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SUMMER 2016 READING CHALLENGE
Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I plan to re-read The Magicians by Lev Grossman. I think this will be a NICE experience :-)
"Did anyone see the television show? I was a bit skeptical at first but I really liked it by the end of the season. I plan to read the books sometime soon.
Christine wrote: "Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I plan to re-read The Magicians by Lev Grossman. I think this will be a NICE experience :-)"Did anyone see the television s..."
I haven't seen it-glad to hear it's good. I have the first book-I just need to read it :)
I watch The Magicians and have 2 episodes left to watch, I like it.
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I've read Books 1 &2. Looks like I need to catch up and read Book 3!
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Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Anyone interested in a group read for The Magicians? I will start in July."I think this would be a fun group read. I have some other books planned for next month but I'll try to fit it in. Let me know when you start :D
I just finished Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne. It's set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. It complete challenge 6. Luke is finally able to grieve over the lose of everyone he lost in A New Hope. Of course that's vague and I don't want to spoil the story. But yeah there is more to story.I am now over debate whether I am going start reading the entire Zom-B series by Darren Shan or if I am going to finish Dream Thieves.
Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Anyone interested in a group read for The Magicians? I will start in July."I am in for a group read of the Magicians too!!!!
Josh wrote: "I just finished Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne. It's set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. It complete challenge 6. Luke is finally able to grieve over the lose of everyone he lost in A..."I did not know that Kevin Hearne was writing any of the Star Wars books. Good to know. I love his Iron Druid series.
Josh wrote: "I just finished Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne. It's set between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back. It complete challenge 6. Luke is finally able to grieve over the lose of everyone he lost in A..."Thanks for the update, Josh! :D
Christine wrote: "Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Anyone interested in a group read for The Magicians? I will start in July."I am in for a group read of the Magicians too!!!!"
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I finished A Great Deliverance for task 2. This book is on more than one must read/ best of list-not sure why.2.5 stars
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Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I'm going to increase my goal for this challenge :-)":D
I just finished A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. It has to do with grief and loss. Its the story of three generations of women. The interesting part is that its starts with the youngest generation and goes back in time to the oldest. I liked how the author revealed why and how certain things happened.
Christine wrote: "Danell wrote: "Arrived back from vacation on cloud 9! Saw the man who inspired my love of reading speak in Omaha NE on Tuesday and still in awe! Got in line at 2:30, experienced a brief downpour fo..."I love hearing how King inspired others love of reading. He is a legend! "The Stand" is a great book! Have you read "Swan Song" by Robert McGammon? It has similarities to "The Stand", but different. I apologize for not responding earlier, been in a slump. Want to read "End of Watch", but also don't want the series to end. Sort of know what happens anyway, thanks to a King group I am a part of on Facebook. One person wanted to hear what others thought about the book but in the comments she told what happened to Bill Hodges.
If you ever get the chance, please reward yourself and see him in person!!! I still can not believe how fortunate I was with the whole thing. Between my sister getting tickets, the line not as long as I thought when I got there.....which was as quick as I could, left my hometown at 6:30 a.m. to met my sister at her house, 6 hrs away, then a 30 min drive to venue. There were some places where people were in line at 8 a.m.
Christine wrote: "I just finished A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. It has to do with grief and loss. Its the story of three generations of women. The interesting part is that its starts with the youngest ge..."Thanks for the update, Christine! :D
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I'm going to read The Fledgling by Octavia Butler for task #4 I've never read this author - should be interesting.
Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I'm waiting for an audiobook of The Magicians to become available from the library. In the meantime I just brought home End of Watch by Stephen King from the library :-) That will be the next book ..."I'm also planning on reading King soon Finders Keepers and also want to read a book by Octavia Butler for the challenge. I've never read her before either but her books all sound really good to me. I think I'm going to read Kindred
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but I'm going to do the Stephen King book first because I know there will be holds waiting for this new release.
Finished The Dream Thieves book two in the Raven Cycle series. It has romance as a major part of the plot. But probably the best part of the book is that book it self ended on The Fourth of July and well, it had fireworks and I got to that part as soon as the fireworks started going off around my house.I hope everyone had a safe and happy Fourth of July!
The next book I am thinking about reading is Blue Lily, Lily Blue which is of course the next book in the series. But I don't think it will fit a third challenge so that'll be sad.
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Josh wrote: "Finished The Dream Thieves book two in the Raven Cycle series. It has romance as a major part of the plot. But probably the best part of the book is that book it self ended on The F..."Thanks for the update, Josh! :D
Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend :D
This is totally unrelated but is anyone watching Dead of Summer? It's a new tv summer series, it's a horror genre.
Jenn wrote: "This is totally unrelated but is anyone watching Dead of Summer? It's a new tv summer series, it's a horror genre."I will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
I just finished a book Since She Went Away I'm not using it for the challenge but I thought I would mention it because early on in the book one of the characters says his favorite book is Whispers and shares it with his girlfriend. I know a lot of us are also in the Koontz group and you all would appreciate the shout out by David Bell. Its a good entertaining read. I got it as an ARC from BookBrowse.
Jenn wrote: "This is totally unrelated but is anyone watching Dead of Summer? It's a new tv summer series, it's a horror genre."I never heard of it-how is it?
Christine wrote: "I just finished a book Since She Went Away I'm not using it for the challenge but I thought I would mention it because early on in the book one of the characters says his favorite b..."I love when authors mention other people's books :)
Ooooh #5 task can be my book I'm readingHollow City The second book in Miss Peregrine's Peculiar children!!!
Jenn wrote: "Ooooh #5 task can be my book I'm readingHollow City The second book in Miss Peregrine's Peculiar children!!!"
Thanks for the update, Jenn! That's a fun series-hope you like it! :D
I listened to
, which works for #6. I really enjoyed it! Hope everyone is having a splendid summer!
I just put your recent book on my to read list, it sounds great!
I want to read this book now that I have listened to it. It was so enjoyable, but want get wrapped up in the words. Was hard stopping the truck to make deliveries while listening to it!
Danell wrote: "I listened to , which works for #6. I really enjoyed it! Hope everyone is having a splendid summer!"Thanks for the update, Danell! :D
I finished
, which works for #7 in the challenge. Great book.
I loved the Divergent series. I seen one newly released at Redbox that I didn't see yet and the machine broke so they took it away lol that's my luck!
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Danell wrote: "I finished , which works for #7 in the challenge. Great book."Thanks for the update, Danell! :D
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Danell wrote: "I finished
, which works for #7 in the challenge. Great book."Do you both recommend this series? How many books are there?
Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "I am currently reading Fledgling by Octavia Butler. I've never read a book by this author and I'm rather impressed. You might want to check it out to meet the author task. Fledgling is about Vampir..."Thanks for the update, Dustin! :D
I was going to read Kindred
but it wasn't for me-I decided to read Dawn
and though it's still early, I'm really liking it so far-it's about a woman rescued by aliens. She and the other survivors of a war that destroyed the planet have a chance to go back to earth (but there's a catch).Glad you're enjoying Fledgling
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There are 3 books in the series, kinda reminded me of James Dashner The Scorch Trials.
Since the first book in the Divergent series is great might just have to read the rest of them. Jen was the movie "Alligent". My son and I went to see that one in a theater, which for us is a big deal, he won a $10 gift card from school for a citizenship award and used that $ to see the film. The movie was good. Never used Red Box, but that would be my luck also!"Dawn" and "Fledgling" sound good.
Currently loving
, not wanting this adventure to end. Second book I have read by him.
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I haven't read Scorch Trials either :-)
Danell that's great your son won that award!You must read all 3!
Dustin the truth is out there somewhere!
I'm surprised you don't have any sightings to tell us of out in Boulder!
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Thank you so much for sharing your experience of seeing Stephen King. He is my very favorite writer. The Stand was one of the first adult books I shared with my mom. I can't remember who read it first but I know we both loved it. Now that I have all the Bill Hodges Trilogy, it will be my big summer read! Again, thanks for sharing your experience. I am so envious!!!!!!