MY READER'S BLOCK: December Wrap Up & Pick of the Month

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. 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!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

December Wrap Up & Pick of the Month

Onward in my monthly statisic-gathering and a combo post with Kerrie's Crime Fiction Pick of the Month over at Mysteries in Paradise.

Finally! My numbers went up (five more books than last month). Hurray. And here we go, the final monthly round-up of 2012 (yearly round-up coming soon):

Total Books Read: 13
Total Pages: 3,039
Percentage by Female Authors: 33%
Percentage by US Authors: 33%
Percentage by non-US/non-British Authors: 8%
Percentage Mystery: 77%
Percentage Fiction: 77%
Percentage written 2000+: 31%
Percentage of Rereads: 0%
Percentage Read for Challenges: 100% {It's easy to have every book count for a challenge when you sign up for as many as I do.}
Number of Challenges fulfilled so far: 37 (100%)

AND, as mentioned above, Kerrie is sponsoring a meme for those of us who track our reading. What she's looking for is our Top Mystery Read for each month. This month 10 of the books I read count as mysteries. The highest rating earned was four and a half stars and that went to December's Pick of the Month: Nine Man's Murder by Eric Keith. Keith has written a top-notch mystery that dares to use Dame Agatha's theme from And Then There Were None and does it very well. For my full review, please click on the link.