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The MCT Summer Mini Selfie Challenge

Starts: Friday 13 June 2014
Ends: Sunday 31 August 2014

This is a "selfie challenge" ... you will need to keep track of your own books and points.
The idea is to expand your reading horizons, to push you to read books that you might not otherwise have read. To boldly read where... *ahem* sorry, wrong genre...

Rules:
** Books used for the challenge must be Mysteries, Crime Stories, or Thrillers.
** Each book can be used only once in the challenge, even if it can fit in multiple categories.
** Re-reads are permitted.
** You can use books started before June 13th, but the "finished reading" date must be on or after the 13th.
** You must include a link to the book title, or to the cover where appropriate.
** Start your own thread here in the Selfie Challenge Folder.
** Copy the template in message 3 into your thread. You can edit and add books as you go along.
** If you need help or suggestions you can leave a message in the "Help" thread and someone will be along to give you a hand.

1) Total Selfie!
Read a book with a travel word in the title (plane, journey, boat, voyage, trip, etc.).
1 point each, max 2 books
5 Bonus Points: post a selfie -- a picture of you holding the book in the appropriate place, i.e., a picture of you on a boat holding a copy of The Mystery Boat (that's a made-up title).
Please don't have an accident, however! You can have someone else take the picture if you risk falling in the water or something.

2) Watch the temperature!
Read a book with a temperature/weather word in the title: hot, boiling, cool, humid, etc.
=or=
whose author's name is a temperature/weather word.
1 point each, max 2 books
3 Bonus points: Both title and author with temperature words.
Example: The Long Hot Summer by G. Swelter
(I don’t even know if one exists, so I made up that example too.)

3) That's cool...
It's summer in the northern hemisphere... so to cool off, and for our members in the southern hemisphere who are in the middle of winter:
Read a book with a winter theme on the cover or in the title, or that takes place in the snow and/or cold.
Example: Ice Station Zebra
1 point each, max 2 books

4) Time Travel!
And finally, for those of you who will not have the opportunity to take a vacation this summer, there is always the option of Time Travel.
Read a book first published in each of the time periods listed below.
1 point for first book, 2 points for second, 3 points for third, etc.
The books can be read in any order (although it might be interesting to work backwards in time).
Example:
Murder Must Advertise first published in 1933, 1 point;
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie published in 2009, 2 points;
Bonecrack published in 1971, 3 points.
Total: 6 points

2000-2014 __
1980-1999 __
1960-1979 __
1940-1959 __
1900-1939 __
1850-1899 __
before 1850 _

1) Total Selfie! Points: 2

Book 1: - Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell 1 point
Book 2: Jet by Russell Blake 1 point
Bonus Book: __

2) Watch the Temperature! Points: 2


Book 1: A Brewing Storm 1 point
Book 2: Stone Cold 1 point
Bonus Book:

3) That's cool... Points: 2


Book 1: Cold Granite 1 point
Book 2: Gingerbread Cookie Murder 1 point

4) Time Travel! Points: 4

2000-2014 - Flesh and Bone 1 point - Published in 2007
1980-1999 __
1960-1979 - In the Heat of the Night 1 point - Published in 1965
1940-1959 __
1900-1939 - Death in the Stocks 1 point - Published in 1935
1850-1899 __
before 1850 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - 1 point - Published in 1841

Books That Qualify

Bonus: Dead Dry by Sarah Andrews

Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods 1988
He Didn't Mind Danger by Michael Gilbert published in 1948
A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green published in 1880

Glad you are playing jannene.
I haven't read any of your titles. Jo nesbo has been on my TBR for a long time.

Hayes wrote: "Glad you are playing jannene.
I haven't read any of your titles. Jo nesbo has been on my TBR for a long time."

Really? I read his first two books and they aren't half bad. I had them on my shelf for a while and figured I would start one.

I am so glad we are doing this sort of challenge. I joined another group solely for their challenges but often they aren't geared toward mystery books.