Category Archives: Books and Films Challenge Update

Book 54 in this challenge was The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson. This is the third book in his The Girl Who… trilogy and picks up where The Girl Who Played With Fire concludes, which continues … Continue reading →

The 53rd book I read for the challenge was a bit out of order because I know the identity of the real killer from reading The Cruelest Month earlier. This book, The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery by … Continue reading →

The 51st book I read for the challenge was Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Brown. It is the first in the series of the Lady Georgiana Rannoch mystery series and intorduces the various characters. In this book, Georgie is in … Continue reading →

I have finished book number 50! It was Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal. This a a book of stories about the religious right and their attempts to hijack the Republican Party and the … Continue reading →

I have finished my 48th book for this challenge. It was entitled Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown. Aunt Tally is turning 100 and she is being honored by her alma mater William Woods University in Missouri. This … Continue reading →

Book 47 that i read for this challenge was A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery by Louise Penny. In this book, Gamache and his wife Reine-Marie are vacationing at Manoir Bellechasse in the woods of Québec to … Continue reading →

I have finished the 46th book of the challenge, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker. Barker was a foreign journalist for the Chicago Tribune in South Asia based primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan from … Continue reading →