You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

WE THREE ,
We're not a Crowd, Were Not Even Company. My Echo, My Shadow and Me.

Part 1

✔1/12 Task 27. Do you have a tattoo? No
Read a book with a tattoo on the cover.
Moon Called, Patricia Briggs 6 Jan

A refreshing change from vampires and zombie books. "Were" culture is pretty weeeird!

✔2/12 - Task 12. Do you have a pet? What is it? Sadly petless. Had cats almost all of my life, but not at the moment. Have to adopt Debra's two cats for now. Read a book featuring that type of pet.

The Dalai Lama's Cat 10 Feb

✔3/12 - Task 30. Have you been to Europe? No
Read a book set in a European country you would like to visit.= France

The Chalk Circle Man, Fred Vargas 6 Mar

✔4/12 - Task 2. What is your favourite sport? On television I like to watch golf and gymnastics, but in person they kinda drag on. In person horse racing is a pretty exciting sport. I used to enjoy horse-backing riding. These days my most strenuous activity is walking. Read a book that is about your favourite sport.

Dick Francis was the Queen's Jockey from 1953 to 1957. He wrote several mysteries about horses, racing, jockeys, track personalities, etc. To me it is a fun education, all about the horsey set.

Dead Cert 11 Mar

✔5/12 - Task 3 What colour are your eyes? Gray with yellow around the pupils. My driver's license says they are green, and they do look it, especially when I wear certain colors of clothing. Vanity dictates that I wear those certain colors! Read a book where the colour of your eyes is the main colour of the cover.

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos 12 Mar

✔6/12 - Task 4. Have you ever had a broken bone? I don't particularly like gnawing on bones, so yes it is very irritating when I get a broken bone in my Chicken Divan...Oh wait...Yes, I broke my wrist in a roller skating mishap. Read a book with the word “Bone” in the title.

Winter's Bone 14 Mar

✔7/12 Task 36. If you had to lose one of the 5 senses, which would you prefer it to be? Smell

The Smell of the Night, Andrea Camilleri 29 Mar

✔8/12 - Task 1. What is your name? Almeta Merle Marrs (hehehe). The name Almeta supposedly came from a character in a book. I have searched for such a book in vain. The Marrs are Scots, thus my genealogy investigations use the ID MenFromMarrs. Books with the spelling with two Rs are pretty slim pickings. So I went with Merle, even though years later I found that the birth certificate has a spelling of Myrle. I guess the doctors/nurses thought that was a better spelling than the parental version! Read a book that contains one of your names in some way.

Merle: A Novella And Other Stories 16 Apr

✔9/12 Task 6. What is your favourite book? Grrr! Reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy was the only time I ever actually called in sick to work so that I could continue the adventure! I recommend Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to everyone, and have converted many a non-reader to its enjoyment. I keep extra reading copies to loan out, so that no one harms or loses my precious original!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind's other books are less than 175 pages.

The “Readers Also Enjoyed” choice was likely recommended because they were both first written in German. Still I kinda like the symmetry of the extended title "The Story of...", don't you?

Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist 18 Apr

✔10/12 - Task 15. What is your shoe size? ) 8 – Select that number of books on your TBR, put them into the Fruit Machine. Read the one that is selected.

Tropic of Fear, Ron Terpening 20 Apr

✔11/12 - Task 5. What is your favourite movie? This is not fair! Blade Runner, Fifth Element, Ghost. OR Lock, Stock and Two Barrels, Kill Bill. OR Harold and Maude Or Big Fish OR Lord of the Rings. How can one choose?

Fruit Machine sez choose Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, which I have already read.

Reading another one of his: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician 1 May

✔12/12 - Task 25. What is your favourite genre? Mystery

The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux 2 May

Part 2

✔13/24 Task 33. Would you rather encounter a ghost, an alien, or neither? A ghost

The Anatomy of Ghosts, Andrew Taylor 7 May

✔14/24 Task 41. Issue you are passionate about Equal Rights, FreeCycling, Environment

Flight Behavior climate change, migration, global warming, clear cut forestry 13 Mar

✔15/24 Task 34. What is your favourite animal? Frog

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches 15 May

✔16/24 Task 45. Do you prefer green or black olives? Black

The One from the Other, Philip Kerr 18 May

✔17/24 Task 29. What is your favourite flower? Daisies
Read a book with that selection in the title.

Agatha Raisin Pushing up Daisies 17 May

✔18/24 Task 37. Who is your favourite author? Stephen King

Under the Dome 25 May

✔19/24 Task 38. Do you prefer tea, coffee, or water? Tea
– set in China where that beverage is a huge export. I actually very rarely drink coffee. I wish it tasted like it smells.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 3 Jun

✔20/24 Task 43. To what time period would you like to time travel? The Roaring Twenties

The Diviners 1920s Manhattan 5 Jun

✔21/24 Task 42. Would you rather explore in space or undersea? Undersea, although I would always keep my feet off the bottom!

The Sea Detective 4 Jul

✔22/24 Task 17. What is your country of birth? = Unites States of America. I've recently stated for our other challenges that I rarely read Westerns. What sez USA better than the American Western. This one is completing a series started during other challenges. Read a book set in that country.

The Black Dove 7 Jul

✔23/24 Task 48. Who is someone you miss? My father

My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir 14 Aug

✔24/24 Task 10. Are you right or left handed? Right-handed

The Right Attitude to Rain 23 Aug

Part 3

✔25/50 Task 44. Do you prefer shoes or barefeet? Bare Feet

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (isbn 9781593080112) 24 Aug

✔26/50 Task 23. Do you prefer a shower or bath? Scalding hot shower – On my TBR since May 2011. Title has absolutely nothing to do with watery showers...still that's how the title is spelled. It is really about a person who "shows" motion "pictures".

The Pitcher Shower, Donald Harington 26 Aug

✔27/50 Task 26. Do you prefer a car or truck? Truck
Read a book with your selection on the cover or in the title.

Savage Season 9 Jul

✔28/50 Task 39. What is your birthstone using the US 2016 listing: Garnet- the colour of that gemstone is the colour of the cover.
Fractured 30 Aug

✔29/50 31. If you could meet anyone famous, infamous, notorious, who would it be?
Dorothy Parker

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection 9 Sep

✔30/50 Task 19. What is your current desk top picture? A closeup photograph of a praying mantis from a friends garden.

I'm going with Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects. I'll probably have nightmares! 9 Sep

✔31/50 Task 14. What is something you use daily? Pharmaceuticals! Prior to May 2016, I had not been taking any prescriptions. Now I pop three every morning...when I remember!☻
One Step Behind Kurt Wallander's investigation is affected by his diabetes. 20 Sep

✔32/50 Task 8. What is your favourite holiday? = Halloween Read a book that is about that holiday, set during that holiday

A Night in the Lonesome October 12 Oct

✔33/50 Task 11. What is your birthday month? set in January
Lair of Dreams 10 Nov

"a small but enthusiastic crowd waited in the January drizzle"

"The last will and testament of Cornelus Rathbone, recorded this day, the fourth of January in the year of our Lord, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen"

"The gloom of January weighed on New Yorkers"

"Eight o'clock in the evening on January"

✔34/50 Task 28. Do you prefer Classic or Contemporary? Contemporary 2014

The Paying Guests 12 Nov

✔35/50 Task 9. What is your relationship status? Single
Well I had to do this as part of my personal challenge to read one book from each of the band members of the Rock Bottom Remainders, peopled by authors and other bookish types, like Stephen King, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan, Al(ice) Kooper, Mitch Albom, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Barry, Greg Iles, Scott Turow, and others, including Cynthia Heimel.

Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of SINGLE Women 2 Sep

✔36/50 Task 21. How many candles were on your last birthday cake? Not the appropriate amount. They ran out of stock at the dollar store. – 100.

Bandits, Elmore Leonard 7 Sep

✔37/50 Task 16. What is your favourite Ice cream flavour? Häagen-Dazs Coffee. I eat it even though I'm lactose intolerant.

The COFFEE Trader 8 Sep

✔38/50 Task 47. What is your height in inches? 62

Candyland, Ed McBain 30 Nov

✔39/50 Task 35. What type of holiday do you prefer? Hanging with friends, usually in the out-of-doors...trees, water, campfire, etc.

By Cheyenne Campfires, George Bird Grinnell 2 Dec

✔40/50 Task 13. What is your favourite type of food? Authentic Mexican. And YES there is a distinction!

Mexico The Damsel by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake There he is again! 25 Apr

✔41/50 Task 46. What is your Zodiac sign? Depends on whose chart. I am on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius.
water

Interpreter of Maladies 14 Oct

✔42/50 Task 49. What is your hobby? Genealogy, Reading

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink 7 Dec

✔43/50 Task 24. Name a place you’d like to visit. Butchart Gardens, which is on Vancouver Island. Not finding available books for the gardens themselves. The Story of Butchart Gardens may be an option, but I am reluctant to buy it.

Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens by Lou Allin features Holly Martin, a corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada 9 Dec

✔44/50 Task 20. What is your preferred mode of transport? = Automobile Read a book with your selection on the cover.

Hell & Gone 11 Dec

✔45/50 Task 40. What is your favourite fruit? Avacado

The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words, Anu Garg 14 Dec

✔46/50 Task 22. Have you been in an accident? Yes. with skates, horses and automobiles. Most recently I fell off my shoes (I know, right?) and really damaged my foot. Now when I walk my left foot clicks! Read a book with the word “accident” in title.

The Accident 20 Dec

✔47/50 Task 7. Pick a number between 1 and 10. 3
Of course I have to read book 2 first!☻

The Singapore School of Villainy 23 Dec

✔48/50 Task 18. What is your favourite season? On my TBR since February 2012.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 26 Dec

✔49/50 Task 50. What language would you like to learn to speak? Spanish–

Havana Blue, Leonardo Padura 28 Dec

✔50/50 Task 32. What is the feature on (which) you are most often complimented? Physical = skin.

The Skull Beneath The Skin 30 Dec

How can one choose?

Fruit machine.

Janice wrote: "How can one choose?

Fruit machine."

Oh, okay. ME-anie!

*evil laugh*

I love Dick Francis. I think I've read every book he wrote.

jaxnsmom wrote: "..... I think I've read every book he wrote."

I thought so too. However I've found a couple I haven't marked as read. Maybe I have and forgot to mark them. We'll soon find out.☺

I love your comments!
We picked the same book for accident.
The Neto Wolf book is pretty good. I love the audio books and only have 2 out of the 27 available from my library left to listen to. I've started collecting the others in paperback.
I'm tired. I can't remember the other things I wanted to chime in on. I'll be back...

I really hate to break it to you, but The Halloween Tree is only 145 pages long. I considered it myself until I saw the page length.

Cherie wrote: "I love your comments!
We picked the same book for accident.
The Neto Wolf book is pretty good. I love the audio books and only have 2 out of the 27 available from my library left to listen to. I'..."

I also picked the same book for accident. Maybe we can do a buddy read.

Janice wrote: "I really hate to break it to you, but The Halloween Tree is only 145 pages long. I considered it myself until I saw the page length."

Ooops! The mass market paperback said 192.

I'll switch to Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge.

Oh! Well if you can find that edition and read it, you're good to go.

Janice wrote: "...I also picked the same book for accident. Maybe we can do a buddy read. ..."

I'd like that.

I read Boxer, Beetle by this same author and found a lot of it baffling. Yet around the same time in 2013, I marked this one to read. So I must have thought I could try again.

If we get together and talk about it, I might comprehend the crazy parts better!☻

Janice wrote: "Oh! Well if you can find that edition and read it, you're good to go."

Nah, I think I'll switch anyway.☺

Any ideas of when you'd like to do the buddy read?

Janice wrote: "Any ideas of when you'd like to do the buddy read?"

No plans yet.

How about around February 15th?

I'm in for a buddy read. Gives me time to locate a copy.

Most of my books are ones I own and several I am sure I can get from the library but there are a handful I will have to really gopher for. I opened my Nook last and found a few covers that I can use for some answers that I have library books tagged. Just need to update my list again.

Cherie wrote: ".... Gives me time to locate a copy.. ..."

That's what I was thinking. Plus time to gather money after the holidays, if it has to be purchased. PLUS enough reading gone by to be ready for an odd book!

Feb 15 works for me. I'll go set up the buddy read thread.

Janice wrote: "Feb 15 works for me. I'll go set up the buddy read thread."

Thanks Janice.

Mmmhm Mexican food; *Drools* Enchiladas, Tacos, Mexican rice, Guacamole, Burritos, Quesadillas, Fajitas, Chipotle, Avocados, Chicken and Lime Tequila Skewers =P NACHOS, Salsa

I love your title picture Almeta!

Sarah wrote: "Mmmhm Mexican food; *Drools* Enchiladas, Tacos, Mexican rice, Guacamole, Burritos, Quesadillas, Fajitas, Chipotle, Avocados, Chicken and Lime Tequila Skewers =P NACHOS, Salsa"

Stop! You are making me sooo hungry!! Chiles Rellenos are my favorite.

Annerlee wrote: "I love your title picture Almeta!"

Thanks!

Chilies Rellenos are my favorite too! Hmmm. I think I'm going out for lunch tomorrow!

Almeta wrote: "Stop! You are making me sooo hungry!! Chiles Rellenos are my favorite."

Ooh That's sounds delicious =] I want to make one of those =P

I made myself hungry lol. I think I need to go on a Mexican food spree.

Now that Miss Meanie has slapped my knuckles with her ruler, I am here to report my first book toward my yearly challenge. lol!☻

1/12 Task 27. Do you have a tattoo? No
If you don’t have a tattoo, read a book with a tattoo on the cover.
Moon Called, Patricia Briggs 6 Jan

A refreshing change from vampires and zombie books. "Were" culture is pretty weeeird!

Almeta wrote: "Now that Miss Meanie has slapped my knuckles with her ruler, I am here to report my first book toward my yearly challenge. lol!☻"

I think my ruler is now broken. I can now jab with the pointy end.

Janice wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Now that Miss Meanie has slapped my knuckles with her ruler, I am here to report my first book toward my yearly challenge. lol!☻"

I think my ruler is now broken. I can now jab with ..."

Nooooo! I promise I'll behave.

I'm reading a chapter on Arya in A Storm of Swords. Maybe that helps shed some light on my answer. Hehehehe!

I came to see if The Wonder was one of your books. And then I realized I haven't seen any activity on your thread. I see quite a few checkmarks on your books, yet I don't see individual messages for us to ogle and comment on.

Do I need to get my ruler out again? LOL!

Ah...Ummm...The dog ate my homework!☻

✔2/12 - Task 12. Do you have a pet? What is it? Sadly petless. Had cats almost all of my life, but not at the moment. Have to adopt Debra's two cats for now. Read a book featuring that type of pet.

The Dalai Lama's Cat 10 Feb

Always been interested in the 14th Dali Lama's struggles with China and his exile to India. Nothing of these politics are reported here.

Some of the simpler tenets of Tibetan Buddhism are depicted through the anthropomorphic mind of a cat and his daily meanderings.

Cute book.

I never did get a chance to read this one during the group read. I own it, so I will get to it someday though. I have a friend who always posts the Dali Lama "thoughts" on FB. ho hummm...

✔3/12 - Task 30. Have you been to Europe? No
Read a book set in a European country you would like to visit.= France

The Chalk Circle Man, Fred Vargas 6 Mar

Well, most reviewers gave this a low rating, but I actually gave it five stars.

Mystery readers are usually dazzled by the detective who spots the clues that no one else notices in order to solve the puzzle. Forensic oddities, methodical investigation, observant busy-bodies, etc. Fostering nothing but frustration of his cohorts (and readers too) Commissaire Adamsberg pays no attention to any of that. He is strictly a "by his gut feelings" kind of guy.

Most unusual crime solver!

✔4/12 - Task 2. What is your favourite sport? On television I like to watch golf and gymnastics, but in person they kinda drag on. In person horse racing is a pretty exciting sport. I used to enjoy horse-backing riding. These days my most strenuous activity is walking. Read a book that is about your favourite sport.

Dick Francis was the Queen's Jockey from 1953 to 1957. He wrote several mysteries about horses, racing, jockeys, track personalities, etc. To me it is a fun education, all about the horsey set.

Dead Cert 11 Mar

Cherie wrote: "I never did get a chance to read this one during the group read. I own it, so I will get to it someday though. I have a friend who always posts the Dali Lama "thoughts" on FB. ho hummm..."

It's an easy and amusing read.

However, I apparently I have a long way to go before I reach enlightenment!

✔5/12 - Task 3 What colour are your eyes? Gray with yellow around the pupils. My driver's license says they are green, and they do look it, especially when I wear certain colors of clothing. Vanity dictates that I wear those certain colors! Read a book where the colour of your eyes is the main colour of the cover.

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos 12 Mar

I am drawn to novels concerning archaeology, especially Egyptology.

I don't feel that I am the target audience to fairly rate this book. I'm sure a younger person would love this and all of the other adventures that Theodosia gets up to. At times I was reminded of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce.

I would like to have learned more about the museum's objects.

Thank you Cherie for the recommendation. I liked the read, and it filled a slot on my "Buy a Vowel" challenge.

Yes, Theodosia is aimed at a much younger target audience, but I am not sure that it really exists today. It was a fun read and I liked the following stories too. There was a little more about the museum's objects in the next stories, but not much more detail. I liked how she had to figure out how to keep the curses from affecting things. The jam sandwiches still make me laugh.

✔6/12 - Task 4. Have you ever had a broken bone? I don't particularly like gnawing on bones, so yes it is very irritating when I get a broken bone in my Chicken Divan...Oh wait...Yes, I broke my wrist in a roller skating mishap. Read a book with the word “Bone” in the title.

Winter's Bone 14 Mar

Family code of law trumps all other authority. It's the only way for everyone to survive in the backwoods of the Ozarks. The rules can be harsh and breaking them brings on an even harsher consequence. Family metes out punishment, family offers consolation. Family is everything....until....

Oooh - sounds interesting!

✔7/12 Task 36. If you had to lose one of the 5 senses, which would you prefer it to be? Smell

The Smell of the Night, Andrea Camilleri 29 Mar

Almeta wrote: "✔6/12 - Task 4. Have you ever had a broken bone? I don't particularly like gnawing on bones, so yes it is very irritating when I get a broken bone in my Chicken Divan...Oh wait...Yes, I broke my wr..."

Added to my TBR.

KimeyDiann wrote: "Added to my TBR. .."

*grin* I always worry when someone takes my recommendation! I gave this book five stars, however I've noticed some reviewers that I actually follow have rated it pretty low.

I sure hope you enjoy it.

✔8/12 - Task 1. What is your name? Almeta Merle Marrs (hehehe). The name Almeta supposedly came from a character in a book. I have searched for such a book in vain. The Marrs are Scots, thus my genealogy investigations use the ID MenFromMarrs. Books with the spelling with two Rs are pretty slim pickings. So I went with Merle, even though years later I found that the birth certificate has a spelling of Myrle. I guess the doctors/nurses thought that was a better spelling than the parental version! Read a book that contains one of your names in some way.

Merle: A Novella And Other Stories 16 Apr

✔9/12 Task 6. What is your favourite book? Grrr! Reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy was the only time I ever actually called in sick to work so that I could continue the adventure! I recommend Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to everyone, and have converted many a non-reader to its enjoyment. I keep extra reading copies to loan out, so that no one harms or loses my precious original!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind's other books are less than 175 pages.

The “Readers Also Enjoyed” choice was likely recommended because they were both first written in German. Still I kinda like the symmetry of the extended title "The Story of...", don't you?

Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist 18 Apr

I see that I've added Perfume to my wishlist and to my priority list back in March 2012 - 5 years ago. I really need to dust off that priority list.

Janice wrote: "I see that I've added Perfume to my wishlist and to my priority list back in March 2012 - 5 years ago. I really need to dust off that priority list."

ROFL!

I have a shelf called "Wait 4 It!" That means "Don't order this right this second, but soon after you've read your others.

Ha! It has grown to 579 books!

It's ADAB. Attention Deficit... oh, another book!