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Light, entertaining and enjoyable.
The Good Woman's Guide to Making Better Choices by Liz Foster ⭐⭐⭐.7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A heartwarming story of family, love and loyalty.
Sisterhood by Cathy Kelly ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Taut, twisty and surprising!
Don't Forget Me by Rea Frey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A lovely multi-generational tale infected with Irish wit and warmth.
The Sunrise Swimming Society by Rosie Hannigan ⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished a reread of a book from my 2016 NetGalley shelf. It was just as enjoyable second time around.
All That is Lost Between Us by Sara Foster ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
All Done!💕📚February Featured Author - Alexander McCall Smith
Duration: 1/2/24 - 29/2/24
Level: HARD
11/11
AA🦘 4/4
EASY - Tasks (minimum 1 AA)
MEDIUM - Spell Out (minimum 2 AA)
HARD - Tasks & Spell Out (minimum 4 AA)
TASKS
#1. Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. His most well known work is probably The No1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
**Read a book from a series AND a cosy mystery -
Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O'Connor COMPLETED 19/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#2. Alexander McCall Smith was raised in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) but received his higher education in Scotland.
**Read a book set in Scotland
Death of a Spy by M.C. Beaton COMPLETED 19.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#3. He is a prolific writer and has written way more than 100 books.
**Read a book by an author who has written more than one series.
William Warwick Book 6 by Jeffrey Archer COMPLETED 05/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#4. McCall Smith settled in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1984 with his wife and two daughters. His neighbours include J.K.Rowling, and Ian Rankin.
**Read a book by another Scottish author -
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis COMPLETED 27.02.24 ⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...BONUS
**Read a book by Alexander McCall Smith -
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith COMPLETED 17.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...SPELL OUT Using either first letter of title (disregarding "A", "An" or "The" if you choose to) or either the first or last initial of the author. For the difficult letters - Q, X and Z, you may use a book in which the letter appears somewhere in the title or author's first or last name - McCall
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What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan AA 🦘 COMPLETED 25.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐.8 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...C -
A Chance to Believe by Fiona Marsden AA 🦘 COMPLETED 25.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...C -
Snowy Mountains Dawn by Alissa Callen AA 🦘 COMPLETED 04.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...A -
All That is Lost Between Us by Sara Foster AA 🦘COMPLETED 29.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...L -
The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright by Clare Swatman COMPLETED 15.02.24 ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...L -
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz COMPLETED 04/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.3 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm in too please Brenda. 💕📚March Featured Author - Candice Fox
Duration: 1/3/24 - 31/3/24
Level: HARD
10/10
AA 🦘 5/5
TASKS
#1. Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs; the daughter of a parole officer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to the family.
**Read a book by an Australian author
The Good Dog by Simon Rowell AA🦘COMPLETED 22.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.3 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#2. As a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia's wealth of true crime writers.
**Read a book where the first letter of each title word fits into ANNE RICE (2 word minimum)
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid COMPLETED 29.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#3. Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees..
**Read a book set in Sydney
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The Good Woman's Guide to Making Better Choices by Liz Foster AA🦘 COMPLETED 10.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐.7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#4. Candice's first novel was Hades, published 2014. She has published many more, has two series of her own and also collaborates with US author James Patterson
**Read a book which is part of a series
Thorn on the Rose by Joy Dettman AA🦘COMPLETED 27.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...BONUS
**Read a book by Candice Fox (which can include a collaboration)
The Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox AA🦘 COMPLETED 20.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐.7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...SPELLOUT - HADES
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The Hunter by Tana French COMPLETED 14/03/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...A-
A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey COMPLETED 30.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...D -
Vanished by James Delargy AA🦘 COMPLETED 15/03/24 ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...E -
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand COMPLETED 25.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...S -
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner COMPLETED 21/03/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.3 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm in please. 💕📚Autumn 2024 Challenge
Duration: 1/3/24 - 31/5/24
Level: HARD
13/13
✅AA🦘: 6/6
TASKS: Each title must contain the following:
1. A colour.
The Sisters of Blue Mountain Beach by Kalan Chapman Lloyd COMPLETED 29.05.24 ⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅2. A number.
One Long Weekend: The BRAND NEW uplifting book club pick from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Shari Low for 2024 by Shari Low COMPLETED 07.05.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅3. A first name.
The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson COMPLETED 09.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅4. A place.
The Charmed Friends of Trove Isle by Annie Rains COMPLETED 31.05.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅5. A form of water.
Red River Road by Anna Downes AA🦘COMPLETED 02.05.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅6. A day, month or season
With Winter Comes Darkness by Robbi Neal AA🦘COMPLETED 06.05.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
SPELL OUT: FOLIAGE
✅F -
The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster AA 🦘 COMPLETED 06/03/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅O -
One by One by Freida McFadden FINISHED 31.03.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅L -
Last Best Chance by Brooke Dunnell AA 🦘COMPLETED 10.04.24 ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅I -
If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester AA 🦘 (pub. date 03.04.24) COMPLETED 05.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅A -
Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young NZA COMPLETED 08.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐.9 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅G -
The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie AA 🦘COMPLETED 20.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...✅E -
In Her Place by Edel Coffey COMPLETED 22.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just loved this rural Australian mystery/romance. ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 for
Snowy Mountains Dawn by Alissa Callen https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just squeaked in this month! January Featured Author - Sarah Barrie
Duration: 1/1/24 - 31/1/24
Level: HARD
10/10
AA 🦘 4/4
TASKS
#1. Sarah Barrie is the author of nine novels, including her bestselling print debut Secrets Of Whitewater Creek, the Hunters Ridge trilogy and the Calico Mountain trilogy.
**Read a book by an Australian author
The Lawson Legacy by Janet Gover 🦘COMPLETED 01/01/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#2. In a past life, while gaining degrees in arts, science and education, Sarah worked as a teacher, a vet nurse, a horse trainer and a magazine editor, before deciding she wanted to write novels.
**Read a book where BOTH the author's initials are in MAGAZINE
Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman COMPLETED 26.01.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#3. A couple of the things that remain constant in Sarah's life, are her love of all things crime, as well as family and friends.
**Read a CRIME novel
True Crime by Georgina Lees COMPLETED 31.01.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#4. Her favourite place in the world is the family property, where she writes her stories overlooking mountains crisscrossed with farmland, bordered by the beauty of the Australian bush, and where, at the end of the day, she can spend time with family, friends, a good Irish whiskey and a copy of her next favourite book.
**Read a book showing the Australian bush on the cover
The Blue Gum Camp by Leonie Kelsall🦘 COMPLETED 03/01/24 ⭐⭐⭐.7 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...BONUS
**Read a book by Sarah Barrie 🦘
Devil's Lair by Sarah Barrie COMPLETED 14/01/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...SPELLOUT - SARAH
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A Shadow at the Door by Jo Dixon 🦘 COMPLETED 04.04.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...A -
A Breath of Fresh Air by Jessica Redland COMPLETED 15.01.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...R -
The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini COMPLETED 18.01.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...A -
Anything for a Friend by Kathleen M. Willett COMPLETED 27.01.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...H -
Holmes, Margaret and Poe: A twisty mystery thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author by James Patterson COMPLETED 05/01/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another title from my 2017 NetGalley backlist -
Finding Claire Fletcher by Lisa Regan ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished the very surprising
The Last Stars in the Sky by Kate Hewitt ⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A wonderfully touching 5⭐ read.
Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished two very different books yesterday , both excellent reads.
All Of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
The Girls from Sandycove by Siân O'Gorman ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished two books over the weekend.
Heart of the River by Cheryl Adnams ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
Murder at an Irish Wedding by Carlene O'Connor ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm in too please. 💕📚February Featured Author - Alexander McCall Smith
Duration: 1/2/24 - 29/2/24
Level: HARD
11/11
AA🦘 4/4
EASY - Tasks (minimum 1 AA)
MEDIUM - Spell Out (minimum 2 AA)
HARD - Tasks & Spell Out (minimum 4 AA)
TASKS
#1. Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. His most well known work is probably The No1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
**Read a book from a series AND a cosy mystery -
Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O'Connor COMPLETED 19/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#2. Alexander McCall Smith was raised in S. Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) but received his higher education in Scotland.
**Read a book set in Scotland
Death of a Spy by M.C. Beaton COMPLETED 19.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#3. He is a prolific writer and has written way more than 100 books.
**Read a book by an author who has written more than one series.
William Warwick Book 6 by Jeffrey Archer COMPLETED 05/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...#4. McCall Smith settled in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1984 with his wife and two daughters. His neighbours include J.K.Rowling, and Ian Rankin.
**Read a book by another Scottish author -
A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis COMPLETED 27.02.24 ⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...BONUS
**Read a book by Alexander McCall Smith -
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith COMPLETED 17.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...SPELL OUT Using either first letter of title (disregarding "A", "An" or "The" if you choose to) or either the first or last initial of the author. For the difficult letters - Q, X and Z, you may use a book in which the letter appears somewhere in the title or author's first or last name - McCall
M -
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan AA 🦘 COMPLETED 25.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐.8 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...C -
A Chance to Believe by Fiona Marsden AA 🦘 COMPLETED 25.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...C -
Snowy Mountains Dawn by Alissa Callen AA 🦘 COMPLETED 04.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...A -
All That is Lost Between Us by Sara Foster AA 🦘COMPLETED 29.02.24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...L -
The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright by Clare Swatman COMPLETED 15.02.24 ⭐⭐.5 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...L -
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz COMPLETED 04/02/24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.3 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
