Monthly Keyword Challenge at Girl XOXO

The GirlXOXO blog is hosting several challenges that are monthly specific.  For each of the challenges you must meet the criteria in the specified Month.   There is a Monthly Keyword challenge, a Monthly Motif challenge and a Monthly Book Award challenge.  These each require a bit more planning than any of my other challenges since you need to actually read the book in the month of the challenge.

#MonthlyKeyWordChallenge

Like the name implies, there is a list of keywords for each of the calendar months.  You are supposed to select a book that meets one of the keywords for the month.  You can take some creative license when selecting the book

My selections:

JANUARY – Water, This, Hello, Sun, New, Six  

• Read Eggs on Ice   by Laura Childs  set in Dec in snowy town in TN 
• Completed 1/2/20   blog post and Goodreads review

FEBRUARY – Girl, Any, Love, Red, Note, Throne

• Read :  Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark 
• Completed 2/23/20 blog post and Goodreads review

MARCH – Dream, Day, In, House, Luck, Friend

• Read : Winter in Paradise by Elin Hildebrand 3/9/20 blog post and Goodreads review

APRIL – Lost, Below, City, Jewel, Night, My  

• Didn't complete

IDEAS:   The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

MAY – Sky, Name, Blue, Book, Enchant, Is

• Read:  The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins 5/15/20 blog post and Goodreads Review
• Read: Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren 5/16/20 blog post and Goodreads Review
• Read: Bookmarked for Murder by VM Burns 5/26/20 blog post and Goodreads Review

IDEAS:

•  Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz
• Booked for Death by Victoria Gilbert

JUNE – And, Beach, Number, Wish, Down, Word

READ in August

• Read: Beaches, Bungalows, & Burglaries by Tonya Kappes

JULY – Boy, Last, Day, Into, Dear, Summer

READ in August

• Read:Tokyo Summer by Joseph Mark Brewer 8/10/20  blog post and Goodreads Review

AUGUST – Kiss, Flower, When, Happy, North, Right

IDEAS:

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 
• North of Happy  by Adi Alsaid

• Read: Rescued by a Kiss by Colleen Mooney 8/28/20  blog post and Goodreads Review

SEPTEMBER – Star, Cry, She, Window, Forever, Eye

• Read  The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal 9/19/20 blog post and Goodreads Review

OCTOBER – Haunt, Around, Shadow, Grave, Murder, Deep

• Read A Time for Murder by Jessica Fletcher 10/16/20 blog post and Goodreads Review

IDEAS:   cozy mystery

NOVEMBER – Look, Forest, Out, Color, Lock, Now

IDEAS:

• The Locksmith's Daughter  by Karen Brooks

DECEMBER – Sword, Magic, Fly, Of, Silver, Crown

• Read A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister blog post and Goodreads Review