiser, etc.) ~ Max & Mo's Science Fair Surprise {GM children's} (finished 28 September) ~ 'science fair'

14. a word that begins with the same letter as the author’s first or last name (cry/Coble, treasured/Tracie, etc.) ~ The White Christmas Inn {GM 'inspirational'} (finished 12 July) ~ 'Christmas/Colleen and White/Wright'

15. a state in the United States ~ Love Finds You in Camelot, Tennessee (finished 30 August) ~ 'Tennessee'

Kate wrote: "My #2 genre is WWII which works perfectly for our book of the month Where Treetops Glisten: Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II"

Just finished this one last night!

I finished this last night and am looking forward to discussing it with y'all starting next Monday!

nice!

Okay . . . you've definitely given me some food for thought here. Right now, the sign-ups for 'Pick for Me' have stalled out, so if I don't have enough lists for Pick by next Monday morning, I think I will put together a 'Listopia Match' challenge for y'all.

good job!

love it!

Linda wrote: "I enjoyed the genre match and hope it comes back. I also enjoy the monthly challenge. I have participated the last 2 years.
Can you explain how pick for me works? It sounds interesting."

Linda, 'pick for me' is where those who wish to play will pick 10 books they haven't read yet that they are excited about published between the coming year and the previous year (so for 2026 we're working with books published in 2025-2026), and each month a list will be posted and you pick one of the books this other CFD friend has put on their list and so forth. If you would like to participate, the sign up thread is also 'pinned' in this monthly challenges section.
HTH

thank you Charlene, these are some good ideas! I'm going to use your 2 list idea for the author match game as a level-up kind of idea!

2026 will be an 'author match' year as it was this year . . . I'm glad that this method seems to work well for y'all!

Kathleen wrote: "I was on my desktop. how do you get the icon on the desktop?"

when you are typing out your message, there should be a link on the top of the text 'box' that says add book/author . . . when you click on that link, it will give you a search pop up box where you can find the book you want to add in, and at the bottom of that search box, it will have 2 options, a link, or a cover . . . to get the 'icon', you would need to click 'cover'

HTH!