Annual Reading Goal Challenge for 2016 - Come and join us!

[MochaDrinker]

48/200-Body of Truth by Harriet Brown

49/200-Symptoms of Withdrawal by Christopher Kennedy lawford

50/200-American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

#11 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Reread - Read a while ago. Liked it then but liked it even more now. I mean you have to tip your hat to the man, his dedication to drugs goes beyond normal addiction.
If I was to write a tagline for the book it would read.

A quick read but one hell of a long trip.

(If anyone is interested in reading any of my works, I would gladly send kindle gift versions of any (Written for You , Cemetery Girl, Three Twigs for the Campfire, or Reigning)

 

[tiggrbaby]

I am upping my goal to 60 as I am halfway there for the year already!

#28/60: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (4/5) (Inspector Gamache #3) (Canadian mystery)

#29/60: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (3/5; too much mystical stuff for my tastes, but some beautiful passages)

#30/60: Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner (4.5/5; romance usually not my thing, but engaging characters)

 

[jenny105]

Finished book #12, Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot. I just started Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. I'm hoping Murder on the Orient Express comes through from the waitlist before my trip - I'm next in line for it!

 

[Deffenm]

13/50: Turn in the Road - Six years after he had walked out on his wife and kids, Grant was freshly single again and looking to reconcile with Bethanne Hamlin. To forgive the betrayal was one thing, she did that for herself. To forget was something that she didn’t think she could ever do and she wasn’t sure if she could ever trust him again either. Being willing to at least think about it for the sake of the grown kids, herself, him, she wasn’t sure, but think about it she was. Hearing that her ex-mother-in-law was planning a road trip across the country to her 50th class reunion in Florida was the perfect excuse to get away and do that thinking. With the addition of her daughter Annie, Ruth and Bethanne set out to see America. Even though Ruth had made plans, the addition of Annie added spontaneity to the group, taking them off the plotted course early in the trip. Helping out in a diner for an old friend of Ruth’s was the fist of may changes to come. Then they have trouble with the rental car with only one source of help, and that coming from a group of motorcycle riders they met at the diner. Offering a ride to the nearest town was the best way for Max to help, but the connection they found while offering confessions may make some decisions more difficult.

 

[MochaDrinker]

51/200-Witches of America by Alex Mar

 

[Kirby]

13/50: Turn in the Road - Six years after he had walked out on his wife and kids, Grant was freshly single again and looking to reconcile with Bethanne Hamlin. To forgive the betrayal was one thing, she did that for herself. To forget was something that she didn’t think she could ever do and she wasn’t sure if she could ever trust him again either. Being willing to at least think about it for the sake of the grown kids, herself, him, she wasn’t sure, but think about it she was. Hearing that her ex-mother-in-law was planning a road trip across the country to her 50th class reunion in Florida was the perfect excuse to get away and do that thinking. With the addition of her daughter Annie, Ruth and Bethanne set out to see America. Even though Ruth had made plans, the addition of Annie added spontaneity to the group, taking them off the plotted course early in the trip. Helping out in a diner for an old friend of Ruth’s was the fist of may changes to come. Then they have trouble with the rental car with only one source of help, and that coming from a group of motorcycle riders they met at the diner. Offering a ride to the nearest town was the best way for Max to help, but the connection they found while offering confessions may make some decisions more difficult.

Is this a Debbie Macomber book? If it is and the one I'm thinking about, it's a fun book to read.

 

[nemofans]

Finished book #31/65 - What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan

An 8 yr old boy goes missing while in the woods with his mom. You get alternate POV from the mother and the lead detective. It's an interesting read trying to figure out what happened.

In a heartbeat, everything changes…
Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It’s an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry—until Ben vanishes.
Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel’s newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Inevitably, media attention focuses on Rachel too, and the public’s attitude toward her begins to shift from sympathy to suspicion.
As she desperately pieces together the threadbare clues, Rachel realizes that nothing is quite as she imagined it to be, not even her own judgment. And the greatest dangers may lie not in the anonymous strangers of every parent’s nightmares, but behind the familiar smiles of those she trusts the most.
Where is Ben? The clock is ticking...

 

[Kirby]

#24/80 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Genre - Romance

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

My sister in law gave me this book and I just threw it in with all of the other books I have stacked to read. When I saw that they were making a movie from it I drug it out because I always like to read the book before seeing the movie if I can. I enjoyed reading the book and plan on seeing the movie one of these days. It would make for a good book club discussion.

 

[MochaDrinker]

52/200-Yes Please by Amy poehler

 

[mummabear]

OK, DH and I escaped to Bali for a week away from the kids! I had time to read 3 books.
1) Left for dead by Beck weathers:
2)The Martian. Loved it could barely pit it down. Glad I saw the movie first as I feel it gave me a better understanding of what some things were (Like the HAB)
3) The Asylum Novellas. Ended up buying this in Bali, the book shop didnt have a lot of choice and I couldnt remember which books I had actually read and which seemed familiar because of the same characters from the authors I used to read, It was okay but frustrating. I had 3 short stories but they werent complete, it was like reading the first 1/2 of a book and just as it gets really interesing it stops...3 times

#4 Then when I got home a friend recommened Big Little Lies I liked it so much I read it in a little over 24 hours and have thenext one on reserve at the library

 

[Kirby]

#25/80 - If I Had You by Deborah Bedford. Genre - Romance

From bestselling author Deborah Bedford comes a moving tale of an estranged mother and daughter, and the child who forces their old conflicts back into the light.

Nora Crabtree has long-since given up on her wayward daughter. When Tess turns up pregnant and begs for help, the last thing Nora wants is to get involved again. When Tess leaves, the Crabtrees have no choice but to bring this motherless baby into their home. Nora believes that God is giving her the chance she prayed for, to right mistakes from years before. She pours all the love that Tess had rejected into this new child. But when Tansy Crabtree vanishes on her walk from the bus stop, Nora and Tess must struggle with a relationship they thought had died years ago-- and with the question of what is best for the little girl whom they both want to love. And Nora discovers that God may answer more prayers than she ever bargained for.

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

11/15 - Voyager.
Enjoyed it the most out of the 3 so far. Good grief, her books are long! I actually ended up listening to the audio version and sped it up to go faster. Started on #4, but only allowing myself to listen while exercising so this could take a while....

 

[moniqueand2]

#21/30 - The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

Now this was a good one! I recommend this as part of a beach reading binge this summer.

From Amazon.
Caleb and Camille Fang, everything in life is secondary to art, including their children. Annie and Buster (popularly known as Child A. and Child B.) are the unwilling stars of their parents’ chaotically subversive work. Art is truly a family affair for the Fangs. Years later, their lives in disarray, Annie and Buster reluctantly return home in search of sanctuary—only to be caught up in one last performance.

I had no idea until I began to make this post that it is a recent movie, IMDB.com

 

[Kogo Shuko]

Book # 18 Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning

In Karen Marie Moning’s latest installment of the epic #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series, the stakes have never been higher and the chemistry has never been hotter. Hurtling us into a realm of labyrinthine intrigue and consummate seduction, FEVERBORN is a riveting tale of ancient evil, lust, betrayal, forgiveness and the redemptive power of love.

When the immortal race of the Fae destroyed the ancient wall dividing the worlds of Man and Faery, the very fabric of the universe was damaged and now Earth is vanishing bit by bit. Only the long-lost Song of Making—a haunting, dangerous melody that is the source of all life itself—can save the planet.

But those who seek the mythic Song—Mac, Barrons, Ryodan and Jada—must contend with old wounds and new enemies, passions that burn hot and hunger for vengeance that runs deep. The challenges are many: The Keltar at war with nine immortals who’ve secretly ruled Dublin for eons, Mac and Jada hunted by the masses, the Seelie queen nowhere to be found, and the most powerful Unseelie prince in all creation determined to rule both Fae and Man. Now the task of solving the ancient riddle of the Song of Making falls to a band of deadly warriors divided among—and within—themselves.

Once a normal city possessing a touch of ancient magic, Dublin is now a treacherously magical city with only a touch of normal. And in those war-torn streets, Mac will come face to face with her most savage enemy yet: herself.

This series seems to have gotten out of control.

I found the author had a hard time getting back into the voice in the first part of the book.

Story is still entertaining, but not at all what it was in the first three or four books.

 

[willowsnn3]

#29/72

The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild. The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.

On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings--an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own.

In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henry's life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family.

Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world.

Every other chapter is narrated by Henry or Aniday. A couple chapters in, I started to put this one down, but was glad I didn't. It turned out to be pretty good.

 

[MochaDrinker]

53/200-Jacqualine Boviour Kennedy Onassis the untold story by Barbara leaming

 

[Deffenm]

Is this a Debbie Macomber book? If it is and the one I'm thinking about, it's a fun book to read.

Yes it was. I really enjoyed it.

14/50 - The Girls of Mischief Bay: Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband, who quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen. He won't even help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time at her Mischief Bay Pilates studio. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves?
Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg rose to become vice president in her firm, but she wonders now whether she made the right choice. An exciting new relationship with a great guy convinces her that it might not be too late—until he drops a bombshell that has her questioning whether she can have it all. And if she can, does she want it?
Although Pam Eiland has a beautiful house and a husband she adores, she feels… restless. She wonders who a stay-at-home mom becomes after the kids are grown. Finding sexy new ways to surprise her husband brings the heat and the humor back to their marriage, but when unexpected change turns her life upside down, she'll have to redefine herself. Again.
Through romance and heartbreak, laughter and tears, three very different women will discover that friends can become family, and that life is richer with sisters at your side.

 

[zippitydoo]

Book #23/50: Memory Man(Amos Decker, #1) by David Baldacci

From Goodreads:
The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything.

The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare--his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered.

His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. He leaves the police force, loses his home, and winds up on the street, taking piecemeal jobs as a private investigator when he can.

But over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. At the same time a horrific event nearly brings Burlington to its knees, and Decker is called back in to help with this investigation. Decker also seizes his chance to learn what really happened to his family that night. To uncover the stunning truth, he must use his remarkable gifts and confront the burdens that go along with them. He must endure the memories he would much rather forget. And he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

 

[Christine]

#19/50: What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan

I enjoyed the pace and storyline of this book. It is about a child abduction (but with a different twist at the end) and a 9 day time period of the family coping with this as well as the press and the police investigating it.

Anyway, I think this was book 19. I've gotten into a slump. I started and put down two books so I wasted some time there. Not sure why nothing is interesting me at all.

Has wilma-bride been to this thread lately. I looked at the first page to figure out my count and I'm at 12 and I scrolled through quickly and hadn't seen her here.