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Fiona’s Motley Reading Challenge 2024
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Book One completed The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
Gentle easy read - one of 6 books from the library that I had borrowed to read over Christmas
Our library is under threat so making sure to use it
4 stars
Book Two completed So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
So short that it’s barely a novella
3 stars
Book Three completedUnburied by Heather Critchlow - the second in the Cal Lovett series.
Cal is a true crime podcaster and the book is set in North West Highlands of Scotland.
Love the cover
3 stars
Book Four completedThe Collapsing Wave by Doug Johnstone
Second in the Sandy series and currently 4.55 stars on Goodreads
4 stars
Book Five completedDays at the Morisaki Bookshop
Another gentle calming Japanese read - can’t fail if it’s about a bookshop !
4 stars
Book Six completedThe Measure by Nikki Erlick
Author’s first novel so hope that counts.
My Library Book Group read this month. Interesting premise which did make me think and ask questions - looking forward to our group discussion at the end of the month
4 stars
Book Seven completed Born in a Burial Gown by M W Craven
Love this author’s Tilly and Poe series so have high hopes for Avison Fluke series - wasn’t disappointed
4 stars
Book Eight completedThe Wolf by Samuel Bjørk
Love the Holger Munch series
5 stars
Book Nine completedNone of this is true by Lisa Jewell
The definition of a page turner !
4 stars
Book Ten completedBlack Coffee by Agatha Christie
Originally a play converted to a novel
3 stars
Book Eleven completed Abroad in Japan by Stuart Broad
I do love a travel book - this time in Japan - would love to visit
4 stars
Book Twelve completedWandering through Life - a memoir by Donna Leon
I love the Inspector Brunetti series set in Venice so had to read the authors memoirs - fascinating life
4 stars
Book Thirteen completed Story of Lady MacBeth leading up to her marriage to MacBeth
4 stars
Book Fourteen completedMurder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle
Modern day Agatha Christie style
4 stars
Book Fifteen completedThe Collector by Fiona Cummins
I’ve read the later books in the Saul Anguish series and this is the second book - now need to track down book one.
Interesting to read Saul’s background story
4 stars
Book Sixteen completedMaurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhurst
Based on a true story of a couple shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean finally rescued after 117 days. Amazing story - Library Book Group read - I don’t often read true stories but am grateful to have read this one
4 stars
Book Seventeen Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5 stars
I’m further on than I thought Book Eighteen
- I’d omitted Yellowface by R F Kuang
A book group read
3.5 stars
Book Nineteen Auld Acquaintance by Sofia Slater
If you’re going to follow Agatha Christie it’s got to be excellent - unfortunately this wasn’t
Mini version of And Then There Were None
2 stars
Book Twenty The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
Loved the Amtrak setting
4 stars
Book Twenty One Snow by John Banville
Winter crime set in Ireland in 1957
3.5 stars
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2. An autobiography/ biography - Wandering through Life: A Memoir - 4 stars - completed 19.8.24
3. A locked room mystery - Murder on Lake Garda - 4 stars - completed 19.10.24
4. A children’s classic
5. A fairytale/retelling
6. A Nordic noir
7. Banned or challenged book Of Mice and Men - 5 stars - completed 9.11.24
8. A survival or nature story Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival - 4 stars - completed 9.11.24
9. About a historical figure Lady MacBethad - 4 stars - completed 9.10.24
10. A book with indigenous people
11. A holiday or celebration story - The Christmas Train - 4 stars - completed 3.12.24
12. A novella under 100 pages - So Late in the Day - 3 stars - completed 15.3.24
13. Snow/Winter in the title Snow - 3.5 stars - completed 28.12.24
14. Any color in the title Black Coffee - 3 stars - completed 7.7.24
15. A title with more than 4 words None of This Is True - 4 stars - completed 16.6.24
16. An animal on the cover The Wolf - 5 stars - completed 10.6.24
17. A house on the cover - Unburied - 3 stars - completed 16.3.24
18. An authors debut The Measure - 4 stars - completed 18.5.23
19. A book you meant to read in 2023 Auld Acquaintance: The Gripping Scottish Murder Mystery Set to Thrill - 2 stars - completed 29.11.24
20. A place you always wanted to visit Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun - 4 stars - completed 10.7.24
21. Book has four or more stars on GR The Collapsing Wave: The epic, awe-inspiring new novel from the author of BBC 2’s Between the Covers pick THE SPACE BETWEEN US - 4 stars - completed 21.4.24
22. Winner of the GR awards of 2023 - Yellowface - 3.5 stars - completed 11.4.24
23. Bought from a second hand store or borrowed from library The Last List of Mabel Beaumont - 4 stars - completed 8.1.24
24. First book in a series Born in a Burial Gown - 4 stars - completed 5.6.24
25. A book translated from another language - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - 4 stars - completed 11.5.24
26. An author with your first name - THE COLLECTOR - 4 stars - completed 26.10.24