The Lost Challenges discussion

I will be reading Finding the Lost by Shannon K. Butcher

I'm going to read .

Items:
Wind: "Look at the way it's packed on the left - there's been a strong wind at some stage." Page 259
Boots: "Heart in her throat, she cracked open the door, knowing her coat and boots would give away her intent if she was caught." Page 198
Shoulder: "The boy immediately snuggled his head onto her shoulder, one little hand spread on the pale blue of her shirt." Page 16
Cake: "She said her mother made her cake and coffee every afternoon, and brushed her haird for her every night." Page 176

I am going to read:

Items:
Fog/Mist: "Outside, the rain was still going, a fine mist falling into light from the fluorescent strip above the door."-pg. 12
Boots: "There was a table, a bench, an umbrella stand, a place for boots and shoes."-pg. 20
Toe: "She took off her shoes and wiggled her toes on the grass, but stopped when she saw he was looking at her and covered them with her hands."-pg. 81
Fruit: "‘He said it was lethal and that Karyn had eaten all the fruit, which was the most alcoholic bit.’"-pg. 241

ladies -- Great Job!!!
officially, we are in second place, but we don't have to stay there!!
Is everyone set for this week? Do you need help.

by Shannon K. Butcher
Finished: 12/22 -- ★★★★
My thoughts: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...

Items Claimed:
Rainbow: (pg 24) On the man’s left hand was a strange ring—a simple band that pulsed with color, swirling in an iridescent mix of baby rainbows
Boots: (pg 139) He shoved his jeans and boots off just in time to watch her do the same
Curly Hair:(pg 169) The halo of curly black hair around her head made her look younger than her twenty-two years.
Fruit: (pg 92) It would be like a farmer cutting down his orchard to make it simpler to harvest this year’s fruit.

Jennifer did you find a book?

Week #1: TIE (submitted for point 12/17/12)
Week #2: BONE (submitted for point 12/13/12)
Week #3: SUNSHINE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Uncalled item: EMERGENCY VEHICLE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Week #4: BOOTS

Week #4:BOOTS

Alley: Ashes of Midnight-- finished 12/23 -- ★★★ --
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (#164)
Items Claimed:
Mist/Fog; Boots; Toe; Musical Instrument

JenniferJ:

★Meghan★: You Against Me

Pat: Finding the Lost -- Finished: 12/22 -- ★★★★ -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71... (#155)
Items Claimed:
Rainbow; Boots; Curly Hair; Fruit

Suzanne: Blaze of Memory

Our Team Tally
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

ladies we are close to a being able to claim a point on a couple of items. please check it out using the team tally link

I doesn't see to want to let me use the tally link. I keep getting asked to log in which I don't have a google account.. :(

I have been using Jennifer's tally on pg. 2 though.

try it again Meghan i had to reset it.

All right it works now :)
Except I don't think that I called glasses?

★Meghan★ wrote: "All right it works now :)
Except I don't think that I called glasses?"

you are correct and i've adjusted

Week 4: Boots

Book: Ashes of Midnight - Lara Adrian
Completed: 12/23
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Review: Book 6 in the Midnight Breed series. More of the same - if you've read one, you know pretty much what's going to happen. I'll continue to read the series, but I will not rush out to find them. I really do think I'm a little burned out on PNR.

Bonus Items:
Mist/Fog: pg. 33: ...drizzle-laden shroud of fog that blanketed the forest and the ground below.
Boots: pg. 21: His boots crunched over broken glass and wrenched metal...
Toe: pg. 134: ...his intense gaze roamed over her from the top of her head to her bare toes .
Musical Instrument: pg. 53: In back was an ebony grand piano ...

Alley wrote: "Week 4: Boots

Book: Ashes of Midnight - Gena Showalter
Completed: 12/23
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Review: Book 6 in the Midnight Breed series. More of the same - if you..."

(you mean lara adrian - not gena showalter, but i like them both too) tee hee

Oh thanks. I finished a Gena Showalter book like 30 minutes before I finished this one.

Hi ladies great job! Pat I have a book picked out but I don't have my Kindle in here and can't remember the name of it to save my life. Got medicine head as I have been sick past couple days with that old bronchitus but I just wanted to pop on real quick and wish all a safe and Merry Xmas.

JenniferJ wrote: "Hi ladies great job! Pat I have a book picked out but I don't have my Kindle in here and can't remember the name of it to save my life. Got medicine head as I have been sick past couple days with t..."


feel better same to you!

hope you all had a merry christmas and are ready to finish off last week's selections.

Meghan's Boots Review

You Against Me by Jenny Downham
Book Completed: 12/27/2012
Rating: ★★★★★
Items Claimed: Fog/Mist, Boots, Toes, Fruit

Review:
I don't know why, but I absolutely love books like this. The type where through all the adversity and struggles. The characters still are able to find romance in one another.

This book is about Ellie and Mikey. Ellie's brother, Tom, is accused of rape and she is the only witness to the event. Her statement to the police is that she was asleep all night and did not witness anything. Mikey is the brother of the rape victim ,Karyn, and is seeking revenge on Tom.

By Mikey looking for the best way to get revenge on Tom, he has come to know Ellie and is looking forward to being with her and getting to know her and vice versa. The relationship between them and what they bring out in on another is endearing and hopeful for what you would like to see in all relationships.

I am not sure that I really liked Mikey a lot as a character, but I am not always into bad boys especially the type that smoke a lot. I do however love how he takes care of his family being the only boy and lives up to the older brother name. Ellie is a great person who just needs the best brought out of her. I think that her family held her in for too long and she just needed a little encouragement.

Items Claimed:
Fog/Mist: "Outside, the rain was still going, a fine mist falling into light from the fluorescent strip above the door."-pg. 12
Boots: "There was a table, a bench, an umbrella stand, a place for boots and shoes."-pg. 20
Toe: "She took off her shoes and wiggled her toes on the grass, but stopped when she saw he was looking at her and covered them with her hands."-pg. 81
Fruit: "‘He said it was lethal and that Karyn had eaten all the fruit, which was the most alcoholic bit.’"-pg. 241

Week #1: TIE (submitted for point 12/17/12)
Week #2: BONE (submitted for point 12/13/12)
Week #3: SUNSHINE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Uncalled item: EMERGENCY VEHICLE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Week #4: BOOTS

Week #4:BOOTS

Alley: Ashes of Midnight-- finished 12/23 -- ★★★ --
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (#164)
Items Claimed:
Mist/Fog; Boots; Toe; Musical Instrument

JenniferJ:

★Meghan★: You Against Me -- Finished 12/27 -- ★★★★★ -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (#170)
Items Claimed: Fog/Mist; Boots; Toe; Fruit

Pat: Finding the Lost -- Finished: 12/22 -- ★★★★ -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
(#155)
Items Claimed:
Rainbow; Boots; Curly Hair; Fruit

Suzanne: Blaze of Memory

Our Team Tally
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

And it's bike this week. I'll be reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Pat I called Mist/Fog not Moonlight

I will be reading by Josephine Angelini

Items: lightning, glasses, elbow, bike

Time to load it onto my Nook and hope to get a little bit of sleep. :)

I must say it does kind of suck that nearly all of us had already used bike :(

Emilie's Christmas Love by Joyce Lavene

Review - This had to be one of the best Christmas books I read this season. It was filled to the brim with feel good notions, romance, hard heads, and lovable characters!

Emilie's major wish in life was to be able to adopt a child since she was unable to bear any but time and again she is turned away for one reason or another and then as luck usually goes she ends up finding more than she bargained for!

Boots Week - (Completed 12/27/2012 - 4/5 stars)

Emilie came back downstairs in her jacket, gloves, and ski boots....(Location 1956)

Also Claiming...(wind, tail, and fruit)

...sighed with the wind that blew down from the mountain. (Location 1755)

...blue and green robe spreading out around her like a peacock's tail. (Location 3324)

how she couldn't taste forbidden fruit without being ruined. (Location 2464)

Bummer on Bike but at least we can pick up fruit as an extra point for this week! Great Job Team!

Going to read

Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh
Read: 12/29/2012
Rating: ***
Review: Another day another Nalini Singh novel. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy this one because the two main characters were both Psy, but it was alright. I think the changling characters have more flavor to them, but this one was ok. I liked learning about the origins of silence and the end was sweet.

Items:
Wind: "Look at the way it's packed on the left - there's been a strong wind at some stage." Page 259
Boots: "Heart in her throat, she cracked open the door, knowing her coat and boots would give away her intent if she was caught." Page 198
Shoulder: "The boy immediately snuggled his head onto her shoulder, one little hand spread on the pale blue of her shirt." Page 16
Cake: "She said her mother made her cake and coffee every afternoon, and brushed her haird for her every night." Page 176

Happy New Year Everyone!!

I'm going to read

Items:
Rain: "He was wearing a long gray tweed coat, and his tawny hair was glistening with rain and his face was flushed from walking." Page 58
Glasses: "One of his colleagues, wearing steel glasses and the whitest shirt I've ever seen, turns back." Pages 24
Nose: "Or scratch my nose, which is suddenly incredibly itchy." Page 19
Bike: "A figure on a bike is pedaling swiftly toward the end of the road." Page 12

Week 5: Bike

Book: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Completed: 12/30
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Review: Flavia de Luce is an 11 y/o chemist/detective. She loves poisons and tormenting her sisters. When a body is discovered in her garden, she's determined to solve the mystery of his death. The stuff she pulls, I would never have thought of doing when I was 11. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading more of Flavia's adventures.

Bonus Items:
Rainbow: pg. 127: The sun came out to play in rainbows on the grass...
Belt: pg. 11: Pulling on a pair of gardening gloves that had been tucked into my belt ...
Tail: pg. 288: In two shakes of a dead lamb's tail I was aboard Gladys...
Bike: pg. 163: Leaving Gladys to graze in a bicycle stand... (Flavia named her bicycle Gladys)

★Meghan★ wrote: "Pat I called Mist/Fog not Moonlight

I will be reading by Josephine Angelini

Items: lightning, glasses, elbow, bike

Time to load it onto my Nook and hope to get a ..."
corrected. i have to stop resting my cursor on these things

for my "bike" book I'm going to read

Week #1: TIE (submitted for point 12/17/12)
Week #2: BONE (submitted for point 12/13/12)
Week #3: SUNSHINE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Uncalled item: EMERGENCY VEHICLE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Week #4: BOOTS(submitted for point 12/30/12)


Week #4:BOOTS

Alley: Ashes of Midnight-- finished 12/23 -- ★★★ --
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (#164)
Items Claimed:
Mist/Fog; Boots; Toe; Musical Instrument

JenniferJ: Emilie's Christmas Love -- finished 12/27 -- ★★★★ -- (#175)http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Items Claimed;
Boots, Wind, Tail, Fruit


★Meghan★: You Against Me -- Finished 12/27 -- ★★★★★ -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (#170)
Items Claimed: Fog/Mist; Boots; Toe; Fruit

Pat: Finding the Lost -- Finished: 12/22 -- ★★★★ -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
(#155)
Items Claimed:
Rainbow; Boots; Curly Hair; Fruit

Suzanne: Blaze of Memory -- finished 12/29 -- ★★★ -- (msg 178)
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Items Claimed:
Wind, Boot, Shoulder, Cake
Our Team Tally
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

Week #1: TIE (submitted for point 12/17/12)
Week #2: BONE (submitted for point 12/13/12)
Week #3: SUNSHINE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Uncalled item: EMERGENCY VEHICLE (submitted for point 12/20/12)
Week #4: BOOTS(submitted for point 12/30/12)
Uncalled Item: TAIL (submitted for point 12/30/12)
Uncalled Item: FRUIT (submitted for point 12/30/12)

Week #5:BIKE

Alley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie -- finished 12/30 -- (post 181)http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Items Claimed:
Rainbow, Belt, Tail, Bike

JenniferJ:The Abduction of Mary Rose -- finished 1/3 -- 3stars -- http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (post 196)
Items Claimed; Bike, Fog, Belt,Shoulder

★Meghan★: Starcrossed - finished 1/2 -- 4stars -- (msg 193)
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Items Claimed: Lightning, Elbow, Glasses, Bike

Pat: Naked Edge -- finished 12/31 (post 189) http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Items Claimed: Wind, Hood, Shoulder, Bike

Suzanne: I've Got Your Number
Items Claimed: Lightning, Glasses, Elbow, Bike

Our Team Tally
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

woohoooo Tail is now complete as well!

Ladies,

Don't know if you noticed we have submitted for a total of 3 uncalled for items. Congrats.

JenniferJ wrote: "woohoooo Tail is now complete as well!"

i was double--checking as you wrote this but thanks. fruit is done as well

Week 5 - Bike


Naked Edge (finished 12/31)

Items Claimed:
Wind: Sucking wind, his heart pounding from exertion, he searched for her amid the rubble--boulders as big as trash cans, smaller rocks, mangled tree branches.
Hood: He was wearing a flannel shirt over climbing pants, while Jill, her hair pulled back in a messy ponytail, was wearing a hoodie and blue jeans
Shoulder: Leaving her cell phone in the glove box, she grabbed her backpack from the passenger seat and slipped the straps over her shoulders.
Bike: Two kids on bikes stared at her as they passed.

Review:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

Happy New Year Ladies! I wish you all the best in 2013!

Point awarded for Boots and fruit.

Just FYI you can't submit for tail untill you submit for Bike since the book is tied to that post.

Meghan's Bike Review

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
Book Completed: 1/2/2013
Rating: ★★★★
Items: Lightning, Glasses, Elbow, Glasses

Review:
Helen is a girl who has lived on Nantucket island nearly her whole life. When this unbelievably gorgeous family moves to the island, she learns from them that she is a demigod of a nearly extinct House, but is unsure of which one and may have to fight to the death in order to stay alive.

This book was a toss up between giving it a 3 ½ star and a 4 star rating. I knocked it to the 4 star rating for two main reasons. It kept me wanting to know what happens next and the characters have great sarcastic attitudes which makes me like it more.

However, my qualms with the books are that the story is not very original. Seriously, the ending sort of reminded me of City of Bones. The writing was just...meh.

As for the characters, Helen and her father have a great relationship. Lucas and his relationship with Helen is a little to close to the relationship that Edward and Bella share in Twilight. I love Claire. She is extremely sarcastic and exactly the kind of friend that I like to have around. She is always there and completely supportive of Helen. I think out of all of the Delos family, my favorites were Jason, Hector, and Pandora. They are complete opposites, but evened each other out. I liked that Pandora seemed completely different than the rest of the family and always seemed like the vulnerable one.

Lightning: "'You can generate lightning.'"-pg 169
Glasses: "'I see you decided not to enroll in any Advanced Placement classes this year,' he said, looking at her from over half-moon reading glasses." -pg. 20
Elbow: "Helen felt Claire turn to her to see her response, but she had her elbows on the table and her head cradled in her hands, rubbing her temples." -pg. 23
Bike: "Riding her bike to school, she noticed it was unbearably hot and humid for a second day in a row." -pg. 31

Hello! I'm trying to pick out a book that I want to read for the next item and I definately want to get the "Curly Hair" point. Would this passage work?

"She had the same long, curling hair, the same smile, but there was a distance to her."

I would say yes Suzanne but did you look at our tally sheet, there are a few you could choose from that we'd be able to submit for.

The Abduction of Mary Rose by Joan Hall Hovey

Review - Oh wow this was a good story but the last several chapters were pure edge of your seat thrills! It's sorta sad in a way because Naomi loses her mother to cancer only to find out she was not her mother at all and that she was adopted because her birth mother died after a brutal attack. Now she seeks vengeance and justice and gets a cold blooded killer on her trail! Loved it! She was a heck of alot braver than I ever could be to strike out on my own to entice a killer!

Bike Week - (Completed 1/2/2013 - 3/5 stars)

Her blue and silver mountain bike was propped...(Page 127)

Also Claiming...(fog, belt, and shoulder)

...each stroke bringing her closer and closer to the shore of the fog shrouded island. (Page 98)

....a paunch just starting to spill over his belt, but he was still a formidable man.... (Page 79)

...glancing over his shoulder a couple of times... (Page 67)

Suzanne wrote: "Hello! I'm trying to pick out a book that I want to read for the next item and I definately want to get the "Curly Hair" point. Would this passage work?

"She had the same long, curling hair, the..."

I thought I replied to this already, sorry. Yes it will work.

Week 6 - Eyes!

I'll be reading Hell on Wheels by Julie Ann Walker.

I will do for eyes.

Items:
Wind:"In this case, the ring is white, the background is sky blue, and the picture depicts a white whooshy wave of wind." -pg. 60
Necklace: "Normally impeccably-dressed-in-a-suit-and-tie Damian is standing there wearing board shorts, Birkenstocks, and a shark’s-tooth necklace." -pg. 4
Eyes: “I wave my hand up and down in his direction, still averting my eyes." -pg. 4
Cake: "The first morning of boot camp and I’ve already turned Stella into a birthday cake." -pg. 38

For Eyes I am going to read