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JULY '24 SERIAL READER CHALLENGE

CANCER - June 21 to July 20

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TO PARTICIPATE IN THE JULY 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 June 26th.

♦Pairs will be posted on June 27th.

♦Select a series for your partner between June 27th and 30th...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.

Player:


Linda R picks for Meg
Hilary picks for Linda C
Jennifer picks for Helen
Meg picks for Hilary
Helen picks for Brigid
Linda C picks for Barbara
Jeanette picks for Linda R
Brigid picks for Jeanette
Barbara picks for Jennifer
Karen picks for Zermeena
Zermeena picks for Karen

How is it July already?

Body Movers by Stephanie Bond (ongoing)


Wind River Reservation by Margaret Coel (ongoing)


Jessie Arnold by Sue Henry (ongoing)


Southern Sewing Circle by Elizabeth Lynn Casey (ongoing)


Hemlock Falls by Claudia Bishop (ongoing)

Blimey July already on the horizon!

Erin Johnson's Vampire Tea Room series
A Score to Kettle
English After-Doom Tea

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

Dianne Harman's Clean Sweep series
A Sparkling Deceit: Clean Sweep Cozy Mysteries
A Clean Break-In

In!

American Royals


Wine & Dine


Odelia Gray


Caprice De Luca


Tea Shop

🧨🧨🧨 July 2024 🧨🧨🧨


Cat in the Stacks
Out of Circulation
The Silence of the Library

Mrs. Jeffries
Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time
Mrs. Jeffries and the Yuletide Weddings

Vampire Knitting Club
Garters and Gargoyles
Diamonds and Daggers

Beaver Island
Dead Calm
High and Dry

Julia Byrd
Murder in the Library
A Village Fete Murder

I’m in for July. I’ll be on a long road trip for a big chunk of the month.

Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti


Diana XarissaAunt Bessie


Louise PennyChief Inspector Gamache


Edie ClaireLeigh Koslow mysteries.


Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs

I can't believe it's time to sign up for July!

Cranberry Cove


Witchcraft


Gethsemane Brown


Hawthorne & Horowitz


Secret, Book, & Scone Society

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

I'm in again

Magical Bakery - Bailey Cates
#10 #11

Knitting Mysteries - Maggie Sefton
#5 #7

WISE Enquiries Agency - Cathy Ace
#1 #3 #4

Five Ingredient Mysteries - Maya Corrigan
#4 #5 #6

Mainely Needlepoint - Lea Wait
#2 #3

I'm in!

Agatha Raisin


A Key West Food Critic Mystery


A Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery


A Maine Clambake Mystery


The Sophie Kimball Mysteries

I noticed the pairs are scheduled to be posted a week later this month. Are you going on an exciting vacation, Nell?

Linda C wrote: "I noticed the pairs are scheduled to be posted a week later this month. Are you going on an exciting vacation, Nell?"

Good catch! It was completely by accident. Now that it's posted, I'll just keep it that way.

I look forward to joining in this challenge. Thanks to all who are so dedicated to the group.

Elizabeth Penney -- Cambridge Bookshop


Emily Organ -- Penny Green


Ginger Bolton -- Deputy Donut


Darcie Wilde -- Rosalind Thorne


Sarah Fox -- Literary Pub

Count me in for July:

Bakeshop Mysteries by Ellie Alexander (ongoing):


Lord Edgington Investigates by Benedict Brown (ongoing):


Manor House Mysteries by Julie Hyzy (ongoing):


Tourist Trap Mysteries by Lynn Cahoon (ongoing):


Bookstore Mystery by Sue Minix (ongoing):

It looks like Zermeena and me are not on the list.

Thank you for noticing that Karen!

Pairs are posted at msg 2 Please pick a series for your partner.

Meg wrote: "🧨🧨🧨 July 2024 🧨🧨🧨


Cat in the Stacks
Out of Circulation
[book:The Silence of the Library|18079..."

Hi Meg,

I don’t know any of your series so I am going with Julia Byrd for you. Happy reading!

Linda C wrote: "I'm in again

Magical Bakery - Bailey Cates
#10 #11

Knitting Mysteries - Maggie Sefton
[bookcover:Dyer Cons..."

Oooh some nice choices here Linda - but I think I will go with the Mainely Needlepoint series - enjoy!

Brigid wrote: "I look forward to joining in this challenge. Thanks to all who are so dedicated to the group.

Elizabeth Penney -- Cambridge Bookshop
[bookcover:A Treacherou..."

Hi Brigid,
I’m not familiar with any of your series, but the Literary Pub sounds like fun, so I’ll choose those for you.

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Blimey July already on the horizon!

Erin Johnson's Vampire Tea Room series
A Score to Kettle
English After-Doom Tea [bookcove..."

Hello, Hilary: I'm going with you first listing: Vampire Tea Room. Happy reading!

Linda wrote: "Hi Meg,
I don’t know any of your series so I am going with Julia Byrd for you. Happy reading!..."

Thanks, Linda! Too many months have gone by since I read the first one, so I'm glad to have the excuse to continue.

Jennifer wrote: "In!

American Royals


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

Hi, Jennifer! I am choosing the Odelia Gray series for you. I have read a bunch of them and find them very entertaining. Hope you like them!

Meg wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Blimey July already on the horizon!

Erin Johnson's Vampire Tea Room series
A Score to Kettle
[book:Eng..."

Thank you Meg - this is a follow on from this month so I am really happy you picked it! (I am trying to keep this as a series challenge set but it is soooo hard not to read on!)

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Meg wrote: "Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Blimey July already on the horizon!

Erin Johnson's Vampire Tea Room series
A Score to Kettle [bookcover:A Score to Kettle|5720989..."

😊

Barbara wrote: "Count me in for July:

Bakeshop Mysteries by Ellie Alexander (ongoing):


Lord Edgington Investigates by Be..."

I am also reading Lynn Cahoon's Tourist Trap series but I have only read thru #12 and do not have the prequel. I'll have to look into that. I recommend this for your July read. Enjoy.

Hilary (A Wytch's Book Review) wrote: "Linda C wrote: "I'm in again

Magical Bakery - Bailey Cates
#10 #11

Knitting Mysteries - Maggie Sefton
[boo..."

Thanks, Hilary,
I look forward to getting back into that series.

Me and Zermeena have been left off the list...


Nell wrote: "Player:


Linda R picks for Meg
Hilary picks for Linda C
Jennifer picks for Helen
Meg picks for Hilary
Helen picks for Brigid
Linda C picks for Barbara
Jeanette picks for Linda R
Brigid picks for ..."

Karen wrote: "Me and Zermeena have been left off the list...


Nell wrote: "Player:


Linda R picks for Meg
Hilary picks for Linda C
Jennifer picks for Helen
Meg picks for Hilary
Helen picks for Brigid
Linda C p..."

Luckily since you both were left off I'd just pick for each other. I think not having pairs go up to the 27th has thrown everything off.

Karen - we can pick for each other. Let me know if you want to do this.

Helen wrote: "I’m in for July. I’ll be on a long road trip for a big chunk of the month.

Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti
[bookcover:Drawing Conclusio..."

Well, be sure to take Armand Gamache along on your trip, Helen!

Barbara wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "In!

American Royals


Wine & Dine
[bookcover:Deat..."

I very much like them. Thank you!

Sounds good. I'll pick the Cranberry Cove series for you. I love anything that has food in the title :). Happy Reading

Zermeena wrote: "Karen - we can pick for each other. Let me know if you want to do this."

Thank you Karen! I love that series. I pick The Great Witches Baking Show. That series is on my tbr list (which is enormous).

Jennifer wrote: "Helen wrote: "I’m in for July. I’ll be on a long road trip for a big chunk of the month.

Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti
[bookcover:Dra..."

Thank you Jennifer. I’ll really enjoy having him along.

Hi Linda!

I pick Hemlock Falls for you.

jeannette swanson wrote: "Hi Linda!

I pick Hemlock Falls for you."

Thank you! I’m looking forward to finishing the series.

jeannette swanson wrote: "I'm in!

Agatha Raisin


A Key West Food Critic Mystery
[bookcover:The Key Lime Crime|530..."

Hi Jeannette, I'm intrigued by the Sophie Kimball premise, so I chose that series for you. Happy reading!

Zermeena wrote: "Karen - we can pick for each other. Let me know if you want to do this."

Ooops! 😳

Great solution guys.

Woo hoo! first one read early this morning (A Score to Kettle by Erin Johnson ) another great, and quick read - so I jumped straight into English After-Doom Tea !

I finished my first, Dread on Arrival last night. Really enjoyed the mystery.

Finished my first on the road up the Queensland coast today. Great series to help me concentrate while driving.

Thank you, Brigid!

I finished on July 9th.

I finished my books today, The first one Berried at Sea was just okay. I enjoyed the second one a lot more Berried in the Past.

I finished my 2nd book and promptly read the next two in the series :D

Finished my second a couple of days ago, but have been too tired after days of driving and catching up with friends to post.

I read my first book, which it turns out is a novella (Murder in a Tourist Town). I loved finding out about how Jill came to South Cove. I’m moving on to the second book tonight - Olive You to Death.

jeannette swanson wrote: "Thank you, Brigid!

I finished on July 9th."

I hope you liked them. Look forward to seeing what everyone puts on their lists for August.


Barbara wrote: "I read my first book, which it turns out is a novella (Murder in a Tourist Town). I loved finding out about how Jill came to South Cove. I’m moving on to the second book tonight - Olive You to Death."

Helen wrote: "Brigid wrote: "I look forward to joining in this challenge. Thanks to all who are so dedicated to the group.

Elizabeth Penney -- Cambridge Bookshop
[bookcov..."

Hi Helen. I have really gotten on a roll with the Literary Pub. I am finishing the fifth and so far complete series I hope there will be more. Glad I was encouraged to go after this series.