Double Trouble Challenge

[JoAnne]

Can the TH be used for the word THE?

[Barb]

Agnieszka wrote: "The series looks interesting and is set in South Dakota - pretty hard to find books for that one. Did you read the first one in series? If you did how did you like it?"

Yes, I did read the first in the series, but it was quite awhile ago, so I don't remember much about it. On GR, I gave it 3 stars, but would have given it 3.5 stars if I could. I'm stingy with stars, so 3.5 is good :) I decided to continue the series, so it couldn't have been terrible LOL

[Agnieszka]

Barb wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "The series looks interesting and is set in South Dakota - pretty hard to find books for that one. Did you read the first one in series? If you did how did you like it?"

Yes, I di..."

Thanks

and just in case
New pairs: TH and PU (posted by Jennifer message #49)

[Jennifer]

Barb wrote: "I'm not sure either, Jennifer LOL Do you want me to report back after I've finished the book? Believe it or not, it's a cozy mystery, so I can't imagine it would be *that bad ... maybe?"

Oh, no way do you get to read that book without reporting back, missy!!! :-)

[Barb]

Jennifer wrote: "Barb wrote: "I'm not sure either, Jennifer LOL Do you want me to report back after I've finished the book? Believe it or not, it's a cozy mystery, so I can't imagine it would be *that bad ... maybe?"

Oh, no way do you get to read that book without reporting back, missy!!! :-)"

ROFL It will probably be closer to the end of the year before I get to it, so I'll do my best to remember :)

[Jennifer]

New pairs: TH and PU (posted by Jennifer message #49)

[Agnieszka]

Agnieszka wrote: "That looks so fun :-)

I want to read Unending Devotion, Unholy Alliances & Unlocked for quite a time. I'm still not sure which one I'll read but of t..."
In the end I read two different titles for this one - I wasn't sure if there's a page minimum so read a second one :-)
Understanding Suffering: A Short Book Making Sense of a Big Topic by Kent Locke 5* 11/16
Und dann gab's keines mehr=And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 6* 11/20


Jennifer wrote: "New pairs: TH and PU (posted by Jennifer message #49)"
I'm going for TH though I'm not sure about my book I'll read yet.
I read The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch by Liz Isaacson 5* 1/12

JoAnne wrote: "Can the TH be used for the word THE?"
Looks like you missed this one Jennifer and I was wondering about this one as well :-)
Another question: Can we use books we already started? I started quite a while ago Thunder in the Morning Calm but lost interst. As far as I recall I read only a few pages for sure less than 5 percent of the book. If I would go back to this one - can I use it for this challenge or should I pick another one?


The next pairs: PU & DE

[Jennifer]

Agnieszka wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "That looks so fun :-)

I want to read Unending Devotion, Unholy Alliances & Unlocked for quite a time. I'm still not sure which one ..."

Of course. It’s fine if you already started it. :-)

[Barb]

Does ANY word in the title count, or only significant words? Can we match "the" for TH, for example?

[Jennifer]

Yep but doesn’t that kind of suck the fun out of it? But to keep the game going it’s allowed. :-)

I apparently missed JoAnne asking that. Sorry J!

[Barb]

I agree it's not quite in the 'spirit' of the game, but as you said, sometimes it might be necessary to keep the game moving :)

[Agnieszka]

Jennifer wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "Agnieszka wrote: "That looks so fun :-)

I want to read Unending Devotion, Unholy Alliances & Unlocked for quite a time. I'm still n..."

Thank you!

The next pairs: PU & DE posted by Agnieszka in message 58.

[Barb]

Finally finished my SE book:


Sex and Salmonella (Tory Bauer #2), by Kathleen Taylor, finished 12/18 ★★★


I read the first book in this series three years ago (yikes!) and liked it enough to continue the series. This second book wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped it would be. I've committed to reading the remaining four books in the series for another challenge, though, so I hope the books get at least a little better from here on out.


I can take the DE with One Dead Cookie, which I'm hoping to read before the end of the year ... maybe?

NEXT PAIRS: BL and MI

[Jennifer]

I'll take BL and read Bloom and Doom .

New pairs: MI and NO

[Agnieszka]

Finally I finished my TH book The First Lady of Three Rivers Ranch by Liz Isaacson 5* 1/12 with two TH in title :-) Three & The

It's my second book by this author and despite beeing #7 or 8 in series it's actually the background story set way before the first book in series. I think I discovered a new favorite author and now I'm double glad I grabbed most of the books in this series and another two or three from other of her series when they were free or discounted so much I couldn't resist :-)

I'll take NO and will read most likely No Safe Haven or No Accident I have both pretty long on my Kindle and think it's time to read them :-)

New pairs: MI & TR

[Agnieszka]

I finished No Safe Haven a few days ago and loved it - just wow!

My next pair will be MI and I'll read The Thousand Dollar Man: Introducing Colt Ryder - One Man, One Mission, No Rules - I hope subtitles work as well - if not the only other book I found for these letters I want read in next future (the next three months) would be Five Minutes Late.

The new pairs: TR & SE

[Jennifer]

Subtitles work!

I'll take TR and read The Trouble With Witches because i have it up for a challenge this month in another group anyway.

new pairs: SE and OR

[Barb]

So it took me a month longer to get to this book than I'd hoped, but I've finally finished my "DE" book:

One Dead Cookie (Cookie Cutter Shop #4), by Virginia Lowell, finished 1/31 ★★★★


I have a book with the word "or" in the title that's on m list to read soon, but that almost seems like cheating. I'll keep an eye on the thread for other possible connections.

[Jennifer]

The word “or” is fine if you want. Those are the first two letters of that word lol!

[Barb]

Well ok then :) I'll take OR with For Cheddar *OR* Worse, by Avery Aames.

New pairs: SE or CH

[Agnieszka]

Barb wrote: "...I have a book with the word "or" in the title that's on m list to read soon, but that almost seems like cheating."

I used a title with no for NO as well :-)

[JoAnne]

I'll take SE with .


New pairs: CH or ME

[Jennifer]

Finished The Trouble With Witches . I'll take CH with The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West .

New pairs: ME and DU

[JoAnne]

Finished 2/2/18


New pairs: ME and DU

[Connie N.]

I finally, finally! finished my pick from September:

The Woman in the Movie Star Dress by Praveen Asthana - 2/20/18 ♥♥

[Connie N.]

I'll take ME and read Wrong for ME


New pairs: DU and LO

[Jennifer]

Connie N. wrote: "I finally, finally! finished my pick from September:

The Woman in the Movie Star Dress by Praveen Asthana - 2/20/18 ♥♥
[bookcover:The Woman in the Movie Star Dres..."

only thing worse than a low star book is one that sits on the night table and stares at you for months until you finish it. :) but at least it's off your list!



New pairs: DU and LO

[JoAnne]

I'll take LO with Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson.


New Pairs: DU and TR

[JoAnne]

JoAnne wrote: "I'll take LO with Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson.


New Pairs: DU and TR"

I forgot to post!
Lost Souls Lisa Jackson 2/24/18

New Pairs: DU and TR

[Jennifer]

I'll take TR with Midnight Train to Paris .

New pairs: DU and ER

[Barb]

Finished my book for OR:

For Cheddar or Worse (Cheese Shop #7), by Avery Aames, finished 2/27 ★★★.5



I don't have anything to match right now, but I'll keep an eye on the thread.

[JoAnne]

New pairs: DU and ER

[Agnieszka]

Finally finished my MI book and I didn't like The Thousand Dollar Man: Introducing Colt Ryder - One Man, One Mission, No Rules very much and switched to Miłość w wielkim mieście=Love and the City which I liked even less - but at least it's Polish so I forced myself to finish it (1* 2/26)

I checked my books planned for the next 6 month and have not a single one with DU so I'll read one for ER most likely Erased or Erbarmen=The Keeper of Lost Causes

New pairs: DU and BE

[Barb]

Oooh, I can take BE wth Better Off Read, an ARC that I need to read soon, by Nora Page.

New pairs: DU and RE

[Agnieszka]

Barb wrote: "Oooh, I can take BE wth Better Off Read, an ARC that I need to read soon, by Nora Page.

New pairs: DU and RE"

Glad to be of help :-)
Barb, RE is great I know at least ten titles from the top of my head that would fit :-)


I just found an interesting free short story on smashwords.com that would remove this pesky DU Dunghog - would you mind if I get a second pair and post a new set?

[Jennifer]

Have at it. :)

[Agnieszka]

Thanks Jennifer!

So I'll read Dunghog for DU and here're the
New pairs: RE and SI

I read this entertaining flash fiction story today and liked it pretty much :-)

I'm going to get again a second pair - Barb's RE and will read most likely Waiting for Summer's Return though I'm not sure if I'll not read Operation Zulu Redemption: Overkill - The Beginning first - we'll see :-)

The new set of pairs: SI & GR

[Barb]

Finished my BE book:
Better Off Read (Bookmobile #1), by Nora Page, finished 3/21 ★★★.5


I can take Agnieszka's SI with Sisters, Ink, a book on my list to read before the end of this month :)

New pairs: GR and ST

[Barb]

And I finished my SI book. Unfortunately, I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped, which makes me sad. A series about scrapbooking sounded right up my alley!

Sisters, Ink (Sisters, Ink #1), by Rebeca Seitz, finished 3/28 ★★★

[Jennifer]

Doesn’t Laura Childs or Tim Myers or someone have a scrapbooking series?

I have ten books left to theoretically read this month and how is it possible none of them has an ST??

GRRRRRR. Oh, and ST.

[Barb]

Laura Childs has one, and it's pretty good, but I think she might be winding down with that series, so I was looking for something to take its place eventually. Guess I'll have to keep looking!

With all the books I have on my list to read in April, I don't have any GRs or STs either. You never know what I'll add as the month progresses, though :)

[Jennifer]

Sooooo i FINALLY finished one of my earlier picks. it kept getting put off by more "urgent" challenge books. Bloom and Doom. Very good start to the series: i'll be continuing.

Still at GR AND ST.....

[Barb]

If you want to make an exception to the rules and allow an author name to get this moving again, I can take the GR. Otherwise, I'll keep looking :)

[Jennifer]

Author name! Author name!!

[Connie N.]

I finished up my ME book with:

Wrong for Me by Jackie Ashenden - 4/27/18 ♥♥♥♥

Too bad, I just finished a GR book today (The Curse of Tenth Grave), but I don't have anything else coming up that will fit.

Still GR and ST

[JoAnne]

oh shoot I read a ST yesterday!! I don't plan my books very much.

[Barb]

Jennifer wrote: "Author name! Author name!!"

LOL To get this moving again, I'll take the author name special allowance and read The Dark Angel, by Elly Griffiths.

Next up: ST and TH
Hoping that the TH is helpful to *someone else out there!

[Barb]

I finished the book for GR:
author Elly Griffiths – The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway #10), finished 5/7 ★★★★.5


I can take TH with Murder at *the* Mansion, by Sheila Connolly.

NEXT UP: ST and LA

[Jennifer]

Well, of course, because you actually HAVE that book..... I'm not sayin, i'm JUST SAYIN.

I'll take ST with Dead End Street which will also finish that series (to date anyway) for me.....

New Pairs LA and DI

[Barb]

Barb wrote: "I can take TH with Murder at *the* Mansion, by Sheila Connolly."

Jennifer wrote: "Well, of course, because you actually HAVE that book..... I'm not sayin, i'm JUST SAYIN."

LOL Sorry ... again :)