Cozy Mysteries discussion

Here are some common and uncommon holidays for June. (The dates listed are the dates of each actual holiday. You have the entire month to read however many you choose.)

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day. Pick 2 books, then flip a coin and to see which one you're to read.

June 8 - Best Friends Day - Pick a book to read off one of your GRs friends shelves. (If you don't have many GRs friends, then pick off one of our member's shelves.)

June 8 - Name Your Poison Day - Read a book with "poison" or a type of poison named in the title, or a mystery where a poison is mentioned or used in the book.

June 18 - National Splurge Day - Read the most recent mystery book you've purchased. Or splurge and purchase a new book and then read it!

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day - Read a book that's 400 or more pages (as Paul Bunyan was huge) or read a book with a blue cover (in honor of his companion, a huge blue bull named Babe).

Enjoy!

Now do we have to read those books on those dates, or sometime during June. I like the challenge. They are so different. Thanks

The dates listed are the dates of that paricular odd holiday. You have the entire month to read any (or all) of the above. It's up to you how many you want to read. I just listed the dates of the funny holidays.

Thank you very much, Briansgirl! These are very funny challenges (and thank you again for your effort).

Your welcome Marisa. It's fun to see what odd holidays or monthly celebrations pop up on my search, and then see how I can turn them into reading challenges. This month should be easier as you basically get alot of reader's choice. Although I'm more likely to pick a blue covered book than one over 400 pages this month. :)

These look like fun, I'm going to try and do at least a couple of them!

Well, Briansgirl! I think I'll cover more than 400 pages and blue cover with , but I'm not sure ;)

Marisa wrote: "Well, Briansgirl! I think I'll cover more than 400 pages and blue cover with , but I'm not sure ;)"

That would most definetly fit both halves of that challenge (although you only have to do one). Good luck with that one. Looks good actually. But with 1002 people wishing for it on PBS before me, will take ages for me to get it. oohh Library has it and I'm first in queue. :)

Marisa wrote: "Well, Briansgirl! I think I'll cover more than 400 pages and blue cover with , but I'm not sure ;)"

I hope you like this better than I did! I wanted to love it, but I didn't and it took me forever to get through!

That's what I'm afraid, Melodie. But I'll try.

As long as it's a library book, I won't feel like I wasted money on it if it turns out bad. I heard alot of praise for Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, even People magazine recommended it. I gave it three chapters and was so utterly bored to tears I gave up. Thankfully, that was also a library book.

Well I have a confession to make. After all the hype I looked forward to reading The Room, but I had to stop and put it on another shelf. I'm sure it IS good but I just had problems with it. Now that's a book for my shelf of self-reproach, Ellie.

4/5 Done

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day - Buzz Off 6/25/11

June 8 - Best Friends Day - Dead Air 6/13/11

June 8 - Name Your Poison Day - Delicious and Suspicious 6/8/11

June 18 - National Splurge Day - Drip Dead 6/4/11

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day - Cream Puff Murder

Here's my list for now, as always it's subject to change
Best Friends Day: Cleopatra: A Life (a Buddy read for June)
Name Your Poison: Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
Splurge Day: Murder on Sisters' Row Victoria Thompson's latest (a June release pre-ordered on my Kindle)
Paul Bunyan Day - Royal Flush
I'll flip a coin later. These are so much fun. Great idea!

Ooh, these look fun! I missed the May challenges, so I can't wait to get started on these. Here's my list:

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day: Stuck on Murder by Lucy Lawrence

June 8 - Best Friends Day: The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames

June 8 - Name Your Poison Day: Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn

June 18 - National Splurge Day: Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day: Murder at Longbourn: A Mystery by Tracy Kiely

I am going as light-hearted and easy-read as possible as I am doing a lot this month. So:

Finished on June 21st and rather enjoyed them all.

1. Flip a coin Murder Past Due
2. Friend list Sign of the Unicorn (working my way through this series)
3. Poison Owls Well That Ends Well (VERY loosely based on poison but I've been wanting to read it for a while so I am going with it)
4. Purchased Loose Ends
5. Blue cover for the bull The She a YA mystery

ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "As long as it's a library book, I won't feel like I wasted money on it if it turns out bad. I heard alot of praise for Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, even People magazine recommended ..."

Same for me, Briansgirl, but I have purchased it (at least it was mass market).

I'm in

Well, I've begun another book and I've discovered that (at my ereader) it has 409 pages, so perhaps... (and a lot of blue behind the back :-D )

Can one book count twice? I ordered a book that has poison so it is a splurge book and a poison book. *LOL*

Karen B wrote: "Can one book count twice? I ordered a book that has poison so it is a splurge book and a poison book. *LOL*"

Technically a book can only count once for each challenge. However, you can cross challenge and use a book on more than one challenge. I think the best I've ever cross challenged was getting one book to fill a category on five different challenges once.

Do remember though, that you don't have to read all 5 of these each month. It's however many you feel you can do, or want to try for.

I'm not sure which books I'll read yet, but I'll give it a shot. I'm going to have to hit the library and find a book with a blue cover!

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day -

OKAY--READY TO READ SOMETHING LIGHT SO FLIPPED A COIN: HUCKLEBERRY FINISHED or HAIL TO THE CHEF......HUCKLEBERRY WON!

June 8 - Best Friends Day - Finished 6/8

SINCE AMY WAS KIND ENOUGH TO SEND ME MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER, WHICH SHE WON ON GOODREADS, I WILL READ IT.


June 8 - Name Your Poison Day - Finished 6/7

WENT TO BORDERS--WHAT????- BOUGHT M.C.BEATON'S THE QUICHE OF DEATH--THAT WILL ALSO FULFILL THIS MONTH'S AUTHOR! TWO BIRDS-ONE STONE!

June 18 - National Splurge Day -

The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch ( I really splurged in Borders yesterday--bought five books!!!--I CANNOT go into a bookstore and eat,too)

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day -

Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander ( She's in a lovely bull blue dress)

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day - (409 pages at my reader, and enough blue..., but 409 page). I've liked it a lot

Here what I've selected for this challenge

June 1st Flip a Coin Day -

June 18th National Splurge Day -

June 28th - Paul Bunyan Day -

June 8th Best Friends Day - From Jennifer's Bookshelf -

June 8th Name Your Poison Day -

Katherine wrote: "June 1st - Flip a Coin Day -

OKAY--READY TO READ SOMETHING LIGHT SO FLIPPED A COIN: HUCKLEBERRY FINISHED or HAIL TO THE CHEF......HUCKLEBERRY WON!

June 8 - Best Friends Day -

SINCE AMY W..."

Looks like you're having fun picking your books. :)

Even more reading them!

Here are some common and uncommon holidays for June. (The dates listed are the dates of each actual holiday. You have the entire month to read however many you choose.)

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day. Homicide in Hardcover

June 8 - Best Friends Day - Pick a book to read off one of your GRs friends shelves Murder Past Due


June 8 - Name Your Poison Day - Read a book with "poison" or a type of poison named in the title, or a mystery where a poison is mentioned or used in the book. The Cat, The Professor and the Poison

June 18 - National Splurge Day - Read the most recent mystery book you've purchased. Or splurge and purchase a new book and then read it! The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day - Read a book that's 400 or more pages (as Paul Bunyan was huge) or read a book with a blue cover (in honor of his companion, a huge blue bull named Babe).
Murder is Binding (The building on the cover is blue)

I'm in I know I'll get at least two of these done.

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day -

June 8 - Best Friends Day -

June 8 - Name Your Poison Day -

June 18 - National Splurge Day - Murder Past Due - finished 6/4

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day -

1/5 Done

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day: Stuck on Murder by Lucy Lawrence - 6/6 ★★★★
June 8 - Best Friends Day: The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
June 8 - Name Your Poison Day: Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
June 18 - National Splurge Day: Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day: Murder at Longbourn: A Mystery by Tracy Kiely

I changed a couple of my choices and already finished one.

Flip a Coin Day - Yankee Doodle Dead by Carolyn Hart

Best Friends Day - I changed my choice to Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle from my friend Jess McC's shelf

Name Your Poison Day - I changed my choice to Sweet Poison by Ellen Hart

National Splurge Day - Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Paul Bunyan Day - Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart

Great reading challenges! :-)

I'm reading by Lucy Lawrence.

Happy Reading, everyone! :-)

Melodie wrote: "Marisa wrote: "Well, Briansgirl! I think I'll cover more than 400 pages and blue cover with , but I'm not sure ;)"..."

I got this from my library today. I'd put it on hold. It's so thick and it's due back in a week! Almost hate to start it if I can't finish it in time!

Can't renew it?

I flipped a coin between a book by our June featured author MC Beaton or something else. MC Beaton won and since I have already read and loved all the Agatha Raisin books I'm going to start the Hamish MacBeth series.

I'm also going to start which certainly qualifies as a Paul Bunyan read. I'm not sure I will be able to finish by July though.

Katherine wrote: "Can't renew it?"

Only if someone else doesn't have it on hold. Although... I hate to do this, but.... this summer is free fridays at the library. Any and all books returned on a friday throughout June and July will have ALL fines cancelled out. So where normally if I kept it over it's due date I'd be charged late fees... as long as I returned it on a friday... I'd be okay.

Uh-huh! LOL

ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Can't renew it?"

Only if someone else doesn't have it on hold. Although... I hate to do this, but.... this summer is free fridays at the library. Any and all books returned on ..."

Briansgirl - let us know what you think of it when you're finished. :)

Jennifer E. wrote: "Briansgirl - let us know what you think of it when you're finished. :)

Only about 30 or 40 pages into this 500+ page book but so far its very good. I read one review that said it was like a cross between Twilight for adults and the DaVinci Code. I've read Angels & Demons, but not the DaVinci Code, and the entire Twilight Saga and so far I'd say that's a pretty good comparison. It's got supernatural creatures in it (Witches, Vampires, and Daemons), bit of a love story, alot of intrigue and a mystery that was lost to time and now unearthed. A Discovery of Witches

ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "Jennifer E. wrote: "Briansgirl - let us know what you think of it when you're finished. :)

Only about 30 or 40 pages into this 500+ page book but so far its very good. I read one review that sa..."

I hope you like it. I was sure I would and was surprised when I didn't.

Melodie - so was I, lol. I was so sure based on other books you mentioned you really enjoyed that you'd really like this one as well. Sucks to go into something with high hopes and be disappointed. I enjoyed it so much I'm listening to it on audio in the car now. :)

Kari wrote: "Done. Another fun challange

June 1st - Flip a Coin Day. Pick 2 books, then flip a coin and to see which one you're to read. Eggs Benedict Arnold was heads and won.

June 8 - Bes..."

Assume you must have liked since you read it so fast. I just didn't. The main character was terribly off-putting for me.

June Mini-Challenge
1/5 Done

1. Flip a Coin: Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 6/9 ★★★★
2. Best Friends: Sink Trap by Christy Evans
3. Poison Day: Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams
4. Splurge Day: Funeral Food by Kathleen Taylor
5. Blue Cover: Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston

Paul Bunyan day -

June Mini-Challenge
2 / 5

June 1 - Flip a Coin Day. Heads: String of Lies by Mary Ellen Hughes (06/14 - ★★★★)

June 8 - Best Friends Day -

June 8 - Name Your Poison Day -

June 18 - National Splurge Day -

June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day. (400 pages) Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh (06/02 - ★★★★★)

June Mini-Challenge
3 / 5

June 1 - Flip a Coin Day. Heads: String of Lies by Mary Ellen Hughes (06/14 - ★★★★)
June 8 - Best Friends Day -
June 8 - Name Your Poison Day -
June 18 - National Splurge Day . A Pug's Tale by Alison Pace (06/15 - ★★)
June 28 - Paul Bunyan Day. (400 pages) Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh (06/02 - ★★★★★)

June Mini-Challenge
2/5 Done

1. Flip a Coin: Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 6/9 ★★★★
2. Best Friends: Sink Trap by Christy Evans
3. Poison Day: Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams 6/13 ★★★
4. Splurge Day: Funeral Food by Kathleen Taylor
5. Blue Cover: Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston

June Mini Challenge

Flip a coin day -
National Splurge Day -
Paul Bunyan Day(blue cover) -

3/5 Done

1. Flip a Coin: Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 6/9 ★★★★
2. Best Friends: Sink Trap by Christy Evans
3. Poison Day: Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams 6/13 ★★★
4. Splurge Day: Funeral Food by Kathleen Taylor 6/17 ★★★★
5. Blue Cover: Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston

I am so in!

Flip A Coin Day - Strawberry Shortake Murder by Joanne Fluke beat out A Glimpse of Evil by Victoria Laurie. completed 6/20

Best Friends Day - Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber taken from the members bookshelf. completed 6/24

Name Your Poison Day - not sure yet

National Splurge Day - Smokin Seventeen by Janet Evanovich finished in 3hrs 6/21

Paul Bunyan Day - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness finished this book 6/18 at 3am.