Monthly Challenges discussion

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Diana S Reading Plan for February

One Point Tasks


1.1 Kite Flying Day (2/8)
Read a book with something flying on the cover: like a bird, plane, person, kite, etc... (show cover)
or

1.2 (Tessa's task) Pick A Genre
Celebrating Black History Month
Read a book with Cultural>Africa/African American as its main page genre.
Five-Carat Soul

✔1.3 (Diana S task) Reading Rainbow
(Red cover)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (2/6/18) 342 pp. 3.5★★★

1.4 Remembrances St. Valentine's Day
Read a book with a heart(s) on the cover (show cover).


✔1.5 Random Acts of Kindness Day
(Book starts with the letter S)
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen (2/2/18) 252 pp. ★★★★

✔1.6 Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday
(MARDI GRAS)
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2/11/18) 515 pp. ★★★★

1.7 (Tessa's task) Boo hoo, I have the flu
Read a book in which a main character has an illness of any sort. (Tell us the illness .... NOTE: an injury, like a broken bone, is NOT an illness)
Lazarus Is Dead by Richard Beard

Two Point Tasks

2.1 Surprise Me
Read Two Books
My Five Books


Tessa picked:
1. Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey

2. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis


2.2 The Amazing Race
Read Two Books

1. Capture the Flag
Read a book set in the VIET NAM (must be at less set 75% in chosen country)
The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith

2. Detour
C. UNESCO
(UNESCO)
Elizabeth Strout's The Burgess Boys (2/17/18) 320 pp. ★★★★


2.3 (Bethany's task) Alphabet Challenge
1. Title begins: X Z J K Q
(Title starts with Z)
Zulu Dog by Anton Ferreira

2. Title begins: X Z J K Q
(Title starts with K)
Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson

✔2.4 (Bethany's task) Anti-Challenge

1. Book of your choice:
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan (2/8/18) 320 pp. 3.5★★★

2. Book of your choice:
Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell (2/16/18) 256 pp. 3.5★★★

Three Point Task
3.1 Love Is In The Air

✔1) MPG - ROMANCE
Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery: The best feel good festive read this Christmas by Jenny Colgan (2/13/18)
362 pp. 3.5★★★

2) 1st letter of each title word can be found in LOVE IS IN THE AIR
(LOVE IS IN THE AIR)
It Happened in Italy by Elizabeth Bettina

3 author's first and last initial can be found in VALENTINE
(VALENTINE)
Laura Esquivel's Swift as Desire


Five Point Task

5.1 Get Ready to Watch Some Football
spell-out: SHIRT

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Hallie Durand's Dessert First (2/19/18) 160 pp. ★★★
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Tessa's Reading Plan for February 2018




2.2 The Amazing Race
1) Capture the Flag - Read a book set in VIETNAM - Beauty of Humanity Movement

2) Detour
a) - all the letters of S A O L A in the title/subtitle - SnOw fALling on cedArs



2.3 (Bethany's task) TBA
Title begins: X Z J K Q
Title begins: X Z J K Q




Three Point Task
3.1 - Tessa - Love Is In The Air
1) main page genre ROMANCE

2) 1st letter of each title word can be found in LOVE IS IN THE AIR (2-word minimum)

3 author's first and last initial can be found in VALENTINE



Five Point Task

5.1 Get Ready to Watch Some Football
spell-out the word SUPER or SHIRT
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E - Elephant Winter ✔ - 15Feb18 - 208 p
R - 'Round Midnight ✔ - 01Feb18 - 374 p