With all-new categories that I just made up!
Best New-to-me Series: Freddy the Pig
Second Best Book By a Dead Author: The Flirt
(First Best by that author is and one of my all-time-favorites: Magnificent Ambersons)
Best Biography Not Written For Adults: Heart and Soul
Best Quirky Book Made Into a Movie With Cary Grant: Curious Quest
Best Heroine Who Lives Up To the Title: Valiant
Best Eye Opener: Death By Food Pyramid
Best Surprise Mystery: End Of Her Honeymoon
Best Story With an Animal: Dash
I'm doing three challenges this year (links at the end of the post).
This month's reads were wonderful. I enjoyed all of them and found two new authors that I've already read again (Eve Garnett and Mignon G. Eberhart) and one that I have two books ready to read (Margery Sharp).
Literary Birthday Challenge
Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins~ 1/11/15
Family From One End Street / Eve Garnett ~ 1/18/15
Further Adventures of the Family From One End Street / Eve Garnett ~ 1/26/15
Eye of Love / Margery Sharp ~ 1/30/15
Monthly Key Word Challenge (Last year I completed a book for each of the monthly key words. This year I'll do at least one, but I won't be challenging myself to do all the key words each month.)
Bad, Bird, End, Ever, Girl, Silence, Truth
End of Her Honeymoon / Marie Belloc Lowndes ~ 1/10/15
Truth About Alice / Jennifer Mathieu ~ 1/18/15
Family From One End Street / Eve Garnett ~ 1/18/15
Read-by-the-Month Challenge
Dark Garden (alternate title Death in the Fog) / Mignon G. Eberhart ~ 1/2/15
http://bookmark2blog.blogspot.com/2014/11/2015-monthly-key-word-challenge-sign-ups.html
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1859056-literary-birthdays-challenge-2015
Watch full film on youtube
In which I talk about Marie Belloc Lowndes and her most famous book The Lodger which was probably the first fictional retellings of the Jack the Ripper-case. Alfred Hitchcock also filmed it (but then many people did...there are five movie-versions)
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