Monthly Keyword Reading Challenge 2018

Bev at My Reader’s Block is too good at coming up with tempting reading challenges. I can’t seem to keep from signing up for them. A new one for me for 2018 is the Monthly Keyword Challenge, which she is hosting for the first time. In this challenge,

Your task is to read at least one book each month whose title includes one or more of the key words for that month. For instance, in January you might read Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon.

See Bev’s Monthly Key Word Challenge sign-up post for the complete rules and guidelines, as well as the list of key words. Here are my choices for the coming year:

1. January (keyword white): Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson
2. February (keyword and): Rumple and the Golden Thread by John Mortimer
3. March (keyword shout): Cries from the Earth by Terry C. Johnston
4. April (keyword rain): The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
5. May (keyword mountain): To the Far Blue Mountains by Louis L’Amour
6. June (keyword live): Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
7. July (keyword desert): From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
8. August (keyword boat): The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
9. September (keyword school): The Purpose of Catholic Schooling by James Michael Lee
10. October (keyword black): The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
11. November (keyword family): The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany
12. December (keyword Christmas): A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd

This will be my first reading challenge in which I have to read a book in a particular month, so I’ll be interested in seeing if that stifles my reading tastes too much during the year. As with my other challenges, I’ll be keeping track of my progress at my 2018 Reading Challenges page.