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JANUARY 2017 Finish What You've Started (Series) Challenge:
Please post your shelves. NO COMMENTS in this thread please. After I post the pair, it will add a link to the shelf, and then you can add discussion comments.
How It Will Work:
1) Please only post a list of 5 series that you have Already Started but now, you would like to get current on. There must be a minimum of TWO books remaining in your series.
*When listing your series, please only list the bookcovers in the series you have NOT read yet.
**Novellas are optional.
2) OPTION A: An assigned person will pick ONE series from your post series.
OPTION B: An assigned person will pick TWO series from your post series.
3) You have one month: JANUARY 2017 to
OPTION A: try to read as many books in that series as you can—minimum two books in that series.
OPTION B: try to read as many books in the two series as you can—minimum one book per series.
*if you don't read you, it's okay because this challenge is for YOUR ENJOYMENT.
4) Please try to select for your pair ASAP as we all get excited and waiting is torture to some.
TIMELINE
DECEMBER 15-19, 2016: Participants will Post their shelves
*If you do not list a shelf, I will not pair you with anyone
***Cut off on DECEMBER 19: 1030 (10:30am CST)
DECEMBER 22: Pairs will be posted & then Selection of a Series (Specify Option A or B)
*Again, as I said earlier, please try to select for your pair ASAP.
***Cut off on DECEMBER 22-ish:
**DECEMBER 22: Re-picks for those who didn’t get the pick
**MOD ASSIST: TCF Mods Trea, Paris & Lanelle are also around for assistance.
Please post your shelves. NO COMMENTS in this thread please. After I post the pair, it will add a link to the shelf, and then you can add discussion comments.
How It Will Work:
1) Please only post a list of 5 series that you have Already Started but now, you would like to get current on. There must be a minimum of TWO books remaining in your series.
*When listing your series, please only list the bookcovers in the series you have NOT read yet.
**Novellas are optional.
2) OPTION A: An assigned person will pick ONE series from your post series.
OPTION B: An assigned person will pick TWO series from your post series.
3) You have one month: JANUARY 2017 to
OPTION A: try to read as many books in that series as you can—minimum two books in that series.
OPTION B: try to read as many books in the two series as you can—minimum one book per series.
*if you don't read you, it's okay because this challenge is for YOUR ENJOYMENT.
4) Please try to select for your pair ASAP as we all get excited and waiting is torture to some.
TIMELINE
DECEMBER 15-19, 2016: Participants will Post their shelves
*If you do not list a shelf, I will not pair you with anyone
***Cut off on DECEMBER 19: 1030 (10:30am CST)
DECEMBER 22: Pairs will be posted & then Selection of a Series (Specify Option A or B)
*Again, as I said earlier, please try to select for your pair ASAP.
***Cut off on DECEMBER 22-ish:
**DECEMBER 22: Re-picks for those who didn’t get the pick
**MOD ASSIST: TCF Mods Trea, Paris & Lanelle are also around for assistance.
PARTICIPANTS
Ezinwanyi
~Melissa~
☘KathyD☘
Alisa
Deanne
Joanne - is from Canada
Theo
Susan A
Megan
Shari Lee
Zuzana
Cleo
Samantha
Mandiann
Karen ♐
Sunshine
Katherine
Connie
Esther
Avid Reader and Geek Girl
Jenn
Louise
Dee
Danielle
Elaine
LaurLa
Karla
Nikk
PAIRS
✔ 1. Shari Lee picks for Ezinwanyi
✔ 2. Alisa picks for Connie
✔ 3. Dee picks for Zuzana
✔ 4. Sunshine picks for ~Melissa~
✔ 5. Nikk picks for Avid Reader and Geek Girl
✔ 6. Ezinwanyi picks for Sunshine
✔ 7. Zuzana picks for Nikk
✔ 8. Esther picks for Karla
✔ 9. Susan A picks for LaurLa
✔ 10. Avid Reader and Geek Girl picks for Esther
✔ 11. Louise picks for Elaine
✔ 12. Jenn picks for Danielle
✔ 13. Megan picks for Dee
14. Elaine picks for Louise
✔ 15. Karen ♐ picks for Jenn
✔ 16. Joanne - is from Canada picks for Katherine
✔ 17. Karla picks for Karen ♐
✔ 18. Connie picks for Mandiann
✔ 19. ☘KathyD☘ picks for Cleo
✔ 20. LaurLa picks for Samantha
✔ 21. Samantha picks for Theo
✔ 22. Cleo picks for Joanne - is from Canada
✔ 23. Deanne picks for Shari Lee
✔ 24. Theo picks for Megan
✔ 25. Mandiann picks for ☘KathyD☘
✔ 26. Katherine picks for Deanne
✔ 27. Danielle picks for Susan A
✔ 28. ~Melissa~ picks for Alisa
Didn't make Pick (view spoiler)
Ezinwanyi
~Melissa~
☘KathyD☘
Alisa
Deanne
Joanne - is from Canada
Theo
Susan A
Megan
Shari Lee
Zuzana
Cleo
Samantha
Mandiann
Karen ♐
Sunshine
Katherine
Connie
Esther
Avid Reader and Geek Girl
Jenn
Louise
Dee
Danielle
Elaine
LaurLa
Karla
Nikk
PAIRS
✔ 1. Shari Lee picks for Ezinwanyi
✔ 2. Alisa picks for Connie
✔ 3. Dee picks for Zuzana
✔ 4. Sunshine picks for ~Melissa~
✔ 5. Nikk picks for Avid Reader and Geek Girl
✔ 6. Ezinwanyi picks for Sunshine
✔ 7. Zuzana picks for Nikk
✔ 8. Esther picks for Karla
✔ 9. Susan A picks for LaurLa
✔ 10. Avid Reader and Geek Girl picks for Esther
✔ 11. Louise picks for Elaine
✔ 12. Jenn picks for Danielle
✔ 13. Megan picks for Dee
14. Elaine picks for Louise
✔ 15. Karen ♐ picks for Jenn
✔ 16. Joanne - is from Canada picks for Katherine
✔ 17. Karla picks for Karen ♐
✔ 18. Connie picks for Mandiann
✔ 19. ☘KathyD☘ picks for Cleo
✔ 20. LaurLa picks for Samantha
✔ 21. Samantha picks for Theo
✔ 22. Cleo picks for Joanne - is from Canada
✔ 23. Deanne picks for Shari Lee
✔ 24. Theo picks for Megan
✔ 25. Mandiann picks for ☘KathyD☘
✔ 26. Katherine picks for Deanne
✔ 27. Danielle picks for Susan A
✔ 28. ~Melissa~ picks for Alisa
Didn't make Pick (view spoiler)
NEW TWIST is your picker can choose to pick two series for you instead of one. This is because sometimes people read one book and decide they really didn't enjoy the series after all.
Option B gives you the chance to read One Book from Two series, instead of two books form one series.
It is the Picker's option!!
Option B gives you the chance to read One Book from Two series, instead of two books form one series.
It is the Picker's option!!

Ezinwanyi's JANUARY 2017 FWYS - Series List
I choose for Sunshine: (Option B) Kerr Chronicles series & In the Company of Killers series
Shari Lee chose for me: Maiden Lane series and Marriage Trap series
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2) Marriage Trap by Jennifer Probst (3-4)
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4) Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt (Books 3-11)
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~Melissa's~ FWYS ~ January 2017I choose for Santa Alisa : The World of the Lupi & Chicagoland Vamps
Frosty Sunshine chooses for me: EiT and Whyborne & Griffin
Whyborne & Griffin
Experiment in Terror
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Kathy’s Finish What You Started January List – Option APicked Immortals After Dark and Manwhore for Cleo
Mandiann picked Billionaires and Bridesmaids, Jessica Clare
Billionaires and Bridesmaids
Brothers in Arms
Dark Protectors
I-Team
Immortals After Dark
Alisa's Finish What You Started January List Option BWorld of the Lupi
Moonlight
Chicagoland Vamps
Better Than
Upending Tad/Black Duology
Joanne's January FWYSCleo picked
I picked for Katherine: The Chronicles of Narnia
Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts
Scoundrels of St James by Lorraine Heath
Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones
Cynster by Stephanie Laurens
In Death by J.D Robb
Theo's January 2017 FWYS List:Samantha chooses for me: Fruits Basket and Once Upon a Time
I choose for Megan: Weddings by Design and The Paper Magician Trilogy
4) Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya (Books 2-23)
5)Once Upon a Time by Various Authors (Books 2-9, 11-19)
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Susan A's January 2017 FWYSI picked Option B for Laurla: I Team and Furry United Coalition.
Danielle picked Option B Whitedell Pride & Jamie Brodie Mysteries.
Whitedell Pride by Catherine Lievens #10-25
Jamie Brodie Mystery by Meg Perry #12-13
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Megan's January 2017 Finish What You've Started ListOption ?
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I choose for ??:
Weddings by Design series by Janice Thompson
Home to Hickory Hollow series by Beverly Lewis
The Paper Magician Trilogy by Charlie N. Holmberg
Logan Point series by Patricia Bradley
Southern Crimes series by Lisa Harris
Zuzana's FWYS January 2017 ShelfI pick for Nikk: Lunar Chronicles
Dee picks for me: Star Wars: Boba Fett
1. Star Wars: Boba Fett (5-6)
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January 2017 Finish What You've Started List : Option B1. Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole
.......2. Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neil
3. Experiment in Terror by Karina Halle
4. Dark Swan by Richelle Mead
5. Consequence by Rachel Van Dyken
6. Manwhore by Katy Evans
Sammie's Finish What You Started ShelfLaurLa picked for me the Lightbringer series and the Sookie Stackhouse series
I picked for Theo the Fruits Basket series and the Once Upon A Time series
I read:
1. The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
2. Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo
3. Hornblower series by C. S. Forester
4. Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
5. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
Note: If you pick the Lightbringer or Mistborn series, please pick 2,3, or 4 with your pick instead of picking 1 and 5 together. They're both monster series and I'm already planning on starting The Way of Kings in January (~1,000 pages)
I want to play.Mandiann's January FWYS
1. The Princess Diaries (Books 10 and 11)
2. Temeraire (Books 5-9 and 0.5, 1.5)
3. Abhorsen (Books 3.5 and 5)
4. The Heroes of Olympus (Books 2-5)
5. The Unicorn Chronicles (Books 3 and 4)
Karen's FWYS - JanuaryIndebted Series
Steel Brothers Saga
The Good Doctor Trilogy
S.I.N.
Virgin River
I pick for
picks for me
I'm a newbie to this challenge, so be kind if (view spoiler) I screw up.1. Kerr Chronicles series
2. Moretti Novels series
3. In the Company of Killers series
4. New Species series
5. The Sullivans series
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JANUARY 2017 Finish What You've Started ChallengeWhat was chosen for me:
4. The Chronicles of Narnia Series (2 - 5 & 7):





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Connie N - Finish What You Started - January 2017Lucky Harbor - Jill Shalvis
Six-Pack Ranch - Vivian Arend
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Neighbor from Hell - R.L. Mathewson
Travis Family - Lisa Kleypas
I picked for Mandiann:
Alisa picked for me:
Read:
Perfection by R.L. Mathewson - 1/28/17 ♥♥♥♥
Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas - 1/24/17 ♥♥♥♥
Esther's January FWYS ListAvid Reader and Geek Girl chose (3) Chronicles of the Black Company for me.
I chose Matched and the Kiesh'ara series for Karla.
(1) Isaac Asimov's Foundation books
(2) Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky
(3) Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
(4) The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
(5) Fitz and the Fool (interlinked series) by Robin Hobb
Avid's January FWYS I choose for Ester: (Option A) Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
Nikk chose for me: (Option B) Beautiful Bastard & Mercy Thompson
1)Reckless and Real (Books 1-2)read 0.5 already
2) Millenium (Books 3-4)
1/11 4 stars
3) Beautiful Bastard (Books 3-5)
1/9 3 stars
1/27 3 stars
4)Stephanie Plum (21-23)
1/29 3 stars
5) Mercy Thompson (4-10)
1/23 3 stars
Jenn's Finish What You Started January 20171. Legend series by Marie Lu (2-3, with a .5 novella)

2. Anita Blake series by Laurell K Hamilton (7-25)

3. Saints of Denver series by Jay Crownover (1-2, I read the first novella)

4. Wait For You series by Jennifer Armentrout (2-6)

5. House of Night series by PC & Kristin Cast (10-11)
January FWYSI choose for Elaine
Elder Races
Psy-Changeling
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Sookie Stackhouse
1. Princess Diaries
2. Kate Daniels
3. Black Dagger Brotherhood
4. Agatha Raisin
5. Sookie Stackhouse
Finish what you started January 20171.The shadow Shifters by A.C. Arthur
2. Book of the order by Philippa Ballantine
3. Faeire by Tammy Falkner
4.The Bloodhound Files by D.D. Barant
Series is finished5.Arcadia Bell by JennBennett
Series is finished
1. Spellbound by Sydney Somers
2. Shadow Agents by Cynthia Eden
3. Deep in Your Veins by Suzanne Wright
4. The Bodyguards by Cindy Gerard
5. The Protectors by Teresa Gabelman
I pick for Louise: Kate Daniels (and if she wants a second series, Black Dagger Brotherhood)
Louise's pick(s) for me:
Elder Races

Guild Hunter (#1-5 are re-reads)

Psy-Changling

Shifters Unbound

Firsts and Forevers
Expected new release: World's Away (not yet on Goodreads, exact publication date unknown)
2017 FWYS - January Series ListI pick for: Samantha
The Lightbringer series and Sookie Stackhouse series
Picks for me: Susan A
I-Team and Furry United Coalition
I-Team - Pamela Clare - Books 3-7.5 (9)
Cat DeLuca Mysteries - K.J. Larsen - Books 2-5 (4)
Furry United Coalition - Eve Langlais - Books 3-5 (3)
Rocky Mountain Shifters - Susan Arden - Books 2-4 (3)
Dangerous Affairs - Taylor Lee - Books 1.5-2 (2)
Karla's January 2017 FWYS ShelfKiesha'ra Series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Boy Series by Meg Cabot
Matched by Ally Conde
Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich
and a ton more!Alex Cross by James Patterson
and a ton more!
Nikk's january FWYS list Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones
The Drake Sisters by Christine Feehan
Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
Spark By Rachael Craw
Sunshine wrote: "I'm a newbie to this challenge, so be kind if
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I screw up.
Sunshine:
I choose Option B for you
so your two series are: 1. Kerr Chronicles series & 3. In the Company of Killers series
You only have to read minimum one book from each series, but you can read more than one from both series if you choose too.
Enjoy!
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I screw up.
Sunshine:
I choose Option B for you
so your two series are: 1. Kerr Chronicles series & 3. In the Company of Killers series
You only have to read minimum one book from each series, but you can read more than one from both series if you choose too.
Enjoy!
hiya,It's doesn't seem to be showing who I need to pick for just says :
Nikk picks for
Not sure if there was a mistype on the user pickee link?
Jenn wrote: "Jenn's Finish What You Started January 20171. Legend series by Marie Lu (2-3, with a .5 novella)
[bookcover:Life Before Legend: Stories ..."Jenn, I'm choosing Option B for you. So I pick the Anita Blake series & Wait For You series. Hope you enjoy!
Ezinwanyi~ThatEzi wrote: "Sunshine:
I choose Option B for you
so your two series are: 1. Kerr Chronicles series & 3. In the Company of Killers..."
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Jumping up and down... Thanks Ezi
Danielle I choose Option B for you. The two series are: 1. Spellbound by Sydney Somers
2. Deep in Your Veins by Suzanne Wright
Enjoy!
Karen ♐ wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Jenn's Finish What You Started January 20171. Legend series by Marie Lu (2-3, with a .5 novella)
[bookcover:Life Before Leg..."I love the Wait For You series! Hope you enjoy Jenn :-)
Nikk, for you I pick The Lunar Chronicles books. I haven't read them myself but my niece loves them.
Zuzana wrote: "Nikk, for you I pick The Lunar Chronicles books. I haven't read them myself but my niece loves them."Thanks Zuzana! Looking forward to continuing with this series :-)
Nikk wrote: "hiya,
It's doesn't seem to be showing who I need to pick for just says :
Nikk picks for
Not sure if there was a mistype on the user pickee link?"
Fixed it
It's doesn't seem to be showing who I need to pick for just says :
Nikk picks for
Not sure if there was a mistype on the user pickee link?"
Fixed it
Hi, DeanneI've chosen for you:
1. Bells of Lowell (2 & 3) by Tracie Peterson
2. The Courtships of Lancaster County (1 & 4) by Leslie Gould
Avid Reader and Geek Girl wrote: "Avid's January FWYSOption 2
1)Reckless and Real (Books 1-2)read 0.5 already

2) Millenium (Books 3-4)
[bookcover:The ..."
Avid Reader and Geek Girl , I am going with option B for you and choosing the beautiful Bastard series and Mercy Thompson series for you.
Mostly because they are two series that I am looking at starting eventually and you have a read a couple of already so hopefully that means you are already enjoying them.
Have a great month! :-)
Ezinwanyi~ThatEzi wrote: "Nikk wrote: "hiya,It's doesn't seem to be showing who I need to pick for just says :
Nikk picks for
Not sure if there was a mistype on the user pickee link?"
Fixed it"
Thank you :-)
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