Olivermagnus 2017 Challenges

[Olivermagnus]

I am determined to keep up my Tracking thread in 2017

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Climbing the PBT Stairs

Step 1: Canadian - Admin Tag

✔ Book 1:
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens - 4.5 Stars - 1/5/17 - set in Canada and written by a Canadian author

Step 2: Time Travel

Book 1: A Symphony of Echoes - Jodi Taylor - 4 Stars - 2/7/17
Book 2: A Murder in Time - Julie McElwain - 4 Stars - 4/4/17

✔ Step 3: England

1. Ice Blue - Emma Jameson- 3 Stars
2. Natural Causes- James Oswald - 4 Stars - 2/24/17
3. The Salton Killings- Sally Spencer - 3.5 Stars - 5/14/17

✔ Step 4: Series - Universal Tag

Book 1: A Fatal Thaw - Dana Stabenow - 4 Stars - 1/1/17- Book 2 of Kate Shugak series
Book 2: Vanishing Girls - Katia Lief - 4 Stars - 1/8/17 - Book 3 of Karin Shcaeffer series
Book 3: The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus - 4 Stars - 1/29/17 - Book 3 of Kirchoff/Bodenstein series
Book 4: Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie - 3.5 Stars - 1/24/17 - Book 3 of Duncan Kincaid/Emma James series

Step 5: Historical Fiction

Book 1: Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein - 4.5 Stars - 1/6/17 - set during WW2
Book 2: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn - 4 Stars - 2/3/17 - set in ancient Rome
Book 3: These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Nancy E. Turner - 4 Stars - 2/14/17 - set in American West 1881-1901
Book 4: Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly - 5 Stars - 4/9/17
Book 5: The Tea Planter's Wife - Dinah Jefferies - 3.5 Stars - 5/11/17

Step 6: Jeffrey Archer Books

Book 1: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer - 4 Stars - 1/13/17
Book 2: Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer - 4 Stars - 1/15/17
Book 3: The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer - 4.5 Stars - 1/27/17
Book 4. Best Kept Secret - 4.5 Stars - 2/5/17
Book 5. Cometh the Hour - Jeffrey Archer - 4.5 Stars - 2/20/17
Book 6. This Was a Man - Jeffrey Archer - 5 Stars - 2/26/17

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Hitting the PBT High Notes:

✔ 2008: The Other Boleyn Girl - 5 Stars - 2/18/17
✔ 2009: Still Alice - 4.5 Stars - 3/14/17
✔ 2010: Cutting for Stone - 4.5 Stars - 9/11/17
✔ 2011: Room - 4.5 Stars - 5/25/17
✔ 2012: Tell the Wolves I'm Home - 4.5 Stars - 5/8/17
✔ 2013: And the Mountains Echoed - 4 Stars - 1/2/17
✔ 2014: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - 5/4/17
✔ 2015: The Secret Chord - 4 Stars - 2/21/17
✔ 2016: The Underground Railroad - 4 Stars - 4/11/17

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Long Book Challenge - books over 500 pages

1. Plague Ship by Clive Cussler - 4 Stars - 1/11/17 - 540 pages
2. Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West - 5 Stars - 1/12/17 - 557 pages
3. The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry - 2 Stars - 2/17/17 - 578 pages
4. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory - 5 Stars - 2/18/17 - 672 pages
5. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler - 2.5 Stars - 3/24/17 - 514 pages
6. The Wolf's Hour - Robert McCammon - 4.5 Stars - 5/27/17 - 612 pages
7. The Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley - 3.5 Stars - 7/18/17 - 544 pages
8. House of Spies - Daniel Silva - 4.5 Stars - 8/15/17 - 528 pages
9. The Face of Death - Cody McFadyen - 4 Stars - 8/29/17 - 624 pages
10. You Don't Want To Know - Lisa Jackson - 3 Stars - 8/31/17 - 554 pages
11. The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory - 3.5 Stars - 9/8/17 - 698 pages
12. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - 4.5 Stars - 9/11/17 - 672 pages

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Randomize my TBR and read the first 50 books

50 of 50 Read

Shelf: To Be Read

Titles:

✔ 1. Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein - 4.5 Stars - 4/6/17
✔ 2. Invisible Murder - Lene Kaaberbøl - 4 Stars - 3/27/17
✔ 3. Ruler of the Night - David Morrell - 4 Stars - 12/26/17
✔ 4. Murder on Amsterdam Avenue by Victoria Thompson - 4 Stars - 1/10/17
✔ 5. Blood of Tyrants - Naomi Novik - 4 Stars - 6/11/17
✔ 6. The Other Boleyn Girl - 5 Stars - 2/18/17
✔ 7. The Forbidden Tomb - Chris Kuzneski - 3.5 Stars - 3/29/17
✔ 8. The North Water - Ian McGuire - 3.5 Stars - 11/9/17
✔ 9. The Divided City - Luke McCallin - 5 Stars - 3/31/17
✔ 10.Dark Dreams - Michael Genelin - 3 Stars - 11/29/17
✔ 11. The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry - 3.5 Stars - 5/23/17
✔ 12. The Far Side of the Sky - Daniel Kalla - 5 Stars - 7/12/17
✔ 13. Plague Ship by Clive Cussler - 4 Stars - 1/11/17
✔ 14. Blood Wedding - Pierre Lemaitre - 4 Stars - 11/26/17
✔ 15. A Time of Torment by John Connolly - 4.5 Stars - 1/16/17
✔ 16. The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin - 3.5 Stars - 8/3/17
✔ 17. March Violets by Philip Kerr - 4 Stars - 3/1/17
✔ 18. Fly By Wire by Ward Larsen - 3 Stars - 10/9/17
✔ 19. Room - Emma Donoghue - 4.5 Stars - 5/26/17
✔ 20. Gallows View by Peter Robinson - 4 Stars - 7/23/17
✔ 21. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra - 4 Stars - 5/4/17
✔ 22. Still Alice - Lisa Genova - 4.5 Stars - 3/14/17
✔ 23. Rules of Civility - Amor Towles - 5 Stars - 7/9/17
✔ 24. The Secret Chord - Geraldine Brooks - 3.5 Stars - 2/21/17
✔ 25. And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini - 4 Stars - 1/2/17
✔ 26. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman - 4 Stars - 1/18/17
✔ 27. The Human Flies - Hans Olav Lahlum - 4 Stars - 6/9/17
✔ 28. Silent Scream by Angela Marsons - 5 Stars - 8/13/17
✔ 29. The Race for Paris - Meg Waite Clayton - 12/21/17
✔ 30. Breakup by Dana Stabenow - 4 Stars -10/10/17
✔ 31. The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto - 3.5 Stars - 1/31/17
✔ 32. Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon - 4 Stars - 7/11/17
✔ 33. Mercy Falls - William Kent Krueger - 5 Stars - 7/4/17
✔ 34. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe - Sandra Gulland - 4 Stars - 11/17/17
✔ 35. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg - 4 Stars - 4/26/17
✔ 36. Pop Goes the Weasel - M.J. Arlidge - 3.5 Stars - 12/13/17
✔ 37. The Girl In The Ice - Robert Bryndza - 4 Stars - 1/30/17
✔ 38. Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer - 4 Stars - 1/15/17
✔ 39. The Black Country - Alex Grecian - 5 Stars - 4/27/17
✔ 40. The Investigation - Jung-Myung Lee - 4 Stars - 3/19/17
✔ 41. The Professionals - Owen Laukkanen - 5 Stars - 3/26/17
✔ 42. Nothing Stays Buried - P.J. Tracy - 3.5 Stars - 9/7/17
✔ 43. The Widow - Fiona Barton - 3.5 Stars - 11/2/17
✔ 44. The Last Policeman - Ben H. Winters - 4.5 Stars - 5/20/17
✔ 45. Golden Prey - John Sandford - 5 Stars - 5/6/17
✔ 46. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware - 4 Stars - 4/11/17
✔ 47. Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer - 4.5 Stars - 1/13/17
✔ 48. Seduction in Death by J. D. Robb - 4 Stars - 1/14/17
✔ 49. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens - 4.5 Stars -1/5/17
✔ 50. Deafening - Frances Itani - 8/21/17 - 4 Stars

[Amy]

Wow, that's now three of us so far that historical fiction is stair five! Lisa Ann and myself as well.