Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

New member and wanting to jump into this challenge! I hope I'm doing it right!

Books #1-10
Just choosing the 10 oldest books on my shelf for this!
1. The Hole (finished 8/26/2020)
>>>>> Review here
2. Ancillary Sword (finished 7/18/2020)
>>>>> Review here
3. The Girl in the Tower (finished 8/15/2020)
>>>>> Review here
4. After Atlas (finished 6/28/2020)
>>>>> Review here
5. The Queen of Attolia (finished 10/26/2020)
>>>>> Review here
6. The Immortality Virus (finished 8/29/2020)
>>>>> Review here
7. The Stranger Diaries (finished 8/30/2020)
>>>>> Review here
8. Noumenon (finished 10/4/2020)
>>>>> Review here
9. The Book of M (finished 10/29/2020)
>>>>> Review here
10. What the Cat Dragged In (finished 8/30/2020)
>>>>> Review here

11. A new author's first book (could be also a new to you author that you haven't read before)
Gideon the Ninth (finished 8/31/2020)
>>>>> Review here

12. A book set in a different country than you live in.
About the Night

13. A book that is a different genre than your usual reading books (whatever you normally don't read try something out of your comfort zone if you want)
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (finished 12/31/2020)
>>>>> Review here

14 & 15. Two books from a series you haven't completed yet (I'm sure we all have those, the books don't have to be the same series if you don't them to be)
A Closed and Common Orbit (finished 12/19/2020)
>>>>> Review here
Ancillary Mercy (finished 12/28/2020)
>>>>> Review here

16. A book that comes out in 2020.
The Glass Hotel (finished 6/17/2020)
>>>>> Review Here

17. A book that was recommended to you.
Widow's Point (finished 8/12/2020)
>>>>> Review Here

18. A book you meant to read in 2019 but never got around to it.
Karen Memory

19. A book that came out before you were born. (I know this one might have been harder than the other's to do)
The Diary of a Young Girl (finished 8/29/2020)
>>>>> Review here

20. A book that is done by more than one author (You can take this one as a book that is short stories by different authors, or written by more like a James Patterson, Janet Evanovich and I'm sure there are other's).
At the Cemetery Gates: Year One (finished 7/15/2020)
>>>>> Review here

18/20 completed

Hi, Kari, welcome to our group! There are nearly as many ways to do Determination Lists as there are participants. Your list looks good—except that I don’t recognize any of the titles except Diary of a Young Girl LOL!

Most of us come back and edit our lists to show what we’ve read as we read it (or add books to our list as some create their lists as they go along.) Gosh, if you add a comment, I might even broaden my reading perspective.

Looking forward to see how you do with the challenge,

Thanks! I’m looking forward to broadening my reading too, as a lot of the books on your group bookshelf are unfamiliar to me. I’m hoping to pick up The Glass Hotel and read along with you all next month, and also browse through some of the other discussions to find new-to-me titles as well. I’ve already put a few of the past group reads on my list! Thanks for the warm welcome. :)

Great looking line-up Kari! Listing them up front gives you focus, I usually don't- because one year I did, and hardly got to any of them lol
I am happy to hear you plan to group read The Glass Hotel with us next month - which is speeding towards us rather fast, where has the first half of May gone?

The first half of my May went to night shift, which is now over. Instead of being awake and tired all night, I am again awake and tired all day.

Ann wrote: "Great looking line-up Kari! Listing them up front gives you focus, I usually don't- because one year I did, and hardly got to any of them lol
I am happy to hear you plan to group read The Glass Hot..."

I know what you mean. I try to have my books planned for the next two or three months but lately my attention span has been shot and I keep changing them out. I am *really* hoping to at least get those first ten, the oldest on my TBR, knocked out!

I'm looking forward to The Glass Hotel!

And Barry, I feel you on the night shift thing. I used to pull those. It just totally throws you off balance.

I'm pretty happy to be getting some of the oldest books on my tbr shelf read! I just finished a fantasy sequel I'd put on my shelf a while ago, The Girl in the Tower. I've also finished a quick little horror novella my husband recommended to me--Widow's Point.

Well done, Kari!

Kari: that is a good feeling! Thanks for mentioning the Richard Chizmar novella, I enjoyed his continuation of a Stephen King story Gwendy's Magic Feather. Nice to get close-at-hand recommendations!

Kari wrote: "I'm pretty happy to be getting some of the oldest books on my tbr shelf read! I just finished a fantasy sequel I'd put on my shelf a while ago, The Girl in the Tower. I've also fini..."

Well, with the last book added How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less as of a few minutes ago and it being New Year's Eve and all, I've got to call it at 18/20! Not so bad, I think, since I started in May. :)

Kari: you did great, especially with the later start, and by getting the oldest ten books on your tbr pile read. Finishing three in December is impressive too. Now why didn't I read that Richard Chizmar novella we discussed yet? Aha, a book for my 2021 list!! ;) ;) Widow's Point

Kari wrote: "Well, with the last book added How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less as of a few minutes ago and it being New Year's Eve and all, I've got to call it at 18/20! Not so bad, I th..."

Great job, Kari! Now on to 2021!

Ann wrote: "Now why didn't I read that Richard Chizmar novella we discussed yet? Aha, a book for my 2021 list!! ;) ;)"

It only took me two or three hours to read, if that's motivating! I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Great job, Kari! Now on to 2021!"

Thank you!!