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2022 Reading Statistics

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Another reading year has come to an end and here’s the tally for the year. I read less than last year & that was mostly due to life happening that caused me to stop sewing when I listen to books, stop exercising when I read my kindle, & not be able to read much print. But it’s still a pretty good year.

Books read: 171
Pages read: 55,585
Of the books read:
Non-fiction: 15
New-to-me authors: 34
Continuing series books: 115
Re-reads: 28
Audio-books: 76
Book club reads: 4
Challenges completed: 9 of 10
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 86 of 100

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2023 Reading Challenges

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Because of all that’s been going on in my life lately, & with new adventures on the horizon in the coming year, I’ve decided to scale back my challenges for next year. They are supposed to be fun & push me to read my books, so I’ve decided to stick with my favorites. These are challenges I’ve done for several years now, some for over a decade, so I know & love them.

This one gets me to read my shelves. I am going for Mt. Ararat, which is 48 books; but hoping to hit Mt. Kilimanjaro again, which is 60 books.

The Mystillery hosts 3 challenges: the Medical Examiner Mystery, the Six Shooter Mystery, & the Century Club Mystery. The last is a perpetual challenge & I only have one more book to finish that up, so I really should get that done next year. The Six Shooter’s goal is to shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author) & I did 17 notches on my gun last year, so that was a bunch of series! The Medical Examiner’s goal is to read murder mysteries and attach toe tags to the unfortunate victim(s). I read 95 mysteries last year for a total of 409 toe tags & I aim to read a bunch in 2023 as I work through my mystery series & stand-alones. The Mystillery also hosts 2 seasonal games that add some fun to the year.

I’ve done the What’s in a Name challenge for several years, and I’ve also be joined it. And that will be the extent of my challenges, although I also participate in a goodreads group challenge called Deck of Cards.

Happy New Year 2023!

Mount TBR 2022 results

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This is my favorite reading  challenge and was my eleventh year to join. I signed up for 48 books from my To Be Read pile to summit Mt. Ararat, but managed to read 60 and get to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro! I read a nice variety & set a whole bunch of books free by giving them to friends or donating them.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
Daughter of the Deep, Rick Riordan
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
Murder Most Fair (Verity Kent, #5) by Anna Lee Huber
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal by Bryn Turnbull
Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers by Deanne Durrett
The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie
Secrets in the Mist (Gothic Myths, #1) by Anna Lee Huber
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith
Death of Riley (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #2) by Rhys Bowen
12-Pike’s Peak
The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet #5) by C.J. Box
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway #13) by Elly Griffiths
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1) by Renée Ahdieh
Smoke in the Sun (Flame in the Mist, #2) by Renée Ahdieh
Southampton Row (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #22) by Anne Perry
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
In a Field of Blue by Gemma Liviero
The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) by Agatha Christie
24-Mount Blanc
Rotten to the Core (Orchard, #2) by Sheila Connolly
Seventy-Seven Clocks (Peculiar Crimes Unit #3) by Christopher Fowler
Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow #23) by Donna Andrews
What the Wind Knows, Amy Harmon
Indian Country: America’s Sacred Land by Tony Hillerman, Bela Kalman
Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder by Nancy Tystad Koupal
Lark! The Herald Angels Sing (Meg Langslow, #24) by Donna Andrews
Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life by Elizabeth K. & James D. Wallace
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick
A Pale Horse (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #10) by Charles Todd
The Runner (Tillerman Cycle #4) by Cynthia Voigt
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen
36-Mt. Vancouver
The Attic on Queen Street (Tradd Street, #7) by Karen White
The Geometry of Holding Hands (Isabel Dalhousie #13) by Alexander McCall Smith
Terns of Endearment (Meg Langslow, #25) by Donna Andrews
Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) by Laini Taylor
Owl Be Home for Christmas (Meg Langslow #26) by Donna Andrews
Fallen Beauty by Erika Robuck
Moonlight over Paris (The Great War #3) by Jennifer Robson
White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Meg Langslow, #27) by Donna Andrews
Greats of the Game: The Players, Games, Teams, and Managers That Made Baseball History by Ray Robinson, Christopher Jennison
The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, #1) by Anthony Horowitz
48-Mt. Ararat
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Red Delicious Death (Orchard, #3) by Sheila Connolly
A Killer Crop (Orchard, #4) by Sheila Connolly
Ten Second Staircase (Peculiar Crimes Unit #4) by Christopher Fowler
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries (Camper & Criminals, #1) by Tonya Kappes
A Timely Vision (A Missing Pieces Mystery, #1) by Joyce Lavene, Jim Lavene
A Touch of Gold (A Missing Pieces Mystery, #2) by Joyce & Jim Lavene
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Light of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Star Wars: The High Republic #1)
The Victoria Vanishes (Peculiar Crimes Unit, #6) by Christopher Fowler
60-Mt. Kilimanjaro

What’s in a Name 2023 sign-up

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https://carolinabooknook.wordpress.com/2022/12/12/whats-in-a-name-2023-sign-up/

Yippee! I’ve done this challenge for several years & really enjoy it, so I decided if the host continued in 2023, it would go on my short list of challenges for next year. And here we are!

In 2023, choose 6 books that have titles that contain:
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RSC2022-I’m back!

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Hello virtual quilty friends! In case you’ve been wondering why you haven’t seen any posts from me since July, it’s because my life has taken a detour. When last I posted, I had done my first carpal tunnel surgery, had tried sewing a couple days, then was having my second surgery in August. The day I was going to have those stitches removed, I had a catastrophic fall that fractured or sprained all four of my limbs! I was bedridden for months, couldn’t dress or feed myself, & definitely wasn’t sewing. So all my rainbow scrappy plans for 2022 are out the window! A week into my recovery, my husband decided we weren’t going to wait the 5 years until his retirement to move out of our multi-level home that has been getting more difficult for me to navigate with my arthritis. So he started packing us up, donating & throwing stuff out, & moving stuff to storage units. Yes, it’s been a journey. I’m finally back on my feet, walking with a cane, & doing some sewing. Yippee! Next week we are moving to a tiny one-bedroom apartment while we sell this house & buy a new home. I am taking my sewing machine to the apartment (of course), but with very little room, I’m not taking giant boxes of scraps to make scrappy rainbow quilts. I kept out 2 of my 2022 projects that had the pieces already cut and all the rest are kits that I can just cut & sew. So that will be my quilting journey until we move into a home & unpack my studio. I’ll follow along with you & post what I’m doing, but it might not be the same colors as you!

I cut out all the pieces for Sweet Kisses in January & have just been sewing the correct color blocks each month. I looked in the box & there were orange & green left, so here are the orange blocks I managed to sew together! I also worked on the blocks for my Songbook quilt, so that will be a flimsy soon. I had picked up 3 zipper block kits for Quilts for Kids before surgery, so I’m slowly sewing those together & will finish those in the apartment.

My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:

  • 4 red, aqua, & yellow, 5 pink, 6 green, 10 blue blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (on hold)
  • 1 red, aqua, yellow, pink, green, & blue twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on hold)
  • 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink, 2 green, & 2 purple Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on hold)
  • 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, 14 pink, 6 dark green, 14 blue, 12 purple, 16 orange blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (need green)
  • 7 red, aqua, yellow, pink, green & blue blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (on hold)