Monthly Challenges discussion

Here's the spot to help you with your plan for this month's reading.

Diana's Reading Plan for August

1.1 National Dog Day (8/26)
dog on the cover.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo () 208 pp.

1.2 (Amber's Task) Pick A Genre
Steampunk (MPG)

* ✔ 1.3 Book Lover's Day (8/9)
(rating: 4 ★★★★)
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver (8/7/17) 432 pp.


1.4 The Lottery
3&0 published date/page number.
(published August 30, 2016)
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue () 380 pp.

1.5 Let's play Scrabble
Seven Tiles Drawn (O,O,R,E,W,L,S)
Title/Author
(AMOR TOWLES)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles () 462 pp.

1.6 Celebrate the Author
Member's Choice: Melanie
written by Di Morrissey
BP: second book by this author.

1.7 (Mickslibrarian's Task) The Wild Outdoors
Nature (MPG)
The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore by Robert Finch

Two Point Tasks

2.1 (Tessa's Task) The Amazing Race
Read Two Books

1. Capture the Flag
set in Italy

2. Detour
c) MPG - Religion
Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviors That Will Energize Your Life by Joyce Meyer () 240 pp.


2.2 Surprise Me
My five are:


Wanda picked: &


* ✔ 2.3 (Bethany's Task) 2.3 (Bethany's Task) SciFi and Fantasy Week on Goodreads

1. Science Fiction (MPG)
Act of God by Jill Ciment (8/24/17) 192 pp. ★★★★
2. Fantasy (MPG)
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (8/2/17) 516 pp. ★★★★


2.4 (Mickslibrarian's Task) Total Eclipse of the Sun

1. sun/shadow on cover.
A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds () 205 pp.


2. set in Missouri
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld () 400 pp.
set in South Carolina
The Prophet by Amanda Stevens () 347 pp.

2.5 (Wanda's Task) Happy 50th Anniversary!

1. Golden anniversary
any number in the title.
12th of Never by James Patterson () 394 pp.

✔ 2. Murder
(MPG - Murder Mystery)
The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill (8/5/17) 256 pp. ★★★★

3.1 (Bethany's Task) More Excitement About the Total Solar Eclipse
Please choose three of the choices below to help celebrate:
1. title includes one of these words: sun, moon, eclipse, light, dark, shadow
Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi by Dean Faulkner Wells () 288 pp.

2. with a picture of the sun, moon, or stars on the cover (show cover)
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry () 416 pp.

3. set in space

4. about astronomy

5. author's first and last initials in ECLIPSE
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld () 400 pp.


Five Point Task

5.1 (Spell-out task) The Last of the Summer

Spell-out: BEACH

Briggs, Patricia - Silence Fallen (8/8/17) 371 pp. 3.5 ★★★
Ellen Feldman's Lucy (8/22/17) 304 pp. ★★★
Anna Smaill's The Chimes () 291 pp.
Colgan, Jenny - The Bookshop on the Corner (8/10/17) 368 pp. 3.5 ★★★
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (8/4/17) 652 pp. ★★★★