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.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Challenge Complete: Monthly Motif


January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014



Kimberly at Bookmark to Blog put together the Monthly Motif Challenge.  This one had 12 themes--one for each month.  Here are all the books I read for the challenge--some months I managed to read more than one that fit the theme. Thanks to Kimberly for hosting a great challenge. I'm already signed up for another round in 2015.

Monthly Motifs: 

Jan- Around the World: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell [Sweden] (1/5/14)
Feb- 2012 Award Winner: Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson [Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award--2012 Macavity Awards] (2/12/14)
Mar- Fairy Tales/Fairy Creatures: Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm (3/28/14)
Apr- Short & Sweet: A Hangman's Dozen by Alfred Hitchcock, ed (4/7/14)
The Mammoth Book of the Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes by Denis O. Smith (4/13/14)
May- Mystery, Murder, & Mayhem: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin (5/6/14)
Death at the Medical Board by Josephine Bell(5/16/14)
Whispers of Vivaldi by Beverle Grave Myers (5/21/14) 
By the Watchman's Clock by Leslie Ford (5/23/14)
Jun- A Long Journey: 12.21 by Dustin Thomason (6/6/14) [takes the reader from Southern California to the jungles of Guatemala]
The Hobbit or, There & Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkein (6/12/14) 
The 7 Professors of the Far North by John Fardell [from U.K. to the Arctic] (6/29/14)
Jul- Assassins, Warriors, & Rebels: The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
The Day They Kidnapped Queen Victoria by H. K. Fleming [Fenians] (7/2/14)
Aug- Alternate Reality: The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (8/19/14)
Sep- Book to Movie: Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh (9/6/14)
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie (9/11/14) 
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (9/21/14)
Oct- The Witching Hour: The Witch's Grave by Phillip DePoy (10/5/14)
Death on Allhallowe'en by Leo Bruce (10/11/14) [rumors of witchcraft in the village]
Nov- An Oldie But a Goodie (Pre-2000): The Lady in Black by Anna Clarke [pub. 1977] (11/1/14)
Guest in the House by Philip MacDonald [pub. 1955] (11/2/14) 
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart [pub 1908] (11/4/14) 
The Final Deduction by Rex Stout [pub 1961] (11/10/14) 
Two Men in Twenty by Maurice Procter [pub 1964] (11/14/14) 
Death by Pure Torture by Robert Barnard [pub 1981] (11/15/14) 
The D. A. Breaks a Seal by Erle Stanley Gardner [pub 1946] (11/16/14)
Dec- That's a Wrap: (Finish a series or read the next book in a series)
A Curtain Falls by Stefanie Pintoff [#2 in Simon Ziele series--read number one last year] (12/10/14)
 

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