Me & My Bookshelf !: December 2020

November 2020 - Book Haul

The birthday month was totally jazzed up with a book buying spree. almost 60 books from Bookchor.com and I totally loved each purchase.

Some of these books were bought for the beautiful covers, some because they are hardbound books, some for the titles, some to fit in the prompts for the various reading challenges and some for the kids.

I have moved on to reading more biographies instead of non fiction and that's why you can see so many of those in the list.

I'm in love with each and every book that I purchased even though I am officially broke!

List of Books for the Monthly Motif Challenge

These are the books that I have selected for the Monthly Motif Reading Challenge . Here are the prompts...

JAN - The upside down king [Mythology]

FEB - Jewel [Historical Romance]

MARCH - Tram 83 [Africa]

APRIL - Shared Tables

MAY - The Globaltrotters [8-12 year read]

JUNE - Secret Garden

JULY - Songs of a coward [ short book of poetry]

AUGUST - Magic of the lost temple [Magic]

SEPTEMBER - The Ayurvedic Diet [ Educate yourself]

OCTOBER - Gone girl [ Black Cover]

NOVEMBER - The street Lawyer

DECEMBER - Padmini [ Historical event]

List of Books for Alphabet Soup Challenge

I've made a list of books for the Alphabet Soup Challenge . Some of these books cross over to other challenges and some are new.

A - The Ayurvedic Diet

B - Boy in Striped Pajamas

C - The chocolate Log

D - Devil wears Prada

E - Emma

F - False Impression

G - Girls Only!

H - The Help

I - Idlis to Ipads

J - Jewels

K - The Kingfisher secret

L - Loves Lost by Sourabh Mukherjee

M - Malgudi Days

N - Northanger abbey

O - One part woman

P - Plain tales from the Raj

Q - Requlem in Raga Janki

R - Running from safety

S - Solo in Singapore

T - Train to India

U - An unusual Honeymoon by Mamta Kashyap

V - Vendor of sweets

W - Wuthering Heights

X - New songs of Survivors [ The Exodus if Indians]

Y - Yes, my accent is real

Z - Zuzu's petals

List of Book for the 52 Club Book Reading Challenge

This is what I have planned for the 52 club Book reading challenge

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
The street Lawyer - John Grisham
Keepers of Kala Chakra - Ashwin Sanghi
A sensitive case - Eric Wright
Karthikeya - Usha Narayanan
Siddharta - Hermann Hess
Idlis to Ipads - Nirmala Ramasamy
Prison days - Vijayalakshmi Pandit
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Inferno - Dan Brown
Turn the Tables- Priya Kumar
Dinner with Buddha -Roland Murello
Jungle book - Rudyard Kipling
The upside down king - Sudha Murthy
Wuthering Height - Emily Bronte
The vizard mask - Diana Mask
Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Werde
The chocolate Log - Cheryl Kumar Templeton
Jewels- Danielle Steel
Malgudi days- R.K. Narayan
Angel Falls- Kristin Hannah
Godfather - Mario Puzo
Boy in stripped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Girls only - Victoria Parker
Gone girl - Gillian Flynn
Tram 83 - Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Wicked women of the Raj -Anita Delgado
Padmavati - Sutapa Basu
My favorite nature stories - Ruskin Bond
Dealing with the dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
Simply fly - Capt. Gopinath
Lolita - Vladimir Nabovok
Sheru - A loving Dog - Sudhanshu Mohanty
The help - Kathryn Stockett
Solo in Singapore - Tanushree Podar
The kingfisher secret -Anonymous
The Ayurvedic diet - Reenita Malhotra
To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
Persuasion - Jane Austin
Unforeseen desires- Anil Chopra
Prison Diary 1- Jeffery Archer
The girl with a dragon tatoo - Stieg Larsson
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The joy luck club - Amy Tan
The secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mohini - Ramender Kumar
The vendor of sweets - R.K. Narayan
Those Faraday girls - Lauren Weisberger
Repeating prompt #18 - Hostage - James Patterson

Still to fill in 1 more prompt. I am double minded on the books that I have already selected for a few of the prompts. Will update as and when I finalize.

2021 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge

Here is another interesting reading challenge that I am signing up for. The - 2021 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge

A theme / Motif for each month is given and we have to read against those. The titles have been picked up and I am reading for this challenge.

I will be posting the updates on my bookstagram - Me and my bookshelf. Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in.

Stay tuned!!!

Mount TBR Challenge 2021

The Mount TBR Challenge 2021 is another way to knock off some titles from the TBR list.

There are several challenge levels and I am signing up for the Mt. Kilomanjaro - Read 60 books from the TBR List.

If I am able to read more than that, then I would consider myself lucky!

I will be posting the updates on my bookstagram - Me and my bookshelf. Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in.

Stay tuned!!!

The 52 club's 2021 Reading Challenge

I am so excited to join the 52 club's 2021 book reading challenge where we have to read through 52 prompts! The moment I read the prompts I was sure to sign up!

The best part of this challenge is its flexibility and love the FB group interactions.

Here are prompts for this challenge...

The books for the prompts are all set and I can't wait to start!

I will be posting the updates here and on my Instagram page - Me and my bookshelf. Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in.

Stay tuned!!!

2021 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

Here I am after a long gap! I couldn't read much in 2020 but those I read made it to the other blog ,Instagram and goodreads. For 2021, I plan to read at least 50 books and review them here too.

For this I have joined a few book reading challenges and here is The Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

For this challenge, we have to read one book from each alphabet and through any genre.

I will be posting the updates on my bookstagram - Me and my bookshelf. Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in.

Stay tuned!!!

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