We will use this topic to discuss all of our cozy books and the challenge for 2018. Questions on challenge are welcome too.

2018 Cozy Mystery Challenge

The purpose of this cozy mystery challenge is for you to have fun, and find out about some new to you books and authors. You can read as many or as few categories you want. You may read one or one hundred books in a category. Enjoy and share with us what you are reading.  The challenge starts January 1, 2018

2018 Cozy Challenge List Only  --- Go here to sign up and reserved your list space.

1. Nice to Meet Your- Read a cozy by a new to you author (many cozy authors write under several names and that is okay to use one of those).
2. Time to catch up on our favorite series ( a book from book 2 or higher in a series that you have already started)
3. 20th Century.  Read a book either published or set in 20th century (1900-1999)
4. Murderless Mystery- Read a mystery that does not involve a murder.
5. Bodies and Corpses- Read a book that has in the title the word Bod(ies) or Corpse(s) or a body/corpse on the cover
6. Holiday Mystery- read a mystery set during any holiday season
7. Read a paranormal cozy (may include ghost, pyschic, with, vampire, werewolf etc)
8. Read a book that has yellow or orange on the cover.
9. Read a mystery that has the word book or library in the title or a picture of one on the cover.
10. Read a mystery set on either the East Coast or West Coast of USA.
11. Make up your own category.

Bonus Category

-We love our animals. Read as many cozies as you can with anytype of animal on cover, title or part of the book.

Thanks, Alice! Love the categories.

Again, thanks for putting together the list, Alice!  It's going to be fun reading books in all those categories!

These are great categories, I want to jump in now! But I have a few more to read for 2017 yet.

Here are a few banners you might like to try: 

My creativity is rather lacking this year!

I love them I thinking they look great. Thank you so much Jeanne

So appreciate you setting up another year for us Alice.  I forgot about the banners mine disappeared somewhere thru the year.  They look good to me Jeanne.  Thanks Bunches!

Will someone check my link in my signature for the 2018 challenge and see if it works please?   I always forget how to do these.

It is there it looks good!!

Thanks, Alice.

These are great ideas, Alice! I’ve been wanting to really hit my TBR pile to read some of the books just languishing there, and these categories will really help encourage that. Now to pop over to the other thread to make my spot!

I think I still have one or two categories from this year that are waiting for an entry, so I’ll have to see to that too!

Looks like #1 and # 2 can be my go to categories if my cozy doesnt fit any of the other categories..........my trouble one will be the 20th century one.  I'll have to see what others are reading for that category.....

This happens to me everytime I make up my list......

How do I change it from doublespacing to singlespacing?  I forgot again.

I am going to start with  Plaid and Plagiarism: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series: Book 1: Molly MacRae  for January! Alice I love how your challenge has 12 sections so that I can read one book a month for your challenge. Very convenient! 

Sounds good Amy. I haven't figured out my strategy yet still finishing 2017 challenge

Finished the 2017 challenge on 12/30; very busy yesterday, but hope to start the 2018 challenge today! I am going through TBR books today to see which ones could be read to fit challenges and hopefully to just post some and get them out of here. If I keep passing them up I must not want to read them very badly!

oops.I can see now that i put that challenge list in the wrong spot. I moved it over to the right place I think. Anyway my goal for the challenge will be 3 in each catergory. Not sure what my make your own category will be yet. I also set a goal to bring 25 series' up to date. Going to start the year off with this one

 One Hot Murder [Victoria Square, Bk 3]  by Lorraine Bartlett

I'm only doing this Cozy Mystery Challenge this year and not the other challenge so I can concentrate on just one this year. I'm going to start tonight reading " Hark the Herald Angels Slay" by Vicki Delaney. It will be for #2 category: Time to catch up on our favorite series.

I finished my first cozy:  Death of a Chocoholic by Lee Hollis.  I'm using it for the holiday theme challenge.......Valentine's Day....the cover screams Valentine's Day.

How do you put one of the banners into your signature line? They are cool. More creative than me!

Sarah Copy the banner to your had drive and the go to settings and there is place in settings up load go to Forum settings and you upload the banner. 

My first cozy of the year is Kneaded to Death by Winnier Archer  It is one of books of the month in cozy group I follow on good reads.

first book in the series, nothing unusual for cozy follows the formula. I do like all the discussion of bread. I like making bread. Okay so far.

Great, thanks Alice. Will give it a shot

Finished  - Plaid and Plagiarism the Highland Bookshop Mystery Series Book 1 by Molly MacRae 

This was a great first in series. Introduced lots of interesting characters that I look forward to learning more about in the future books. 

Second in series was released just this month! So woohoo....I am currently caught up! And waiting for book two to start showing up ;)

Will choose my next book hopefully tomorrow

Just finished Booked 4 Murder by J. C. Eaton.  Only gave it two stars.  It felt disjointed to me and I could never really get into it.