Hello to the end of the year. Or the beginning of the year, if you prefer to go by the liturgical calendar.
Anyway, a transitional time.
This month, I should easily meet my reading goal for the year, and I hope to finish at least one of the reading challenges I have been working on. I’m sure there will be a recap or five later in the month about what I’ve read, what I liked the most, what surprised me, what I learned, etc.
But for now, the last TBR of 2022.
Book Clubs
- The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese
- Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman
- Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
Reading Challenges
For my GirlXOXO selection this month, I chose the keyword “night,” so the Calvino classic listed above that Follow the Reader is reading will do nicely. I’m mainly going to focus on one of the challenges because I’m so close to finishing the 52 Book Club Challenge. I’ve started most of the ones that I have left, so the odds are in my favor.
- A second person narrative – Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
- A book picked based on its spine – The Saturday Book: 26, edited by John Hadfield
- A book that has an alternate title – The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- A book that intimidates you – Welcome Home by Najwa Zebian. Zebian’s Instagram is challenging, in the very best way. I expect that I will have a lot of intense feelings while reading this book.
- Author published in more than one genre – When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry
- Job title in title – Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Library/Series/Just Because
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
- The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
- John Dies at the End by David Wong (Jason Pargin)
- Crush by Cathy Alter and Dave Singleton
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza
M. Suzanne Terry 
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