Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Monthly Challenge: 1st to 31st December
Only books read during the challenge period are allowed.

Guidelines:
- Read ONE book for each category (10 books in total).
- You don't have to read all ten categories, just read whatever you are able.
- Any genres are acceptable.
- Any book length is acceptable.

For the competitive (optional)
- At the end of each month, document your finished books in the reporting thread
- 1pt for each book completed, 2pts for any book that is on the current Goodreads winners and nominees list
- Each month's totals will be collated and the member with the most points at the end of the year will have bragging rights ...... and we may be able to award a (small) prize!

December Categories

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year)

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover

5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book

7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability

8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover

9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title

10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to. 

Polite reminder: please use this thread for planning, questions etc., NOT reporting.

Report your finished books in the corresponding month's reporting thread. Thanks.

Let's see if I can do this in December.

✓1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year) Hercule Poirot's Christmas (first published December 19th 1938)

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

✓4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover The Christmas Box

✓5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist My Story

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book

✓7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability This Tender Land

✓8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover The Fifth To Die (does the title count?)

✓9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

✓10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to. The Shadows We Hide

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year) Children of Virtue and Vengeance

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story - 1pt

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) In Pieces

4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover Owl Be Home for Christmas: A Meg Langslow Mystery - 1pt

5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist The Novice's Tale

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book The Starless Sea - 1pt

7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability

8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover The Old Success - 1pt

9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title The Fifth Elephant - 1pt

10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to. The Clockmaker's Daughter - 2pts

December Categories

Total Points: 6

✓1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year)
Good Girls Lie

✓2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D
The Terror by Dan Simmons

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

✓4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover



✓ 5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist
The Grace Year

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book

7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability

8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover

✓9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title
Twisted Twenty-Six

✓10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to.
Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Wanted Criminal

December Categories

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year)

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover

5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book

7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability

8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover

9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title

10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to.

Challenge TBR

Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club
December (2019) Monthly Challenge
Monthly Challenge: 1st to 31st December

Progress: 0 out of 10

Only books read during the challenge period are allowed.

Guidelines:
- Read ONE book for each category (10 books in total).
- You don't have to read all ten categories, just read whatever you are able.
- Any genres are acceptable.
- Any book length is acceptable.

For the competitive (optional)
- At the end of each month, document your finished books in the reporting thread
- 1pt for each book completed, 2pts for any book that is on the current Goodreads winners and nominees list
- Each month's totals will be collated and the member with the most points at the end of the year will have bragging rights ...... and we may be able to award a (small) prize!

December Categories

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year)

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)

4. Festive Season: Read a book with a festival scene on the cover or a red and/or green cover

5. Rosa Parks Day: Read a book with a strong female protagonist

6. Letter Writing Day: Read a book where characters are writing to each other (traditional letter, texting, email etc) for a significant part of the book

7. Disability Day: Read a book which has a main character with a disability

8. Crossword Puzzle Day: Read a book with a black and white cover

9. Bingo Month: Read a book with a number in the title

10. Ding-A-Ling Day (call friends or family you may have lost track of during the year): Read a book that you were meant to read this year but never got around to.

Where’s the reporting thread?

Here you go, Bub

december reporting thread

Hey Lynn,
For the book to count for double points, does it need to be from 2018 GRCA?
Or can it also be from 2019 awards since they are out?

Whoops, sorry Vicki .... I've only just seen this. It is supposed to be from the 2018 list, but as I've only answered now if you went with a 2019 book I'll allow it.

That is ok Lynn!
I reread guidelines and it was clearly stated "current year" so I didn't add the extra.