Phrynne’s Comments (group member since Aug 13, 2012)

Phrynne’s comments from the Aussie Readers group.

Happy birthday Leonie!!! 🎂🎁🎈📚

June Featured Author - Nora Roberts
Duration: 1/6/24 - 30/6/24
Level: Hard
12/12

TASKS
#1. Read a bestseller
The 24th Hour by James Patterson 4 stars
#2. Read a book where BOTH the author's initials fit into IN DEATH
Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor AA 2 stars
#3. Read a book set in the USA
The Edge by David Baldacci 5 stars
#4. Read a book written under a pen name
Murder at the Rusty Anchor by Maddie Day (Edith Maxwell) 4 stars

BONUS
**Read a book by Nora Roberts. (or J.D. Robb)
The Villa by Nora Roberts4 stars



SPELL IT OUT
R The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood 5 stars
O Outback Moonlight by Annie Seaton AA 4 stars
B Dizzy Spells by Morgana Best AA 4 stars
E Murder on Stage by F.L. Everett 4 stars
R Storm Child by Michael Robotham AA 4 stars
T The Cornish Campsite Murder by Fiona Leitch 4 stars
S The Snowman of Zanzibar by Gordon Wallis 4 stars

✅Alex
✅Angela
✅Brenda
✅Carolyn
✅Catsalive
✅Cherie
✅Helen
✅Jackmeister
✅Jane
✅Janine
✅Jasmine's
✅Jazzy
✅Jenn
✅Jenny
✅Jonquil
✅JP
✅Kathy
✅Kim
✅Kylie H
✅Lorraine
✅Mari
✅Meg
✅Phrynne
✅Rachel
✅Sandysbookaday
✅Sarah
Sue
✅Teresa
✅TheMadHatter
✅Trish
✅Tr1sha

June Featured Author - Nora Roberts
Duration: 1/6/24 - 30/6/24
Level:
0/?

EASY - Tasks (minimum 1 AA)
MEDIUM - Spell Out (minimum 2 AA)
HARD - Tasks & Spell Out (minimum 4 AA)

Rules and guidelines: Here

**Completed Challenges: When you have completed your challenge, please post your entire completed challenge as a new message indicating you have finished. A completed challenge must have the following information: (1) Link to book title, (2) Author's name, (3) Date you finished reading your book, (4) Your rating.
**Once you've posted your completed challenge, your name will be ticked off the list.

June's Featured Author is Nora Roberts

This is a two-part challenge, where you are welcome to complete either the task section or the spell section, or both. A book may be used only one time for this challenge.

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TASKS

#1. Nora Roberts is a well renowned author of romance novels. Since 1999 every one of her novels has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list
**Read a romance. OR
**Read a bestseller

#2. Under the pen name of J.D.Robb Nora has written a very long mystery series, called the In Death series
**Read a Mystery OR
**Read a book where BOTH the author's initials fit into IN DEATH

#3. Nora has always lived in the USA although she claims Irish ancestry and often includes Irish characters in her books.
**Read a book set in the USA OR
**Read a book set in Ireland

#4. Most of us know J.D.Robb is a pen name but did you know Nora Roberts is as well? Her birth name is Eleanor Marie Robertson.
**Read a book written under a pen name OR
**Read a book where the first letters of every word in the title can be found in ELEANOR ROBERTSON (at least a two word title)

BONUS
**Read a book by Nora Roberts. (or J.D. Robb)

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.

Nora Roberts (first, last or both)
Author
Bestseller
Romance
Novel
Fiction
Mystery
In Death
J.D Robb
Series
America
Ireland

Great work Teresa and Kylie!

Well done Jane:)

My review of A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants by Ann Claire

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

You are very welcome Jonetta !!!

Well done Lorraine:)

My review of A Pose Before Dying by Alex Erickson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Well done Kim

My review of Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Great work Jenn!

Fantastic work Kylie and Jazzy!

Well done Tr1sha!

My review of Life, Loss, and Puffins by Catherine Ryan Hyde

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Well done Meg!

Great work Cherie:)

Great work Kerri!

Winter 2024 Challenge - Reading Resolutions
Duration: 1/6/24 - 31/8/24
Resolution: Get serious about series! Catch up on series you are behind on. All books must be part of a series, but they do not all need to be from the same series.
Level: Hard
12/12

1. High Wire in Nuala by Harriet Steel 4 stars 13/8/24
2. What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris 5 stars 7/7/24
3. Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson 5 stars 15/7/24
4. Deadly Past by Phillipa Nefri Clark AA 4 stars 28/8/24
5. Tamsin by Annie Seaton AA 4 stars 22/8/24
6. Murder in Bridal Lane by Helen Goltz AA 4 stars 29/8/24
7. Murder at Work by Faith Martin 4 stars 15/8/24
8. Think Twice by Harlan Coben 5 stars 25/8/24
9. Lone Wolf by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz 4 stars 8/6/24
10. Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky 5 stars 21/7/24
11. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz 4 stars 28/7/24
12. Crosskill by Garry Disher AA 5 stars 29/8/24