We’ve finished the tenth month of the Unlocking the Past 2022 Reading Challenge: Around the World. This month we traveled to South America. Don’t forget to comment to be entered for your chance to win a book from my book stash.
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So I’ll be honest. I totally BOMBED this month and failed the challenge. SO this month I’m reversing the blog post to ask YOU to post a review of what YOU read. Also, since I totally bombed this month, I figured, maybe now was a good time to announce next year’s challenge.
Unlocking the Past Reading Challenge 2023:
Unlocking an Adventure
January – A Book with Spies
February – A Book with the Underground Railroad
March – A Book with a Gold Rush
April – A Book with a Law Man Hero
May – A Book with Exploration or Pioneering
June – A Book with a Treasure Hunt
July – A Book focused with Heroines in Unusual Professions for Their Time
August – A Book with a Bounty Hunter
September – A Time Travel Novel
October – A Book with a Medieval Setting
November – Book with an Archeologist or Paleontologist
December – A Christmas Novel/Novella set somewhere you’ve never been
(2024 I have plans for a trope-based challenge. 🙂 )
Giveaway
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I bombed this month too. I also had too many books to read for review to try to get one from the library.
I understand that completely! This was a hard month for a lot of people.
I was able to read Ambushed in the Jaguar Swamp by Dave and Neta Jackson. It’s a Young Adult fiction book, but it fit the time period…and I’m glad I picked it because anything else I likely wouldn’t have had a chance to get done!
Sometimes it’s just fun to break out of the normal and dive into some YA. I don’t do it often, but it IS a great break and quick read. Glad you were able to read it!
Hello! I read Beneath a Southern Sky by Deborah Raney for the challenge.
Yay! I’m so glad you found a book to read!
Yikes! I didn’t get to this one, either! It’s been a crazy time for me, too.
Hugs. I swear this year has been on crazy whirlwind after another.
I didn’t get a book read for this month. Next year’s challenge sounds fun.
Yay! I’m glad. Sorry you didn’t get a book read for this month either!
I read Betrayed by Jeanette Windle. The book was well written but I have come to learn it wasn’t really my kind of book. I’ve tried a couple of times to read international type espionage etc. For me there’s too much to keep up with and I don’t always understand terms, places etc.
Not every book is for every reader and I’m glad you were able to discover it wasn’t your type. For me, it depends on the type of espionage book. The more historical it is, the more I’m likely to enjoy it.
I read The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans.
Um. I don’t write reviews on books that I rate low…
I tried to listen to it. I made it part way into the second chapter and couldn’t do it. 1) I CANNOT do medical and I was struggling to drive because of my cringing. 2) It didn’t grab me by the second chapter. Sometimes that happens.
I read The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans. I originally had a different book picked out, but it was way too long, mainly because the new book in a series I love is coming out next week and I had to start my reread so I’d be ready to read the new book when it arrives in the mail. I am glad I read The Sunflower. Here is what I wrote for a review on Goodreads:
A very enjoyable book. I was drawn in right away because of the main characters’ struggles. I enjoyed the humanitarian trip Christine took with her friend Jessica and how they met up with Paul. They had quite an adventure and there were even a few brief instances of peril, but they were quickly resolved. Some might say too quickly. I would agree if this was meant to be a thriller, but i enjoyed it for what it was.
I managed to read Julia Alvarez’s “Finding Miracles”. It had complex characters that felt real, an exciting plot, and a lot of heart (and one swear word and some suggestive language when discussing the people most likely to be the main character’s birth parents).
I also appreciated that it showed a country recovering ftom horrors, and mentioned that even bad peoples’ families lost a son / brother / etc,
Sounds interesting. I can generally get past foul language if I am expecting it.
The foul language is fairly mild.
This book is all about (mostly family) relationships, and its captivating how they change so much over the book.
I admire how this author was able to create such a full sense of culture in the second part of this book- without ever setting it in a specific Latin American country.
Oh, it might be in your spam folder- I emailed you an update about that prayer request.