December '20 Serial Reader Challenge

[Nell]

Sprit Animal - Owl (Nov 22 to Dec 21)
Owls represent watchfulness, wisdom, tenacity and the ability to soar. Owl's lesson is to remove pride and call in tolerance.

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/nati...

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DECEMBER CHALLENGE:

♦Pick five series that you want to read.

♦It can be a new or an on-going series.

♦Post the name of the series and the covers of at least two books that you have not read.

♦There must be at least two unread books in the series. No re-reads allowed.

♦You may re-post a series chosen before as long as there are at least two unread books.

♦Post series now through November 20th.

♦Pairs will be posted on November 21st.

♦Select a series for your partner between November 21st and 24th...sooner is better

♦Next month, read two (or more) books from the series selected for you.

New to the challenge? The thread for challenge guidelines and questions is here

Comments on this thread will be limited to members posting series until the 21st. After pairs are selected, the thread is open for discussion.

[Nell]

Players:


🦉Jennifer picks for Karen
🦉Meg picks for Hilary
🦉Cathy picks for Jennifer
🦉Linda C picks for Linda R
🦉Hilary picks for Meg
🦉Pat picks for Helen
🦉Helen picks for Pat
🦉Linda R picks for Cathy
🦉Barbara picks for Linda C
🦉Karen picks for Barbara

[Jennifer]

In for December!

Cajun Country


Morland


Tourist Trap


Cat Latimer


Phryne Fisher

[Meg]

Wow, last month of 2020 already.

Here are my choices, with a nod to Christmas!

Peter Shandy
Rest You Merry
The Luck Runs Out

Key West Food Critic
Murder with Ganache
Death With All the Trimmings

Murder in the Mix
Pumpkin Spice Sacrifice
Gingerbread and Deadly Dread

Wedding Planner
Gown with the Wind
Marry Christmas Murder

Pineapple Port
Pineapple Disco
Pineapple Gingerbread Men

[Cathy]

in for december..

Seaside Cafe Mystery
Live and Let Chai #1

No Good Tea Goes Unpunished #2
by: Bree Baker

Lynn Cahoon
Tourist Trap Mystery

Guide to Mystery #1

Mission to Murder #2

Janet Bolin

A Thread illegal Mystery
Dire Threads #1

Threaded for Trouble #2

Elaine Viets
Dead-End Job Mystery

Shop Till You Drop #1

Murder Between the Covers #2

Rett Macpherson
Tories O'Shea Mystery

Family Skeletons #1

A Veiled Antiquity #2

[Linda C]

I'm in

Faith Fairchild Mysteries - Katherine Hall Page
#1 #2

Aunt Dimity Mysteries - Nancy Atherton
#13 #14

Lily Bard Mysteries - Charlaine Harris
#3 #4

Scottish Highlands Mysteries - Hannah Reed
#1 #2

Lois Meade Mysteries - Ann Purser
#2 #3

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

I am in again this month :D

Ellie Alexander's Bakeshop series
A Cup of Holiday Fear
Nothing Bundt Trouble

Jessica Beck's Classic Diner series
A Killer Cake
A Baked Ham

Jessica Beck's Cast Iron Cooking series
Cast Iron Conviction
Cast Iron Cover-Up

Matthew Costello's Cherringham series
Thick as Thieves
Last Train to London

Elizabeth J Duncan's Penny Brannigan series
A Brush with Death
A Killer's Christmas in Wales

[Pat]

I am in.

Ellie Alexander (new author)
Meet Your Baker
A Batter of Life and Death

Fern Michaels
Crash and Burn
Need to Know

Peg Cochran (new author)
Berries Secrets
Berry the Hatchet

Ellery Adams
Murder in the Reading Room
Murder in the Storybook Cottage

Jenn McKinley
Sugar and Iced
Dark Chocolate Demise

[Helen]

I’m in for December.


Meg Muldoon Christmas River mysteries.




Edie Claire Leigh Koslow mysteries.




Mary Daheim B&B mysteries





Louise Penny Chief Inspector Gamache




Deborah Garner Sadie Kramer Flair

[Linda]

In with my Christmas picks.

Fixer-Upper mysteries by Kate Carlisle (ongoing)


Year-Round Christmas mysteries by Vicki Delany (ongoing)


Key West Food Critic mysteries by Lucy Burdette (ongoing)


Seaside Knitting mysteries by Sally Goldenbaum (ongoing)


Buttermilk Creek mysteries by Mollie Cox Bryan (new to me)

[Barbara]

After taking the last couple of months off, I'm in. Here are my Christmas-themed choices:

Andy Carpenter by David Rosenfelt (ongoing):


Agatha Raisin by M.C. Beaton (ongoing):


Hannah Swensen by Joanne Fluke (ongoing):


Christmas Tree Farm by Jacqueline Frost (new to me):


Amish Candy Shop by Amanda Flower (ongoing):

[Karen]

I'm in for December, Here are my picks:

[Nell]

One stay-at-home day looks so much like the other! I just realized that it's the 21st. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Welcome and welcome back to the challenge. Pairs are posted in msg 2. Please pick a series for your partner.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Meg wrote: "Wow, last month of 2020 already.

Here are my choices, with a nod to Christmas!

Peter Shandy
Rest You Merry
[bookcover:The Luck Runs Out|189123..."

Hmm I have read none of these but the Key West Food Critic ones seem fun so I pick those for you Meg!

[Barbara]

Linda C --

You have a great group of choices -- ones that are also on my TBR. I am selecting the Scottish Highlands series for you. I read the first one earlier this year and really enjoyed my visit to the picturesque town of Glenkillen. Hope you enjoy them!

[Jennifer]

Karen wrote: "I'm in for December, Here are my picks:

[bookcover:Jealousy Filled Donuts|43..."

Karen, I'm picking Bookstore Cafe for you -- i've read and liked all but the last one (it's on my TBR), and it's an author whose initials are A and E for your other challenges. Enjoy!

[Meg]

Hello, Hilary, I've chosen Elizabeth J Duncan's Penny Brannigan series for you! I haven't tried it but I do have the first one on my WL.

[Meg]

Thank you, Hilary! I do like the Key West Food Critic series a lot but have fallen a bit behind, so this is a perfect fit.

[Linda]

Cathy wrote: "in for december..

Seaside Cafe Mystery
Live and Let Chai #1

No Good Tea Goes Unpunished #2
by: Bree Baker

Lynn Cahoon
Tourist Trap Mystery

Guide to Mystery #1

Mission to Murder #2

Janet Bo..."

Hi Cathy,

I’ve actually read books from 4 of your series. I just read the first in the Seaside Cafe series a month ago and really liked it so that is my pick for you. Happy reading!

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Meg wrote: "Hello, Hilary, I've chosen Elizabeth J Duncan's Penny Brannigan series for you! I haven't tried it but I do have the first one on my WL."

Thank you! I have been meaning to read more of these for AGES! (and the fact that one of them is Christmas themed is just the icing on the Christmas Cake!)

[Karen]

Hi Barbara, you have some great choices here. I'm going to pick the Agatha Raisin series for you.
Happy Reading!

Barbara wrote: "After taking the last couple of months off, I'm in. Here are my Christmas-themed choices:

Andy Carpenter by David Rosenfelt (ongoing):
[bookcover:Bark of Night|..."

[Linda C]

Linda R - I am picking the new series for you. I loved the titles of those books!

Buttermilk Creek mysteries by Mollie Cox Bryan (new to me)
Christmas Cow Bells (A Buttermilk Creek Mystery #1) by Mollie Cox Bryan Goodnight Moo (A Buttermilk Creek Mystery #2) by Mollie Cox Bryan

[Cathy]

Hi Jennifer I'm going to pick the Cajun Country series fo you. I have never read them yet hope you enjoy the)

Mardi Gras Murder
(Cajun Country Mysteries)#4

Fatal Cajun Festival
(Cajun Country Mysteries)#5

[Linda]

Linda C wrote: "Linda R - I am picking the new series for you. I loved the titles of those books!

Buttermilk Creek mysteries by Mollie Cox Bryan (new to me)
Christmas Cow Bells (A Buttermilk Creek..."

Thank you! Looking forward to trying them.

[Cathy]

Thank you Linda R. I am excited to start reading the..

[Jennifer]

Cathy wrote: "Hi Jennifer I'm going to pick the Cajun Country series fo you. I have never read them yet hope you enjoy the)

Mardi Gras Murder
(Cajun Country Mysteries)#4

Fatal Cajun Festival
(Cajun Country My..."

Excellent, that will catch me up on this series! I have so many unfinished it's shameful. LOL

[Helen]

Pat wrote: "I am in.

Ellie Alexander (new author)
Meet Your Baker
A Batter of Life and Death

Fern Michaels
Crash and Burn
Need to Know

Peg Cochran (new author)
Berries Secrets
Berry the Hatchet

Ellery Adam..."

Hi Pat,
I’ve only heard of one of your authors. I’ll pick the Ellie Alexander books for you.. Hope you enjoy them.

[Barbara]

Karen wrote: "Hi Barbara, you have some great choices here. I'm going to pick the Agatha Raisin series for you.
Happy Reading!

Barbara wrote: "After taking the last couple of months off, I'm in. Here are my Ch..."

Thanks, Karen. I am looking forward to getting back to Agatha's exploits!

[Pat]

Helen I only author that I have read that is in your list and love is Mary Daheim BB mysteries. Enjoy!

[Linda C]

Thank you, Barbara.
I'm interested in going to Scotland for my next reading experience

[Helen]

Pat wrote: "Helen I only author that I have read that is in your list and love is Mary Daheim BB mysteries. Enjoy!"

Thank you Pat. I’m happy to get back to these. I’ll be sad when I finish this series, and I’m nearly there.

[Pat]

I finished reading Meet the Baker and going to start reading the 2nd book in the series.

[Pat]

I finished reading Batter of Life and Death 2nd book of the series. Very good series.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Pat wrote: "I finished reading Batter of Life and Death 2nd book of the series. Very good series."

I thought these were your December picks?

[Pat]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Pat wrote: "I finished reading Batter of Life and Death 2nd book of the series. Very good series."

I thought these were your December picks?"

Yes there were.

I am an aide to 4 disable veterans. So I take my Kindle wherever I go and I have had a lot of doctor appointments this month. I started reading and I could not stop. Next month I will try to wait for the selection for that month.

I have found some new authors by reading Ellie Alexander thru my Kindle.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Pat wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Pat wrote: "I finished reading Batter of Life and Death 2nd book of the series. Very good series."

I thought these were your December picks?"

Yes there were..."

Ah right! and well done you for helping disabled and veterans! Hmm are you going to read another couple of them in December then?

[Linda]

Finished my first - Christmas Cow Bells and it was a fun one to start my December Christmas reading with. Hope they are all this good.

[Pat]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Pat wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Pat wrote: "I finished reading Batter of Life and Death 2nd book of the series. Very good series."

I thought these were your December picks?"

Ye..."

Hillary I have read all the books in my December list but 2 authors Peg Cochran and Jenn Mckinley.
I have to wait til I get paid the middle of the month to get these books by these authors.
I am loving my new Kindle.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Well I needed to order my books and the first arrived today - unfortunately it is #3 in the series and the other that has not yet arrived is #2!

[Meg]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Well I needed to order my books and the first arrived today - unfortunately it is #3 in the series and the other that has not yet arrived is #2!"

Oh, bummer!

[Meg]

I finished both of my serial reads early this month, read them almost back-to-back. Really enjoyed Murder with Ganache and Death With All the Trimmings.

[Linda]

Meg wrote: "I finished both of my serial reads early this month, read them almost back-to-back. Really enjoyed Murder with Ganache and this month too! Not for this challenge, just because it was on my Christmas reading list. I really enjoyed it.

[Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review), Co-Moderator, Featured Series]

Meg wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Well I needed to order my books and the first arrived today - unfortunately it is #3 in the series and the other that has not yet arrived is #2!"

Oh, bummer!"

I know when the parcel arrived yesterday I was all ready to dive in and then .....!

[Nell]

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Meg wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Well I needed to order my books and the first arrived today - unfortunately it is #3 in the series and the other that has not yet arrived is #2!"
..."

Those of us who RIO can feel your pain. 😒

[Jennifer]

I finished my two picks last week: and . All caught up in this series, which isn’t something I get to say all that often...

[Helen]

Finished my first, and started my second. I’m nearly finished all the books in this series, and I will miss them.

[Barbara]

I finished both of my books for this month. Agatha Raisin was her outlandish self in As the Pig Turns, but the plot was a bit more preposterous than normal. I did like how it touched on some deeper issues amid the frivolity. I was a bit taken aback by the second book Hiss and Hers. After listening to about 20 Agatha Raisin books narrated by Penelope Keith, they unexpectedly changed narrators. After I adjusted to the new one, however, the book was an enjoyable read.

[Linda]

Just finished my second book for the month, Goodnight Moo and I’m all caught up on the series! This is a really cute series.

[Helen]

Finished my second,

[Cathy]

I have almost have my books done..