Chapter Adventure Reading Challenges discussion

The December Key Words are...

Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm Love

Share with us! Which key word did you pick? What book did you read and what did you think of it?

I might read for December 2025, keyword “love”: The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriaty.

A nice holiday read

The December Key Words: Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm Love

Challenge Complete: One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I think this is the first Tchaikovsky book that I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed. None of the characters really grabbed me; it says a lot when your favorite character in a book is Miffly, the allosaurus. The protagonist, who is Miffly’s owner, is never named. The last survivor of a war that shattered history, he spends his time murdering anyone who managed to time travel to his location.

When two time travelers from the future, a future he didn’t think existed, show up, he finds it more difficult to get rid of them. Then another woman, Zoe, shows up; things go downhill from there.

I suppose the book is supposed to be something of a farce, which have never really been my cup of tea. Maybe why the book didn’t work for me.

Key words: Fable, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm



Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
Shop and Let Die by Kelly McClymer
Winter's Secret by Lyn Cote
Secretly Yours by Valerie Comer
Death Warmed Over by Kate Flora

Challenge complete!
Key Word: Winter

I picked The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon - good one.

Key Word: Love



Love from Afar by Penny Zeller

Key Word: Winter
Book: The Man Burned by Winter by Peter Zacharias
A twisty-turny mystery with the son of a serial killer hunting another serial killer. Fairly gritty, but not overly so. Good mystery. Some of the prose could have been a bit more polished, had to occasionally back up and reread a line that didn’t make sense at first. But this is his first book, hopefully that improves. Worth checking out the second book in the 3 book series.

These are Books read in December with the following key words: Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love

Fable: Fabled Journey by Adrian Tchaikovsky 3 stars; The Fabled Earth by Kimberly Brock 3 stars; Fables & Other Lies by Claire Contreras 4 stars


Flirt: Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar 4 stars; Flirting with Danger by Janet Wallach 4 stars; Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds 3 stars


Truly: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez 4 stars; Yours Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick 3 stars; Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick 3 stars; Really Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick 3 stars; Truly, Madly, Deeply by Karen Kingsbury 3 stars


Shop: The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston 3 stars; The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday by Kiley Dunbar 3 stars

Read in June: The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice 3 stars


Winter: The Winter Sister by Megan Collins 4 stars; The Winter Orphans by Kristin Beck 4 stars; All of Winter's Night; The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard 4 stars; Winter Tide; Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 3 stars; Red Winter by Annette Marie 3 stars; Winter Kept Us Warm by Anne Raeff 3 stars ; Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub 3 stars; A Bloom in Winter by J.R. Ward 3 stars

Read in March: The Winter Guest read by W.C. Ryan 3 stars


Yours: Secretly Yours; Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez 4 stars; Yours Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick 3 stars; Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson 3 stars


Warm: Keep me Warm at Christmas by Brenda Novak 3 stars; Winter Kept Us Warm by Anne Raeff 3 stars


Love: The Love Songs of W.E.B by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 4 stars; A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 3 stars; Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher 3 stars; Love Unwritten by Lauren Asher 3 stars; Love Arranged by Lauren Asher 3 stars; All About Love by bell hooks 3 stars; How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang 4 stars; A Love Like the Sun by Riss M. Neilson 3 stars; A Pho Love Story by Loan Le 3 stars; 8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty 4 stars; The Love Haters by Katherine Center 3 stars; A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston 3 stars; I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira 3 stars; Love in Bloom by Jenny Proctor 3 stars; Love in Bloom by Lucy Eden 3 stars; Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson 4 stars; To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han 4 stars; P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han 3 stars; The Love Plot by Samantha Young 3 stars; Courage, My Love by Kristin Beck 4 stars and Love Story by Karen Kingsbury 3 stars

Read in April: The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood 3 stars

Read in November: Always, For Love by Fiona Grace 3 stars

Challenge complete!
Key words: shop and love

Read:
The Christmas Shoppe: A Christmas Novella by Melody Carlson
and
A Deep Dependence: 90 Our Daily Bread Reflections on Loving and Trusting God by Bill Crowder