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Feb 02, 2015 12:25PM
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Good Morning, Killer by April Smith 384 pages 2/2/15 ★★★
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I'm ready to claim my Buddy Read points for
now :) BR thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Finished
by Caleb Carr - 02/02/2015 - ★★★★ - 498 pages Buddy Read thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(planning to comment more when there's more activity)
Great historical mystery. Recommended if you like reading or are interested in forensics medicine and psychology since these are the central themes of the book. It's completely different of the historical mysteries I've read so far. This felt more based on exchange of ideas & viewpoints, and trying to understand the criminal mind. I did take me a while but nonetheless and interesting read. My favourite characters were Sara, Cyrus and Mary (I really felt for her).
512 pages, ★ This is the 21st installment in the Kay Scarpetta forensic thrillers by Patricia Cornwell. She should have quite while she was ahead. It was awful. By the end of it, I was hoping they would all be killed in a mass shooting or bombing. I can't believe I've even come to dislike Lucy so much. I've never seen such an enmeshed, dysfunctional, delusional, group of people outside of an inpatient therapy group.
Now I remember why I'm 2 books behind in this series. It's become unreadable.
I agree Cynthia. Kay's continual paranoia that everybody is out to screw her over is getting old fast. I can't stand Lucy at this point either. Since I've read them all though I will be FORCED to continue onward.
So glad that you enjoyed
, Audrey Jane. Its a fantastic book so rich in historical detail and the mystery is gripping. Unfortunately, the sequel kind of fell flat for me.
Finished
by Paullina Simons ,559 pages, 2/3/15, 3 stars, BuddyRead
Loved this one and it got a rare 5 stars from me. ◆
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly 447 pages 2/4/15 ★★★★★
Sheila wrote: "Loved this one and it got a rare 5 stars from me. ◆
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly 447 ..."I just borrowed the audiobook on your recommendation. I think with all my driving to PT and other activities, I should try an audiobook for a change. This one is only 9 hours.
by Richelle Mead, 304 pages, finished 2/5/14, 4 stars
448 pages, ★★★★I loved this book. Kathleen, I know you didn't care for it, but I sat down to read it and couldn't stop until it was done. I've never read a YA fantasy that was more adult. I like that after 19 years of isolation from society, she doesn't suddenly turn into this wise and perfect person. I also like that she has a strong attraction to the Fetch, but they don't fall into love and snog after being together for 15 minutes.
I look forward to the sequel for many reasons. The mystery of the sapphires, the Fetch, Mace, Father Thomas...I'm glad that more wasn't revealed in this first book, yet it ended without a huge cliffhanger feel to it.
Highly recommend.
@Cynthia, great to know you enjoyed it!
I finished two more books:
- I'm really enjoying this historical mystery series. 
- I think I'm in the minority in not appreciating this book. The premise is really excellent but I found it slow and the villains weren't all that threatening despite the atrocities they committed.
The spreadsheet is updated to here with all books and buddy reads. We are standing at 18415 points.
464 pages, ★★★★ Buddy ReadI finally got around to doing a Buddy Read audit. Some of these I think I just forgot to post, and some were threads that started after I had read the book (but I did read the books during TT3).
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- Dollbaby Thread I've only commented on this thread once, so I'm waiting for some more interaction on it.I've got 2 more BRs coming up. One I need to read, and the other I've read and I'm waiting for others to comment.
I've commented on this thread and hopefully I'll get some more interaction and can get credit.
|| 736 pages ( I have both hardcover and Kindle so might as well use the higher page count) || ★★★★ || Buddy Read Loved the first half, the second half not as much.
|| 362 pages || ★★★★★ The audiobook is superb! I can't praise the narration enough.
Fantastic Cynthia and Kathryn. I'll update the spreadsheet ASAP :0)
Updated buddy reads to here. Let me know if someone comments on your pending BR threads, Cynthia.
Kathleen wrote: " || 736 pages ( I have both hardcover and Kindle so might as well use the higher page count) || ★★★★ || Buddy Read Loved the first half, the second half not..."
Kathleen, can you change the edition of the book because the one on the spreadsheet says 662 pages but your post says 736 pages. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but you never know :0)
I'd forgotten The Name of the Wind was a buddy read. I have just picked it up again after abandoning it last month, so I might go and jump in and try and get it finished this week.
okay, I will when I get home. I'm on my phone right now and I don't know how to do it.
Kathleen wrote: "okay, I will when I get home. I'm on my phone right now and I don't know how to do it."No problem :0)
@Lauren, I just checked the points for the page counts and it seems there's not much difference because it falls under 70 points. Haha so you can just put in 662 doesn't matter anyway. I saw you on the buddy read thread for that. how did you find the book?
Kathleen wrote: "@Lauren, I just checked the points for the page counts and it seems there's not much difference because it falls under 70 points. Haha so you can just put in 662 doesn't matter anyway. I saw you on..."Thanks for checking that, Kathleen.
Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for such a long audiobook (27 hours) but I called it quits about 2 hours in. It just wasn't grabbing me perhaps because of the constantly shifting 3rd person 1st person POV.
, 320 pages , BOM ,finished 2/7/15, 5 stars!
So far the best book of 2015 for me!
Skandia wrote: ", 320 pages , BOM ,finished 2/7/15, 5 stars!
So far the best book of 2015 for me!"
It was very good, but definitely my least favorite of the 3 Rainbow Rowell books I've read. I could relate to a lot of the emotions, but I didn't care for most of the characters as people (except Heather, I really liked her).
452 pages,★★★★Nice revamp of the Oz story. I didn't get bogged down in minutiae even once.
Old books/New Buddy Reads
- Dollbaby Thread
- Series Buddy Read
371 pages,★★★★★ Buddy Read (see Sheila's post below for the thread)/The best of the Ruth Galloway series yet.
320 pages, ★★★★★Sheila, a great recommendation. It was the best audiobook I've ever listened to, which should be obvious since it didn't take me a month to finish it.
Please add the following Buddy Read:
buddy read thread
Cynthia wrote: "371 pages,★★★★★The best of the Ruth Galloway series yet.
320 pages, ★★★★★Sheila, a great recommendatio..."
Glad you liked the Paula Daly book Cynthia. Why didn't you claim buddy read points for Ruth Galloway?
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths 384 pages 2/8 ★★★★Buddy Read - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sheila wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "371 pages,★★★★★The best of the Ruth Galloway series yet.
320 pages, ★★★★★Sheila, a gre..."
Because I totally forgot about it. I finished it earlier today and was waiting to post until I had finished the last hour of the Daly book. Which was so good. I'll fix it.
Updated to here with books and buddy reads - we are approaching the end ladies - 19165 points!
Fantastic stuff, Lauren - thank you for being so brilliant at doing updates. I can't believe we only have less than 900 points to go...we'll be done well before the week is out.
NancyHelen wrote: "Fantastic stuff, Lauren - thank you for being so brilliant at doing updates. I can't believe we only have less than 900 points to go...we'll be done well before the week is out."It's teamwork .... and I'm excited about being close to the finish line ;0)
Lauren wrote: "Updated to here with books and buddy reads - we are approaching the end ladies - 19165 points!"I haven't been paying much attention to points totals but was wondering what teams are close on our heels? Are we still in the lead? Where are the team totals displayed?
The rankings as at last week are here : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...The nearest team are the JubilantChickadees. They were less than 800 points behind us last week, but we've managed just over 1300 this week so they would have had to have done some serious reading in order to take over. But I am sure they are going to be really pushing it to the finish line too, so we need to read, read, read!
Here's the link to the spreadsheet if you want to check that out. Tower Teams 3 SpreadsheetI didn't get as many books finished as I would have liked this past week, but I still have tonight to get some reading in. It's harder now to get reading done during the week.
I"d forgotten about that spreadsheet, Cynthia - thank you!So, they're currently 700 odd points behind us. They've been reading frantically this last week to close the gap! But we can hang in there...
420 pages, ★★★★ BUDDY READ
216 pages, ★★, BUDDY READI almost gave it an extra star for being 216 pages/50 points.
515 pages,★★, There is a Buddy Read Thread, but it died just hours before I started reading! Gaah!I recommend re-reading/reading Jurassic Park and leaving this one alone.
272 pages, ★★★This is the 2nd in a series, and while it referred to previous events I didn't feel lost at all. It's a gothic story connected to the present, but I would have enjoyed just reading the gothic tale by itself, with some expansion upon it. It was meh.
|| 216 pages|| ★★|| BUDDY READ
Spreadsheet updated to here - we are at 19485 points. 515 to go! Keep it going ladies!
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