Tuesday, January 6, 2026

2026 Key Word Challenge

 


It's time for another round of the monthly Key Word Challenge hosted by Kim & Tanya at Chapter Adventure. I encourage you to join in--this is one of my favorite challenges and has been for quite some time. Just click on the link to get all the details and join in the fun.

January: Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy
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Sunday, January 4, 2026

GAD Mystery Word of the Day

 


My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊

Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Diapason (noun): 1. a burst of sound 2. a musical sound that gets louder, like the sound of an organ 3. range, scope

[still from Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy] The rest of the proceedings in the Bouleuterion were chilled and orderly, and all were relieved when Dr. Blewit again let loose his diapason thunders, the doors opened, and Royalty, followed by the great men and their satellite worthies, filed out and walked informally to the Great Hall.

Saturday, January 3, 2026

GAD Mystery Word of the Day

 


My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊

Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Stereoisomerism (noun): isa form of isomerism* in which molecules have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms. [*isomerism, the existence of molecules that have the same numbers of the same kinds of atoms (and hence the same formula) but differ in chemical and physical properties.]

Still from Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy: "And mind you, my angel, the Cambridge man is no mean competitor; on the contrary, he's damned good, I can beat him on the colloids, but he's dead nuts on stereoisomerism, which is very fashionable at present."

Color Coded & Read It Again, Sam Headquarters

 


These remain fairly popular, so as long as there is a demand I will continue to offer them. However, since I don't monitor these quite as closely as my other challenges, I am setting these up on the same headquarters site. Will continue to use the Google form method for review links.



2026 Reviews
Click on the first link to submit your review. At the second link you can see links for all reviews submitted for that color prompt and may visit others' reviews, if you'd like.

Color Coded Reviews:


Read It Again, Sam


Calendar of Crime Headquarters

 



Reading by the Numbers Headquarters

 


Here you will find a link to the original challenge post and a list of the challengers. Each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year. And the 2025 Wrap-Up Post will remain until it closes



February Reviews
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July Reviews
August Reviews
September Reviews
October Reviews 
November Reviews
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January Reading by the Numbers Reviews

 


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Virtual Mount TBR Headquarters

 


Here you will find a link to the original challenge post. Also each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year.

202 Climbing Crew

February Reviews
March Reviews
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May Reviews
June Reviews
July Reviews
August Reviews
September Reviews
October Reviews
November Reviews
December Reviews

January Virtual Mount TBR Reviews

 


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Friday, January 2, 2026

GAD Mystery Word of the Day


My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊

Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Conglobulation (noun): 1 act or action of forming into a round mass 2. a rounded mass

If tradition and architecture were lacking, there was no lack at all of that fine rosy sense of a corporate entity which is found in every conglobulation of learned men. (still working on Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy)

I had a sense of the word, but I found the description of learned men to be interesting once I looked up the definition.

 

 


My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊

Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Conglobulation (noun): 1 act or action of forming into a round mass 2. a rounded mass

If tradition and architecture were lacking, there was no lack at all of that fine rosy sense of a corporate entity which is found in every conglobulation of learned men. (still working on Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy)

I had a sense of the word, but I found the description of learned men to be interesting once I looked up the definition.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

January Mount TBR Reviews

 


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Mount TBR Headquarters

 


Here you will find a link to the original challenge post. Also each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year.

2026 Climbing Crew

February Reviews
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April Reviews
May Reviews
June Reviews 
July Reviews 
August Reviews
September Reviews
October Reviews
November Reviews
December Reviews





Vintage Scavenger Hunt Headquarters


Here you will find a link to the original challenge post. Also each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year. 

Original 2026 Challenge Post

Vintage Scavenger Hunt Detectives on the Case 2026

January Reviews
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October Reviews
November Reviews
December Reviews

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January Vintage Scavenger Hunt Reviews

 


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