You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
Click here to enterThursday, January 1, 2026
Mount TBR Headquarters
Here you will find a link to the original challenge post. Also each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year.
2026 Climbing Crew
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Vintage Scavenger Hunt Headquarters
Here you will find a link to the original challenge post. Also each month I will enable a Monthly Review link where review posts for the month can be linked up. With the linky provider I currently have, the review link will close on the last day of the month. But no worries--you are welcome to post any review from the previous month on the current linky. There will also be a Wrap-Up link enabled at the end of the year.
Vintage Scavenger Hunt Detectives on the Case 2026
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The Ultimate My Reader's Block Challenge Wrap-Up
I'm still playing catch-up on so many things in the blogging world after being away so much during November & December. [New links/headquarters for the 2026 challenges coming soon!] Here is the wrap-up one-stop shopping plan for all of the Block challenges in 2025. If you participated in any of the Reader's Block challenges, then you may submit your wrap-up posts here. The linky will be open until Sunday, January 18th. Then on Monday, January 19th, I will pick a random winner from all the challenges to select a prize from the prize vault. If you have participated in more than one challenge, you are welcome to submit a separate wrap-up post for each challenge and earn yourself an entry for every challenge.
Please list your name in the following manner (especially if you've got more than one entry):
Name (challenge name) [example-- Bev@My Reader's Block (Vintage Scavenger Hunt)]
If you don't blog and don't have an URL to link up, you may post your wrap-ups in comments below (one comment per challenge) and I'll add you into the drawing. I will keep my eye on the entries and enter everyone onto a spread sheet in the order I see the entries appear. That order will determine the number for the random number generator to select.
GAD Word of the Day
In 2026, I'm going to try out a new bookish meme: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day is Squamous (adj): Covered with or characterized by scales.
From Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy (1952)
It was a large untidy car with many of those squamous and iridescent silvery blobs on its glass which, like the patination of metal, seems to indicate antiquity.
Feel free to share any new/unusual words that you find today (or this week) in the comments below.