Book Club Thursday 2017

December 28, 2017

Book Club Thursday 2017

Welcome back to Book Club Thursday!

I can't believe how fast they year has gone by. I am so looking forward to Book Club Thursday in 2018. We have a ton of new theme posts we are doing next year and I'm just so excited about it. Since in this post we'll be wrapping up the year of 2017 and what posts we liked and didn't like, plus our upcoming schedule and which books we can't wait for next year I will tell you upfront that this will be a long post.

Least Favorite

My least favorite post this year was where we did a joint review of Cottage at Firefly Lake by Jen Gilroy. It was my pick and I so badly wanted to read this book. Unfortunately it didn't rock my world. I can still remember how disappointed I was. Here's the link to that review.

Favorite

This post was harder to pick. I really loved so many of our posts for the last year. Picking just one seemed wrong but I'm only doing one each or otherwise I won't stop. So my favorite post this year was a Remember When post we did in April. I talked about all the people that started me on the road to read and kept me there. I really loved that post. Here's the link to that one.

If you had a favorite post of ours from the past year I'd love to hear about it.

So here's a look at what we have coming up for 2018

January

4th Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

11th Thursday Rewind- Remember When

18th Cover Talk

25th Reading Challenge

February

1st Getting to Know Us – Speed Round

8th Thursday Rewind- In Case You Missed It

15th Clearing Off the Book Shelves

22nd Reading Challenge

March

1st Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

8th Thursday Rewind- Golden Oldie

15th True Confessions

22nd Reading Challenge

29th Joint Review

April

5th Getting to Know Us- Nitty Gritty

12th Thursday Rewind- Sloppy Seconds

19th Riddle Me

26th Reading Challenge

May

3rd Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

10th Thursday Rewind- In Case You Missed It

17th Cover Talk

24th Reading Challenge

31st Joint Review

June

7th Getting to Know Us- Speed Round

14th Thursday Rewind- Golden Oldie

21st Clearing Off the Book Shelves

28th Reading Challenge

July

5th Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

12th Thursday Rewind- Remember When

19th True Confessions

26th Reading Challenge

August

2nd Getting to Know Us- Nitty Gritty

9th Thursday Rewind- In Case You Missed It

16th Riddle Me

23rd Reading Challenge

30th Joint Review

September

6th Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

13th Thursday Rewind- Golden Oldie

20th Cover Talk

27th Reading Challenge

October

4th Getting to Know Us- Speed Round

11th Thursday Rewind – Sloppy Seconds

18th Clearing Off the Book Shelves

25th Reading Challenge

November

1st Getting to Know Us- Spotlight On

8th Thursday Rewind- In Case You Missed It

15th True Confessions

22nd Reading Challenge

29th Joint Review

December

6th Getting to Know Us- Nitty Gritty

13th Riddle Me

20th Reading Challenge

27th Wrap Up and 2019

Here's the list for our reading challenges for 2018! We really hope you'll be joining us next year for our Reading Challenges.

Reading Challenges 2018

Read a book published before 2010

Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born

Read a book set in your home state

Read a book with a cover you don’t like

Read a book you once gave up on

Read a book with a clever title

Read a new to you author

Start a new series

Read a hardcover

Read a trade

Read a “small-town” romance

Read a book with a favorite trope

Read a historical set anywhere but the USA

Read a book you keep meaning to read

Read a book that taught you something

Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)

Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)

Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)

Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)

Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)

Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)

Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)

An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))

Recommend By (say who / what )

I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)

Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)

Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)

Read a historical set in the USA

The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)

AKA (author with a pseudonym)

BOO! ( book with a ghost)

Survivors (books with hard subject matter)

We also wanted to talk about which book we were all looking forward to read. It was hard to pick just one and took me a while to decide but here's what I came up with....shhh, I know it's two book but I couldn't decide between the two.