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Snakes and Ladders, 2020 Edition – TA’s Master Tracking Post: DONE!

Tracking courtesy of Charlie and Sunny, as always, of course!    SPACES AND DICE ROLLS 1. Author is a woman — Patricia Wentworth: Pilgrim’s Rest (finished April 1, 2020) 2. Genre: mystery 3. Set in the twentieth century 4. Published in 2019 5. Published in 2018 6. Title has a color word in it 7. Author’s last […]

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Please pick my final Snakes & Ladders book! — UPDATED: Decision time.

  Looks like we have a winner!  So, Val McDermid’s fifth Karen Pirie book it is … I am really glad that every book I listed collected votes, though (and it was a close race between the two top contenders for quite a while) — needless to say, I intend to get to all of […]

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Please pick my final Snakes & Ladders book!

NOTE: Clicking on the image will take you to the actual poll.  To avoid double counting, please use only the polling site to vote (i.e., don’t also tell me in your comments which books you’re voting for).  Thank you! To see the results, click HERE.   Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2321902/please-pick-my-final-snakes-ladders-book

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Snakes and Ladders, 2020 Edition – TA’s Master Tracking Post

Tracking courtesy of Charlie and Sunny, as always, of course!    SPACES AND DICE ROLLS 1. Author is a woman — Patricia Wentworth: Pilgrim’s Rest (finished April 1, 2020) 2. Genre: mystery 3. Set in the twentieth century 4. Published in 2019 5. Published in 2018 6. Title has a color word in it 7. Author’s last […]

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Rosario Ferré: The House on the Lagoon / La casa de la laguna

A Poor Man’s (or Woman’s) “House of the Spirits” Ugh.  If this hadn’t been my final “Snakes and Ladders” book I’d have DNF’d it.  This is essentially a Puerto Rican version of House of the Spirits minus magical realism, plus a plethora of characters and episodes that don’t greatly advance the plot (think 500-episode telenovela) […]

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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death

The British Police Procedural Is Alive and Well … and I have found yet another favorite new series! Never let it be said that there are no great new voices in British crime writing, and on top of that, two of my most recent discoveries — Joy Ellis’s Jackman & Evans series and Peter Grainger’s […]

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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death – Reading Progress Update: 4 of 412 Minutes

Hah.  Serendipity!  I just finished a book from Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn series … and guess what the name of the superior officer of this book’s protagonist (DS Smith) is?  Detective Superintendent Allen! Reading this for square no. 48 of Snakes and Ladders (“a book you acquired in February 2019).  So much for clearing Mt. […]

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Ngaio Marsh: Vintage Murder

  The Pleasures of Revisiting a Neglected Entry in a Favorite Series I spontaneously picked the audio version of this book yesterday as my book for “Snakes and Ladders” square no. 40, “characters involved in the entertainment industry”; realizing that I’d read it so long ago that I remembered little more than the (rather unusual) […]

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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (David Suchet Audio)

Still as much fun as ever.  David Suchet obviously is Poirot — but this is the one audio recording where he is equally obviously having the time of his life with the rest of the cast in an “Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets” manner, and I’m enjoying being along for the ride every […]

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Red Lamp

What a Disappointment Ugh.  If I hadn’t been listening to this for Snakes and Ladders I would have DNF’d.  Much too heavy handed use of pseudo-occult phenomena for my taste (also, the dead animals thing was done so much better by Conan Doyle in Silver Blaze; it just felt like copycatting here) — and I […]

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Hey, Booklikes

Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader   Obsidian Blue and I have been talking about a new game of Booklikes-opoly for this summer, but in the interim, does anyone feel like a quick game of Snakes and Ladders?     RULES OF THE GAME: Everyone starts on 1. There are two alternative ways to move forward. Read […]

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BookLikes Snakes and Ladders — Game Board, Books, and Progress

  1. Author is a woman — Emmuska Orczy: The Elusive Pimpernel (currently reading) 2. Genre: mystery 3. Set in the twentieth century 4. Published in 2019 5. Published in 2018 6. Title has a color word in it 7. Author’s last name begins with the letters A, B, C, or D. 8. Author’s last name begins […]

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Snakes and Ladders: First Book

Aaaand — off we go!  First “Snakes and Ladders” entry, a book written by a woman. Also my first of probably several books set in France (for my “In 80 Book Around the World” project).     Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1847959/reading-progress-update-i-ve-listened-15-out-of-527-minutes

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