Monthly Challenges discussion

Here's the spot to help you with your plan for this month's reading.

*✔1.1 Girl Scout Day (3/12)
GIRL in the title.
Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier (3/2/18) 233 pp. ★★★★

*✔1.2 (Linda C's task) Pick A Genre
MPG-(Coming-of-Age)
The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh (3/11/18) 336 pp. ★★★


*✔1.3 (Bethany's task) Reading Rainbow
pastel color - light green cover
French Fried by Nancy Fairbanks (3/7/18) 290 pp. 3.5 ★★★

1.4 (Tessa's Task) Remembrances: March Madness
Any BALL used in a sport (*BP:basketball) on the cover
In the Swish by Dawn Green -OR- Foul Trouble by John Feinstein

1.5 Jewel Day (3/13)
Read a book with a jewel's name in the title.
Ruby by Cynthia Bond

1.6 Passover (3/31)
Read a book by a Jewish author -OR- one with a Jewish MC.
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

1.7 (Linda C's task) Beware the Ides of March (3/15)
Read a book involving a fortune teller, seer, or psychic where a prediction is made OR set in Roman times (Indicate which you choose).
The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden

two point tasks

2.1 Surprise Me
My picks:


Marilyn Picked:
✔1. While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell
(3/4/18) 432 pp. ★★★★
2. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

2.2 (Amber's task) The Amazing Race

1. Capture the Flag
Read a book set in the Ireland
(set in Wexford, Ireland)
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

✔2. Detour

D. Read a book with all the letters in SHAMROCK, HARP, or CROSS found in the title.

(DIVERS CLOTHES)
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida (3/20/18) ★★★

2.3 (Bethany's task) Surprise Yourself!
Choose two books that you have submitted for the Surprise Me task
✔1. Beloved Stranger by Patricia Potter (3/13/18) 341 pp. ★★★★

2. Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews

2.4 (Amber's task) Fun March Holidays
March 19 - Let's Laugh Day & March 22 - International Goof Off Day

✔1. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
(3/18/18) 312 pp. ★★★★★

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three point tasks

3.1 (Bethany's task) Celebrate Women
Read Three Books

Read a book that:
✔1. female author.
Debbie Macomber's God's Guest List: Welcoming Those Who Influence Our Lives (3/5/18) 190 pp. ★★★★

2. Has the genre of either "Women's History" or "Feminism" on the main page.

3. Can pass the Bechdel Test.

The Bechdel Test requires that a work of fiction
1. Has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier (3/23/18) 263 pp. ★★★

3.2 (Linda C's task) Women’s History Month

✔1. MC is a woman who some other position that is part of a larger organization or group.
(Marlena - circus performer)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (3/15/18) 350 pp. 3.5 ★★★

✔2. MC is a woman who owns a business
( Nina Redmond own a bookshop on wheels)
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (3/9/18) 336 pp. 3.5 ★★★

3. MC is a woman who has an independent career
(Artist - Sophie Peabody)
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck

five point task

5.1 Arts & Crafts
spell-out: CRAFT

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Red Butterfly by A. L. Sonnichsen

Amy Bloom's Lucky Us

Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

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