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Goal: title starts with J
Goal: Days of TT someone ruins or saves Xmas
updated spreadsheet
Finished
Does not fit any of the current goals.
320 pages
read 25/12
No current goals
genres - historical fiction, war, contemporary
characters - Ana Juric, Luka, Rahela, Marina, Petar
Set in Croatia & New York, USA
Ana survives the Yugoslavian civil war as a 10-year old, and after living the next 10 years in the US, returns to Croatia to search for old friends and family members and come to terms with what happened.
242 pages
read 27/12
No current goals
16 chapters
genres - history, biography, non-fiction
characters - Lionel Logue, Myrtle Logue, George VI, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons
Set in London, UK and Adelaide, Australia
Non fiction account of how a speech therapist helped King George VI overcome his stammer. Made into a film.
finished Sabriel
lots of stuff about necromancy and dead and living souls.
its got swords and bells and planes made of paper. theres this world like ours and the magical world across the wall thats full of charter magic (the good kind) and free magic (the naughty kind)
Finished
Read on: 28. Dec.
Pages: 656
Read for Days of TT day25 goal (#25 on my tbr sorted by date added)
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Pages: 323
Goals: none
Nonfiction story takes place in Warsaw during WWII. About a zookeeper and his wife as they use their bombed out zoo as part of the Underground to get Jews out of the city/Ghetto to safety. One of their good friends, Lonia is a dentist.
updating spreadsheet
The Chronicles of Narnia: Including an Essay on Writing by C.S. Lewis
Read: 12/29
Pages: 778
Goal: Pages add up to 22 (7+7+8=22)
Finished
Pages: 354
Read on: 29. Dec
Works for day#24 goal: "Read a book where something important happens on "the night before christmas""
(Owen has a fight with his brother on the night before Christmas. Their father takes the brothers side and Owen moves out of the house and starts living in the barn. The rift in the family is never healed and Owen never moves back in. I think that counts as important enough. :) )
Finished
12/30/15
418 Pages
Finished 12/30/15
290 Pages
On my phone so can't post too much detailA Cold Day for Murder
212 pages
29/12
Murder mystery, crime, set in Alaska, first in series
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12/30
pages: 384
twins, post apocalyptic, killing one twin kills the other, fight for equality between the alpha and omega twins.
spreadsheet updated
Finished
Pages: 399
Read on: 30. dec
Works for goal:
#3669 on list (page 38) https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Finished The Chimes on audio book which should have 116 pages. This book was published in the 1800s.I also finished Everything I Never Told You. I don't think this counts for any current goal, but I did participate in the book of the month
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pages: 283
no current goals
updated spreadsheet
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goal: author died last year.
spreadsheet updated
Finsihed
Read on: 1. Jan.
Pages: 304
Chapters: 17
Setting: USA
Characters: Piper, Ash, Quinn, Lyre, Calder, Zwi, Vejovis, Mona
Calder & Quinn are twins; Lyre is an incubus; Zwi is Ash's pet/companion; Zwi is a dragon; A lot of people are killed during this book; Vejovis is a doctor/healer; Ra & Hades (gods) mentioned; Piper, Ash & Lyre are attacked by minotaur, harpies, sphinx, naga; Piper presumed her mother was dead for 10 years but she was not;
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Jan 1
564 pages
nonfiction about the Life of Keith Richards.
Jan 1
379 pages
historical Scottish highland romance
spreadsheet updated
Page count: 594
Date read: 29/11/15
Page count: 462
Date read: 17/12/15
Book of the Month
Page count: 359
Date read: 17/12/15
Page count: 302
Date read: 29/12/15
Page count: 648
Date read: 1/1/16
Finished Scarlet by Marissa Meyer.47 chapters
Doesn't fit any of the current goals.
Page count: 624
Date read: 29/12/15
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Goal: Best historical mystery
having trouble getting the spreadsheet to update, it won't run the script. hopefully the issue is temporary.
Finished Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail easily the best book I read so far in 2016! It has the word beets on pg 200 " my big toes have swollen and reddened so much that they look like to beets"
Finished
Read on: 2. Dec.
Pages: 384
Chapters: 42
Characters: Tarver, Lilac
Tarver is 18 years old; Tarver is a soldier (major); Lilac is a socialite (rich girl, doesn't do nothing); Lilac is 16/17 years old (her birthday is during the book); Set on spaceship and on unknown planet; They crash and try to survive until the rescue comes;
Read on: 3. Dec.
Pages: 256
Works for 'the empress' goal:
@loc2219: "Levana laughed - she couldn't help herself - remembering Channary's dreamy, offhanded comment that the empress might someday find herself assassinated."
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Read: 1/3
Pages: 318
Goals: none
Sarah works for a temp agency in the 1920s, hired as an assistant to a ghost hunter because the ghost in question hates men. The group is haunted by Maddy Clare until they can solve the mystery of what happened to her when she was 12.
spreadsheet updated.
Paper Towns by John Green
Read: 1/3
Pages: 321
Goal: The word 'asparagus' in the text. "I'm trying to get to the SunTrust Building. It's right next to the Asparagus." (p. 53)
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Goal: Best contemporary romance
spreadsheet updated
Finished
Pages: 324
Read on: 4. Jan
Chapter: 29
Setting: San Diego, USA
Characters: Lily Yu, Rule Turner, Arturo Gonzales, Max Smith, Isen Turner; Nettie Two Horses, Benedict; Cullen Seabourne, Toby Asteglio, Ginger, Mick Turner
MC (Lily) is Chinese; Lily is homicide detective; She is working on a murder mystery; Lily is 28; Rule is a werewolf; Lily's grandmother is a tiger-shifter; Max is a gnome; Arturo is Hispanic; Nettie is a doctor and a shaman; Nettie is Native American; Isen has 3 children (boys - Rule, Benedict & Mick); Lily has a pet cat called Dirty Harry; Cullen is a sorcerer; Rule is a single parent (Toby is his son); Lily and Rule are mates;
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Pages: 324
Read on: 4. Jan
Chapter: 29
Setting: San Diego, USA
Characters: Lily Yu, Rule Turner, Arturo Gonzales, Max Smith, Isen Turner; Nettie Two Ho..."
May I just say, I love the fact you read a book with a gnome as a character. I have a great visual of a bearded little man running around in a red pointed hat and blue coat causing mischief. Probably not at all what that character is like, but it's a nice visual.
Judith wrote: "Dragana wrote: "FinishedPages: 324
Read on: 4. Jan
Chapter: 29
Setting: San Diego, USA
Characters: Lily Yu, Rule Turner, Arturo Gonzales, Max Smith, Isen Turne..."
Hehe nice picture. :D Actually the gnome in the novel is dressed as human. Own a sexy nightclub for werewolves. He's very ugly and grumpy.
Sonya wrote: "Now reading cold cold heart"That's great Sonya, but this thread is for notifying us when you have finished reading the book.
For the talk about the books you are currently reading, use the main team thread please: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
4/1/16
400 pages
Historical romance, set in Yorkshire, UK, characters Isabel Townsend and Nicholas St John, 22 chapters + prologue + epilogue
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Works for goal: character is a dentist (if it is still open) Norman Rhodes is a dentist.