Friday, December 4, 2020
Creativity Reading Challenge 2021
Non-Fiction Reader Challenge Sign-Up
The Non-Fiction Reader Challenge is another reading challenge that is new to me. It will run throughout the 2021 calendar year. I am joining at the Nonfiction Nipper Level which requires me to read 3 books from any of the below categories:
1. biography
2. travel
3. self-help
4. essay
5. disease
6. oceanography
7. hobbies
8. indigenous cultures
9. food
10. wartime
11. book published in 2021
12. inventions
I think this will be a fun challenge. I don't normally read nonfiction but have thought about it a lot during the past month. The challenge host is the Book'd Book'd Out blog.
2021 Cruisin' Through the Cozies Sign-Up
I did not participate in the Cruisin' Through the Cozies Challenge in 2020. I have done the challenge in the past though and plan on rejoining it again at the 1st level- snoop-which requires me to read 10 books during the 2021 calendar year. The challenge is hosted by the Socrates Book Reviews blog.
There are two choices that participants can choose from. You can either:
1). Read any cozies of your choice; or
2). Read 1 book from each of the following cozy sub-genres:
culinary
animal related
craft related
paranormal
career based
holiday themed
travel
historical
one of your choice ( a freebie)
I have selected the second option. I am already a follower of authors who write culinary, animal themed, craft related, career based, and historical cozies so I think I can get through this challenge.
2021 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge Sign-Up
I will be rejoining this challenge again next year. It is my favorite reading challenge. Since I read so much historical fiction this year, I am going to rejoin it at the Prehistoric Level which requires that I read 50+ books per year. It is an ambitious challenge but I think I can do it. The challenge is being hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader blog.
2021 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge Sign-Up
January: end, princess, dance, midnight, court, why, winter, story
February: over, edge, rain, blade, red, come, none, glass
March: dear, ink, mercy, fly, lost, never, match, true
April: last, watch, save, garden, girl, sun, tell, tomorrow
May: away, wait, book, raven, lake, angel, island, nine
June: beneath, crown, sing, rule, earth, find, happen, cruel
July: ever, shine, gone, search, wood, under, road, like
August: one, secret, will, tree, blue, you, flame, thousand
September: country, house, top, man, wild, sweet, once, wake
October: fear, night, silent, wicked, hidden, bones, lied, ghost
November: again, loud, star, stray, air, when, since, race
December: cold, room, life, bell, kiss, dream, until, drink
I am looking forward to this challenge!
Calendar of Crime Reading Challenge Sign-Up
The Calendar of Crime Challenge is new to me. I plan on joining the challenge next year. It is hosted by the My Reader's Block blog. The rules are:
1. The challenge runs the calendar year from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.
2. 12 books must be read.
3. You don't have to do the months in their consecutive order. You can read December in July if you wish.
4. Books from the mystery genre are only accepted.
2021 Color Coded Reading Challenge Sign-Up
I did this challenge a year or so ago but not in 2020. I am going to rejoin the challenge which is hosted by the My Readers Block blog. The rules are as follows:
1. The challenge runs the calendar year from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.
2. Crossovers from other challenges are accepted.
3. 9 books must be read where the book title or book cover is blue, red, yellow, green, brown, black, white, any other color such as purple, pink, orange, etc..., and a book title or book cover where a word or image implies a color such as polka dot, shadow, plaid, paint, etc...
A Trip to the Bookstore
I traveled to downtown Chicago yesterday and found six books that I am interested in reading. This was my second visit to Barnes and Noble since the pandemic shutdown began. I may not get around to these historical fiction novels until next year though. For the past month I have been concentrating on finishing a Coursera MOOC on illuminated manuscripts of western europe. It's a fascinating class but has alot of information to absorb as well as projects to complete. I will finish the class by next week.
I haven't read much lately, other than Abir Mukherjee's A Rising Man. A review will be coming soon. For some reason I am not interested in reading or writing. Instead, I have been working on a needlepoint tapestry and the MOOC. It is time to prepare my year end accomplishment posts and also selecting which reading challenges I will participate in next year. These posts may be all that I will get done this month.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Genealogical Mystery Authors
After reading Nathan Dylan Goodwin's Hiding the Past, a genealogical mystery novel, earlier this year I wondered whether there were other authors who were writing genealogical mysteries. I thought that Goodwin may have created this mystery sub-genre. However, I have since located additional authors who write stories in this mystery sub-genre.
Dan Waddell's first novel, The Blood Detective, is one of them. M. J. Lee writes the Jayne Sinclair Geneological Mystery Series. The Irish Inheritance is the first of six book to be published so far in the series. Susan Finlay writes the Tangled Roots Historical Mystery Series. There are three books in the series to day and they include Bloodlines, Barbed Wire and Breadcrumbs and Bombs. GG Vandergrift is writing the Alex and Bridge Geneological Mysteries. Cynthia Raleigh writes the Pirri Seamore Mystery Series which includes Drawing the Past, Poison Branches and Buried Roots. Finally, Steve Robinson is writing the Jefferson Tayte geneologist series which currently has 6 books published to date.
I am exited to locate these new to me authors. Forensic geneology is now one of my favorite mystery sub-genres and I am looking forward to reading these six authors.
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