Mango Tango's November challenge

[Jane]

And as I have my Christmas Read-a-Thon starting Friday I have an Y title coming.

It will be fun to see when we finish.

[Steven]

Haha, I'd love to take credit for that, but M Mango was sneaky and did it himself! Wasn't me! :p

Thanks, M Mango! :)

And sure, let's keep it going!

I have three more in the Sookie series, 11, 12, and 13!

[Barb]

Lisa, do you have books chosen for your Christmas Read-a-thon? If not, you might want to consider adding these:

Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop, by Otto Penzler
The Autobiography of Santa Claus, by Jeff Guinn
Being Santa Claus: What I Learned about the True Meaning of Christmas, by Sal Lizard

There are others I've really enjoyed, but titles are escaping me at the moment. If I can remember them, I'll come back and post more :)

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Barb, did you mean Jane doing the Christmas read a thon? I'm not doing one..

[Barb]

Sorry, yes that's who I meant! That's what I get for not paying attention to what I read.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished The Duke and I on 11/21. Author: Julia Quinn. 3.5 stars.

CATEGORY: AUTHOR Q

[Karla]

I finished Tillmon County Fire by Pamela Ehrenberg 11/19. It can go anywhere, since we have a T title and a P and E author.

[Barb]

Another overdue update:


11/17 - finished If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Country Cooking School #1), by Paige Shelton, 296 pages
Fits series #1, I title, P/S author

11/19 - finished The Vintage Caper (Sam Levitt #1), by Peter Mayle, 240 pages
fits series #1, V title, P/M author

11/19 - finished Under Construction (Cartel #1), by Summer Ellis, 288 pages
fits series #1 (again!), U title, S/E/ author

11/20 - finished The Zero Game, by Brad Meltzer, finished 11/20, 512 pages
fits Z title, B/M author

[Jane]

Finished The House of Hades by Rick Riordan.
fit series # 5, title H and author R

I am not happy I have to wait till next October for the last book.

[Steven]

Jane wrote: "Finished The House of Hades by Rick Riordan.
fit series # 5, title H and author R

I am not happy I have to wait till next October for the last book."

Me too, Jane. I love love LOVE this series. I might have to reread it next year!

[Barb]

11/21 update - finished Thistle and Twigg, by Mary Saums
fits series #1, T title, M/S author - and all are already filled :)

[Jane]

Finished Yule Be Mine by Charlene Teglia 182 pages.

fits title Y and author C/T

[Steven]

I feel weird, because I get excited when I see that people have posted books and then remember that, while it's still a great thing, it's not a WOOHOO one step closer to gaining on the next team! X)

[Barb]

LOL I've thought the same thing when I tag books for our team shelf :)

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Betrayal in Death. finished 11/23. ****.

Number in Series: #12 of the In Death series by J D Robb.

[Barb]

Go Lisa!

Today (11/22), I finished Effected Intent, by Alan Ross, 238 pages.
Fits E title or A/R author, but I'm pretty sure those are all filled already.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

I might have to nag ** I mean ask nicely** Monsieur Mango to do another update to see what we have left to do. I've become so OCD about challenges I can't leave them alone until their done!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

PS Just checking my upcoming reads and I can fill Titles K and R..

[Karla]

Finished Truth by Julia Karr 11/22. It fits authors J & K, Title T, or series #2.

[Monsieur Mango]

Finished another update. We have series books covered up to #12. If anyone has another #4, we could have a second run of 5 ;)

We still need to cover U and X authors, and titles J, K, O, R and X. That's really good, go team!

[Barb]

I have a U and X author on my list to read before the end of the year, as well as J and K titles, but I'm not sure when I'll actually get to *reading the books!

[Jane]

Sorry, I think it was wishful thinking that The House of Hades is # 5 -- it is actually only # 4 so if it hasn't been used anywhere else it can fit # 4.

[Karla]

I have a J title I am starting today.

[Barb]

Jane wrote: "Sorry, I think it was wishful thinking that The House of Hades is # 5 -- it is actually only # 4 so if it hasn't been used anywhere else it can fit # 4."

M. Mango will have to move it from #5 to #4. And then we'll need a #5 to get our second string of five books!

[Karla]

Barb wrote: "Jane wrote: "Sorry, I think it was wishful thinking that The House of Hades is # 5 -- it is actually only # 4 so if it hasn't been used anywhere else it can fit # 4."

M. Mango will have to move it..."

I have a number five that I will be reading after my J title book.

[Barb]

Yay Karla :)

[Jane]

I finished Ønskebarnet by Eddie Thomas Petersen 331 pages.

It was for my Titel A-Z which includes the Danish letters Æ - Ø - Å

As we here don't need the Ø in A-Z title it fits Author names E - T - P which are covered.

[Steven]

I finished Blood Rites by Jim butcher which can be a #6! :)

[Barb]

Update:
11/23 - finished Cleopatra's Daughter, by Michelle Moran, 431 pages
Fits C title or M author, both of which are already covered

11/23 - finished Murder With Peacocks (Meg Langslow #1), by Donna Andrews, 311 pages
Fits M title, M/L author, series #1, which (again) are all covered

[Diane L]

All of my recent reads have not been useful for these challenges either. I've had a slow reading week anyway and the next 2 weeks don't look much better. I'm still hoping to finish my yearly challenges in the last 3 weeks of December.

[Barb]

My next week and a half are going to be crazy busy, then I'll have a few days' down time before hubby's birthday, our staff Christmas cookie exchange, Christmas, daughter's boyfriend's visit immediately after Christmas ... I don't see things really calming down until after January 2nd -- just in time to start taking down and packing away all of the Christmas decorations LOL

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Maybe for X we can be a bit lenient and have an X somewhere in the author's name or title..

[Barb]

I do have an X author on my list of books I 'need' to read before the end of the year -- it's the last book I need for my A-Z author challenge LOL -- I'm just not sure when I'll get to it!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Good one Barb. The X - Author is all yours then.

[Jane]

I finished Åndeløs ( Breathe: A Ghost Story ) by Cliff McNish.

[Karla]

Finished The Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot 11/26. It can go under series #5, M or C author, or B title.

[Steven]

Finished An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris. It was good.

[Barb]

Another overdue update:

11/26 - finished Till the Cows Come Home, by Judy Clemens, 288 pages
fits #1 in a series, T title, J/C author

11/26 - finished Thunder Point, by Jack Higgins, 356 pages
fits #2 in a series, T title, J/H author

11/27 - finished The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, by Alexander McCall Smith, 256 pages
fits #14 in a series, M title, A/M author

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Ravenous by Sharon Ashwood on 11/29. ****.

This fills the TITLES: R.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Kinked by Thea Harrison on 12/2. ****

This fills the Titles: K

[Steven]

If I get some time today, I'll try to catch this up with an update. Having been sick last week, I'm playing catch up at work too! X(

[Barb]

Another overdue update:

11/29 - finished Vineyard Deceit (J.W. Jackson #3), by Philip R. Craig, 272 pages
fits series #3, V title, P/C author

11/29 - finished Shift (ChronoShift #1), by Zack Mason, 311 pages
fits series #1, S title, Z/M author

11/30 - finished Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant #1), by William Gibson, 367 pages
fits series #1, P title, W/G author

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

hey everyone - I hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving - I went home to Georgia for the feast...Mother & I shopped & shopped some more....needless to say I am shopped out...lol....

I finished A Chesapeake Shores Christmas, sherryl woods on 11.25.2013

[Steven]

Oh, I finished Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris last night! It's a book #11, C or H author, D title.

[Steven]

Sallie(Shuga) wrote: "hey everyone - I hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving - I went home to Georgia for the feast...Mother & I shopped & shopped some more....needless to say I am shopped out...lol....

I finished ..."

Welcome back, Sallie! Glad you had a good thanksgiving. Now get some rest from shopping too much! :D

[Barb]

Welcome home, Sallie! Glad you had fun with your mom :)

[Jane]

Time for an update. Unfortunately I have not been in the mood for reading anything at all but I have still managed a few.

11/29 - finished Steam & Sorcery (Gaslight Chronicles, #1) by Cindy Spencer Pape 212 pages.
fits series #1, S title, C/S/P author

12/2 - finished The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks 337 pages.
fits L title, N/S author

12/3 - finished While Snowbound by Anna J. McIntyre
fits W title, A/J/M author

I actually finished another one and when I started the book (three short stories) I thought it was going to be 192 pages but in reality it was 48! I am glad it was free!

[Barb]

Jane wrote: "I actually finished another one and when I started the book (three short stories) I thought it was going to be 192 pages but in reality it was 48! I am glad it was free!"

Wow! That's a significant difference :\ Good thing you didn't pay for it, yikes!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

I finished Forbidden Falls robyn carr...4*s...im making my way thru this series & loving it....

[Barb]

Another update:

12/2 - finished The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
fits J/G author

12/3 - finished Death Overdue, by Mary Lou Kirwin
fits series #2, M/K author