The challenge is the brainchild of Elizabeth Lhuede and the entire challenge, with all its inspiration, levels and nuances, is described in detail at its very own website.

Here is my post explaining why I signed up for this challenge in a year I promised myself would be challenge-free.

I’m aiming for the highest of the three levels, Franklin-fantastic, which requires me to read 10 books (though I’d like to go higher). As far as genre-busting goes I am prepared only to advance to the middle ground and aim for dabbler (read more than one genre but not as many genres as I can find – frankly some genres are not for me).

My books in reading order:

• Caroline Overington, Matilda is Missing (pub 2011, 4 stars, contemporary fiction)
• Sulari Gentill, Miles Off Course (pub 2012, 4.5 stars, historical crime fiction)
• Sylvia Johnson, Watch Out For Me (pub 2011, 4 stars, suspense)
• Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues (pub 1989, 3.5 historical crime fiction)
• Wendy James, The Mistake (pub 2012, 4 stars, crime/suspense)
• Felicity Young, A Dissection of Murder (pub 2012, 4.5 stars, historical crime fiction)
• Virginia Duigan, The Precipice (pub 2011, 5 stars, contemporary/suspense)
• Annie Hauxwell, In Her Blood (pub 2012, 3.5 stars, crime/thriller)