As the chapters of time turn and the seasons shift, it's time to take stock of the progress made in my ambitious reading challenge. With each page turned and every narrative explored, my reading journey has been an exhilarating odyssey, filled with literary discoveries and unexpected twists. Join me as I provide an update on my reading challenge, delving into the books that have enchanted me, the milestones achieved, and the stories that continue to shape my literary voyage. Whether you're seeking book recommendations or inspiration for your own reading adventures, this update promises to be a literary compass guiding you through the uncharted territories of the written word.
Septembers Reading Progress: Embrace a Reading Challenge
A book under the genre Murder Mystery Title: The Vanishing Season
Author: Joanna Schaffhausen
Genre Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime
Series The Collector book 4 of 4
Date Published 2019
Book Length 404
Format Paperback that was purchased for me as a present
About Book: Fourteen years ago, teenager Ellery Hathaway was victim number seventeen in the grisly murder spree of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She was the only one who lived. Now Coben is safely behind bars, and Ellery has a new identity in a sleepy town where bike theft makes the newspapers. But each July for the last three years, locals have been disappearing. Then Ellery receives strange messages hinting that the culprit knows exactly what happened to her all those years ago. When she tries to raise the alarm, no one will listen, and terrified she may be next, Ellery must turn to the one person who might believe her story…
A book Involving the Art World
Title: The Dante Connection
Author: Estelle Ryan
Genre Thriller, Mystery
Series Book 2 of 15 in the Genevieve Lenard series
Date Published 2013
Book Length 361
Format E Book I purchased myself
About Book: Despite her initial disbelief, Doctor Genevieve Lenard discovers that she is the key that connects stolen works of art, ciphers and sinister threats. Betrayed by the people who called themselves her friends, Genevieve throws herself into her insurance investigation job with autistic single-mindedness. When hacker Francine appears beaten and bloodied on her doorstep, begging for her help, Genevieve is forced to get past the hurt of her friends’ abandonment and team up with them to find the perpetrators. Little does she know that it will take her on a journey through not one, but two twisted minds to discover the true target of their mysterious messages. It will take all her personal strength and knowledge as a nonverbal communications expert to overcome fears that could cost not only her life, but the lives of many others.
A book by an Author who has written a classic you have avoided
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
Genre Romance
Publisher Penguin
Date Published The book was first published in 1811 my copy was published prior to 1920
Book Length 336
Format Hardback book I purchased myself
About Book: For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men. Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.
A spooky book
Title: The House At Riverton
Author: Kate Morton
Genre Mystery
Publisher: Pan
Date Published: 2023
Book Length: 624
Format: Paperback I purchased myself
About Book:
Summer, 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter, 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken, and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten, but Grace never could . . .
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