Fiona’s Individual Reading Challenge 2022

[Fiona]

1. A book by authors names Q - Z

2. Read five classics

3. Read five books signed by the author - completed 6.12.22

4. Read five books by authors new to me - completed 23.2.22

5. Finish / start series - completed 29.12.22
5.1 Inspector Lorimer by Alex Gray - completed 13.10.22
5.2 Rona McLeod by Lin Anderson - completed 21.7.22
5.3 first five in Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny - completed 29.12.22

[Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator]

Fiona, I think you posted the same exact challenge. You will need to delete one.

[Fiona]

Alondra wrote: "Fiona, I think you posted the same exact challenge. You will need to delete one."

Thank you - no idea how it appeared twice and I thought I had deleted it. Have tried to delete again so hopefully works this time

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Good luck, sounds an interesting challenge

[Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator]

Fiona wrote: "Alondra wrote: "Fiona, I think you posted the same exact challenge. You will need to delete one."

Thank you - no idea how it appeared twice and I thought I had deleted it. Have tried to delete aga..."

Cool beans.... now, about Inspector Gamache. I really need to start that series.

I like the challenges. Not so many that you get lost; but enough to keep you organized.

Good luck

[Lea]

I like this challenge - you can pick some books and make some progress on your series. Best wishes!

[Fiona]

Challenge 1 Authors names Q - Z

1.1 Quinn Kate - The Alice Network - 3 stars - finished 11.1.22
1.2 Robinson Peter - When the Music's Over - 3 stars - finished 2.5.22
1.3 Sittenfeld Curtis - American Wife: The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller - 4 stars - finished 15.10.22
1.4
1.5 Upson Nicola - An Expert in Murder - 4 stars - finished 31.12.22
1.6 Vichi Marco - Death in August - 3 stars - finished 26.12.22

[Fiona]

Challenge 2 Five Classics

2.1 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 3 stars - finished 25.11.22

[Fiona]

Challenge 3 Five books signed by the author

3.1 The Devil's Cut by Andrew James Greig - 4 stars - finished 26.3.22
3.2 The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney - 4 stars - finished 31.8.22
3.3 The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh - 4 stars - finished 20.11.22
3.4 The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves - 5 stars - finished 29.11.22
3.5 The Party House by Lin Anderson - 3 stars - finished 6.12.22

[Fiona]

Challenge 4 Five books by authors new to me

4.1 Follow You Home by Mark Edwards - 2.5 stars - completed 24.1.22
4.2 Going Green by Nick Spalding - 2 stars - completed 28.1.22
4.3 The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - 4 stars - completed 9.2.22
4.4 The Last Bear by Hannah Gold - 5 stars - completed 9.2.22
4.5 The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex - 5 stars - completed 23.2.22
4.6 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley - 3 stars - completed 6.3.22
4.7 Apeirogon by Coim McCann - 5 stars - completed 11.3.22
4.8 The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles - 4 stars - completed 20.3.22
4.9 The Quiet People by Paul Cleave - 3 stars - completed 12.4.22
4.10 The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa - 3 stars - completed 14.4.22

[Fiona]

Challenge 5.1 Inspector Lorimer by Alex Gray

5.1.1 Never Somewhere Else - book 1 - 4 stars - completed 3.9.22
5.1.2 Shadows of Sounds - book 3 - 3 stars - completed 16.9.22
5.1.3 The Riverman - book 4 - 4 stars - completed 19.9.22
5.1.4 Pitch Black - book 5 - 3 stars - completed 23.9.22
5.1.5 Five Ways to Kill a Man - book 7 - 4 stars - completed 4.8.22
5.1.6 Sleep Like The Dead - book 8 - 4 stars - completed 27.9.22
5.1.7 A Pound of Flesh - book 9 - 3 stars - completed 6.10.22
5.1.8 The Swedish Girl - book 10 - 5 stars - completed 11.10.22
5.1.9 The Darkest Goodbye - book 13 - 5 stars - completed 13.10.22
5.1.10 Only the Dead Can Tell - book 15 - 4 stars - completed 26.2.22
5.1.11 When Shadows Fall - book 17 - 5 stars - completed 29.8.22
5.1.12 Before the Storm - book 18 - 4 stars - completed 10.2.22

[Fiona]

Challenge 5.2 Rona McLeod by Lin Anderson

5.2.1 Torch - book 2 - 4 stars - completed 14.2.22
5.2.2 Deadly Code - book 3 - 4 stars - completed 25.3.22
5.2.3 Dark Flight - book 4 - 4 stars - completed 31.3.22
5.2.4 Easy Kill, Volume 5 - book 5 - 3 stars - completed 6.5.22
5.2.5 Final Cut, Volume 6 - book 6 - 4 stars - completed 4.6.22
5.2.6 The Reborn, Volume 7 - book 7 - 4 stars - completed 23.6.22
5.2.7 Picture Her Dead, Volume 8 - book 8 - 5 stars - completed 3.7.22
5.2.8 Paths of the Dead - book 9 - 4 stars - completed 11.7.22
5.2.9 The Special Dead - book 10 - 3 stars - completed 22.7.22
5.2.10 None but the Dead - book 11 - 4 stars - completed 7.2.22
5.2.11 The Innocent Dead - book 15 - 5 stars - completed 24.1.22
5.2.12 The Killing Tide - book 16 - 4 stars - completed 7.1.22

Have read a number of the later books in the series so back to the start for me

[Fiona]

Challenge 5.3 First five books Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny

5.3.1 Still Life - book 1 - 4 stars - completed 18.10.22
5.3.2 A Fatal Grace - book 2 - 4 stars - completed 4.11.22
5.3.3 The Cruellest Month - book 3 - 4 stars - completed 24.12.22
5.3.4 A Rule Against Murder - book 4 - 4 stars - completed 25.12.22
5.3.5 The Brutal Telling: - book 5 - 4 stars - completed 29.12.22

[Fiona]

First section completed - new authors for me. Will keep adding to the list even though I have completed the mini challenge

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Well done

[Lea]

Fiona wrote: "First section completed - new authors for me. Will keep adding to the list even though I have completed the mini challenge"

Congratulations! Looks like you've read some good new authors. I'm hoping to read The Last Thing He Told Me also, Laura Dare is a new author to me also. :-)

[Fiona]

Sub section 5.2 complete - Lin Anderson’s Rona McLeod books

Now back to Alex Gray and Lorimer

[Fiona]

Subsection 5.1 complete - Alex Gray’s Inspector Lorimer series - at least until Echoes of the Dead is published in paperback

Now to Canada for Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache

[Fiona]

Completed my five Louise Penny books and made inroads into my Q-Z challenge.

Will try to finish T,W,Y and Z authors over next couple of months whilst starting 2023 challenges