SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

The challenge runs from January 01, 2021 - March, 31, 2021.
To complete this challenge, complete all tasks below.
A book may only be used once, minimum 150 pages

1. Read a novel that has one penname on the cover but actually that name stands for 2 or more authors. (for example the crime novels written by Nicci French - Nicci French consists of two authors: Nicci Gerrard and Sean French)
2. Read a book published posthumously
3. Read any book by an author who has published 5 or more books.
4. Read a book by an author you have only read once before.
5. Read a book published before you were born
6. Read a book that has a colon in the title e.g. Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars or Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
7. Read a book that has fewer than 1000 ratings at the time you started it
8. Read a book set in an actual country (not fictional) which you have never read as a setting before
9. Read a book with a title that starts with ‘The” e.g The Help or The Night Counter
10. Read a book set at sea or on an island

My Spot:

1. Leviathan Wakes
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. An Offer From a Gentleman
4. Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case
5. 1984
6. The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers
7. V-Wars: Blood and Fire
8. One by One
9. The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore
10. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

10/10

1. A Test of Wills
2. Wives and Daughters
3. Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden who published more than 60 books
4. The Flatshare (have read The Switch previously)
5. The Talisman Ring (Published 1936)
6. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
7. Flight Against Time (205 ratings)
8. South Korea - Pachinko
9. The Street
10. The Lighthouse

10/10

my spot

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Total

Wayne's Pick-a-Mix (10/10)
1. - (P.J. Parrish is the sisters Kelly Nichols (née Montee) and Kristy Montee)
2. - Author: 15.08.1954 - 9.11.2004 Published: 2007 (Swedish)
3. - : Current Count 11
4. -
5. - :1901
6. -
7. - (56 ratings)
8. - (i have read papers and articles)
9. - :(The Unbearable Lightness of Scones)
10. (unknown small island - ship - known larger island (England))

Does anyone have any recommendations for:

Read a book published posthumously

I found mine from this list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

If you haven't read it yet, I would recommend The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society from that list. It's a really lovely read.

Ooooh thank you!

Carolien wrote: "I found mine from this list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

If you haven't read it yet, I would recommend [book:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie So..."
Thanks Carolien. I have Anne Frank and Chaucer on my to-read list, but I guess I will go with The Millennium Trilogy #3

Finished! I love challenges way too much lol

Congratulations!

Lu (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "Finished! I love challenges way too much lol"

Well done Lu.

My first Quarter 1 Challenge completed. Two more to go.

Well done, Wayne!

Carolien wrote: "Well done, Wayne!"

Thanks Carolien, and thanks for the hard work in putting the challenges together

Well done!

Lu (Sugar & Snark) wrote: "Well done!"

Thanks Lu

Last minute here, but finally done!

Good morning. No rest for the wicked and readers. (smiling)

Absolutely not! I finished a whole pile that had a few pages and chapters left in the past few days.

I haven't been on Goodreads much lately. I came back this week and am going to do more challenges. I had read 6 which worked for the challenge.

1. Under Ground S.L Grey is Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg
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3. Moxyland
4. Zero-G
5. Poirot Investigates
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7. The Mask Of Freedom
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9. The Mark
10.

So glad to see you're back with us! I really need to get around to Moxyland, it's been on my TBR for ages!

Finally getting to update March's reads, here goes

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3. Susan Hayes (Wild card)
4. Jennifer Lynn Cary (Tales of the Hob Nob Cafe annex)
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7. Vanishing Dream: Shandra Higheagle Mystery
8. Pleasure's Fury (part is set in Hungary)
9. The Baby of Their Dreams
10. Dial P For Poison

My Spot

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3. The Drop by Michael Connelly – Harry Bosch Book 24

4. Pines by Blake Crouch

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7. The Human Mind by Robert Winston

8. Oracle by Jackie French

9. The Body by Bill Bryson

10. Troubles in Paradise by Erin Hildebrand

6/10