Reader's Choice Challenge!

Who-- ANYONE!  If you live in the Salt Lake area, this is a program that the SLCO Library System does twice a year and you can fill out ballots with your local branch.  If you don't live in the Salt Lake area, play along anyway!!  I have found some of my FAVORITE books through this program!

What-- Twice a year, librarians choose between 22 and 28- ish books for this program.  My goal is to read them all, but how many you read is up to you!  This time around there are 28.

When-- This round runs from January to the end of April, EXTENDED to the end of JUNE 2010 (For those in the SLC area, remember, the library is no longer taking ballots.)

The Books--
Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson   Link your reviews HERE
All Other Nights by Dara Horn   Link your reviews HERE
Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti   Link your reviews HERE
Blue Heaven by C J Box   Link your reviews HERE
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim   Link your reviews HERE
The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall   Link your reviews HERE
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad   Link your reviews HERE
Desolate Angel by Chaz McGee   Link your reviews HERE
Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn   Link your reviews HERE
Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff   Link your reviews HERE
Etta by Gerald Koplan   Link your reviews HERE
Fragment by Warren Fahy   Link your reviews HERE
Hello, Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth   Link your reviews HERE
Honolulu by Alan Brennert   Link your reviews HERE
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford   Link your reviews HERE
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefani Pintoff   Link your reviews HERE
Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo   Link your reviews HERE
Lamentation by Ken Scholes   Link your reviews HERE
Little Bee by Chris Cleave   Link your reviews HERE
Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farhad Zama   Link your reviews HERE
Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron   Link your reviews HERE
Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg   Link your reviews HERE
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas   Link your reviews HERE
The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson   Link your reviews HERE
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley   Link your reviews HERE
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo   Link your reviews HERE
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer   Link your reviews HERE
Woman Strangled, News at Ten by Laurie Moore   Link your reviews HERE

(Links will take you to the SLCO Library Reader's Choice post about the book, where you'll find a summary, picture of the cover, other links, and, for those in the area, links to place a hold.)

SO-- Mr. Linky below-- please sign up using a direct link to your post about this challenge. If you don't have a blog, sign up in the comments below!



Once you've read a book (and it totally counts if you've already read them!) link your review to the appropriate post (I'll have one for each book) and cast your vote in the comments on that post. Here's how the voting works-- you give the book a score 1-5, 5 being the highest. (Basically how many stars you give the book.) The book with the highest points at the end wins and we'll see how we match up to the county winner's list. :D
ETA-- I'm going to group the books for the review posts rather than making 28 separate posts.  Links will be on here soon!