MY READER'S BLOCK: Challenge Complete: Birthday Month

SCAM artist alert

Apparently there is someone calling himself "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.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Challenge Complete: Birthday Month

Birthday Month Reading Challenge

Hosted by Lois at You, Me, & a Cup of Tea

Lois set us the challenge to read a book each month by an author whose birthday was in that month. I just read a short story collection by Rex Stout to claim December and have finished the challenge. See my list below.

Thanks, Lois for hosting this one. It was a lot of fun finding authors I like who would fit each month.

January: Mother Finds a Body by Gypsy Rose Lee [DOB: Jan. 9, 1911] (1/12/15)
January: Alpha 2 by Robert Silverberg (ed) [DOB: Jan. 15, 1935] (1/18/5)
February: Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon [DOB: Feb 27. 1918] (2/13/15)
March: Malice Domestic by Sara Woods [DOB: March 7, 1922] (3/26/15)
April: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven [DOB: April 30, 1938] & Jerry Pournelle
May: Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison [DOB: May 27. 1934] (5/21/15)
June: The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case by George Baxt [DOB: June 11, 1923] (6/26/15)
July: The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner [DOB: July 17, 1889] (7/6/15)
July: The Witch & the Hysteric by Alexander Doty & Patricia Clare Ingham [DOB: July 1, 1958] (7/14/15)
July: Two & Two Make Twenty-Two by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning [DOB: July 15, 1902]
August: Death in Kashmir by M. M. Kaye [DOB: Aug 21, 1908] (8/25/15)
September: The Gay Phoenx by Michael Innes [DOB: Sept 30, 1906] (9/15/15)
October: Ax by Ed McBain [DOB: Oct 15, 1926] (10/21/15)
November: In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr [DOB: Nov 30, 1906]
November: The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts [DOB: Nov 4, 1862] (11/7/15)
December: Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout [DOB: Dec 1, 1886] (12/28/15)