SCAM artist alert

Apparently there is someone calling themself "Luigi Calloway" out there who is claiming to be associated with the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. He is contacting authors and telling them if they pay him, then their books will be used for the challenge. It's possible he's also telling people they must pay to participate in any way. Please know that there is absolutely no charge associated in any way with this reading challenge and that this person does NOT represent me or anything associated with my blog. I DO NOT endorse anything that he claims.There will NEVER be a reason for anyone to have to pay for participation in any way for any of my challenges. If only people who exert this much time and effort on scamming people would put it into something worthwhile....like reading their own books!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Challenge Complete: Victorian Literature


Back in November, I signed up for The Victorian Literature Challenge sponsored by Bethany at words, words, words . I initially signed up for the Great Expectations level (read 5-9 books), but then added a few more to my list and settled on Hard Times (read 10-14 books) Just today I finished my tenth book and have now met my final challenge level. There are more Victorian-era books looming on my TBR pile and I will probably add a few more to the list before the year is done, but the challenge has officially been met. Here are the books read for this challenge:

The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson [8/17/11]
Three Victorian Detective Novels by E. F. Bleiler (ed.) [8/20/22]
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green [2/8/11]
Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8/21/11)
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes [5/13/11]
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope [2/1/11]
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [3/29/11]
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (I know he didn't actually write until the 1900s, but he was a Victorian, and he wanted to write earlier, but his father forbade him.) [4/11/11]
Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection by Michael Cox (ed) [4/26/11]
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope [4/29/11]



1 comment:

Agnes mumbi said...

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria. Victorian novels tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work.