Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Drop your completed lists here and let us celebrate with you!

Finished a first round!

🍁 1. autumn: Certain Dark Things (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) -- in text
🍁 2. fall: The Charm Offensive (Alison Cochrun) -- in text
🍁 3. foliage: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Zoraida Córdova) -- title
🍁 4. cooler weather: The Wine-Dark Sea (Patrick O'Brian) -- title
🍁 5. Halloween: The Last Beautiful Girl (Nina Laurin) -- author initials
🍁 6. scarf: Black Chalk (Christopher J. Yates) -- in text
🍁 7. harvest: Smile: The Story of a Face (Sarah Ruhl) -- author initials
🍁 8. pumpkin spice: The Nutmeg of Consolation (Patrick O'Brian) -- title
🍁 9. orange: The Things She's Seen (Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina) -- cover
🍁 10. hot chocolate: The Commodore (Patrick O'Brian) -- title
🍁 11. spooky season: The Truelove (Patrick O'Brian) -- author initials
🍁 12. schooltime: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife (Ashley Winstead) -- title


I think I might try to do one of each fulfillment for each phrase, next.

Done, will probably try another round. I especially like to find the words in the text.

1. autumn - The Mountains Sing - Ch 6, 37 minutes into chapter on audio - "Around me, autumn was ripening." - Sep 13 - 4*

2. fall - An Unlikely Attraction - p 92 "I cannot believe we are having such a glorious fall." - Sep 12 - 3*

3. foliage - A Gift of Time - Sep 4 - 3* -title

4. cooler weather - Writers & Lovers - Sep 7 - 4* - title

5. Halloween - Have His Carcase - Sep 19 - 4* - title

6. scarf - A Fatal Grace - Sep 13 - 4* - p. 285 - "Then she'd grabbed the long scarf and she'd pulled and pulled, tighter and tighter."

7. harvest - 8 Faces at 3 (taking 8 as "eight") - Sep 27 - 4* - title

8. pumpkin spice - The Color of Death - Sep 3 - 4* - title

9. orange - The Empty House - oranges on cover - Sep 13 - 3* (even though there is nothing in the book about oranges and this is set in a rural England at a time when oranges would have been a rare imported treat!)

10. hot chocolate - I would love to use Don't Look Back - author is Amanda Quick and Quik was a famous brand of hot chocolate (maybe still is?) but it's not strictly in the rules, so I'll use The Lathe of Heaven - Sep 25 - 3* - title

11. spooky season - Three Weeks With My Brother, author Nicholas Sparks - Sep 10 - 3* - author

12. schooltime - Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers - Sep 6 - 3* - author

The Phrases:
1. autumn - Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Jessica Bruder. 9.19.21 (title)
2. fall - A Cup of Silver Linings. Karen Hawkins. 9.12.21 (text: I promise I won't fall. 32%)
3. foliage - With the Fire on High. Elizabeth Acevedo. 9.19.21 (author)
4. cooler weather - South of the Buttonwood Tree. Heather Webber. 9.5.21 (author)
5. Halloween - Speak. Laurie Halse Anderson. 9.14.21 (author)
6. scarf - The Stranger. Albert Camus. 9.20.21 (author)
7. harvest - Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage. Eleanor Henderson. 9.8.21 (author)
8. pumpkin spice - Christmas in Winter Hill. Melody Carlson. 9.13.21 (author)
9. orange - Mayhem at the Orient Express. Kylie Logan. 9.16.21 (text: It's the one for orange chicken. 41%)
10. hot chocolate - House Lessons: Renovating a Life. Erica Bauermeister. 9.1.21 (title)
11. spooky season - The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Peter Singer. 9.22.21 (author)
12. schooltime - Downsizing. Lin Stepp. 9.7.21 (author)

🍁 ATY Autumn Reading Challenge 2021🍁

Read from September 1-30, 2021

The Phrases:
1. autumn - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - (4 - 'autumn' in text)
2. fall - Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - (2 first letter in title)
3. foliage - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - (3- foliage on cover, and 2- first letter in title)
4. cooler weather - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (2- first letter in title T or L)
5. Halloween - When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal (4-'Halloween' is in the text)
6. scarf - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (4 - 'scarf' in text)
7. harvest - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (2 - A or T - first letter in title)
8. pumpkin spice - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2-S first letter in title)
9. orange She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan. (3 - Orange sun or harvest moon on the cover)
10. hot chocolate - They Both Die at the End -(4-they drink 'hot chocolate' in the text)
11. spooky season - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (1-author initials)
12. schooltime - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (1-author initials)

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial) = 2 books
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The) = 4 (5) books
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation) = 2 books
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word) = 4 books

Completed Books:

Author's f/l Initials:
🎃10. hot chocolate:Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
🎃11. spooky season: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

First letter of Title:
🎃4. cooler weather: The Empress of Salt and Fortune
🎃7. harvest: Rolling in the Deep
🎃8. pumpkin spice: The Past Is Red
🎃12. schooltime: The Canterville Ghost

Cover:
🎃1. autumn: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (orange leaves, a hot drink and longer sleaves/pants)

🎃3. foliage: The Chimes (leaves)

🎃6. scarf:The Black Flamingo black feather boa/scarf


Text:
🎃2. fall: The Moonlit Mind (used numerous times throughout the book)
🎃5. Halloween: Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi (pg 104)
🎃9. orange: Light Chaser (pg 24 & 167)

How do I sign up for this? I'm new to the group.

Reed wrote: "How do I sign up for this? I'm new to the group."

Check out the Autumn Reading Challenge 2021 Intro, Tasks and FAQ topic which explains in message 1.

Yay! I finished! :) Might try to do a second round in October Happy Fall everyone!

The Phrases:
1. autumn

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

2. fall

The First Time at Firelight Falls by Julie Anne Long - finished 09.01.21

3. foliage

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee - finished 09.03.21

4. cooler weather

Where the Truth Lies by Anna Bailey

5. Halloween

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

6. scarf

Crooked House & Endless Night by Agatha Christie - finished 09.08.21

7. harvest

The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens

8. pumpkin spice

Ruth Fields of Grace by Kristin Schmucker

9. orange

Fable by Adrienne Young

10. hot chocolate

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

11. spooky season

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

12. schooltime

Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts

First round is done, with three books per category!

🍁 1. Autumn: The World Cannot Give (#4, Bonnie says "another ripening of the autumn leaves" around pg 14)
🍁 2. Fall: The Family Chao: A Novel (#3, very fall colored cover with red and orange prominently used)
🍁 3. Foliage: The Overstory (#3, leaves on trees on the cover, not autumnal but foliage just means plant leaves)
🍁 4. Cooler weather: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (#1, author initials)
🍁 5. Halloween: Assembly (#2, "A" in Halloween)
🍁 6. Scarf: Human Acts (#4, Eun-sook wears a scarf on page 81)
🍁 7. Harvest: The Book of Strange New Things (#4, Peter leans how to "harvest" the the fields of the Oasans on pg. 280)
🍁 8. Pumpkin Spice: The Mirror & the Light (#2, "M" in Pumpkin Spice)
🍁 9. Orange: Sabriel by Garth Nix (#1, author initials)
🍁 10. Hot Chocolate: Lirael (#2, "L" in Hot Chocolate)
🍁 11. Spooky Season: The Name of the Wind (#3, the hooded figure on cover evokes a spooky season and atmosphere)
🍁 12. Schooltime:In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides (#1, author initials)

First round completed! All fulfill prompt #2: "Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)"

1. autumn - A Merry Murder at St. Bernard Cabins by Cindy Bell
2. fall - The Angel of an Astronomer by Linda Rae Sande
3. foliage - Inferno by Dante Alighieri
4. cooler weather - Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen
5. Halloween - The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
6. scarf - Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score
7. harvest - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
8. pumpkin spice - Paradise by Dante Alighieri
9. orange - Ridorkulous by Mary Frame
10. hot chocolate - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
11. spooky season - The Spinster's Fortune by Mary Kendall
12. schooltime - Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson

Finished Round 1 (filled all prompts, using three books for each prompt):

Author's name

Fall: Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
Harvest: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Schooltime: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Title

Autumn: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Spooky Season: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Pumpkin Spice: Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark

Cover:

Foliage: by Ali Smith
Halloween: by Neil Gaiman
Cooler Weather: by Philip Pullman

Text

Orange: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Crimson at the horizon, the last of the sunset faded, through orange, upwards into yellow and a pale watery green’(p64)
Hot Chocolate: The Eighth Lifeby Nino Haratischwili At this point the recipe - or rather, the hot chocolate resulting from it -should be introduced as one of the principal characters in our story, Brilka (p29)
Scarf: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Storyby Amani Al-Khatahtbeh P.17 Once, I remember my grandmother visited an accessories store in the flea market and purchased a white scarf with red hearts and an English text on it that she didn't understand (p17)

Well, I've finished the first time through. I may try a second run. In the end, I gave up on my plan to try to do the whole challenge using words in the text.

1. Autumn - The Hound of the Baskervilles - word in the text
2. Fall - Claw Enforcement - fall leaves on the cover, and word in the text.
3. Foliage - Drowned Country - word in the text
4. Cooler weather - Killer Comfort Food - autho'sr initials in the phrase
5. Halloween - An Artificial Night - word in the text
6. Scarf - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again - word in the text
7. Harvest - As You Like It - word in the text
8. Pumpkin spice - Cemetery Boys - first letter of the title in the phrase
9. Orange - The Giver - word in the text
10. Hot chocolate - The Cats Came Back - phrase in the text
11. Spooky season - Son - first letter of the title in the phrase
12. Schooltime - Gone with the Whisker - author's initials in the phrase.

Full details: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Round one completed! I did mostly titles but got a couple of authors in there.

1. autumn - Miss Kopp Investigates (title)
2. fall - A Little Princess (title)
3. foliage - American Dirt (title)
4. cooler weather - Rapture in Death (title)
5. Halloween - 1984 (title)
6. scarf - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (title)
7. harvest - The Royals Next Door (title)
8. pumpkin spice - The Cousins by Karen J. McManus (title and author)
9. orange - The Night She Disappeared (title)
10. hot chocolate - Confessions on the 7:45 (title)
11. spooky season - Billy Summers by Stephen King (author)
12. schooltime - Homegoing (title)

🍂 My first round: 🍂

1. Autumn: הנוסעת האחרונה by Tal Nitzan (#1, T.N.)
2. Fall: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (#2, A-title)
3. Foliage: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (#3, cover)
4. Cooler weather: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (#1, R.R.)
5. Halloween: The Power by Naomi Alderman (#1, N.A.)
6. Scarf: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (#2, F-title)
7. Harvest: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (#2, S-title)
8. Pumpkin spice: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (#1, M.K.)
9. Orange: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (#3, cover)
10. Hot chocolate : Silent Dances by A.C. Crispin (#1, A.C.)
11. Spooky season: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline (#2, P-title)
12. Schooltime: Holy Hell by Elizabeth Sims (#1, E.S.)

Finished 10/15/2021
The Phrases: 12/12
1. autumn - The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicies #3) by Susan Wiggs. " Autumn was San Francisco's summer"... page 127
2. fall - Shelter Mountain (Virgin River, #2) by Robyn Carr. Chapter 4 page 77. - Fall,hunting season...
3. foliage - The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) by N.K.Jemisin. Phase contains first letter of title
4. cooler weather - Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #3) by Lyssa Kay Adams. Authors initials
5. Halloween - Whispering Rock (Virgin River, #3) by Robyn Carr. Phase contains first letter of title
6. scarf - Sour Puss (Mrs. Murphy, #14) by Rita Mae Brown,Sneaky Pie Brown) Chapter 2 page 9. This Monday, while not blizzard weather,proved cold enough for scarf,gloves...
7. harvest - The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern phase contains first letter of title.
8.pumpkin spice - Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #1) by David Baldacci. Phase contains first letter of title
9. orange- The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2) by Julia Quinn. Chapter 9 page 170. ...she just declared the sky orange.
10. hot chocolate - Midnight in Chenobyl by Adam Higginbotham. Authors initials
11. spooky season- The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville. Authors initials
12. schooltime - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Authors initials

Finished rounds 2 and 3 (author's name and book title).

Author's name

Autumn: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
Fall: Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
Foliage: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Cooler Weather: Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson
Halloween: The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
Harvest: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Scarf: Spring by Ali Smith
Pumpkin Spice: Serpentine] by Philip Pullman
Orange: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Hot Chocolate: Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
Spooky Season: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
Schooltime: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

First letter of title

Autumn: Magpie Lane
Fall: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Foliage: The Ice Palace
Cooler Weather: River-Horse by William Least Heat-Moon
Halloween: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Harvest: Sister Outsider
Scarf: The Spice Route by John Keay
Pumpkin Spice: Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans
Orange: The Graveyard Book
Hot Chocolate: The Eighth Life
Spooky Season: Serpentine
Schooltime: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story

Can i do this please ?

Finished today!

1. autumn - Tower of Dawn
2. fall - Any Way the Wind Blows
3. foliage - The Forgotten Girl
4. cooler weather - Rule of Wolves
5. Halloween - Hidden
6. scarf - Stargazing
7. harvest - The Promised Neverland, Vol. 7
8. pumpkin spice - Kingdom of Ash
9. orange - Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
10. hot chocolate - The Promised Neverland, Vol. 8
11. spooky season - The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
12. schooltime - The Flatshare

Round 1 completed - I had exactly 12 books left to finish both ATY and the Reading Women Challenge for 2021, and I managed to fit them into one round!

(4 Author) The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
(12 Title) The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
(6 Author) Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer (ATY title contains a negative)
(11 Cover) by Sarah Beth Durst (ATY character in title)
(1 Title) Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
(7 Author) The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid (ATY non-fiction)
(8 Title) Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
(3 Cover) by Natasha Pulley (ATY foliage on the cover)
(2 Phrase) Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
(9 Phrase) Don't Be Afraid, Gringo by Elvia Alvarado
(5 Cover) by David Wong (ATY "the end")
(10 Author) The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela

Completed Round 3: Covers

Autumn:
Fall:
Foliage:
Cooler Weather:
Halloween:
Scarf:
Harvest:
Pumpkin Spice:
Orange:
Hot Chocolate:
Spooky Season:
Schooltime:

Reed wrote: "Can i do this please ?"

Yes of course!

Here's where you can find all the prompts and an FAQ: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

:)

The Phrases:
1. autumn -- Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

2. fall -- London by Frank Tayell
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

3. foliage -- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
(Phrase contains both letters of the author's name)

4. cooler weather -- Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
(Phrase contains both letters of the author's name)

5. Halloween -- The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

6. scarf -- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
(Phrase is found somewhere in the text)

7. harvest -- We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
(Phrase is found somewhere in the text)

8. pumpkin spice -- Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

9. orange -- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

10. hot chocolate -- Hellfire by John Saul
(Phrase contains the first letter of the title)

11. spooky season -- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
(Phrase contains first letter of the title)

12. schooltime -- Inside Out by Demi Moore
(Phrase contains first letter of the title)

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

Complete!
1. autumn - Max by Alex Miller (author)
2. fall - The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (title)
3. foliage - The Immigrant by Manju Kapur (cover)
4. cooler weather - Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei (author)
5. Halloween - Waiting by Ha Jin (author)
6. scarf - Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (title)
7. harvest - The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (title)
8. pumpkin spice - Apeirogon by Colum McCann (author)
9. orange - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (cover)
10. hot chocolate - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (title)
11. spooky season Hades by Candice Fox (cover)
12. schooltime - Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner (cover)

Managed a second run through: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. Autumn - No One Noticed the Cat, Anne McCaffery - Author
2. Fall - Legendborn, Tracy Deonn – Title
3. Foliage - Checking Out Crime, Laurie Cass – Cover
4. Cooler weather - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, Nghi Vo – Title
5. Halloween - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T Kingfisher – Title
6. Scarf - To Catch a Witch, Heather Blake - Title
7. Harvest - The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez – Title
8. Pumpkin spice - Bitter Harvest, Sheila Connolly – Author
9. Orange - Ghosts of Manhattan, George Mann – Title
10. Hot chocolate - Axiom's End, Lindsay Ellis - Author
11. Spooky season - Killer Characters, Ellery Adams - Author
12. Schooltime - The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson – Title

Autumn challenge completed!


How to Fill the Prompts:

1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)


The Phrases:

🍁 1. Autumn
From Best Friend to Husband by Lucy McConnell (3) Autumn pretty obvious on the cover

🍁 2. Fall
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel (4) (page 114) "How a pretty young woman like you could fall for a man with these manners is beyond me."

🍁 3. Foliage
Fallen Stars: Darkest Days by Gary J Darby (2)

🍁 4. Cooler Weather
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous (2)

🍁 5. Halloween
Even This: Getting to the Place Where You Can Trust God with Anything by Emily Belle Freeman (4) (Pg 58) "We trade his Halloween candy in for a toy, and he likes the toy for one day, but the next day he wants his candy back, he wants his life back, I want my life back."

🍁 6. Scarf
Rescuing the Single Dad by Kadee McDonald (3) Character's on cover are both wearing scarfs.

🍁 7. Harvest
A Proper Scandal by Esther Hatch (1)

🍁 8. Pumpkin Spice
We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen (1)

🍁 9. Orange
Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse(4) (Page 100) "I automatically reach for the turquoise pendant around my neck, but I can't touch it, because now I'm wearing a puffy orange jacket, zipped all the way to my chin."

🍁 10. Hot Chocolate
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (1)

🍁 11. Spooky Season
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2)

🍁 12. Schooltime
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single: How to Do Life As a Young Adult (3), Cover shows many of the things one would pack in preparation for going to college. Thus the beginning of "schooltime".

Woop woop, I did it, too :)

1. autumn
Todesschrei
Phrase contains T

2. fall
The Hidden Oracle
The cover shows the MC, a fallen god, mid-fall

3. foliage
The Only Good Indians
Phrase contains O, G, and I

4. cooler weather
Alle Morde wieder: Weihnachtskrimis
Snowman on the cover, plus, the phrase contains A and W

5. Halloween
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Kindle search turns up three occurrences in the text

6. scarf
Breaking News by Frank Schätzing
Phrase contains both F and S

7. harvest
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Kindle search turns up three occurrences in the text

8. pumpkin spice
Shelter by Ursula Poznanski
Phrase contains both U and P

9. orange
Illuminae
Orange cover

10. hot chocolate
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Phrase contains A, C, O, and T

11. spooky season
Die Augen des Drachen by Stephen King
Phrase contains both S and K

12. schooltime
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Phrase contains S and E

Finished a couple of weeks ago.... and finally posting. This was fun!

1. autumn
Title Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 9/12/2021

2. fall
Word Kindred by Octavia E Butler 10/29/2021

3. foliage
Author Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine 9/8/2021

4. cooler weather
Author Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 9/2/2021

5. Halloween
Title Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter 9/24/2021

6. scarf
Author The Return by Nicholas Sparks 9/12/2021

7. harvest
Author The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 9/29/2021

8. pumpkin spice
Title Mystery of the Tolling Bell by Carolyn Keene 9/14/2021

9. orange
Word I'll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson 9/23/2021

10. hot chocolate
Title 84, Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff 9/2/2021

11. spooky season
Author Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout 11/2/2021

12. schooltime
Title Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade 9/56/2021

Completed two rounds
Autumn Reading Challenge

1. autumn
✅Bed-Knob and Broomstick - Mary Norton (Author)
✅Endless Night - Agatha Christie (Cover - full moon and bird)


2. fall
✅Anne of Windy Poplars - L.M. Montgomery (Title)
✅Haunted Hibiscus (Tea Shop Mystery #22) - Laura Childs (Cover - yellow and orange)


3. foliage
✅Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather (Title)
✅Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens (Cover - foliage)


4. cooler weather
✅The Harlequin Tea Set - Agatha Christie (Author)
✅Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (Title)

5. Halloween
✅Waiting for Willa - Dorothy Eden (Title)
✅Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M.R. James (Cover - scary)


6. scarf
✅Three Act Tragedy - Agatha Christie (Author)
✅The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens (Text, 2:57 left: Arriving thus, under the arched entrance of his dwelling, he pauses for an instant in the shelter to puII off that great black scarf, and hang it in a loop upon his arm.)

7. harvest
✅How the Light Gets In - Louise Penny (Title)
✅The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. Ryan Stadhal (Cover - wheat)


8. pumpkin spice
✅The Cross - Sigrid Undset (Author)
✅Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend (Cover - pumpkin)


9. orange
✅The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green (Author)
✅The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith (cover - orange)


10. hot chocolate
✅Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author)
✅Long Bright River - Liz Moore (Title)

11. spooky season
✅Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie (Author)
✅The Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon (Title)

12. schooltime
✅Inspector Imanishi Investigates - Seicho Matsumoto (Author)
✅The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue (Cover - watch=time)

Finished (just about and much to my surprise!) Round 5: Phrase in the text:

Autumn: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
‘Also, the weather has changed, the wind has got into an autumn rampage scooping up the lake and battering the beach’

Fall: Marion in Daddy by Emma Cline
‘The hills were hazy with buckwheat, and it was almost fall again.’

Foliage:Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
'I certainly do remember when I first spotted Nick - a tall shadow cutting through the bright green foliage at quite a pace.’

Cooler weather: How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith
‘Suspected unfaithfulness, the bread and butter of any private detective agency, was seasonal; the hot weather seemed to inhibit it, while the cooler weather brought it on'

Halloween: Cardiff, by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
‘Recalling how, on Halloween evening in St. Paul, as a young child, excited, apprehensive, she and other masked and costumed children had dared to ring door-bells at houses like this one while their parents waited in vehicles parked at the curb; how relieved they were when no one answered’

Scarf: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
'It felt like a wet silk scarf against his skin’

Harvest: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
‘The Eleusinian Mysteries – a celebration of Demeter, goddess of grain and harvest, and her daughter Persephone – were one of the major religious festivals in ancient Greece’

Pumpkin Spice: Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah Lohman
'This love of pumpkin spice makes a strong candidate for a ninth flavor, and our affection for it is linked to nostalgia as well as science.’

Orange: All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
‘It was at that instant that it happened: there sprung up a bright orange glow on the far side of Home Field, vigorous and hungry and alive’.

Hot Chocolate: The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili
‘So far, he had added only a very small amount of the special mixture to all his chocolate products – a finishing touch to the flavour, as it were – but it was in the hot chocolate that its magic was at its most potent.’

Schooltime: The Prelude: The Four Texts by William Wordsworth (but I read books 1&2 on-line.)
‘Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-Time’

Spooky Season: Can't find this on Goodreads, but it is from Running Through My Thoughts a book of poetry by Angel Miller
‘Spooky season calls out all the girls/With their pumpkin spice lattes,/And their colorful leaves that dance upon the wind.’

Autumn Reading Challenge - 2 rounds

✔1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)

The Phrases:
✔1. autumn - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 10/11/21
✔2. fall - Premeditated Peppermint by Amanda Flower 11/22/21
✔3. foliage - Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart 9/3/21
✔4. cooler weather - Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang 9/4/21
✔5. Halloween - The Pint of No Return by Ellie Alexander 9/19/21
✔6. scarf - At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie 9/12/21
✔7. harvest - Drama by Raina Telgemeier 9/12/21
✔8. pumpkin spice - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 9/7/21
✔9. orange - Nothing Bundt Trouble by Ellie Alexander 10/18/21
✔10. hot chocolate - Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 9/13/21
✔11. spooky season - Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu 9/17/21
✔12. schooltime - An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena 9/2/21



✔2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)

The Phrases:
✔1. autumn - An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena 9/2//21/
✔2. fall - Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang 9/4/21
✔3. foliage - Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart 9/3/21
✔4. cooler weather - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 9/7/21
✔5. Halloween - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 9/11/21
✔6. scarf - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 9/11/21
✔7. harvest - At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie 9/12/21
✔8. pumpkin spice - Murder under Cover by Kate Carlisle 9/15/21
✔9. orange - Ghost by Jason Reynolds 9/11/21
✔10. hot chocolate - Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu 9/17/21
✔11. spooky season - The Pint of No Return by Ellie Alexander 9/19/21
✔12. schooltime - How to Twist a Dragon's Tale by Cressida Cowell

Round two done! My reading has taken a dip lately, usually I can get through almost 3 rounds. Some of these books were pretty long (see: IT) which cut down my total number, plus the last two months have been a bit crazy.

1. autumn - Miracle Creek (title)
2. fall - Apples Never Fall (word in title)
3. foliage - It (title)
4. cooler weather - Well Met (title)
5. Halloween - The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (author's initials)
6. scarf - Sorry I Missed You (title)
7. harvest - Valencia and Valentine (title)
8. pumpkin spice - Patient Zero (title)
9. orange - Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble (author's initials)
10. hot chocolate - 20th Century Ghosts (title)
11. spooky season - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (title)
12. schooltime - The Other Black Girl (title)

I managed 3 rounds. I was hoping to get 1 for each title and author initials, but I didn't finish my last book in time, so I'm just going to have to call it a day.

Title:
1. autumn - The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 - Oct. 19th & The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 - Oct. 20th
2. fall - Anxious People - Oct. 23rd
3. foliage - An American Sunrise - Nov. 5th
4. cooler weather - Well Matched - Oct. 21st
5. Halloween - NeuroScience Fiction - Sept. 19th
6. scarf - Royal Weddings: A Very Peculiar History - Sept. 21st
7. harvest - History Matters 2: More Stories from Saskatchewan - Sept. 17th
8. pumpkin spice - Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - Sept. 15th, Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - Sept. 19th, Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - Sept. 21st, Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen - Sept. 30th, Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild - Sept. 30th & Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow - Oct. 31st
9. orange - One for the Money - Sept. 16th
10. hot chocolate - The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen - Nov. 2nd
11. spooky season - Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History - Oct. 3rd
12. schooltime - Cerulean Blue - Oct. 14th

Round 2 - Almost all Author initials
1. autumn - Trung Le Nguyen (The Magic Fish) - Sept. 13th
2. fall - Anna Faris (Unqualified) - Sept. 14th
3. foliage - Ilona Andrews (Burn for Me) - Nov. 13th
4. cooler weather - A.J. Hackwith (The God of Lost Words) - Nov. 20th
5. Halloween - "As authentic as a Halloween costume" @ 6% The Hawthorne Legacy - Sept. 20th
6. scarf - Alison Cochrun (The Charm Offensive) - Oct. 18th
7. harvest - V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) - Sept. 10th
8. pumpkin spice - Erin Morgenstern (The Starless Sea) - Sept. 29th
9. orange - Garth Nix (Terciel and Elinor) - Nov. 14th
10. hot chocolate - Helen Hoang (The Heart Principle) - Sept. 6th
11. spooky season - Kelley Armstrong (Cruel Fate) - Sept. 11th
12. schooltime - Harriet Marsden (Don't Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII) - Sept. 14th

Round 3
1. autumn - When Sorrows Come - Oct 5th

2. fall - "Last fall I told you" pg. 8 Accidentally on Purpose - Sept. 25th
3. foliage - "Is like the foliage in the woods" pg. 77 Wuthering Heights - Oct. 12th
4. cooler weather - Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells - Nov. 20th

5. Halloween - Ironskin - Nov. 1st

6. scarf - Murder of Crows - Nov. 30th

7. harvest - "Is a full harvest" pg. 110 John Keats: Poetry - Oct. 6th
8. pumpkin spice - "Rated right up there with pumpkin spice lattes" pg. 309 Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - Oct. 30th
9. orange - Me Artsy - Sept. 16th

10. hot chocolate - "Your usual is a hot chocolate" pg. 12 Sweet Little Lies - Sept. 12th
11. spooky season - Under the Whispering Door - Oct. 19th

12. schooltime - Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks - Oct. 27th

The Phrases:


1. autumn - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (completed: 10/11)

2. fall - Looking for Alaska by John Green (completed: 10/19)

3. foliage - Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (completed: 11/21)

4. cooler weather - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware (completed: 9/14)

5. Halloween - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong (completed: 11/10)

6. scarf - The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon (completed: 11/24)

7. harvest - The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins (completed: 11/1)

8. pumpkin spice - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling (completed: 10/28)

9. orange - Hide in Place by Emilya Naymark (completed: 11/24)

10. hot chocolate - In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren (completed: 9/27)

11. spooky season - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James (completed: 9/17)

12. schooltime - The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan (completed: 9/10)