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(last edited Dec 27, 2022 10:31AM)
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Dec 27, 2022 10:30AM
Thought I'd set up my thread for the next challenge. Given that sometimes I manage comfortably and am able to extend as I did in 2022 and other times only just scrape through, I'm going to make it 100 books again and see how that goes.
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Ooh, fingers crossed Pam. You've reminded me that I need to post mine, I'm doing pretty much the same as last year
First read of 2023 - A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5208840780
Forgot to review The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5244966256
Read The Noose's Shadow by Graham Brack - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3700375822
Review catchup:The Ash Lake Murders by Helen H Durrant - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5247679071
The Vanishing Children by Graham Brack - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3960442281
The Wehrwolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5096234903
Lying and Dying by Graham Brack (first in Slonsky series) - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5280600504
and
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5280569298
Read and reviewed Slaughter and Forgetting by Graham Brack - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5281327162
Catch up on reviews:Read Death On Duty by Graham Brack - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5285972212
The Lying Dutchman by Graham Brack - reviewed- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4738326927
and a Christmas crime anthology with a Graham Brack Slonsky series story - Midwinter Mysteries: A Christmas Crime Anthology edited by Keith Moray - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5311554651
Read the first in a series, The Murder of Patience Brooke by J C Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5311577404and
The Suffragette's Secret by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5320427482
Read The Silence of the Girls: From the Booker prize-winning author of Regeneration by Pat Barker - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2520850439
Read The Three-Body Problem bt Cixin Liu and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5332621429
Read Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5344341305and
Pest by Anna Willett - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5320468622
Review catchup:The Lost Ancestor by Nathan Dylan Goodwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5363846296
Death at Hungerford Stairs by J C Briggs - reviewed -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315245995
Two books in a series by Flint Maxwell - The Snow - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5363733281
and
The Dark Winter - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5363781448
and
What Angels Fear by C S Harris - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2797895698
Read book 3 of two series:Murder by Ghostlight by J C Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246141
and
The Numbing by Flint Maxwell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5374921527
Now read books 4 and 5 of the Flint Maxwell series:The City of Light - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5374937811
The Feeding - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5375691999
Read first two books in a series by Christopher Coleman, another post apocalypse story but quite different from the Flint Maxwell one:They Came with the Snow - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5374941793
and
The Melting - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5374942142
Another catchup:Read the first two in the Detective Inspector Hilary Greene series by Faith Martin:
Murder on the Oxford Canal - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5368052823
Murder at the University - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380344636
a collection of two creepy short stories by Anna Willett - Beast - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5387934213
and Athena's Child by Hannah M Lynn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5387884199
Read book 3 of the 'They Came with the Snow' series - The List by Christopher Coleman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5387949300
wow, looks a lot of reading!
I don't often give 5 star ratings but another five star read from this JC Briggs series - The Quickening and the Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246249
Read Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5387930105
Review catchup:A Spartan's Sorrow by Hannah M Lynn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5387928595
Murder in the Crypt by Irina Shapiro - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5368131272
At Midnight In Venice by JC Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246358
Read The Redemption Murders by JC Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246490
Read three in the Detective Inspector Hillary Greene series by Faith Martin:Murder of the Bride - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380344751
Murder in the Village - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380344869
Murder in the Family - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380344969
Read vol 7 in J C Brigg's Dickens detective series - The Mystery of the Hawke Sapphires - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246618
Review catchup:The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380100907
Two volumes of J C Briggs' Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones series:
The Chinese Puzzle - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246753
and
Summons to Murder - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315246879
Grimm Up North by David J Gatward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5451779003
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5451093919
and
Fix Your Damn Book!: A Self-Editing Guide for Authors: How to Painlessly Self-Edit Your Novels & Stories by James Osiris Baldwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5453063734
Read a few more:The Haunted Train: Creepy Tales from the Railways: Gothic Ghost and Horror Stories by Rayne Hall - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5453130328
The Jaggard Case by J C Briggs - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5430799925
and
Sherlock Holmes and the Rosetta Stone Mystery by Linda Stratmann - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5460495584
Amazingly that is now 55 read out of 100 - I don't know how that's happened. I did reach my 100 target around October last year and thought that was motoring. Need to read less and get more of other things done I guess!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, good going Pam!"Thanks Desley! I now need to take a break to catch up with magazine reading.
Last two reviews for a little while maybe as will be catching up on my pile of magazines:Read Song of Sacrifice by Janell Rhiannon - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5395210969
and
The Railway Murders by J R Ellis - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5467419602
I feel you on needing to catch up on magazines, might make that a task next week
Read two more of the Homeric Chronicles by Janell Rhiannon - Rise of Princes - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5395211968and
Rage of Queens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5395209624
and
When Gods Die by CS Harris - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5325117465
Read The Book of Maker by David Staniforth - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2143657421
Review catchup:A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5400183336
Dark Sister by Graham Joyce - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5516696135
The Wicked Trade by Nathan Dylan Goodwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510456844
The Holocaust by Laurence Rees - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510564755
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5535075041
Can't believe I've already managed 66 books this year. Must go back and read some magazines before those start to pile up again.
Read Elektra by Jennifer Saint - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5380497091and
Primo Levi's If This Is A Man/The Truce: Hachette Essentials - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961379055
Pam wrote: "Can't believe I've already managed 66 books this year. Must go back and read some magazines before those start to pile up again."Wow, that's impressive
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Can't believe I've already managed 66 books this year. Must go back and read some magazines before those start to pile up again."Wow, that's impressive"
Thanks! It's all relative - someone whose reviews I follow has a goal of 350 books this year and has read about 127 of them!!
Wow! Suppose it does depend how much time you are able to spend reading, and length of books
Another review catchup:Read Elizabeth Peter's Crocodile on the Sandbank - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5430794928
The Stratford Murder by Mike Hollow - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5561121198
and
E Is for Evidence by Sue Grafton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5564166067
Just read Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5469457152
Review catchup:Ithaca by Claire North - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5096186169
The Caller by Chris Carter - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5578127937
An Act of Foul Play by T E Kinsey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510563894
House of Names by Colm Toibin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591702051
and finally
The Blackwater Lightship also by Colm Toibin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591748246
That makes 76 books ... 35 ahead! Can't believe it!!
Read The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591823286and
Outback by Patricia Wolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5607490057
Pam wrote: "That makes 76 books ... 35 ahead! Can't believe it!!"Wow, that's amazing!
Catch-up on a number of reviews:Georgia Sallaska's Priam's daughter - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1345962413
The House in the Woods by Mark Dawson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5643046204
Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5645193429
Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J D Barker - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2585509612
The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510566605
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2753549688
Catching up on a few reviews:The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5662672579
Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5645502739
and
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5578107450
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