Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished & starting

Hi everyone, I was just added to the team. :-) I have about 20 books that I've read since Jan 1. Just need to go tag this with the shelf!

Yay, Christal! Welcome to Team C!

Welcome Christal :-)

On another note, I finished & so far for February. I absolutely adored The Sugar Queen!! :-)

Cathie wrote: "Welcome Christal :-)

On another note, I finished & so far for February."

How did you like Mr. Penumbra's? I need to read that this month too.

Finished which I liked in the beginning but ended up greatly disliking (the heroine that is). I'm currently reading

Hi Barbara; I gave Penumbra's 3 stars. It was ok, but I found there was too much going on...like it was trying to please everyone ~ a book quest and mysterious Reading society, high tech geeks and the power of Google and search functions; plus other adventures that would spoil the story if I told you all about them :-)

Oh Midu, let me know how you like the Assassin's Apprentice! I've been eyeing this one for awhile now.

Sure,Cathie! :-)

Cathie wrote: "Oh Midu, let me know how you like the Assassin's Apprentice! I've been eyeing this one for awhile now."

I read this one awhile ago (2009) and gave it 4 stars. I never did get back to the others in the trilogy though I did read other books by Robin Hobb set in the same place which were all 5 star reads. She's a phenominal writer.

Cathie wrote: "Hi Barbara; I gave Penumbra's 3 stars. It was ok, but I found there was too much going on...like it was trying to please everyone ~ a book quest and mysterious Reading society, high tech geeks and..."

Oh no. I have to read it for the SRC Winter challenge and have been dreading it. I better start it soon since it might take a while to finish.

ack! i'm sticking to then. I just hope it isn't too mushy!

I have heard great things about Robin Hobb.

Barbara, that was my opinion only; many many people have rated it 4 & 5 stars so you may be very pleasantly surprised.

Welcome Christal :D

I finished and am currently reading and will start tomorrow.

Cathie wrote: "I have heard great things about Robin Hobb.

Barbara, that was my opinion only; many many people have rated it 4 & 5 stars so you may be very pleasantly surprised."

Boy I surely hope so. I've read too many books this past month that have just be so-so. I'm definitely hoping for something more enjoyable.

hows so far?

I really like it. I'm about halfway through (doing it as a buddy read so it's taking longer to read). A few twists and surprises. A rather clever steampunk series mixed with Darwinian creatures. Very interesting.

liked it too! hope the last one's even better!

Hi Everyone!!!What's Shak'n Bac'n LOL ☺ Been working a lot(40+ hours/wk) so I haven't been around much. Looks like everyone is having fun and getting those books read! YAY!!!!! WTG TEAM C I am still reading every chance I get and have gotten 1 book behind for my yearly goal of 300 and 6 behind (according to my stats) for this goal which is set at 300 :(

ACCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!! I better get to reading and pretty DURN quickly LOL I am off Friday so I hope to get some books finished. I am currently reading and which I hope to have 2 of the 4 finished tomorrow.

@LK Yes I had some pink going on there LOL I am trying to watch for colors that coincide with the mini challenges but didn't realize we were doing that until it was too late to do the blue LOLOLOL

@Midu I am going to read for SRC but I don't think it is going to be very good.

@Barbara I debated on for SRC but it didn't look like my type of book :( I hope you like it though.

Hi to all our new members!!! Glad to see you join our team and hope you enjoy reading with us!!!!! I will be cheering you on as I keep cheering on the other members!!!

GOOOOOOOOOO TEAM C!!! We are rockn and rolln I "C" with all these great books!!! Keep up the great work!!!

OH yeah before I forget: My February Reads

February


21. Grave Sight
22. Smitten
23. Pride and Prejudice
24. Hate List

me neither, Robin! and my challenge thing keeps telling me I'm 4 books behind schedule, I'm going to break its face one of these days! lol

Nancy & Christal, welcome to the team. :)

@Midu & Cathie: I read Farseer Triology last year, although it was not spectacular, it was still solid 4-star red for me. I liked Robin Hobb's writing and will probably read more this year. I hope you are enjoyin 'Assassin's Apprentice' too.

I finished two books since I last reported for duty here. lol. and now I am reading .

I'm behind too, glad to see I'm not the only one!

I should finish tonight, but because it's so short it doesn't count for this challenge sadly :/ But I needed a Q for my A-Z title challenge!

Finished and . Next up is .

@Dragana:
have managed to read 9 pages in 3 days! hehehe

I think I'm craving some UF!

LOL Midu if you continue in that pace you will read it in 5-6 months. :D I hope you find some nice UF to get your mojo back. ;)

hehe true! the MC's so cute as a kid!

I just finished , which I loved, and , which was interesting. I'm about to start either or , though I'm leaning to the first one.

@Dragana - I'm totally kicking myself because I forgot to pick up yesterday when it was the daily deal at Amazon. Did you like it?

Hey, so how come no one is reading Maisie Dobbs for the SRC? Is it just because you've read it before? That's the one I'm planning on reading.

Just finished The Perfect Rake - its a must read , perfect book.

Did a reread of Sugar Daddy before starting with blue-eyed devil

And also finished The Seduction of Elliot mcBride - very dissapointing book :(.

Dragana wrote: "Nancy & Christal, welcome to the team. :)

@Midu & Cathie: I read Farseer Triology last year, although it was not spectacular, it was still solid 4-star red for me. I liked Robin Hobb's writing and..."


How did you like the Julia Quinn book? Its my next read.

Christina wrote: "Finished and . Next up is ."

Wow Christina , how do you manage to read so many colored cover books lol?

I plan on also reading Maisie Dobbs for SRC, Jayme VA.

Jayme VA wrote: "Hey, so how come no one is reading Maisie Dobbs for the SRC? Is it just because you've read it before? That's the one I'm planning on reading."
don't have that one,Jayme. Lemme know how it was.

Can I just ask, what is SRC? :)

Claire wrote: "Can I just ask, what is SRC? :)"

SRC is another group here on Goodreads- The Seasonal Reading Challenge: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...

It's lots of fun!

Midu wrote:
don't have that one,Jayme. Lemme kn..."

Will do!

Finished:

Welcome Nancy & Christal - great to have a few more peole on our team :o)

Sorry I've not been about so much over the past few days, not been a very good week. To cut a long story short, someone I was very fond of passed away at the weekend, I'm friends with a lot of the family. He'd been in bad health for well over a year but still very sad.

Anyway on a happier note... finished another book for the challenge - Angelology which has been on my shelf for ages. Finally got round to reading it. Rated it 4 stars, although I found parts of the 2nd section a bit slow.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Vikki.

@Midu: Yes, he is cute as a kid. I liked his pets also very much.

@Christal: Bookworm heroine who is btw notorious assassin. What's not to like? LOL. Book had a love triangle and a little bit less world building than I like but still I liked it. I will definitely pick up next book as soon as it is available.

@Karen: was not bad. I love funny quirky families that Julia Quinn creates. But I had problems with insta-love type of romance in this book and sometimes I felt like I am reading "Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron". There is amount of evil villains, murder attempts and kidnaps that one historical romance novel can contain before it becomes ridiculous.

Well, I hope I did not miss to answer to anyone. :) I'm off to bed with my Kindle. Happy reading to you all! ;)

Karen wrote: "Wow Christina , how do you manage to read so many colored cover books lol?"

All the challenges I'm in right now are spell it outs, so I just find a book that fits with the right color cover. LOL

I finished early this morning. I think it has enough pink in it to count, right?

Midu wrote: "will start tomorrow"

Midu I read Farseer and Tawny Man series last year. Borrowed from the library and enjoyed them so much I have been getting my own copies. I only have 2 more to get in hardcopy but I only been able to find them over priced, so eartier today I found Assassin's Apprentice in paperback (need Royal Assassin ) and will get those two in hardcopy later on if I find them at a better price.

So you know (if you dont) there are 4 series to the whole Realms of Elderlins and they are in this order

Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Tawny Man Trilogy
Rain Wilds Chronicles

Farseer and Tawny Man are about Fitz and Fool
Liveship and RAin Wilds is about the dragons and living ships and are in the countries south/west of where Farseer and Tawny Man action mostly happens. I would recommand that you read both that I did - they really complete the whole story of both Fitz and Fool. I was told that you do get some more detail of the world with the other two series but I didnt miss them at all. But may someday go back and read them.

Hope you enjoy the read :D

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "@Barbara I debated on for SRC but it didn't look like my type of book :( I hope you like it though."

It sounds like something I'd enjoy and the other choices didn't. We'll see as I'm hoping to start it tomorrow.

This morning I read (well skimmed mostly so I won't count it) . It was ok but was touting non-fiction and Oprah-type books which I don't read (unless I have to!). I was hoping for a little more from this but was sadly disappointed.

I've been reading on and off all day at work. It's quirky but there's really not much action so it's been difficult to hold my attention.

★ gwendolyn ★ wrote: "Midu wrote: "will start tomorrow"

So you know (if you dont) there are 4 series to the whole Realms of Elderlins and they are in this order

Farseer Trilogy
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Tawny Man Trilogy
Rain Wilds Chronicles"

Without realizing these series were connected, I read and then jumped to the Liveship Traders trilogy which I absolutely loved. I was planning this year to read the Rain Wild chronicles but changed my mind and plan to go back and finish the Farseer Trilogy first. I just love her writing style.

Not doing the color cover mini challenge unless one of the books that I have schedule for the month happens to fall into the right week and the right color. If Im correct the color is pink this week and lookie see what happen I gots a pink cover :D

Finish reading early this morning.

Just one more of the series to read. Should be done tonight with it. I love one day books ;-)

I know some of ya have been texting about your yearly reading goal. I took my goal of 150 books and divided by the number of days in the year and figure that I need to read a book every 2 1/2 days. I been working on getting ahead (7 books - 4% so far-that's why I love books I can read in a day). I hope to get 10% and then I'll be able to relax and really sink my eyes into one of those week long books.

Barbara ★ wrote: " I was planning this year to read the Rain Wild chronicles but changed my mind and plan to go back and finish the Farseer Trilogy first. I just love her writing style. ..."

Barbara from what I can tell from the books you have read I think you will enjoy reading the whole Farseer Trilogy. Maybe even read Tawny Man before you get to Rain Wild chronicles. I would love to hear what you think when you get done with Farseer :D