Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

December Reporting Thread

- Please keep this thread for reporting. Any questions or comments should be directed to the challenge details thread
- Keep your reporting to one thread, once you've completed all of your books for the month
- Only list completed tasks and books
- To make it easier for collating points, please make a note if the books are from the Goodreads winners and nominees list

- Example of how to post
[task description] - [book title] - [how many points]

Total points = 9 points

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 Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews (1 point)

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) The Widow by Fiona Barton (1 point)

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson (W - knew; I - him; N - Swanson; T - Peter; E - she; R - before) (1 point)

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover The Granny (Agnes Browne, #3) by Brendan O'Carroll(title banner is in green as is back cover) (1 point)

6. Dice Day: Read a book where ALL the numbers of the page count can be found on a die (1 to 6) e.g. 246 will work, 379 won't The Second Biggest Nothing by Colin Cotterill (254 pages) (1 point)

7. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that was on your tbr this year that you've never got around to The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (1 point)

8. Repeal Day: Read a book with any type of alcohol on the cover or included in the text of the book The Day is Darkby Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (drinking and alcoholism are underlying themes in the book) (1 point)

9. Short Story Day: Read a book with 200 pages or less The Tale of a Niggunby Elie Wiesel (1 point)

10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has won an award (any award, doesn't have to be GR) Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel - 2015) (1 point)

December: Total Points: 7 2020 Total: 67 points

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. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here(1pt)

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover

6. Dice Day: Read a book where ALL the numbers of the page count can be found on a die (1 to 6) e.g. 246 will work, 379 won't This Telling (1 pt)

7. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that was on your tbr this year that you've never got around to The Vanishing Half (1 pt)

8. Repeal Day: Read a book with any type of alcohol on the cover or included in the text of the book The Midnight Library (1 pt)

9. Short Story Day: Read a book with 200 pages or less Halfway to Free (1 pt)

10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has won an award (any award, doesn't have to be GR) Girl, Woman, Other (2 pt)

December Reporting
Total Points: 9

2. Letter of the Month: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland (1 pt)
3, Month in Numbers: 8 letters Piranesi (1 pt)
4. Winter (December, January, February): Winter Cottage (1 pt)
5. Festive Season: The White Christmas Inn (1 pt)
6. Dice Day: 264 pages Transcendent Kingdom (1 pt)
7. Tick Tock Day: The Empire of Gold (1 pt)
8. Repeal Day: ale and wine are drunk through out the book (It is the middle ages after all) The Evening and the Morning (1 pt)
9. Short Story Day: 65 pages The Deal of a Lifetime ( 1 pt)
10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: ALA Alex Award & IAFA Crawford Award The Eyre Affair (1 pt)

December Categories

✔2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D Death in Hyde Park 12/13 1pt

✔3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count) A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes 12/29 1pt

✔4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 12/16 2pts

✔5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover A Redbird Christmas 12/29 1pt

✔6. Dice Day: Read a book where ALL the numbers of the page count can be found on a die (1 to 6) e.g. 246 will work, 379 won't The Queen of Nothing (321) 12/1 1pt

✔7. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that was on your tbr this year that you've never got around to Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II 12/8 2pts

✔8. Repeal Day: Read a book with any type of alcohol on the cover or included in the text of the book The Constant Rabbit 12/9 1pt

✔9. Short Story Day: Read a book with 200 pages or less The First Four Years 12/9 1pt

✔10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has won an award (any award, doesn't have to be GR) Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies 12/10 2pts

Total: 12pts

December 2020 Challenge done
Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club - Monthly Challenge 2020: December (2020) Monthly Challenge Showing 1-7 of 7
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 2019 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 will award a (small) prize!

December Categories

1. Month: Read a book released in December (any year) (record in 1922 of century challenge) Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems by Carnegie Library School. Association - Free Ebook (gutenberg.org)*

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D- Delta Wedding- Eudora Welty*
3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)- Lily Pond- Shelley Daniels Levken*
4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name.- The Winter’s Tale- William Shakespeare *

5. Festive Season: Read a book set during the festival season or with a red and/or green cover- The Gospel of Luke*
6. Dice Day: Read a book where ALL the numbers of the page count can be found on a die (1 to 6) e.g. 246 will work, 379 won't- The Absence of Mr. Glass- GK Chesterton*

7. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that was on your tbr this year that you've never got around to- Gods of the North- Robert E Howard*

8. Repeal Day: Read a book with any type of alcohol on the cover or included in the text of the book- The Beautiful and the Damned- F Scott Fitzgerald* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2N1d...

9. Short Story Day: Read a book with 200 pages or less- The Celestial Omnibus- EM Forester*

10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has won an award (any award, doesn't have to be GR)- Dear Girls- Ali Wong*

Progress: 7/10
Points: 8 points

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D
A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone - 1 point

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count)
The Taken -1 point

4. Winter (December, January, February): Read a book with all of the letters W I N T E R in the title and/or author's name.
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness - 2 points

6. Dice Day: Read a book where ALL the numbers of the page count can be found on a die (1 to 6) e.g. 246 will work, 379 won't
The Searcher - 1 point

7. Tick Tock Day: Read a book that was on your tbr this year that you've never got around to
The Boy from the Woods - 1 point

8. Repeal Day: Read a book with any type of alcohol on the cover or included in the text of the book
Rebecca (Chapter 8, page 96) - 1 point

10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: Read a book that has won an award (any award, doesn't have to be GR)
Blindsighted - 1 point

Total Points: 11

1. Month: READ 12/2, Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx +1

2. Letter of the Month: Read a book with the title or author starting with D: READ 12/31, Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work, Victoria Ortiz +1

3. Month in Numbers: Read a book with 8 letters or words in the title (subtitle can count):READ 12/11, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, Andrienne Brodeur +2GR

4. Winter (December, January, February): READ 12/15, Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, Sarah Weinman +1

5. Festive Season: READ 12/25, These Women, Ivy Pochoda +1

6. Dice Day: READ 12/3, PAGES 341, Anxious People, Fredrik Backman +1

7. Tick Tock Day: READ 12/30, The Huntress, Kate Quinn +2GR

9. Short Story Day: Read a book with 200 pages or less: READ 12/31, This Telling, Cheryl Strayed +1

10. Choice Awards Winners Announced: READ 12/29, Shuggie Bain, (Booker Award, Fiction 2020): +1

Didn’t have a chance to read too much last month, oh well. Looking forward to starting fresh in this new year!

4. Winter: read a book where all the letters W, I, N, T, E, and R, are in the title or the author’s name. Winter by Marissa Meyer (1 point)

6. Dice Day: read a book where all the numbers of the page count can be found on a die. The Institute by Stephen King, 562 pages (2 points)

Total: 3 points

Happy New Year everyone!

Hi Lynn,
Will you be doing a point total this year? I was wondering where I fell amongst the group. This is my first year completing the challenge! Thank you for all of the administrative work that you do!

Heather, this is first time I did the Challenges, too. I started late, but it was a lot of fun. Got me reading a lot + tried to pick as many GR ones as possible. Read books I liked that I wouldn’t probably have picked.

Wow... A lot first timers I guess... It was my first time too and I too started in around June or July... But it was so much fun... It helped me discover many new authors and explore a lot of different books that were outside my comfort zone...

Kristine wrote: "Heather, this is first time I did the Challenges, too. I started late, but it was a lot of fun. Got me reading a lot + tried to pick as many GR ones as possible. Read books I liked that I wouldn’t ..."
That's great, Kristine! I found myself reaching for more of the GR nominated books as well to "score" more points! It is fun looking through my TBR list, trying to match a book to a certain category. Certainly motivates me to read more than I normally would. :)

Gunit Kaur Kalada wrote: "Wow... A lot first timers I guess... It was my first time too and I too started in around June or July... But it was so much fun... It helped me discover many new authors and explore a lot of diffe..."

It's nice to know that several of us were new to the challenge this year, Gunit! I look forward to seeing what you will be reading in 2021!! :)

Thanks Heather... I hope to surpass my record from 2020 in more ways than one!

I hope we can find more and more great books on each others lists...

Happy Reading!

Glad to hear you all enjoyed yourself this year, and found yourself reading books that weren't necessarily in your comfort zone as that is my main aim of these challenges :)

Year end tally of points:

119 Jayme
107 Hayley
99 Theresa
97 Kristine
94 Gunit
82 Michelle
67 Heather
40 Kathy
39 Vicki
36 Jenna
23 Kaitlin
22 Connie
12 Kristie
10 Joshua
9 Sherri
9 Suzanne
8 Cami

Thanks Lynn... That must have been a lot work!

Yes, Lynn, thank you for doing so much. It’s fun to do the challenges, but you put them all together and keep track. Really appreciate. It is a great way to get in as many GR Winners as possible and find new authors and genres. Plus, interesting to see what everyone else is reading.

Thanks Lynn for organizing the challenge it was fun - on to 2021!!!