R4: Team 4~Fearsome Foursome

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Points awarded for Boots, Tail, Snow and Mist/Fog.

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Sheila wrote: "What about a point for snow Dawn?"

Sorry it was there, I edited my post.

[Sheila]

Look at this team!! - We are on FIRE!!!

11/32

Items:

Week 1 - Tie
Week 2 - Bone
............... Musical Insturment
Week 3 - Sunshine
............... Bra
............... Curly Hair
............... Fruit
Week 4 - Boots 12/31
............... Tail
............... Mist/Fog
............... Snow

We have completed over 1/3 of the items. Great going.

[Sheila]

Week 5 called item - Bike 12/28


Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Instant Gratification by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Sock, Rain and Elbow

Amy ~ The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman

Sheila - Outlaw Mountain by J.A. Jance Finished 12/31 Review Also Claimed: Wind, Elbow and Glasses

Amanda A - At Last by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Rain, Elbow and Hood

[~Leslie~]

Week 5:BikeInstant Gratification1/3/13 **** stars
Bike (mountain bike)p.9
Sock (he toed off his socks)p.106
Rain (a night of heavy rain)p.57
Elbow (treated a sprained elbow)p.85
ReviewJill Shalvis is quickly becoming one of my favorite contemporary authors. She writes fun, sexy stories and they are not filled with created angst and whiny characters. This one is no exception. It is the second in a series about 3 (that means I get to read one more!)brothers who run an outdoor adventure company in the Sierra Mountains. They live in a quirky small town and they are sexy and gorgeous and everything you want 3 brothers who run an outdoor adventure company to be. Stone is the middle brother and the one who holds everyone together. He falls for the daughter of the town doctor who has come to town in order to help her father out with his practice. She is physician in New York and is definitely not interested in staying in a small town, until she meets Stone. Fun,light, sexy read. Just the thing to start the New Year off!

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Leslie I just discovered Jill Shalvis too, and loving her. I finished the first one yesterday, trying to wait until tomorrow and hoping Instant Gratification fits the item.

[Sheila]

Amanda is reading a book by her too. I've never heard of this author before

[~Leslie~]

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "Leslie I just discovered Jill Shalvis too, and loving her. I finished the first one yesterday, trying to wait until tomorrow and hoping Instant Gratification fits the item."

I know! I really liked this one. Stone is so sexy and sweet. You will love it! And I have several books I want to start but I'm waiting for tomorrow. It's driving me crazy.

[~Leslie~]

Item of the Week is called! It's EYES (must be plural).

I will be reading
Happy Reading Team!!

[Sheila]

Love the Bishop series Leslie. I've read several of them.

As Leslie pointed out Eyes must be plural.

[Amanda A]

Week 5 - Bike

Finished 1/3
4★

This is the fifth installment in the Lucky Harbor series. I always enjoy catching up with the folks in this small town. This trilogy of books within the series (books 4-6) is centered around the Chocoholics, a group of three friends who get together and catch up over some form of chocolate regularly. I would love to do that on a regular basis! This book is Amy's story. She is a strong and sassy heroine seeking to find herself through her grandmother's journals about her time in Lucky Harbor years ago. While retracing one of her grandmother's hikes, Amy is rescued by the sexy forest ranger, Matt, and sparks start to fly. They are each trying to overcome troubled pasts and learn to trust each other. Their relationship was very sweet to watch as it developed. On a side note, I love the author's witty dialogue and humor, it helps to balance out the emotional journey. One of my favorite recurring characters is Lucille, the town gossip. She is always a real hoot!

Rain: "watching the rain come down" ~ KL 1798
Elbow: "Josh came up on an elbow" ~ KL 1770
Bike: "I stole my boyfriend's brand-new bike to get to work" ~ KL 2961
Hood: "She tugged the hood up over her hair" ~ KL 345

[Sheila]

Eyes is another excellent call for our team since none of us had claimed it yet.

[Amanda A]

Leslie, Jill Shalvis is one of my favorite contemporary romance authors too. I have read the first book in the Wilder trilogy and enjoyed it as well.

[Sheila]

Good going Amanda. It looks like when Amy posts her Bike book we should be able to pick up the uncalled item elbow as well. I know we are close with several other things as well. Is there one I've missed?

[Sheila]

This week I'll be reading Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain

and looking for rain, shelf and sock

[~Leslie~]

Sheila wrote: "Love the Bishop series Leslie. I've read several of them.

As Leslie pointed out Eyes must be plural."

I know you like mystery, Sheila. I was wondering if you had any of these. I have read 2 in this series. I like them as well.

@Amanda - I've read one of her Lucky Harbor books, and one from another series as well. She is sexy and fun and not too much angst. I really hate angst!

[Amy ~Lover of Books~]

Okay team, here's the situation with my bike book. I read the book of what I was going to read and when I went to try to claim items, I didn't realize that bike what found in the little preview of the next book in the series. So, I decided I'm going to switch my bike book. I'm really sorry for overlooking this mistake...

[Sheila]

No problem Amy. How were you to know that when you searched the book and found bike that it was in a preview of another book. Not your fault. We are doing great. That is a lesson learned for all of us. I do the same thing when searching a book on Amazon.

[Amy ~Lover of Books~]

So, for my new bike book, I'm going to read

I'll see what eyes book to read once I finish this book in a couple a days or so to avoid any confusion.

[Sheila]

Week 6 called item - Eyes called 1/4


Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

Amy ~

Sheila - Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain

Amanda A - Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich Finished 1/5 Review Also Claimed: Wind, Cake and Glasses

[~Leslie~]

So what items should I look for this week that will help us the most? I am doing so much better this round of play!!
And Amy, that has happened to me as well! So frustrating.

[Sheila]

Did you ladies see this post from Dawn?

Team 1~First Ladies- 2
Team 2 ~ Two by Four- 9
Team 3~Triple the Trouble- 9
Team 4~Fearsome Foursome- 11
Team 5~Fab Five- 7
Team 6~Sixie Chix- 6
Team 7~Savvy Scavengers- 2
Team 8~BadAss 8- 0
Team 9~Nine Lives of Books- 6

Right now the Fearsome Foursome is the only one with a perfect score. But BadAss 8, could change that this week if they call thier points right.

We have passed the halfway point in the game and it could still be anyones game.

Way to go team!

[Sheila]

Leslie, it looks like you are the only one that hasn't claimed emergency vehicle yet if I haven't missed it and maybe cake would be a good one. Everyone take a look at the spreadsheet to see what needs filling in.

Here is the link to the Spreadsheet

Amanda what are you going to be reading for EYES week?

[~Leslie~]

Sorry, Sheila - I honestly can not make heads or tails of the spreadsheet.
I will look for emergency vehicle. I've been having a hard time with that one for some reason. I may have to change my book.

[Sheila]

Leslie, think ambulance, patrol or squad or police car or cruiser, firetruck.

An Amazon search of Blood Ties shows a mention of Police vehicles on page 356. It also mentions cakes on page 188. You should be good to go.

Off to watch NFL and listen to The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen on my iPod

[~Leslie~]

okay, how about this:
"... jeep parked nearby, the logo on it's side the seal of the Grace Police Department." Would that count?

thanks, Sheila for giving me ideas of words to search for. I was trying ambulance and firetruck.

I found cakes as well. Yippee!! Happy reading dance. And I'll be watching Packers-Vikings this evening. Go Pack!!!

[Sheila]

Absolutely - I'm a cheesehead all the way!


jeep parked nearby, the logo on it's side the seal of the Grace Police Department." Would that count? - Sounds good!

[Amanda A]

Week 6 - Eyes

Finished 1/5
3★

I have enjoyed the Stephanie Plum series, but it seems like each book has gotten repetitive and formulaic as the series goes on. Stephanie's car blows up, she has failures as a bounty hunter, she and Lula binge on junk food and Stephanie waffles back and forth between Morelli and Ranger. Grandma Mazur and Lula are still pretty funny though. I just wish Evanovich would wrap it up and have Stephanie choose between Morelli and Ranger. I will probably keep reading because I have put in this much time and want to know how it all ends. I just don't look forward to a new book in this series as much as I used to and hope the end is near.

Wind: "the ancient maple in my backyard rattled in the wind." ~ Page 308
Eyes: "Briggs cut his eyes to Lula." ~ Page 21
Cake: "He ate the chocolate cake first." ~ Page 34
Glasses: "white hair and thick glasses." ~ Page 166

[Sheila]

Great Amanda, I think cake and glasses are kind of hard to find. I should finish my book today as well. It is a really creepy one.

[~Leslie~]

My books is terrifying! I'm so glad I was reading something else before I went to bed.

[Sheila]

Leslie that whole series is tough - but good!

[~Leslie~]

This is the scariest one in this series that I've read yet.

[Sheila]

Week 6: Item called: Eyes 1/4

Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain

Finished 1/7 Rated ★★★★★'s.

This is number 3 in the Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell series and by far the most graphically sick book yet.

(view spoiler)[In this book it isn't just Gretchen doing the killings and mutilations it is the sick people in her fan club - maybe? The City of Portland has become obsessed with the escaped serial killer and even have macabre bus tours to the sites of her crime. Archie has been in the phych Ward since the last book and checks himself out to find her. Instead she finds him. Gretchen and Archie's relationship is very strange and is a major thread throughout the series.

These books are sick but suck you in. Another ★★★★★ effort by Chelsea Cain... (hide spoiler)]


Rain - They needed the rain. The whole city had shriveled up. page 33

Eyes - Dakota's eyes widened. "I'm not going in there" she said. page 1

Shelf - Archie closed the Newsweek, got to his feet, and slid it back on it's shelf behind him. page 73

Sock - the patients wore socks so they couldn't hang themselves with their shoelaces. page 9

[~Leslie~]

Is "graphically sick" supposed to be a recommendation, Sheila? LOL!!

[Sheila]

Was graphically the wrong word. I meant it spelled things out in detail. I love that series.

[~Leslie~]

From what I've heard of that series, graphically seems exactly the right word. Just teasing!

[~Leslie~]

Week 6: 1/7/13 ***1/2 stars
Eyes:(her wide eyes gazed)p.11
Emergency Vehicle:(jeep with logo of police dept.)p.66
Lightning (he channeled lightning)p.245
Glasses (pulled off his reading glasses)p.306

Review
Continuing the story of the hunt for Samuel, who is a psychic serial killer, The Haven tracks him to his church compound in North Carolina. This is a pretty scary, creepy story. Kay Hooper takes us into Samuel's childhood and the start of his career and psychic powers. There is only the slightest hint of a romance and I would have liked more. But other than that, really good suspenseful read. But it is definitely not a stand alone. You need to have read previous ones to understand what was going on.

[Sheila]

How is everyone doing this week? I always think that the first week of January is kind of a downer. I've been working on my New Years Resolution - to defat! So far I'm on track. I'm basically a slug, so I have been trying to do some kind of dedicated exercise.

I'd rather be reading :)

[Amy ~Lover of Books~]

Sheila wrote: "How is everyone doing this week? I always think that the first week of January is kind of a downer. I've been working on my New Years Resolution - to defat! So far I'm on track. I'm basically a..."

I'm almost done with my bike book and then I can move on to my eyes book.

[Amy ~Lover of Books~]

Finished: January 8th
Rating: 2.5 stars

Review:
This book was an okay read. There were some interesting parts in it that kept my interest in wanting to continue the book while the rest was just boring in my opinion.

Items:

Rainbow: Max rose to open the window-one if the few that actually opened, as the majority were sealed stained glass, good for a flickering rainbow on a sunny day. (Page 43)

Hood: She pulled on her hood, casting her face in shadow. (Page 352)

Toe: She twirled on her pointed toes, hugged me, and laughed. (Page 205)

Bike: It was late, and he offered to toss my bike into the car and give me a ride home, but I told him I like pedaling in the dark. (Page 26)

[~Leslie~]

So far so good. One of my daughters just returned to college today. Still struggling with BP issues so no exercise for me. I feel like such a slug. Good luck with your defat program, Sheila. It's going to be a crazy spring in my family - 2 graduations then a wedding.

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Sheila wrote: "How is everyone doing this week? I always think that the first week of January is kind of a downer. I've been working on my New Years Resolution - to defat! So far I'm on track. I'm basically a..."

Do you have a way to listen to books? Back when I worked and had easy access to the gym I used to listen while I was on the tread mill. It was great because I was always thinking just a bit more of the book, not caring about the time I spent walking.

[Sheila]

Dawn, I borrow the audiobooks from the library then rip the cds to my computer into itunes and load them on my ipod. The director of the library who happens to be a friend said there wasn't a legal issue about copying since I wasn't copying the cds. I was just using my ipod as a player.

[Sheila]

Points requested for Bike

Week 5 called item - Bike 12/28


Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Instant Gratification by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Sock, Rain and Elbow

Amy ~ The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman Finished 1/8 Review Also Claimed: Rainbow, Hood and Toe

Sheila - Outlaw Mountain by J.A. Jance Finished 12/31 Review Also Claimed: Wind, Elbow and Glasses

Amanda A - At Last by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Rain, Elbow and Hood

[Sheila]

Request for uncalled item Rainbow

Fearsome Foursome

Request for uncalled item: Rainbow

Leslie - The Sweethearts' Knitting Club by Lori Wilde Finished 12/8 (Review) Also Claimed: Musical Instrument/Piano, Rainbow, Bra

Amy ~ The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman Finished 1/8 Review Also Claimed: Rainbow, , Hood and Toe

Sheila - Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson Finished 12/1/12 (Review) Also Claimed: Rainbow, Curly Hair, Musical Instrument/Guitar

Amanda A - How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren Finished 12/2/12 (Review) Also Claimed: Rainbow, Curly Hair, Emergency Vehicle/Aid Car

[Sheila]

Request for uncalled item: Elbow

Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Instant Gratification by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Sock, Rain and Elbow

Amy ~ Arise by Tara Hudson Finished 12/17 Review Also Claimed: Glasses, Elbow and emergency vehicle/ambulance

Sheila - Outlaw Mountain by J.A. Jance Finished 12/31 Review Also Claimed: Wind, Elbow and Glasses

Amanda A - At Last by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Rain, Elbow and Hood

[Sheila]

Request point for uncalled item: Toe

Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Under the Desert Moon by Marsha Canham Finished 12/26 Review Also Claimed: Mist, Toe and Shelf

Amy ~ The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman Finished 1/8 Review Also Claimed: Rainbow, Hood and Toe

Sheila - The Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell Finished 12/15 (Review) Also Claimed: Bra, Toe and fruit

Amanda A - Poison Princess by Kresley Cole Finished 12/30 Review Also Claimed: Fog, Toe and Paper

[Sheila]

Requesting point for uncalled item Hood

Fearsome Foursome

Leslie - Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh Finished 12/17 Review Also Claimed: Curly Hair, Fruit and Hood

Amy ~ The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman Finished 1/8 Review Also Claimed: Rainbow, Hood and Toe

Sheila - Cross by James Patterson Finished 12/9 Review Also Claimed: Snow, Hood and Emergency Vehicle/Squad Car

Amanda A - At Last by Jill Shalvis Finished 1/3 Review Also Claimed: Rain, Elbow and Hood

[Sheila]

Wow! Let me know if there are any I missed. :)

[~Leslie~]

Wow!! Look at all the points we have!! That's pretty amazing. Way to go Team 4!! Happy Dancing in my living room.