1st in a Series Challenge 2012

Hosted by: Katy (A Few More Pages)
Dates: 1 January through 31 December, 2012

For guidelines and to sign up, see the challenge blog here.

Again this year, I'm signing up at the "Series Novice" level, so I'll be reading at least three books. Haven't decided what they'll be yet, but I have a list of books I'm considering:

• The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler (first Philip Marlowe novel)
• Fer-de-Lance. Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe)
  
• Last Bus to Woodstock. Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse series)
• A Man Lay Dead. Ngaio Marsh (Albert Campion series)
• Relic. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Pendergast series)
• The Warden. Anthony Trollope (Chronicles of Barsetshire)

And I'll be tracking my progress on my challenge blog here.

Challenge Wrap-Up: 1st in a Series 2011

Time to start wrapping up some reading challenges for the year. For the 1st in a Series Challenge, hosted by Katy at A Few More Pages, I signed up at the "Series Novice" level, and read three books:

• Along Came a Spider (first in the Alex Cross mystery series), by James Patterson
• The Killings at Badger's Drift (first in the Chief Inspector Barnaby mystery series), by Caroline Graham
• Quiet as a Nun (first in the Jemima Shore mystery series), by Antonia Fraser

Enjoyed all three of these. I've read later books in the series by Fraser and Graham, but the first Alex Cross novel was a new experience. Hope to read more books in all three series.



Thanks so much to Katy for hosting this one. Haven't signed up yet for the 2012 Challenge, but I'm definitely thinking about it.