Brr.. and a Reading Challenge

January 30, 2019 Brr...it's bitter cold here and with the wind, it's even worse. Just learned about this reading challenge and decided to join in the fun! I learned about it from Care's Books and Pies blog. This year's challenge is being hosted by Andrea at carolinabooknook.

What's In A Name Challenge 2019

The challenge extends from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.  

The rules: You can sign up any time, but only count books that you read between those dates. Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits in each category. Don’t use the same book for more than one category. Creativity for matching the categories is not only allowed, it’s encouraged! You can choose your books as you go or make a list ahead of time.

Below is the list of categories from which choose your books from - with some examples I might read.

• A precious stone/metal  (ex.,  Ruby, The Five Red Herrings [Sayers])
• A temperature  (ex. In Cold Blood, Farenheit 451)
• A month or day of the week  (ex. The Wednesday Letters, Light in August)
• A meal  (ex., Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Eat, Pray, Love)
• Contains the word “girl” or “woman”  (ex., The Only Woman in the Room, Third Girl [Christie])
• Contains both the words “of” AND “and” (ex. ,Of Mice and Men, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)

I'm a little late to the party, but I think I can get one read between tonight and tomorrow. Then, maybe I'll create a list; if not, I'll just pick one and read it as the year goes along. 

January 2019!

Where does the time go? It sounds so stupid now, but I fully intended to write more, especially here, and yet.... Sigh.

Read what I wrote last July and could not believe how much happened in the time in between. Sadly, Huck died. I felt awful; could not stop crying. Ended up not going to any classes or events for over a week. Just couldn't face seeing people being alive and happy and thinking about all the ones I'd lost, especially recently. Then Shadow's health began to decline, and he eventually died December 1st. I just couldn't seem to find my balance and didn't realize it until I pretty much stopped doing anything that I enjoyed or that made me happy. ("One of the saddest things in life is the things one remembers." Agatha Christie)

But life and time goes on and here I am. Brrr... it's winter here. I mean really winter! Our temps have been below 10 degrees lots of nights and some days. And then there's the wind chill which has reduced the temp often. In fact, the experts are warning us again that the wind chill is expected to be so low for the rest of the week that exposed skin will freeze immediately! I am so done with winter. I need to research possible places to go next year for maybe December-January and possibly February, too. Where to go?

Well, I've lost momentum. Agatha Christie is running through my mind; I need to get reading. The Last Mrs. Parrish is the next book for the mystery book group and we're meeting next week. Yikes!