Monthly Challenges discussion

Plan your reading for this month here.

Pat's All Consuming Plan for December 2025
**No way I'll finish ALL of them, but at least I have a plan!**d
(Deleting as I go, so this list should get shorter!)

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1.6 ~
1.7
1.9

2.3 ~

3.1 ~

3.1 Read the World
1. Lisa See (Chinese American Author) Dreams of Joy (set in China)
2. Kim Ho-yeon (Korean Author) The Second Chance Convenience Store (set in Korea)
🎄3. Jacqueline Winspear (British Author) The Comfort of Ghosts (set in Great Britain) (12/21/25) 342 pp 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

3.2 Goodreads Goal Finale
100 - 200 pp
🎄 1. Love Came Down at Christmas: Daily Readings for Advent by Sinclair B. Ferguson (12/23/25) 160 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎄 2. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World William H. McRaven (12/29/25) 144 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐
🎄 3. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (12/31/25) 181 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

5.1 Merry & Bright
Spell-out: ANGEL

A - All I Want for Christmas
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G - Gilmore, Laurie - The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
E - The Excitements
L - Lucado, Max - Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here

🧑‍🎄 1.1 Santa's List Day
(Nice Story)
Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (12/25/25) 237 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐


🧑‍🎄 1.2 Christmas
Author's initials in CHRISTMAS
Susan Mallery's One Big Happy Family (12/27/25) 320 pp 3.5⭐⭐⭐

1.3 Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day
Snow on cover
Santa's Sweetheartby Janet Dailey

1.6 New Year's Eve
Page Count: 2 numbers from 2026
296 pp. A Timeless Christmas by Alexis Stanton

🧑‍🎄 1.7 Richard ❤️ Gardening
(the word Garden in text)
pg. 68 - " There was a high GARDEN wall by the kitchen door."

Another Breath of Border Air by Lavinia Derwent (12/28/25) 160 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐

1.8 Favorite Holiday Food
My husband and I ❤️ FRUITCAKE
Rockin' Around the Chickadee by Donna Andrews

1.9 Book Clubs
Page Count with 4 or 5 (304 pp)
The Secret Ingredient of Wishes by Susan Bishop Crispell