Jannene’s Still on a TV Sabbatical in 2020 (✿´‿`)

[Jannene]

My partner in crime’s peaceful space...until I crash it.

COLOR CHALLENGE - Message 85
COMPLETED - 18/18

✔️1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...).
✔️2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).
✔️3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).
✔️4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...). .
✔️5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).
✔️6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).
✔️7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...).
✔️8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...).
✔️9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).
✔️10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).
✔️11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...).
✔️12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).
✔️13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.
✔️14. Read a book with a geometric pattern on the cover (rainbows, stripes, polka dots, floral pattern, mosiac, etc...).
✔️15. Read a book with an ugly (to you) cover.
✔️16. Read a book with two or more color words in the title (yellow gold, black & white, etc...)
✔️ 17. Read a book with the word “Color” in the title.
✔️18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, shiny, mosiac, etc...)

*Finished the challenge already? Double your fun and redo tasks 1 through 12, but instead of the cover, find the colors in the title!

**Finished again? A triple challenge would be to find books with all of these colors in their covers AND in their titles.

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18

[Jannene]

CLEAR YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGE Message 185

COMPLETED - 51/25

List the number of
Physical Books: 15
Ebooks: 5
Audible Books: 5

Physical Books:
1. The Quiet Child
2. The Romanov Prophecy
3. Mistress of the Art of Death
4. Thereby Hangs a Tail
5. To Fetch a Thief
6. Quinn
7. The Silent Corner
8. Garden of Madness
9. From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
10. The Dog Who Knew Too Much
11. A Fistful of Collars
12. The Serpent's Tale
13. The Magician
14. The Sorceress
15. The Eye of the World
16. The Harvest Man
17. The Sound and the Furry
18. Scents and Sensibility
19. Grave Goods
20. The Necromancer
21. The Warlock
22. The Enchantress
23. Prodigy
24. Champion
25. Night Sins
26. Guilty as Sin
27. The King
28. A Murderous Procession
29. Dark Horse
30. Catering to Nobody
31. The 19th Christmas
32. Capturing the Devil

Ebooks:
1. Blood Game
2. Dirty Little Secrets
3. Lethal Bayou Beauty
4. Swamp Sniper
5. Chasing The Night
6. Eve
7. Bonnie
8. A Bloody Storm
9. Absolute Fear
10. Legal Tender

Audible Books:
1. Island of the Sequined Love Nun
2. A Cold Day For Murder
3. Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
4. The Demon Next Door
5. Disturbed
6. Mogworld
7. Huntress Moon
8. Blood Moon
9. The Man of Legends

[Jannene]

SERIAL READER CHALLENGE Message 98

I will finish 14 series I have started before this year. 10/14⚔️
I will start 6 series this year. 9/6🔮
I will read 3 series from start to finish this year. 6/3🔑
I will read 80 books that are part of a series. 📖
My total number of books is 80 82/80


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As you update your challenge, we will update which tier you will fall into. The tiers will be:

1-10 books: Series Dabbler
11-20 books: More than a Vacation Reader
21-30 books: Shelf Stacker
31-40 books: Under the Covers Reader
41-50 books: Book-Bosomed
50+ books: Serial Reader

1. The Da Vinci Code⚔️
2. Blood Game📖
3. Dirty Little Secrets 🔑🔮
4. Mistress of the Art of Death 🔑🔮
5. Lethal Bayou Beauty📖
6. Swamp Sniper 📖
7. The Book of Candlelight⚔️
8. Knife ⚔️
9. Chasing The Night📖
10. Eve 📖
11. Bullseye⚔️
12. Haunted📖
13. Ambush 📖
14. Thereby Hangs a Tail⚔️
15. To Fetch a Thief📖
16. Quinn📖
17. A Cold Day For Murder🔮
18. The Silent Corner🔮
20. The Lost Symbol 📖
21. The Inventor's Secret🔮
22. Inferno 📖
23. The Dog Who Knew Too Much 📖
24. A Fistful of Collars 📖
25. The Serpent's Tale 📖
26. The Harvest Man ⚔️
27. A Dirty Shame 🔮🔑
28. Dirty Rotten Scoundrel 📖
29. Down and Dirty 📖
30. Dirty Deeds 📖
31. Dirty Laundry 📖
32. Dirty Money 📖
33. The Magician ⚔️
34. The Eye of the World 🔮
35. The Sorceress 📖
36. Origin📖
37. A Dirty Job 📖
38. Lost and Gone Forever 📖
39. The Sound and the Furry📖
40. Paw and Order 📖
41. Scents and Sensibility 📖
42. Bonnie 📖
43. Grave Goods 📖
44. The End of the Wasp Season 📖
45. The Necromancer 📖
46. The Warlock 📖
47. The Enchantress 📖
48. Champion ⚔️
49. Prodigy 📖
50. Night Sins🔑
51. Guilty as Sin📖
52. The Conjurer's Riddle 📖
53. The King 📖
54. A Murderous Procession 📖
55. God Save The Child 📖
56. The House of Dolls 🔮
57. Checkmate 📖
58. Of Mutts and Men 📖
59. The Red Road 📖
60. The 18th Abduction 📖
61. Blood Salt Water 📖
62. Dark Horse 🔮
63. Once Upon a Haunted Moor 🔮
64. The Alibi Man 📖
65. Catering to Nobody 🔮
66. Absolute Fear 📖
67. The 19th Christmas 📖
68. Predator 📖
69. Beach Lawyer 🔮
70. Paws vs. Claws ⚔️
71. 20th Victim 📖
72. Huntress Moon 🔮
73. Blood Moon 📖
74. The Night Fire 📖
75. Legal Tender 📖
76. Shall We Tell the President? 📖
77. Exit Strategy🔮
78. Game Theory 📖
79. Sins of the Fathers ⚔️
80. Tears of the Giraffe📖
81. Capturing the Devil📖
82. The Dirty South📖
83. Unhallowed Ground 📖

[Jannene]

COMPLETED

2020 Mystery Challenge: Just the Facts, Ma’am Message 38

42/42 Chief Superintendent: 42 books -- seven from each category

WHO 9/7
✔️1. An academic The Da Vinci Code
2. An actor/actress Believe Me
✔️3. A professional is main sleuth Scents and Sensibility
✔️4. In the medical field Mistress of the Art of Death
✔️5. A journalist/writer The Sound and the Furry
✔️6. An artist/photographer The Escape Artist
✔️7. A vicar/religious figure Grave Goods
✔️8. A Watson narrator (first-personal peripheral) Inferno
✔️9. Librarian/bookstore owner/publisher The Book of Candlelight
✔️10. Lawyer/barrister/judge, etc. Guilty as Sin

WHAT 9/7
✔️1. Person's name in title Eve
✔️2. Number in title The 18th Abduction
✔️3. Color in the title The Red Road
✔️4. An animal in the title The Dog Who Knew Too Much
✔️5. "Means of murder" in the title Knife
✔️6. Written by more than one author Haunted
✔️7. Comic/humorous novel Swamp Sniper
8. Inverted mystery (howdunit)
✔️9. Includes letters, diary excerpts, or other correspondence The Romanov Prophecy
✔️10. Title with a literary allusion in it. Checkmate

WHEN 8/7
✔️1. During a recognized holiday The 19th Christmas
2. Set in Victorian era What Angels Fear
3. Time/date, etc. in the title Gone by Midnight
✔️4. Timing of crime is crucial A Fistful of Collars
✔️5. During a weather event A Dirty Job
✔️6. Set during WWI or WWII (obvious wartime setting) The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
✔️7. Set pre-1880 A Murderous Procession
✔️8. Set during trip, vacation, etc. Capturing the Devil
✔️9. During a performance of any sort Origin
✔️10. During a special event: birthday, village fete, etc. Lethal Bayou Beauty

WHERE 8/7
✔️1. At a country house The Last Stone
✔️2. Set in a capital city Lost and Gone Forever
3. On an island Sacrifice
4. At a school The Secret Place
✔️5. Set in a small village Catering to Nobody
✔️6. In a hospital/nursing home Absolute Fear
✔️7. Any country but US/UK Tears of the Giraffe
✔️8. An outside location Blood Game
✔️9. At a theater/circus/other place of performance To Fetch a Thief
✔️10. In a locked room The House of Dolls

HOW 9/7
✔️1. Death by drowning 4. The Lost Symbol
2. Crime involved fire/arson Liar Liar
✔️ 3. Death on "wheels" (any vehicle used to murder) Huntress Moon
✔️4. Death by strangulation Dirty Little Secrets
✔️5. Death by knife, dagger, etc. The Harvest Man
✔️6. Death by shooting Bullseye
✔️7. Death by blunt instrument Dirty Laundry
✔️8. Unusual murder method The Silent Corner
✔️9. At least two deaths by different means The Quiet Child
✔️10. Death by poison The Serpent's Tale

WHY 8/7
✔️1. It won an award of any sort Gods and Beasts
✔️2. It made a "Best of" list The Bishop
✔️3. Author's first or last name begins with the same letter as yours The King
✔️4. Author from your country Dirty Money
5. Out of your comfort zone The Witness
✔️6. Author NOT from your country Blood Salt Water
✔️7. A character has a job similar to yours The End of the Wasp Season
✔️8. Read by fellow challenger Run Away (Dom read it.)
9. Because "Simon says" (see explanation below)
✔️10. Book made into TV/film/play Angels & Demons

[Jannene]

January

1. The Quiet Child
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. Blood Game
4. The Romanov Prophecy
5. The Escape Artist
6. Dirty Little Secrets
7. Mistress of the Art of Death
8. Lethal Bayou Beauty
9. Swamp Sniper
10. The Book of Candlelight

**Note: I completed 15 books last year in January.

[Jannene]

February (Caught up from last year.)

11. Knife
12. Chasing The Night
13. Eve
14. Bullseye
15. Haunted
16. The Squirrel on the Train
17. Ambush
18. Thereby Hangs a Tail
19. To Fetch a Thief
20. Island of the Sequined Love Nun
21. Quinn
22. A Cold Day For Murder
23. The Silent Corner
24. The Lost Symbol
25. The Inventor's Secret
26. Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
27. The Demon Next Door
28. Garden of Madness
**Note: I completed 13 books last year in February. (Up 5 from last year.)

[Jannene]

March

29. Inferno
30. From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
31. The Dog Who Knew Too Much
32. A Fistful of Collars
33. The Last Stone
34. The Serpent's Tale
35. The Harvest Man
36. A Dirty Shame
37. Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
38. Down and Dirty
**Note: I completed 16 books last year in March. (Down 6 from last year. I blame it on COVID19.)

[Jannene]

April

39. Dirty Deeds
40. Dirty Laundry
41. Dirty Money
42. The Magician
43. The Eye of the World
44. The Sorceress
45. Origin
46. A Dirty Job
47. Lost and Gone Forever
48. The Sound and the Furry
49. Paw and Order
50. Scents and Sensibility
51. Bonnie
52. Grave Goods
**Note: I completed 15 books last year in April. (Down 1 from last year.)

[Jannene]

May

53. The End of the Wasp Season
54. The Necromancer
55. The Warlock
56. The Enchantress
57. Prodigy
58. Champion
59. Heart of Barkness
60. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
61. The Bishop
**Note: I completed 12 books last year in May. Down 3 from last year.

[Jannene]

June

62. A Bloody Storm
63. Night Sins
64 Guilty as Sin
65. The Queen
66. The Conjurer's Riddle
67. The King
68. Daddy's Girl
69. Disturbed
70. God Save The Child

**Note: I completed 12 books last year in June. Down 3 from last year.

[Jannene]

July

71. The House of Dolls
72. A Murderous Procession
73. In a Sunburned Country
74. Checkmate
75. Of Mutts and Men
76. Gods and Beasts
77. The Red Road
78. The 18th Abduction
79. Blood Salt Water
80. Once Upon a Haunted Moor

**Note: I completed 8 books last year in July. Up two from last year.

[Jannene]

August

81. Dark Horse
82. The Turncoat's Gambit
83. The Alibi Man
84. The Hidden Oracle
85. Absolute Fear
86. Catering to Nobody
87. The 19th Christmas
88. Predator
89. Paws vs. Claws
90. The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
91. Mogworld
92. Beach Lawyer
93. The Color of Fear
94. 20th Victim
95. Huntress Moon
96. Blood Moon

**Note: I completed 7 books last year in August. Down 2 from last year’s total to date.

[Jannene]

September

97. The Night Fire
98. Legal Tender
99. Shall We Tell the President?
100. Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
101. Raven Black
102. Sins of the Fathers
103. Exit Strategy
104. Game Theory
105. Body Work
106. Tears of the Giraffe
107. Presumption of Innocence
108. Run Away
**Note: I completed 11 books last year in September.

[Jannene]

October
109. The Wrong Girl
110. Little Sister
111. Sleep Baby Sleep
112. Never Sniff A Gift Fish
113. Cold Moon
114. What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism 41026706]
115. The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt
116. Bitter Moon
117. The Family
**Note: I completed 9 books last year in October.

[Jannene]

November
118. Hunger Moon
119. Capturing the Devil
120. The Man of Legends
121. Rebel

**Note: I completed 9 books last year in November.

[Jannene]

December
122. Antony and Cleopatra
123. The Dirty South
124. The Jekyll Revelation
125. The Wolf in the Whale
126. Unhallowed Ground
127. Good Me, Bad Me
**128. The Shining

**Note: I completed 7 books last year in December. For a total of 134 books last year.

[Jannene]

I will read 80 books that are part of a series. 82/80📖

Finished series started before this year: 10/14

1. Michael Bennett series that was started before this year.
2. Robert Langdon series that I started in December last year.
3. Scotland Yard series that I started last year.
4. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series that was started three years ago.
5. Chet and Bernie series that was started last year.
6. Patrick Bowers series that was started in 2014.
7. Alex Marrow series that was started two years ago.
8. The Women’s Murder Club that was started years ago.
9. Queenie and Arthur series that I started last year.
10. Legend series that I started in 2018.

Finished series I started this year: 6/3
1. J.J. Graves series that I started this year.
2. Deer Lake series that I started this year.
3. Mistress of the Art of Death series that I started this year.
4. The Inventor’s Secret series that I started this year.
5. Elena Estes series that I started this year.
6. Pieter Vos series that I started this year.
**7. The Huntress/FBI Thrillers Series that I started this year.

Series that I started this year: 9/6
1. The Wheel of Time
2. Kate Shugak
3. Jane Hawk
4. Tyack & Frayne
5. The Trials of Apollo Series
6. The Huntress/FBI Thrillers Series
7. Shetland Island Series
8. David Brunelle Legal Thriller Series
9. Katerina Carter Fraud Thriller Series