D.L.’s Comments (group member since Dec 24, 2015)

D.L.’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

TBR Jar

Progress: 0/15

1. Beach Read
2. Beach Season
3. Dying for Strawberries
4. First Comes Baby...
5. Freshman Blues
6. Head Over Heels
7. Heir to the Ranch
8. Hide in Plain Sight
9. Judgment Calls
10. The Lady in the Attic
11. Most Likely to Deceive
12. Not a Happy Family
13. Royal Rescue
14. Santa Baby
15. Smoke Screen

Serial Reader

Progress: 46/45 -- COMPLETED

Series Starting
(Books #1-#5)

Aloysius Pendergast
#1 Relic
#2 Reliquary

Animal Magnetism
#3 Rescue My Heart
#4 Rumor Has It
#5 Then Came You

Ashton Corners Book Club Mysteries
✔️ #1 A Killer Read

Aurora Teagarden
✔️ Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

Baby-sitters Little Sister
✔️ #2 Karen's Roller Skates

Bookstore Cafe Mystery
✔️ #1 Death by Coffee
#2 Death by Tea

Christmas Hope
✔️ #1 The Christmas Shoes
✔️ #2 The Christmas Blessing

Class Secrets
✔️ #1 Most Likely to Deceive

Fear Street
✔️ #3 The Overnight
✔️ #4 Missing
✔️ #5 The Wrong Number

The Fifth Avenue Rebels
✔️ #1 The Heiress Hunt

Fox and O'Hare
✔️ #1 The Heist

Hazelwood High
✔️#1 Tears of a Tiger

Ice Cream Parlor Mystery
#1 A Deadly Inside Scoop

The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class
✔️ #3 Class Play
✔️ #4 Second Grade Baby

Leigh Botts
✔️ #1 Dear Mr. Henshaw
✔️ #2 Strider

Lily Bard
✔️ #1 Shakespeare's Landlord
#2 Shakespeare's Champion

Main Street
✔️ #1 Welcome to Camden Falls

The Mediator
✔️ Shadowland

Murder By Design
✔️ #1 Gone With The Ghost

Nancy Drew
✔️ #5 The Secret of Shadow Ranch

Oak Knoll
✔️ #1 Deeper Than the Dead

Robert Langdon
#1 Angels & Demons
#2 The Da Vinci Code

Seasons of Life
#1 While You Were Dead

Silver Beach
✔️ #1 Summer Love
✔️ #2 Summer Lies
✔️ #3 Summer Promises

Sincerely Yours
✔️ #1 Sincerely Yours Collection (Books 1-4)

Sweet Mountain Witches
✔️ #1 Midlife or Death

Sweet Valley High
✔️ #1 Double Love

Three Sisters Inn
✔️ #1 Hide in Plain Sight

Vampire's Love
✔️ #2 Blood Spell

Welcome Inn
✔️ #2 Ghost of a Chance
✔️ #3 The Skeleton Key

Wild Rose Sisters
✔️ #2 First Comes Baby...

Willow Bend
✔️ #1 Full Circle

Women's Murder Club
✔️ #1 1st to Die
✔️ #2 2nd Chance
✔️ #3 3rd Degree
✔️ #4 4th of July


Series Continuing
(Books #6-#10)

Agatha Raisin
✔️ #7 Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
✔️ #8 Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
✔️ #9 Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden

Animal Magnetism
#6 Still the One
#7 All I Want

Nancy Drew
✔️ #6 The Secret of Red Gate Farm


Series Ongoing
(Books #11 and Above)

The Baby-sitters Club
✔️ #20 Kristy and the Walking Disaster

Cupcake Diaries
✔️ #13 Katie's New Recipe

Nancy Drew Files
✔️ #93 Hotline to Danger

Piled High

Progress: 0/15

The Yellow House Mystery
Little House on the Prairie
Pretty Little Devils
Such a Pretty Face
Stranger With My Face
Love is a Gentle Stranger
Someone to Love
Someone Like You
Love Me If You Dare
Dare Me
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Down a Dark Hall
Dark Secrets 1
A Song of Secrets
Love's Silent Song

Genre Bingo

Clear the Shelves

Progress: 84/75 -- COMPLETED

E-books:
1. 15 Shades Of Pink: 15 Romantic Short Stories From The Flirts! Collections
2. Hide in Plain Sight
3. Full Circle
4. Midlife or Death
5. Class Play
6. Welcome to Camden Falls
7. Second Grade Baby
8. Cupcakes and Crime
9. Bundle of Joy
10. Dead Wrong
11. Trapped in Time
12. The Cross of Love
13. Mango Cake and Murder
14. The Duke and I
15. A Ghost for Christmas
16. Death by Chocolate Cake
17. Rest, Relaxation and Murder
18. Tapas, Carrot Cake and a Corpse
19. Vanishing Girls
20. Crossing Over Easy
21. Secrets of Willow House
22. Christmas Crush

Physical books:
1. Seasons of the Witch, Vol. 1
2. Colorado Crime Scene
3. The Heiress Hunt
4. Blood Spell
5. The Waitress
6. Death by Coffee
7. The Sheriff of Wickham Falls
8. After the Silence
9. Ho-Ho-Homicide
10. Closed for the Season
11. Summer Love
12. Summer Lies
13. Their Night to Remember
14. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
15. The Lady in the Attic
16. Summer Promises
17. The Hundred Secret Senses
18. Smoke Screen
19. Joy Ride
20. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
21. Malibu Summer
22. First Comes Baby...
23. Chasing Forgiveness
24. The Postcard Killers
25. 1st to Die
26. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
27. 2nd Chance
28. 3rd Degree
29. 4th of July
30. The Boxcar Children Spooky Special
31. A Killer Read
32. The Boxcar Children Winter Special: The Mystery in the Snow/The Mystery on Blizzard Mountain/The Mystery at Snowflake Inn
33. The Rancher Returns
34. Shakespeare's Landlord
35. The Mask
36. The Heist
37. Santa Baby
38. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
39. The Beginning
40. Shadowland
41. Tears of a Tiger
42. The 5th Horseman
43. Just Like Sisters
44. Juror #3
45. Wait Till Helen Comes
46. Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
47. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
48. The Bridges of Madison County
49. Heir to the Ranch
50. Ramona The Pest
51. Cinderella Next Door
52. Step on a Crack
53. The Claw
54. Sworn to Silence
55. Beauchamp Hall
56. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
57. Double Vision
58. Instinct
59. Deadly Offer
60. The Wave
61. The Turtle Mound Murder
62. Buzz Off

Around the Year Challenge

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Yearly Challenges
✔️ Clear the Shelves
Genre Bingo
Piled High
✔️ Serial Reader
TBR Jar

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Quarterly Challenges

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Monthly Challenges

Personal Reading Goals

✔️Read 92 books (92/92)
✔️ Donate 30 books to the library (30/30)
Finish at least 3 yearly challenges (2/3)
Finish at least 4 monthly challenges (1/4)
✔️ Finish 3 book series (3/3)
✔️ Read 10 books over 300 pages (10/10)
✔️ Read 2 books over 400 pages (2/2)

I actually read more than 100 books in 2022, but I really don't want to overcommit myself in 2023. Plus, I want to focus on challenges that really speak to me rather than trying to enter them all and then be stressed when I have so many deadlines coming up. Quality over quantity. Next year *really* needs be less stressful than the past few years lol

2021 Challenge Thread
2022 Challenge Thread

I nominate Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

The connection, you ask?? It appears at #61 on the Listopia The Color Purple , a list dedicated to books with purple covers.

Jessica wrote: "I have it currently and planned to start tonight after the kiddos are in bed"

Awesome!! Excited to hear your thoughts on it.

Robynne wrote: "I would like to nominate Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Book 1 in the Robert Langdon Series.



Angels and Demons are opposites and there are no Dan Brown books on ..."

I'll second this one.

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Hi, there. I think I'll start it the second week of the month as well. I'm looking forward to it :)

Lorraine wrote: "I would like to suggest these 3 Jane Austen books. Caterina will be joining me. Others are welcome!

January: Northanger Abbey
February: Sense and sensibility
March: Emma

Thank you"

I'll join for Sense and Sensibility :)

I've done this several times and have always enjoyed it. Please sign me up again. I've sent in my form.

Thank you to the Mods for all your hard work!!

Current TBR = 2608

Dangggg!

Suggestions for 2023 (I'm open to changing months on any of them)

January
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

February
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

March
1984 by George Orwell

Anyone up for a discussion of A Discovery of Witches in December? It has to be December because it fits a challenge I need to finish. TY!

Carmen wrote: "Hola!
Update Day 3

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❎3. Tower of Terror: Read a book from a spooky genre [horror, slasher, thriller, mystery, horror subgenres (gothic, splatterpunk, body horror, psycholog..."

I am reading [book:Mexican Gothic|53152636] right now. It's interesting but I'm not sure what to make of it. How did you like it?