MY READER'S BLOCK: Challenge Complete: Cruisin' Thru the Cozies

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!

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Challenge Complete: Cruisin' Thru the Cozies

This year Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews made things a little more difficult at the Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies Challenge. Instead of open cozy reading, she asked us to meet 10 cozy sub-genres in order to fulfill the basic level. There were higher levels if cozy mysteries are really your thing and you wanted to go crazy. I committed to the first level--Snoop because I thought I'd have trouble meeting all the categories with my own books. I did better than I thought--all books came from my own stacks and only one wasn't eligible for my Mount TBR Challenge as well.

Level one (Snoop) - Read one book in each of these cozy sub-genres (total of 10 books).

Here is my list:

- One from culinary (anything dealing with food: restaurants, baked goods, etc.)

Murder at the Masque by Amy Myers [Chef Auguste Didier as amateur sleuth] (1/16/17)

- One from animal related (cats, dogs, birds, etc.)
The Barker Street Regulars by Susan Conant (7/20/17)

- One from craft related (any kind of hobbies - knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, etc.)

Lie of the Needle by Cate Price [sewing/antiques] (7/28/17)

- One from paranormal (witches, vampires, etc.)

The Ghost & the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly [ghost as main character] (6/16/17)

- One from British cozy mysteries (example: Belinda Lawrence series)

Death with Blue Ribbon by Leo Bruce [Carolus Deene, British history master as sleuth] (4/20/17)

- One career-based cozy mystery (housekeeping, wedding planner, etc.)

Grounds for Murder by Kate Kingsbury [hotel owner/innkeeper] (4/26/17)

- One holiday based (set during any holiday - Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentines, etc.)

Murder at Teatime by Stefanie Matteson [Midsummer's Night (Summer Solstice) and July 4th] (5/9/17)

- One travel mystery (character could be on a cruise, touring another area, etc.)

Zadok's Treasure by Margot Arnold [murder at an archaeological dig in Israel] (2/22/17)

- One historical mystery (any mystery not set in the present)