Karsyn ’s Comments (group member since Mar 01, 2017)

Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

Thanks Danielle! I'll get to at least 2 of them this month.

Hey Beth ~ my picks for you!


Since you love the Murder Squad, I want to introduce you to my favorite murder squad / serial killer series, the Robert Hunter series starting with The Crucifix Killer. I think the author writes creepy serial killer really really well.

Since you are a fan of the Gretchen/Archie series, I thought I'd introduce you to another female serial killer / detective combo starting with the book Huntress Moon.

You've read a little Nora Roberts (not enough!) and you have some marked as TBR (not enough!) but not my favorite NR, so I'm suggesting you give Blue Smoke a try. A great mystery and a great story.

All your mysteries and you haven't read Iris Johansen yet, though you do have a newer one marked as TBR. Instead of that one, I'm gonna suggest you give Kendra Michaels a try. She was introduced in the long running Eve Duncan series, but I think you can jump in at her first book, Close Your Eyes.

Dunno if you read Lesbian Romance but the 2nd book in the Bay West series, Serious Potential, has a move from CA to NY. The synopsis is about if she'd make the move and she doesn't leave and turns down a job in CA to stay in NY.

I'll try to think of more.

Want a Randemonium Recommendations thread? :)

Darn that you already read Scrappy, it fit nicely. Oh, I was just saying I didn't know of any, but I think I remembered one. brb, let me check.

I read The Candy Shop War for it. Don't want to give anything away but it fit quite nicely and was really good too! :)

Completion Post


Task: Read a Book with a Bridge on the Cover
Book: Before You Leap
Author: Keith Houghton
Pages: 302
Start Date: 8/30/17
Finish Date: 9/1/17
How it Fits: Tampa's Sunshine Skyway Bridge on cover
Rating: 1 star

No problem Caly, I'm sorry you couldn't get it yet.

I started the Bridge book and am through 20%. I'll have it finished tomorrow by the latest, probably today tho.

Sorry I missed your question last night Seraphina before I went to bed. Fantastic Fiction is what I use for authors names, it has all authors listed by last name, so you can go through the P list and look for the H first names.

Links to help with stuff like that is in the library and some others posted some resources to help with different things as well.

Sounds like a plan ladies. :) I'll start my bridge tonight. I know Caly was gonna do one, but she hasn't updated on it.

If you don't have any others, I'm glad to read for the Bridge so we have 2 rather than 1. But completely up to you.

LOL. No Kim, Angie and I are willing to jump in any time. We just read so much we don't always want to be 2 of the completed criteria all the time. So we just said for you all to let us know when you want us to read for one. We are keeping up and reading on our own so we can step in to help anytime. We also do try to make sure we cover the harder ones just in case. Because of that, I already have Parking Lot done and Angie was going to read for it as well.

Delitealex, if you have one of the other ones, I finished Parking Lot yesterday. So it's done, and we could use it, if you wanted to do something else. If not, I have a bridge book lined up that I can do.

LMAO Sandy. HP isn't the right kind of book for Hot Guy with Bare Chest, but I'd be glad to stick that task in somewhere else soon. :D

Because of the car on the right, yes, it's definitely parked next to the station.

I have a few I found, if anyone needs anymore suggestions.

I'm gonna have to say no one that one. I looked at it magnified, and it's not clear on if it's a lot or the road in. With the way the car is pointing, I'd say road in.

There were a few I looked at that were unclear like that, so I definitely think it needs to be clear with at least one parked car.

That's good Maya.

Everyone has been quiet on this one, figured as the first harder one there'd be more chatter about it. Everyone bored with it already? :)

Boat and Forest have been completed. 3 to go. And don't forget, you can ask for Angie and I to help. :)

Numbers may be spelled out, so in that case, you may consider them them same. :D

Ha Cecily! You just gave me a great idea for a new challenge. Thanks! :)

But for this, we'll allow repeats for Formidable and Frenzy levels. So if you wanna read 101+ books, you may do it with colors repeated.

Bout of Books 20 ~ Wrap-up


Bout of Book 20 Stats

I completed 20 books, started 2 others (one was a DNF)
I read 5,415 pages
I read 1 book on my Kindle and DNF a 2nd
I listened to 19 books as audiobooks
I read for approximately 60 hours (3 hours on Kindle, 57 hours on Audio)

Sunday Update


Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 1h 15m
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 4h 30m
Kindle reading time / pages: 30m
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 20
Current Book: The Feedback Loop
Pages Read Today: 536
Total Pages Read: 5,415
Time Read Today: 6h 15m
Total Time Read: 60h
Challenges Participated in today: None
Today's Completed Books:




Started, but did not Complete:




Started but did not, and will not, finish:

Above the Bridge ~ DNF @ 30%

Saturday Update


Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 2h
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 6h 30m
Kindle reading time / pages: none
Number of books I've read today: 4
Total number of books I've read: 18
Current Book:
Pages Read Today: 741
Total Pages Read: 4,879
Time Read Today: 8h 30m
Total Time Read: 53h 45m
Challenges Participated in today: None
Today's Completed Books:

Friday Update


Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 3h
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 4h 30m
Kindle reading time / pages: none
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 14
Current Book: Free Agency
Pages Read Today: 616
Total Pages Read: 4,138
Time Read Today: 7h 30m
Total Time Read: 45h 15m
Challenges Participated in today: None
Today's Completed Books: