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Dom and Jannene’s Killer Challenge 2020
Reserved for planningBodenstein & Kirchhoff series 1/4 books
Bad Wolf
The Ice Queen
I Am Your Judge
Texas Rangers series 1/3 books
No Escape
You're Not Safe
Helen Grace series 1/8 books
Pop Goes the Weasel
The Doll's House
Liar Liar
Little Boy Blue
Hide and Seek
Love Me Not
Down to the Woods
Lincoln Rhyme series 5/14 books
The Twelfth Card
The Cold Moon
The Broken Window
The Burning Wire
The Kill Room
The Skin Collector
The Steel Kiss
The Burial Hour
The Cutting Edge
Kick Lannigan Series 0/2
One Kick
Kick BackShadowcaster
Crimson Lake Series 0/3
Crimson Lake
Redemption Point
Gone by Midnight
John Corey Series 1/7 books
The Lion's Game
Night Fall
Wild Fire
The Lion
The Panther
Radiant Angel
Ancient Egypt series 1/6
The Seventh Scroll
Warlock
The Quest
Desert God
Pharaoh
Maze Runner series 0/3
The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series 1/20
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
The Double Comfort Safari Club
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Precious and Grace
The House of Unexpected Sisters
The Colors of All the Cattle
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
Amos Decker series 0/6
Memory Man
The Last Mile
The Fix
The Fallen
Redemption
Walk the Wire
Cherie’s cemetery plot...we could always use a helping hand...
Inventor’s Secret Series 3/3
✔️The Inventor's Secret - Jannene read this book but Dom gave up!
✔️The Conjurer's Riddle
✔️The Turncoat's Gambit
Dublin Murder Squad series 2/6 books (Cherie is going to catch up.)
Faithful Place
Broken Harbour
The Secret Place
The Trespasser
Orphan that Cherie’s going to kill with us...
The Girl Who Lived Twice
Reserved for the family plots...Death finds everyone...
1. KILLED - Robert Langdon Series 5/5
✔️The Da Vinci Code
✔️The Lost Symbol
✔️Inferno
✔️Origin (We got a buddy read going on this one for April!!)
2. KILLED - Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series 5/5 books
✔️The Harvest Man
✔️Lost and Gone Forever
3. KILLED - Mistress of the Art of Death Series 4/4
✔️Mistress of the Art of Death
✔️The Serpent's Tale
✔️Grave Goods
✔️A Murderous Procession
(This series was a buddy read with Renee, Cherie, Dom and myself.)
Plots not of this world...
Nevernight 1/3 books
Godsgrave
Darkdawn
Jannene KILLED (Dom will catch up) - Legend series 4/4
✔️Prodigy
✔️Champion
✔️Rebel
Endgame series 1/3
Sky Key
Rules of the Game
Throne of Glass series 4/7 books
Empire of Storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom of Ash
Shattered Realms Series 1/4
Shadowcaster
Stormcaster
Deathcaster
Orphan Cemetery...One is such a lonely number...***The Dirty South
Verses for the Dead
Crooked River
✔️Knife
✔️The girl in the woods
The Girl Who Lived Twice
✔️Capturing the Devil
✔️Gone Girl (The title was true to my heart...I was “gone girl”. I quit this book and left Dom reading solo. The characters were not engaging or likable. Apparently, that is why Dom likes it, silly woman!
Stand alones
✔️Run Away
Killing series? Maybe you'll be able to fit some of them into the 2020 Annual Challenge.
Janice wrote: "Killing series? Maybe you'll be able to fit some of them into the 2020 Annual Challenge."We certainly hope so!
It just occurred to me that you and Dem might end up reading different books for the challenge. We shall see. We shall see. Maybe you'll be able to read the same book but for different tasks.
Janice wrote: "It just occurred to me that you and Dom might end up reading different books for the challenge. We shall see. We shall see. Maybe you'll be able to read the same book but for different tasks."We tried that this year and it didn’t work too well. We ended up concentrating more on the badge and not on the series. We may have to be more diligent this time around.
This looks great Jannene. Best of luck to you and Dom!
Janice wrote: "It just occurred to me that you and Dem might end up reading different books for the challenge. We shall see. We shall see. Maybe you'll be able to read the same book but for different tasks."hmmm are you trying to scare us.. any hints about the 2020 challenge? We won't tell!
Here's a hint. I wrote two sets of tasks. Yay, or Nay?
Janice wrote: "Here's a hint. I wrote two sets of tasks. Yay, or Nay?"L'm always up for a challenge so Yay!
Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge, going to warn my boyfriend that our conversations cannot last more than 10 minutes per day starting January 1st!!
Dominique wrote: "Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge, going to warn my boyfriend that our conversations cannot last more than 10 minutes per day starting January 1st!!"I'm sure he'll be impressed with that. :)
Janice wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge, going to warn my boyfriend that our conversations cannot last more than 10 minutes per day starting January 1st!!"I'm sure he'll be..."
More time for him to play his video games and me not bothering him.
Dominique wrote: "Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge, going to warn my boyfriend that our conversations cannot last more than 10 minutes per day starting January 1st!!"Hahaha! I'm sure he knows how it works by now. ;)
This is great! Hope you ladies have a great reading year. Looks like you will have fun with it.
Kristie wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Sounds like it's going to be a big challenge, going to warn my boyfriend that our conversations cannot last more than 10 minutes per day starting January 1st!!"Hahaha! I'm sure ..."
Oh yeah, he's used to it! also it helps that I work days and he nights. On weekends, we do take the time to be together.
Dominique wrote: "Oh yeah, he's used to it! also it helps that I work days and he nights."Oh that definitely helps!
Your first two series do not have their “first-in-series” title on my TBR list but all of the others do. Unfortunately, you are ahead of me on all of them. I will watch your progress with interest and wish you all the best on your killing spree. My series killing challenge will remain “as is” except with the new year at the top. I keep thinking to eliminate some, but I cannot bear to let them go, if they can be finished. I may consider a paper list for some of the old, old ones.
I’m always looking forward to what Janice has in store for us and how I can apply my books.
Cherie wrote: "Your first two series do not have their “first-in-series” title on my TBR list but all of the others do. Unfortunately, you are ahead of me on all of them. I will watch your progress with interest ..."When I eliminate some, they always seem to revive and get added back in. Killing the series is the only antidote. I do have a list of series that I read the 1st book and will not continue the series because I didn't like it.
Cherie wrote: "Your first two series do not have their “first-in-series” title on my TBR list but all of the others do. Unfortunately, you are ahead of me on all of them. I will watch your progress with interest ..."Thanks Cherie. I asked Jannene if there was a trilogy that we can read with you guys and if so, if it willl fit in the mysterious challenge.
Janice wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Your first two series do not have their “first-in-series” title on my TBR list but all of the others do. Unfortunately, you are ahead of me on all of them. I will watch your progress..."I did some TBR cleaning and a few series didn't make the cut.
I still have orphans leaking out of a few series that I have killed in the past and it really annoys me. I would have been happier if they had not been killed off in the original challenge, but how were we to know that they would not remain dead? Some of them really annoy me even more when new authors take over for those that have passed on. In a couple of cases, I have limited myself to the original author, and others, to include the new one. I still have to read book #6 in the Millennium series. Did you guys finish that one?If I can manage to add one of your newer ones, or catch up, I might join in. Aren't some of your listed series still live? I mean don't they still have books being published. I really want to get some "dead authors and their books" off of my list.
Cherie wrote: "I still have orphans leaking out of a few series that I have killed in the past and it really annoys me."We have that too where we have orphans leaking out...like the Charlie Parker, Pendergast and Harry Bosch. They still live. There are a few that I quit reading when the new authors took over like the Mitch Rapp series. I tried the one with Kyle Mills as the author and quit. He doesn’t write the same as Vince Flynn no matter what people say.
We still have the Millennium one to read so that will be an orphan to kill off.
You can catch up on a few. Let us know what you are interested in and we can move things around. We just are working on planning what we may want to read next year, so we can wait a few months on some if you want to join. ;)
There are new Pendergast books??? I will be glad to read the last Millennium book with you.
The Dublin Murder squad is one I would like to catch up with you on. I have wanted to get into it for some time. I bought the first book for some task like "white cover with minimum black" and it sits in my book shelf staring at my back when I am working at my desk. I have too many of these.
Cherie wrote: "There are new Pendergast books??? I will be glad to read the last Millennium book with you.
The Dublin Murder squad is one I would like to catch up with you on. I have wanted to get into it for ..."
We're all in the same boat.
the last Pendergast came out early this year, we did start it but it was bit slow so we decided to pick it up later when the time is right.
We only read two of the Dublin so no problem we'll wait for you.
Oh there is a hint for the yearly challenge and all will be exposed early.
Jannene wrote: "Oh there is a hint for the yearly challenge and all will be exposed early."Oh I have to check it out!
It looks like the Forensic HF series of four books that Janice mentioned in my thread might be a good add to read and kill off on our series lists next year too.
Cherie, l'm adding you in my list to blame when my boyfriend says how come I still have a book in my hand. Jannene can't be the only one!
Dominique wrote: "Cherie, l'm adding you in my list to blame when my boyfriend says how come I still have a book in my hand. Jannene can't be the only one!"Lol!! I’m glad to finally get company on the list.
Jannene wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Cherie, l'm adding you in my list to blame when my boyfriend says how come I still have a book in my hand. Jannene can't be the only one!"Lol!! I’m glad to finally get company o..."
Lol!
Dominique wrote: "The selfie buddies, hilarious!"It totally made my day when I came across it. I said that is us!!!
Jannene wrote: "Dominique wrote: "The selfie buddies, hilarious!"It totally made my day when I came across it. I said that is us!!!"
Yes it"s us but with more meat on our bones!
LOL! You two are a crack up. I hope I can take the pressure.
Cherie wrote: "LOL! You two are a crack up. I hope I can take the pressure."Don't worry, we read at our own pace. We don't stress with the length of time each reads a book.
Dom’s doing more planning than me! She’s dragging me kicking and screaming so early. ;)
Jannene wrote: "Dom’s doing more planning than me! She’s dragging me kicking and screaming so early. ;)"L'm preparing you.. maybe I should become your drill sergeant! no push-ups!
Dom killed off the orphan we had The Girl in the Woods while I’m still working on it. It is an extremely slow start. I keep looking at the paperback glaring. I feel like it is mocking me.I killed off The Da Vinci Code. I think Dom is still working on it. It was a very good book. I love how the author describes all of the cities but I’m starting to see a pattern with Robert Langdon and Jack Reacher. It seems like both of them are ladies men and it surprises me with one being a professor.
Did you already read Angles and Demons (Robert Langdon#1)?
Jannene wrote: "Dom killed off the orphan we had The Girl in the Woods while I’m still working on it. It is an extremely slow start. I keep looking at the paperback glaring. I feel like it is mocki..."If people leave me alone, I might be done by the time I leave work.
Cherie wrote: "Did you already read Angles and Demons (Robert Langdon#1)?"Yes, Dom forced me to read that in December. Next month is The Lost Symbol. She’s lucky I’m a good friend because I bought the book and had it mailed to her so she would be ready. ;)
Jannene wrote: "Yes, Dom forced me to read that in December. Next month is The Lost Symbol. She’s lucky I’m a good friend ..."ROFL!!! Actually, I did not like The Lost Symbol as much. I think I was in the minority though.
Jannene wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Did you already read Angles and Demons (Robert Langdon#1)?"Yes, Dom forced me to read that in December. Next month is The Lost Symbol. She’s lucky I’m a good friend ..."
Lol, you're funny.. I forced you! I might do it more often this year!
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