The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Finished The Maltese Falcon.

Starting Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

Finally started Dead Canaries Don't Sing for the Cheryl's animal and mysteries task...hoping to start the other one I have picked out for the challenge tonight or tomorrow - going to use Hot Stuff

I finally finished a book. I feel like it has been forever. I finished for 15.6 and I will now try to read for 10.5

I finished "City of bones" and reading "Not That Kind of Girl"

I've started The Swan Thieves: A Novel; just finished Nemesis. Am in the middle of The Hamilton Case.

Just finished The Pox Party - Book One in The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing for #10.3. Now reading It Happened One Autumn for #5.6, and then on to City of Bones for #10.7

just finished up Hot Stuff for the mysteries and animals...got to work tonight but i'm taking Goddess of the Sea (car name - goddess) and Years (oprah's on - first published in 1986) with me

I'm in the middle of Savor the Moment and just started The Phantom of the Opera.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Mmmmm!! :D

Today I finished Dead in the Family and I'm looking at maybe reading Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter next...

I feel like I'm getting somewhere now because I finished a book within 24 hrs. wooo hooo! LOL I finished Playa Perdida Saturday, read another one of the short stories from Just After SunsetSunday morning and started The Bell Witch: An American HauntingYesterday afternoon. I was able to finish it today because I had to cover the reception desk for 2 hours today plus my hour lunch. I was reading fast because the book was really good! Now when I get home I'll read another short story and start on Of Mice and Men I'm also almost done listening to Jane Eyrein the car and hope to be able to finish before I get to the library on my way home tomorrow (which I think I will definately do) and then I'll get Belovedto listen to.

yay congrats!!

I'm reading Years right now and its been years since i've read it, but i'm loving it all over again

I'm still working on The Phantom of the Opera, just started The Passage and have Rosemary Remembered in my purse.

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "yay congrats!!

I'm reading Years right now and its been years since i've read it, but i'm loving it all over again"

That sounds good, just added it to my TBR list! LOL

That does sounds good, I've added it as well.

I love LaVyrle Spencer, she was my intro to romances and I haven't found one by her that I haven't liked yet...its a pity she retired

Sue T wrote: "That does sounds good, I've added it as well."

I sat down and realized today that I only have 12 books left to read (including the 3 for the 50 point challenge)... and I have 3 of those in progress...1 of them i'm waiting on to arrive from Amazon and 1 isn't released until the first week in November...I might actually finish this challenge :) yay!!

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I sat down and realized today that I only have 12 books left to read (including the 3 for the 50 point challenge)... and I have 3 of those in progress...1 of them i'm waiting on to arrive from Amaz..."

Way to go Delicious Dee! Sounds like you have it under control.

i hope so...lol! i love this challenge and our mods are awesome!!

Great job, Dee. With over 30 left, I don't think I'll be finishing, but that's OK with me.

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I sat down and realized today that I only have 12 books left to read (including the 3 for the 50 point challenge)... and I have 3 of those in progress...1 of them i'm waiting on to arrive from Amaz..."

Woo Hoo Dee!!! LOL :)

Congrats Dee! Hope you nail those last challenge books! I'm in a reading frenzy at the moment and it's "sleep be damned"!!!

Halfway through Of Mice and Men

lol that's me most nights...I typically live on 4-5 hours (just from military, being on a ship, deploying type stuff)...any more than that, and I actually feel like crap!

chucklesthescot wrote: "Congrats Dee! Hope you nail those last challenge books! I'm in a reading frenzy at the moment and it's "sleep be damned"!!!"

anyways...I am currently reading:
Goddess of the Sea - car name - goddess
The Story of Danny Dunn - continental divide - australia
Nate - civil war (50 point task)
Dangerous Lover - danger (50 point task) and listening to A Breath of Snow and Ashes (solve the mystery big books)

Way to go Dee! Hope you finish I am just hoping to finish the books I checked out from the library and the ones for the challenges I have already started.

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I sat down and realized today that I only have 12 books left to read (including the 3 for the 50 point challenge)... and I have 3 of those in progress..."

Six weeks of reading time and less than 12 books to read?! You're a shoo-in!!

u can do it BJ...I know you are up there somewhere...lol!! of course, it helped that your pick it for me challenge worked for one of my categories

Dee and BJ, you are both doing very well. I've never seen anyone read as fast as the two of you do. You are both awesome!

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "u can do it BJ...I know you are up there somewhere...lol!! of course, it helped that your pick it for me challenge worked for one of my categories"

OK, I just counted up the books I still need to read, and it's twice as many as your 12. That's about one every two days, so it's doable if I ignore my monthly challenges - talk about the horns of a dilemma!

try fitting them into monthly challenge categories? I did this last month - I think 6 of my 10 categories over on RRRC fit these books; plus the pick it for me...i'm all for double-ing up

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "try fitting them into monthly challenge categories? I did this last month - I think 6 of my 10 categories over on RRRC fit these books; plus the pick it for me...i'm all for double-ing up"

Yup, I do that, too, as much as possible - half of my Read-the-Month worked here, too, and almost half of the RRRC (I thought another one was going to fit, but it's only #8 in the series). I cross-challenge galore! I did better at doubling up in September when all these tasks were undone. I was harboring a secret hope that something already read would fit into the 50-point challenge, but no such luck. So I'll just keep reading and see what happens!

I am in the Seasonal Reading Challenge, Reading With Style challenge and the Historical Fictionistas challenge and I love it when I can kill three challenge tasks with one book. :)

maybe Yz will like you for the November challenge...lol!

Almost done with Clockwork Angel for 15.10, then moving onto Goddess of the Seafor the same task.

Finished Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith-decent read-and now I'm on Breaking Free by Saira Bronson for my next task. I'm reading about 6-7 hours a day at the moment which is better than normal!

Finished reading The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells today.

Just starting In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

Lauren - i'm reading Goddess of the Sea right now and enjoyig it - but its def. not my favorite in the series...I think Goddess of the Rose is - have you read any of the others?

Lauren wrote: "Almost done with Clockwork Angel for 15.10, then moving onto Goddess of the Seafor the same task."

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "Lauren - i'm reading Goddess of the Sea right now and enjoyig it - but its def. not my favorite in the series...I think Goddess of the Rose is - have you read any of the others?

I read Goddess of the Rose last week and loved it! I can't wait to start Goddess of the Sea

Finished Breaking Free last night and started reading The Hunger Games. I just couldn't put it down and read until nearly 5am this morning! 168 pages done...

I finished this up last night..of the three i've read (Sea; Rose and Spring) - its prob. my least favorite, Rose is my favorite and I have Light on the pile

Lauren wrote: "Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "Lauren - i'm reading Goddess of the Sea right now and enjoyig it - but its def. not my favorite in the series...I think Goddess of the Rose is - have you read..."

chucklesthescot wrote: "Finished Breaking Free last night and started reading The Hunger Games. I just couldn't put it down and read until nearly 5am this morning! 168 pages done..."

Hunger Games is addictive! I hope you have access to Catching Fire and Mockingjay because youre gonna be desperate to find out what happens!

I figured i would finally start one of the group reads books - Little Bee

Jennifer wrote: "chucklesthescot wrote: "Finished Breaking Free last night and started reading The Hunger Games. I just couldn't put it down and read until nearly 5am this morning! 168..."

Both books are on my bedside table, waiting!

Good! I hope you like them!

I'm still reading Doctor Zhivago. It's really taken off now and is very good.
I also started Run at Destruction: A True Fatal Love Triangle as my "lunch break" book. I won this in a Giveaway almost a year ago and feel really bad about not reading it before this. So far, it's an easy read with an interesting story.
I'm almost finished listening to The Burning Wire (9th in a series). I really enjoy the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs stories.
Next, I'll listen to The Horse and His Boy for the Group Hug task.

I'm still reading The Passage which will take awhile, I've also got Kiss Me While I Sleep going for a "lighter" read.

I am currently reading One Little Sin by Liz Carlyle.

Enigma by Robert Harris

for the 50 point task (World War II)

I stop reading book "Women of the Silk" by Gail Tsukiyama, may be latter in the future I'll be read this book. Now I start read book"The Reading Group" by Elizabeth Noble.