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Here you will find the link to the original challenge post. Also, each month I will enable a Monthly Review Link where posts for that month can be linked up. The link will be open a few days into the next month. If you miss posting a review to its particular month, then feel free to add it to the next. There will also be the usual Quarterly Checkpoints that will go live every three months.
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Original 2018 Challenge Post
January Reviews
February Reviews
March Reviews
Mountaineering Checkpoint #1
April Reviews
May Reviews
June Reviews
Mountaineering Checkpoint #2
July Reviews
August Reviews
September Reviews
Mountaineering Checkpoint #3
October Reviews
November Reviews
December Reviews
2018 Final Checkpoint
Thank you for soliciting votes and having great ideas! :-) I said "themes" on the vintage poll because they entailed the fewest hoops and I enjoyed them but I truly consider reading a batch of old mysteries challenge enough. Without extras; this wonderful group is a special project on its own.
ReplyDeleteGiven that 1968 will be 50 years ago: upping parametres to include the 1960s at the very least, boy, would that free a good portion of my material for eligibility. A lot of 1950s stuff and older can be dry to get through, with antiquated views on women and that mystery guild prohibiting the paranormal. But the 60s & 70s are a pleasure. It would be perfect if we could go up to 1980. But opening up to the 1960s would do. It doesn't mean forgoing the 1950s. It simply means getting to mix a little more with them.
Well--the whole point of the Vintage Mystery Challenge is old mysteries, so I don't consider that a "hoop." I like to make it interesting by adding a challenge beyond the type of book to read. There are plenty of challenges where you can just read a certain number of books with no extra "hoops."
ReplyDeleteAs far as the publishing dates go: For the last several years I have featured both a Golden (pre-1960) and a Silver (1960-1989, inclusive) option on my Vintage Mystery. I plan to continue that. I will not open it up for anything more recent than that.
You bet, oldies are an attraction and the point. I love my gothics and Canadian dectectives. This is about the vintage cap. Not excluding the 1950s for a separate route but the ends meeting (doesn't have to go to 1989). Instead of all 1950s and older, or missing out on them, for an all-silver route; open the road to including some 1960s. In short, the cap rising a little past 1959. The creative secondary layers of challenges? Now, you know full well, I go the distance with those. Just don't underestimate that sticking to a time period *is* a first layer and that you are doubly tricky! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but I'm not open to changing my time period designations or how I designed the Vintage Challenge as far as time periods go. I fully admit that they are arbitrary periods--but they are the designations I have chosen. Participants must either do "Golden"--which is actually my preferred time period--or do "Silver" for the Vintage Mystery Challenge (or both--but as separate parts of the challenge). When I started it, my plan was for all pre-1960 books. I opened it up so those who like the "newer" vintage books could play, but I won't allow mixing them for this particular challenge.
ReplyDeleteI am considering another open time period mystery challenge (to replace the "Follow the Clues Challenge"). If I run that, then any mystery, published at any time will count.