Books

2017 Color Coded Reading Challenge

Rules: Read nine books in the following categories during 2017. [Read more…] about 2017 Color Coded Reading Challenge wrap-up

The Where are You Reading? Reading Challenge 2017 is hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair and I joined up in late January, even though I said I was done with new challenges. The goal was to read a book that takes place in each letter of the alphabet, with real or fictional locations allowed.

Here’s my book list, and a varied list of places I managed to go! I read them all as a part of my regular reading except Q which I had to get from Interlibrary Loan, as I couldn’t find any Q places on my shelves. [Read more…] about Where are You Reading? 2017 wrap-up

What’s In a Name 2017

The tenth annual What’s In A Name challenge was once again hosted by The Worm Hole. I began the fun in 2009 so I joined again this year. I identified books from my TBR stacks at the beginning of the year to fulfill this challenge and in the end, I only went with two of my original ideas. Of the other four, only one was on TBR shelf, so half isn’t bad, I guess. One of the new books was read for book club.

The rules are simple-Read one book from each category during the year. [Read more…] about What’s In a Name 2017 wrap-up post

Wild Goose Chase 2017

This challenge is hosted by The Bookshelf Gargoyle and I joined to further my wish to do more category challenges this year. I got it done in the first half of the year by reading a book from each category. I list in parentheses the books I set aside from shelves in January to read for this challenge, and then after in bold what I actually ended up reading. Only two of the seven were the books I planned, but they were still from my TBR shelves, except #3 which was a borrowed book I read and gave back to the owner. [Read more…] about Wild Goose Chase Reading Challenge 2017 wrap-up

Full House Reading Challenge 2017

I had so much fun with this last year that I decided to go again in 2017. Thanks to Book Date for hosting. Complete the card and you are allowed one free exchange for something you really don’t like. Read in any order during the year and I’m finished up by the middle of May with no free exchange! I’m showing the card and then afterwards is my list of books read.

Non-fiction: Battle at Alcatraz: A Desperate Attempt to Escape the Rock, Ernest B. Lageson
On TBR for 2+ years: Trains and Lovers, Alexander McCall Smith
More than 500 pages: America’s First Daughter, Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie
Page Turner: Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12), Jacqueline Winspear
Middle Grade book: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
2017 published: Dawn Study, Maria V. Snyder
Published pre-2000: Death of a Travelling Man, M.C. Beaton (Hamish Macbeth #9)
UK/European author: Death of a Greedy Woman (Hamish Macbeth #8), M.C. Beaton
Back List book from fav author: Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (Agatha Raisin #11), M.C. Beaton
Book from a list: Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, Fiona Carnarvon
Award winner: Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg
Book about books: No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh
Size word in title: Little House in the Ozarks: The Rediscovered Writings, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Two Worded title: Witch Hunt (Ophelia & Abby #4), Shirley Damsgaard
Debut book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Food on cover or title: The Whiskey Sea, Ann Howard Creel
Cozy Mystery: Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam, M.C. Beaton
Book from childhood: Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, E.L. Konigsburg
Diversity book: Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert
Australian/NZ author: People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Western: Song of the Lion (Leaphorn & Chee #21), Anne Hillerman
USA/Canadian author: Catalyst, James Luceno
Not really for you: Rose Wilder Lane: Her story, Rose Wilder Lane
Attractive cover: Under a Wing: A Memoir, Reeve Lindbergh
Borrowed: The Quilt Walk, Sandra Dallas