October Monthly Challenge

 2024 October Monthly Challenge

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1. Happy October Birthday!
Read a book:
🎃 published in October
🎃 with a multi-colored cover in honor of October's birthstone, the Opal
 
2. October Month-Long Observance ▻ National Book Month ▻ Created in 2003 by the National Book Foundation, National Book Month is held each October. The month-long celebration focuses on the importance of reading, writing and literature. In mid-October, the National Book Awards announces the year’s finalists, celebrating the country’s best books and authors.
Read a book:
🎃 that is in some way a new experience for you - new to you author, new series, new genre, try an audiobook if you've never listened to one, whatever you like, just something a bit new and different
🎃 that is an old favorite!
 
3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) ▻ Karen Marie Moning
Read a book:
🎃 written by Karen Marie Moning, or any author with her first or last name. Links to backlist: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
 
Fun Facts about: Karen Marie Moning
▻ Moved to self-sustaining farm in Indiana when she was 6 years old
▻ Worked as bartender and computer consultant while attending college
▻ Decided against a law career after interning at a criminal attorney firm and instead worked in the litigation department for an insurance company for the next 10 years
▻ Finally at age 30, decided she would do what she always wanted: write fiction novels. Her novels are fantasy/paranormal in both historical and contemporary settings.
Read a book:
🎃 set in the US midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
🎃 in the fantasy, paranormal or historical genres
🎃 with a character who works as a lawyer or for a lawyer, is a bartender or in a similar field or works with computers
 
4. Adopt a Shelter Dog Month ▻ ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) sponsors this event to promote the adoption of dogs from local shelters.
Read a book:
🎃 with a dog on the cover
🎃 where the main character has any sort of domestic pet
🎃 with the word SHELTER in the text or with a title starting with any letter in the word SHELTER
 
5. Fire Prevention Week ▻ Week 2 ▻ Since 1922, the NFPA has sponsored the public observance of Fire Prevention Week. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed Fire Prevention Week a national observance, making it the longest-running public health observance in our country. During Fire Prevention Week, children, adults, and teachers learn how to stay safe in case of a fire. Fire Prevention Week is observed each year during the week of October 9th in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire, which began on October 8, 1871, and caused devastating damage.
Read a book:
🎃 with fire or flames on the cover
🎃 with all the letters of FIRE in the title/subtitle, series or author name
🎃 where something is burned (in fire or like a burned dinner) or there is any type of fire in the story (candles burning, a campfire, etc. all count)
 
6. October 1 ▻ International Coffee Day ▻ This day celebrates one of the world’s favorite hot beverages, which is enjoyed and celebrated around the world. Call it what you like: coffee, Java, a cup of Joe, or any of dozens of names. Billions of people around the world drink billions of cups of coffee daily.
Read a book:
🎃 where someone consumes coffee or has a mostly brown cover
🎃 set in a country known for producing coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
🎃 that is highly popular with more than 10,000 ratings on Goodreads or with a character whose names starts with J (for Joe or Java!)
 
7. October 4 ▻ World Smile Day ▻ This holiday is on the first Friday in October every year. It celebrates the ever-popular yellow smiley. The smiley face became so popular, that the U.S. Post Office issued a stamp with the smiley face. The intent of World Smile Day is to do an act of kindness or help one person to smile. Why not do both!?
Read a book:
🎃 that has something yellow on the cover
🎃 where a cover model is smiling or laughing
🎃 that makes you smile (your interpretation)
 
8. October 12 ▻ National Motorcycle Ride Day ▻ This holiday is observed on the second Saturday in October. The open road beckons for one last ride before the long winter season. Grab a couple of buddies and take off for parts unknown.
Read a book:
🎃 that includes a group of friends or features any kind of club (like a motorcycle club)
🎃 with a road on the cover or any kind of motor vehicle on the cover
🎃 set in the Autumn season or has autumnal colors on the cover (reds, oranges, yellows, browns)
 
9. October 17 ▻ Wear Something Gaudy Day ▻ This is your chance to really stick out in a crowd. The roots of this day go back to the hit 1970’s television comedy show “Three’s Company”. Larry Dallas (played by Richard Kline), one of the characters on the show, declared a Wear Something Gaudy Day. It’s amazing how something like a television show can cause a new holiday to be born. The word “gaudy” refers to something bright, cheap, showy, outlandish, or otherwise not in good taste. Have a little fun on this day. For just one day, forego fashion and style. Pick out clothes to wear today, that do not match, ones with colors that clash. If you look at them and say “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that”, then it’s the perfect outfit for this day.
Read a book:
🎃 with a gaudy, loud colorful cover (your interpretation)
🎃 with a movie or TV tie-in
🎃 with a character considered load or gaudy (again, your interpretation)
 
10. Reader's Choice
🎃 Read any book of your choice!