2013 BOOK CHALLENGE! Are you in?

[tinkerbellfan6880]

Ignore my last post. Not reading those two books anymore. Will read them some other time. Reading two new books.

The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio. Love reading her books!

The Dark Legacy os Shannara Witch Wraith by Terry Brooks. This is the last book in this series. Have already finished the other two.

 

[PigletsPal2]

Goal: 75 books this year.

#71 down and done.

How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny. The latest (I think) of the Inspector Gamache mysteries. This one has several plot lines, including one that you will think is about the (in)famous Dionne Quintuplets born in Canada around 1939.

Inspector Gamache's team has been torn apart by his rank superior Chief Inspector Francoeur; Gamache can deal with this, but Francoeur has all but destroyed Gamache's second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, both personally and in his career. To solve the mystery of the death of Constance Ouilette, Gamache must delve deeply into the past, exhume some old skeletons, and seek the assistance of a former team member dismissed for untrustworthiness. And in these tasks, he attempts the salvation of Beauvoir.

An excellent read, full of suspense and plot twists and turns.

Queen Colleen

 

[K and K's Mommy]

#26

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - I loved this book! It is about a 90 something lady who was sent on an orphan train when she was a child and a teenage girl who is in the foster care system. The story goes back and forth between present day time and the woman's childhood/ young adult life.

Sometimes I don't like books that jump around between stories, but I was interested in both stories so I didn't mind it in this book.

 

[threeboysmom]

I am raising my goal to 75!
I love to read, but I never thought I could read this much in a year!

Updated you!

Goal - 28 books

Next up - The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks - This book cannot possibly be as good as TBM tells me that it is!

Oooooh the pressure is on!

I know you already said welcome but thank you!!!

Oh gosh. At least someone is keeping track, lol! I feel like I go a little more brain dead with each passing hour...

 

[zippitydoo]

Book 32 of 45

The Neighbors by Ania Ahlborn

Andrew Morrison sacrificed everything—his childhood, his education, and the girl of his dreams—to look after his alcoholic mother. But enough is enough, and now he’s determined to get out and live his life. That means trading the home he grew up in for a rented room in the house of an old childhood friend—both of which are in sorry shape.

The only thing worse than Drew’s squalid new digs and sullen new roommate is the envy he feels for the house next door: a picture-perfect suburban domicile straight out of Norman Rockwell, with a couple of happy householders to match. But the better acquainted he gets with his new neighbors—especially the sweet and sexy Harlow Ward—the more he suspects unspeakable darkness beyond the white picket fence.

 

[low-key]

Since I last posted I read

Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner 9 out of 10
It was really good, had me interested from first page till last

Still Missing by Harlan Coben 8 out of 10
I thought the book was real good, then when I got to the 2nd half it really really got good, so many twist

The Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith 10 out of 10
This was written and got good reviews but no one bought it, then it was reviled that the real Aurthur was J. K. Rowling, and sales sky rocketed. I just loved this book, I was skeptical at first cause it takes place in Britain, while I love the Country some things just dont translate (like the next time I laugh at Benny Hill, it will be the first) anway the book was just a wee bit slow starting then I was hooked, felt like I was in the room with all the Characters


anyway I beat my goal, which was 9, I am now have read 10

 

[willowsnn3]

Since I last posted I read

Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner 9 out of 10
It was really good, had me interested from first page till last

Still Missing by Harlan Coben 8 out of 10
I thought the book was real good, then when I got to the 2nd half it really really got good, so many twist

The Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith 10 out of 10
This was written and got good reviews but no one bought it, then it was reviled that the real Aurthur was J. K. Rowling, and sales sky rocketed. I just loved this book, I was skeptical at first cause it takes place in Britain, while I love the Country some things just dont translate (like the next time I laugh at Benny Hill, it will be the first) anway the book was just a wee bit slow starting then I was hooked, felt like I was in the room with all the Characters


anyway I beat my goal, which was 9, I am now have read 10

I love Lisa Gardner. She just can't write as fast as I can read.....

 

[low-key]

I love Lisa Gardner. She just can't write as fast as I can read.....

that was the only thing I read from her, what other would you say are her best

 

[portia9]

Goal 100

#88 ***** in a Bonnet by Robert Rodi. This was a recommendation by piglet'spal. I loved this collection of blog posts critiquing the first three Austen novels. I laughed all the way through it.

I want to up my goal as well. I'll shoot for 120.

 

[willowsnn3]

that was the only thing I read from her, what other would you say are her best

Re: Lisa Gardner books.
I have enjoyed everything I've read of hers.

Stand alone books are:
The Other Daughter
The Survivors Club
I’d Kill For That
Touch & Go

Then she has the FBI profiler series that starts with The Perfect Husband
and the DD Warren series that starts with Alone. I believe DD may be introduced in the profiler series.

Lisa has also written romance novels using the name Alicia Scott but I haven't read any of those.

 

[WowLookAtThat]

Book #70 Jacob's Girls by Tara Taylor Quinn

Book #71 Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

 

[PigletsPal2]

Goal 100

#88 ***** in a Bonnet by Robert Rodi. This was a recommendation by piglet'spal. I loved this collection of blog posts critiquing the first three Austen novels. I laughed all the way through it.

I want to up my goal as well. I'll shoot for 120.

I'm so pleased you liked this book! I'm still looking for Rodi's second book, covering the other three novels. I'll let you know when/if I find it.

Queen Colleen

 

[wilma-bride]

Still Missing by Harlan Coben 8 out of 10
I thought the book was real good, then when I got to the 2nd half it really really got good, so many twist

Are you sure this was Harlan Coben? I have read all of his books several times and didn't recall this one so I looked it up and can't even find a book by him of that name

What was it about?

 

[willowsnn3]

Goal 72

#59 Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Twenty years ago teenaged Tara disappeared in the dense----some say enchanted----forest known as the Outwoods. Then she returns on Christmas day thinking only 6 months have passed. Looking the same as she did when she disappeared as a teenager while all her family & her boyfriend (who was suspected of doing her in) have aged.
Tara's tale--slowly revealed--is either magical or delusional, dreamlike or terrifying.

Good book. I would recommend.

 

[tammilynne]

#59.. The final detail by Harlan Coben..

 

[portia9]

#89-91 Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green by Flora Thompson. A fictionalised autobiography set in the 1880's in England. Sweet and interesting to see how people lived.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Goal:25 Completed:18

#18
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

I LOVED this book!

It has been a while since a series trapped me.

I can't WAIT to read the next one!

 

[Christine]

Just finished Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld.

This one got good reviews in some magazines/newspapers. I liked it well enough; however, it wasn't "great." The story started off kind of upbeat but I thought it ended on a depressing note with main character and her marriage.

 

[threeboysmom]

Goal 100

#88 ***** in a Bonnet by Robert Rodi. This was a recommendation by piglet'spal. I loved this collection of blog posts critiquing the first three Austen novels. I laughed all the way through it.

I want to up my goal as well. I'll shoot for 120.

I've updated you! Nice job!

 

[threeboysmom]

#36
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk

This was a fun read for the summer - about a middle-aged man who runs off to the Caribbean to start his own hotel business. He encounters problem after problem which is supposed to be comical... but I ended up feeling so bad for the guy and found myself wishing that no more calamities would come his way (yeah, I know it's not real, lol, but I still felt so bad for him!). It's an older book so the language was a little behind the times, but I really enjoyed it... but I tend to like any books set in the Caribbean, lol.

#37
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer

Another "beachy" read for the summer, set in Nantucket this time. Story about 3 sisters who reunite on the island of their childhood and learn to deal with the loss of their mother and their own problems in life. Very Jodi Picoult'ish...

#38
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

Not very far in - just started last night, but wow, I am HOOKED! Poor woman wakes up every morning without her memory and has to start all over again, only to lose it again the next day... It's setting up to be a GREAT story - I can see the intrigue building already and hopefully they'll be some twists thrown my way.