2023 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge: My Sign-Up

 

 

 

Kim & Tanya have posted their 2023 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge. Click on the link for full details. For this challenge each month is assigned a motif or theme. The task is to read one book each month that fits the motif...I will list my tentative choices below. 

 

Jan: Over Sea, Under Stone ~Susan Cooper (1/23/23)

Feb: Garden of Deadly Delights ~Cynthia Manson, ed. (2/7/23)

Mar: The Black Cat Murders ~Karen Baugh Menuhin (3/7/23)

Apr: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (4/18/23)

May: The Gentle Hangman ~James M. Fox [involves a game show] (5/3/23)

Jun: Family Skeletons ~Rett MacPherson [Mississippi River--with bonus flooding] (6/7/23)

Jul: Juggernaut ~Alice Campbell (7/11/23)

Aug: Ashes to Ashes ~Emma Lathen (song by David Bowie) [8/3/23]

         Out of the Ruins ~Sally R. Wright (song by Pat Benatar) 

Sep: The Night Gardner by Jonathan Auxier (9/1/23)

Oct: Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery as ed. by Alfred Hitchcock [ed. by Robert Arthur] (10/16/23)

Nov: The Red Death Murders ~Jim Noy (11/6/23)

Dec: Murder on Fifth Avenue ~Michael Jahn (12/6/23)