CoM's back for more

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I succeeded last year. Here's hoping for this one too.

[Bev]

Congratulations on last year's success! Good luck with 2023!

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thank you

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1. Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker

I have an arc of this YA urban fantasy set in New Orleans. I enjoyed it though I did think it had some problematic issues.

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2. A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge

Agatha Christie's friend/housekeeper solves mysteries. I found it enjoyable.

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3 Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich Not a bad entry into the series certainly liked it better than the last few

4 Murder at the Puppy Fest by Laurien Berenson, a rather unbelievable mystery


5 Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood, had an arc of this fantasy. I enjoyed it though had a few reservations


6 The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander I enjoyed this when I was young It's fun to revisit.

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7 The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh. I enjoyed this Welsh mystery

8. This was a fun fantasy novella

It looks like I'm off to a slow start (not really I'm 30 books in but they've all been library books. Sigh)

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Here is march's climb (march, the month of me reading every graphic novel in two libraries so none of them count. ha)

9 Greensmith Girls by Raven Snow

10 Death on a Deadline by Joyce St. Anthony

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Oops it's been awhile. Here is April and May's climbs (those months were mostly library books...like 50 of them. This has not been the year to clear my shelves)

11 Little Eve by Catriona Ward

12 Liar City by Allie Therin

13 Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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14 Raincheck by Sarah Madison

15 Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens

16 Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz

17 White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton

18 Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord by Celeste Connally

19 Willows Weep: The Beginning by Dave Spinks

20 I'm in Love with Mothman by Paige Lavoie

21 Barbarities, vol. 1 by Tsuta Suzuki

22 The Joy Machine by James E. Gunn & Theodore Sturgeon

23 An Unforgiving Place by Claire Kells

24 Death on the Danube: A New Year's Murder in Budapest by Jennifer S. Alderson

25 The World After the Fall, Vol. 1 by Undead Gamja

26 Body and Soul Food by Abby Collette

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I can see the summit from here

27 I Hear the Sunspot: Limit, Volume 2 by Yuki Fumino

28 There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

29. Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt

30 Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta by Carole Nelson Douglas

31 Andújar: The Robot Gentleman of San Juan by Carolina Cardona

32 The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear by Nat Segaloff

33 Straight into Darkness by Faye Kellerman

34 Case of the Bleus: A Cheese Shop Mystery by Korina Moss

35 Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance

36 Malum by Stacy Bender

37 Camp Arcanum by Josef Matulich

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Oh so close!

38 Killer Crust by Chris Cavender,

39 Not Famous in Hollywood by Leonie Gant

40 The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr

41 Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis

42 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

43 Vampires on the Run by C.M. Surrisi

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Woo hoo made it to the summit



44 The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado

45 Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa

46 Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall (this was excellent)

47 Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji


48 X-Wing Fighter: Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston (worst book to actually make my challenge's summit book, boring AF)

49 Kemono Jihen, #1 by Sho Aimoto


50-58 Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1- 9 by Hiromu Arakawa (still my favorite manga of all time)

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Still climbing (though I did forget to report in recently)
59 Snow Place for Murder by Diane Kelly

60 A Midlife Mountain Murder by Julie Ecker

61 Noni & The God Tree: A Shrouded Spark by Breshea Anglen

62 Demon Ex Machina by Julie Kenner

63 Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmasadapted by Megan Shepherd

64 Ornamental Danger: a holiday short story by Kerri Nelson

65 Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 22by Adachitoka

66 Public Anchovy #1 by Mindy Quigley

67 Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa

68 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Manga) Vol. 1 by Mika Akatsuki

69 Disney Twisted-Wonderland, Vol. 1: The Manga: Book of Heartslabyul by Yana Toboso

70. Moriarty the Patriot, Vol. 1by Ryōsuke Takeuchi

71 怪物事変 2 Kemono Jihen by Sho Aimoto

72 Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

73 Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles

74 Blue Exorcist, Vol. 22 by Kazue Kato

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Not a lot in December to round out the year

Broken Prey by John Sandford

Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted by Matt Yamashita

The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber

[Bev]

What a great climb!! You really exceeded your goal!

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Bev wrote: "What a great climb!! You really exceeded your goal!"

thanks