Jane Reads 2024 Reading Journal

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2024 Annual Challenge - YLTO Goes Hiking

Badge 1
Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth

Start - Bag End Hobbiton
Task: Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.
Home is Where the Bark Is, by Stella St. Claire

Choice 1: Another book by Stella St. Claire
Bark Up and Smell the Coffee

Choice 2: Another book by Stella St. Claire
The Bark of the Town

Checkpoint 1 - Bree
Task: Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4 (that represents Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin).
Who Could That Be at This Hour?, about a detective in training

Choice 1: Another book about a detective in training
Motherhood is Murder, by Diana Orgain

Choice 2: Another book by Diana Orgain
Formula for Murder

Checkpoint 2 - Rivendell
Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.
Silent in the Sanctuary, by Deanna Raybourn

Choice 1: Another book by Deanna Raybourn

Choice 2: Another book by Deanna Raybourn

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.
No Cure for the Dead: A Florence Nightingale Mystery - 85% black - by Christine Trent

Choice 1: Another book by Christine Trent

Choice 2: Another book by Christine Trent

Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
Task: Read a book with "Iron" in the title.
Cast Iron Will, by Jessica Beck

Choice 1: Another book by Jessica Beck

Choice 2: Another book by Jessica Beck

Finish - Mount Doom
Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.
The Mourning Bells, 432 pages

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Monthly Challenge - January 2024
Festival of Fools

This month, read a book that fits the theme of the Festival of Fools from the list below:

• Your book has a role reversal in it. IE. people switching places and pretending to be the other.
• There is a donkey on the cover.
• The words "donkey" or "ass" are in the title.
• There is a person in power who falls from grace in your book.
• There is a member of the clergy in your book.
• There is a word for a Christian clergy member in the title. Eg priest, pastor, bishop, pope, minister, etc.
• Your book is set in the Middle Ages between 1119-1444.

WOF - Jane Reads

I read Murder in Half Moon Street, #8 in the Redmond and Haze historical mystery series.

There is a person in power who falls from grace. One of London's most respected judges is found to have accepted many bribes and committed a brutal murder.

I enjoyed the book. I really like the duo of Inspector Daniel Haze and Lord Jason Redmond. The book was unsettling, however, because of a subplot involving the judge's sister who is blackmailed into procuring young girls for a brothel. Luckily the perpetrators were arrested and hanged, and the girls rescued.

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Monthly Challenge - February 2024
Who Has a Birthday? / Birthday Candles Blown Out

Pick a person from the list below and honour their birthday by reading a book as per the assigned task.

💥Hattie Caraway (1878-1950) the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, was born in Bakersville, Tennessee.
Read a book set in Tennessee.

💥American artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was born in New York City. Best known for depicting ordinary scenes from small town American life for the covers of Saturday Evening Post magazine.
Read a book that is set in a small town.

💥British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England.
Read a book written by Charles Dickens or a retelling of one of his books.

💥American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio.
Read a book set in Italy.

💥Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was born in Adams, Massachusetts. A pioneer in women's rights, she worked tirelessly for woman's suffrage (right to vote).
Read a book with the genre Feminism on the Main Book Page.

General Rules:

1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be combined with the Year Long Challenge and the Group Themed Read.
3. The book must be started and read between Feb 1 - 28, 2024 (based on your local time zone).
4. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose but you may only report one.
5. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read.
In the case of ebooks & audiobooks, the ebook edition must be at least 250 pages and the audiobook must be a minimum of 6 hours long.

Reporting:

List your WoF name, link to the book you read and tell us which task you chose and how your selection fit the book. Also give us a small blurb of what you thought about the book.