Books by the Numbers Challenge

[Lisa Kay]

**chuckles**

[Steven]

Lisa Kay, your chuckling made me "teehee" out loud... to which I received a strange glance from my co-worker Jill haha

[Lisa Kay]

Well, it is funny, because I read Romance books and I'll always thinking there aren't enough to choose from for Cat#1. LOL! Everything is relative.

[Barb]

Let me tell you, there aren't many mystery readers in this round of the Tower challenge, unless they're the folks with private profiles. I found LOTS of PN/UF books and quite a few romance, but not many mysteries at all :)

[Steven]

Hahaha! :D

Maybe you've just read so many? :D

[Steven]

Barb, you and I are on the same team, and we both LOVE mysteries. I dunno of too many more on our groups that are as mystery-loving as we are!

[Lisa Kay]

I read mysteries. Reading a couple now, in fact.

[Barb]

I didn't look at any of the Mango team shelves because the challenge option says "enemy shelves" -- and we're teammates, not enemies! LOL

[Steven]

:)

[Lisa Kay]

I'm reading and .

In June, I'll probably be reading .

Of course, I might determine things by the color ahead and behind in the 7% challenge.

[Diane L]

Steven, Worlds Without End had so much promise and in my opinion didn't live up to it. The mystery from the beginning turns out to be not a big deal by the end. The characters are often caricatures. I nearly stopped reading the second time a woman being raped started to 'enjoy it in spite of herself.'

Men in the church are willful, manipulative, spiteful and appear to actually have no faith at all. No lower ranking clerics seem to be able to see through their leaders and evaluate them for what they are. The original Mother Prior is a religious woman who tries to do good. Her successor, while a good woman, is not a religious woman but a refugee whose interests lie completely outside of the church. Only one truly religious person in 40+ years of the history of a town built around the priory??

Nobles are totally worthless as anything other than oxygen absorbers. Hateful, spiteful, violent, capricious, and cruel with thoughts only for how to make more money so they can live extravagantly. I know the reactions to peasants moving to places they could earn more money would have been much as depicted in the book. It is just the total disregard for anyone working the land that upset me. Even a poor manager has the sense to take care of the horse that plows his field. These nobles did not.

Townspeople on the other hand are mostly bright and gifted, needing only a single shot at success to make names for themselves. If there were any who were too lazy or poor decision makers or simply content with their lot in life, we were not introduced to them.

The medical information was interesting and the plague account too. I admit to a weakness for books dealing with plague ever since I worked in a plague research facility in my late teens. Information about medieval building techniques and improvements was interesting and because of that I may backtrack and read book number one which focuses on the building of the cathedral at the priory.

[Steven]

I definitely commend you for finishing the book, not just due to length but also considering the characters seem hardly redeemable. I've heard mixed reviews about him for that very reason. Some people at my work have read it and say that they LOVE his writing, that his history and atmosphere and detail woven into the story are amazing, but that they had a hard time liking the characters.

I'm not a huge fan of non-fiction, so I've never stepped into Ken Follett's almost-non-fiction worlds because I've heard he gets very detailed.

But maybe *just maybe* I'll end up reading it in the (not-so-near) future.

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "I've never stepped into Ken Follett's almost-non-fiction worlds because I've heard he gets very detailed."

Several yars ago, I read one of his stand alones, Whiteout, completely by accident, and I loved it. But I've never gotten around to reading anything else he's written.

[Barb]

Lisa Kay wrote: "I read mysteries. Reading a couple now, in fact."

I loved Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and have persuaded most of my co-workers to read it too :)

I just re-checked your shelves, LK. Since we're only allowed to read books that you've marked as "read" for this round of the Tower challenge, that's all I looked at. You do have several mysteries, but they're books I've already read -- except the one or two that are farther along in the series than I'm at, and I am very much a read-in-order person LOL

[Steven]

Barb, you'll be shocked to know that I might be rereading some old reads for the 7% challenge ... without reading everything else in the series first. O_O WHO AM I?!

[Karla]

It's really the names that are embarrassing, the one I am reading now is Knocked Out by my nunga-nungas. I don't read dirt books. I find them pointless.

I like mystery too. Just haven't read any lately, trying to get my YA shelf down a bit.

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "Barb, you'll be shocked to know that I might be rereading some old reads for the 7% challenge ... without reading everything else in the series first. O_O WHO AM I?!"

Are you sure you can handle that? LOL

[Barb]

Karla wrote: "It's really the names that are embarrassing, the one I am reading now is Knocked Out by my nunga-nungas. I don't read dirt books. I find them pointless."

I've read some books with ... questionable? titles, and I know what you mean, Karla. I always wanted to put a book cover on them or something LOL

[Barb]

On my way to the airport this afternoon, I finished listening to another series book :)



Deliver Us From Evil (Shaw and Katie James #2), by David Baldacci
406 pages
finished 12:05am, Friday, May 24

[Karla]

Karla wrote: " I don't read dirt books. I find them pointless."



I just want to make sure no one thinks I am in anyway judging people who read "dirty" books. That isn't what I meant, but what I wrote sounded rude to me.

[Steven]

Nah, you just called a spade a spade! X)

[Karla]

Barb wrote: "Karla wrote: "It's really the names that are embarrassing, the one I am reading now is Knocked Out by my nunga-nungas. I don't read dirt books. I find them pointless."

I've read some books with ....."

I wish I had a book cover! I work as a substitute teacher for elementary schools, I read during my lunch. I made sure that I did not leave my book out on the desk in case a child came near it.

[Barb]

Karla wrote: "I wish I had a book cover! I work as a substitute teacher for elementary schools, I read during my lunch. I made sure that I did not leave my book out on the desk in case a child came near it. "

You need to look for those covers called Book Sox They're stretchy and will fit a LOT of different sized books -- and they come in some really fun patterns :) I've seen them in Staples and other office supply stores when they're selling the back-to-school stuff, but they might have them now too. My daughter used to have quite a collection of them LOL

[Steven]

BARB has taken the lead!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Haha... I'll have to own up and be the representative from Mango Tango who reads romance and dirty romance... no apologies from me. I love it. Reading is reading and it would be a terrible world without it, no matter what your genre of preference.

[Karla]

Barb wrote: "Karla wrote: "I wish I had a book cover! I work as a substitute teacher for elementary schools, I read during my lunch. I made sure that I did not leave my book out on the desk in case a child came..."

oohh pretty! But, I'm actually waiting for my mom to make me a couple of book covers.

[Karla]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Haha... I'll have to own up and be the representative from Mango Tango who reads romance and dirty romance... no apologies from me. I love it. Reading is reading and it would be a terrible world wi..."

Agreed!

[Lisa Kay]

I read them, too, Lisa. You are not alone. ☺

[Jane]

Just finished.


My number FOUR:

Zoe's Tale
Old Man's War, #4

335 pages

Now I just need to get my number 5 read so I can connect my run.

[Steven]

Not gonna lie, I sneak a dirty romance on rate occasion!

[Steven]

Jane, I'll update the scoreboard when I get back to my computer :)

Keep reading!!! Go Mango Tango!

[Barb]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Haha... I'll have to own up and be the representative from Mango Tango who reads romance and dirty romance... no apologies from me. I love it. Reading is reading and it would be a terrible world without it, no matter what your genre of preference. "

That's why there are so many different kinds of books out there! If we all read the same thing, life would be really boring :)

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

My feelings exactly Barb. That's why I like to be on a varied number of groups on Goodreads too, I like getting different perspectives on books even though I am primarily a romance reader.

[Karla]

Finished:

Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #3
Finished May 24, 2013 @ 8:50pm
173 pages

[Steven]

I'll update everything tonight. Going hiking today to see some waterfalls :)

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

i finished Happy Ever After by nora roberts....333 pages

[Diane L]

For those looking for covers, there is also something called a hardbacker from thehardbacker.com They make a variety of sizes and you can slip them over a paperback. Not only hides the covers of those bodice rippers and such but also protects a paperback thrown into a purse with all the other junk.

[Barb]

I haven't marked it "read" yet on my shelves, but I *just finished another book :)



Decaffeinated Corpse (Coffee House #5), by Cleo Coyle
finished 5/25, 273 pages

[Lisa Kay]

Hope you have fun on your hike, Steven!

[Steven]

Thanks! We did! So many pretty waterfalls we saw! :)

[Lisa Kay]

Did you take pics?

[Steven]

I got one or two :D

[Steven]

Lisa Kay, can you check out that Kindle Edition of the book that Jane posted in message 129 and add the page count for it???

[Steven]

Sallie(Shuga) wrote: "i finished Happy Ever After by nora roberts....333 pages"

Sallie, you've already finished a number 4, FYI. :) But yay for finishing another book!

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "I got one or two :D"

Well where are they???

[Lisa Kay]

= 335 pages

[Jane]

wow that is 85 less than Amazon says.

Thank you Lisa Kay, I will change my own number to that.

[Lisa Kay]

Jane wrote: "wow that is 85 less than Amazon says.

Thank you Lisa Kay, I will change my own number to that."

Let me check something, Jane.

[Lisa Kay]

Well, Jane, World Cat (which is what GRs uses) says 335. The author himself says Zoe’s Tale is about 90,000 words. So, I'll go with 360, how is that?

= 360 pages

[Steven]

Thanks Lisa Kay!!!

Barb, I have to get them off my phone and then upload the somewhere and then post them... Which requires my computer!

Someone help me remember to update the tracking post with Jane's book's page count X)