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MAY '24 SERIAL READER CHALLENGE



TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MAY CHALLENGE:

♦Pick five series that you want to read.

♦It can be a new or an on-going series.

♦Post the name of the series and the covers of at least two books that you have not read.

♦There must be at least two unread books in the series. No re-reads allowed.

♦You may re-post a series chosen before as long as there are at least two unread books.

♦Post series now through April 20th.

♦Pairs will be posted on April 21st.

♦Select a series for your partner between April 21st and 24th...sooner is better

♦Next month, read two (or more) books from the series selected for you.

New to the challenge? The thread for challenge guidelines and questions is here

Comments on this thread will be limited to members posting series until the 21st. After pairs are selected, the thread is open for discussion.

Players


🪻Hillary picks for Meg
🪻Meg pick for Linda R
🪻Jennifer picks for Hilary
🪻Zermeena picks for Conni
🪻Conni picks for Helen
🪻Helen picks for Brigid
🪻Karen picks for Zermeena
🪻Linda R picks for Jennifer
🪻Brigid picks for Karen

Wow May coming up already!!

Ellie Alexander's Sloan Krause series
The Cure for What Ales You
Beer and Loathing

Erin Johnson's Vampire Tea Room series
Spelling the Tea
With Scream and Sugar

Daryl Wood Gerber's Cookbook Nook series
Simmering with Resentment
Poaching Is Puzzling

Millie Ravensworth's Cozy Craft Mysteries
The Sequinned Cape Murders
The Swan Dress Murders

B R Snow's Thousand Island Doggy Inn series
The Case of the Overdue Otterhound
The Case of the Prescient Poodle

Time really is marching by!

🌤️🌤️🌤️ May 2024 🌤️🌤️🌤️

Bought the Farm
Till the Cat Lady Sings
Alpaca Lies

Savannah Reid
Killer Honeymoon
Killer Physique

Scottish Bookshop
The Stolen Letter
Deadly Editions

Clara Fitzgerald
Memories of the Dead
Flight of Fancy

Phyllida Bright
A Trace of Poison
Murder by Invitation Only

In!

May series

American Royals


Wine & Dine


Odelia Gray


Caprice De Luca


Tea Shop

After missing April because I was on vacation, I'm ready for May!


Cranberry Cove


Witchcraft


Gethsemane Brown


Hawthorne & Horowitz


Tourist Trap

I'm in for May!
Death on Demand Series
Death on Demand and Design for Murder
2nd one is
Cheese Shop Series
Cheddar Off Dead and Gone for Gouda
3rd one is
Peridale Series
Macaroons and Mayhem and Fruit Cake and Fear
4th one is
Ivy Morgan Series
Wicked Fog and Wicked Season
5th one is
Magical Renovation Series
Witch Appeal and White Magic and Wardrobes

In again for May.

Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti


Diana Xarissa Aunt Bessie



Louise Penny Chief Inspector Gamache



C a Larmer Sleuths of Last Resort



Edie Claire Leigh Koslow mysteries.

I'm in for May. Here are my picks:

I can't believe May starts in 2 weeks! Here are my picks

Bad Hair Day by Nancy J. Cohen


Dirty Business by Rosemary Harris


Torie O'Shea by Rett MacPherson


Molly Bearpaw by Jean Hager


Jessie Arnold by Sue Henry

I enjoy these challenges! Thanks to the wish lists of others I find great new series to add to my wish lists.

Dorothy St. James -- Beloved Bookroom



Sarah Fox - Literary Pub


Magda Alexander - Kitty Worthington



Fiona Grace - Lacey Doyle Mysteries


Elizabeth Penney Cambridge Bookshop

Ooops! Sorry, I'm late.

Pairs are posted at message two.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Please pick a series for your partner.

Welcome to the challenge!!

Hi Zermeena,
I pick the Tourist Trap series for you. Happy Reading!
Karen


Zermeena wrote: "After missing April because I was on vacation, I'm ready for May!


Cranberry Cove


Witchcraft
[bookcover:A Magical Matc..."

All yours sound good Meg, I think the Scottish Bookshop sounds fun though!

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Wow May coming up already!!

Ellie Alexander's Sloan Krause series
The Cure for What Ales You
Beer and Loathing [boo..."


Hilary, I’m picking Sloan Krause for you. I just finished a book in that series yesterday.

Jennifer wrote: "In!

May series

American Royals


Wine & Dine
[bookcover:Death in ..."

Hi Jennifer,

the only series of yours is the tea shop so that is what I am picking for you. Happy reading!

Conni wrote: "I'm in for May!
Death on Demand Series
Death on Demandand Design for Murder
2nd one is
Cheese Shop ..."


Hi Conni - the only series you chose that I have read is Death on Demand, so that is what I choose for you. Enjoy!

Karen wrote: "Hi Zermeena,
I pick the Tourist Trap series for you. Happy Reading!
Karen


Zermeena wrote: "After missing April because I was on vacation, I'm ready for May!

Thanks Karen! I love this series.

Cranberry Cove
[bookcover:Berried at..."

Excellent pick, Linda!

Karen wrote: "I'm in for May. Here are my picks:

[bookcover:A Question o..."


Hi Karen, I am going with Lorna Barrett's Booktown series for you. Happy reading!

I am picking for Helen,
And I pick
The Sleuths of last resort Books
They look interesting!

C a Larmer Sleuths of Last Resort.
Blind Men Don't Dial Zero (Sleuths of Last Resort #1) by C.A. Larmer Smart Girls Don't Trust Strangers (Sleuths of Last Resort Book 2) by C.A. Larmer

Zeermena,
A new series! I am in!! Glad You picked that !

Linda wrote: "I can't believe May starts in 2 weeks! Here are my picks

Bad Hair Day by Nancy J. Cohen
..."

I've got to pick this one for you, Linda. Yesterday I just added #5 to my upcoming tbr after a long time away from the series so your listing spoke to me.

Meg wrote: "Linda wrote: "I can't believe May starts in 2 weeks! Here are my picks

Bad Hair Day by Nancy J. Cohen
....."

Thanks Meg! Looking forward to these and bonus, I can use both in my spring spell it out challenge.

Conni wrote: "I am picking for Helen,
And I pick
The Sleuths of last resort Books
They look interesting!

C a Larmer Sleuths of Last Resort.
Blind Men Don't Dial Zero (Sleuths of Last Resort #1) by C.A. Larme..."

Thank you Conni.
A new series I’ve recently discovered by an author I enjoy.

Brigid wrote: "I enjoy these challenges! Thanks to the wish lists of others I find great new series to add to my wish lists.

Dorothy St. James -- Beloved Bookroom

[bookcov..."

Hi Brigid,
I don’t know any of your series, but they sound interesting. I’m choosing the Cambridge Bookshop for you.

thank you Jennifer I look forward to them

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "All yours sound good Meg, I think the Scottish Bookshop sounds fun though!"

Thank you, Hilary! I hope things are better with you.

I just finished Death on Demand.
I am starting Design for murder. They are pretty good. I needed a new non-supernatural series to read.

I finished Hanging by a Hair last night. This is a fun series and I enjoyed this entry.

I listened to Memories and Murder and Murder in Waiting. Both were short and satisfying. This is one of my favorite series.

Helen wrote: "Brigid wrote: "I enjoy these challenges! Thanks to the wish lists of others I find great new series to add to my wish lists.

Dorothy St. James -- Beloved Bookroom

[bookcover:The Broken Spine|531..."

Thanks, Helen. I enjoyed them. I look forward to continuing the series.

Finished my second, Peril By Ponytail. This was fun as the setting was different since the MC was on her honeymoon.

Ooops. I forgot to post that I finished both of mine, in quick succession, after by femur fixing op!

I’ve finished my first,

Finally finished my second. I’m a bit slow, because I’ve been moving house, but I’m loving this new Australian series.