Monthly Challenges discussion

One Point Tasks

1.1 National Beer Day (4/7)
Read a book with the word BEER in the text (include page and sentence).

1.2 (Amber's Task) Pick A Genre
Read a book with Young Adult listed in its main page genre.

1.3 (Amberly's Task) Reading Rainbow
Read a book with a Pink, Purple, or Yellow cover (50%+ - show cover).

1.4 (Marilyn's Task) Remembrances: April Showers
Read a book with an UMBRELLA or BLACK CLOUDS on the cover. (show cover)

1.5 Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day (4/12)
Read a book with a word in its title that starts and ends with the same letter.
(ex. High Voltage (HigH), Everyone Brave is Forgiven (EveryonE)

1.6 National Librarian Day (4/16)
Read a book with BOTH of the author's initials found in LIBRARY -OR- a book suggested by your favorite Librarian. :)

1.7 (Linda C's Task) National Tartan Day (4/6)
Read a book that has something plaid on the cover (show cover)

Two Point Tasks

2.1 Surprise Me
Read Two Books

Go to link: Surprise Me Task

2.2 (Amberly's Task) The Amazing Race
Read Two Books

1. Capture the Flag
Read a book set in the Poland (must be at less set 50% in chosen country) -or- MC is Polish.

2. Detour
To reach your detour complete one of the following tasks.

A. The first of the freshly baked cakes is the mazurek. The recipe is considered to have arrived to Poland from Turkey and started circulating in the 17th century.The flat shortbread can be made of different kinds of dough and toppings, for example marmalade, chocolate glazing, dried fruit or nuts.
Read a book with some sort of dessert on the cover or MC is a baker.

B. Among the wealth of Easter cakes is the makowiec, a poppy seed roll spun like a strudel. It's main ingredient is poppy seeds and it uses the same type of dough as the Babka. The texture is crunchy and nutty, and it's sometimes covered with sugar icing.
Read a book with Food listed as a main genre on the books main page.

C. The tall airy Easter babka is a no-knead yeast cake baked in a Bundt pan. It can be laced with rum syrup and drizzled with icing but custom dictates that it has no filling. The name derives from the word "grandmother" and probably refers to its shape: a grandmother's wide, pleated skirt.
Read a book where MC is older than 55 or is a grandparent.

D. The egg symbolises new life and Christ's resurrection. Polish egg-related traditions include colouring, blessing them as part of the Easter basket in church, sharing the blessed eggs while wishing each other all the best for the year ahead and eating them with different seasoning. They're served boiled, stuffed, fried or with mayo - there's no getting away from them. The decorative devilled egg is a hard-boiled egg, halved andfilled with a mixture of the yolks, mayonnaise, mustard, onion and horseradish cream.
Read a book that's cover is either lavender, light green, yellow or pink. (show cover)

2.3 (Bethany's Task) Spring Cleaning
Read two books that have been on your To Read shelf for more than one year.
(list dates you added books to your shelf)

2.4 (Linda C's Task) Friday the 13th
Read Two Books

1. Thomas Jefferson's Birthday
Politician, diplomat, President, landowner, writer (of the Declaration of Independence).
Read a book where an MC has one of these professions; tell us which.

2. Unlucky Day
Read a book where someone is unlucky OR where 1 and 3 are in page count (in any order).

2.5 (Amber's Task) I love to Read Series
Read Two Books

1. Read a book that is a new series to you.

2. Read a book that is next in a series you have started but not finished.
(list series)

Three Point Tasks

3.1 (Bethany's Task) Happy Lawn and Garden Month!
Read Three Books

I've got lots of projects to work on while I'm on break.

1. Mow the lawn
Read a book that its title contains the letters in GRASS.
2. Weeding
Read a book with plants/greenery on the cover. (show cover)
3. Planting
Read a book with the name of a plant in the title.
(This could be a general plant, like tree or flower, or could be a specific plant, like rose or pine.)

3.2 (Mickslibrarian's Task) Blossoms are a-bloomin'.
Read Three Books

One of the signs of spring I love the most are the trees full of flowers. And what is more beautiful than a city full of cherry trees in bloom? To celebrate this symbol of the season, read three books.

1. The National Cherry Blossom Festival may be the most well known for those who live in the U.S., but there are other festivals around the world.
Read a book set in one of those places: Washington, DC, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), New Jersey (Newark), New York (Brooklyn), Georgia (Macon), California (San Francisco), Italy (Rome), Finland (Helsinki), Canada (Vancouver), and Japan.
Book must be set in the state or country, *a bonus point if it is also set in the city (at least 50%). No bonus if you pick DC or Japan.

2. In Japan, cherry blossoms symbolize clouds, and are often paired with other symbols such as koi fish, dragons, and tigers in tattoos.
Read a book with a cherry blossom, cloud, koi fish, dragon, or tiger on the cover or in the title. (Show cover)

3. Anton Checkov's classic The Cherry Orchard was written in 1903 and first produced in 1904. In 2008, a Japanese film about a school group putting on The Cherry Orchard was released.
Read a book where the publication year contains any combination of the numbers 1,9,0,3,4,2,0,0,8. Numbers may not appear more than in the sequence listed (1920 yes, 1922 no).


Five Point Task

5.1 Fun in the Past
Read Five Books

April is National Humor Month & Eight Track Tape Day (4/11)
This month spell-out the word HUMOR, EIGHT, or TRACK.

For example: spell-out: HUMOR

Hunger (The) by Alma Katsu
Urrea, Luis Alberto - The House of Broken Angels
Matt Killeen's Orphan Monster Spy
Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Rose for the ANZAC Boys (A) by Jackie French

You may use the first letter of the first word of the book title (exclude a, an, or the) -OR- the initials of an author's first or last name).
Don't forget to list the date you read your books.

All the tasks are now up!

We have double ties this month. So we going to have a lot to choice from. :D