I've been loving the #bookscavengerhunt posts over on Instagram this year -- I think I found them all thanks to @barbaras.book.obsession ! This is a festive themed one to round out the year, started by @wendyreadwhat I shared it over there this week but thought I would also share it here, as it is a fun challenge to look through your shelves and see what you have to meet the prompts -- and I know bookish readers here might enjoy.
It's the 12 Days of Christmas & the prompts are:
12 Drummers drumming, 11 Pipers piping
📚 A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
A cello on Elizabeth Pewsey's Unaccustomed Spirits (set around Christmastime)
10 Lords A Leaping, 9 Ladies Dancing
📚 SPORT OR DANCING
Ice skating on the cover of Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica
8 Maids a Milking
📚 A DRINK
Martini on Beggar's Choice by Patricia Wentworth
7 Swans a swimming, 6 Geese a laying, 4 Calling birds, 3 french hens
📚 A BIRD
Book of Wings by Tawhida Tanya Evanson
5 Golden rings
📚 GOLD FOIL DECORATION
The Fairy Doll by Rumer Godden (7 stories, some of them Christmas stories)
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!
📚 A TREE
Not a pear but a flowering tree on Elizabeth Jane Howard's Mr. Wrong
Have fun if you want to try this yourself! Merry Christmas!
