Read Scotland 2016

Link to announcement/sign-up post

Hosted by: Peggy Ann @ Peggy Ann's Post

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2016

Guidelines:

• Read and review books written by Scottish authors (by birth or immigration), or about or set in Scotland.
• All genres and formats are allowed.
• Books may count for other challenges.
• You don't need a blog to participate.

Challenge levels:

1. Just A Keek (a little look): 1-5 books
2. The Highlander: 6-10 books
3. The Hebridean: 11-15 books
4. Ben Nevis: 16-20 books
5. Back O' Beyond: 21+ books

I'm signing up at the first level (Just a Keek), and hope to read five books.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the challenge group at GoodReads HERE.
● See the page for linking wrap-up posts HERE.

MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus #1). Ian Rankin 
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POSSIBLE READS:

• The Anatomist's Wife (Lady Darby #1). Anna Lee Huber 
• The Bachelors. Muriel Spark 
• The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy #1). Peter May 
• The Comforters. Muriel Spark
• Death at the President's Lodging (Inspector Appleby #1). Michael Innes 
• The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie #1). Val McDermid 
• The Driver's Seat. Muriel Spark 
• Enter Second Murderer (Inspector Faro #1). Alanna Knight 
• Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey #7). Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Inn at the Edge of the World. Alice Thomas Ellis 
• In Thrall. Eva Hanagan
• Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus #1). Ian Rankin 
• Legacy of the Dead (Inspector Rutledge #4). Charles Todd 
• The Public Image. Muriel Spark
• Raven Black (Shetland Island #1). Ann Cleeves 
• The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie #1). Alexander McCall Smith 
• Symposium. Muriel Spark 
• Waiting Sands. Susan Howatch 
• Wildfire At Midnight. Mary Stewart 
• The Wrong Box. Robert Louis Stevenson

The Reporter's Challenge 2015

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2015
Hosted by: Ellie Oberth (Dead Herring)

This is a GoodReads Challenge.
Sign up for the challenge on GoodReads (In The Challenge Factory under 2015 yearly challenges)

Guidelines (quoted from Dead Herring's announcement page):

• For this challenge – Each book can only be used for 1 category (Ex: Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap – victim is strangled, the setting is in England and they are cut off from the world due to bad weather. But you can only place this story in 1 of the categories)
• You don’t have to choose your books in advance. If you do, you can change your list at any time during the year.
• Books can be in any format – paper, ebooks, audio…
• Crossovers with other challenges are fine.

Levels:

• Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category) 
• Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category) 
• News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category) 
• Editor: 20 books (4 from each category) 
• Newspaper Mogul: 25 books 

✹ I'll be trying for Cub Reporter, to start. (I'm hoping to become a Columnist some day, but this might not be my year.)

LIST OF CATEGORIES 

WHO

1. Protagonist is a librarian: The Book of Speculation. Erika Swyler
2. Protagonist is a government agent 
3. Protagonist is a ghost 
4. Protagonist works with animals (vet, dog walker, zoo, etc) 
5. Protagonist is a crook 

WHAT

1. Holiday in the title 
2. Animal in the title: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie ("Sister" Jane #9). Rita Mae Brown
3. Weather in the title 
4. Poison in the title 
5. Title starts with the same letter as your last name 

WHERE

1. Set in England 
2. NOT set on land (cruise ship, boat, airplane, spaceship, etc) 
3. Set on an Island 
4. Set on foreign soil (not America or England) 
5. Historical novel: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia De Luce #7). Alan Bradley (The Flavia De Luce novels are set during and just after World War II.)

WHEN

1. One book set during any holiday 
2. One that centers around a convention or conference 
3. One Dark & Stormy night – bad weather plays big role in story 
4. One where the protagonist has to beat the clock (time is crucial to solving mystery)
5. One set during a vacation: Gently Does It (Inspector George Gently #1). Alan Hunter (Inspector Gently is on vacation when a local murder case catches his attention.)

HOW (Method of Murder)

1. Poison is murder weapon 
2. Knife/stabbing is murder weapon 
3. Gun/shooting is murder weapon: The Red House Mystery. A.A. Milne
4. Blunt object is murder weapon 
5. Rope/strangulation is murder weapon