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Q1 - Winter Words
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Alla (# 59) - 0/10
Amy (# 40) - 7/10
Anna (# 36) - 3/3 Completed!
Ashly (# 16) - 3/3 Completed!
Brianna (# 37) - 0/10
Caraina (# 42) - 14/20
Carmen (# 7) - 61/60 Completed!
Ciara (# 35) - 10/10 Completed!
D.L. (# 67) - 0/6
Debra Diggs (# 6) - 6/6 Completed!
Diana S (# 43) - 0/10
Elizabeth (# 21) - 0/15
Fedra (# 39) - 4/4 Completed!
Irza (# 25) - 0/2
Jade (# 75) - 0/2
Jenn (# 45) - 0/50
JennaH (# 20) - 6/10
Kalyn (# 19) - 0/2
Karianne (# 62) - 0/13
Kelly (# 33) - 3/3 Completed!
Kristina (# 22) - 0/6
Laurie (# 24) - 20/10 Completed!
Lilili (# 31) - 0/3
Lina (# 3) - 4/5
Mandy Zaydel (# 27) - 0/6
Megan BG (# 49) - 0/5
Nicole (# 95) - 1/10
Patricia (# 29) - 3/3 Completed!
Rachael (# 5) - 6/6 Completed!
Regina (# 14) - 13/12 Completed!
Sahira (# 8) - 4/4 Completed!
Sarah (# 44) - 0/10
Sarah (# 17) - 6/6 Completed!
SarahKat (# 12) - 10/10 Completed!
Shari (# 30) - 1/10
Sheila (# 41) - 0/10
Suzanne (# 54) - 6/10
TerryJane (# 11) - 10/10 Completed!
Wolf(Alpha) (# 34) - 1/10
Word Queen (# 88) - 105/75 Completed!
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STATS
Participants: 40
Books Read: 307
Book Goal: 470
Completed: 16
Updated on April 19, 2024 .
Hi Blagica - I am joining for 5 books for now, thanks! :)❄️ Winter Words - Quarterly Challenge ❄️
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
❄️ Progress: 4/5 ❄️ - sadly did not manage to complete this challenge
Tracking the books I read for this challenge in my corner
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Please sign me up for 6 books which have a winter themed word in the title.COMPLETED: 6/6 books
❄️ Snow & Ash finished 27 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
❄️ Bleak House finished 28 March, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
❄️ Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series finished 22 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
❄️ Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet finished 10 February, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
❄️ Cold Granite finished 15 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
❄️ The Frozen Sky finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Q1 - Winter WordsPlease sign me up for 6. Thanks.
6/6
- a winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
✔ Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
✔ The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
✔ The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
✔ Snowflakes by Ruth Ware
- a winter object on the cover (mittens, snow, sled, etc)
✔ The Christmas Contest by Theresa Sederholt
- set in winter
✔ My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
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Hola!Count me in, please 😉
PROGRESS: 61/60
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...?
Covers/Titles
Set in Winter
Please sign me up for 4 books. Thanks!4/4 completed
Sahira wrote: "Please sign me up for 4 books. Thanks!"Welcome!
❄️ WINTER WORDS - Quarterly ChallengeDuration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
Progress: 10/10
❄️ Winter Street
❄️ The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party snow on cover
❄️ As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success ice on cover
❄️ Winter Stroll
❄️ Winter Storms
❄️ Winter Solstice
❄️ A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
❄️ Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
❄️ The Children's Blizzard
❄️ The Arctic Fury
10/101. The Winter Over
2. Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold)
3. Snowflakes
4. Rock Paper Scissors (cover)
5. The Stroke of Winter
6. The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (Ice)
7. Snow Angels
8. Wintersong
9. Upon a Frosted Star by M.A. Kuzniar
10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (setting)
13/12- COMPLETED!A winter-themed word in the title
✅ Midwinter Murder: Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime
✅ The Ice Palace
✅ Winter Solstice
✅Ice Cold
✅The Woods in Winter
Set in winter
✅ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
✅ The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
✅ High Rising
✅ The Shining
✅ The Sittaford Mystery
✅ Jamaica Inn
✅ Call for the Dead
A winter object on the cover
✅ The Gustav Sonata - ice skates
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Welcome!
I'll do 3 books. thanks.1. What Happens at Christmas (1/23/24)
2. Perfectly Charmed Pixie: Parsnip's Story (2/25/24)
3. Skater Boy (3/10/24)
Sign me up for 6 books6/6-COMPLETED
✅1)Snowman- Frosty the Snowman (Frosty the Snowman) (12/1/24)
✅2)Ice- The Ice Queen (9/2/24)
✅3)Frost- Frost at Christmas (11/3/24)
✅4)Sled- Sleds, Sleighs And Snow: A Canadian Christmas Carol (19/1/24)
✅5)Winter- The Lion in Winter (10/3/24)
✅6)Blizzard- The Children's Blizzard (21/2/24)
I'll try for 2 books in this challenge, please :)Progress: 0/2
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Please sign me up for 10 books.WINTER WORDS
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
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1 Sugar Plum Poisoned by Jenn McKinlay 1/5/23
2 Mistletoe, Moussaka, and Murder by Tina Kashian 1/10/24
3 Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood
4 Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert 2/13/24 - set at Christmas
5 Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns 3/2/24 - set in winter
6 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie 3/31/24 - set in winter
Please sign me up for 15 books. Thanks.
WINTER WORDSJanuary 01, 2024 - March 31, 2024
Progress: 0/6
Sign me up for 6 books!
A winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
1. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
2. Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
3. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
4. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
6. White Noise by Don DeLillo
WINTER WORDS - Q1 Challenge20/10 Thanks for a fun challenge!
Snow/Snowman/Snowflake
❄️ 1. The Snowman Killer
❄️ 2. The Snow Hare
❄️ 3. The Snowman
❄️ 4. Moon of the Crusted Snow
❄️ 5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
❄️ 6. Secrets and Snowflakes
❄️ 7. Between Shades of Gray
Winter
❄️ 8. Winter's Mourn
❄️ 9. Winter's Curse
❄️ 10. Winter's Redemption
❄️ 11. Winter's Rise
❄️ 12. Winter in Paradise
❄️ 13. The Winter Sea
❄️ 14. Winter Garden
❄️ 15.Winter's Ghost
Cold
❄️ 16. Cold Mountain
❄️ 17. Cold Cold Heart
❄️ 18. Cold
❄️ 19. A Cold Dark Place
❄️ 20. A Cold Brew Killing
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Welcome!
WINTER WORDSDuration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
Sign me up for 2 books:)
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Please sign me up for 10 books.WINTER WORDS
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
Progress: 1 / 10
You can choose a book with:
- a winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
- a winter object on the cover (mittens, snow, sled, etc)
- set in winter
Cold - Wyoming Cold Case Secrets
***In for 3 books, thank you :-)
You can choose a book with:
- a winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
- a winter object on the cover (mittens, snow, sled, etc)
- set in winter
✓ 1 - Ritorno nella città senza nome (snow on the cover), pg. 197
✓ 2 - Il dolce domani (snow on the cover AND set in winter), pg. 245
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Welcome to all! 2 Days before we can start whose Excited?
I'll pledge three please!1) Buried in the Sky
2) Between Shades of Gray
3) Dead Mountain
~~~completed challenge!
Signing up for 3 at this time. It doesn't quite fit with what I normally read, but it will be a good chance to explore something new!
Welcome Everyone and Good luck!
4/4 COMPLETED1.
The Bands of Mourning (The Mistborn Saga #6) by Brandon Sanderson - snow in the cover and in the story ✔2.
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King #2) by Rachel Gillig - takes part in winter, snow in the story ✔
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The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier - winter word in the title, snow in the cover, takes part in winter and mentions of snow in every page! ✔4.
Dead Scared (Lacey Flint #2) by Sharon J. Bolton - takes part in January at Cambridge, England ✔
I will read 10 books!7/10
- A winter-themed word in the title:
1. Bright Winter Lights
2. Let It Snow
3. Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
4. Once Upon A Christmas Carol
5. Cold Water Veins
- A winter object on the cover:
- Set in winter:
1. The Adventures of Sammy Jay
2. The Adventures of Chatterer The Red Squirrel (Illustrated Edition)
Sheila from NC signing on for 10 books this quarter.
WINTER WORDSDuration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
You can choose a book with:
- a winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
- a winter object on the cover (mittens, snow, sled, etc)
- set in winter
Completed: 14/20
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Kissing Under the Mistletoe - Marina Adair 1/1/242. Winter Cottage - Mary Ellen Taylor 1/5/24
3. Five Winters - Kitty Johnson 1/7/24
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Christmas on Mimosa Lane - Anna DeStefano 1/13/245.
Christmas by the Lighthouse - Rebecca Boxall 2/4/246. Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah 2/8/24
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The Christmas Escape - Sarah Morgan 2/11/248. Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbø 2/14/24
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Goodbye to Yesterday - Wanda E. Brunstetter 2/15/2410. The Silence of Winter - Wanda E. Brunstetter 2/21/24
11. The Ruin - Dervla McTiernan 2/22/24
12. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow - Olivia Hawker 2/25/24
13. The Last Green Valley - Mark T. Sullivan 3/5/24
14. Last Night - Luanne Rice 3/28/24
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I'd love to sign up for 10 books! Love this theme.Total: 0/10
I would like to sign up for 50- thanks 🙂
Winter Solstice two different books by two different authors. ( Rosemunde Pilcher and Elin HildebrandThe Christmas Blessing
Rochelle wrote: "Winter Solstice two different books by two different authors. ( Rosemunde Pilcher and Elin HildebrandThe Christmas Blessing"
Will you be joining?
Welcome to All. Congrats to all who have finished books already!
Hi Blagica,Please reduce my goal to 12 books. Thank you! Msg 14.
2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Book Club Hotel (other topics)I Have Some Questions for You (other topics)
Iron Flame (other topics)
Il dolce domani (other topics)
Ritorno nella città senza nome (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sarah Morgan (other topics)Rebecca Makkai (other topics)
Rebecca Yarros (other topics)
Luanne Rice (other topics)
Agatha Christie (other topics)
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Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2024
This open-ended challenge for the first quarter of 2024 is inspired from all the wintry words and visuals out there. From snow, to Chistmas, to mittens, for this challenge you'll be reading books with all winter themes.
You can choose a book with:
- a winter-themed word in the title (snow, frost, winter, etc)
- a winter object on the cover (mittens, snow, sled, etc)
- set in winter
To participate, post below telling the leader how many books you'd like to read.
Thank you to Blagica who has offered to lead this chllenge!