January themes

January first is here, and the MAD Book Challenge is officially up and running! From this day on, you may start the Book Challenge any day you wish! (Refer to the Book Challenge Rules for more information--link in the sidebar).

That means it's time to release the THEMES for the month of January. The first "week" of the year will begin today but end on Sunday the 11th of January, giving you a little extra time to get those first couple of books. However, from that point on, a week will go from Monday to the following Sunday (with the exclusion of the final week of the year, which will run from 28th December to 31st December--so keep in mind that you have a shortened week to read the last book of the year if you're starting on a day OTHER than Monday).

Keeping that in mind, here are the Themes for the first four weeks of the Book Challenge:

1. (Jan. 1 - Jan. 11) Book by a hot author
   ----[Definition of "hot" author has been extended to "cute"]
2. (Jan. 12 - Jan. 18) New book by an old favorite author
3. (Jan. 19 - Jan. 25) Humorous book
   ----[May be comedy, parody, satire]
4. (Jan. 26 - Feb. 1) Dinosaur(!) book
   ----["Dinosaur" book defined as a book where, if you remove dinosaurs from the story, the plot no longer makes sense]

Any and all questions can be emailed to me at themadpodcast@gmail.com. Just make sure to use the subject line "MAD Book Challenge" and I'll get back to you right away.