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Monthly Mix-Up Mania - Challenge Complete!

2/28/2015

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Monthly Mix-Up Mania is a two-year challenge, so I've been working on this one for awhile. The goal was to spell out the name of each month with book titles. So for January, you would need seven books - one for J, one for A, one for N, etc. The book title didn't have start with that letter; the letter just had to be somewhere in the title. I've been pretty much done with this challenge for months, but I had a hard time finding titles with Y or U words in them. And when we're talking about the months of the year, there are a lot of Y's and U's involved (four Y's and six U's, to be precise). I finally read my last Y title, so this challenge is officially complete! Here are the books I read:
J - Julie and Romeo (Jeanne Ray)
A - Arabella (Georgette Heyer)
N - 365 Nights (Charla Muller)
U - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Charles Yu)
A - The Jane Austen Marriage Manual (Kim Izzo)
R - The River of No Return (Bee Ridgway)
Y - The Year of Living Biblically (A.J. Jacobs)

F - A Little Folly (Jude Morgan)
E - The House at the End of Hope Street (Menna van Praag)
B - The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society (Barbara Zitwer)
R - Beautiful Ruins (Jess Walter)
U - The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (Kristopher Jansma)
A - After Rome (Morgan Llywelyn)
R - Ruby Red (Kerstin Gier)
Y - When You Reach Me (Rebecca Stead)

M - Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (Jennifer Chiaverini)
A - Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Laurie Viera Rigler)
R - Destiny, Rewritten (Kathryn Fitzmaurice)
C - The Cherry Cola Book Club (Ashton Lee)
H - The Strength of His Hand (Lynn Austin)

A - The Real Jane Austen (Paula Byrne)
P - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)
R - Heaven Is For Real (Todd Burpo)
I - My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business (Dick van Dyke)
L - The Little Women Letters (Gabrielle Donnelly)

M - My Friend Flicka (Mary O'Hara)
A - The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott (Kelly O'Connor McNees)
Y - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (James Shapiro)

J - Just One Day (Gayle Forman)
U - The Underneath (Kathi Appelt)
N - National Velvet (Enid Bagnold)
E - Eighty Days (Matthew Goodman)

J - The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
U - The Unknown Ajax (Georgette Heyer)
L - The Last Runaway (Tracy Chevalier)
Y - The Yellow House (Patricia Falvey)

A - Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery)
U - Flora & Ulysses (Kate DiCamillo)
G - Going Clear (Lawrence Wright)
U - Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand)
S - Siege and Storm (Leigh Bardugo)
T - Tuck (Stephen Lawhead)

S - The Whistling Season (Ivan Doig)
E - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Chris Grabenstein)
P - The Peach Keeper (Sarah Addison Allen)
T - Two-Part Inventions (Lynne Sharon Schwartz)
E - Every Day (David Levithan)
M - Someday, Someday, Maybe (Lauren Graham)
B - Shadow and Bone (Leigh Bardugo)
E - Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman)
R - Song of Redemption (Lynn Austin)

O - These Old Shades (Georgette Heyer)
C - Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
T - Words Spoken True (Ann H. Gabhart)
O - One for the Books (Joe Queenan)
B - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
E - The Emerald Atlas (John Stephens)
R - Reading Like a Writer (Francine Prose)

N - The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
O - The Other Side of the Island (Allegra Goodman)
V - The Vatican Diaries (John Thavis)
E - Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day (Doug Mack)
M - Clara and Mr. Tiffany (Susan Vreeland)
B - Big Stone Gap (Adriana Trigiani)
E - Chateau of Echoes (Siri Mitchell)
R - The Reading Group (Elizabeth Noble)

D - The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
E - The Elephant Keepers' Children (Peter Hoeg)
C - The Casual Vacancy (J.K. Rowling)
E - The Elephant's Journey (Jose Saramago)
M - The Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)
B - Betsy-Tacy (Maud Hart Lovelace)
E - The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (E.L. Konigsburg)
R - The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
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