First 2016 reading challenges completed

I have completed my first two reading challenges of the year and am making good progress on the others. I enjoyed the Full House Challenge and won the drawing for the Jan-Mar review period, probably because I had so many reviews posted during that time. Thanks to Book Date for the win; I used my Amazon gift card to buy some short stories in beloved series as well as a new book.

 

Full House Reading Challenge 2016

This challenge hosted by Book Date was simple: complete the card below and here’s what I read:

By author you wish was better known: Night Study (Soulfinders #2) Maria V. Snyder
Had laugh out loud moment(s): William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, #6), Ian Doescher
Way out of comfort zone: Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Self Challenge: A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs, #8), Jacqueline Winspear
New author to you: A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Published in 2016: Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery #3), Maia Chance
Book Club Worthy: The Kashmir Shawl, Rosie Thomas
Family relationship word in title: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis, Lenore Skomal
Memoir: Howl: of Woman and Wolf, Susan Imhoff Bird
Would make a good movie: Wings of Fire (Inspector Rutledge #2), Charles Todd
Book from series you love: Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs #4), Jacqueline Winspear
Color word in title: Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Maggie Stiefvater
Book you bought: A Fine Summer’s Day (Inspector Rutledge #17), Charles Todd
First in a series: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (Mary Russell #1), Laurie R. King
Library Book: Lair of Dreams (Diviners #2), Libba Bray
Debut novel: Marysvale (Marysvale #1), Jared Southwick
Author’s surname starts with same letter as yours: Cinderella Six Feet Under, Maia Chance
Setting begins with B: The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre, Ann Rinaldi
You’d like to change the cover: Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough
Published 2015: The Heir (Selection #4), Kiera Cass
Thought provoking book: Heart Earth, Ivan Doig
You didn’t want to put it down: Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #9), Jacqueline Winspear
Author outside own country: Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
A dominant color on cover: Bloodroot (China Bayles #10), Susan Wittig Albert
Been on TBR ‘forever’: A Disciple’s Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell, Bruce C. Hafen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cruisin’ Thru The Cozies Reading Challenge 2016

This is the sixth annual Cruisin’ thru the Cozies hosted by Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews and 2016 is my 4th year to participate. I read a lot of these and have made the top level long before the year ends so that was my goal again and I made it: Level 4 – Sleuth Extraordinaire – Read 21 or more books

1. Cinderella Six Feet Under, Maia Chance
2. Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs #4), Jacqueline Winspear
3. Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery #3), Maia Chance
4. An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) , Jacqueline Winspear
5. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (Mary Russell #1), Laurie R. King
6. Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs #6), Jacqueline Winspear
7. Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #9), Jacqueline Winspear
8. A Fine Summer’s Day (Inspector Rutledge #17), Charles Todd
9. Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10), Jacqueline Winspear
10. The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7), Jacqueline Winspear
11. A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11), Jacqueline Winspear
12. Bloodroot (China Bayles #10), Susan Wittig Albert
13. Wings of Fire (Inspector Rutledge #2), Charles Todd
14. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (The Darling Dahlias #1), Susan Wittig Albert
15. A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs, #8), Jacqueline Winspear
16. A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford #7), Charles Todd
17. Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs #12), Jacqueline Winspear
18. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (Grantchester #1), James Runcie
19. Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody #4), Elizabeth Peters
20. The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody #5), Elizabeth Peters
21. Search the Dark (Inspector Rutledge #3), Charles Todd