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message 1: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (last edited Sep 14, 2021 12:29PM) (new)

Kristie | 5928 comments

Welcome to our October challenge!

Rules:
✒︎ You may choose how many tasks you’d like to complete from 1 to all 7.
✒︎ Each task can only be completed once and each book can only be used for 1 task.
✒︎ Books must be at least 150 pages long.
✒︎ Any book format may be used: physical, electronic, audio.
✒︎ For audio pages just use the first edition of the book that pops up when you do a search for the book.
✒︎ All books must be finished within the challenge month.

Tasks:

🐶 Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
~ Read a book that has a dog on the cover or as a main character.

🐶 1st - International Coffee Day
~ Read a book with coffee on the cover or in the title, set in a coffee shop, or in which a main character drinks coffee.

🐶 1st - International Day for the Elderly
~ Read a book with a 70 year old or older main character or author (at the time of writing).

🐶 5th - World Teacher's Day
~ Read a book with a teacher / professor as a main character or a school / university as a main setting.

🐶 10th - Indigenous People Day
~ Read a book about indigenous people or with an indigenous character or author.

🐶 29th - Frankenstein Friday
~ Read a book with a main page tag of classic, horror, science fiction, or fantasy.

🐶 30th - National Candy Corn Day
~ Read a book with candy on the cover or in the title.


message 2: by JoJo_theDodo (new)

JoJo_theDodo | 320 comments Aww, look at the sweet baby Corgi's! : )


message 3: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (new)

Kristie | 5928 comments JoJo_theDoDo wrote: "Aww, look at the sweet baby Corgi's! : )"

Aren't they just so adorable!? :)


message 4: by Kristie, Moderator (Retired) (last edited Oct 31, 2021 09:21PM) (new)

Kristie | 5928 comments Completed: 4/7

Tasks:

🐶 Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
√ ~ Read a book that has a dog on the cover or as a main character.
Best in Snow (Andy Carpenter, #24) by David Rosenfelt

🐶 1st - International Coffee Day
√ ~ Read a book with coffee on the cover or in the title, set in a coffee shop, or in which a main character drinks coffee.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

🐶 1st - International Day for the Elderly
~ Read a book with a 70 year old or older main character or author (at the time of writing).
The Thursday Murder Club

🐶 5th - World Teacher's Day
√~ Read a book with a teacher / professor as a main character or a school / university as a main setting.
One of Us Is Lying

🐶 10th - Indigenous People Day
~ Read a book about indigenous people or with an indigenous character or author.

√ 🐶 29th - Frankenstein Friday
~ Read a book with a main page tag of classic, horror, science fiction, or fantasy.
The Horse and His Boy (fantasy)

🐶 30th - National Candy Corn Day
~ Read a book with candy on the cover or in the title.
Candy Coated Murder


message 5: by JoJo_theDodo (last edited Oct 27, 2021 06:55PM) (new)

JoJo_theDodo | 320 comments Got all my books in a stack and ready to go, so just creating a placeholder for when I finish reading them all 😊

Completed: 5/7

Tasks:

🐶 Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
~ Read a book that has a dog on the cover or as a main character.
Travels with Charley In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

🐶 1st - International Coffee Day
~ Read a book with coffee on the cover or in the title, set in a coffee shop, or in which a main character drinks coffee.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

🐶 1st - International Day for the Elderly
~ Read a book with a 70 year old or older main character or author (at the time of writing).

Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson

Meet Me at the Museum

🐶 5th - World Teacher's Day
~ Read a book with a teacher / professor as a main character or a school / university as a main setting.

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie

🐶 10th - Indigenous People Day
~ Read a book about indigenous people or with an indigenous character or author.

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Ceremony

🐶 29th - Frankenstein Friday
~ Read a book with a main page tag of classic, horror, science fiction, or fantasy.

🐶 30th - National Candy Corn Day
~ Read a book with candy on the cover or in the title.


message 6: by Laura (last edited Oct 24, 2021 07:04AM) (new)

Laura H | 151 comments 🐶 Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
Until Tuesday A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalván

🐶 1st - International Coffee Day
Brewed Awakening (Coffeehouse Mystery, #18) by Cleo Coyle

✅🐶 1st - International Day for the Elderly
Shatner Rules Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by William Shatner

🐶 5th - World Teacher's Day
Auggie & Me Three Wonder Stories (Wonder #1.5, 1.6, 1.7) by R.J. Palacio
🐶 10th - Indigenous People Day
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

🐶 29th - Frankenstein Friday
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

🐶 30th - National Candy Corn Day
Lethal Licorice (Amish Candy Shop Mystery, #2) by Amanda Flower


message 7: by Crystal (new)

Crystal | 72 comments I got them all...as always, there are a couple of 'stretches' but it's all for fun, anyway.

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
~ Read a book that has a dog on the cover or as a main character.
Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog So the dog isn't the main character but it is in the title--so I'm counting this.
🐶 1st - International Coffee Day
~ Read a book with coffee on the cover or in the title, set in a coffee shop, or in which a main character drinks coffee.
The Hollow Places is a dark fantasy that has 2 main characters, both of whom drink coffee and one works at a coffee house.

🐶 1st - International Day for the Elderly
~ Read a book with a 70 year old or older main character or author (at the time of writing).
Ron Paul Ron Paul The Revolution: A Manifesto The Revolution A Manifesto by Ron Paul

🐶 5th - World Teacher's Day
~ Read a book with a teacher / professor as a main character or a school / university as a main setting.
This has to count--a book by a professor that's basically an English grammar class.
English Grammar Boot Camp

🐶 10th - Indigenous People Day
~ Read a book about indigenous people or with an indigenous character or author.
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

🐶 29th - Frankenstein Friday
~ Read a book with a main page tag of classic, horror, science fiction, or fantasy.
I read 3 books from a list of recommended 'creepy' Halloween reading. They didn't quite hold up to the expectation, but I tried.
Disappearance at Devil's Rock and In the Woods


🐶 30th - National Candy Corn Day
~ Read a book with candy on the cover or in the title.
Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers Chocolate Wars The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury


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