Monthly Motif

 This is another challenge hosted at the GirlXOXO site.   It is based on selecting books that have to do with a given motif for that month.  It is open for interpretation.  Sign up here

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JANUARY- New Year, New Direction

“Read a book with one, or more, ‘directional’ words in the title.” ie. (into, over, out, behind, left, right, down, up, north, south, out, etc.) 

The Key Lime Crime (Key West Food Critic Mystery, #10) by Lucy Burdette

Blog Post and Goodreads Review  1/9/23

•  Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/10 /23

•  A Scone of Contention (Key West Food Critic Mystery, #11) by Lucy Burdette
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 1/19/23

FEBRUARY- If You Have A Garden and a Library…

“Read a book with a plant or flower on the cover.”

• Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler and Damian Duffy
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/13/23

MARCH- Animal, Number, Color, Name

“Read a book with an animal, number, color, or name in the title.“

1. Beagles Love Steak Secrets by C A Phipps
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/9/23
2. National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/12/23

APRIL- I Like Big Books

“Read a book over 400 pages long or listen to an audiobook over 14 hrs long.”

1. Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong 
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/12/23

MAY- In It To Win It

“Read a book that involves a game or contest of some sort.” ie. Virtual reality, video games, war games, psychological mess-with-your-mind games, characters who participate in a contest, or a story in which the character takes on a personal challenge. 

1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 5/21/23

JUNE- Take the Plunge

“Read a book from any genre that is set on or near a body of water- lake, ocean, pool, river, etc.” 

1. Mai Tai One On (Tiki Goddess #1) by Jill Marie Landis
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 6/15/23
2.  A Sprinkling of Murder (Fairy Garden Mystery #1) by Daryl Wood Gerber
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 6/20/23
3. Death on Cozumel Island  by Cindy Quayle
•  Blog Post and Goodreads Review 6/25/23

JULY- I Need Only One Word

“Read a book with only one word as the title.”

AUGUST- A Book and a Song

“Read a book with the same title as a song you’ve heard.”

SEPTEMBER- Speculative Stories

“Read a book from the speculative fiction subgenre” ie. a book with elements that do not exist in the real world.

OCTOBER- Spellbinding or Spooktacular

“Read a book that involves something spooky or magical or both.”

1.  Fatal Fudge Swirl (Ice Cream Shop #3)  by Meri Allen
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 10/11/23

NOVEMBER- Around OR Out of this World

“Read a book set in a country other than the one you live in OR read a book that takes place in space or on another planet.”

DECEMBER- White-out

“Read a book with a wintery setting or a book with a mostly white cover.”