Quirky Monday: Theme Reading and NaNoWriMo

So here's the thing.

A while ago, I posted about how much I love books. Much too much.

But there's another facet to this little booknerd quirk of mine.

I "theme read".

Seriously, I have a Halloween list, a Christmas list, a Fourth of July list, a Spring list, Winter list, and Easter list.

I don't know what it is, but I have to read books that fit the time of year. Maybe not all the books I can possibly find, but there are two or three(or five or six), that I read during a specific time of year.

A Christmas Carol is strictly for December, as are Louisa May Alcott's The Abbot's Ghost and Lauren Willig's Mischief of the Mistletoe(and soon Rhys Bowen's Twelve Clues of Christmas)

The Secret Garden is Spring Read; The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, MC Beaton's books and Legend of Sleepy Hollow are for Halloween.

Recently, I added Patricia Clapp's Constance and Louisa May Alcott's Little Men to my Fall/Winter list(question: WHY has this never been adapted to the stage or made into a decent film? I mean, the made for TV Canadian one was--ok, but it's no longer on Netflix and the TV series was--meh. WHY?!)

Here's the funny thing though--I don't have a Thanksgiving list. Not that I don't know any Thanksgiving themed books(see the two listed above), but my reading for November picks up a different "theme".

NaNoWriMo.

For those not in the know, NaNoWriMo stands for "National Novel Writing Month", when writers everywhere write a novel(or in my case, a play) in one month. I used to try novels for November and scripts for April, but I get too caught up in dialogue and it turns into a play anyway.

And because I am a writer, it helps so much when the books I am reading coincide with the story I am currently writing.

What is that, you ask?

Tell you later....