4 Month Challenge, Completed

Here are the results of my 4 Month Challenge, Part 12. It was great fun, and I'm looking forward to the next one!

5 Point Challenges

• Read the second book in a series
  Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie, the second in the Tommy and Tuppence mysteries. (July 2013/audio)
• Read a book with water on the cover
  Down Among the Dead Men by Patricia Moyes (June 2013)
• Read a book with a colour in the title
  The Yellow Streak by Valentine Willaims (May 2013)
• Read  a book set in the 1900′s
  Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet  by Michael Pearce, set in Cairo in 1908.  (July 2013/audio)
• Read a book whose author name begins with M (First or last)
  Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes (May 2013)

10 Point Challenges

• Read a book published during your birth year
  Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov, published 1972  (August 2013)
• Read a book with a door, lock or key on the cover
  The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (July 2013/audio; thanks to the vintage cover pictured here)
• Read a book with a flower/flowers on the cover
  Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton (May 2013)
• Read a book with something ‘hot’ in the title (sun, fire, heat, etc)
  Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale (July 2013; my discussion)
• Read a book whose author name begins with J (first name only)
  Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin (May 2013)

15 Point Challenges

• Read a book currently on a bestseller list
  The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman  is #11 on the NYT list on 11 July 2013. (July 2013/audio)
• Read a book that shows a woman from behindThe Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith (August 2013)
• Read a book with a moon or stars on the cover  The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (July 2013; my discussion here)
• Read a book with an adjective in the title
  The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin (May 2013)
• Read a book whose author name begins with J (last name only)  Innocent Blood by P.D. James  (June 2013/audio)

20 Point Challenges

• Read any book in one weekend (Friday to Sunday)
  Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer  (June 2013)
• Read a book with a child on the cover.
  The Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell. (July 2013)
• Read a book with over 400 pages
  The Book of Secrets by Elizabeth Joy Arnold; 464 pages.  (July 2013)
• Read a book with an animal on the cover
  Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown (June 2013/audio) 
• Read a book whose author name begins with A (first or last)
  The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie  (June 2013/audio)