Tag Archives: Book and film 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 →

Mirror, Mirror was the ninth film I saw for this challenge. It is the Snow White story (sort of) told from the wicked queen’s perspective. Julia Roberts plays the wicked queen and does a great job as the queen. Nathan … Continue reading →

The 45th book I finished reading for the challenge was The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny, a Chief Inspector Gamache mystery. It is Easter weekend in Three Pines and Gabri has arranged a séance for Good Friday evening at the … Continue reading →

The eighth film I saw for the challenge was The Lorax. Of all the Dr. Seuss books out there, this is one book I had never read but it was a favorite of my granddaughters so we went to see … Continue reading →