I only signed up for two reading challenges at the beginning of 2014 and I’m pleased to say that I’ve now completed one of them! This was the What’s in a Name? challenge, hosted for the first time this year by Charlie of The Worm Hole.
The idea of the challenge was to read one book from each of five categories, plus an optional bonus category. The categories and the books that I read are listed below:
A reference to time:
The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley
A position of royalty:
Empress of the Night by Eva Stachniak
A number written in letters:
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A forename or names:
Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville
A type or element of weather:
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Bonus category – A school subject:
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters by Michelle Lovric
Thanks to Charlie for hosting this year’s challenge!
Have you read any of these books?
She Reads Novels 
I haven’t read any of them! Gretel and the Dark looks good, though. Hm. Must investigate . . .
Gretel and the Dark was great – though very dark, as the title suggests!
I haven’t read any of these. Now I’m thinking which books I’ve read could fit the challenge categories!
It was easy to find books to fit some of the categories, but others were much more difficult!
Congratulations on completing this challenge. This is the one challenge I’m doing this year and I have 4/5 categories completed. The one I’m missing is a book with weather in the title. I just can’t seem to find one that I want to read. I might end up reading Wind in the Willows if I can’t find anything else. When was the bonus category added?
Good luck with finishing the challenge. I struggled to find something to fit the weather category too. The bonus category was added a few months into the year, I think, because people were asking for a sixth one.
I read Songs of Willow Frost and thought it was wonderful. Congrats on completing the challenge.
Thanks. I enjoyed Songs of Willow Frost, but I preferred Jamie Ford’s first book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
Did you choose these books deliberately or did you fulfil the challenge from what you would have been reading anyway?
I was already planning to read the first four; the final two I decided to read specifically with this challenge in mind.
Well done, on completing the challenge and on finding such a fine selection of books. The Harristown Sisters will definitely be one of my books of the year.
Thank you. I loved The Harristown Sisters and I’m sure it will be one of my books of the year as well.
If I could enter only one challenge, it would be this one. It’s so much fun. Good for you for finishing it – and so early in this year. Great choices!
Thanks. This is the second time I’ve taken part in this challenge – it’s one of my favourites too.