The Lost Challenges discussion

Week #8
by Kami Garcia
Finished; Febuary 28,2013
Rating: 4 stars

Items:1/10
Bible: It is from the Bible. pg 133

Week 8:
Read by Aleatha Romig (last 40%)
Finished: 2/25/13
Rating: ★★★★★

Items Found: 1

handed him a generous tip from his money clip KL# 8439

Week 8:

- Emma Donaghue
Finished: Feb. 28th 2013
Rating: 3/5

Items to claim:

Fleece blanket: "...wrap up in Blanket that's all gray and fleecy with the red piping." (Kobo pg. 71)

Post total: 1/10
Week total: 1/10

Week 8
Points this Post: 3
Points this Week: 3/10

Book: by Neal Shusterman
Read: From February 27 to 28
Rating: ♥♥♥♥½

Claimed word: Agave
"Real Russian vodka. Tequila from before the agave extinction."
Kindle location 3880

Claimed word: Money clip
"Divan pays Nelson in cash from a money clip filled with countless bills."
Kindle location 1932

Claimed word: The Bible
"You came programmed with the entire Bible. In three languages, Cam says"
Kindle location 4208

Week #8

Finished: 3/2/2013
Rating: 4 stars

Items 1/10 Total this week:2/10

Geckos:more flighting than a drawer full of geckos.... pg 63

The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits by Kent Greenfield
Finished: 2/27
Rating: 4 stars

4. The Bible: "The Christian Bible does say that the head of a woman is..." page 75

This week so far: 1/10

Week 8

by J.D.Robb
Rating:3 stars
Read: March 2
Item:
1-Bible:
…damn straight sure somebody can swear on a mountain of Bibles she was somewhere else ... page 136

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
Rating:4 stars
Read:March 4
Item:
2-Tofu :
I've got some tofu patties here . page 267 ebook

Week #8

Love, Lies and High Heels by Debby Conrad

Finished: 3/1/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 2/10

Puck: Hockey sticks sliced through the air, driving the puck across the ice. (Location 2260)

Tofu: "Tofu," he read? and room deodorizers, mineral water, herbal tea, fresh fish......(Location 829)



Week #8

Cool Beans by Erynn Mangum

Finished: 3/3/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 2/10

Beagle: Calvin, my beagle, is still barking his head off. (Location 97)


Fleece Blanket: Forty minutes later, we're both sunggled under fleece blankets on the couch..(Location 1687)



Week #8

Zombies at the Door, Planning for the Inevitable by Charles M. Pulsipher

Finished: 3/3/13
Rating: 2 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Paintball Gun: Paintball guns are not a good option either. (Location 289)


Items Claimed 5/10

Week 8



Envy by J.R. Ward
Finished:2/27
Rating:♥♥♥♥

(Words claimed after Disc 4/Track 9)
2. Tofu:
...even if I had roughage and tofu...Disc 5/Track 4 (04:33)
4. The Bible:
...the little red bible glowed...Disc 11/Track 11 (04:09)


Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
Finished:3/1
Rating:♥♥♥♥

10. Geckos:
...small brown geckos darted...Part 2 (15:33)


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Finished:3/4
Rating:♥♥

3. Hockey Puck:
...the puck in an ice hockey rink...Part 11 (33:56)

Total Items Claimed:4/10

WEEK 8:
Items found: 3/10

4. The Bible: “Forward with a leather bound checkbook, the size of a the Bible.” (Pg. 446 in The Good, the Bad, and the Undead)

5. Beagle: “A fainst baying of a beagle lifted overthe hazy afternoon.” (Pg. 298 in The Good, the Bad, and the Undead)

9. Paintball Gun: “Head bowed, Glenn eyed the paintball gun. ” (Pg. 73 in The Good, the Bad, and the Undead)

by Kim Harrison (Done 3/2, 2.5 stars)

Week #8
by JR Ward
Finished:3/4/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:1~3/10
Hockey Puck:He was almost in range when the door swung open, narrowly missing his head and clipping the phone-which shot like a hockey puck in the opposite direction. Page 193

**Week 8**
by Kim Harrison

Read: 2/25-3/2
Rating: 5♥'s

Items Claimed: 1 ~ 1/10

Paintball Gun Location 6358/Page 350 "No splat gun?" Snapping the chalk in two, I wedged a piece into each boot. "He can burst the charms in the hopper and put me out in three seconds," I said, having downed Lee the way..."

by Lily Silver

Read: 3/2-3/4
Rating: 3♥'s

Items Claimed: 2 ~ 3/10

Tofu Location 4494 "So what am I, chopped tofu?"

the Bible Location 5879 "... one that saw demons behind everything, from the children's cartoons to the Catholic Church being the Whore of Babylon and the Pope the Antichrist as prophesied in the Bible."

Week 8 - 7/10



Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Completed: Feb 25, 2013 {Counts from KL. 2265}
Rating: ★★★★

1. Beagle
"…was suddenly upon them like a beagle on a fox cub."
KL. 3966

Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay
Completed: Mar 03, 2013
Rating: ★★★

2. Paintball Gun
"…and then she splattered us with a paintball gun."
KL. 1398

Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Completed: Mar 04, 2013
Rating: ★★★★

3. Hockey Puck
"…nothing more than giant pucks from some game of hockey…"
KL. 551

Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Completed: Mar 04, 2013
Rating: ★★★★★

4. Chocolate Bunny (Rabbit)
"Chocolate rabbits, hens, things like that."
p. 102

5. Bible
"And yet the Bible tells us quite clearly…"
p. 151

Sleeping in Eden: A Novel by Nicole Baart
Completed: Mar 04, 2013
Rating: ★★★

6. Geckos
"…miss warm winters, geckos in the backyard…"
p. 28

7. Tofu
"Tofu? I like it scrambled with green peppers and soy sauce."
p. 114

Week #8

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Finished: 3/3/13
Rating: 5 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Chocolate Bunny: The last egg was inside a big basket of chocolate rabbits and yellow marshmallow chicks. (Page 143)


Week #8

How Sweet It Is by Bonnie Blythe

Finished: 3/4/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 2/10

Agave Plant: ..as they made their way inside the large structure made from massive timbers and natural stone, flanked by stark palms and agave plants. (Location 2411)

Bible: ...and hearing the Bible preached a very moving experience.(Location 3130)


Items Claimed 8/10

Marrying Cade by Sally Clements - 1 star
Read on March 03, 2013


The Scent of Cherry Blossoms by Cindy Woodsmall
Read on March 04, 2013 - 3 stars


A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight
Read on March 04, 2013 - 4 stars


Freefall by Kristen Heitzmann
Read on March 04, 2013 - 3 1/2 stars

Week 8 Items: 2/25/13 to 3/4/13

Hockey Puck: "One hockey puck." (The Scent of Cherry Blossoms, location 482)
The Bible: "The bishop closed the Bible, and everyone took a seat." (The Scent of Cherry Blossoms, location 1747)
Beagle: "She fell over the beagle." (Freefall, location 1986)
Money Clip: "With her left hand on the wheel, she pulled a leather money clip from her jeans pocket." (Freefall, location 6346)
Fleece Blanket: "Melo pulled the light caramel fleece blanket up." (Marrying Cade, location 1575)
Chocolate Bunny: "...Molly had eaten more chocolate bunnies and marshmallow eggs than she could count." (A Very Special Delivery, location 2353)
Geckos: "Geckos kekeked in the bushes, and one clung to the screen, watching the act of benevolence toward the feral cats." (Freefall, location 3941)

Claimed 7/10

Week 8
Items Claimed: 9/10


Finished 3/2
4★
Chocolate Bunny: - "Like I'm one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter..." ~ Page 106


Finished 3/3
4★
Geckos (more than one): - "His sharpest memory from that age was scaring the maid with geckos." ~ KL 732


Finished 3/3
4★
Beagle: - "A little beagle." ~ KL 261


Finished 3/3
3★
Hockey Puck: - "...trying to think about hockey. His mind was full of visuals of sliding the puck home..." ~ KL 3246
Paintball Gun: - "...he raised his paintball gun..." ~ KL 2130


Finished 3/4
3★
Agave Plant: - "...out of the orchid display area and amidst the agaves and cacti of the adjoining section." ~ Ebook page 23


Finished 3/4
3½★
Tofu: - "...sliding the packages of tofu and edamame to the side..." ~ Page 12
The Bible: - "And quite the Bible lover." ~ Page 163
Money Clip: - "I'd found a money clip on the ground but had no idea who it belonged to." ~ Page 119

Week #9

How Sweet It Is by Bonnie Blythe

Finished: 3/4/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Blubber: Great Delphine, ignore the guy after you've blubbered all over him. (Location 2819)

Week #9
by S.C. Stephens
Finished:3/8/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:1~1/10
Blubber:Trust me, when you actually leave, I will be a blubbering wreck. Page 88

Week #9

I read:
Finished: 3/8
Rating: 5 stars

Items to claim:

Shindig: "So, what do you think of this shindig?" - Page 213

Total: 1/10

Week #9
by Barbara Ellen Brink
Finished:3/7/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:1~2/10
Bus:I made small talk until the driver of the bus informed his passengers that he would leave in five minutes whether they were on board or not. Page 212

Week #9
by Lara Adrian
Finished:3/10/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:1~3/10
Bulbous:She traced his shaft and balls, then lazzily brought her fingers up around the bulbous head that more than breached the surface of the bathwater. Page 153

Week 9

by Robyn Carr

Read:9 March 2013
Rating:4 stars

1-Blubber:...as Dana pressed her forehead against his and blubbered her lips in a spitty noise. page 206
2-bus:"I rode that bus for years." Page 206

by Lynsay Sands
Read:11 March 2013
Rating:4 stars

3-Spatula :This is a spatula . Page 42

Week 9



City of Bones by Veronica Roth
Finished:3/5
Rating:♥♥♥♥

10. Bus:
...wrecked-looking old school bus...page 413


I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Finished:3/8
Rating:♥♥♥♥♥

1. Bulbous:
...bulbous "elephant" chair...page 387
7. Blubber:
...in a world full of blubber...page 414
9. Igloo:
...a Igloo cooler with enough...page 62


A World Away by Nancy Grossman
Finished:3/9
Rating:♥♥♥

4. Spatula:
...I pressed a spatula...page 79

Total for the Week:5/10

ICEHOTEL by Hanna Allen
Finished: 3/10
Rating: 3 stars

1. Bulbous: "The balding giant had yellow teeth, a bulbous nose, and warts on his face" location 2476

9: Igloo: "But the Icehotel was an elongated igloo with low rectangular structures on either side" location 260

10. Bus: "He was standing in front of the bus." location 544

This week so far: 3

**Week 9**

by Jennifer Echols

Read: 3/5
Rating: 4♥'s

Items Claimed: 3 ~ 3/10

Bus Location 705 "... my classmates had reached Miami in the bus yet."

Hullabaloo Location 2148 "But he might cause a hullabaloo that would get back to my parents."

Spatula Location 473 "Expertly he slid his spatula under the eggs and flipped them..."

by Cora Carmack

Read: 3/10-3/11
Rating: 4½♥'s

Items Claimed: 1 ~ 4/10

Plethora Location 3146 "... thank you to Heather for answering my plethora of self-publishing questions."

by Ophelia London

Read: 3/6
Rating: 4-4½♥'s

Items Claimed: 3 ~ 7/10

Shindig Location 2640 "I don't do those industry shindigs."

Blubber Location 3245 "Both of our bodies shook as we blubbered together in unison."

Bulbous Location 3882 "Max's bulbous, pathetic face was red,"

Week #9

by Laurell K. Hamilton
Finished:3/11/13
Rating:5 Stars

Items Claimed:1~4/10
Plethora:Edward pulled out onto the road, easing his way among the plethora of marked and unmarked police cars Marks had brought with him. Page 82

Week 9:
Items found: 4/10

1. Bulbous: “ No Regin began, making your wear out your bulbous horns out of your ass wouldn’t be nice” (Pg. 114 in Dark Needs at Night's Edge )
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5. Plethora: “trying to process the Plethora of words that just came out of his mouth.” [KL 2513 in [book:Hopeless|15717943]

7. Blubber: “ Blubber “In short I was the the blubbery sum of seventten-plus years of bad decisions” ( KL 232 in Sweet Blood of Mine)

10. Bus : “Stefan’s old VW bus with the cool paint job ” (Pg. 168 in Frost Burned

by Colleen Hoover (Done 3/3, 4-stars)
by Patricia Briggs (Done 3/6, 4-stars)
by Kresley Cole (Done 3/8, 3-stars)
by John Corwin (Done 3/11, 3.5 stars)

Week #9

How Sweet It Is by Bonnie Blythe

Finished: 3/4/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Bus: She stepped off the city bus and walked the ....(Location 617)


Week #9

100 Easy Recipes in Jars by Bonnie Scott

Finished: 3/9/13
Rating: 5 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Macadamia: ...one cup chopped macadamia nuts...(Location 636)



Week #9

An Evergreen Christmas by Tanya Goodwin

Finished: 3/10/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 3/10

Bouffant: ..waiting at the scrub sink, blue bouffant scrub caps on and light

blue...(Location 1079)

Shindig: She ducked out of the holiday shindig every year.(Location 156)

Hullabaloo: And like every year, she'd ride out the holidays, grateful once the whole

hullabaloo faded.(Location 114)



Week #9

Undressed by Avery Aster

Finished: 3/10/13
Rating: 3 Stars

Items Claimed: 1/10

Bulbous: ...rubbed his bulbous head against her....(Location 1293)

Items Claimed 7/10

Week #10
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Finished:3/11/13
Rating:5 Stars

*Counts after Page 164
Items Claimed:2~2/10
Bracelet:He'd added heavy silver bracelets at mid-bicep, and matching ones at each wrist. Page 165

Bridge:I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Page 284

Week 9
Items Claimed: 9/10


Finished 3/9
3½★

Bulbous/Bouffant: "...but the bulbous bouffant of the paramedic was in my way." ~ KL 3913
Spatula: "I picked up a spatula." ~ KL 4446
Bus: "...the Fulton 5 bus groaned through the intersection..." ~ KL 3321


Finished 3/11
4★

Shindig: "...Jim's mother was planning a big fancy shindig." ~ KL 3164
Blubber: "...maybe I can get through this without blubbering, like I usually do." ~ KL 2281
Hullabaloo: "I don't know what the big hullabaloo's about..." ~ KL 3185


Finished 3/11
4★

Plethora: "...tugging out a plethora of credit cards." ~ Ebook page 27
Igloo: "In spite of the provisions she'd packed in an Igloo cooler..." ~ Ebook page 19

Week 9 - 7/10



Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
Completed: Mar 08, 2013 {Counts from KL. 1522}
Rating: ★★

1. Macadamia
"...cheap surfer shirts, macademia nuts, coconut syrup..."
KL. 2335

2. Bouffant
"He wore a bouffant wig."
KL. 3991

3. Blubber
"They'd have to flense her like the blubber from a whale."
KL. 6015

See Now Then: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
Completed: Mar 11, 2013
Rating: ★★

4. Spatula
"...the sound of a steel spatula against the bottom..."
p. 85

Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew
Completed: Mar 11, 2013
Rating: ★★★★★

5. Bus
"Three yellow buses idled nearby..."
p. 151

6. Shindig
"If Sweet wanted to go to any more family shindigs in Tulsa..."
p. 179

7. Bulbous
"...the sheriff with his bulbous nose..."
p. 206

Week 9:

- David Sedaris
Rating: 4/5
Finished: March 11th, 2013

Items to claim:

Bus: "The bus from North Carolina to Oregon takes four days..." (pg. 153)
Igloo: "...she would have been happy to crawl into the igloo and eat raw seal..." (pg. 246)
Spatula: "...and used his spatula to startle a fly off his ass." (pg. 280)
Blubber: "...listening to you blubber like a baby every time you skinned your delicate little knuckles." (pg. 200)

Post total: 4/10
Week total: 4/10

Week 9:

- Kurt Vonnegut
Rating: 4/5
Finished: March 11th, 2013

Items to claim:

Bulbous: "...she might at least have concealed the fact that she had a bulbous nose..." (pg. 80)

Post total: 1/10
Week total: 5/10

Week 10:

- David Sedaris
Rating: 4/5
Finished: March 11th, 2013 (pg. 131 and on)

Items to claim:

Lion: "...the handle of a cane carved to resemble the head of an angry lion." (pg. 221)
Photograph: "...like cats stuffed into little outfits for the sake of a wacky photograph." (pg. 282)
Bridge: "I'd live under a bridge before I'd ever go back there." (pg. 167)

Post total: 3/10
Week total: 3/10

Week 10

by Elizabeth Enright
read:12 March (after chapter 8 counts , page 113 or so)
Rating :3 stars


1-Photograph:
Page 237 ... and a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in a tarnished

2-Lion
Page 150 …and looking stern, and pushed open the door, brave as a lion.

3-Bridge
Page 179 ... guys to help us with the bridge and things like that. What do you thin…

4-Lily the Flower
Page 138 ... 9 July was drawing to a close. Tiger lilies were blooming everywhere.

Week #9

I read: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall
Rating: 4 stars

Items found:

Bulbous:" He raised his bulbous nose." - Page 213
Bouffant: "She'd chosen a cream-colored gown with bouffant sleeves tied with pretty ribbons." - Page 278
Plethora: "A plethora of ivory curls framed her face." - Page 82
Blubber: "But instead, all she heard were his snores, deep and blubbering as they always were when he was besotted." - Page 6

Total items claimed: 5/10

Week #10
by J.R. Tomlin
Finished:3/11/13
Rating:4 Stars

*Counts after 72%
Items Claimed:1~3/10
Stained Glass Windows:He looked impressive standing there backlit by the Sanctuary and its five, stained glass windows set in the walls at the end of the main aisle. Kindle App for PC Location 3963

Week #10

I read: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall
Rating: 4 stars
Read from at least page 197 on after items were called.

Items found:

Stained Glass Windows: "She gazed up at the stained-glass windows surrounding the dark outline of a crucifix." - Page 273

Total: 1/10

Week 9


A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight
4 stars
Read on March 04, 2013

Spatula: "She pauseed, spatula in the air, and frowned in thought." (A Very Special Delivery, location 522)
Bus: "Long involved in the church's bus outreach to kids, Chloe was followed by members of her Sunday School class whose parents didn't attend." (A Very Special Delivery, location 2696)

Week 9



5 Stars 10.03

Items:
Macadamia - page 153 - If a chocolate macadamia cookie and a skinny latte found their way onto my desk, it wouldn't be my fault.
Spatula - page 107 - The beanpole with the gray braid down to his ass let out a grunt, waved his spatula.
Bus - page 338 - I took a bus to Indianapolis.

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Finished: 3/12
Rating: 3 stars

3. Photograph: "She pointed to another photograph of Genevieve." page 234
4. Bracelet: "The bracelet was keeping us from seeing the vision" page 216
5. Lion: "I was watching two lions circle each other..." page 167

Week so far: 3

Week 10

by J.D Robb
Rating 4 stars
Read: 14 March

5-Stained Glass Windows
Page 138 ... that seeped through the stained glass of the streetside window.

6-Bracelet
Page 292 ... "You want a new set of bracelets?"

Week #10

I read: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall
Rating: 4 stars
Read from at least page 197 on after items were called.

Items found:

Lion: "She reached the bottom of the stairway and faced him like an angry lioness." Page 209

Total: 2/10

Week #10

I read: Kill Shot by Anne Patrick
Rating: 3 stars
Read from 22% on after items were called.

Items found:

Photograph: "For the next twenty minutes, Kory looked at photographs and listened to stories about Rose's Kids." - 25%
Bracelet: "Let me guess, if I resist you've got a nice pair of bracelets for me." - 85%

Total: 4/10

Week #10

I read: Gone in a Flash by Lynette Eason
Rating: 4 stars
Finished: 3/12/2013

Items found:

Bridge: "His little brows drew together over the bridge of his nose." - 33%

Total: 5/10

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Finished: 3/14
Rating: 3 stars

1. Stained Glass Windows "...with buttresses and a small bell tower, and stained-glass windows..." page 24

6. Bridge: "It's a disused tube station just north of the London Bridge" page 291

Total: 5/10

Week #10
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Finished:3/14/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:2~5/10
Lion:You get your head lion in here and I'll greet him, bu you I don't have to greet. Page 88

Pocket Watch:The floor was littered with bones and had an eighteenth-century pocket watch in among the debris. Page 346

Week #10
by Lyn Horner
Finished:3/14/13
Rating:4 Stars

Items Claimed:1~6/10
Bandana:Mopping his sweaty face with his bandanna, he waited while another calf was roped and towed, complaining, over to the fire. Page 44

Points this Post: 2
Points this Week: 2/10

Book: by Piper Kerman
Read: From March 15 to 17
Rating: ♥♥♥½

Claimed word: Photograph
"Covering the half-page were over a dozen photographs of women of every age, race, size and shape."
Kindle Location 1095

Claimed word: Bridge
"...until we finally sailed over the Bay Bridge into San Francisco."
Kindle Location 134

**Week 10**

by J. Lynn

Read: 3/13
Rating: 4½♥'s

Items Claimed: 1 ~ 1/10

Orion's Belt Location 2251 "... how many stars make up Orion's belt?"

by Dave Ferraro

Read: 3/2 (Only reading since Monday this week counted)-3/13
Rating: 4♥'s

Items Claimed: 4 ~ 5/10

Bracelet Location 4773/Page 312 "There were necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, and other little knickknacks..."

Photographs Location 4781/Page 312 "She looked beyond him and suddenly noted photographs on the walls."

Pocket Watch Location 2944/Page 192 "...the men [carried] large pocket watches and canes like they'd walked off the set of Pride and Prejudice."

Bridges Location 5264/Page 244 "...and one at the other, with three bridges crossing over to the other side."