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One more challenge concluded! Since the beginning of the month the only books I've read are the ones that can be included in this or that challenge but it is starting to pay off as this one is concluded and another one is 1 book away of being finished. The books I've read for this challenge were: Amateur Detective - The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie Cosy Mystery - Carrot Cake Murder

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It is 1537 and Thomas Cromwell has ordered that all monastries should be dissolved. Cromwell's Comissioner is found dead, his head severed from his body. Dr Shardlake is sent to uncover the truth behind what has happened. His investigation forces him to question everything that he himself believes. This book had been in my TBR pile for a few months now. I don't really remember why I put it

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Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy-with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations. A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town

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Finally one book arrived at my house this week. This one comes highly recommended so I am very curious about it. But I have to finish all my 2009 challenges before starting it so maybe in middle December... I hope...

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I guess I've been a bit predictable in my DVD viewing lately... and there are still 3 seasons to go... ;-)

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Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo areas of life.

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It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered--a white man dressed like a Native American, Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all

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Another challenge I couldn't resist entering: The Winter Holiday Reading Challenge will last from November 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010. The theme for this challenge is Winter Holidays. The books that you choose to read must have a storyline that includes celebrating a winter holiday, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's, etc. (However the holidays are not limited to

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Moments before the crash of her chartered flight, Kylie O'Rourke sees a raven perched on the plane's wing, as still as death, staring at her. Regaining consciousness in a Boston hospital, Kylie finds herself haunted by unnerving memories of the crash, of the survivors, and the rescuers--and when her fellow survivors start dying one-by-one, she knows she's living on borrowed time. I am a bit at

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This is a Challenge after my own heart, every year in December I read a lot of Christmas books. You can see that when I found this Christmas Reading Challenge I just couldn't resist joining in. And it's in honor of the publication of a Christmas themed book, how could I resist adding it to my WL? Clearly, I couldn't, especially seeing as Dicken's A Christmas Carol - one of my favourite

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Yes, once again there were no new additions to the TBR pile. This was actually good I suppose because it gave me the idea and time to organise my mini - thematic - TBR pile for December. I always read a lot of Christmas books in December. I like to read them to get into the mood of the season and so I collect them dring the year and save them for the holiday season. This year I even managed to

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It seems I must needs to organise myself. I started taking some classes in Web Design 3 times a week which are totally ruining my reading time (I only read 5 books in October... ) and since Christmas is around the corner we're already hard at work on some of the gifts, another time killer. So if I want to keep up with everything I better do a list of things to do and stick with it. So this

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How weird is that I post my challenges round up yesterday and decide to start a new challenge today? My excuse is that this one is for 2010 and since I already have several of the potential reads in my TBR pile this is actually an incentive to make it smaller. And the challenge is the 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge being hosted by Bella at A Bibliophile's Bookshelf and the rules are here. I

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Another challenge finished this month, Carl V's R.I.P Challenge which I greatly enjoyed. I also made some progress in some of the other challenges but I really have to make a bigger effort for the 4 that end in December. No more new challenges for me before the year is out! Let's see my progress so far: 18th & 19th Women Writers' Reading Challenge Ends Dec 2009 Goal - 5 books Read - 1 I'm

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THE KNOWING BRIDE When dazzling Horatia Winwood married the powerful Earl of Rule, she was saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. Hers was a marriage made not in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young beauty. Not until Horatia was deep in dangerous intrigue with her husband's vengeful rival,

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It's that time of the month again to check What's on Your Nighstand, a challenge hosted by 5 Minutes For Books! I managed to read the books I had in my nightstand last month and I enjoyed all of them, a special mention for Sara Donati, an author I just discovered and loved. For this month I decided to keep the pile small once more and so I have planned to read just these 3 books, I'm sure

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A Delightfully Impudent Impostor Sparkling young Victoire Duvernay made her first appearance in Regency England posing as her cousin who had been shamefully wronged by the dashing, devastatingly handsome rake, the Marquis of Tarn. But soon she emerged under her own name as the leading light of the London season, with the hot-blooded, hot-tempered Tarn dancing attendance upon her, and a host of

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There were no new books arriving at my house this week. It's all for the good of the old TBR pile but it's kind of sad at the same time because I so love to get new books... But considering I haven't been ordeing that many books lately I might have to stop this weekly "new additions" post. I'm also planning to spend the next two months doing christmas presents so I wont read all that much. So,

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One more challenge finished on time! The deadline for the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge was October 31st and I am very happy that I managed to finish the 4 books before that date. I was actually hoping I would manage to read more books from the TBR pile but I guess just the 4 I had set out to read isn't bad. The books I read were: Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys Lara Adrian -

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Well beyond the normal age of courtship and marriage, a young woman resigns herself to a quiet life on her parents's estate. Then the adopted son of the Duke of Derwent arrived. His kind manner and passionate glances brought new, unfamiliar joy to the lady's heart. But the dashing gentleman had too many duties to his father to properly court her. It will take a scandalous heartbreak to bring

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INSATIABLE DESIRE. ENDLESS SEDUCTION. ONE TOUCH IS JUST THE BEGINNING. He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night--or this man--is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is

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 Nebraskan suspense author Kava takes a break from her successful series featuring FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell with this psychological thriller about the fallout from an abortive bank robbery. The principal players are Jared Barnett, just released by his shady attorney's machinations from a life sentence for murder; his docile sister, Melanie Starks; and her 17-year-old son, Charlie, to whom

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We don't have that many community traditions in my town but very 2 or 3 years we have a big parade to raise money for the local firefighters. Farmers from the rural aereas help by donating fruit, vegetables and animals to be auctioned and the rest of us help by bidding on them. Everything that is donated arrives in decorated cars and they parade through the streets before arriving at

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