R4: Team ~ Paris~

[Lindy]

I only have one book with pork and barn and itis a P

[Jenne]

Pork is the word of the week
Barn is just the regular bonus
Triple word means the letter's points will be triple scored.
For example if your letter is R this week instead of only being 1 point it'll be 3 points.

[Lindy]

I see sorry, so I stand by my only letter is P

[Jenne]

No problem!

[Jenn]

Points for this week are posted

[Jenn]

All I have is a K. and I'm getting ready to leave for town for the next few days.

If it's all right with you ladies, can Lindy do P and I will take K?

If not let me know and I will keep looking. I'm leaving around 2:30 and won't have computer access.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

I'm sure Gea and I will manage to find something for the remaining letters, no worries! :)

Week 5

Word of the Week: Pork
Bonus Word: Barn

P: Lindy - The Quarryman's Bride by Tracie Peterson [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Barn Bonus: Y] (Post #165)
O: Denise - Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man's Smile by Gyles Brandreth [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Barn Bonus: Y] (Post #162)
R: Gea - Riding the Storm by Sydney Croft [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Barn Bonus: Y] (Post #163)
K: Jennifer - The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Barn Bonus: Y] (Post #166)

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Gea, I have books for both O and R with both bonuses, so let me know which you want. :)

[Gea]

Denise I have both O and R books with both bonuses, but I would prefer the R one if that's OK with you :)

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Great, I'll have O then. :)

[Lindy]

I need an O book for a challenge this month

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Week 5: Pork
My Letter: O
Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man's Smile by Gyles Brandreth
Finished: 21 August 2013
Rating: ★★★

Review:
I wasn't too impressed with the first book in this historical mystery series when I read it quite a while ago, but I decided to give the series another chance and ended up enjoying this book much more. Set before the other books in the series, this one has Oscar Wilde trying to find the truth behind a series of mysterious deaths in a Paris theatre in 1882. Compared to the first book, I found the characters more likable in this one and the mystery more interesting - might give the rest of the series a shot, too.

Bonus Items:
Pork: "pork cutlets" (p. 39)
Barn: "The studio itself must once have been a barn" (p. 176)

[Gea]

Week 5: PORK
Letter: R

Book: Riding the Storm by Sydney Croft
Rating: ★★★
Review:
I've been looking forward reading this book for a while now and I was happy I finally got the chance to read it. Sadly, the book didn't live up to most of my expectations but it was still good enough for me to add the next book from series to my TBR. It will probably have to wait for another challenge opportunity though.
There was so much sex in it that it started to get on my nerves. I like sex in books, I also like lots of sex in books but there's a limit to everything and this book passed my limit on sex.

WoW (pork): As they approached, the aroma of roasting pork and pun-gent spice replaced the smell of stagnant bayou, making her mouth water.
Bonus word (barn): He was forced to kneel on the soft dirt of the barn floor, his ankles bound together as well.
Total Points: 5

[Gea]

I'm having some trouble with my Kindle so I'll add my page numbers later

[Lindy]

week 5 posted 8/21/13

Author/Title: Peterson, Tracie Quarryman's Bride
Letter: P
Rated: 4.5
Wow: .Pork: 88 Pork Oatmeal and Berries, cream and perhaps some smoked pork.
Bonus: Barn: 26 Barn There is suppose to be a barn in the back for the horses/

REVIEW: Set in 1897

Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan ae engaged to be married very soon, when her two younger sisters die and according to the Scpttosj family traditon the youngest in the family doesnt' marry but stay home to care for the aging parents. Eleven years after moving
away the family moves back to St. Cloud, MN to take a job in Tavin family's quarry, and they meet again.

[Jenn]

Week 5: Pork
Letter: K



The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
Rating: ★★★

Review: This book was pretty good...but then it just ends... It ends because the other wanted to write a second book...and it's not a very good place for an ending. I was like, "Really?" The characters are ok... Some of them you don't really know where their motivations lie...but I think we'll see some people's true colors in the next book.

WOW: Pork "Josie's been getting crazy with my lunch lately - doughnuts, fried pork, hushpuppies" p. 226

Bonus: Barn "Everyone eats, and hangs out in the Main, a pretty carriage barn p. 14

[Lindy]

i dont' know how to do bold and italics?

[Jenn]

Lindy click the little link where it says (some html is ok) and it will tell you how to do it.

basically to bold you do < b > but without the spaces in between. If I didn't add the spaces here you wouldn't see it it would just make my words bold. to end the bold you put < / b > without the spaces

The same is true for italics you just use an i in place of the b

[Lindy]

Thank you so muich, every month a learn a little more and now know how to put links and pics in from last month.

[Gea]

Week 6:
Flag

Bonus:
Mask

[Gea]

I have books with both bonuses for all letter except G and I can read either of them.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

I have books with both bonuses for all letters, so I'll take whatever is left when everyone else has picked. :)

[Lindy]

I forgot again, let me look. I only have L and I have 2 books with it in. But we are going to the library again shortly.

[Jenn]

I'm looking now...will let you know what I have.

[Lindy]

I now have a few more books, all of them L's..lol

[Jenn]

So far I have G and A

[Lindy]

Gia has G, I have L, and Jenn has A all we need is F, going once, tuice sold to the highest bidder..lol

[Lindy]

Let me know if you need F, I can look for the few TBR books I own, usually I cant' find them when i need them.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Gea doesn't have G, she has everything else - and as I said, I'll cover whatever is left. :) So that's L for Lindy. Jenn, which letter do you prefer among your options?

Week 6

Word of the Week: Flag
Bonus Word: Mask

F: Gea - Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Mask Bonus: Y] (Post #184)
L: Lindy - Sweet Memories by LaVyrle Spencer [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Mask Bonus: Y] (Post #191)
A: Jennifer - Glass Heart by Amy Garvey [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Mask Bonus: Y] (Post #185)
G: Denise - For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George [WOTW Bonus: Y] [Mask Bonus: Y] (Post #193)

[Jenn]

actually my preferred book from my list works for both a or g....so just give me whichever is left over.

[Gea]

Then I'll take F :)

[Lindy]

I have 6 books with L to choose from, better get started and no other letters, so odd

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Great! Jenn, I'll put you down for A then, I spontaneously decided I'm more in the mood for my G book. :D

[Gea]

Week 6: FLAG
Letter: F

Book: Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
This book is a fine example of how much sex I like to be in the book. There was plenty of it and it was hot (specially that menage scene) but the book didn't consist of sex only. I liked most of the pack members and I'm looking forward to Dante's book.
My only problem with the book was that it was about 100 pages too long for me, I got bored and barely managed to stop myself from skimming the rest of the book (I was too curious to see who was the traitor and his identity was a surprise).

WoW (flag): Hoping like hell this worked and didn’t just act like a red flag to a bull, she gently threw the jacket so that it landed to the side of the carcass. (page 119)
Bonus word (mask): Taryn knew her face was a mask of surprise (page 52)
Total Points: 6

[Jenn]

Week 6: Flag
Letter: A

Glass Heart by Amy Garvey
Rating: ★★★

Review: Wow, I really don't like Wren in this second book. She's kind of a brat and selfish and only cares about herself. I kind of wondered how they were going to make a sequel to Cold Frost with it ending the way it did...but they did...and well, I'm kind of disappointed. Not much character growth. In fact she kind of goes backwards as a person.

WOW (flag) p. 8 "But then, Gabriel's got his own freak freak flag to fly"
bonus word (mask) p. 233 "Even with Bay striding toward me, his face sculpted into a mask

[Lindy]

I won't be up early it is 2 am

Week 6:
Author/Title: Sherwood, Ben Charlie St. Cloud
Letter: L
Rated: 10,
WOW: Flag pg 31 The flags on the wharf waved in unison as tEss Carroll pulled her banged-up
Bonus: Mask pg 61 She zipped up her suit and hood put the mask in place. and began to climb the steps.

REVIEW: this fantastic book from a president of ABC news, Harvard and Oxford educated (Rhodes Scholar_. is one of the top5 books I read this year. The Death
and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, follows a young man's journey between the worlds of life and death, and explores his bonds with loved ones in both. Zac Efron stared in the movie version which was released in 2010.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Lindy, where does the L come from? From what I can see, the book would work for C for the title and B or S for the author's name, but I don't see any L...

[Lindy]

I had C

[Lindy]

i guess i have to do another one

[Lindy]

I thought that was cute and i knew i had 3-4 L's, I jsut liked that book better.

[Lindy]

is this better, i did it too


Week 6: sent 8/31
Author/Title: Spencer, LaVyrle Sweet Memories
flag: 380 "No," she repeated quietly, then lifted the white flag again.
mask: 118 And suddenly all she could think of was getting out of the house and into the car where darkness would mask the feelings she was certain were alternately making her blush and blanch.

Theresa is 25 years old living like an old spinster woman with her parents and little 14 year old sister, while her 21 year old brother is in Air Force Officer
School. Theresa is a music teacher that has been endowed by nature with more assets then she ever wanted. She is extremely self concious of her appearance and has been emotionally scared by the experiances that she has had dating. Her brother's frined Brian comes home iwth him at Christmas, and he sees someething othrs have missedl. This book explores the subject of breats in a very frank and emotional way

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Sure, that works just fine! :)

[Lindy]

everyone sit up all night, what happens in the morning when we dont 'get up to see the new letters?

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Week 6: Flag
My Letter: G
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
Finished: 30 August 2013
Rating: ★★★★

Review:
I've never yet encountered and Elizabeth George book I didn't like - this fifth book in the Inspector Lynley series is an engaging mystery with the murder of a deaf Cambridge student as its center and the myriad of facets and subplots that all tie together in the end that make these books so hard to put down.

Bonus Items:
Flag: "last year she began missing supervisions, which sent the first red flag up" (p. 58)
Mask: "a glazed mask of good breeding" (p. 38)

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

It's 11:30 a.m. over here, so I'm awake at a perfectly reasonable time. :D Don't worry about having to get up early, it's not a race yet so you don't have to rush to claim a letter as soon as the word of the week is out. :)

[Lindy]

I am a waiting, going to the library when I get it

[Gea]

Week 7: Baby

Bonus: hotel/motel

I have books for B A B with both bonuses

[Lindy]

I have only a and b and prefer b

[Lindy]

i dont' know if the A books even have the words in them, I am so busy packign to go away

[Gea]

Then you'll have one of B books :)