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writer...’s comments from the I Spy Reading Challenge group.

Still time to jump in with your 2025 reads/listens….

WRITER’s 2025 I SPY READING CHALLENGE

🌈📚Bookcover rainbow









Create a cover rainbow of your books read in 2025

🍁Seasonal Foliage

Shelterwood
A Fresh Beginning & Murder
A Pretty Deceit
A Beautiful Disguise
All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age
Missing Isaac
Counting Miracles
Death of a Robber Baron (Gilded Age Mysteries (Kensington)) by Charles O'Brien
A Grave in the Woods: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Wake the Dawn: A Novel
Murder on the Red River
Backroads of Minnesota: Your Guide to Scenic Getaways & Adventures by Perich, Shawn (2011) Paperback


How many seasons of foliage can you find and read?

🥁Musical Instrument

Almost Heaven

Read as many books with music instruments as you’d like!

🌉Bridge

The Wishing Bridge

A Fatal Lie: A Novel

How many different types of bridges can you find?

🦩 Bird Watching


Any feathered fowl discovered on your book covers?

⛷️Winter Sport
The Icecutter's Daughter

Which winter sports have you discovered in your book hunting?

🪁Summer Activity




Time for summer activities? How many are you reading?

✈️ Method of Travel>




Calling book reading Travellers to share the covers..

☎️Method of Communication

Murder Takes the Stage


What book covers feature methods of communication ? Share with us!

🗓️Book of the Month
TBR Dec
One Day in December
TBR
Once Upon a December: Holiday Tales of Pride & Prejudice

The Reading Group: December
June Bug

Hunting book titles naming a month of the year.. Show your finds!

🪆Country foreign to your own

Botswana
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
Cuba ++++
Hostage in Havana
Hungary
When the Summer Was Ours: A Novel
Britain
Poirot Investigates: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
France
From the Valley We Rise
Scotland
Death of a Spy
Africa
Tea with Elephants
Scotland
A Perilous Perspective
Bavaria
The Taster
Britain
English Tea Murder


Vicarious travellers, share your book covers read!

🎇Celebration

Christmas Camp
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
The Perfect Gift: Unwrapping True Joy for Christmas
A Christmas Legacy
Mistletoe Season: Three Christmas Stories
Easter Bunny Murder 🐰
Chocolate Covered Murder 💝

What book covers featuring Celebrations have you spied for this new year? Please share !

Start Date: December 01, 2024
End: December 30, 2025

Mary wrote: "This is very different from The previous I SPY challenges which I prefer but I will give this a shot."

Great to see you’re here, Mary!

This 2025 I Spy gives you as many reading opportunities to explore and list your discoveries as you like.

Glad you’re jumping in for this New I SPY Year’s FuN!

2025 I SPY READING CHALLENGE

🌈📚Bookcover rainbow

Create a cover rainbow of your books read in 2025

🍁Seasonal Foliage

How many seasons of foliage can you read?

🥁Musical Instrument

Read as many books with music instruments as you’d like!

🌉Bridge

How many different types of bridges can you find?

🦩Bird Watching


Any feathered fowl discovered on your book covers? Tell us ;)


⛷️Winter Sport

Which winter sports have you discovered in your book hunting?

🪁Summer Activity

Time for summer activities? How many are you reading?

✈️ Method of Travel

Calling book reading Travellers to share the covers..

☎️Method of Communication

What book covers feature methods of communication ? Share with us!

🗓️Book of the Month

Hunting book titles naming a month of the year.. Show your finds!

🪆Country foreign to your own

Vicarious travellers, share your book covers read!

🎇Celebration

What book covers featuring Celebrations have you spied this new year? Your time to share !

Start Date: December 01, 2024
End: December 30, 2025

Ready for our Next I SPY CHALLENGE ?

2025 CHALLENGE Adventure now ready for our enjoyment . . .

Mary wrote: "I hope that there will be a 2025 I Spy. I love this challenge."

Thanks Mary!
I Appreciate your positive encouragement and support ;))

I was just working on the category list this weekend in preparation for our 2025 I Spy, so your hopes will soon be fulfilled . . .

Vanessa wrote: "I Spy Reading Challenge List 2024

Here are our cover items to Spy!

✔️ Berries
Raspberry Ripple Murder by Abby Byne 6/8/24
[bookcover:Raspberry Ripple Murder|5352..."

Nicely done, Vanessa!

Cheers on your Completion of the 2024 Challenge ;))

Vanessa wrote: "Oh I listen to a lot of audiobooks... here is what I have read so far this year!

JANUARY
Finn by Stephen King 1/1/24
[book:Twittering from the Circus of the Dead|177..."

Fantastic, Vanessa!
So glad you’ve joined in and added your 2024 reads ..

My June Audiobooks . . .

✔️Finish/Start a series in a month.
(*listen to at least 3 audiobooks in a series)
✔️1-No Shred of Evidence - Chs Todd
✔️2-Black Ascot - Chs Todd
✔️3-The Gate Keeper - Chs Todd

~✔️Love your Library
(*listen to 3 audiobooks from your local library)
✔️1 ~> Irene Hannon - “Body of Evidence”
✔️2- Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
✔️3 - Book of Lost Names- Kristin Harmel

~✔️Let there be Monsters
(*listen to 3 audiobooks with monsters/paranormal elements)
++1~> [Hamish] - Ian Rutledge series
✔️1- Racing the Devil - Chs Todd
✔️2- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
✔️3- [Angels] A Brush of Wings - Karen Kingsbury

_✔️Going the Distance
(*listen to 3 audiobooks >12 hours each)
✔️1~> A False Mirror 13+ hrs - Chs Todd
✔️2Lady Maybe 12+ hrs - Julie Klassen
✔️3 Castaway in Cornwall 13 hrs - Julie Klassen

~✔️Tackle your Audiobook TBR Pile
(*listen to 3 audiobooks you already own)
✔️1 ~> Sense and Sensibility - JA 2/6/24

writer... wrote: "Preparing for JUNE 🎧Audiobook Month

#JIAM
Audiobook
Mini-Challenge
Host Caffeinated Reviewer and That's What I'm ..."

Yes!
It’s June and I’m
Diving into my Audiobook choices !

Thanks to Kimberly and Sofia for hosting the Fun . . .

Preparing for JUNE 🎧Audiobook Month

#JIAM
Audiobook
Mini-Challenge
Host Caffeinated Reviewer and That's What I'm Talking About.

Challenges:
Complete at least one challenge to enter giveaway.
Rules listed below…

Finish/Start a series in a month. (listen to at least 3 audiobooks in a series)
Love your Library (listen to 3 audiobooks from your local library)
Let there be Monsters (listen to 3 audiobooks with monsters/paranormal elements)
Going the Distance (listen to 3 audiobooks over 12 hours each)
Tackle your Audiobook TBR Pile (listen to 3 audiobooks you already own)

#JIAMAudiobookChallenge

At https://CaffeinatedBookReviewer.com

writer... wrote:
"Starting 2024 Audiobook Challenge "

Vanessa wrote: "I Spy Reading Challenge List 2024 ..."

Welcome, Vanessa!

HapPy Spying ;))

Mary wrote: "I have finished this challenge. Wish there were more prompts.I Spy Challenge ..."

Congrats, Mary! And Well Done !

Thanks for enthusiastically jumping in on these prompts . . .

Mary wrote:
Thanks for this, Mary, - new one to me ;)

William wrote: "Where can I find this challenge? I listen to at least a couple of audiobooks a month"

Hi William..
Here’s the link for Kimberly’s 2024 challenge..
https://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/2...

Plus your audios also count for the I Spy Challenge!

My I Can’t Hear You #2024AudiobookChallenge Participation

JANUARY

1 Capturing Hope audio Angela K. Couch

2 Escape from Amsterdam Lauralee Bliss

3 This Side of Murder Anna Lee Huber

4 The Keeper of Hidden Books Madeline Martin

5 The Juliet Code audio Pepper D. Basham

6 Apple Turnover Murder Joanne Fluke

7 The Christmas Box audio Richard Paul Evans

8 The Christmas Table Donna VanLiere

9 Persuasion audio Jane Austen

Mary wrote: "Yeah!!!! My favorite."

HapPy to hear it, Mary ! Have Fun Spying ;))

Feel free to copy the list to your comment for easy recording. . .

Writer’s 2024 Spy List

I Spy Reading Challenge List 2024
Beginning December 1st 2023 thru 2024. . .

My cover items Spied!

BERRIES

Christmas Kisses: An Echo Ridge Anthology Dec/23
A Second Chance for Sugarplums Emily Dana Botrous Dec/23


SNOW
Candy Cane Crime Amanda Flower Dec /23
Christmas Letters Debbie Macomber Dec/23
A Fairytale Christmas Lacy Williams Dec/23
The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans

7
Sugar Cookie Murder scarf with 7 red stripes
Joanne Fluke. Dec /23
Peach Cobbler Murder #7 in series Joanne Fluke Dec/23


DOOR
An Amish Family Christmas
Shelley Shepherd Gray Dec/23


TRANSPORTATION
Taxi
Catching Christmas Terri Blackstock Dec/23
Boat

Leaving Everything Most Loved Jacqueline Winspear Dec /23
Plane
To Die But Once Jacqueline Winspear Dec/23


BOOK(S)


PLANT
Poppies
Catching the Wind Melanie Dobson Dec/23



AUTHOR NOT FROM MY HOME COUNTRY
Christmas Cake Murder Joanne Fluke; (Reader) Suzanne Toren. Dec/23
Plum Pudding Murder Joanne Fluke Dec/23
Christmas Caramel Murder Joanne Fluke Dec/23
Candy Cane Murder Joanne Fluke Leslie Meier Dec /23
James Herriot's Animal Stories James Herriot Dec/23
A Place Like Home Rosamunde Pilcher Dec/23
Donna Leon Dec/ 23


BOX(ES)
Mailbox + 7th in series
The Christmas Note Donna Van Liere. Dec/23



SCENERY OF YOUR CURRENT MONTH OF READING
Until Then Dec/23. Cindy Woodsmall



LIGHT SOURCE
The Consequences of Fear Jacqueline Winspear Dec/23
Moon
Merry and Bright Debbie Macomber Dec/23
Sun
The Quieting Suzanne Woods Fisher Dec/ 23



AUTHOR FROM YOUR HOME REGION/STATE/PROV/ETC.



FLAG
Red Cross
The American Agent Jacqueline Winspear Dec/23



SET IN DIFFERENT CENTURY
Because I Could Not Stop for Death Dec /23 Amanda Flower
Last Port of Call. Jean Grainger. Dec/23
Emma Dec/23
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Dec/23
The Christmas Candle Max Lucado Dec/23
The Lacemaker Laura Frantz Dec/ 23





HapPily 2024 📘 Spying!

I Spy Reading Challenge List 2024
Arrival is Imminent.. December 1st 2023 We begin!
Through to December 2024…

Here are our cover items to Spy!

Berries

Snow

7

Door

Transportation

Book(s)

Plant

Author Not from your home country

Box(es)

Scenery of your current month of reading

Light source

Signage

Author from your home province/ state/region

Flag

Different century setting



HapPy 2024 📘 Spying!

My HoHoHoRat2023 reading ~


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