SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Team #5
Captain: Michelle

Members:
Michelle
Janelea
Lady Jaye
Cathy (86)
Julianne

Virtual BINGO Card
Shelf names listed are to be filled in top to bottom under each letter listed

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1. *New2You: author
2. demons
3. *New2You: series
4. angels
5. young-adult-paranormal
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6. psychic
7. paranormal-fantasy
8. dragons
9. kick-ass-heroine
10. dark-fantasy
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11. sci-fi-romance
12. *Favorite Supe
N#. FREE SPACE
13. *Reader's Choice
14. *Series Catch-Up
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15. ghosts
16. magic
17. 2011
18. male-lead
19. new-series
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20. urban-fantasy
21. shifters
22. vampires
23. favorite-series
24. paranormal-romance

Link to print your own copy: BINGO card

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Hi Team!! Nice to meet you all! I'm excited!! (hence the overabundance o exclamations. Unfortunately it doesn't get better)

Oh hi! I'm very excited too!! I haven't played before. (and no worries about the exclamation points, I'm a total punctuation abuser, lol)

LOL! I'm a total "punctuation abuser" also! Love that, Julianne.

LOL...I think it's give what we type more character.

Absolutely :)

Hi everyone!

It's nice to meet you all. I'm Michelle and I have played before :) I have 3 little monsters at home so I have to go do the School & nursery runs then do a little shopping (which includes a new usb cable for my phone which decided to give in on me last night).
I'll be back in a few hours an I'll send friend requests to everyone then. Were is everyone from? I'm in Scotland.

Once everyone is here we can decide on a Captain, in the meantime get thinking about a name for our little Bingo team :)

I'm looking forward to reading with you ladies. Julianne if you have any questions feel free to ask and we'll try and answer them.

I am living in London for the moment :) . I have no creative naming ideas :(

Where are you from originally? I've only ever passed through London or been in the airports. I'll rectify that at some point and do the tourist thing :)

Team names:

(I suck at these)

Fiesty Five
Foxy Five
Fantastic Five

Thinking of F words...
Frisky, Fabulous, Faithful, Fable

Are we having 5 in the title - being team 5 and there is 5 of us

Five by Five?

Five Femme Fatales?

N3 - Free Space
Read 5/5 Stamp Received

Michelle -Darker After Midnight 5★ 20/6 Review
Janelea -The Lost Saint 5★ 21/6 Review
Lady Jaye -Hard Bitten4★ 22/6 Review
Cathy -Tangle of Need 4★ 18/6 Review
Julianne -Deadly Descendant4★ 14/7 Review



B5 young-adult-paranormal 17/6/12
Read 5/5 - Stamp Received

Michelle -Carpe Corpus 4★ 19/6 Review
Janelea -The Dark Divine4★ 19/6 Review
Lady Jaye -Before I Wake4★ 29/6 Review
Cathy -Goddess Interrupted3.5★ 26/6 Review
Julianne -Graceling 5★ 25/6 Review




O4 - Favorite Series 24/6/12
Read 5/5 Stamp Received

Michelle -Fated 4★ 28/6 Review
Janelea -Bloodhound 5★ 14/7 Review
Lady Jaye -Fair Game 4★ 28/6 Review
Cathy -Crossed 4★ 9/7 Review
Julianne -Web of Lies 3.5★ 3/7 Review



B3 New2You: Series 1/7/12
Read 5/5 Stamp Received

Michelle - Once Burned 4.5★ 2/7 Review
Janelea -Terrier 5★ 4/7 Review
Lady Jaye -Midnight Riot 5★ 5/7 Review
Cathy -Fifty Shades of Grey 5★ 5/7 Review
Julianne -Tempest Rising5★ 24/7 Review


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O2 - Shifters 8/7/12
4/4 Read Stamp Pending

Michelle - Fair Game 5★ 8/7 Review
Janelea -Tempest’s Fury4★ 22/7 Review
Lady Jaye -Must Love Hellhounds3★ 23/7 Review
Cathy -Linger5★ 13/7 Review



G1 - ghosts 15/7/12
5/5 Read Stamp Received

Michelle -Darkness Devours5★ 3/8 Review
Janelea -Grave Memory5★ 14/8 Review
Lady Jaye -Whispers Under Ground 4★ 2/8 Review
Cathy -Once Burned5★ 9/8 Review
Julianne -Halfway to the Grave5★ 1/8 Review




B2 - demons 22/7/12
4/4 Read Stamp Pending

Michelle -The Darkest Surrender 5★ 30/7 Review
Janelea -The Ripple Effect5★ 18/8 Review
Lady Jaye -Wicked Enchantment 2.5★ 2/8 Review
Cathy -Supernatural3.5★ 31/7 Review



O1 - urban-fantasy 29/7/12
3/4 Read

Michelle -Seduction in Death4★ 31/7 Review
Janelea -
Lady Jaye -]Gunmetal Magic3★ 9/8 Review
Cathy -Angel Betrayed4★ 2/8 Review




N5 - Series Catch-Up 5/8/12
3/4 Read

Michelle - 5★ 5/8 Review
Janelea -Grave Dance 5★ 8/8 Review
Lady Jaye -
Cathy -Forever 5★ 6/8 Review



B4 - angels 12/8/12
2/4 Read

Michelle -A Hunger So Wild 5★ 19/8 Review
Janelea -Darkness Devours 5★ 28/8 Review
Lady Jaye -
Cathy -



G3 - 2011 19/8/12
3/4 Read

Michelle -Born of Shadows 5★ 21/8 Review
Janelea -Mastiff
Lady Jaye -4★ 22/8 Review
Cathy -The Reluctant Vampire3.5★ 21/8 Review



G2 - magic 27/8/12
3/4 Read

Michelle -Midnight's Master 5★ 27/8 Review
Janelea -
Lady Jaye -Dealing with Dragons5★ 26/8 Review
Cathy -Tempting the Fire 4★ 28/8 Review

What about Five Fabulous Foxes?

Master List

And I'm from Canada, born and raised on the West Coast. I'm married and have 3 boys, aged 12, 13 and 14...they bring new meaning to the phrase "every day is an adventure"

Ooo, I like Five Femme Fatales...makes us sound all badass.

I can imagine! I have two boys 7 & (almost) 4 and my baby girl is 22months. You must have been shattered constantly in the early years - has it got any better?

The oldest and youngest are my step-sons so I wasn't around until they were 2 and 4 but it was still pretty crazy when they were all little. Things have gotten better in some ways and worse in others (the 14yo with problems in high school). Plus they smell bad and have pre-pubescant attitudes (or full pubescant for the 14yo). lol

I don't want to pull my hair out on a daily basis anymore though so that's a big bonus.

Lol, Julianne! I am from Ghana and recently moved to London from the US.

Ooh, Five Fabulous Foxes sounds great!

Julianne, I can't imagine what your day is like with 3 boys so close in age!All that energy and appetite!

I guess they do just have different issues and you still worry no matter their age! I don't envy you right now though, I'm dreading puberty...

Lol on the smelling bad :)

I used to think it was a lot like having triplets, at least now they are self sufficient. The appetites are already ridiculous, I'm scared of what the food bill is going to look like when the other two hit puberty.

They do put some amount of food away. Mine have doubled their bread & milk consumption in the past few months and they constantly say "I'm hungry".

Michelle wrote: "I guess they do just have different issues and you still worry no matter their age! "

So true. We were on the ferry last weekend and the kids and my husband wanted to stand at the railing and watch the water. I stomach was a knot and I was a total spazz. The kids of course found humor in this and decided to mock jump the railing and commence horseplay. I had to go inside the ferry. The worst part of all was the realization that I have become my mother.

Michelle wrote: "They do put some amount of food away. Mine have doubled their bread & milk consumption in the past few months and they constantly say "I'm hungry"."

It's crazy what they can put away. Mine used to eat a lot when they were little too.

Julianne wrote: "The worst part of all was the realization that I have become my mother."


My worst fear came to life!

Remember ladies you can pick your Free Space book at anytime and once the first shelf is announced you can read it.

Is anyone friends with Janelea or Cathy? I'm wondering if they know the teams are up.

Mine too! I remember the way she used to freak when I got too close to an edge and I was always "Mom, i'm fine" and she was all "but you might slip and fall" and I was all "mom, it's a second floor balcony"...you get the picture. But I had this knot in the small of my back and was in a state of panic at the thought that one of them might fall over the edge and into the water. I swear I wasn't like that 5 years ago.

Jaye (can I call you that?)- do you have any kids?

Michelle wrote: "Remember ladies you can pick your Free Space book at anytime and once the first shelf is announced you can read it.

Is anyone friends with Janelea or Cathy? I'm wondering if they know the teams a..."

Thank you. :) And I was trying to search through the discussion thread to find them but it was a little overwhelming.

I found them both and sent messages to them :)

Is there any shelves that you aren't looking forward too? Anyone? They all seem pretty good this time around for me. Young Adult is probably my least favourite to be honest but I have books to cover that.

No, Michelle, no kids yet. I am a big baby myself - 24. But someday, hopefully.

I think I have everything pretty well covered, I went through them all last night. (and printed out my card an jotted sown some tentative books) Demons may give me a problem, only because I'm working through Lords of the Underworld but I need to be in the right mood for it. The rest of the categories I have plenty to choose from off my physical TBR stack. *cough* mountain *cough*

Michelle, I used to love YA but the more I read the adult ones the more I find the YA can't hold my interest as much. Unless it's dystopian...love me some YA dystopian. lol

Lady Jaye wrote: "No, Michelle, no kids yet. I am a big baby myself - 24. But someday, hopefully."

You are still a baby! Plenty of time ;)

Have you played Bingo before?

Julianne wrote: " I have plenty to choose from off my physical TBR stack. *cough* mountain *cough*"

I call mine my *Mountain Range* Sigh!

Have you tried Jenifer Estep's new YA - I loved it! I usually feel as if I'm getting to old for teenage angst.

Are you talking about Myhtos Academy or is there a different one?

Michelle wrote: "Julianne wrote: " I have plenty to choose from off my physical TBR stack. *cough* mountain *cough*"

I call mine my *Mountain Range* Sigh!"

I got a shipment from book depository a couple weeks ago and they are still in the box because i don't have room for them. :(
I'm planning to get a new bookcase very soon...it will be lovely. :-)

Julianne wrote: "Are you talking about Myhtos Academy or is there a different one?"

No that's the one, I think it might have been out for a while but I just read them all recently, I liked them more than I expected. It might have been the Spartan that did it though...

I like Spartans. That one is is definitely on my list...I have about 15 YA series I own but haven't started so my goal is to get through at least some of them before I buy any more YA series. (More if you include the kids books I'd like to read)

Julianne wrote: "I like Spartans. That one is is definitely on my list...I have about 15 YA series I own but haven't started so my goal is to get through at least some of them before I buy any more YA series. (More..."

Ouch! That is a lot, I'm not sure how many I have. The only reason I read them was I had an ARC of the latest one and I hate not reading in order. Maybe you can use your shelves to make a dent in them!

That's my plan. :) Mind you I have a heckuvalot more unread adult books. lol

I bet! Janelea messaged me back, I think she's coming over to say hi.

I am so behind on my reading it's unbelievable, I have loads of new releases and review books to get through. It's never ending!