Week 1 of 2024 is complete – how did you do with the reading challenge? Week 2 promises to be just as fun! This time of year is usually when my kids start asking when it’s going to snow, which doesn’t happen much where we live. My northern friends have been sending me texts with their snow measurements though – it’s a lot! How much snow are you seeing?
Here’s the books I’m looking forward to discussing with you this week. Grab your copies of these books by clicking the images below:
RWL Reading Challenge – Week 2: Winter / Snow
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Posting on Monday, January 8th
Finding a book about snow that wasn’t a romance novel was a tough journey! I’ve seen this book and know of it, but haven’t read it before. But with all the snow on the cover image, I thought it was a good fit. This one could also do double duty this week as a book set in Alaska, too!
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Best Seller: The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
- General Fiction: Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah
- Romance: Northern Lights, Nora Roberts
- Mystery/Thriller: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
- Nonfiction: Field Guide to Snowflakes, Kenneth Libbrecht
- Kids: It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing!, Jack Prelutsky
DIY Reading Retreat
Posting on Wednesday, January 10th
A few months back I saw a Facebook ad for a reading retreat – you and a dozen friends come to this lodge in the woods and read all weekend while doing pre-planned events and eating food cooked by the organizer. That sounded interesting, but I kept thinking how my girlfriends and I tend to chat and drink wine more than read when we’re together, and I’m not much for pre-planned activities. I’ll talk you though how I created my own solo reading retreat instead!
US States Challenge – Week 2: Alaska
Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
Posting on Thursday, January 11th
Cameron has quickly become one of my favorite authors after reading his work for the Jack Ryan series last year. I read book 4 in the Arliss Cutter series last year as well and wanted to start again at the beginning and see the backstory unfold for one of my all time favorite leading men!
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- General Fiction: The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
- Romance: The Tourist Attraction, Sarah Morgenthaler
- Thriller: Any of the Arliss Cutter series!
- Nonfiction: Travels in Alaska, John Muir
- Kids: Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George & John Schoenherr
Rotating Posts – Week 2: Nonfiction
Thomas Jefferson: A biography of spirit and flesh
by Thomas S. Kidd
Posting on Saturday, January 13th
I spent most of 2023 reading about our first two presidents and their contemporaries. I’m now starting on the third: Thomas Jefferson. The founding fathers are so interesting to me and this is a more recent biography promising to cover not only his early motivations, but also his personal convictions that affected his relationship with Sally Hemmings.
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What I’m Reading
- Current print book: Same Time Next Year, Tessa Bailey
- Current audio book: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Book I’m most looking forward to: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
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