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Finished post #5!
Finished Lost for 2023 on June 23rdBooks must be added to TBR after Dec 23, 2022 and published before June 23, 2023
1. A Portrait in Shadow - added June 21 2023, read June 23 2023
2. Yellowface - added Jan 1 2023, Read June 30 2023
3. The Lost Library - requested from netgalley in May 2023, Read July 02 2023
4. Kindred - added June 22 2023, Read July 18th 2023
5. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Added April 30, 2023, Read August 19 2023
6. The Magician’s Daughter - Added June 04 2023, Read October 11 2023
7. Harvest Moon - Added Jan 02 2023, Read October 14 2023
8. Hunter's Moon - Added Jan 02 2023, Read October 15 2023
9. The Clockwork Scarab - Added May 2023, Read October 30, 2023
10. The Spiritglass Charade - Added May 2023, Read November 1st, 2023.
Finished Nov 1st!!
Finished Lost on June 23rd, listed in message #38On to Found!
Way to go Joyce!
I finished #3 yesterday, and since we are about 30 percent of the way through the year, I am on track! Of course, I am behind if I want to try to get Found in this year.
I love this one! Thanks for holding it again for 2023!Period of Challenge: January 1 - December 31, 2023
18/23 so far
1 = Great Balls of Fury
2 =Fury Godmother
3 = School Trip
4 = Murder at Rough Point
5 = Egg Drop Dead
6 = Killer Kung Pao
7 = The Fugitive Queen
8 = The Game Is a Footnote
9 = An Argumentation of Historians
10 = Resurrection
11 = Hooking for Trouble
12 = On the Hook
13 = Hooks Can Be Deceiving
14 = One for the Hooks
15 = 11 Midnight + 4 Wonton Terror
16 = Dead Man's Mirror
17 = (0 x #1) + (0 x #2) + (0 x #3)
18 = (0 x #1) + (0 x #2) + (0 x #3)
19 = (0 x #1) + (0 x #2) + (0 x #3)
20 = (0 x #1) + (0 x #2) + (0 x #3)
21 = (0 x #1) + (0 x #2) + (0 x #3)
22 = 6 - Elephants Can Remember by Christie, Agatha on 02/06/2008 Masterpiece edition #42 + 7 Fatal Fried Rice + 8 And the Rest Is History + 1 Gin & Daggers
23 = #11 Rivers Of London: Deadly Ever After #12 Bedlam
Going to try this again in 2023. I count any book I added in 2012:-
1 X Around the World in 80 Days: Companion to the PBS Series - Michael Palin - Finished 6/23/23
2 X The Snow Spider - Finished 6/17/23
3 X The Fire Within - Finished 5/20/23
4 X Sushi for Beginners - Finished 1/20/23
5 X The Chestnut Soldier - Finished 6/19/23
6 X Patty Jane's House of Curl - Finished 6/16/23
7 X The Kingdom of Ohio - Finished 6/20/23
8 X Emlyn's Moon Finished 6/18/23
9 X Mara, Daughter of the Nile Finished 3/30/23
10 X In the Company of the Courtesan Finished 4/19/23
Finished 6/23/23
Finished in post #45 - just in time =)
As of today, I have completed 7 books - two DNF but I gave them both at least 2 hours of listening. I finished one today called Lost and Found, coincidentally, that was added in 2012, so I will replace one of my original list with that. I have 3 left and will be taking at least two of them on vacation with me next week!
LOST 2022Finished on December 20th!
`1 Irish Girls Are Back in Town - Cecelia Ahern Read 12/20/22
~2 Big In China - Alan Paul Read 6/10/22 (added in 2012)
~3 The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder - DNF
~4 The Princess Bride - William Goldman Read 10/10/22 (added in 2012)
~5 The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen - Read May 31st (added in 2012)
~6 The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson Read March 11th
~7 Lost and Found Read on 7/7/22 (added in 2012)
~8 Jennifer Government - Max Barry - Read March 9th
~9 The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield - Read Oct 4th (added in 2012)
~10 The Dark Queen - Susan Carroll - DNF
Seriously Serial 2022Finished 7/24/22!!
1 Murder on the Red River - Read 1/03/22
2 Never After: The Stolen Slippers - Read 1/14/22
3 Murder Lo Mein - read 1/21/22
4 A Stitch in Crime - Read 3/18/22
5 Mrs. Pollifax on Safari - Read 1/12/22
6 Knot My Sister's Keeper - Read 3/6/22
7 The Viper's Nest - Read 1/11/22
8 The Emperor's Code - Read 1/25/22
9 Storm Warning - Read 1/27/22
10 Into the Gauntlet - Read 1/31/22
11 Vespers Rising - read 2/1/22
12 = 1+2+3+6
1 Museum of Thieves
2 The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth
3 The Mystery of the Painted Dragon
6 Behind the Seams
13 = 9+1+1+1+1
9 - Knot Ready for Murder
1 - A is for Alibi
1 - The Glass Spare
1 - Peril in Paris
1 - The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
14 = 8+3+3
8 - Knot of This World
3 - Path of Beasts
3 - Fresh Hell
15 = 7+2+2+2+1+1
7 - Knot on her Life
2 - Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!
2 - A Gathering of Shadows
2 - City of Lies
1 - Witches of Brooklyn
1 - Premeditated Myrtle
16 = 5+1+1+1+2+2+2+2
5 - No Time Like the Past
1 - Truly Devious
1 - The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop
1 - A Spindle Splintered
2 - The Coloring Crook
2 - A Mirror Mended
2 - Murder At Marble House
2 - Vengeful
17 = 10+3+1+1+1+1
10-Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
3-Murder Outside the Lines
1-Slippery Creatures
1-Color Me Murder
1-A Darker Shade of Magic
1-Books Can be Deceiving
18 = 11+4+2+1
1-Death by Dumpling
2-Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments
4-A Trail Through Time
11-Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
19 Easter Bunny Murder - Read 5/12
20 = 9+4+3+3+1
Amongst Our Weapons - Read 4/14
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - Read 4/3
A Second Chance - Read 2/15
Subtle Blood - Read 3/15
Vicious - Read 1/16
21 = 9+6+5+1
Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish - Read 4/10
A Pawn for A Queen - Read 3/24
You Better Knot Die - Read 4/8
The Quick and the Thread - Read 1/8
22 = 8+2+2+2+2+2+2+2
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle Read 2/18
A Symphony of Echoes Read 1/18
Dim Sum of All Fears Read 1/20
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax Read 2/1
Deny All Charges Read 2/8
Girl Gone Missing Read 2/11
The Missing of Clairedelune Read 3/2
The Sugared Game Read 2/28
I read A Deadly Education and I gave it 4 stars. I loved both Spinning Silver and Uprooted, so I had high hopes for this. It was a bit grittier than the other two and not as cozy. I enjoyed the world building and will read the sequel.No Nomination
Goal: 8 books, trying for the Completed plan.Completed! 8 done as of Dec 15th
1. Revisit: Read from any picked shelves for December.
You need only read from 1 shelf but if you like, you can read from all these shelves or crossover between this month's shelves
Dec-08 non-fiction
Dec-09 humor - The Thirteenth Fairy Read 12/15
Dec-10 contemporary-fiction
Dec-11 suspense - The Night Circus Read 12/12
Dec-12 steampunk
Dec-13 road-trip
Dec-14 greek
Dec-15 plays
Dec-16 1
Dec-17 satire - A Very Scalzi Christmas
Dec-18 archaeology
Dec-19 fantasy - The Hazel Wood Read 12/02
Dec-20 science
2. New Release: Read book/s published in 2021 - The Last Graduate - Read 12/08
3. Owned: Read book/s you owned (physically or digitally) by 11/30/21 - Knot What You Think - Read 12/05
4. Pick-a-Shelf 1: Read for another PAS challenge (LOST, Moving Mountain '21, Bookopoly, Seriously Serial '21, TRIM) - A Deadly Education - which I also read for the Monthly genre as I am done with all of my other PAS challenges. Read 12/04
5. Pick-a-Shelf 4: Our gift to you: Read Any Book you want to! - One False Note Read 12/13
I am still not marked as complete, but I finished post #33 back in June.
COMPLETED! November 1st, 2021Lost
✔1 - The Magic Thief - added in 2011
✔2 - The Weirdies - Michael Buckley is an author I read for LOST
✔3 - The Other Queen - Gregory is an author I read for LOST
Found
✔4 - A Spoonful of Murder - added in 2021
✔5 - Death in the Spotlight - added in 2021
✔6 - Top Marks for Murder - added in 2021
Either
✔7 - Death Sets Sail - added in 2021
✔8 - Once Upon a Crime - added in 2021
✔9 - Something's Knot Kosher - added in 2021
✔10 - The Book of Tomorrow - added in 2021
Sounds good, thanks!
Updating #33I finished back in June!
Will you be posting a thread for Lost and Found now? I've started on some of those now that I've finished Found.
FINISHED!Here is my list, added between 11/29/2020 and 05/29/2021:
1 Murder Most Unladylike - finished 6/12
2 Arsenic For Tea - finished 6/19
3 First Class Murder - finished 6/19
4 Forget Me Knot - finished 7/2
5 Knot In My Backyard - finished 7/4
6 Gone But Knot Forgotten - finished 7/11
7 Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World - finished 7/11
8 A Crafter Knits a Clue - finished 6/21
9 A Crafter Hooks a Killer - finished 7/1
10 A Crafter Quilts a Crime - finished 7/9
I am done as of 7/11. These cozy mystery series go really fast!
I finished LOST today, May 29th, so my dates for FOUND are November 29th, 2020 - May 29th, 2021.I don’t have access to my PC right now to update my comment in the original thread. I’ll do that when I get back home next week.