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Kim L wrote: "Hina wrote: "Kim L wrote: "I picked Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for my book and was almost halfway through when I decided to abandon it!! Ugh. I should have kept reading, but I just could..."Yeah, I know I'm going to back up my laptop when I get home.
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❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I hope I get better before the next item is called cause I am sick and only can read like one chapter at a time. And the is not helping in BSB."I hope you get better soon Lizz!
❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I hope I get better before the next item is called cause I am sick and only can read like one chapter at a time. And the is not helping in BSB."Hope you get better Lizz. Might be a stupid question, but what is BSB?
Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Dawn, Does Lake Austin (Austin, TX) count as a famous landmark?"Yes, I will take that one."
Thank you Dawn!!! ☺ I was going crazy finding a real landmark in my book lol..
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Hope you get better Lizz. M..."
SOS Bingo (Book Shelf Bingo)
LOL....oh, I have heard of it, sounds like fun but I always forget to join in.
♦Week Three - Famous Landmark○Book:
○Completed: 9.21.12
○Rating: ♥♥♥♥
○Review: Alex is a private invetigator that assists clients in having a new life by besically making sure they are "off the map". Her last case was helping Melanie Coghan disappear, she was an abused wife of a Austin police officer. Alex has reason to believe that Melanie is in trouble, and could possibly be dead. She seeks out Nathan Deveraux, a Austin homicide detective to assist her. Nathan doesn't actually believe there is a case, because there is no dead body. He's hung out with Melanie's husband and doesn't believe that the man would hurt his wife. Alex is too caught up in "the case", and she gets hurt. Will she find out what happened to Melanie? This was a good book, it kept me reading trying to guess what will happen next.
○Items
•People - Celebrity: "She didn't usually read celebrity mags, but she had a vague recollection of the People she'd flipped through at her dentist's office. Troy had been photographed with some gorgeous starlet." pg 783
•Places - Famous Landmark: "Whoever strangled this guy cut off some skin before dumping him in Lake Austin." pg 343
•Things - Smoke: "She turned to blow her smoke away." pg 271
•Colors - Purple: "The skin there was purple and swollen." pg 375
Cindy wrote: "♦Week Three - Famous Landmark○Book:
○Completed: 9.21.12
○Rating: ♥♥♥♥
○Review: Alex is a private invetigator that assists clients in having a new life by besically..."
Cindy - for celebrity, its listed as Pg. 783....is that right?
Dawn, when you are back from your field trip, please answer. :)Would the cover work for Shoreline:
I think its mentioned in the book somewhere too, but wondering about the cover.
But I think this will be the book I read. I think this will take down three other items but since my list is lost to my dead computer, I think I have a hard copy somewhere at home which I will look to make sure tonight.
Hina wrote: "Cindy wrote: "♦Week Three - Famous Landmark○Book:
○Completed: 9.21.12
○Rating: ♥♥♥♥
○Review: Alex is a private invetigator that assists clients in having a new li..."
Yes, sadly the pages #'s are off because I am reading this on a Ibook app on my Ipod touch.
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you should next round
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Hmmm, Shoreline... I'll post my review of my book later tonight!
Hina wrote: "Dawn, when you are back from your field trip, please answer. :)Would the cover work for Shoreline:
I think its mentioned in the book somewhere too, but w..."
Yes that is perfect.
Thanks Dawn! I hope your field trip was fun and educational!! LOL
Hina wrote: "Thanks Dawn! I hope your field trip was fun and educational!! LOL"Fun and educational but I am exhausted. We went to a historical town replica of life a hundred years ago. I was a little bummed they didn't stay in character.
♦Week Three - Famous Landmark
○Book: Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
○Completed: 9.20.12
○Rating: *****
○Review: I liked this book a lot. The main character is a native american skinwalker, so I was comparing this story to Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series. This book was a lot darker, the vampires were not as friendly. I didn't care for the dialogue when she was in skinwalker form, but that's alright. I still gave it 5 stars!
○Items
•People - Celebrity: "Vamps and witches came out of the closet in 1962, when Marilyn Monroe tried to turn the U.S. President in the Oval Office and was killed by the Secret Service." Page 19
•Places - Famous Landmark: "The French Quarter, terriotory she wanted to hunt, was small." pg 26
•Things - Smoke: On Cover, coming out of the shotgun
•Colors - Yellow: On Cover.
I wanted to read
next and it doesn't have "shore line" but it does have "beach." Would that count?"I stayed out on the little rocky beach watching the river in the moonlight as long as I dared." page 42
Suzanne, someone asked this in the general discussion and Dawn said that she will accept beach.
Sheila wrote: "Dawn - would a mention of "the coast" or "the beach" work for shoreline?"
Yes.
Still looking for my shoreline book...
Dawn, Does this work for shoreline?"The house sat across the street from the beach."
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Hey guys!!! Sorry I am behind. I am crossing my fingers that I can finish my landmark book today and get my review posted. Then I will chose a shoreline book.
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9/23
5 stars
OMG why do I have to wait 2 years for the last book to come out. The world can't end cause I have to see what is going to happen to Clary and Jace lol. This book had me hooked from page one. I love the twist and turns in the book. I can't wait to see how it ends.
Items
Place-Shore Line page216 tiny street then read along Canals whose water ranged from deep green to murky blue.
Color-Black page227 Boats bobbed gently on the curbing water each a half-moon of black
Thing-Smoke page233 and a thick black wave of smoke rose
People-Non-humen(Demon) page233 He spoke."Who summons Azael?"
FINISHEDItem: Shoreline
Date: 9/25/12
Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks
Rate: 4.5 Stars (rounded up to 5 Stars)
People: Warrior - Hero is in the military.
"Despite his weakness and his broken-down spirit, the warrior within him immediately came to life." - Page 2.
Places: Shoreline - On the Cover.
"There were several empty cabins situated along the shoreline and one deeper into the woods, away from the others." - Page 161.
Things: Glitter - "To her shock, his eyes glitteredwith tears and grief. For her. - Page 112.
Color: Purple - On the Cover.
"The sky was painted in lavender shades of pink and purple, and the water reflected the incandescent glow of twilight. - Page 233.
This is the fourth book in the Maya Banks KGI series involving one of the youngest Kelly, Nathan who is captured in Afghanistan and in the moments he is contemplating giving up, he hears the heroine, Shea in his head. Shea has telepathic abilities and she feels Nathan's pain. She helps to get him free, but she is on the run from people who want to exploit her abilities and that of her sister, Grace. Nathan and Shea have an instant connection and I love both of them. Nathan isn't as much of an alpha hero than his older siblings that we read about, but definitely still an alpha hero. He definitely has a protective streak a mile wide when it comes to Shea. Shea is all of Bank's heroine in the series are strong, resilient, and kind with no stupid heroine moments that will make the reader shake their heads. In short, the characters are lovable. Strong family dynamics, Alpha heroes that are not jerks, heroines that have inner strength to stand up to the heroes. I worried about the paranormal twist in a romantic suspense genre, but the author pulled it off perfectly, the book just seemed to flow, Nathan and Shea falling for each other was seamless and their passion for each other that the readers just came along for the ride. One of the reason, I didn't give this book a perfect 5 stars was that the Nathan and Shea reiterated their feelings for each other again and again. To me, it felt like the author was trying hard to convince the readers of Nathan and Shea's feelings for each other, but Nathan and Shea had a great connection that the reader understood already and could go without the repeat. This book has whet my apetite to read the next book soon since it covers Shea's sister Grace and another alpha hero, Rio.
I am done with my landmark book and I started on my shoreline book. I will post my review and update this afternoon.
So I thought I update you guys as to what we have gotten so far: People:
1. Child - Hina,Suzanne
2. Celebrity - Cindy, Suzanne, Kim
3. Healer - Lizz, Suzanne,
4. Warrior - Hina, Kim
5. Couple - Hina, Lizz
6. Single Male - Cindy
7. Single Female - Lizz
8. Non-human - Hina, Cindy, Lizz
Places:
1. Open Space - Kim
2. Metropolitan Area - Lizz
3. Famous Landmark - Hina, Cindy, Lizz, Suzanne
4. Mountains/ cliff - Hina, Cindy, Suzanne
5. Shore line - Hina, Lizz
6. Road - Cindy
7. Bar/Pub - Hina, Suzanne
8. Forest - Kim
Things:
1. Blood - Lizz, Suzanne
2. Wheel - Hina, Kim
3. Bed - Hina Cindy, Lizz, Suzanne, Kim
4. Wing -
5. Glitter - Hina, Cindy
6. Bag - Lizz
7. Stairs - Hina
8. Smoke - Cindy, Lizz, Suzanne
Colors:
1. Red - Hina, Kim
2. Orange - Suzanne
3. Yellow - Suzanne
4. Blue
5. Purple - Hina, Cindy, Lizz
6. White - Hina, Lizz
7. Black - Lizz
8. Green - Hina, Cindy, Lizz, Suzanne, Kim
Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "The beach is a shoreline."Thanks Dawn! ☺
Yay Lizz & Hina! ☺
FINISHEDItem: Landmark
Date: 9/26/12
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Rating: 4 Stars
People: Healer - "The doctor turned to Katie's mother." Location 468
Places: Lankmark - "She's not an international terrorist who set off a bomb in the World Trade Center." Location 4970
Things: Glitter - "Hannah had cried, but Katie never heard, too busy daydreaming of the fancy, glittering costume of an Olympic figure skater that she had seen in the newspaper at the market checkout stand." Location 1573
Color: Purple - "She knew enough to cut the cord that spiraled purple to the baby's belly." Location 92
Review: I really liked this book. Even though the book actually moved a little slow, it kept my interest throughout and made me want to know what was going to happen. I like the main characters and cared about the story.
I am also about halfway through my shoreline book!!
YAY Kim!!! How's everyone else doing with their reading?!?
♦Week Four - Shoreline○Book:
○Completed: 9.26.12
○Rating: ♥♥♥♥
○Review: Grace was adopted at birth by a rocket scientist and a well-respected research biologist. They have always told Grace that she needed to achieve high. All her life, she's been trying to please her parents by choosing a career that she wasn't so sure that she wanted. One day she lost her job and was driving to look for a new one when she ended in Lucky Harbor. Josh is a doctor who has no time for a personal life, he owns his dad's practice and also works at the hospital in the ER. He called for dog walking services one day, which she accepted. She started babysitting his son too, when his nanny quit last minute. They are both attracted to each other, but they have a lot of issues to work through before they can live happily ever after together.
This was a great book and series. Jill Shalvis is one of my favorite authors. This is a must read series!
○Items
•People - Healer: "As an ER doctor, he'd seen exactly what a thirty-foot fall could do to a body." pg 175
•Places - Shore line: "The house sat across the street from the beach" pg 22
•Things - Wing: "But that butterfly could kick your ass with one wing tied behind its back." pg 53
•Colors - Orange: "I'd totally rock an orange jumpsuit." pg 562
Awesome Cindy, I'm dying to go back and read where I left off in the series, but I haven't been able to squeeze them in. FYI, for some uncalled items, we are literally one or two people away. Exciting!!
You should, whenever you get a chance. It's a great series! =PI've seen other teams get uncalled item points, I think we should be able to get a few. ☺
Looks like Kim and I have already claimed Wheel before, so I don't have a book ready for this one. I'm going to go off to find another book with wheel in it...:)
Suzanne wrote: "hmmmm"An interesting hmm...what's up?
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I finished my shoreline book!! I don't have time to post the review right now because I have to leave in 5 minutes to pick up my kids from school, but I will do it tonight.Now, I am trying to figure out what I will read for wheel!
I found Wheel in
!Sweet, I wanted to start that book today!
Wheel: Page 74 "I could almost feel wheels turning in Saiman's head."
Warrior: Page 88 "Gifted shapeshifters could maintain a warrior form..."
Metropolitan Area: Set in Atlanta
Color: Page 4 "The blue feylantern hanging from the top of the pole went dark..."
Suzanne wrote: "I found Wheel in !Sweet, I wanted to start that book today!
Wheel: Page 74 "I could almost feel wheels turning in Saiman's head."
Warrior: Page 88 "Gifted shapes..."
Suzanne, did I miss your for your shoreline book or you are finishing that one up.
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Yes, I am enjoying it MUCH better!!! It's just longer. I am hoping to get lots of reading time tonight.
Sorry, about your computer! That reminds me I need to start backing up our hard drive. We would be in trouble if we lost ours.