NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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Leo VS Leo (Nora Roberts Readathon 1-8 Aug)
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Well, I can't speak for everyone involved in the Nora Roberts read-a-thon but I wouldn't have a problem if our discussion was moved into the main NBRC group, even though it is exempt from the upcoming changes that were recently announced. Thoughts, other Nora readers?
OH, so Baton Rouge is actually a real place? I thought it was a made-up place for book settings. Interesting.
Teresa, I don't mind the location of the thread. Either place is fine for me :)
Yep, Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana.
Oh! I keep thinking I should plan a visit to all the places I've read about in books.
Just finished Rebellion/In from the Cold - a little pre-reading just to get in the mood :-) - I'm all in for MacGreggors.
I'm fine with the thread being anywhere. I'll be able to find it, no worries! I have to finish a book for another challenge and then I will start with the Night Tales group of books.And Vi, you crack me up!! But please don't plan a trip to Baton Rouge. Other than the LSU campus (which is amazing!! Geaux Tigers!!) there's not much there. And Breaux Bridge is a picturesque little town in Southern Louisiana in bayou country.
But if you want to visit Louisiana, plan a trip to New Orleans! I'll be happy to feed you and show you around!
I love the Night Tales series, Leslie. I'm thinking of starting with that one, too. Or maybe the Enchanted trilogy (I think that's the name of it). This thing starts tomorrow and I'm not even ready! It's been a very off week for me... I need to get it in gear!
Lisa Kay wrote: "That would be fun!"I only need a (almost) unlimited bank account. :P
Leslie, if I'm coming to the US (and if I do, definitely NO since you've convinced me) you'll be the first to know :)
And I had an impromptu library visit (basically to pick up Sandra Brown books) and I started
in the library.
Woot, hooray Vi!I have not even decided where to start. Thought it'd be with an old favorite,
but I am not quite committed. Why didn't I plan this thing out again? Oh yeah...life got in the way! Boo. Anyway, I am going to start reading as soon as I take care of some business around here!Let the Nora Battle begin!
Read
today. I I read Rebellion yesterday and thought this would be historical, too. Surprise! It was enjoyable.
I started
late this evening and didn't get far before I had to go to work. I've never read any of the books in this trilogy.
I finished up two books:
- which I haven't read because I couldn't get a copy from my library. It slightly deviated from the usual NR. The MCs and the relationship parts were true enough but the suspense a little more gorier, I suppose. And the ending - NR usually ties up the ending but this was a little more open-ended. I liked it but not as much as the other I finished -
. Now that was a really good NR book.I'm taking a break from her books so that I can read other books for challenge :)
Chocolate!!! *spazzes out* Thank you!
Done with
and half way through
. I had 8h bus ride yesterday so I used them good :DStarting
I am so bummed!!! The "Dream Trilogy" is one of my favorites but I gave them all away in the interest of not taking "too many things" with me when I moved from Michigan to Texas way back in 1999. UGH! A few books? Like that would have made a difference. Where were my priorities?? I don't have the Stanislaski series around here for some reason, either. Many of my vintage Nora books have mold on the page edges from a flood so I feel kind of gross touching them so I don't think I'll be able to read a bunch that I had intended to for this. :( I wonder if there is a safe way to remove mold from book pages. I'll google that later.
And, Blue Dahlia started out good but it's not really what I am in the mood for so I need to go back to the shelf and find one that I've already read so I can get into my groove.
So far, I'm batting whatever is a really bad score on this little battle.
I shifted twice in the last two years (inter-country shifting) and I had to give away most of my books. It was just plain expensive shipping it back and forth when I had SO many other stuff. It was very very painful. That's another reason why I've shifted mostly to e-stuff.
And Teresa, for some reason, I kept thinking 8 August was your birthday. Anyway, Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a blast today with your family!
Happy birthday to both of you Oo & Teresa! :D
Thanks for the birthday wishes!LOL @ that graphic, Oo. You always find the good ones.
Instead of finding something else, I gave Blue Dahlia a chance and I quite like it. Think I'll still alternate between this and an old favorite that has a more suspenseful storyline.
Nevermind, i just read some reviews of Blue Dahlia and I think I'm going to put it aside for now. I'm so wishy-washy! Doesn't sound like it's going to work for my mood. But hey... today
!
I have a confession:I have tried to read 4 or 5 different Nora Roberts books for this and I don't know if it is my current mood (Hormones raging) or if my reading tastes have just changed, but none of the books are pulling me in. I can't get into any that I've never read and I can't get into some of my beloved favorites. This really bothers me because this challenge was partly created by me and I can't even muster up the enthusiasm to finish a book that's less than 300 pages and that I have read and loved in the past. Little things are irritating me in her books that didn't bother me the first time I read them or back when I first discovered her books. But, they are things that I've noticed will bother me whenever I pick up one of her recent books.
She has a way with descriptions and words but I think her characters are starting to get on my nerves. The women are starting to feel like Mary Sues. Plus, I keep picking up some of her more supernatural books that always appealed to me in the past but I am really no longer interested in some of those types of books. Shapeshifter wolves used to be my thing! I enjoyed vampires and ghosts, too. And I've always enjoyed her more witchy-Celtic lore books but not this time. I feel broken, LOL.
Sigh. Woe is me. The times they are a-changin' and I am changing right along with them??
I think I'm going to spend the rest of the day reading something else and see if maybe my mood flips a switch before the end of this thing. I was looking forward to this last month but now that it is here... I am uninspired.
Wow, I am way behind on this challenge!! I finally started my first NR book today
Ilovebakedgoods(Teresa) - that is such a sad story!! It's so awful when you can't find the right book to read!
Leslie wrote: "Wow, I am way behind on this challenge!! I finally started my first NR book todayIlovebakedgoods(Teresa) - that is such a sad story!! It's so awful when you can't f..."
Gee, Leslie, you are so far behind - it's only Aug. 2! :-)
Finished:
Second in MacGregors
So, I read and watched Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed simultaneously tonight. Definitely a change from a NR book, haha. I noticed that the movie was on Netflix streaming so I decided to watch, then I remembered that I had the book version so I decided to read at the same time. They were both pretty good.
Finished
and enjoyed it. Gave it 3 stars.Now I've started
and even though it's a clone for Batman, I'm still enjoying it. I'm so easy!!(Teresa) - I think I've watched that show. My mom has a fascination with serial murderer shows. It was pretty good. I went through a time period of reading every Ann Rule I could get my hands on. Pretty crazy!
I have a fascination with serial murderer shows and articles but in small doses, otherwise my irrational brain starts to get overworked. The Zodiac one is just really frustrating because so many things went wrong and the dude got away with the murders for over 30 years. Finally, they find DNA evidence and he dies of a heart attack before they can arrest him!Ted Bundy's story is really fascinating to me. I mean, can you imagine being Ann Rule, working right next to the guy at a (suicide?) hotline of all things? Ugh, what a piece of work he was.
Yes, I was fascinated with Ted Bundy and I used to live in Tallahassee and remember when the coeds were killed there by him. My father was a professor at FSU and we lived very near campus. It was creepy.
Oooh! Who doesn't love a good serial killer (joking)!Imagine what must go on in their minds... Bundy was supposed to be very smart, I guess to get away with it for so long he must have had something upstairs.Just finished
Read out of order, by accident.
I just finished my second NR book
(I'm loving the old 90's cover) and I've started
GR has it listed as #4 in the series, but it's #3 in the library edition I have.
I really liked Night Shadow It reminded me alot of Eve and Dallas. He's a multi millionaire and she's an ADA. They are fighting crime in his specially outfitted computer cave. Sort of dark and sexy.
I discovered that GR has it right and I started and finished
Another good one!! This one also reminds me of Eve and Dallas in their relationship. Really enjoying these books!
Oo - I finished one more - Nightshade
I hate to lose the very challenge I was oh-so-cocky about but I may just have to. Darn this reading mood not fitting in with my plans! If I at least read the 'Night' books, I think that will give me 5 titles to put next to my name.
What I keep forgetting to do is go get Honest Illusions from the library. I think I'll still enjoy that one because I've always had a greater fondness for Nora's stronger heroines, rather than her meek and mild Mary Sue types who had abusive husbands that they were running away from, or they were just so angelic and sugary, gag me. Ugh. Not my favorites at all. Unfortunately, those are the types I kept picking up recently.
I'm with you - I do love her stronger heroines. But please join me in the Night Tales books. They are fun to read!!
❀ Oo ❀ wrote: "Okay, if I've managed to track it all correctly:"What about me? :(
Finished
Just finished:
. The never ending series... (I think there's one more to go).
finished!
Enjoyed the series, but ready to move on :-)
finished
I'm actually surprised how much I liked this series.
Continuing with
and probably going to start Born in series.
I've never read the MacGregor series, Chris. I think I have 4 of them but I can't decide if I want to try them or not. Glad you enjoyed that series, Tea! It was one of my favorites when I read it, not that I remember much about it now. I can't remember if I've read Northern Lights. I own it but I just don't remember reading a book that took place in Alaska by her.
Don't forget, Tea also read Daring to Dream.
@OoNo problem. Can you also add first one Daring to Dream? :D
(Teresa beat me to it :D - I should refresh pages more often.)
@Teresa
I remember you said it was you favorite. What I liked here is that I didn't know who will next couple be. I hate it when she starts trilogy with 3 brothers/friends and 3 sisters/friends and from first book you know who'll end up with whom. You just don't know (probably) what will stand in the way of their HEA.
I think Northern Lights was my first NR book. OK so I do have one reread this time (it fits great with our August challenge :D)
I've never read McGregors either. Somehow I usually picked her suspense novels. Probably because friend I was borrowing books from at the time had only those. :D Now I'm picking them up as they come in ebook format - which means mostly romances.
And now I'm hooked on In Death.
I like not knowing who the couples will be, too, Tea. I don't care for it when it's really obvious, like you said -- 3 brothers/sisters, etc. I like it when an 'outsider' is thrown into the mix, especially when it's a really hot guy who comes roaring into town on a motor cycle... Uh... well, I mean, that's just one scenario, hehe!
Well, aside from the Dream trilogy, three of my favorite series of hers are from the monthly Silhouette line -- she wrote one called The MacKade Brothers, and then one about the Stanislaski family (the crazy Russians or something like that) and the Night (shade/shadow/etc) set. I think it's 4 or 5 books now. I liked the Chesapeake set, too, the Quinn Brothers. The only one I don't think I really cared for was Chesapeake Blue, when Seth was an adult. I felt really weirded out reading about this little kid all grown up, you know? I mean, there were sex scenes and stuff! I felt like an aunt reading about her nephew's sexual exploits or something, LOL. Just didn't like that. I am not fond of "see little Billy all grown up now!" books.
I also liked the Three Sisters Island trilogy because I was really into paranormal books at the time it was released. The only heroine I really wasn't crazy about was the one who came from an abusive ex. I didn't like how her dumb ex came and found her. I mean, I get it, the conflict is required or something but it really just irks me.
That reminds me, one thing I am not very crazy about when it comes to NR books is that she writes from the Point of View of the 'bad guy' a lot of times. She's very good at it, but it's just not my cuppa. I tend to just snarl and groan and the pompous jerks and I'd rather just get on with the rest of the story and not see the bad guy "humanized" (even if he is being a psycho jerk). It takes me out of the story.
This is long so I'll share stand-alones later!
❀ Oo ❀ wrote: "To all of you, what are some of your favourite series & single titles by her?"That's though one. :D
*goes to check what she read by NR*
I liked Gallagers when I first read them. I'm little afraid to reread them in case I get disappointed. Quinns (except last one - I had a feeling she was writing that one just to finish it). Cordinas (again mixed feelings about whole series. I liked first and last more than other two).
As for stand-alones: Three Fates, Homeport, Northern Lights, The Reef, Public Secrets...
I think I'll have to start rereading books. I can't remember them until I read the blurb. Even then not always.
I know it's not NR, but it's still her. I recently started In Death series and I'm hooked :D
I also watched few of the movies (only those I've read books for) but was disappointed in them so I gave up.
Just finished
and
This completes the Night Tales series of books and I have to say I really loved them. Only the first one got less than 4 stars.
Not sure if I'm going to be able to read any other NR books at this point. I have the 2nd and 3rd Inn at Innsboro(or something like that) checked out and sitting beside my bed if I feel like it. But I have so many other books I have to read for other challenges. But I'm so glad I read these!! Now I'll definitely be checking out some more of her older Silhouette books. I never read read any Silhouette books before - only Harlequin, when I was in that faze. Strange. Now that would be a fun challenge!!
NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II
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