Saturday, December 21, 2013

Women Challenge





This is Peek a Book's second edition of the “Women Challenge” and my first attempt.

This challenge will make us want to read more books of any kind written by women, so choose whatever you like and get involved!  She wants us to set a level and, if we like, indicate our three favourite women writers, in order to suggest new names to other participants as well.

Here are mine (they are just the first ones coming to my mind):

* Dorothy L Sayers
* Jane Austen
* Kerry Greenwood

For complete rules, click on the link above. It's never too late to join!
* challenge goes from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014;
* here you can link for your reviews.


Levels:

Level 1: BABY GIRL - read 5 books written by a woman author
Level 2: GIRLS POWER - read 6 to 15 books written by a woman author
Level 3: SUPER GIRL - read 16 to 20 books written by a woman author
Level 4: WONDER WOMAN - read 20+ books written by a woman author


I'm going for Level 4: WONDER WOMAN


1. Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell (1/13/14)
2. The Wonder Chamber by Mary Malloy (1/15/14)
3. The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton (1/18/14)
4. Death by Chick Lit by Lynn Harris (2/1/14)
5. Exit Actors, Dying by Margot Arnold (2/4/14)
6. You Can Write a Mystery by Gillian Roberts (2/9/14)
7. Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson (2/12/14)
8. Death Walks on Cat Feet by D. B. Olsen (2/13/14)
9. The Sound of Breaking Glass by Deborah Crombie (2/25/14)
10. India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope [aka Adela Florence Nicolson] (3/4/14)
11. Murder in the Vatican by Ann Margaret Lewis (3/5/14)
12. It's Not All Flowers & Sausages by Jennifer Scoggin (3/10/14)
13. A Girl Walks Into a Bar by Helena S. Paige (3/12/14)
14. Endless Night by Agatha Christie (3/13/14)
15. India Black & the Gentleman Thief by Carol K. Carr (3/19/14)
16. A Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie Logan (3/21/14)
17. The Coral Princess Murders by Frances Crane (4/5/14)
18. After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman (4/6/14)
19. My Antonia by Willa Cather (4/20/14)
20. Death by the Book by Juliann Deering (4/21/14)
21. The Lady of Sorrows by Anne Zouroudi (4/26/14)

Challenge Complete! (4/26/14) 

22. Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer (5/1/14)
23. Death at the Medical Board by Josphine Bell (5/16/14) 
24. Sinners & the Sea by Rebecca Kanner (5/21/14) 
25. Whispers of Vivaldi by Beverle Graves Myers (5/21/14)
26. By the Watchman's Clock by Leslie Ford (5/23/14)
27. Beyond Uhura: Star Trek & Other Memories by Nichelle Nichols (5/29/14)
28. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell (6/5/14) 
29. A Hearse on May-Day by Gladys Mitchell (6/15/14) 
30. Undead & Unpopular by MaryJanice Davidson (6/17/14) 
31. No. 9 Belmont Square by Margaret Erskine (6/21/14) 
32. The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (6/23/14)
33. A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott (7/3/14)
34. The Chief Inspector's Daughter by Sheila Radley (7/5/14) 
35. Death in an Ivory Tower by Maria Hudgins (7/16/14) 
36. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (7/21/14) 
37. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (7/25/14) 
38. Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell (7/30/14) 
39. Introducing C. B. Greenfield by Lucille Kallen (8/6/14) 
40. Book of the Dead by Elizabeth Daly (8/14/14)

 

3 comments:

Debra Wilson said...

This sounds like fun!!! Thanks for sharing, Bev. I'm going to start small, with the Baby Girl level.

Peek-a-booK! said...

Hi Bev and welcome to the Women Challenge! I hope you have fun reaching your goal!


Valentina
www.peekabook.it

Peek-a-booK! said...

If you are interested in, you could have a look to the challenge I launched, the “2015 Women Challenge”. Have fun with me and my challenge! ^_^

http://www.peekabook.it/2014/12/2015-women-challenge.html

Bye and enjoy your books!

Valentina
www.peekabook.it