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Pointe of Passion by Annalie Walker
Read: 12/29
Pages: 199
Goal: none
Buddhist Boot Camp by Timber Hawkeye
Read: 12/29
Pages: 160
Goal: none
Nightshifted (Edie Spence, #1) by Cassie Alexander
Pages: 331 (61 chapters)
Date Completed: 12/29/2015
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: Read a book with 61-70 chapters.
Reason: Book has 61 chapters.
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Date read: 12/29
Pages: 368
Goals: Read a book where presents are exchanged...Grand Duchess Marguerite and Lieutenant Markov exchange Christmas gifts...and the royal family does also
Finished:
Playing With Fire by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Date read: 1/30/15
Pages: 120
Characters: Claire Abbott, Trevor, Kayla, Devon, Matt
Goal: None yet
Misc. Info:
*Claire Abbott has visions, she is a journalist,
*Takes place in a small town
*Arsonist, Firebug. Buildings are set on fire
*part of a series (#2)
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Read: 12/30
Pages: 443
Goal: none
Set in North Korea; Pulitzer Prize Winner (2013) for Fiction
, sherryl woods4*s
12.29.2015
romance, fiction, chick-lit
set in Maryland on the Chesapeake Shores
288 pages
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Read: 12/30
Pages: 176
Goal: none
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Read: 12/31
Pages: 226
Goal: none
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Read: 29 Dec
Pages: 464
Goal: None.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Read: 29 Dec
Pages: 341
Goal: None.
, jill shalvis4*s
01.01.2016
311 pages
, james patterson4*s
01.01.2016
368 pages
Burned by Natasha DeenRead: 12/31/15
Pages: 168
No goals yet
Characters: Josie
Setting/Location: Vancouver,
Josie is on the streets. She is going for vengeance. Her family was murdered by a cop. She also dresses as a boy to disguise herself.
Wild Rain (Leopard People, #2) by Christine Feehan
Pages: 358 (20 chapters)
Date Completed: 01/01/2016
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: Read a book which features a snake on the cover or in the story.
Reason: "He slipped into the foliage, ignored a large python coiled about a thick branch only feet from his home, and moved quickly along the network of branches high above the forest floor." (page 170)
The Sidewalk Artist: A Novel by Gina Buonaguro
Read: Jan 2, 2016
Pages: 224
Goal: The word "artist" in the title
, janet evanovich01.03.2016
4*s
292 pages
(R)evolution by P.J. Manney
Read: 1/2
Pages: 544
Goal: none
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
Read: 1/3
Pages: 263
Goal: none
Lying Season (Experiment in Terror, #4) by Karina Halle
Pages: 348 (23 chapters)
Date Completed: 01/04/2014.
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: Read a book where a character gets a makeover.
Reason: Rebecca gives Perry a makeover (at 86%). "It wasn't a ton of makeup, but it was enough to make me look, well, a million times better than normal."
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Finished: January 04
Pages : 310
Goals: Begins with an "I" (crossword goal)
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett
Pages: 264 (No chapters.)
Date Completed: 01/05/2016.
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: Read a book with a hat on the cover.
Reason: A hat is pretty much the only thing on the cover.
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Read: Jan 6
Pages: 446
Goal: None
Characters: Laia, Darin, Elias, Helene, Keenan, Mazen, Sana, Marcus, Izzi
Creatures: ghouls, wraith, jinn
Other: a character they think is dead but isn't, tradespeople in just about everything, fortune teller, assassin, and spies
Who Loves Her? The Vanilla Wedding by Taylor Storm
Read: 1/6
Pages: 320
Goal: none
Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise by Oscar Hijuelos
Read: 1/6
Pages: 480
Goal: title stars with 'T'
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Read: Jan 6
Pages: 357
Goal: None
Characters: Juliette, Adam, Warner, Kenji, James
Asylum, science fiction, eye on the cover
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Read: 1/7/16
Pages: 416
Goal: none
46 Chapters
Book 1 in a series
Published May 5th 2015
ISBN 1619634449
Characters: Feyre, Tamlin, Lucien, Rhysand
Literary Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015)
possible goals:
Read a book you got for free
Read a book that has fairies
Read a book where there is a tight deadline - (had a deadline for the curse to be broken)
Read a book where there is only "one left" (could be one chance left, one survivor, etc.) - Feyre only had one chance left to free them and that was to solve the riddle
Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place.
Read a book where characters go to a dance - there were parties/dances almost every night when Feyre was under the mountain
Read a book where a character becomes royalty - Feyre becomes High Fae
Read a book where a character is a fae - Tamlin, Lucien, Rhysand
Read a book where a character has an unusual sidekick - Tamlin has Lucien who is most unusual
Read a book where a character dies - Feyre
Read a book where an uninportant character dies - a couple fae we never learn their names, and Clare Beddor
Read a book where an important character dies - Feyre
Read a book where the characters eat steak - Tamlin Page 199 - "I bit her," Tamlin said, not pausing as he cut his steak. (Tamlin, Feyre, and Lucien are at the table dining together)
Read a book where two people with different religions interact - Feyre and her family don't recognize the old gods or their names...Lucien and Tamlin and the other fae pray to Cauldron and Fate
Read a book where a character gets a haircut - Feyre - page 54 - Alis and two other servants- also masked- bathed me, cut my hair...
Read a book where a character has a first experience - Feyre goes past the wall into Prythian for the first time
Read a book where a character gets a second chance - Feyre doesn't break the curse at first but makes a second chance for herself by being brave enough to go Under the Mountain to face Amarantha and accepting Amarantha's trials.
Read a book that has a love triangle - Feyre, Tamlin, and Rysand...even though I think Rysand loves Feyre I don't believe she feels the same.
Read a book where a character is given a last chance - Feyre given a last chance to break the curse by answering the riddle
Read a book where a character doesn't need to work for a living. - Tamlin is more wealthy than is humanly possible
Read a book where a character has a military background or family - Tamlin worked on the front battle lines of the war with his father's troops before his father and brothers died
Read a book that has a bully - Amarantha, the Attor, and Lucien's brothers
Read a book where a character carries a switch blade (or any kind of knife) - Tamlin wheres a baldric with knives sheathed within it across his chest most of the time
Read a book where someone goes home again - Feyre goes back into the human territory again and is back home with her sisters and father, but they live in a different house than when she left...I would still consider this going home...OR the fact that she goes back to Prythian for Tamlin and then they return to the estate together could be thought of as her going home... or both could
Read a book that has a hero or heroine that does something “dumb” - Feyre agreed to the trials without making sure the wording was exact...she should have made her say they would be free immediately, not just that they would be freed.
Read a book where one character stands by another in the face of adversity - Rhysand stands by Feyre, Feyre stands by Lucien and Tamlin
Read a book with minions (Like a vampire who has a seethe, or a person who uses zombies to do their evil bidding) - Amarantha uses the Attor and Rhysand to do her evil bidding.
Read a book with a woman on the cover
Read a book that contains the word peas - page 49 - "...and not some strange faerie delicacy: chicken, bread, peas..."
Read a book that contains the word strawberry - Page 223 -
...at disappearing when I needed him, and so I ate my fill of strawberry..."
Read a book that contains the word asparagus - Page 49 - "...strange faerie delicacy: chicken, bread, peas, fish, asparagus..."
Read a book with the word tumble in the text - Page 375 - "...tumble into that deep, dark..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Justice" in the text or title - Page 47- "...would never do it justice..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Death" in the text or title - Page 4 - "...unaware that her death..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Strength" in the text or title- Page 29 - "...until I had the strength to walk..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Sun" in the text or title - Page 46 - "...the sun was already high..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Moon" in the text or title - Page 94 - "...the moon showed her face..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Star" in the text or title- page 225 - "...bathe in its colors and feel the stars..."
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The World" in the text or title - page 5 - "...maybe it would be a favor to the world..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Amethyst in the text or title - page 47 -"...above the array of amethyst irises..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Emerald in the text or title - page 3 - "...in folds of emerald silk..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Pearl in the text or title - page 252 - "...the pearls that were woven into her gold-brown hair..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Ruby in the text or title - Page 183 - "...plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Sapphire in the text or title - Page 225 - "...sky was an eddy of molten amethyst, sapphire..."
Read a book that has the birthstone Turquoise in the text or title - Page 55 - "...I took one look at the velvet turquoise dress..."
Read a book with a blue, purple, or black dress on the cover - black dress
Read a book with tattoos on the cover - tattoo on the arm
Read a book where the author has a 4 letter name (first or last) - Maas
Read a book with a Title of at least 4 words
Baby Poop: What Your Pediatrician May Not Tell You …about Colic, Reflux, Constipation, Green Stools, Food Allergies, and Your Child’s Immune Health by Linda Folden Palmer
Read: 1/6
Pages: 376
Goal: none
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Pages: 386 (49 chapters)
Date Completed: 01/08/2016.
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Historical Fiction.
Reason: "historical fiction" is a top shelf (and listed on the main book page).
Listened to audio version:
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Finished: January 08
Pages: 487 Audio: 11 hours
Goals: none
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
Read: 1/8
Pages: 329
Goal: crossword 'E'
Emma by Jane Austen
Read: Jan 9
Pages: 474
Goal: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (#47 on the list)
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
Read: 1/9
Pages: 321
Goal: crossword 'F'
, sherryl woodspages~288
01.07.2016
3*s
Listened to audio version:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Finished: Jan. 10
Pages: 288 (7 hours on audio)
Goals: none
NOS4A2 (a stand-alone) by Joe Hill
Pages: 686 (chapters have names; no numbers)
Date Completed: 01/10/2016.
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goal: CROSSWORD AA: Used as the N in FREEZING.
Reason: Title starts with N.
, g.a. mckevett01.11.2015
4*s
321 pages
kindle
Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest by Jack Nisbet
Read: 1/12
Pages: 256
Goal: 'A' in crossword
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz
Read: 1/12/2016
Pages: 521 (Total = 8)
Goals: not yet
ISBN: 0553593072
Date published: October 18th 2011
Characters: John Calvino, Nicolette Calvino, Zach Calvino, Naomi Calvino, Minette Calvino, Alton Turner Blackwood
-Read a book where there is only "one left" (could be one chance left, one survivor, etc.) - John Calvino was the sole survivor of his entire family who was murdered when John was just 14 years old
-Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place. - a lot of murder in this one...Alton Turner Blackwood comes back piggy backing on a demon to murder families...the murders of the entire Lucas family using their son as their "mount" is just one example.
-Read a book whose author has more than 2 pen names - John Hill, Owen West, David Axton
- Read a book where a character is an emergency services worker (Fire/Ambulance/Police)- John Calvino is a homicide detective
- Read a book where a character has more than one child - John Calvino has 3 kids...Zach, Naomi, and Minette
- Read a book where a character is a demon - the bad guy is a demon named "Ruin"
-Read a book where a character can see or feel ghosts - John's youngest daughter, Minette, can see and feel ghosts
- Read a book where at least 5 people are killed - the mom, dad, and daughter in the Lucas family...the mom, dad, son, and daughter of Reese Salsetto's sister's family.
- Read a book where someone talks with a god - John Calvino talks to God, begging him to help
- Read a book where two people with different religions interact - John Calvino is catholic and he interacts with Alton Turner Blackwood's ghost along with the demon that Blackwood had worshipped in life and into death
-Read a book where there is a partnership - John is partners with Lionel in his job as a homicide detective
- Read a book where a character is superstitious or believes in some myth or entity - John Calvino comes to believe that Alton Turner Blackwood's ghost or a demon is haunting his house and moving from person to person and committing murders
- Read a book that won or was nominated in the 2011 Goodread Choice Awards (https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...) - Horror
- Read a book that contains the word peas - page 74 "...which was an Italian dish of buttered peas..."
-Read a book that contains the word onion - page 239 "...which produces only sandwiches, French fries, and onion rings."
-Read a book that contains the word mint - Page 425 "...lemon slices and leaves of mint..."
-Read a book with the word tumble in the text - page 326 "...let alone to tumble them and toss them up from the lawn."
-Read a book with the phrase "chow down" in a book - page 219 "He wasn't a naive idiot who would happily chow down on..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Justice" in the text or title- page 322 "He saw an ironic kind of justice in..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Strength" in the text or title- page 37 "...the strength a spouse could provide..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Death" in the text or title - page 25 "...was like to be Death with an uppercase D."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Devil" in the text or title - page 77 "Besides, if you painted the devil on the..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Tower" in the text or title- page 138 "...As the raven glided down from the tower and away, moonlight..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Moon" in the text or title - page 130 "...was often related to phases of the moon..."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Sun" in the text or title - page 38 "The sun had sunk far down the gullet of the storm."
-Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The World" in the text or title - page 63 "...where life made sense and the madness of the world..."
-Read a book that has the birthstone Amethyst in the text or title - page 197 "...geode featured deposited purple crystals of amethyst."
-Read a book that has the birthstone Diamond in the text or title - page 261 "...only to get the diamond wristwatch..."
-Read a book that has the birthstone Emerald in the text or title - page 96 "...this emerald gaze could freeze..."
-Read a book that has the birthstone Pearl in the text or title - page 253 "...her mind began to secrete a black pearl..."
-Read a book written from more than one character's point of view - parts are told from Jack's, parts from Nicolette's, parts from each of their 3 kids, and from many other character's points of views.
- Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story - Jack and his family survive even though all the odds seem stacked against that outcome
-Read a book from your TBR that one of your teammates has already read - Kristin had already read it and it was on my TBR
- Read a book where the book title is also a song title - "What the Night Knows" by Raelynn (country artist)
- Read a book with Clouds on the cover - there are wispy clouds across the moon and under it
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski
Read: Jan 12
Pages: 416
Goal: None
Characters: Kestrel, Arin, Tensen, Deliah, Verex, Jess, Ronan
Slaves, spies, blacksmith, war
Mort (Discworld, #4) by Terry Pratchett
Pages: 295 (no labeled chapters)
Date Completed: 01/13/2016.
BoM/DQs: No/No.
Open Goals: Read a book with no labeled chapters.
Reason: Story was one long narrative, with no labeled chapters.
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The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Read: 12/28
Pages: 384
Goal: none