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Tell us how did you do on the challenge? Answer any of the questions below or share anything you want.

Did you do all the months? Which months did you NOT do (if any)? What was your favorite book read for the challenge? Did you discover a new author you would like to read more of or a love of a new genre?

I did them all!!! Some of my favorite books this year are on this list. I found new authors who quickly became authors I'm following and looking forward to more books. Thanks for the challenge, I look forward to 2024 :)

My Reads:
Jan ~ Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Feb ~ The Book of Candlelight by Ellery Adams
March ~ In A Cottage In A Wood by Cass Green
April ~ Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
May ~ Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came by M.C. Beaton
June ~ Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
July ~ My Summer Darlings by May Cobb
Aug ~ All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
Sep ~ What Lies In The Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Oct ~ Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger
Nov ~ Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart
Dec ~ The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush by Susan Wittig Albert

I loved this challenge and I’m excited to do it again next year.
January- All we Ever wanted
February- The last to vanish
March- What Lies in the Woods
April- Broken Horses
May- Cat & Vivian
June- tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and tomorrow
July- Summer Rental
August- The wedding date disaster
September- The Girl with the dragon tattoo
October- A touch of Darkness
November- The society
December-the Christmas wish bounce

I have tried to complete this challenge for a couple years now nd I finally did it! Can't wait for next year.

Jan ~ Secrets in Her Eyes by Lexie Scott
Feb ~ His Lost Lycan Luna by Jessica Hall
Mar ~ Chasing Love by Kat T. Masen
Apr ~ Jane’s Team by Janie Marie
May ~ A Colorful Beach Day! by Diane Muldrow
Jun ~ Treasure’s Day at Sea by Walt Disney Company
Jul ~ The Red Zone by Amie Knight
Aug ~ Ours to Share by A.R. Taboo
Sep ~ Surrogate with Benefits by Krista Wolf
Oct ~ So This is Ever After by F.T. Luken
Nov ~ Hidden Secrets by Alisha Williams
Dec ~ Three Christmas Wishes by Krista Wolf

This challenge was hard! I’ve never done anything quite like it. It made me dig through my tbr�� for some of them, I stretched the “synonym�� clause a bit far. For example, “War Hour�� for July’s “clock.�� And the name of the series with the keyword rather than the individual books (February and August).

Jan - Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
Feb - The Murderbot diaries
Mar - All Systems Red
Apr - The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea
May - Wash Day Diaries
June - Everything is OK
July - War Hour
Aug - Flor Negra: El Címbalo de Oro
Sep - Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
Oct - The Beauty of Darkness
Nov - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Dec - Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

I didn't end up doing them all - I did have books picked out for July and September, so I'll finish them now in 2024! Because they are still books I want to read! :) Anyway - here's my list of completed months and books:

January: A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
February: Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
March: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
April: Ask: How to Relate to Anyone
May: A Good Day to Pie
June: This Time Tomorrow
August: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
October: The Creeping Shadow
November: Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France
December: Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate

The two books at the top of my To-Read list for 2024 (and ones I meant to read for July and September) are Empire of the Summer Moon and Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. :)

Made every month! Here’s my list:
Jan. - Bellman and Black
Feb. - Last to Vanish
March - In the Woods
April - Circle of Influence
May - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
June - Beneath Devils�� Bridge
July - The Final Girls
Aug. - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sept. - Signal Moon
Oct. - Shadow’s Keep
Nov. - The Paris Apartment
Dec. - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

The Searcher by Tana French was good, and of course Killers of the Flower Moon, while more documentary style, still an important and well told story. Bellman and Black was a disappointment, really dragged on. Had read The Thirteenth Tale, by the same author, was much better. This one not so much. And The Paris Apartment neatly fit into both this and the Motif challenge, plus my book club book as well!

I have decided that I’m going to do these challenges sporadically in 2024, really trying to get through my burgeoning bookshelf of actual physical books, since often I couldn’t find something to fill the words needed unless it was on my Nook or Kindle book lists. Too many books on my shelf I really want to get to, that don’t always fit the challenge.