📚Book Talk December Reading Challenge & Christmas Reads-Note - P16- Page 14

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Captains, please post your team’s thread like always. The first post will have names of team members, rules, link to Excel sheet and in the second post, you can post the Christmas Reads Rules.

Please, any one of you prepare the Excel sheet.

I’ve posted the team’s thread.🙂‍↕️ My talents have limits… and they start at excel sheet😂

Madz FYI the page number is wrong in title - Teams are on page 12. Thanks!

Originally posted by: Minionite

Madz FYI the page number is wrong in title - Teams are on page 12. Thanks!

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Captains, please post your team’s thread like always. The first post will have names of team members, rules, link to Excel sheet and in the second post, you can post the Christmas Reads Rules.

Please, any one of you prepare the Excel sheet.

Shibz, would you be doing the Excel sheet or shall I do it ? Although it'll be basic, nothing fancy

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Shibz, would you be doing the Excel sheet or shall I do it ? Although it'll be basic, nothing fancy

Just copy my current sheet and get the team leaders to update the usernames na? (Not sure why this wasn't thought of earlier 😅)

Originally posted by: oh_nakhrewaali

Just copy my current sheet and get the team leaders to update the usernames na? (Not sure why this wasn't thought of earlier 😅)

I'm not sure about the second question but yes, I'll copy the existing sheet and post it.

I love the tags

As we’ve done so far, I followed the same method while forming the teams.

Santas of storyland (11 members)

Books 11–20: DazzlingDiya
6–10: Minionite, minakrish, Butterscotch11
1–5: Sambhavami, Leprechaun, stardust108, ssttuuttii, heavenlybliss, WildestDreams, Cap SoniRit

Elves of the Bookshelf (11 members)

11–20: missFiesty_69 cap
6–10: Gags05, arya212002, Bluehue
1–5: Amru4krish, mayu.x, Ragazza_dolce, Mushat, TheMinion, wallflowergirl, GumnaamHaiKoii

Gingerbread Page Turners.(12 members)

11–20: LadyWhistledown
6–10: oh_nakhrewali Cap, kavya1994
1–5: So-So, Bee222, LizzynDarcy, Ramya_98, MoodyMango, Clochette, m4manju, nutmeg7 monsoon_barsha

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

In the first post, it was clearly mentioned as ---- We’re back with the December 2025 edition of the Book Talk Reading Challenge! Since December brings the spirit of Christmas, our theme for this month is: “Celebration of Christmas.”

📚what books count as "Christmas" books. Like if I read a mystery and it has 1 chapter set around "Christmas" does that count? Or if it's a book set in winter and snow, does that count? What exactly counts as Christmas and will there be like a separate thread to post a review on the "Christmas" book?

Any book that includes a Christmas theme, chapter, orientation, winter, snow, year-end holidays or is primarily based on Christmas will be counted in the challenge.

Our decided theme is strictly Christmas and December holidays, as clearly mentioned earlier. While New Year’s Eve does fall on December 31st, it was not included, and the clarification was already provided.

Since the concept of Winter Holidays can become very broad, the focus was intentionally narrowed to avoid confusion and maintain uniformity.

Therefore, New Year will not be considered for this particular challenge. Maybe for Jan!
Hope this makes the theme clear so we can proceed smoothly.

Now I'm confused. Earlier when we asked you to clarify the theme, you said that holidays and snow will also count. So I shortlisted books which fall in this theme.

But aisa kahan likha hai ke snow sirf December mein hi ho sakti hai?

Heck in UK once we even got snow in April.

Please make the theme more broader so readers can read at their own comfort. Aise to books dhoondna bohat mushkil hai which fall in the category of December.

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

Now I'm confused. Earlier when we asked you to clarify the theme, you said that holidays and snow will also count. So I shortlisted books which fall in this theme.

But aisa kahan likha hai ke snow sirf December mein hi ho sakti hai?

Heck in UK once we even got snow in April.

Please make the theme more broader so readers can read at their own comfort. Aise to books dhoondna bohat mushkil hai which fall in the category of December.

Agreed. I literally pulled up a mystery series that is based in winter in March! Because snow and winter here in Canada is from like November to sometimes even a freak snowfall in May.

Madz you're changing the theme every minute and so none of the books we read will count. Make it clear and stick to it because I'm almost done another book so I was going to start on a winter themed book next.