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February Reading Update #woybs #52booksin52weeks

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This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end up choosing a book that I may not have otherwise read. That is always a positive. Quite often the prompts have me scratching my head for a while. and that’s when the challenge kicks in. I do enjoy the hunt for a book to fit a particular prompt.

This year seems to be shaping up as ‘the year of the series’ That wasn’t at all intentional. I only noticed it when I was compiling this post. Amazon quite often have free kindle book which I download occasionally. These books are usually the first in the series and (great marketing ploy) have led me to continue with the series.

Following are the 52 Book Club Challenge books that I’ve read during January:

The Secret Sparrow

Link to my review: The Secret Sparrow by Jackie French

The Frozen River


My Story by Elizabeth Smart

None of This is True

Other Books Read

Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

The Orphanage by Lizzie Page (Shilling Grange Children’s Home #1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley (The Seven Sisters #5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

The Secret Book Of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Star Rating 

Please note that my star rating system isn’t at all based on literary merit, but is based on my enjoyment for the book.
For me a book that gets five stars, is a book that I really enjoyed, and found difficult to put down.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unputdownable. Would read it again.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fantastic read. Not to be missed

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Enjoyable. Would recommend it.

⭐️⭐️ Wouldn’t read it again

⭐️ Don’t recommend this book at all

💫 Half Star

The books mentioned in this post are of my own choice and have not been sent to me to review. My opinions are my own and I receive no renumeration at all for them.

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52 Week Book Challenge Final Update

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During this year, I have been participating in the 52 Week Book Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end up choosing a book that I may not have otherwise read. That is always a positive. Quite often the prompts have me scratching my head for a while. I do enjoy the hunt for a book to fit a particular prompt.

A few days ago, I read the final book in the challenge. So now I’ve read all 52 challenge books, they are listed below, along with my star rating.

  1. A Book With A Subtitle
    Don’t Look Away: A Memoir of Identity and Acceptance
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  2. Featuring An Inheritance
    The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley #1 Seven Sister series
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  3. Title Starting With The Letter ‘G’
    The Guest by Emma Cline
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  4. Title Starting With The Letter ‘H’
    (The) Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  5. Title Starting With The Letter ‘I’
    The Irish Inheritance by Jayne Sinclair
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  6. Under 200 Pages
    Pawprints On Our Hearts: How A Few Incredible Dogs Changed One Life Forever
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  7. A City Or Country Name In The Title
    A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  8. Dystopian Fiction
    The Measure by Nikki Erlick
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  9. A Book With A Dedication
    The Orphans (Amherst Island #1)
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  10. Takes Place During The Roaring Twenties
    Her Mother’s Secret by Natasha Lester
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  11. A Book About Secrets
    Little Wing by Freya North
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  12. High Fantasy
    The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  13. Published Posthumously
    Murder at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  14. A Survival Story
    Cold Blows the Wind by Catherine Meyrick
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  15. Set In Australia
    The Orphans by Fiona McIntosh
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  16. Featuring One Of The “Seven Deadly Sins”
    Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  17. By A Caribbean Author
    Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Ecevedo
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  18. Set During A War Other Than WWI or WWII
    Zambesi by Tony Park
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  19. Typographic Cover
    Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  20. A Book About Siblings
    The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  21. A Second-Hand Book
    Where The Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  22. A Body Positive Message
    Fearless by Jelena Dokic
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫
  23. An Alliterative Title
    Back to Bangka: Searching For The Truth About A Wartime Massacre
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  24. Nordic Noir
    Outside by Ragnar Jonassen
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  25. A Fashionable Character
    Becoming Mrs. Mulberry by Jackie French
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  26. Has An Epilogue
    Angels Cry Sometimes by Josephine Cox
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (+.5 star)
  27. Newbery Medal Winner
    The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️ +.5 star
  28. Includes A Funeral
    Postcards From A Stranger by Imogen Clark
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  29. Sends You Down A Rabbit Hole
    Fishing For Stars by Bryce Courtenay
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  30. An Author With A Same Name As You
    Daughter On The Home Front by Jennie Jones
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  31. Set In A Workplace
    Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  32. Published By MacMillan
    Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  33. A Banned Book
    Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  34. Featuring Mythology
    The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley #2 Seven Sister Series
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💫
  35. A Book You Meant To Read Last Year
    The Lost Ancestor by Nathan Goodwin
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  36. Chapters Have Cliffhangers
    The Ninth Month by James Patterson
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  37. Written In Present Tense
    The Family Secret by Kiersten Modglin
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
  38. An Enemies To Lovers Plot
    The Money Club by Fiona Lowe
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  39. The Final Book In A Series
    The Match by Harlan Coben
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  40. Written By A Comedian
    Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies Kitty Flanagan
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  41. A Character Who Is A Refugee
    The Last Of The Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  42. Time In The Title
    The 6:20 (The 6:20 Man #1)
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  43. A Book “Everyone” Has Read
    Verity by Colleen Hoover
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  44. A Contemporary Setting
    Philly Barker Is On The Case by Joanne Tracery
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  45. First Word In the Book Is “The”
    The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  46. Script Font On The Spine
    The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  47. Set In The City Of Dublin
    The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  48. A Book By Octavia E. Butler
    Bloodchild And Other Stories
    ⭐️⭐️💫
  49. Books On The Cover
    The Bookbinder of Jericho by by Pip Williams
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  50. Related To The Word “Murder”
    Fire With Fire by Candice Fox
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
  51. Doesn’t Fit Any Of The Other 51 Prompts
    The Long Way Home by Don Charlwood
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  52. Published in 2023
    Immortality: A Love Story (the Anatomy Duology #2)
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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