Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

☀ 23 / 23 .......... completed July 2023

DETERMINATION BOOKS
criteria: whatever I am in the mood for, written by a woman.

☀ 1. Exiles
☀ 2. Thale's Folly
☀ 3. The Mother-in-Law
☀ 4. 'Trifles' and 'a Jury of Her Peers'
☀ 5. Monk's Hood
☀ 6. Bleeding Heart Yard
☀ 7. Dear Little Corpses
☀ 8. A Sunlit Weapon
☀ 9. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
☀ 10. The Secret of Chimneys

CHALLENGE PROMPTS

☀ 11. A book set in a different country than you live in: South Korea: The Old Woman with the Knife
☀ 12. Read a book by an Author that you never read before or one by a new debut author: Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
☀13. A book that someone recommended to you: from a bookseller in Dublin Ireland: The Day That Never Comes
☀ 14. A book that is a different genre than your normal type of reading: cozy set in sports: The Dead Pull Hitter
15 & 16. Two books from a series you haven't completed yet
☀.......... 15. The Bullet That Missed
☀...........16. An Act of Foul Play
☀ 17. A book that comes out in 2023: Murder on the Home Front
☀ 18. A book that you meant to read in 2022: The Maid
☀ 19. A book that came out before you were born: The Friend of Madame Maigret
☀ 20. A book that more than one author does: A Score to Settle by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
☀ 21. A book that won an award: Barry Award and Anthony Award 1999: Iron Lake
☀ 22. One of the oldest to-be-read books on your unread mountain: 2017 - Swann
☀ 23. A book set in multiple countries: Ireland/England/US (NY): Home Stretch

You can always change your mind. Good luck.

Donnajo wrote: "You can always change your mind. Good luck."
Thanks! I think I am in a state of "planning overload". I signed up for so many challenges that I was going to need to read almost 200 books. Can't do it. So I've kept the challenges I really, really (I mean REALLY) like, pared back, or even eliminated, others. (Ironically, if I run true to previous years, the actual list won't look anything like the planned list!! 😒)

Me too. I do my here, I signed up for I think four in my Novel ladies group and the book planner I bought to try this year has maybe five challenges in it to do I figure I’ll do the prompts on that one I feel like and just see how far I can get.

Gail: I really admire you for lining up your challenge titles up front and look forward to seeing how you end up! Whenever I have lined mine up in the past, I fell woefully short. It is good to try to have them somewhere top of mind when selections are made.

Gail wrote: "Thanks! I think I am in a state of "planning overload". I signed up for so many challenges that I was going to need to read almost 200 books...... (Ironically, if I run true to previous years, the actual list won't look anything like the planned list!! 😒)."

I'm like you, Ann, which is why I don't plan too far ahead. But when I know I'm going to read something I slap it on the DL even if I haven't finished it. That's about as far in advance as I dare go, LOL.

Ann wrote: "Gail: I really admire you for lining up your challenge titles up front and look forward to seeing how you end up! Whenever I have lined mine up in the past, I fell woefully short. It is good to try..."

So - you want to know where all my planning for this stands four months later?

Of the 17 books I had originally planned for the year: I have read 6, substituted out 4, have 7 yet to read (if they are not substituted out as well)... So as much as I love to plan, I am easily distracted into changes...

That is okay as long as you enjoy doing it and enjoy the books. I find I’m better off not picking the books ahead of time.

Gail, that sounds about right! My mood rebels when I plan too much.

Gail W wrote: "So - you want to now where all my planning for this stands four months later?
Of the 17 books I had originally planned for the year: I have read 6, substituted out 4, have 7 yet to read (if they ..."

I have completed the challenge! Thanks for the fun! ("Only" substituted 10 of the 23...)

Good for you Gail! A fast finish, looks like some very good ones in the mix.

WTG. You did great.

Gail W wrote: "I have completed the challenge! Thanks for the fun! ("Only" substituted 10 of the 23...)"

Congrats, Gail!! Are you going to start a new one for the second half of 2023, LOL?

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Congrats, Gail!! Are you going to start a new one for the second half of 2023, LOL?"

Oh, I doubt it. I have other challenges in which I have fallen behind. I tend to work first on those with which I have the most fun!