Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2022
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There are six different reading
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2022
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Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2022
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Challenge hashtag: #histficreadingchallenge
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There are six different reading
2022 New Release Challenge
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Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2022
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Aim: To read and review books released in 2022.
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Six Degrees of Separation: From Rules of Civility to Murder at Melrose Court
This month the starting point is Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I haven't read this novel and have relied on the Goodreads' book description for inspiration. The shorter one gave me my first link: paper planes.
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew. By the end of the year she'd learned - how to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue, how to live like a redhead, and how to insist upon the very best.
Some Rise By Sin by Siôn Scott-Wilson
Book Review
1829 is a tough year to be a body snatcher. Burke and Hare have just been convicted of killing people to sell their bodies, to widespread outrage—but despite the bad press, doctors still need fresh corpses for medical research.
Sammy and Facey are a couple of so-called ‘resurrection men’, making a living among society's fringe-dwellers by hoisting the newly departed from the churchyards of London whilst masquerading as late-night bakers. Operating on tip-offs and rumours in the capital’s drinking dens and fighting pits, the pair find themselves in receipt of some valuable intelligence: an unusual cadaver has popped up on the market, that of a hermaphrodite.
For any medic worth his salt it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—a medical curiosity and
Top Ten Tuesday
Books on My Summer 2021 Reading List
Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge 2022
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Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2022
Sign Up: Ends March 15, 2022
Aim: To read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
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Chunkster Reading Challenge 2022
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Challenge Period: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
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Aim: To read as many books over 450 pages in length as you like during the challenge period.
A blog is NOT required to participate.
For this challenge I've selected books that I own. A couple of them I've read, but not reviewed, and as
Aussie Author Reading Challenge 2022
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Challenge period: 1st January to 31st December, 2022
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Aim: To showcase the quality and diversity of the books being produced by Australian authors.
Social Media Tag: #AussieAuthor22
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This year I'm participating at the same level as last year.
Mrs England by Stacey Halls
Book Review
The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach by Jas Treadwell - Book Review
Who is Thomas Peach?
Ah, reader! - if you would have us answer THAT question - What mysteries you shall compel us to expose!
It is the year 1785, and a gentleman of modest means has left London for the countryside, to look after his ailing wife.
Among his neighbours, tongues being to wag. Why does he keep a locked chest under the stairs? Is it really full of forbidden books? And what is exactly the matter with his wife?
For the most part, though, the couple live in peace -- until a letter arrives, threatening to cut off their livelihood and expel them from
August Folly by Angela Thirkell
Book Review
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children - have come for the holidays, and their hostess Mrs Palmer plans to rope everyone into performing in her disastrous annual play. Surrounded by the irrepressible Deans, Richard and his sister Margaret cannot help but have their minds broadened, spirits raised and hearts smitten
My ThoughtsAfter three novels, I'm becoming familiar with what to expect from Angela Thirkell: lots of quirky characters, multiple romances, upper
A Literary Christmas 2021 Challenge
Challenge period: Now to 31st December, 2021
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Aim: To read and review as many Christmas-themed titles as you can from a list you
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