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Gotta love Bill & Ted! Have a great Tuesday, everyone!
Tara Jo wrote: "Gotta love Bill & Ted! Have a great Tuesday, everyone!"
Love it!
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Event 1 : Title Relay
Event 2 : Page Jumping
Event 3 : Book in to the Distance
Event 4 : Fight Club
Event 5 : Create a Chariot
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Just a little "Battleship" encouragement from Alexander Skarsgård...have a lovely day!
Yes! WE made it through battleship!!!Way to go Extinct Teams!!!!
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Way to go Extinct Teams!!!!"
Lol yes, we did well! Considering we're dead and all... ;-)
How is everyone's reading coming along? Any amazing books you read and LOVED?!
I love that movie so much, Letitia! My biggest surprise / delight book was Still Life With Murder. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series. It's been sitting on my iPad for a few years and I just hadn't gotten around to reading it.
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The only book I read for Wobble that I actually loved was A Court of Mist and Fury :-D
I read a few others that I really enjoyed though, so I had a few 4 star reads.
Some of these are:
Letitia wrote: "How is everyone's reading coming along? Any amazing books you read and LOVED?!"
Ohhh, I love that movie too!
The best books I've read for Wobble so far are:
- The Sandman by Lars Kepler (a great crime novel set in Sweden that I couldn't put down)
- Snow Angels by James Thompson (another great Nordic crime novel, this one set in Finland)
- A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain (mystery with time travel)
Michelle wrote: "I love that movie so much, Letitia! My biggest surprise / delight book was Still Life With Murder. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the seri..."
I love mysteries. I read mostly contemporary crime fiction, but I've recently started reading a bit of historical mysteries. Still Life With Murder looks very interesting!
Eldarwen wrote: "I love that movie, too!! :-DThe only book I read for Wobble that I actually loved was A Court of Mist and Fury :-D
I read a few others that I really enjoyed though, so I had a few..."
Several on my team are reading A Court of Mist and Fury and so many people are loving that series right now - I see it everywhere :-)
I just added the Robert Hunter series to my tbr-list. I don't really need to start more crime series, but it looked like my type of series so I couldn't resist.
maria helena wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I love that movie so much, Letitia! My biggest surprise / delight book was Still Life With Murder. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to reading the next..."
Have you tried The Nellie Bly series? They are historical mystries, that are based on a real person.
Abbie wrote: "Have you tried The Nellie Bly series? They are historical mystries, that are based on a real person. "I have not, but I'll keep an eye out for them at the library. Thanks for the rec!
Abbie wrote: "maria helena wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I love that movie so much, Letitia! My biggest surprise / delight book was Still Life With Murder. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forwar..."
No, but I'll check them out too!
Maria Helena, your book list looks great. I'm going to look for A Murder in Time first.
Michelle wrote: "Maria Helena, your book list looks great. I'm going to look for A Murder in Time first. "Another member of our team and I read it at the same time, and we both loved it!
Just downloaded it! Can't wait to give it a read. Time travel and mystery are two of my favs.
Michelle wrote: "Just downloaded it! Can't wait to give it a read. Time travel and mystery are two of my favs."I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it! :-)
Michelle wrote: "I love that movie so much, Letitia! My biggest surprise / delight book was Still Life With Murder. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the seri..."
Me too! Everytime I hear 'I want you to want me' I think of that movie!
Letitia wrote: "I am more of a romance gal."I read some good romance too (I just preferred the mysteries...)
My favourites were:
- Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (very cute young adult)
- Midnight Caller (romantic suspense, first in a trilogy)
- Fatal Frenzy (also romantic suspense, 9th in a great series)
Michelle wrote: "Just downloaded it! Can't wait to give it a read. Time travel and mystery are two of my favs."I read this book with Maria Helena and I loved it too! Definitely one of my favorites for Wobble. Julie McElwain has a promising future in writing ahead of her :). I also read A Court of Thorns and Roses and it was really great! I had never read Sarah J Maas before but she's a great author; I enjoy her plots and writing style. So far those are my two favorites.
Melanie wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Just downloaded it! Can't wait to give it a read. Time travel and mystery are two of my favs."I read this book with Maria Helena and I loved it too! Definitely one of my favorite..."
Def. I love Sarah Maas.
I just read A Murder in Time as well! Finished it this morning! It's not one I'd typically read (I don't usually care much for Historical Fiction or Time Travel) but I picked it up as part of the Big Library Read and it was pretty good! Took me a while to read it (a lot of verbiage/text in it, and not much dialogue, so took me a lot longer) but I'm looking forward to how the series will continue!
Tara Jo wrote: "I just read A Murder in Time as well! Finished it this morning! It's not one I'd typically read (I don't usually care much for Historical Fiction or Time Travel) but I picked it up as part of the B..."The Big Library read is how Melanie and I came across it too :-)
I thought the first few chapters were a bit slow, but once I got into it I was absolutely hooked. I do enjoy books that are light on dialogue. I only occasionally read historical fiction and time travel, but I love mysteries.
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Eldarwen wrote: "Maria Helena, you won't regret reading the Robert Hunter series, it's really good! :-) A liiittle bit gory sometimes ;-)"Gory can be good... :-)
Laura wrote: "I loved 
"I read that one last year. I liked it. I thought it was an interesting story with good characters, although I thought Me Before You was better.
maria helena wrote: "Laura wrote: "I loved "I read that one last year. I liked it. I thought it was an interesting story with good characters, although I thought [book:Me ..."
Those are the only 2 of her's I've read, and I enjoyed them both.
It's my only 5 star read so far in Wobble, with the exception of a couple of re-reads.
Laura wrote: "maria helena wrote: "Laura wrote: "I loved "I read that one last year. I liked it. I thought it was an interesting story with good characters, althoug..."
I've also read The Ship of Brides and After You but I thought the other two were better.
I have only had 1 five star read during wobble, but I rarely give out five stars.
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Now that we've covered best books - what was the worst book you've read for Wobble so far?
Here's my review: Where to start? With the 20 pages of info dump? Or how about the fact that the action isn't even introduced until over 100 pages into the book? And then the dragon is dealt with in about 5 pages at the end of the book. And suddenly she has magic powers, so that we can have a sequel.
Oh, wait, I also read:
This one was so weird. I'm still not entirely sure what happened. But I think a person this man had never meet took an experimental drug, and that caused all kinds of problems for this man, pulling him in to a splinter universe.
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This one was so weird. I'm still not entirely sure what happened. But I think a person this man had never meet took an exp..."
That title already sounds veeeery very odd o.o
I've been pretty lucky - haven't read any really, really bad ones (yet...) but 3 of the least good were:1) Nowhere but Here by Katie McGarry (YA)
For some reason, I just could not get into the story and the characters felt very flat to me. The cover was better than the content.
2) Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel by Nevada Barr (mystery)
I've really liked some of the previous books from this series, but this one was pretty bad (borderline 1 star) with a bland and unbelievable plot and very one-dimensional characters. The fact that one of the characters is only referred to as "The Dude" says it all.
3) Season of Fear by Brian Freeman (mystery)
This was 448 pages of non-stop "I don't care". This sounded like a perfect book for me, but I just could not connect to it at all. There were too many characters, and I didn't really care for the writing style.
Eldarwen wrote: "Laura wrote: "Oh, wait, I also read: This one was so weird. I'm still not entirely sure what happened. But I think a person this man had never me..."
'Flow my tears' is the first line of a poem. And a policeman quotes it twice. So . . .
Laura wrote: "Here's my review: Where to start? With the 20 pages of info dump? Or how about the fact that the action isn't even introduced until over 100 pages into the book? And ..."
Ooh, that sounds painful to read.
maria helena wrote: "Laura wrote: "Here's my review: Where to start? With the 20 pages of info dump? Or how about the fact that the action isn't even introduced until over 100 pages into ..."
It was. And the worst part? I picked it up to replace a book in the title relay that was only 100 pages. And the next day they said 100 pages was okay. At that point I was almost done, so I just went ahead and finished it. And found a spot for it. But I never would have read it, otherwise!
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I think you're right. Just that little tidbit says a looot about the book...
Laura wrote: "Here's my review: Where to start? With the 20 pages of info dump? Or how about the fact that the action isn't even introduced until over 100 pages into the book? And ..."
It does sound painful and not-relatable. But weird because I mostly saw 5 star reviews. Obviously the most popular reviews come up first, but still...
was my least favorite so far. Interesting writing style, it just didn't suck me in, so I skimmed the rest to finish on time for Battleship.
Normally, I would just have abandoned the 3 I listed, but since they were for Wobble I kept reading. Oh the wasted hours I'll never get back...
It's a shame to hear that about the Anna Pigeon novel. I have read a lot of them and always enjoyed the mysteries. She must be losing her spark as the series winds on.
I've been pretty lucky, I 've not really had any bad ones, my least favourite was probably
. It was odd enough to be enjoyable!
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