The Challenge Factory discussion

Soo I picked up a book last night. I didn't really have high expectations. I figured it would be a cookie cutter book, and I would get bored and move on. I'm happy to say I was wrong, wrong, wrong. C.M. Stunich, Tasting Never is a great start to a series. The 2nd book is just as great if not better. I'm in love with Ty. Never is okay, too. I haven't wanted to slap her once!! I'm about to start book 3!!

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I'm still making my way through Battle Royale and I've also started Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (a fun, twisted fairytale graphic novel), Goth Girl Rising, and The Hobbit (on audio).

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Under the Dome -- It's really good!

I'm almost done with and a couple of hours left of the audio version of

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Just finished Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution, which had been on my TBR since 2000. I'm moving on to The Bad Miss Bennet: A Novel and Miss Fuller: A Novel

Currently reading Emmy Missing by Vickie Hall

Finished Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey.
Started The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse.

Started on 5/25/2013 - currently 78% complete

AAAAAAAARGH! All I have to say is thank the universe that Burke published another installment of his Robicheaux series before I read the one I just finished, The Glass Rainbow , because this one ended with a cliffhanger!

I'm reading Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin

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All of these are free at B&N for your nook if you have one.

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Go vote for Curran!

http://vampirebookclub.net/round-12-c...

I repeat...Curran! lol

Finished listening to the audio of by Paolo Giordano (audio performed by Luke Daniels) – 4****
Giordano writes with such elegance about the landscape of loneliness. Mattia and Alice – like the rare “twin primes” in mathematics, who are near but always separated by one even number – are destined to cling together though never quite touch. Luke Daniels gives a nuanced performance on the audio version.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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I've got three YAs and a classic going right now:

Goth Girl Rising
Irises
The Eleventh Plague
The Age of Innocence

Finished Something Dangerous last night. It's the second book in a trilogy that follows an English publishing family and their American counterparts from around 1910-ish to wherever the third book winds up. :-) The one I just finished ends right after the Second World War. So far the books have been enthralling. (Dumb titles though. Sat here this morning thinking about posting this and couldn't remember the name of the book!)

These books are also so long that I'm getting woefully behind on my goal!

Listened to the audio book of by John Steinbeck (audio performed by Dylan Baker) – 5*****
Another great Steinbeck novel! I particularly liked the occasional chapters that were more like editorials about the conditions of the people, the land, and the economic times. The audio was well done, and Baker seemed to be channeling Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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I am currently reading by Julia Crane.

I just started Don of the Dead.

I just finished and . I liked them both for different reasons. Awesome if you like realistic fiction or magical realism.

I just finished ★★★★. Now I'm reading . I'm trying to catch up on this series.

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Listened to the audio book of There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene (Book on CD narrated by Julie Fain Lawrence) – 4****
I almost gave up on this because it is slow to get started. Greene, a journalist, spends seemingly countless pages giving the reader a history lesson on Ethiopia and the development of HIV/AIDS. What was really compelling about the book was the story of Haregewoin Teferra, a middle-class Ethiopian woman consumed by grief, who – one child at a time – begins to care for and find permanent homes for some of the millions of AIDS orphans in Ethiopia. At times frustrating, at times heartwarming.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am just starting It looks like a good book.

Just finished reading The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse and I have to say I was quite disappointed with it. I was hopping for a much more interesting mystery and found that I also didn't really enjoy her style of writing. Overall a pretty boring read, rushed through most of it just so I could start something new.

Now I'm reading Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare which I'm sure like all her other books I've read I will enjoy.

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Finished reading Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman – 3***
Decent Southern women’s fiction, with an intelligent, independent heroine who must learn to let go of the guilt she carries over her brother’s disappearance. It’s a fast, summer vacation read.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I started The Heist by Janet Evanovich today, and it is hilarious!

Finished the audio version of The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani – 4****
This is an epic historical family drama taking the reader from 1904 in the Italian Alps to just after WW 2 in America. Based on her own grandparents’ story, this is clearly a labor of love for Trigiani. The audio is narrated by Annabella Sciorra and Adriana Trigiani. I was completely caught up in the story, and especially liked Enza – a strong woman with intelligence and grace.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Finished reading by Nicole Mones – 4****
This is a very good book about friendship, love and cuisine. Mones deftly combines the story of widowed Maggie McElroy and rising culinary star Sam Liang. The characters are revealed as the reader sees how they each deal with various disappointments and unexpected joys. The descriptions of the menus and dishes are a sensory feast of tastes, sounds, smells, textures, and visual images. Take your time reading it – savor every page.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am reading Deadline. It's good but very serious.

I'm working on a few right now:

Goth Girl Rising (realistic YA)
Fateful (historical paranormal YA)
Don of the Dead (paranormal mystery)
Rotters (realistic horror YA)

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Finished the audio version of by Agatha Christie – 3.5*** (Audio performed by Hugh Fraser.)
This is another wonderful mystery from the Queen of detective fiction – Dame Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot is at the top of his game following the clues to identify a serial killer who is taunting him with letters. The novel is narrated by his friend and colleague Captain Hastings. Hugh Fraser does a marvelous job performing the audio book.
Link to my full review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I am currently reading by Lizzy Ford.

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I am currently reading by Isaac Asimov

I am reading by Diana Gabaldon.