Real Book Challenge!

 Real Book Newbie  1-10
Book Enthusiast  11-20
Real Book Snob  21-30
Book Aficionado  31-40
Real Book Hoarder  41-50
Real Book Queen!  50+

 

I’m glad I found this circle, because it’s everything I believe in and fits me to a T!  I support and respect physical, paper books;  stopping myself from the words “real books” only to avoid offense to others.  I’ve never felt this wonderful hobby should be digitized, when so few pastimes don’t depend on a computer or electricity as a whole.  I very recently composed an article explaining why real books are the only form I will ever read.  I welcome you to understand my love for them.

This reading challenge is the easiest for me on the face of the planet.  I accept the quest of “Real Book Queen!” without blinking!  I thank the hostesses for rolling out the red carpet for all who share the tangible, time-crossing passion.  https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/physicalbooksmattertome/

Note to the girls, since I don’t see a comment box.  A monthly post doesn’t work for me, with book activities already dominating my blog.  I have readers and articles outside of literature.  What I’ll do is keep this whole page, rather than sharing as usual.  I’ll link this URL at every check-in but mark down months, to show when my books have been read.  Sound good?

I wish our very dear Marigold a happy fourth birthday!
She’s a wonderful cat and mother of our four grown kitties.
We love you very much, Marigold!
Happy birthday to you today!

 

~ JANUARY LINK-UP ~

“The House On The Cliff”  Leslie McFarlane  1927
“The Flanders Panel”  Arturo Pérez-Reverte  1990
“The Monsters Within”  Corvus Winchester  2013
“Elsewhere”  William Peter Blatty  1999
“Le Premier Nöel De La Famille LaTaupe”  Russell Hoban  1969
“A Taste For Murder”  Claudia Bishop  1994
“Angel’s Verdict”  Mary Stanton  2010
“Angel Condemned”  Mary Stanton  2011
“The Irish Cairn Murder”  Dicey Deere  2003
(10)  “Ghost Ship”  P.J. Alderman  2011

~ FEBRUARY LINK-UP ~

“Witch In The House”  Ruth Chew  1975
“Then Came Two Women”  Charlotte Armstrong  1962
“Mystery Of Disaster Island”  Ann Rivkin  1975
“Vampires Of Ottawa”  Eric Wilson  1984
“The Green Gables Detective”  Eric Wilson  1987
“Iggy’s House”  Judy Blume  1970
“The Witch Of Blackbird Pond”  Elizabeth George Speare  1958
“The Scariest Stories You’ve Ever Heard”  Mark Mills  1988
“Aunt Dimity Digs In”  Nancy Atherton  1995
(20)  “Eggs In Purgatory”  Laura Childs  2008

“Code Red At The Supermall”  Eric Wilson  1988
“The Secret Of Red Gate Farm”  Mildred A. Wirt  1931
“The Secret Of The Old Mill”  Leslie McFarlane  1927
“The Gift Of The Frost Fairy”  Sheila J. Bleeks  1976
“The Man In The Brown Suit”  Agatha Christie  1924
“What The Witch Left”   Ruth Chew   1973
“Gunpowder Green”  Laura Childs  2002
“Terror In Winnipeg”  Eric Wilson  1979
“Cold Midnight In Vieux Québec”  Eric Wilson  1989
(30)  “The Mystery Of Pony Hollow”  Lynn Hall  1978

~ MARCH LINK-UP ~

“The Stone Angel”  Margaret Laurence  1964
“Crocodile On The Sandbank”  Elizabeth Peters  1975
“The Tomorrow-Tamer”  Margaret Laurence  1963
“A Jest Of God”  Margaret Laurence  1966
“The Quicksilver Pool”  Phyllis A. Whitney  1955
“The Clue In The Diary”  Mildred A. Wirt  1931
“The Ghost & The Dead Deb”  Alice Kimberly  2005
“Sea Jade”  Phyllis A. Whitney  1964
“Eerie Tales Of The Old West”  Emily, Joe West  1991
(40)  “Pleasing The Ghost”  Sharon Creech  1996

~ APRIL LINK-UP ~

“Time For Andrew”  Mary Downing Hahn  1994
“My Cousin Rachel”  Daphne Du Maurier  1951
“The Doll In The Garden”  Mary Downing Hahn  1989
“Ghost Of A Chance”  Yasmine Galenorn  2003
“Mystery Of The Golden Horn”  Phyllis A. Whitney  1962
“The Other Side Of Dark”  Joan LoweRy Nixon  1986
“The Curse Of The Pharaohs”  Elizabeth Peters  1981
“Something The Cat Dragged In”  Charlotte MacLeod  1983

~ MAY LINK-UP ~

“The Cat Who Could Read Backwards”  Lilian Jackson Braun  1966
(50)  “The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern”  Lilian Jackson Braun  1967
“Cat Who Turned On And Off”  Lilian Jackson Braun  1968
“The Cat Who Saw Red”  Lilian Jackson Braun  1986
“That Quail, Robert”  Margaret A. Stanger  1966
“Caught Dead In Philadelphia”  Gillian Roberts  1987
“Death On Demand”  Carolyn G. Hart  1987

~ JUNE LINK-UP ~

“The Merlot Murders”  Ellen Crosby  2006
“The Tale Of Oat Cake Crag”  Susan Wittig Albert  2010
“Light A Penny Candle”  Maeve Binchy  1982
“Curse Of The Giant Hogweed”  Charlotte MacLeod  1985
(60) “Death Island”  Robert Sutherland  1994

“Mariana”  Susanna Kearsley  1994
“The Black Joke”  Farley Mowat  1962
“Two Moons In August”  Martha Brooks  1991
“Come Like Shadows”  Welwyn Wilton Katz  1993
“Remedy For Treason”  Caroline Roe  1998
“The Family Vault”  Charlotte MacLeod  1979
“The Withdrawing Room”  Charlotte MacLeod  1981
“The Night The Gods Smiled”  Eric Wright  1983
“Smoke Detector”  Eric Wright  1984
(70) “Death In The Old Country”  Eric Wright  1985

 “Cure For A Charlatan”  Caroline Roe  1999
“False Face”  Welwyn Wilton Katz  1987
“Kiss Me”  Andrew Pyper  1996
“Reflections In Poetry & Pictures”  P.J. Peters  1984
“Spring Floods: Poems, Stories”  Mari Pineo  1990

~ JULY – NOVEMBER LINK-UP! ~

“Dead Bolt”  Juliet Blackwell  2011
“Murder On The House”  Juliet Blackwell  2012
“Tarnished And Torn”  Juliet Blackwell  2013
“Rosemary’s Witch”  Ann Turner  1991

(80) “Do-It-Yourself Magic”  Ruth Chew  1987
“The Secrets Of Hidden Creek”  Wylly Folk St. John  1966
“Shark Lady:  True Adventures Of Eugenie Clark”  Ann McGovern  1978
“Mansion Of Evil”  Caroline Farr  1966
“A Veiled Deception”  Annette Blair  2008
“Larceny And Lace”  Annette Blair  2009
“The Ghost & The Dead Man’s Library”  Alice Kimberly  2006
“Death By Diamonds”  Annette Blair  2010
“The Wednesday Witch”  Ruth Chew  1969
“The Hidden Cave”  Ruth Chew  1973
(90) “The Cosmic Clues”  Manjiri Prabhu  2004

“A Present For Granny”  Viola Wahlstedt  1965
“The Mystery Of Saint-Salgue”  Paul Berna  1962
“The Cater Street Hangman”  Anne Perry  1979
“The Lies That Bind”  Kate Carlisle  2010
“An Uninvited Ghost”  E.J. Copperman  2011
“The Wishing Jar”  Penelope J. Stokes  2002
“Australian Golden Dagger Mysteries”  Professor Steven Knight  1988
“An Island In A Green Sea”  Mabel Esther Allan  1972
“Callander Square”  Anne Perry  1980
(100) “Death Of A Gossip”  Marion C. Beaton  1985

“Kilt Dead”  Kaitlyn Dunnett  2007
“The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas”  Marian Babson  1979
“Mystery At Cranberry Farm”  Lynn Manuel  1981
“The Alchemist”  Paulo Coelho  1988
“The House On Cabra”  June Wetherell  1966
“A Wrinkle In Time”  Madeleine L’Engle  1962
“The Fifth Dominion”  Clive Barker  1995
“The Tale Of Castle Cottage”  Susan Wittig Albert  2011
“The Mystery Of Ireland’s Eye”  Shane Peacock  1999
(110) “Phantom Horse Goes To Ireland”  C. Pullein-Thompson  1972

“Mystery At Star Lake”  Margaret Goff Clark  1965
“Aunt Dimity’s Christmas”  Nancy T. Atherton  1999
“Mysteries, Monsters & Untold Secrets”  George Laycock  1978
“Mystery On The Isle Of Skye”  Phyllis A. Whitney  1955
“The 7^th Mourner”  Dorothy Gardiner  1964
“Skirting The Grave”  Annette Blair  2011
“Return To Cranberry Farm”  Lynn Manuel  1990
“A Single Death”  Eric Wright  1986
“Buried In Stone”  Eric Wright  1996
(120) “The Suicide Murders”  Howard Engel  1980

“Gad’s Hall”  Norah Lofts  1977
“The Haunting Of Gad’s Hall”  Norah Lofts  1978
“Ammie, Come Home”  Barbara Michaels  1968
“House At Riverton”  Kate Morton  2006
“Curiosity Thrilled The Cat”  Sofie Kelly  2011
“It Takes A Witch”  Heather Blake  2012
“Murder In Scorpio”  Martha C. Lawrence  1995
(128)  “Mind Over Murder”  Allison Kingsley  2011

~ DECEMBER LINK-UP! ~

“Last Wool And Testament”  Molly MacRae  2012
(130)  “Night Of Secrets”  June Wetherell  1977
“The Witch Is Dead”  Shirley Damsgaard  2007
“The Secret Portrait”  Lillian Stewart Carl  2005
“Scone Cold Dead”  Kaitlyn Dunnett  2008
“Home For The Haunting”  Juliet Blackwell  2013
“The Five People You Meet In Heaven”  Mitch Albom  2003
“Death Of A Hired Man”  Eric Wright  2001
“If Two Are Dead”  Robert Sutherland  1997
(138) “The Ransom Game”  Howard Engel  1981      √

 

There are 10 books in the last month’s draw.  Please don’t miss my full sum, also shown right there.  For the year end award:  my whole total is one-hundred-and-thirty-eight books!!!!  It is the most I have ever read at once.  I am a proven “Real Book Queen”, nearly tripled!

I haven’t had comments at this post yet.  It would be lovely to close it with a note from the hostesses.  I hope you browse my well-varied reviews and enjoy them too.  :)  Happy new year 2015, from Carolyn!