Reading A to Z Challenge
Hello all!
Hope you are doing well as we enter the 2nd full week of 2020.
I have been brainstorming for ideas to bring more fun, interactive content to Between the Pages & Beyond.
As some of you know, I am reading, to kick of 2020 in a 700+ page way, Anna Karenina. So that got me thinking!
How about a Reading A to Z Challenge? The concept is very simple!
Each of the next 26 books you read, make each book title starting in order of the alphabet. For instance, I am reading Anna Karenina which obviously starts with "A", then the next book title I read will be Between Pieces (by author Paul Keene) as it starts with "B".
See....easy peasy!
So as you go through "reading the alphabet", please use the comment section below to share what you are all reading.
Hope you are doing well as we enter the 2nd full week of 2020.
I have been brainstorming for ideas to bring more fun, interactive content to Between the Pages & Beyond.
As some of you know, I am reading, to kick of 2020 in a 700+ page way, Anna Karenina. So that got me thinking!
Each of the next 26 books you read, make each book title starting in order of the alphabet. For instance, I am reading Anna Karenina which obviously starts with "A", then the next book title I read will be Between Pieces (by author Paul Keene) as it starts with "B".
See....easy peasy!
So as you go through "reading the alphabet", please use the comment section below to share what you are all reading.
I'm in! I love stuff like this! :)
ReplyDeleteI have about 170 pages left of Anna Karenina. I've been reading like a mad woman lately! I should be done by Tuesday the 21st then I'll post my review on Between the Pages and Beyond, as well as on Goodreads. Our friend Deanna Edens is also taking part in this reading challenge but is having technical difficulties in posting on here, so I may have to copy/paste her comment for her in a day or so.
ReplyDeleteTerri, where are you at this with this A to Z challenge?
See my review of Anna Karenina here on Between the Pages and Beyond under our Book Review tab. Onto "B"!!!
ReplyDeleteMy "B" book is Blackwater Lake by Maggie James.
ReplyDeleteBlackwater Lake by Maggie James was my "B" for this reading challenge. Here is my review:
ReplyDeleteI've had this novella waiting to be read in my kindle for many months, and having recently been reminded about it by a Goodreads friend, I decided to read it, if nothing just to have a taste of this author's writing.
After Matthew Stanyer loses both parents in a tragic murder-suicide, he decides to go through their belongings and clear his childhood home. But this would be no mean feat - his mother was a compulsive hoarder who has filled all the rooms in the house, from floor to ceiling with all kinds of stuff.
"Perhaps some secrets shouldn't be uncovered."
While cleaning up the house and chucking out everything he comes across some old photo albums. The pictures within show his parents in a very different light to how he knew them. Little does he know that he's about to stumble upon a decades-old terrible secret.
I didn't think I would enjoy this novella as much as I did. Sadly, I frequently find novellas to be either hurriedly written or end abruptly, but I was delighted to find that this does not apply to Blackwater Lake. It's amazing how Maggie James managed to include a fully-fledged mystery in a few pages, and the detail to which the author goes, made me feel as if I was actually reading a full-length novel.
My "C" book is The Corpse Reader by Antonio Garrido. Found it on my kindle in the lending library and I added professional narration to it for $1.99.
ReplyDeleteOnto "C" I go as a winter storm warning in effect here in Buffalo tomorrow. I'll be home, off from work too, doing laundry and spending the day in the recliner reading The Corpse Reader!