2024 Color Coded Reading Challenge--My Sign-Up
Every year I think I've used up my last title with "Brown" (or a shade of brown) for the Color Coded Reading Challenge and every year I prove myself wrong (or buy more books with suitable titles)....
View Article2024 Read It Again, Sam--My Sign-Up
I don't do a lot of re-reading, but it does seem that I wind up with at least a handful each year. So, I'm going to sign up for my Read It Again, Sam Challenge again. There are several levels (below)...
View Article2024 Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge
Once again Rick at the Rick Mills Project will be offering up the Medical Examiner Mystery Reading Challenge as well as the Six Shooter Challenge. I, having no self-control when it comes to...
View Article2024 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge
I'm heading out to the shooting range again with Rick and his Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge in 2024. The goal is pretty straight-forward--read six books on the same target (by the same...
View Article2024 Mystery Marathon
Rick over at the Mystillery has decided that we need to stretch our mystery-reading muscles and start training for the first-every Mystery Marathon in 2024. [Full disclosure: I've been in training...
View ArticleRead Your Shelf 2024
READ YOUR SHELF CHALLENGEA new TBR reading challenge that I'm hoping to fit in with my own Mount TBR Challenge--hopefully, I'll be able to move a whole mountain off my mountain range.📚HOW IT WORKS:*...
View ArticleUncoffin'd Clay
Uncoffin'd Clay (1980) by Gladys MitchellMichael Locherbie is off to the countryside for a nice, quiet visit with his brother Innes and sister-in-law Mary. Innes and his wife are recently retired and...
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View ArticleBlack Friday
Black Friday (1954) by David GoodisHart is on the run from a murder charge in New Orleans. He heads north on a train and when he spots undercover cops he jumps off the train in Philadelphia, leaving...
View Article2024 Key Word Challenge
It's time for another round of the Monthly Key Word Challenge, hosted by Kim and Tanya at Girlxoxo. I encourage you to join us as we read books for the monthly prompts. Just click the link to head to...
View ArticleThe Red Death Murders
The Red Death Murders (2022) by Jim NoyOkay, let me just get my envy out of the way at the beginning. Taking the setting of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" and turning it into a Golden Age Era locked...
View ArticleMurder for Two
Murder for Two (1943) by George Harmon CoxeJack "Flash" (or "Flashgun") Casey is none too pleased (see first line below). Uncle Sam has turned him down for military service because of a bum knee. In a...
View ArticleThe Four Just Men
The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar WallaceThe Four Just Men are killers--but only in the cause of justice. They operate by strict rules--to never kill for personal gain and whenever appropriate to give...
View ArticleFear Nothing
Fear Nothing Vol 1 (2010) by Dean Koontz; adapted by Grant Alter from the original Koontz novel (1997)This graphic novel tells the first part of Koontz's story about 28-year-old Christopher Snow who...
View ArticleOnly the Good
Only the Good (1942) by Mary CollinsElla Rutledge was a good woman with relatives who put her good nature to the test. She's long known how she wanted to leave her worldly goods, but when a letter...
View ArticleYou'll Be the Death of Me
You'll Be the Death of Me (1979) by Miriam Lynch A twenty-year high school reunion is paired with the retirement ceremony for math teacher Sarah Plunkett. Mrs. Plunkett had a huge effect on the...
View ArticleThe Third Policeman
The Third Policeman (1967) Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan/Brian Ó Nualláin)O'Brien's novel, originally written in 1939/1940, did not find a publisher until 30 years later. It is a novel about crime and...
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