The TBR 26 in '26 Challenge -- REVIEW PAGE

REVIEW PAGE

FOR THE TBR 26 IN '26 CHALLENGE

January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026

THIS IS THE PAGE TO LIST YOUR REVIEWS

IF YOU HAVE FINISHED, WRAP UP POSTS GO ON THIS PAGE

TO SIGN UP, GO TO THE MAIN CHALLENGE PAGE OR CLICK THE BUTTON ABOVE

LINK YOUR REVIEWS HERE

Please put your name and/or the name of your blog or social media handle and the name of the book you reviewed. (EX: Rose City Reader, War & Peace, or @gilioncdumas, Pride & Prejudice.) Please link to your review post and not your blog home page or main social media profile page.

 

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LINKS

If you review a book for the TBR 26 in '26 Challenge, please add the link to your review in the Linky box above. Please link to your review post, not the main page of your blog or social media account.

You do not have to have a blog to participate in this challenge. If you review books on Instagram, goodreads, or some other social media, use the link from your social media review post in the Linky box above. Please link to the review, not your profile page. If you have questions about how to find the URL for a social media review post, leave a comment, email me at gilion (at) dumasandvaughn (dot) com, or DM me on Instagram @gilioncdumas.

If you have trouble adding your link, leave it in a comment and I will add it or email me your link at gilion (at) dumasandvaughn (dot) com and I will add it for you. Please put your name and the name of the book you reviewed in the comment or email. Thanks!

BOOKS AND REVIEWS

You do not have to review books to complete the TBR 26 in '26 Challenge.

The only point of the challenge is to clear 26 books off your TBR shelf in 2026. You can pick all of them them ahead of time, some of them, or none of them. You can choose at whim. If you pick them, you can change your mind later and switch books. The only "rule" is that you must own the book before January 1, 2026.

Your TBR shelf can include a virtual shelf of ebooks or audiobooks, as long as you owned them prior to January 1, 2026. It does not include library books.

This is supposed to be fun!

WRAP UP

If you complete the challenge, please link some kind of wrap up post on the wrap up page. That way, I know who finished the challenge. If you just update your original post and do not do a wrap up post separate from your sign up post that's fine too! But please still add the link to the updated post on the wrap up page.

12 Days to Christmas!

ADVENT

12 Days to Christmas!

 

13 Days to Christmas!

 

ADVENT

13 Days to Christmas!

The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

I have known the Melbury family since the time when Jennifer, the youngest daughter, and I climbed trees and built wigwams together in the Flaxmere garden.

-- from The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay. I like that beginning. You can tell from the get go this is a country house mystery because "Flaxmere" just sounds like the name of a Stately Home of England. I adore country house mysteries, especially one set at Christmas. 

The Santa Klause Murder is a Golden Age crime novel first published in 1936. The British Library reprinted it in 2013 as part of its Classic Crime series. The BLCC series features many Christmas-themed mysteries and I'd like to read them all. My book club picked this one for our December meeting.  

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

Please add the link to your Book Beginnings post in the box below. If you share on social media, please use the #bookbeginnings hashtag.

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THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from The Santa Klause Mystery:

Ladey Evershot, who has no little ones of her own, is never behindhand in giving her opinion about other people's, and she seemed to have some idea that Santa Klaus was old-fashioned and the children would see through him. Well, I must say I like a bit of old-fashioned fun at this festive season myself.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered―by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus―with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive. Various members of the family have their private suspicions about the identity of the murderer, and the Chief Constable of Haulmshire, who begins his investigations by saying that he knows the family too well and that is his difficulty, wishes before long that he understood them better. In the midst of mistrust, suspicion and hatred, it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus, but two.

14 Days to Christmas!

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14 Days to Christmas!