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Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

Sorry for forgetting to come back after you updated Carmen. Here are my picks for you:


- the cover is lovely
- I've thought of adding this to my TBR, would love to know your thoughts

September


🔴 Read a Book that is the NINTH Book of a Series
Book: Justice for Erin
Author: Susan Stoker
Pages: 382
Started: 9/23/19
Finished: 9/23/19
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 9th book in the Texas Heroes series



🔴 Read a Book Published in September of any Year
Book: White Silence
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 325
Started: 9/17/19
Finished: 9/20/19
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: published Sept 21st, 2017



🔴 Read a Book with a NINE Word Title
Book: This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
Author: Edgar Cantero
Pages: 256
Started: 9/27/19
Finished: 9/30/19
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: 9 word Title



🔴 Read a Book First Published this month, September of 2019
Book: Elevator Pitch
Author: Linwood Barclay
Pages: 464
Started: 9/13/19
Finished: 9/16/19
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: published Sept 17th, 2019

In it for Oct, though will be skipping Nov.

Here's my Shelf

I finished and posted a book that fits 17.8 for my 2nd Ch 17 task.

If you'd like. I read a book that fits Ch 8 that I didn't previously do Task: Read a Book by an author whose initials are S.S.

Let me know if you'd like me to use it.

Completion Post - Chapter 17 - 2 of 2


Task: Read a Book in which a Character tries and fails to kill the Main Character
Book: White Silence
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 325
Start Date: 9/17/19
Finish Date: 9/20/19
How it Fits: There are several attempts on MCs life that fail

August



🔵 Read a Book that is the EIGHTH Book of a Series
Book: Shelter for Sophie
Author: Susan Stoker
Pages: 376
Started: 8/29/19
Finished: 8/30/19
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 8th book of the Texas Heroes series



🔵 Read a Book Published in August of any Year
Book: Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven
Author: Bella Forrest
Pages: 402
Started: 8/29/19
Finished: 8/31/19
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: Published Aug 27, 2018



🔵 Read a Book with a Eight Word Title
Book: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Author: Amal El-Mohtar
Pages: 208
Started: 8/22/19
Finished: 8/23/19
Rating: 3 star
How it Fits: 8 word Title



🔵 Read a Book First Published this month, August of 2019
Book: Swipe Right for Murder
Author: Derek Milman
Pages: 369
Started: 8/28/19
Finished: 8/29/19
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: Published Aug 6, 2019

Yo Angie, for you:


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Thanks Plethora! :)

Those two are for Earwax (Return to Hogwarts) and Red Cover (Winter Olympics).

Take your time Plethora! Hope you are feeling better!

Here's my Shelf

Completed 1 of my 2 for Ch 17 - my 8th of a series for Bookish happened to fit a task perfectly. Yay!

And posted it to the completed thread - I should have mentioned.

Completion Post - Chapter 17 - 1 of 2


Task: Read a Book with a Character who Stutters
Book: Shelter for Sophie
Author: Susan Stoker
Pages: 376
Start Date: 8/29/19
Finish Date: 8/30/19
How it Fits: MC Sophie talks with a Stutter

I tend to forget about posting about them, other than my own intent to do them. Bout of Books is always held in Jan, May and Aug. Here is the upcoming schedule from their blog. Definitely keep an eye on the blog, they will start promoting the next one in December.

Sorry you missed out on it! :( Dewey's is coming up in October, the date isn't listed on the site, but it's usually around the 18th.

This was not my favorite Bout of Books. Not because of the reading or whatever, but because things happened personally to me and to a friend that had me worried for her and upset for me. The week started off fine and just went downhill from there. Things are a little better for me, not yet so for my friend. But we're getting there.

So yeah, this week just ended up sucking. I barely missed my goal of 14 books - I completed 13 - but didn't mind / care too much with everything else going on. It was what it was. Still, got in some good reading overall. In addition to my normal reading, I was also Beta Reading for 2 ladies. I read and critiqued about 82 pages of their stories. Some good writing there!

How did you do? Leave me a link and I'll come visit your wrap-up!






Bout of Book 25 Stats


I completed 13 books
I read 2,530 pages
I read 3 books on my Kindle, started 1 other
I listened to 10 books as audiobooks
I Beta Read / Critiqued approximately 82 pages
I read 4 Novels & 9 Novellas
I read for approximately 26 hours (5 hrs 10 min on Kindle, 20 hrs 50 min on Audio)




Sunday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 30 min / 33 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 2 hr 45 min / 253 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: -----
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 13
Current Book: Saving Fable
Pages Read Today: 286
Total Pages Read: 2,530
Time Read Today: 3 hrs 15 min
Total Time Read: 26 hrs





COMPLETED BOOKS:









Started, but did not complete:

Day 6 was a shit day. That is all.




Saturday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 30 min /
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 3 hrs 45 min / 308
Kindle reading time / pages: -----
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 11
Current Book: Saving Fable / Lost
Pages Read Today: 308
Total Pages Read: 2,244
Time Read Today: 3 hours 45 minutes
Total Time Read: 22 hours 45 minutes
Today's Completed Books:

How is BoB going for all of you all? Enjoying it? Getting a lot of reading done?

Day 5 was another bad day of reading. :( Just some personal shit and I didn't really feel like it too much. I did finish two books but one was after midnight, so that will be on Saturday's Completed Books list. Did start an ARC by an author I really like and I really like the book so that was good, look forward to finishing it today.

No challenge for me today. I'm not a TV or movie (or otherwise) person. I read, I play video games and now, I write. That's about it. I typically only keep up with a few TV shows and one of my favorites came from a book and was just canceled so I'm pissed about that. Instinct was a great show and I'm gonna miss it. :(




Friday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: -----
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 2 hrs 50 min / 228 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: 1 hr 10 min / 132 pages
Number of books I've read today: 1
Total number of books I've read: 9
Current Book: Saving Fable
Pages Read Today: 360
Total Pages Read: 1,937
Time Read Today: 4 hours
Total Time Read: 19 hours
Today's Completed Books:

How is BoB going for all of you all? Enjoying it? Getting a lot of reading done?

Day 4 was my slowest day. Had a friend going through some stuff, so talked to them most of the morning and then worried about them most of the day. Ended up only finishing one super short book. I also listened to a little of an audio before bed and read two chapters of my beta/critique, but that was it. So, a slow day. Here's to hoping today is better.

One of my favorite challenges, but it's a long one for me. :) I love recommending books!!




Challenges

If you like _____ , then try _____




If you like TIME TRAVEL, then try


Chronicles of St Mary's series by Jodi Taylor
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Secret Runners of New York by Matthew Reilly
Chronos Files by Rysa Walker
Rewind Agency series by Jill Cooper
Future Shock trilogy by Elizabeth Brings
The Drafter by Kim Harrison
Timewaves series by Sophie Davis
Rewinder trilogy by Brett Battles
Hexad series by Al K Line
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (more of a time loop)
Place in Time duology by Wendy Nikel
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch




If you like MIDDLE GRADE books, then try


The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
The Lemoncello series by Chris Grabenstein
The Island of Dr Libris by Chris Grabenstein
Cragbridge Hall series by Chad Morris
Oldies but goodies: Trixie Belden series and Nancy Drew series
Ulysses Moore series by Pierdomenico Baccalario
39 Clues series & spinoffs, first is Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
Voyagers series by various authors, first is Project Alpha by D.J. MacHale
Tombquest series by Michael Northrop
Infinity Ring series by various, first is Mutiny in Time by James Dashner
13th Reality series by James Dashner
Ever After High series by Shannon Hale
The Magic Misfits by Neal Patrick Harris
George series by Lucy & Stephen Hawking
The Librarian series by Eric Hobbs
The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie
Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
Stranded trilogy by Jeff Probst
Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly
The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
Grimm Legacy trilogy by Polly Shulman
Mysterious Benedict Society & The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart





If you like VIDEO GAMES, then try

LitRPG: (read & loved)


Chaos Seeds series by Aleron Kong
Play to Live series by D. Rus
The Gam3 series by Cosimo Yap



LitRPG: (haven't read yet but on my personal TBR)


Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell
Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko
Divine Dungeon by Dakota Krout
The Dark Herbalist by Michael Atamanov



Virtual Reality: (read & loved)


Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Solarversia by Toby Downton
Mortality Doctrine series by James Dashner
The Leveller by Julia Durango
The Game is Life series by Terry Schott
Otherworld by Jason Segel



Other books a gamer would enjoy:


Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
Insignia trilogy by S.J. Kincaid
Tag, You're Dead by J.C. Lane








Thursday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 35 min / 56 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: -----
Kindle reading time / pages: 1 hr 25 min / 112 pages
Number of books I've read today: 1
Total number of books I've read: 8
Current Book: This is How You Lose the Time War / Orion Colony
Pages Read Today: 188
Total Pages Read: 1,576
Time Read Today: 2 hours
Total Time Read: 15 hours
Today's Completed Books:

Today was a lazy sleepy day and a pretty good day of reading. Less books completed than yesterday but read some longer ones, so that's to be expected. In the middle of two at the days end, so should get them both done today.

No challenge today. I've been working on my own cover, so don't want to play with others. :)

How is your Bout of Books going? What's the best book you've read for it so far?



Wednesday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 35 min / 32 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: -----
Kindle reading time / pages: 1 hr 55 min / 166 pages
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 7
Current Book: The End / Orion Colony
Pages Read Today: 560
Total Pages Read: 1,388
Time Read Today: 4 hours 55 minutes
Total Time Read: 13 hours
Today's Completed Books:

Tuesday was a quiet day. No crappy books or kitten craziness. Just a normal day of reading, and playing a bit with my new toy (a drawing tablet) playing around with my cover for my WiP. I'm also Beta Reading for one person (so far) and I read a few chapters of her story. I found I like this Beta Reading thing. It's fun. :)

Challenge: Adaptation Aspirations

Given a choice - I'd have my most favorite book ever - The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern - made into a movie or a tv show. But it would have to be done PERFECTLY of course, leaving nothing out and being as beautiful as the book.

I made a dream cast years ago, so since it's early (630a) I'm going to reuse that list. I'm not a big movie/tv person so there's not a lot of variety to my picks, but I'm fond of the Chandresh one.
Celia - Mila Kunas
Marco - Tom Welling
Isobel - Allison Scagliotti
Ethan - Mark Harmon
Alexander - Jason Issacs
Tsukiko - Ming Tsukiko
Poppet (older / younger) - Taylor Richardson & Molly Quinn
Chandresh - Rene Auberjonois
Tante Padva - Fionnula Flanagan




Tuesday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 1 hr 5 min / 90 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 3 hrs 55 min / 385 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: -----
Number of books I've read today: 3
Total number of books I've read: 5
Current Book: Alice Payne Arrives
Pages Read Today: 475
Total Pages Read: 828
Time Read Today: 5 hours
Total Time Read: 8 hours 5 minutes
Today's Completed Books:

Though I dislike Twitter, I did finally join, albeit a bit reluctantly. I've always done the 'me in 6 words' though. Here's me, in 6 words:

Naughty little reader, gamer and writer!

The day started off ROUGH with a book I HATED with a passion. The cover (see below) looks like it'd be a BDSM book - hello. Collar. No BDSM in sight, more like a naughty religious girl's secret stash. It was not good. :( I hate even listing it. Second book was from a series I enjoy, so a good bounce back.

I'd wanted to read more, but had a toy coming for me, so the rest of the afternoon was spent playing with my new toy. :) So while I didn't read more, I did finally purchase the photo for the cover of my book and I started working on it. It was fun tinkering and I see a difference between what I'd done before and what I've done with the toy (a drawing tablet). I'm excited to have my cover be official soon.

In the meantime, there's still BoB, as much as I'd still like to only play with my toy. But today I think I'll listen to some audios while I tinker more.

And how did I forget to mention the kitten? There was also a kitten in the house, for a little while. We feed some strays, have for years, and Mama's newest batch are a few months old now. My Hubby brought a little guy in for a while for me to say Hi to, so that's how the morning started out, before the crappy book. :D


I started writing creatively back in March and it's been a wild ride. If you'd like to know more about my book, Natural Exposure , here's a few links you can click. Natural Exposure is an Erotic Romance featuring themes of polyamory, BDSM & LGBTQ+.


July Camp NaNo Wrap-up
Natural Exposure - my work-in-progress
How Natural Exposure came to be


Back to Bout of Books. Here's what I did read yesterday.


Monday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 1 hr / 95 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: -----
Kindle reading time / pages: 2 hr 5 min / 258 pages
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 2
Current Book: River of No Return
Pages Read Today: 353
Total Pages Read: 353
Time Read Today: 3 hours 5 minutes
Total Time Read: 3 hours 5 minutes
Today's Completed Books:

Hey Plethora - here's my picks for you.


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