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Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Complete 9.22.21
12 books
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon - Nothing to See Here. Kevin Wilson. 9.9.21
Pepperoni Pizza - South of the Buttonwood Tree. Heather Webber. 9.15.21
Dumpling - A Cup of Silver Linings. Karen Hawkins. 9.12.21
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake - Christmas in Winter Hill. Melody Carlson. 9.13.21
Coffee - A Likely Story. Jenn McKinlay. 9.9.21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away. Bill Bryson. 9.18.21
New York - Speak. Laurie Halse Anderson. 9.14.21
North Carolina - The Wright Brothers. David McCullough. 9.15.21
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
The Forgotten Road. Richard Paul Evans. 9.13.21 (the MC is late for his flight, which then crashes)
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length. (400 pages)
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage. Eleanor Henderson. 9.8.21
The Seed Keeper. Diane Wilson. 9.5.21
Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021 Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
I don't know about you, but I love a weird holiday. Give me a reason to celebrate all day, every day! This monthly challenge is inspired by those obscure, bizarre, plain ol' wacky holidays out there. Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
4/4
0 BONUS
✅Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
International Bacon Day – Sept 4
National Salami Day – Sept 7
National Cheese Pizza Day – Sept 12 or National Pepperoni Pizza Day – Sept 20
🍎National Guacamole Day – Sept 16 - Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 148 “I brought the works. Chips and GUACAMOLE, their famous chili verde salsa, and chicken and beef tamales.”
National Dumpling Day – Sept 26
National Corned Beef Hash Day – Sept 27
✅Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
National Chocolate Milkshake Day – Sept 12
National Chai Day – Sept 21
Drink Beer Day – Sept 28
🍎National Coffee Day – Sept 29 - Burden of Poof - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/07/21 loc. 145 “poured myself a cup of COFFEE.”
✅Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
National New Hampshire Day – Sept 7
California Admission Day – Sept 9
🍎National Virginia Day – Sept 14 - The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit - Krista Davis 09/02/21 - Old Town, Virginia
National New York Day – Sept 21
National North Carolina Day – Sept 28
Action
In order of me every day... September 5 is Be Late for Something Day.
🍎♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something. - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg.27 “Despite my solid, horrific reasoning for being LATE, I still felt awful.”
BONUS
Mabon is a pagan harvest festival which is celebrated on the Autumnal Equinox each year – around September 21st through September 24th. Also known as Harvest Home, this holiday marks the middle of the harvest cycle – when both the days and nights are of equal length.
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
International Bacon Day – Sept 4
National Salami Day – Sept 7
National Cheese Pizza Day – Sept 12
Loc.1377"... plates of the cheese pizza he'd ordered..."
Fatal Invasion-Marie Force 9/01
or National Pepperoni Pizza Day – Sept 20
National Guacamole Day – Sept 16
National Dumpling Day – Sept 26
National Corned Beef Hash Day – Sept 27
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
National Chocolate Milkshake Day – Sept 12
National Chai Day – Sept 21
Drink Beer Day – Sept 28
National Coffee Day – Sept 29
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
National New Hampshire Day – Sept 7
California Admission Day – Sept 9
National Virginia Day – Sept 14
National New York Day – Sept 21
National North Carolina Day – Sept 28
Action
In order of me every day... September 5 is Be Late for Something Day.
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
BONUS
Mabon is a pagan harvest festival which is celebrated on the Autumnal Equinox each year – around September 21st through September 24th. Also known as Harvest Home, this holiday marks the middle of the harvest cycle – when both the days and nights are of equal length.
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Love the photo! Guac is my fav!!Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
Read: 8
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon Saving Sandcastles Meredith Summers 9/2/21
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza Sea Glass Cottage Vickie McKeehan 9/19/21
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake Starlight Dunes Vickie McKeehan 9/4/21
Chai Day
Beer Obsession Helen Hardt 9/10/21
Coffee Paws in the Action: Psychic Sleuths and Talking Dogs Max Parrott 9/6/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California The Dressmaker's Dowry Meredith Jaeger 9/8/21
Virginia
New York I Flipping Love You Helena Hunting 9/9/21
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Late for work Carter Reed Tijan 9/12/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Books read: 6
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon
The Coloring Crook Krista Davis 9/15/21
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake
Chai Day
Beer
Coffee Reading Between the Crimes Kate Young 9/7/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California
Virginia
Make Room for Murder Amerie Brand 9/19/21
New York
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Her mail route-Deadly Delivery Tonya Kappes 9/2/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Both are 232 pages
Buried in the Sand T.J. Costello 9/10/21
Publishable by Death A.C.F.Bookens 9/11/21
*****COMPLETED 12/29/21*****Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
✔Bacon- p.145- Martin Chuzzlewit- several characters sit down together for dinner including Mr. Pecksniff- "...boiled beef, roast veal, bacon, pies and abundance of such heavy vegetables as are favourably known by housekeepers..." - Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens-11/26/21-
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake
Chai Day
✔Beer-p.181-Typical: Stories by Padgett Powell-10/18/21
-"...burned them and drank beer and thought the rest of his novel..." 10/18/21
✔Coffee-p.549- The Last Chronicle of Barset-"The eggs were eaten and the coffee was drunk..." 10/18/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California- Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez- 12/29/21
Virginia
New York
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.-p.104- That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton-12/3/21-Bryon is late bringing Cathy home because they stayed out looking for her brother.
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
❎Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Cheese Pizza Crêpe ExpectationsSarah Fox9/8/21
❎Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Coffee For Whom the Bread RollsSarah Fox 9/4/21
❎❎Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
North Carolina A Garden to Die ForT. Lockhaven 9/8/21
❎Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Emil late for his lectures. Misfortune and Gouda Blake Pierce 9/23/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length. 304pp.
❎Silence of the Lamb's WoolBetty Hechtman 9/28/21
❎Wound Up in MurderBetty Hechtman 9/.29/21
JoAnne wrote: "Love the photo! Guac is my fav!!Me too!! Can't get enough!!
Hi Vanessa,In the challenge, do we do one task from each category or all of the tasks to be counted as complete?
CompletedObscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Books read: 6
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon
The Coloring Crook Krista Davis 9/15/21
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake
Chai Day
Beer
Coffee Reading Between the Crimes Kate Young 9/7/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California
Virginia
Make Room for Murder Amerie Brand 9/19/21
New York
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Her mail route-Deadly Delivery Tonya Kappes 9/2/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
Both are 232 pages
Buried in the Sand T.J. Costello 9/10/21
Publishable by Death A.C.F.Bookens 9/11/21
Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Complete 9.22.21
12 books
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon - Nothing to See Here. Kevin Wilson. 9.9.21
Pepperoni Pizza - South of the Buttonwood Tree. Heather Webber. 9.15.21
Dumpling - A Cup of Silver Linings. Karen Hawkins. 9.12.21
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake - Christmas in Winter Hill. Melody Carlson. 9.13.21
Coffee - A Likely Story. Jenn McKinlay. 9.9.21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away. Bill Bryson. 9.18.21
New York - Speak. Laurie Halse Anderson. 9.14.21
North Carolina - The Wright Brothers. David McCullough. 9.15.21
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
The Forgotten Road. Richard Paul Evans. 9.13.21 (the MC is late for his flight, which then crashes)
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length. (400 pages)
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage. Eleanor Henderson. 9.8.21
The Seed Keeper. Diane Wilson. 9.5.21
finishedObscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
❎Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Cheese Pizza Crêpe ExpectationsSarah Fox9/8/21
❎Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Coffee For Whom the Bread RollsSarah Fox 9/4/21
❎❎Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
North Carolina A Garden to Die ForT. Lockhaven 9/8/21
❎Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Emil late for his lectures. Misfortune and Gouda Blake Pierce 9/23/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length. 304pp.
❎Silence of the Lamb's WoolBetty Hechtman 9/28/21
❎Wound Up in MurderBetty Hechtman 9/.29/21
FINISHEDObscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
Read: 8
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
Bacon Saving Sandcastles Meredith Summers 9/2/21
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza Sea Glass Cottage Vickie McKeehan 9/19/21
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake Starlight Dunes Vickie McKeehan 9/4/21
Chai Day
Beer Obsession Helen Hardt 9/10/21
Coffee Paws in the Action: Psychic Sleuths and Talking Dogs Max Parrott 9/6/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California The Dressmaker's Dowry Meredith Jaeger 9/8/21
Virginia
New York I Flipping Love You Helena Hunting 9/9/21
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
Late for work Carter Reed Tijan 9/12/21
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
FINISHED!Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
I don't know about you, but I love a weird holiday. Give me a reason to celebrate all day, every day! This monthly challenge is inspired by those obscure, bizarre, plain ol' wacky holidays out there. Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
4/4
0 BONUS
✅Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
International Bacon Day – Sept 4
National Salami Day – Sept 7
National Cheese Pizza Day – Sept 12 or National Pepperoni Pizza Day – Sept 20
🍎National Guacamole Day – Sept 16 - Natural Thorn Killer - Kate E. Dyer-Seeley 09/05/21 pg. 148 “I brought the works. Chips and GUACAMOLE, their famous chili verde salsa, and chicken and beef tamales.”
Natural Thorn Killer (Rose City Mystery #1) by Kate E. Dyer-Seeley
National Dumpling Day – Sept 26
National Corned Beef Hash Day – Sept 27
✅Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
National Chocolate Milkshake Day – Sept 12
National Chai Day – Sept 21
Drink Beer Day – Sept 28
🍎National Coffee Day – Sept 29 - Burden of Poof - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/07/21 loc. 145 “poured myself a cup of COFFEE.”
Burden of Poof (Bonnie & Clyde Mysteries, #1) by Julie Anne Lindsey
✅Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
National New Hampshire Day – Sept 7
California Admission Day – Sept 9
🍎National Virginia Day – Sept 14 - The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit - Krista Davis 09/02/21 - Old Town, Virginia
National New York Day – Sept 21
National North Carolina Day – Sept 28
The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #14) by Krista Davis
Action
In order of me every day... September 5 is Be Late for Something Day.
🍎♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something. - The Cider Shop Rules - Julie Anne Lindsey 09/09/21 pg.27 “Despite my solid, horrific reasoning for being LATE, I still felt awful.”
The Cider Shop Rules (A Cider Shop Mystery, #3) by Julie Anne Lindsey
BONUS
Mabon is a pagan harvest festival which is celebrated on the Autumnal Equinox each year – around September 21st through September 24th. Also known as Harvest Home, this holiday marks the middle of the harvest cycle – when both the days and nights are of equal length.
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
*****COMPLETED 12/29/21*****Obscure Holiday Monthly Challenge – September 2021
Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
✔Bacon- p.145- Martin Chuzzlewit- several characters sit down together for dinner including Mr. Pecksniff- "...boiled beef, roast veal, bacon, pies and abundance of such heavy vegetables as are favourably known by housekeepers..." - Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens-11/26/21-
Salami
Cheese Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza
Guacamole
Dumpling
Corned Beef Hash
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
Chocolate Milkshake
Chai Day
✔Beer-p.181-Typical: Stories by Padgett Powell-10/18/21
-"...burned them and drank beer and thought the rest of his novel..." 10/18/21
✔Coffee-p.549- The Last Chronicle of Barset-"The eggs were eaten and the coffee was drunk..." 10/18/21
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
New Hampshire
California- Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez- 12/29/21
Virginia
New York
North Carolina
Action
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.-p.104- That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton-12/3/21-Bryon is late bringing Cathy home because they stayed out looking for her brother.
BONUS
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
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Dates: 09/01/21 - 09/30/21
I don't know about you, but I love a weird holiday. Give me a reason to celebrate all day, every day! This monthly challenge is inspired by those obscure, bizarre, plain ol' wacky holidays out there. Celebrate these holidays this month with a reading challenge to fit. Remember, whether these holidays are for real isn't the point... reading a book to fit a wacky task is!
No page minimums! Just have FUN!
Food
Pack on the Calories Month!
♦️ Read a book where a character eats one of the following foods.
International Bacon Day – Sept 4
National Salami Day – Sept 7
National Cheese Pizza Day – Sept 12 or National Pepperoni Pizza Day – Sept 20
National Guacamole Day – Sept 16
National Dumpling Day – Sept 26
National Corned Beef Hash Day – Sept 27
Beverage
♦️ Read a book where someone drinks one of the following beverages.
National Chocolate Milkshake Day – Sept 12
National Chai Day – Sept 21
Drink Beer Day – Sept 28
National Coffee Day – Sept 29
Location
♦️ Read a book that takes place in one of the following US States.
National New Hampshire Day – Sept 7
California Admission Day – Sept 9
National Virginia Day – Sept 14
National New York Day – Sept 21
National North Carolina Day – Sept 28
Action
In order of me every day... September 5 is Be Late for Something Day.
️♦️ Read a book where a character is late for something.
BONUS
Mabon is a pagan harvest festival which is celebrated on the Autumnal Equinox each year – around September 21st through September 24th. Also known as Harvest Home, this holiday marks the middle of the harvest cycle – when both the days and nights are of equal length.
♦️ Read two books that are the exact same page length.
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