The Lost Challenges discussion

Reading:

I can do:
Wife, King

And any of the following:
Country, home, Street
book, coat, candle, paint, lamp
red, purple, pink, black, and white

Just finished for the day - so tired!

I found a book that works for this and the SS challenge!

I will be reading



WOW: Wife
BOW: King

And can everyone find the following -

Country (pronoun)
Book
Purple

Ok, I can read

It has all of the words you want to claim this week, Lesley, with England for Country.

That sounds so cheerful, NancyHelen! If you want a different book, we can pick other words!!

I will read and I can find all those words. :)

I will be claming all words this week with

Good work, Team!

Sunshine, I need to read that book for a challenge. I'll be interested to read what you think.

Sunshine wrote: "I will read and I can find all those words. :)"

The 'Iron Druid' series is one of my favorite series. Oberon is a hoot :D

How is everyone doing? It was a horrendously difficult weekend and I have had no time to read. I hope everyone is able to find the words that we chose.

Me neither my Father been really poorly so I haven't even picked the book up yet. Hoping I can get started later today.

I'm so sorry about your father, Jade. No worries! I'm cutting everyone some slack. Still don't have internet hooked up at my new house, so I'm at work typing this. Shhhhh!!

Finished my book this morning however! Have a great day everyone!

Thanks Leslie it is awful don't know what is worse the cancer or the chemo! Sat with him a lot today whilst my mum did her chores and shopping so got quite a bit read! Not the most interesting book though so far so that doesn't help :(

It's hard to pick between chemo and cancer for being more horrible. Such a difficult thing to go through. I have been through it with my husbands parents and sister. You and your family are in my prayers.

Thanks Leslie, it is very difficult

Jade, I am so sorry to hear of your difficulties. I understand it intimately and send all of my wishes that it goes well and the chemo is successful. I lost my brother to cancer two years ago and I can do nothing but curse the disease.

I have finished my book, but I haven't managed to update until now so:

by John O'Farrell
Finished: 21 March 2015
Rating: 4*

I wasn't sure about this book when I first started out, as my familiarity with the politics in Britain of the 1980s isn't that great, but actually this was a really entertaining memoir. It traced the course of a Labour supporter from idealism through to disillusionment and then to final acceptance during the long, dark years of Margaret Thatcher's rule. The books ends when 'New Labour' finally gain office in 1997 - an event I remember myself having arrived in Britain the year before. There are some incredibly funny recollections but what comes through most of all was the passion and heartbreak of the author. I think this is as much a coming-of-age book as a political book and I was really pleasantly surprised at just how much I enjoyed it.

wife: "I turned to his wife and said..." p.191
king: "John Major was king." p. 279
Country: "...take from the wallet of middle England." p. 250
purple: "some punks with purple mohicans..." p.47
book: "I also had a large book..." p. 300

NancyHelen wrote: "Jade, I am so sorry to hear of your difficulties. I understand it intimately and send all of my wishes that it goes well and the chemo is successful. I lost my brother to cancer two years ago and I..."

Thanks, it is awful! the chemo is definitely affecting him more that the cancer at the moment. Speaking to the Doctors next week to decide our options. Sorry for your loss.....can't believe how many people this horrible disease takes. We lost my Husbands Nan to lung cancer only 3 weeks ago its been horrendous!

Thanks for your prayers and well wishes ;)

Finished: 26th Mar
Rating:✮✮

Review:
I really struggled with this book, which is unusual as regency romances and Eloisa James usually leave me with a big smile and utter contentment. However this book just didn't do it for me it was tedious at times, it only started really to get going at 25% and then dwindled off again, until my interest was leaked for a second time at 34%.

The highlight of the whole book was one of the main characters Lady Sophie York she had a lot of spunk which I admire, but for someone so clever and well read she wasn't half naive at times! The relationships with her and various suitors throughout the beginning of the book just didn't sit well with me. An Earl wanting to marry her whilst setting up a concubine on the side? and telling his fiancé this? Her Father having extra marital affairs in the presents of her Mother.....

I also found the continuous talk of Napoleon tiresome, whilst he was mentioned through the book, I just didn't see the need. I realise it was set in that time period and the characters were English and French speaking but it just seemed unnecessary and abit too frequent.

Wife~at the mention of his wife (Loc 295)
King~the sceptre used by King George (Loc 194)
England~declare war on England (Loc 164)
Book~the book on Turkish grammar (Loc 2142)
Purplehe wound the purple scarf around (Loc 1058)

Week 6
by Kevin Hearne 3/25/15

...played the dutiful wife while he was home. Kindle Loc 3086
...to have a go at that pompous snot King Cairbre. Kindle Loc 219
...the twenty trees native to Ireland Kindle Loc 235
"You wrote it down in your little book." Kindle Loc 1868
...his face turned purple... Kindle Loc 3725

Such a great book! Atticus has tons of humor but doesn't come off as a smart ass. He knows when to keep his mouth shut. His Irish wolfhound, Oberon, is great too. His current idol is Genghis Khan and he want's a harem of French Poodles! lol. I love the relationship between the two. Atticus shows affection for Oberon and proves he more than just a faithful sidekick. I did think the whole section with the cops at his business was too easy cleaned up, but over all, I couldn't put this down. I snuck reading it at work! Shhhh!

I will update the site tonight. Hopefully the cable guy will solve my cable issues at the new house and I will actually be able to get on the computer while I'm home. Right now I'm coming to work early just to check GR's! I should have my book finished sometime tomorrow!

Week 6: WOW Wife
BOW: King

LeslieFade to Black
JadeMidnight PleasuresCompleted 3/26 Review Post
SunshineHoundedCompleted 3/25 Review Post
NancyHelenThings Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997Completed 3/21 Review Post
DanielleBite Me, Your Grace

I'm posting this morning! Soon as I drop my toddler off.

Week 6:


Rating: 3.5 stars
Date Finished: 3/27
Review:

I really enjoyed this book. This is the first time I've read anything by Brooklyn Ann and it was a freebie so wins on both fronts!

I love historicals and I love paranormals but I don't think I've ever read the two together. I enjoyed the lead couple and I loved the heroine. Who doesn't love a bluestocking? And a liberal bluestocking at that! She was so fun and I really just liked her way of trying to break out of what society was trying to peg for her. I also liked how the author incorporated real people like Lord Byron and Mary Shelly. I really like this trope in any of my PNRs when they are establishing mythology or world building. I'm definitely going to continue this series and watch this author for more!

Wife: "I am certain my wife is responsible for this..." p.22
King: "...wear black plumes in your headdress for your presentation to the King last Tuesday" p.9
Country: "...taking her from Paris to Italy, even to Switzerland" p.4
Book: "...as she looked at the remains of her favorite book in the fireplace." p.1
Purple: "...which was a purple so dark it looked black..." p.221

Week 7 - Super Bonus Week


Place~Street
Bonus~Dream

Get searching ladies ;)

I will read

Has all words except Umbrella

I'm going to read

It has all of the words left!

I don't know yet still looking trough my kindle :/ most books have something missing

Week 6: Wife
BOW: King


3/27/15 4★

Review:Second time reading this and I enjoyed it a lot more this time. Decent character development and crime solving. It kept my interest till the end and the bad guy was a surprise. I look forward to the next one.

Wife: "any recently divorced guy whose wife had remarried" Loc 935
King: "one was the crowned king of thugs" Loc 340
Country (America): "every sixth grader in America" Loc 1426
Box: "write that part down in your little book" Loc 2419
Purple: "Covey's face was purple" loc 4597

Reading:

Can do street, dream

Mother, sister, father, brother, teacher
lamp, paint, umbrella
red, pink, black, white

@Leslie...in your review you have Box listed but your sentence says book. I'm assuming you want it to be book. Let me know if I am wrong :)

Thanks for posting Jade! I am home and the internet is working mostly, so I'll start looking.

Yes, JenniferPP! sorry about that.

Hi Team! Finally managed to find my words!

The only person we haven't heard from is Jade - hopefully you can find these words!!

I'll be reading

WOW: Street
BOW: Dream

Teacher
Lamp
Pink

Don't forget you get a super bonus words this week :)

Hi Leslie yeah got a couple of books I can work with will post which one shortly!

It's been a long weekend here my Dads infection seems to be easing off and the antibiotics kicking in....just so difficult because of the chemo!

So glad the antibiotics are finally working. Chemo makes everything more difficult. Hope the week goes better for him and for you.

We should have our bonus word come from the People or Things categories.

I am going with

You are right, Sunshine. Thanks for thinking of it.
The only word I can do in the things category, other than what we picked already - is Coat. I can do any word in the people category. Y'all think about it and decide.

I can do any word in the people category as well.

Week 7:
by Adam Baker 3/31/15
Rating: ✮✮✮


The remaining crew still called it Main Street. Kindle Loc 82
I had a dream which was not all a dream. Kindle Loc 4642
...standing before them like a teacher... Kindle Loc 214
She switched on her lamp... Kindle Loc 4315
Daytime was a brief pink twilight. Kindle Loc 1825

SUPER BONUS:
She wrote love-you letters to her mother and sister. Kindle Loc 1001

New take on Zombies. Would give more towards a 3.5. Once you are infected, these little metal shards fuse to your spinal cord and slowly take over your body. This leaves you as a weirdly metal spiked/ melted iron-looking creature, who, of course, wants to eat people. There's no known reason where this came from. Space? Lab? Government?

The first part of the story just follows a sparse crew on an oil rig up in the Artic Circle before the zombies float onto the scene upon a cruse ship. There's a little murder mystery in the background which I don't feel was necessary. I did like the bit that was from the POV of a certain character as they became infected and how the brain/body slowly changed. Then there was some stuff happening straight out of an episode of Lost. And true to the show, no explanation was given, just, poof!, now go with it...

I'm actually going to switch my book to by James Ellroy. It has all of the words we need, and has both Mother and Sister for the super bonus word. Sorry about that - I suddenly realised that the week is moving on and I have more books than days to read!

Week 7: Street
BOW: Dream

NancyHelen:The Black DahliaCompleted 4/2/15 Review Post
Jade:DarkfeverCompleted 3/3/15 Review Post
Sunshine:Outpostcompleted 3/31/15 Review Post
Danielle:Being AmberCompleted 4/2/15 Review Post
Leslie:The Time WeaverCompleted 3/31/15 Review Post

Week 7: Street
BOW: Dream


3/31/15 4★

Review:
Last and final book in the Drakon series and it was both beautiful and strangely unsatisfying at the same time. So many threads left hanging. Such a strange ending. And yet her language and her descriptive voice is so incredible that you just want to sink into the words. In this one we have Honor, who is a Time Weaver and Alexandru, the Prince of Zaharan Ice. Time traveling is always confusing and combine that with Lia's dreaming and it makes for a slightly confusing muddle. And yet, I was still caught up in it. More pondering is obviously needed.

WOW: Street (pronoun) "Fleet Street" p. 54
BOW: Dream: "stuff of dreams" p. 10
Super Bonus: Mother "my Mother would incline her head" p. 18
Lamp: "found a lamp" p. 289
Pink: "reflecting pink and silver skies" p. 62
Sister: " through the luck of his sister" p. 74

Leslie, I'm sorry but STREET needs to be a proper noun ex. Main Street, 5th Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard

No worries, JenniferPP. It's been such a crazy week with the move that I wasn't paying attention to details.

Sorry team! How is everyone else doing with this word?

Hope you can find a street Leslie!

I'm getting there! 65% done

Well, I found everything but teacher. Oh well. It will have to do. Sorry team - I messed up!

~Leslie~ wrote: "Well, I found everything but teacher. Oh well. It will have to do. Sorry team - I messed up!"

Leslie, could you claim a different person this week and then go for teacher next week?