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finished The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner for goal Read a book that won or was nominated in the 2010 Goodread Choice Awards
How to Walk Like a Man by Eli Easton
- 21 chapters + e
- Lance, Roman, Luci, Matt, Tim, Colin, James, Ben
- California, small town
- cops (small town police, DEA agent), ex-military
- shapeshifters - into dogs
- character comes out of closet
- eating, salad and lasagna
- strawberries, diamond, turquoise
- redhead minor character
- brainy character
- characters live in small town and family comes to visit
- characters keep a secret (that they are shifters)
The Christmas Wedding Ring by Susan Mallery
*don't have much info since I went with audiobook*
- characters: Molly, Dylan, Janet
- California
- characters on vacation (beach house)
- takes place in two weeks
- traveling by motorbike
- ruby, diamond
for goal: Read a book that has lipstick “kiss” markings on the cover
Teresa MedeirosPublished April 3rd 2001
Goals
Character Names: Gwendolyn, Benard, Alastair, Nessa, Ross, Tupper, Izzy, Kitty
Read a book that is in the "Books That Should Be Made Into Movies" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
Read a book that is in the "Best Historical Fiction" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
Read a book that is in the "The Best Fairytales and Retellings" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...)
Read a book that mentions an Olympian god.
Read a book that mentions a Greek god.
Read a book where a character lives in a castle or palace
Read a book where a character visits a castle or palace
Read a book where a character visits a city
Read a book where someone is assumed to be dead but turns out not to be
Read a book where the main character is blond or has an "easy life
Read a book where someone goes home again
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the UK
Read a book with the word tumble in the text: I just took a bit of a tumble
Read a book that contains a Shakespeare quote in the text
Read a book that contains a quote from another author in the text
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Tower" in the text or title: she was trapped in the tower with it.
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Moon" in the text or title: after the moon rises
Read a book that has the birthstone Diamond in the text or title: nest of gold, diamonds, emeralds and rubies
Read a book that has the birthstone Emerald in the text or title: nest of gold, diamonds, emeralds and rubies
Read a book that has the birthstone Ruby in the text or title: nest of gold, diamonds, emeralds and rubies
Read a book set in the time period "Modern History"
Read a book which is set by a lake/ocean
Read a book which is set in a small town/circus/hospital/farm/
Read a book where MC has one or more sisters/brothers
Read a book where MC is too proud/stubborn
Read a book where MC is a virgin (at the beginning)
Read a book with 21-30 chapters: 29 chapters
finished
for the goal Read a book with a month name in the title (January-December)
- Read a book with the word artist, painter, museum, art or paint (plurals are acceptable) in the title
Meredith Russell R.J. Scott
Mod
Characters: Rand al'Thor, Nynaeve al'Meara, Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara, Al'Lan Mandragoran, Matrim Cauthon, Moiraine Damodred, Min Farshaw, Elayne Trakand, Verin
Deaths - various, no one key
Setting - fantasy
30 + prologue + epilogue + maps at start
The Five Deaths of Roxanne Love by Erin Quinn
Finished: 11/28/15
Published: 08/27/13 pages: 396
Characters: Roxanne, Santo, Reece
Contains hellhounds, ravens, and demons, ghost.
Important character dies.
Setting: Phoenix, Arizona.
Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh
- Molly, Charlotte, Thea, Zachary, Noah, David,
- New Zealand
- rock star, librarian
- koalas, strawberry, chamomile, diamonds, emeralds, beet, zirconia
When to Hold Them by G.B. Gordon
- Doran, Xavier
- Washington
- characters go hiking
- gambling addiction
- eating pizza all the time
- tourmaline
- raining cats and dogs
Rusty Nailed by Alice Clayton
- Caroline, Simon, Sophia, Mimi, Neil, Ryan, Jillian, Benjamin
- San Francisco
- Caroline owns a cat, Clive
- buys a house, remodels it
- diamond, pearl, sapphire
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
465 pages
Participated in BOM discussion
Characters: Inej, Kaz, Geels, Oomen, Elzinger, Nina, Matthais, Jesper, Wylan, Kuwei, Pekka,
Published: Sept 29th 2015
Plot: revenge, theft, murder, disguise, magic, drugs, see voyage, greed, flashbacks
Entwined by Heather DixonSetting: Mostly within the castle (magic passage within walls)
Pg: 472
Characters: Azalea, Bramble, Clover, Delphimeia (I can't spell), Evening Primrose, Flora, Hollyhock, Ivy, Jessamine, Kale, Lily, King, Keeper (Old High King)
Retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
April wrote: "Well you used The Witches by Roald Dahl already ;)"Yeah, it was easier then entering everything into spreadsheet :P
The New York Trilogy by Paul Austerby Paul Auster Completed 11/30/2015
308 pages
Published 1987
Three short stories with very similar themes and contained within a novel. Main characters are all male. Two are/become private eyes. The third writes articles for a magazine. One of the main characters walks every day. A very major character is a novelist, and homeless people show up constantly as minor characters. In two of the stories, the main character (view spoiler) Set in NYC.
Themes: Isolation, introspection, urbanization, writing, wandering, despondency, unrequited love.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
303 pages
Published: Sept 2nd 2014
Non-fiction, Science, Humor
Famous narrator of Audio: Wil Wheaton
- for briefcase on cover goal
Taryn wrote: " The New York Trilogy by Paul Austerby Paul Auster Completed 11/30/2015
308 pages
Published 1987
Three short storie..."
Taryn, I'm sorry but those books/stories need to be tagged separately for challenge.
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Taryn wrote: "
The New York Trilogy by Paul Austerby Paul Auster Completed 11/30/2015
308 pages
Published 1987
Thre..."
Oh really? Because usually they are considered chapters in a novel, not as an anthology really. No worries, I'm almost done with another book too.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Austerby Paul Auster Completed 11/30/2015
308 pages
Published 1987
Thre..."
Oh really? Because usually they are considered chapters in a novel, not as an anthology really. No worries, I'm almost done with another book too.
Taryn wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "Taryn wrote: " The New York Trilogy by Paul Austerby Paul Auster Completed 11/30/2015
308 pages
Publis..."
Yeah, but in this case they were also published separately first. And you can still find them as such.
Soundless by Richelle Mead
Finished: 11/30/15
Published: 11/10/15 Pages: 272
Characters: Fey, Lei Way
Setting: China
Mostly all characters in this book has lost their hearing, some of them has also started to loose their sight.
MC is an artist
It had an epilogue, I don't remember how many chapters, or if there was a prologue (I listened to the audio).
Unimportant characters die.
A Stranger in Paradise | Tianna Xander
Finished: 11/30/15
Published: 06/01/08 pages: 157
Characters: Nina, Adam, Nick
Cat shifters
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as russian - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable 
Iris Johansen12/1
Mod
Characters: Rincewind, The Luggage, Havelock Vetinari, DEATH, Coin, The Librarian, Nijel the Destroyer, Conina
No chapters
Beast Edition read published: April 1st 1997
Characters: Charles Harcourt, Louise 'Lulu' Vandermeer, Pia Montebello
Deaths: No
Setting: Half set on a ship between America and France. And then in France between Nice and Grasse
Chapters: 27 Chapters
First word in text: You
Poems/Quotes: Many, most from Charles Baudeaine. First one starting on book, 'come my languid sullen beast, come lie upon my heart'
Other: Charles pretends to be another man in order to seduce his arranged bride. He is in the perfume industy, has a lame leg and a scar on his now blind eye. He speaks French and English thoughout the book, depending on which person he is being. Lousie is a young 18 year old describe as being beautiful. She speaks English, French and Italian. She is originally a virgin at the start of the book but is seduced by Charles.
Interesting words Pearl, Jasmine, Ambergris, Lavender, Pose
Taming Crow
Edition read published: October 24th 2015 #3 of Hells Saints Motorcycle Club
Characters: Prosper Worthington, Melissa Raymoor, Jett, Gauge 'Crow' Mattison
Deaths: No
Setting: Somewhere in America
Chapters: 41 Chapters + epilogue
First word in text: Running
Poems/Quotes: no
Other: Crow fixes up a house he owns to get away from unrequited love an ends up falling in love with his tenant. Melissa's husband died in action, her son Jett is 6 year old and has Asthma.
for goal:Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf with the highest GR star rating
How it fits: Was rated a 5.00
The Kite RunnerEdition read published: 2004
Characters: Amir, Hassan, Ali, Baba, Sohrad, Soraya
Deaths: Baba
Setting: Kabul, Afghanistan
California, America
Chapters: 25 Chapters
First word in text: I
Poems/Quotes: no
Other: Amir and his father Baba flee to america from the Taliban, years later Amir ventures back to visit an old friend and ends up adopting his dead best friend's son. Amir witnesses Hassan being raped as a child by bullies.
Body & Soul by Stacey Kade
316 pages, 4,08 rating, Published May 1st 2012
- Alona, Will, Lily,
- Ilinois
- 22 chapters
- First word in text: Malachi
- Will can interact with ghosts
Edition read published: March 10th 2015
Characters: Neve Ashley, Hugo Everly, Max Everly, Jem,
Deaths: No
Setting: Various places in England, primary Everly Manor
Chapters: 57 Chapters and Prolouge and Epilouge
First word in text: Just
Poems/Quotes: no
Other: Timetravel! Neve works as a film location finder. Neve travels back to the 1680s via a passage in a old church. Much of the story is set in the 1680s as she gets kidnapped/held hostage by Hugo as Hugo is attempting to help a revolution. Neve claims to have the 'sight'.
The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith
pages: 279 pages
pub:June 18th 2010
6th in series
85 chapters
preface (1st word is "I")
first word of text: If
Characters with abnormal names: Olive, Ulysses
plot: characters travel to Italy, someone goes crazy, kids in school, fishing trip, missing person, buys house
Pet: Cyril (dog)
(sorry I didn't take super notes)
Heidi Cullinan Marie SextonPublished September 10th 2012
Read a book by an author using a pseudonym
Character Names: el, denver, rosa, anna, lorenzo, paul, stacey, lila, jase, miguel.
Read a book where the characters eat pizza
Read a book where the characters eat pasta
Read a book where the characters eat salad
Read a book where someone “comes out of the closet”
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the USA
Read a book where the title can be found verbatum in the book text
Read a book that contains the word strawberry
Read a book that has the birthstone Diamond in the text or title
Read a book that has the birthstone Pearl in the text or title
Read a book that has the birthstone Sapphire in the text or title
Read a book that has the birthstone Turquoise in the text or title
Read a book that has the birthstone Opal in the text or title
Read a book where mc has big, quirky family
Read a book where someone tames/befriends an animal
Read a book where someone suffers from a mental illness
Read a book where the book title is also a song title: By Cassadee Pope
Pieces by Janine Infante Bosco
222 pages, 3,82 rating, Published April 6th 2014
- Jake, Cara, Luke, Sam, Nick, Joe, Deb, Ava
- Riverdale
- 24 chapters + epilogue
- First word in text: Jake
- Motorcycles, tattoos, friends to lovers, sickness
Day 3 - Read a book with a Holiday in the title
R.J. ScottPublished November 29th 2012
Read a book you've read before
Character Names: zach, ben, ellie, jamie, donna, melanie, annabelle, rebecca, samuel
Read a book where a character has more than one child
Read a book where characters celebrate Christmas
Read a book where a character is about to celebrate a birthday
Read a book where a character has a military background or family
Read a book where the main character is blond or has an "easy life
Read a book that contains the word peas
Read a book with the phrase "head start" in a book
Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book
Read a book that has the birthstone Sapphire in the text or title
Read a book which is set in a small town/circus/hospital/farm/
Read a book where MC has one or more sisters/brothers
Read a book where MC is a virgin (at the beginning)
Bethany BrownPublished January 12th 2009
Character Names:Bobby, julian, jack, roslin, Beth, Bella,Brenda, melanie, hamilton, flora
Read a book where a character dies
Read a book where an important character dies
Read a book where the characters eat pizza
Read a book where the characters eat pasta
Read a book where the characters eat steak
Read a book where the characters eat salad
Read a book where someone “comes out of the closet”
Read a book which is set in a small town/circus/hospital/farm/
Edition read published: October 27th 2015 (Wake Up Married #1)
Characters: Will Pattison, Patrick Mcloud, Jenny, Andy Sicko
Setting: Las Vegas, America, Healing, America (small town)
Chapters: 7
First word in text: Will
Other: Will and Patrick wake up married in las vegas. Will's family is technically mafia and he has to stay married if he want to keep the money he is using for charites to help people. Patrick is a neurosurgeon.
Edition read published: November 10th 2015 (Wake Up Married #2)
Characters: Will Pattison, Patrick Mcloud, Jenny, Andy Sicko
Kimberly Pattison
Setting: Healing, America (small town)
Chapters: 7 (maked as chapter 8 to 14)
First word in text: Meeting
Edition read published: November 23rd 2015 (Wake Up Married #3)
Characters: Will Pattison, Dr Patrick Mcloud, Jenny, Andy Sicko
Kimberly Pattison
Setting: Healing, America (small town)
Chapters: 8 (marked as chapter 15 to 22)
First word in text: Its
Edition read published: July 24th 2015
Characters: Adrian, Oliver
Setting: College town
Chapters: 8
First word in text: I
Other: Adrian is 24 and English Literature major, Oliver is 22 and a drama major. Adrain hates social situations and his mother is always telling him to go out and meet people. Oliver's mother is an alcohol. They have unprotected sex and get tested to check everything is ok. They are both clean. Adrian was a virgin before meeting Oliver.
by Fredrik Backmanpub: June 16th 2015
372 pages
first word: every
Original language: Swedish
Elsa, Ulrika, George, Britt-Marie, Kent, Alf, Sam
Fairy tales, someone dies
12/4Fit goal of book with 'head start'
Pg 208 "And he’s got a big head start.”
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