This one was sounded like too much fun to resist! Who wouldn't want something to celebrate each month? And I can combine it with the Triple 8 Challenge, yay!
Kim is hosting it here. The goal is to read a book each month in 2008 that relates in some way to any type of special day - an author's birthday, an actual recognized holiday, or some kind of National Whatever Day/Month.
Here's what I have so far (subject to change):
January- Diet Month
Food and Loathing by Betsy Lerner
February - Library Lovers' Month
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard
March - Caffeine Awareness Month
Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
April- Shakespeare's birthday, April 23
Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
May - Strawberry Month
Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
June - Dairy Month
Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens
July - Canada Day
Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
August - Julia Child's birthday, August 15th
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
September - Bourbon Heritage Month:
The Perfect Manhattan by Leanne Shears & Tracey Toomey
October - Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
November - Remembrance Day
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
December - Christmas
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Kim has lots of great links for holidays and I found some in Wikipedia, too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commemorative_days
(Button courtesy of Lynne.)
5 comments:
I LOVE the idea of holiday-inspired reading, and I'm really honored that my book is on the list for March--National Caffeine Awareness Month. (Right up there next to Christmas, as far as I'm concerned!!) I wanted to let you know that the sequel to Uncommon Grounds, Grounds for Murder (do we sense a theme here?), will be out by then from Severn House, too.
Heading off to get a jump start on Food and Loathing,
Sandy
Wow, thanks for dropping by, Sandy! And I was very happy to be able to fit Uncommon Grounds into the list, I've been wanting to read it for ages. And a forthcoming sequel, too. Very good to know!
This one sounds really interesting!
Thanks! And I love Tiny Little Reading Room. Blogs are such fun and soooooo dangerously alluring when you should be settling down to do something else. (can you tell I'm happily procrastinating??)
Okay, off to write,
Sandy
Sandy - Gosh, thanks, that's really nice of you. :)
Blogs surely do suck one in! My problem is starting to read them too late at night and then suddenly it's 1am. But they're also great for procrastinating. :)
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