"Reading Challenge Drop-out"

Go ahead and load that Grease soundtrack on Rhapsody to help you remember how it goes - and then sing along with me the words "Reading Challenge Drop-out" to the tune of Frankie Avalon's "Beauty School Drop-out."

Yes, that's me: Summer Mystery Reading Challenge drop-out! Today is the last day - and I just couldn't get into it. Yes, the "story's sad to tell." I guess the planets just weren't aligned appropriately - or something like that - so there's only one thing to do - "go back to high school"!

Summer Mystery Challenge

The idea of the Summer Mystery Challenge is to read six mystery novels by authors that you haven't read before. When I mentioned this challenge to my husband, he responsed, "Are there six authors that you don't already read?" Well, of course there are - despite the very many that I currently enjoy!

The following, in alphabetical order, are the six I've decided upon. I decided to try one of Dean Koontz' because both booklogged and chris have backed up my sister Cathy's claim that they are good. The other five are all novels I have picked up at the library's surplus sales over the past several years but haven't yet gotten around to reading.

Jennifer Apodaca - Dating Can Be Murder

Robert Barnard - The Bones in the Attic

Amy Gutman - Equivocal Death

Susan Kelly - Killing the Fatted Calf

Jonathon King - The Blue Edge of Midnight

Dean Koontz - To Be Decided Upon
(chris recommended Odd Thomas, Fear Nothing, and The Good Guy, while booklogged has From the Corner of His Eye on her Something About Me list.)