MY READER'S BLOCK: Challenge Complete: A-Z Reading Challenge

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! A message to Luigi: Please cease and desist contacting authors (or anyone) in my name or claiming to represent this reading challenge. You absolutely DO NOT.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Challenge Complete: A-Z Reading Challenge

With my latest read, Haunted Ground by Erin Hart, I have crossed a couple of more challenges off the list. First up:

2011 A-Z Reading Challenge hosted by Book Junky

The challenge had pretty simple rules. Read 26 books--one for each letter of the alphabet. Each book's title had to start with a letter of the alphabet. I went for the hard one's early--knocking out Q and Z and X. H wound up being the toughie. Not that I couldn't find books with an "H" at the beginning--in fact, I planned all along to read Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins. But I kept putting it off and now that I've finally started the Collins book, it's been dragging on a bit. Took a break and decided on another H book. So....here's the run-down of books read for the challenge:

1. All Booked up by Terrie Curran (2/5/11)
2. Black Orchids by Rex Stout (1/21/11)
3. Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh (2/28/11)
4. Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside (2/4/11)
5. Evvie by Vera Caspary (8/1/11)
6. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (4/23/11)
7. Great British Detectives Vol. 4 by Martin H Greenberg & Edward D Hoch, eds (9/9/11)
8. Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (10/15/11)
9. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (9/13/11)
10. Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes (4/2/11)
11. Kathleen by Christopher Morley (8/17/11)
12. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordan (2/11/11)
13. McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly (2/23/11)
14. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (6/11/11)
15. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis (1/22/11)
16. Publish & Be Murdered by Ruth Dudley Edwards (1/19/11)
17. Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood (5/9/11)
18. Rope's End, Rogue's End by E C R Lorac (1/26/11)
19. Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8/21/11)
20. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (5/24/11)
21. Use Trouble: Poems by Michael S. Harper (1/29/11)
22. Vane Pursuit by Charlotte MacLeod (6/27/11)
23. Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer (2/2/11)
24. X in Sex by David Bainbridge (1/21/11)
25. You Can Die Laughing by A. A. Fair (2/24/11)
26. Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende (Did Not Finish--looking for new "Z" book)
26. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life by Linda Wagner-Martin (2/14/11)

Hope this one's on again for next year. I had a lot of fun with it.