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

I don't know if we needed a new thread for serial killing in 2017, but here we go.

Someone had asked for a thread specific to orphans. I'm fine with including orphans in this thread, but if a separate thread would be useful to others, please feel free to start one.

I'm going to take a different approach to series this year. I have so many (too many) series on the go and it's driving me crazy. Usually, my M.O. has been to read the books in the order I purchase them. That has resulted in gaps of a year or more between series books.

This year, I'm going to pick several series and concentrate on killing them off. Merrily Watkins is one. I'll come back with a full list once I've figured it out. Good grief, I could spend the whole day organizing my 2017 reading plans. LOL! Obsessed much?

I think this one thread should suffice for all series reads, orphans too.

I am taking the same approach Janice. I'll be picking a few to focus on then plug away here and there on some of the others which do not have too much of a connected story line.

I have so many "firsts" on my TBR shelves, just waiting for me to start more series. *sigh*

I did not ask for an orphan thread, but I was kicking it around.
I will keep updating my series list in the Serial Killers are not recoverable thread.

edited:
Oh - you locked it. So I need to create my own list? Can I still copy my list?

You can create a list in this thread Cherie. You should be able to copy the list from the other thread too if you wish.

2016 was a dismal year for killing off series. I only finished 7 of them and 4 of those were also started in 2016.

I am going to attempt to kill three specific series this year:
1. Dr. Siri Paiboun (5/11)
2. Crowner John Mystery (10/15)
3. Amerotke (5/7)

I also have a few orphan's to read:
1. In This Grave Hour
2. The Inheritance
3. The Flame Bearer
4. Monster Hunter Nemesis
5. Stiletto

Sarah wrote: "You can create a list in this thread Cherie. You should be able to copy the list from the other thread too if you wish."

The only thing is you won't be able to copy the links, Cherie.

Janice - The links won't copy because the topic is locked and I can't edit to do the cut and paste?

Do you mean the book titles and author name links or the series links? (I did not have any links to the series in my list.)

Janice wrote: "Sarah wrote: "You can create a list in this thread Cherie. You should be able to copy the list from the other thread too if you wish."

The only thing is you won't be able to copy the links, Cherie."

Ah. I didn't think about links.

Cherie, I will unlock last year's thread so that you can copy and paste your list here. Then I will close it again.

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

YLTO Member Zone > Serial Killing in 2017

January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017

Completed 5/??? Books

Completed 0/??? Series

I have 3 trilogies and 1 quartet slated on another challenge to be done this year. Since I am already leaning in that direction, I may as well see if I can add others this year!

√ 1) Lighthouse by Eugenia Price READ 1/4/2017 4 stars
2) New Moon Rising by Eugenia Price
3) The Beloved Invader by Eugenia Price



1) River's Song by Melody Carlson
2) River's Call by Melody Carlson
3) River's End by Melody Carlson



1) The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie
2) The Rivals of Versailles by Sally Christie
3) The Enemies of Versailles by Sally Christie



1) Divergent by Veronica Roth
2) Insurgent by Veronica Roth
3) Allegiant by Veronica Roth



1) Savannah by Eugenia Price
2) To See Your Face Again by Eugenia Price
3) Before the Darkness Falls by Eugenia Price
4) Stranger in Savannah by Eugenia Price



√ 1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling READ 1/27/2017 5 stars
√ 2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling READ 3/29/2017 5 stars
√ 3) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling READ 5/3/2017 5 stars
√ 4) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling READ 6/27/2017 5 stars
5) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
8) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by John Tiffany

Cherie's "It's NOT really dead, Jim" 2017 list:

Orphan books from series killed in 2015/216:
Book: Precious and Grace Ladie's No. 1 Detective Agency #17
Book: The Fate of Ten Lorien Legacies #6
Book: United as One Lorien Legacies #7
Book: The Long Utopia The Long Earth #4
Book: Origin Robert Langdon #5
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Ongoing Series list:
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini 1/3 read
Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan 1/3 read
Coughlin by Denis Lehane 1/3 read
Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber 1/5 read
Darcy & Elizabeth by Linda Berdoll 1/4 read
The de Granville Trilogy by K.M. Grant 1/3 read
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss 2/3 read - still waiting for #3
The Giver by Lois Lowry 1/4 read
She by H. Rider Haggard 1/4 read
Witch & Wizard by James Patterson 1/5 read
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks 3/5 read
Discworld Tiffany Aching Series by Terry Pratchett 1/5 read
Discworld Witches Series by Terry Pratchett 2/6 read
Asain Saga by James Clavell 4/6 read
Green Knowe by L.M. Boston 3/6 read
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin 5/6 read
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz 4/7 read
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 1/7 read
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 5/8 read
Discworld Rincewind Novels by Terry Pratchett 3/8 read
Discworld City Watch Series by Terry Pratchett 3/8 read
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith 1/10 read
Joe Demarco by Mike Lawson 1/10 read
Harry Hole by Jo Nesbø 3/10 read
Lara McClintoch Archeological Mystery series by Lyn Hamilton 1/11 read
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer 1/12 read
Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris 1/14 read
Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard 1/15 read
The Sandman (Graphic Novels) by Neil Gaiman 4/15 read
Guardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky 5/16 read
Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs 1/18 read
Aubrey/Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian 16/21 read
Toby Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky 2/24 read
Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie 8/45 read
Xanth by Piers Anthony 32/40 read
Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout 26/47 read
Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters 7/19 read
Barbara Holloway by Kate Wilhelm 5/13 read
Inspector Konrad Sejer by Karin Fossum 2/12 read
The Passage by Justin Cronin 2/3
Miss Marple by Agatha Christie 2/13 read
Department Q by Jussi Adler-Olsen 1/6 read
Miss Fortune Mystery by Jana Deleon 1/8 read
Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler 2/8 read

New Series added in 2017:
Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs 2/11 read
Georgina Kincaid by Richelle Mead 3/6 read
Children of the Mist by Paula Quinn 2/5 read
The Clockwork Century by Cherie Priest 3/6 read
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander 2/5 read
Old Man's War by John Scalzi 3/5 read
Irene Adler by Carole Nelson Douglas 1/8 read
The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare 1/3 read
Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett 2/5 read
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey 2/3 read
Lord Peter WimseyDorothy L. Sayers 1/15 read
Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones 1/14 read

Series Killed in 2017:
Tailorstown by Christina McKenna 3 /3 read
Gentlemen Bastard by Scott Lynch 3 /3 read
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson 3/3 read
Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor 3/3/ read

Currently Reading:

Janice wrote: "Cherie, I will unlock last year's thread so that you can copy and paste your list here. Then I will close it again."

Thanks, Janice. I have finished with the old thread. I have pasted and edited my new list here.

What do you call "orphans"?
I think I will borrow your idea Cherie and make a list here of the series I add and the ones I finish in 2017.

Ariane - When you finish a series, but then a new book in the series comes out, it is an orphan from a killed off series.

I have a few series that I want to kill off this year. They are all short though, 1-2 books left, and a few orphans and short story books associated with killed off series. I have some longer series that I want to read too, but I'm not sure if I'll try to tackle those this year. I'll try to remember to come back here and post if I end up tackling those.

Actually, looking at my list, a lot of the series to kill off are sort of orphans already or series that are just developing. Here's my current list:

Series to Kill Off:

Graceling
✓ Graceling
✓ Fire
Bitterblue

Sam Dryden
✓ Runner
✓ Signal
Untitled - 7/1/17

The Witchlands
✓ Truthwitch
Windwitch - 1/3/17
Untitled - 2018
Untitled - 2019

Shades of Magic
✓ A Darker Shade of Magic
A Gathering of Shadows
A Conjuring of Light - 2/21/17

Cormoran Strike
✓ The Cuckoo's Calling
✓ The Silkworm
✓ Career of Evil
Untitled - 2017

DCI Erika Foster
✓ The Girl In The Ice
The Night Stalker
Dark Water

Scott James & Maggie
✓ Suspect
The Promise

Orphans:
Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson #10) 3/7/17
Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
Scourged (Iron Druid #9) 2017
Besieged (Iron Druid short stories) 7/11/17
Hidden Bodies (You #2)
Stars Above (Lunar Chronicles short stories)

I would like to join back in this year. Like you all I have tons of series to work through but I think I'll just pick one and go from there. I'll have to think about this a bit...decisions decisions...

That's a good idea, Tasha. I have plenty of longer series, but I'm not ready to tackle them yet. Picking one to work through at a time makes a lot of sense.

Thank you Kristie, I guess I will have some orphans this year then...

I decided to move through the Sebastian St. Cyr series. I've already read the first one and really enjoyed it:

I started the mistborn series at the end of last year and have just concluded the trilogy - The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. Technically there are 3 more books in the series but they are spin offs, set in the same world as the original trilogy but decades on with different characters. I'll tackle those another time.

I've moved on to another series to kill, American Gods. This one will be easy as there are only 2 novellas left for me to read.

I started two new series and finished the 26th audio book in the Nero Wolfe series. There is only 1 more audio book left of the 27 offered on Overdrive by my library. I am going to miss Michael Pritchard so much! At least I have his sound bytes for Archie and Nero firmly fixed in my head, for when I will be reading the remaining 20 books in print.

I killed off my first series of 2017 - Reckoners. I look forward to more of Brandon Sanderson's series. I have Mistborn coming up.

I am still looking forward to reading Sanderson's books.

Janice wrote: "I killed off my first series of 2017 - Reckoners. I look forward to more of Brandon Sanderson's series. I have Mistborn coming up."

I'm excited for you. Mistborn was fantastic. I read the first 3 back to back. Definitely my favourite Sanderson books so far.

I'm off to start my first orphan of the year, The Inheritance from the Charles Lenox series. I think this might be the third orphan I've read from this series, he keeps writing new books!

I don't have a copy of Finch's newest book yet, Dawn, but I think it will be my third Orphan for the series too. I waited a long time to read #9 because it was going to be a long time for the next. I purchased the ebook, but I dragged my feet so long that I got to listen to the audio book, when it came out first. I love the narrator's voice so much. He IS Charles to me.

I miss listening to them, I've been seeing/reading them since the 6th book as my library is slow to get the audiobooks for this series.
I really liked this one, I just finished it and thought it great. There are some great bits of historical trivia in this one, where a few phrases are from and food additives, quite interesting.

My library bought book 8 on CD, at my special request, after I made them search the country for 3-7 on CD for me. Only 1 and 2 were available in audio on Overdrive. They bought 9 on CD when it was available and I got to listen to it first. I haven't seen the new one listed yet, but I will keep checking.

I hate that they do not keep up with the series audio books on Overdrive. They carry the first few and once you are hooked, you are left high and dry. Older series are more available, but have long wait times for holds and you never know when they will be available. When I started listening to the Nero Wolfe books, almost all were available any time, but all of the sudden they were very popular and the wait times are over two months now. The western series are the same way. I have had Hondo on hold since mid December and there are 4 holds in front of me still. 3 weeks per check out means that I may not get it until April. Too strange. I only have them for 1 week max before I return them. Makes me wonder if people don't realize that they can return them early.

What I hate is when the book I want to listen to disappears entirely from Overdrive, so I could have listened to it a few months ago but now it's gone and then to make matters worse, the library doesn't have any other copies.
Still, my library has an incredible audiobook collection so I can't complain too much and I've just invested in an Audible membership as of this month, so I should be able to fill in anything I desperately need now.

I've started another of my orphan books, the latest Uhtred book The Flame Bearer. So far so good. I always worry when I read a new one of these books that it will be the last in the series, but so far the author hasn't decided to kill him off, fingers crossed that he survives another book.

I killed my first series in 2017, The Mortal Instruments.
And I am slowly making my way through A Song of Ice and Fire, I just finished A Clash of Kings.

My series:

Sherlock Holmes 4/9 read
✔ A Study in Scarlet
✔ The Sign of Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
✔ The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
✔ The Valley of Fear
His Last Bow: 8 Stories
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Falling Kingdoms: 3/5 read
✔ Falling Kingdoms
✔ Rebel Spring
✔ Gathering Darkness
Frozen Tides
Crystal Storm

Maybe:
Vampire Academy 1/6 read
Hercule Poirot 5/39 read
Inspector Wexford 2/25 read
Series killed in 2017:
The Mortal Instruments
A Song of Ice and Fire
Autre Monde
All Souls trilogy
Series started in 2017:
Fire and Thorns 2/3 read
Charley Davidson 1/12 read
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1/5 read
Orphans:
Immortal Reign - Falling Kingdoms

Ariane wrote: "I killed my first series in 2017, The Mortal Instruments.
And I am slowly making my way through A Song of Ice and Fire, I just finished A Clash of Kings."

I just started A Storm of Swords. You're joining the buddy read, right?

I've added Children of the Mist https://www.goodreads.com/series/5120... to my series list. I love listening to Carrington MacDuffie. I started listening to the first before I realized that it was book 2, so now, I am listening to book 1. I hope the others are available in audio from my library. I need to get back to Outlander. I am missing Jamie and Claire.

Cherie wrote: "I've added Children of the Mist https://www.goodreads.com/series/5120... to my series list. I love listening to Carrington MacDuffie. I started listening to the first before I re..."

I think I started but never finished the first one; I remember being lost in the country with the highlanders... I can't wait to have your opinion on the first...

Hi Ariane,

I just finished the first one. It got my 4 stars. Rather more steamy sex than plot in the second half, but with the title, what else could one expect? I enjoyed it!
Now, I can finish the second one that I had started first.

Hi killed a series yesterday by abandoning the final book. Whilst it was kind of a fail, i still feel good to have got rid of another series. It was the Southern Reach Trilogy. Instead I'm starting a new series but it's a new release and there's only one book out at the moment. That feels ok.

I never did make it past the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, it didn't capture my imagination.

What series are you starting??

It's John Scalzi's new space opera. Starts with The Collapsing Empire (on phone so cannot link). I've only read a few pages but it has me interested.

Have you read other Scalzi?? I've tried two I think and I'm not that keen.

He's a favourite of mine. I've read a few now.

Then a new series is exciting, I hope you enjoy. It looks like a great idea, which all his series have. He's a creative guy.

Thanks Dawn.

Hi Ariane - I finished the 2nd Children of the Mist books that I had started before I realized that there was one before it. Not quite as steamy as the first, but I liked it. The next one is not available in audio from my library, but I requested that they added it. It might be a while before I get back to them. It was a nice diversion.

Another Diskworld book is done. I liked the witches, but the story rather wandered. I figured out what was going to happen way back, but had I had to hang out, like Death, and wait for things to happen.

I am glad you liked it; I might come back to it, if I need some diversion ;)

It is finally my turn to give Boneshaker a run. I was able to borrow both the ebook and the audio book at the same time. I just started to listen to the audio book last night.
I am using this for my "name question" on the yearly challenge, because the author is Cherie Priest.

I read another orphan. It's the latest installment of the Charley Davidson series, Eleventh Grave in Moonlight. I will likely read the next one when it's published later this year because I want to know how the cliffhanger in this one resolved. But I won't rush out and buy it as soon as it is published. The series is wearing a little thin.

I'm back on the Dark Tower series. It feels good to be back. Resuming with Wizard and Glass. Not sure if i will be committing to completing the series this year or not. Part of me wants to so i am prepared for the tv show later in the year but that's a lot of pages to read!