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Lauri's Spot!Start January 12, 2018 - ?
1 / 12 Towers Completed
23 / 78 books completed
12 books you've acquired most recently
1. Lake Woebegone Days
2. The Girl That Kicked the Hornet's Nest
3. Crossing the Horizon
4. Last Ride to Graceland 7/6/18
5. Tokyo Kill
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
7. The Restaurant Critic's Wife
8. Amy Snow
9. And I Darken
10. Life and Other Near Death Experiences
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11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves longest
1. Yes Please
2. Bossy pants
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4. Cleopatra: a Life (Schiff)
5. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Massie)
6. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 7/6/18
7. Stephen King on Writing
8. Peter the Great: His Life & World (Massie)
9. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
10. Grave Mercy 6/22/18
11. The Gathering 4/13/18
10 books that you randomly choose from your shelves
1. Real Murders 1/13/18
2. The Cat Who Saw Red 1/16/18
3. Gabriel's Angel 1/16/18
4. High Stakes 4/6/18
5. China Dolls 1/21/18
6. An Island Christmas 1/18/18
7. Wintersong
8. Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery 1/26/18
9. Daughter of the Reef
10. The Alienist
9 sequels, series continuations or spin-offs
1. Grave Surprise 1/14/18
2. The Job 4/7/18
3. Succubus Revealed 7/12/18
4. Hardcore Twenty-Four 6/12/18
5. Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday 7/27/18
6. Three to Get Lei'd 2/25/18
7. Cherry Cheesecake Murder 4/6/18
8. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare 6/30/18
9. Wedding Day Murder 6/22/18
8 novellas or short stories
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7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. Little Fires Everywhere
2. Into the Water
3. Ready Player One 9/18/18
4. Room
5. A Man Called Ove
6. The Selection 2/18/18
7. Gone Girl
6 anticipated releases
1. In the Midst of Winter
2. The Serpent in Heaven
3. Get a Life Chloe Brown
4. Going Rogue
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5 books that were recommended to you via GR
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4 books that you started, but never finished
1. Firefly Lane
2. Here be Dragons
3. The Rosie Project
4. Yakudoshi
3 books that you've read before
1. The Land of Painted Caves
2. A Nantucket Christmas 1/12/18
3. The Red Tent
2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of of but everyone raves about the books
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1 book that intimidates you
1. The Journeyer
Lauri's Spot!Start date: January 1, 2018
Duration: 1 year
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Lauri's Spot!
Lauri's Spot! 100 Random Books From My TBR in No Particular Order!
December 24, 2017 - December 24, 2022
2 / 100
1. China Dolls
2. Grave Surprise 1/14/18
3. Dark Matter
4. The House of Unexpected Sisters 12/32/17
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
6. The Mango Season
7. The Temple of My Familiar
8. Pago Pago Tango
9. Masquerade
10. Midnight Alley
11. Storm Glass
12. Amy Snow
13. The Restaurant Critic's Wife
14. Dashing Through the Snow
15. Wolfskin
16. Knit Two
17. The Magicians
18. A Christmas Guest
19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
20. The Heretic's Daughter
21. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
22. Gone Girl
23. Wintersong
24. Middlesex
25. A is for Alibi
26. The Blessing Way
27. Shakespeare's Landlord
28. The Persian Pickle Club
29. Size 12 Is Not Fat
30. Homeplace
31. High Stakes
32. The Kitchen Witch
33. If You Ask Me
34. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
35. Seriously... I'm Kidding
36. Legend
37. Thirteen Moons
38. Caramelo
39. Conversations With Isabel Allende
40. The Heartsong of Charging Elk
41. Lily of the Nile
42. Shinju
43. LaRose
44. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
45. I Am Number Four
46. Crazy Horse: A Life
47. Dream Jungle
48. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
49. The Heretic Queen
50. Rebel Queen
51. Witch Way to Murder
52. A Clash of Kings
53. Talk Before Sleep
54. The Kitchen Daughter
55. The Visitant
56. Blue Skin of the Sea
57. Rahab's Story
58. Imperial Woman
59. Three Souls
60. Christmas with Tucker
61. Diamond Head
62. Miss Chopsticks
63. Galway Bay
64. The Wonder
65. City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan
66. The Library at Mount Char
67. Red Rising
68. The Little Paris Bookshop
69. Cold Sassy Tree
70. The Iron King
71. Moon Called
72. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
73. Orphan Number Eight
74. Murder in the Place of Anubis
75. The Borgia Bride
76. Children of the Vampire
77. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken
78. Everything I Never Told You
79. Fates and Furies
80. Claire of the Sea Light
81. Death Without Company
82. Empress
83. James Herriot's Dog Stories
84. Hex Hall
85. Viola in the Spotlight
86. Girl of Nightmares
87. Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek
88. An Echo in the Bone
89. Pilate's Wife
90. Commonwealth
91. Lake Wobegone Days
92. Me Before You
93. The Orphan Master's Son
94. Last Ride to Graceland
95. The End of Your Life Book Club
96. Future Home of the Living God
97. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
98. Friday Night Bites
99. Shadow of Night
100. The Awakening / The Struggle
Lauri's Spot!2 / 10
1. Yes Please
2. Bossypants
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4. Cleopatra: A Life
5. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
6. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 7/10/18
7. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
8. Peter the Great: His Life and World
9. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
10. Grave Mercy 6/22/18
Updating message 8 -- not too good a showing. Only 2 out of 10 this year. I really must stop adding to this pile!!
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Updating Msg 7 - only completed 2 books and it's already October! I guess it's better than none at all...
I read Zipporah, Wife of Moses back in Feb. and finally finished A Discovery of Witches in July, but never posted them. Hope to check off at least a couple more before 2017 is over...
Lauri's Spot!0 / 8 books
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R - Reliquary
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This is the end!? Oh no......Double Completion Post!
Georgia Bottoms
288 pages
Finished 7/29/17
5 stars!!
Totally hilarious!
The Mummy Case
327 pages
Finished 7/29/17
4 stars
Great mystery...
Double completion post!Dance Hall of the Dead
258 pages
Finished 7/25/17
4 stars!
All Fudged Up
352 pages
Finished 7/27/17
4 stars...
Triple completion post!In the Blood
342 pages
4 stars!
Creepy & thrilling look at mental illness
Mad About the Boy
336 pages
3 stars
We meet Bridget again after she is widowed and struggling to raise 2 children. Sad & funny all at once!
The Woman in Cabin 10
340 pages
4 stars
Terrifying & suspenseful
Double completion post!Death by the Dozen
276 pages
Finished 7/20/17
4 stars
Great mystery series with recipes!
In the Unlikely Event
397 pages
Finished 7/20/17
4 stars
Unusual historical fiction set mostly in New Jersey in the 50's...
Double completion post!The House Girl
370 pages
Finished 7/15/17
4 stars
Girl of the Moment
217 pages
Finished 7/15/17
3 stars
Triple completion post!Aloha, Lady Blue: A Mystery
306 pages
Finished 7/8/17
4 stars
Great portrayal of Hawaii! I actually know the writer personally & was surprised to see his book on the library shelves. Added bonus of being set in my home town!
Beautiful Ruins
337 pages
Finished 7/8/17
4 stars
Twisty tale of small town almost Italian Riviera meets Hollywood glamour.
A Discovery of Witches
579 pages
Finished (finally!) 7/8/17
4 stars
I would've gone with 5 stars for all the literary & historical references, but that very reason made it extra long a just a bit tedious. Great story all in all.
I really want to read Ash and Quill, but I'll probably have to wait awhile before I'll be able to get it from the library😩
Double Completion Post! For Cheddar or Worse
294 pages
Finished 7/6/17
4 stars
Everything you ever needed to know about cheese...
Star Spangled Murder
234 pages
Finished 7/7/17
4 stars
Great premise -- lobster poaching, dogs, potato salad, nudists, oh my!
Lauri's Spot!I'll try Draw It!
Level: Doodle
Mouth - Star Spangled Murder
Apple - Winter
Cat - For Cheddar or Worse
