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Elizabeth wrote: "So I'm re-reading the Isaac Bell Detective series by Clive Cussler and I was wondering if you all know any good aurthors or series that are some what like his style of writing or James Rollins,and ..."Check out Steve Berry, Chris Kuzneski, and Raymond Kouhry. Steve Berry is my favorite of the group though.
May's TBR 2015 Book ListNook Books:
1:
327 pages finished five out of five stars2:
109 pages finished five out of five3::
520 pages finished five out of five stars4:
five out of five stars finished 2315:
340 finished five out of five stars6:
292 pages finished five out of five stars7:
443 pages finished five out of five stars8:
250 pages five out of five stars finished9:
50 pages didn't finish it 16 pages out of 50 pages10:
30 pages four out of five stars11:
112 pages five out of fiveKindle Books
1::
(ten books)2,187 pages five out of five starts 2:
168 pages finished five out of five stars3:
258 pages finish 2 out of five stars4:
173 pages five out of five stars5:
221 pages finished five out of five stars6:
301 pages finished five out five7:
487 pages finished five out of five stars8:
207 pages two out of five stars
Paper Back
357 pages five out of five stars finished
342 pages finished five out of five stars
355 page finished five out of five stars
357 pages finished five out of five stars
358 pages five out of five stars
371 pages finished five out of five stars
355 pages finished five out of five stars
finished 457 pages four starsnook books
75 pages five out of five stars
176 pages five out of fivekindle book
213 pages three out of five stars
read 35 pages out of 147 pages didn't finish 1 star out of fivenook book
637 pages finished five out of five
five out five stars finished 143 pageskindle books
five out of five stars finished 248 pages
260 pages finished four out of five stars
1 star out of five star 357 pages finished
832 pages 1 star out of five stars.
four out of five stars 31 pages
265 pagesfive out of five stars finished
170 pages four out of five stars
419 pages three out of five stars
336 pages five out of five stars total number of books read for this month:41 books
total pages read:13,920
Elizabeth - I saw that you have read a lot of Clive Cussler's books. I read one of his books a while ago and I'm thinking about reading others. Can you recommend a series to start with?
Elizabeth wrote: ...but my all time favorite one is his Isaac Bell Adventures..."Thanks!
:is made up of 10 different books, so I'll be listen them in the order that I'm reading them.1st book:
New Revelations ( Second Sight book 2) by Heather Topham Wood 2 out of five stars2nd book:
The Council Of Dark Root: Armand: The Daughters Of Dark Root companion novella by April Assheim five out of five stars3rd:
Tuesday's Child ( A Psychic Visions novel book #1) by Dale Mayerfive out of five stars. Reread for me because I have it already on my nook app but I'm glad its part of these 10 books.
4th
Just A Little Nudge by Jesi Lea Ryan five out of five starts5th:
Haunted On Bourbon Street ( a Jade Calhoun novel) by Deanna Chase five out of five6:
Spirits Among Us by Morgan Hannah MacDonald finished five out of five stars7:
London: Allies' War Early Years by JC Andrijeski three out of five stars8th:
Among The Living ( A Psycop Novella) by Jordan Castillo Price five out of five stars9:
Vampire Vacation ( The V V Inn Book) by C.J.Ellison five out of five stars10:
last book five out of five stars.So this book has 2,187 pages in it.so glade that I'm done with it.
ON this challenge page of mine I'm going to be doing it a little different then before, I'm still going to put up my monthly TBR book list, how many pages that I've read that month, the date that I started and finished them ( which is also new), how many stars, and if I'm reading them for a Goodreads Group challenge ( which is new).So some are is the same and there's some new stuff. Another new thing I'm doing is what I'm calling author's read of the month, which is baselly where if I have an author who I have so many of his or her book series ( like for the month of June the author for that month is James Rollins ,then I pick so many of his books or series to read or reread).
June's 2015 TBR (list so far)Hope I can read all of them or most of them.Total Of Books:18
Total of pages read in the month Of June:5,560
Kindle Books:
Rylee Adamson Book 3( books 3-5 reading for my Goodreads group The Challenge Factory- June's Finish What You Started Challenge)read 6/7/15 five out of five stars 249 pages
Rylee Adamson series book 4 read five stars out of five stars 251 pages 6/7/15-6/8/15
Rylee Adamson series book 5 read five stars out of five stars 239 pages 6/8/15
(Reading for Goodreads group: Hooked On Books challenge : June's Pick It for Me ) 1 star out of five stars read 6/8/15 448 pages
read 6/12/15 four out of five stars 199 pages
370 pages started:6/1/16 finished 6/2/15 five out of five ( also read it for Give Me Five )
read 1 star out of five stars 6/15/15 306Nook Books:
( Reading for my Goodreads group The Challenge Factory Challenge: June's Dusty Bookshelf challenge 1 of 2 books for this challenge)read 6/7/15 three out of five stars 253 pages ( because of (Type o in some of the chapters)
(IFICS #1) (2nd book to read for my Godreads group The Challenge Factory : June's Dusty Bookshelf challenge ) read and finish 6/7/15 3 put of five stars( because of (Type o in some of the chapters)166 pagesJune's paperback/hardback ReReads ( author to reread is James Rollins)
SIGMA # 1 read 6/21/15/-6/25/15 569 five out of five stars
SIGMA #2 reading 6/25/15-6/29/15 five stars out of five stars 540 pages
Order of the Sanguines series # 1 ( read and and finally finished) 6/10/15-5/17/15 479 pages five stars out of five stars.
(individual adventures )read and finish 6/17/15-6/21/15 five out of five stars 509 pages Apple IBooks
(Reading it for my Goodreads group challenge: Give Me Five)71 pages started:6/1/15 finished:6/1/15 five out of five starsBookshout Books
The books below the TBRTakedown Readathon are the one I hope I read for that read a thon, it starts June 1st and ends on June 7th. wish me luck.
TBRTakedown Readathon
Here is another read a thon I'm doing it starts June 1st- and ends June the 7th.Under each book that'll be list here your find the challenges that I used the book for. I hope I can at least some of these done if not all of them the challenges are listed beside the books
(1: A book that's been on your TBR shelf over a year!)(nook TBR)read 25 pages out of 249 didn't /couldn't finish 1 star out of five started:6/1/15 finished 6/1/15
(2. An unread sequel sitting on your TBR shelf)(paperback TBR)312 pages started:6/1/15 finished 6/1/15 five out of five stars
(3rd:3. A first book in a series)(Bookshout TBR)still reading 6/1/15- (so far read only 136 pages)finished ( as a kindle book ) 6/18/15 731 pages
(4th challenge question:. An "out of your comfort zone" book on le TBR shelf!)(kindle TBR)197 started 6/2/15 finished 6/2/15 four out of five stars
(5th challenge question: A book from your most recent book haul)(Bookshout TBR )16 pages 6/3/15 -6/3/15 1 star out of five
So here is my frist up date on June's 2015 TBR books:Was reading
for TBRTakedown Readathon at starts June 1st- 7th .1st challenge question.A book that's been on your TBR shelf over a year! So I picked this one. Notes on what I thought of it are:was my first book of this read a thon as well as the first one of my June 's TBR 2015 book list,and I heat to say this but I'm not going to finish it.I'm 25 pages in already and I don't know if it's the story line or how it written but I'm not enjoying it at all.if I could I would give it no rate at all but from a 1 to five star rating it gets a 1. This is a Couldn't Finish it book.Don't know if I'll give this author another try or not.
So here's my 2nd up date on my June's 2015 TBR: Just got done with
five out of five , so here's what I thought of it:This is the first time that I've ever read a book like this and by this author, the idea behind the scenes are scary even for a fictional book ,because its the most intriguing book that I've read this year,it makes you stop and think what would and could have happened if Adolf Hitler had planned and really done some thing like this for real,how the world as we know it as today would have be completely different, because if this terrifying alternate history dystopian world the future is very dark,and the out come on that thought is very scary at lest t me,with that said I can't wait to read the next episode.
3rd up date on my June TBR list /2nd up date on TBRTakedown Readathon was going to be Reading it for TBRTakedown Readathon at starts June 1st- 7th . 2nd challenge question:2. An unread sequel sitting on your TBR shelf. So this is the one I picked since I already read books 1-2.OMJ I'm so stupid, can't believe that I didn't put this down on Goodreads as I've read it, because a few weeks back the power went off and I picked it up to read, loved it, five out of five stars
Reading it for TBRTakedown Readathon at starts June 1st- 7th . 4th challenge question:. An "out of your comfort zone" book on le TBR shelf! So this is the one I picked. So far I'm liken it and it fit right with been out of your comfort zone since I don't ever read this types of books.just finished it and so far I liked it,so four out of five stars, still out of my comfort zone but you some times need to read new things to see if its some you might like
So I've got almost all the books done that I'm reading for TBRTakeDown ReadAThon that started June 1st and goes to June the 7th.As while as done the challenge's which was:1st challenge read a book that been on your TBR shelf over a year: book for that was
(didn't and couldn't finish it gave it a 1 star won't be finishing it at all), 2nd challenge:an unread book in a series on your TBR shelf :picked out
( unfortunately I forgot that I had already read it but I didn't put it down here on Goodreads until yesterday), 3rd challenge: a first book in a series on your TBR shelf:
( which I'm still reading has 37 stores in it ,so far I've read 7 of them if you look up above this your see a list of stories and the ones I've read are marked,will be reading it until the 7th then I'll add the pages and see how many I read for TBRTAKEDOWN read a thon)'4th challenge:an out of your comfort zone book on your TBR shelf:
(because I never read graphic novels at all, my sister loves them an read them while she was growing up and still does to me, me on the other hand while growing up didn't ever pick them up ,so they're way out of comfort zone as is anime and comic books)5th and last challenge: read a book from your most recent book haul:which was
( I heated it,only 19 pages but still I didn't like it or enjoy it at all,good thing it was free on Bookshout)
So I'm reading Stories in
are1:The Bronze Ring (read)6/2/16 7 pages
2:Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess (read)6/2/15 4 pages
3:East of the Sun and West of the Moon (read)6/2/15 6 pages
4:The Yellow Dwarf ( read) 12 pages 6/2/15( kind of reminded me of Romeo and Juliet)
5:Little Red Riding Hood (read) 2 pages 6/2/15 ( some what different then the one I read while growing up)
6:The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (read) 6 pages 6/2/15
7:Cinderll,or the Glass Slipper (reading right now) 4 pages 6/3/14
8:Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ( read) 6/4/15 7 pages
9:The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was ( read) 5 pages 6/4/15
10:Rumpelstiltzkin ( read)2 pages 6/4/15
11:Beauty and The Beast ( read) 10 pages 6/4/15
12:The Master-Maid (read)8 pages 6/4/15
13:Why The Sea Is Salt ( read)3 pages 6/4/15
14:The Master Cat;,Or, Puss In Boots (read)3 pages 6/4/15
15:Felica and the Pot of Pinks (read) 5 pages 6/4/15
16:The White Cat(read)9 pages 6/4/15
17:The Water-Lily.The Gold -Spinners(read) 5 pages 6/4/15
18:The Terrible Head( read)6 pages 6/4/15
19:The Story Of Pretty Goldilocks(read) 7pages 6/5/15
20:The History Of Whittington (read) 4 pages 6/5/15
21:The Wonderful Sheep(read) 9pages 56/5/15
22:Little Thumb(read) 5 pages 6/6/15
23:The Forty Thieves(read)5 pages 6/6/15
24:Hansel and Gretel (read) 4 pages 6/6/15( here's were I stopped reading for the TBRTAKEDOWN Read A Thon)
25:Snow-White and Rose-Red6/6/15 4 pages
26:The Goose-Girl 6/6/15 4 pages
27:Toads and Diamonds 6/7/15 2pages
28:Prince Darling6/8/15 7 pages
29:Blue Beard 6/9/15 3 pages( kind got in a little reading slump with this book so I stopped reading it right here for a few days/ plus from the 6/11/15-6/13/15 had a really bad migraine.)
30:Trusty John 6/14/15 4 pages( picked it back up on this date)
31:The Brave Little Tailor
32:1.1 Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput
1.2 Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
1.3 Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
1.4 Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
33:The Princess of the Glass Hill
34:The History of Jack The Giant-Killer
35: The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou
36:Th Black Bull of Norroway
37:The Red Etin
I know that I won't be able to read of the stories for the read a thon that I'm reading it for but I can read most of it , and keep reading it though out this month of June, some I've read before but along time ago and some are new to me.So I'll read of them today and some on 6/6/ 15 but I know that I'll be reading it like I said before though this month. plus my there books that I have on my June's TBR.so of this books I've read so far from June 1st to June 6th 24 of the stories had to stop reading it for today it was started to put me in a reading slump.
What are these though, are they buy the same author, I started reading A Game of Thrones, would I like these?
Sarah wrote: "What are these though, are they buy the same author, I started reading A Game of Thrones, would I like these?"The blue fairy book is by Andrew Lang and its part of the 12 books that he wrote each book has 37 different fairy tales from around the world.so if you love to read fairy tales then you might like these.
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So I thought I would do an up date on my TBR Book list: so here it its.Total books read so far in 2015 : 184 out of 185 books.
Link to my Goodreads 2015 Reading Challenge:https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...
Total Nook TBR Book List: 44
Link to my nook TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/noo...
Total Kindle Book TBR List: 165 (this is the one I really need to cut down on)
Link to my kindle TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/kin...
Total Bookshout TBR List: 43
Link to my Bookshout TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/boo...
Total Apple IBooks TBR Book List: 34
Link to my Apple IBooks TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/app...
total To Read Paperback TBR Book List: 67
Link to my To Be Paperback TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/to-...
Total To Read Hardback TBR Book List: 15
Link to my To Read Hardback TBR List on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/to-...
Total Books on My DNF ( Did Not Finish) TBR List: 23
Link to My DNF(Did Not Finish) TBR list on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/my-...
Total Books On My ReReads TBR List: 59 ( can reread these any time)
Link to My Rereads TBR on Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/coror02/my-...
So I'm almost done with
and I have to say that I'm loving it even though it's my first time read a book by Agatha Christie,can't believe it took me this long to pick up a book by her.i'm differently going to pick up more of this series
OMG this was so different then anything I've ever read before. what can I say then this,it has everything you would want in a this type of book: at first all I know going in to it was that it was a book that had to do with Hitler ,and vampires,him winning the war, and then founding out there was so much more,like murder,an unsolved cold case,family secrets and lies,and every time I thought I had something figured out there were more twists and turns, more dark secrets that kept popping up,and I more I read the more I found out ,like how the vampires came to be in the first place.if you want to know more you have to read it for yourself.
So the last 2 days haven't been fun, on 7/15/15 at 1:00am doing a really bad storm the top of our power pole broke off so from 1:am to 5:00pm we was with out power,they had to put up a new power pole,and power lines, to get our power back on then from the rest of 7/15/15 to now 7/17/15 we had no internet because our internet line was broken as well ,so Suddenly Link had to come up and fix that .
August's 2015 TBR Book ListTotal Books:13
Books Reads So Far:
Total Pages
Kindle:
1:
(Challenge:The Dusty Bookshelf/one of 2 books for this challenge-The Challenge Factory-picked by Amy) pages 36 8/4/15 five stars2:
( Dusty Bookshelf Challenge 2 of 2 for that challenge-The Challenge Factory- picked by Amy) pages 294 1 star 3:
( challenge: August 2015 Finish What You Started ( series) challenge- The Challenge Factory- picked by Paris ( Ravenhurst series book 1)pages: 360 five stars 8/6/154:
( challenge: August Finish What You Started ( series) Challenge- The Challenge Factory-picked by Paris ( Ravenhurst series book2) pages 306 8/6/15-8/7/15 five stars 5:
( 2015 August Pick It For Me Challenge ( quite misty mornings - new beginnings) - Romance Reading Challenges - picked by Suzanne pages 352 8/2/15 2 stars6:
( 2015 August Pick It For Me Challenge- Romance Reading Challenge ( beautiful sunset- long book) picked by Suzanne 610 pages 8/2/15 five stars Apple Ibooks
7:
( August 2015 Pick It For Me Challenge- Hooked On Books-picked by Jan)pages:225 8/4/15 four stars 8:
( 2015 August Pick It For Me Challenge( sunny days at the beach- orange cover) Romance Reader Reading Challenge- picked np by Suzanne pages : 225 8/3/15-8/4/15 five stars 9:
( 2015 August Pick It For Me Challenge-Romance Reader Reading Challenge-(storm nights- mostly grey cover) picked by Suzanne pages 227 8/4/15 four stars Nook
10:
( 2015 August Pick It For Me Challenge-Romance Reader Reading Challenge( storm nights- short book) picked by Suzanne pages:44 8/3/15 five starsDNF
11:
( #AYearAThon monthly read a thon: TV or movies adoption)4 and half stars 12:
( TV or Movie adoption)8/5/15-8/6/15 1 star13:
( carry over from July TBR)Feeding the Kindle Addiction . . . with HOT FREEBIES!
Pick me a buddy challenge -picked by Jane
1 star 
522 pages 8/7/15 5 stars 
1 star challenge: August 2015 Finish What You Started ( series) challenge- The Challenge Factory- picked Shantal
( books 1-7)Tv/ movie adoption
five stars
July's 2015 TBR Book ListTotal books : 31
Books read so far: 30 and half
Total pages read for July:8,018
Challenges are list beside the books
MOST IMPORTANT
Kindle TBR:
1:
( challenge : July's Finish What You Started -The Challenge Factory )read 7/1/15-7/2/15 five out of five stars 465 pages2:
( challenge :July's Dusty Bookshelf challenge : one of two books for this challenge= The Challenge Factory) read 7/3/15-7/4/15 five stars out of five stars 271 pages3:
(challenge : July's Pick It For Me-Hooked On Books)read 7-2/15-7/3/15 five stars out of five stars 247 pagesBookshout TBR:
4:
July's Dusty Bookshelf challenge : two of two books for this challenge= The Challenge Factory)read 7/3/15 four stars out of five stars 179 pagesApple IBOOKS TBR:
5:
( AYearAThon- July's 2015 Agatha Christie/Mystery-July 's To Be Read (TBR)7/6/15-7/7/15 five stars rating 249 pagesDNF(Did Not Finish) TBR:
6:
( #AYearAThon : ) #AYearAThon(7/6/15-7/12/15)/Hooked On Books week long read a thon (7/5/15-7/12/15)/Paranormal Addicts &Newbies read a thon(7/6/15-7/11/15) 796 pages out of 1,689 pages Finished The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
Kindle TBR
7:
7/12/15 five stars 384 pagesBookshout TBR:
8:
read 7/4/15 1 star out of five stars 33 pagesDNF(Did Not Finish)TBR
9:
( once again it's on my DNF shelf,won't be picking it anytime soon to finish it) read only 168 pages out of 320 pages 1 star Apple iBooks TBR:
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7/17/15-7/24/15 five stars 284 pages11
7/17/15 five stars 364 pages12:
7/16/15-7/17/15 five stars 235 pages 13:
3 half stars 7/16/15 27 pagesTo Be Read Paperbacks TBR:
14:
7/8/15-7/10/15 five stars15:
7/15/15 four and half stars 372 pages To Be Read Hardback Books TBR:
16
7/15/15-7/16/15 five stars 454 pagesMy Reread TBR:
17:
7/16/15-7/17/15 five stars 506 pages18:
7/14/15 five stars 398 pagesNook TBR:
19:
7/15/15-7/22/15 five starsNetGalley
20
7/7/15-7/8/15 2 stars 447 pages21:
7/8/15-7/10/15 216 page five stars22:
7/13/15-7-14/15 four stars 498 pages+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#TBRTakeDown 2.0 ( 7/25/15-7/31/15)
TBR Challenges
1: 1: First book in a series:
7/27/15/7/28/15 five stars 418 pages2. Sequel Book in a series:
3. Out of your comfort zone (genre, author, reviews, etc):
4. On your shelf over a year (or the longest):
7/25/15 3 stars 285 pages5. Most recently hauled book:
7/27/15 five stars 89 pagesKindle books:
five stars 7/25/15-7/26/15 372
7/25/15 1 star 84 pagesTo be read paperback
five stars 7/26/15-7/27/15 517Apple IBooks
five stars 7/25/15 99 pages
so how was everyone's day yesterday, mine not so great because my Ipad screen got cracked from one corner to another , actually it 2 crakes one is small but there's a big one that goes from the left corner to the right side and the one in the right corner is the small one)so I had to send it off to get it fix,So this is an update to let you know that I'm still going to be doing the challenges with my groups , think goodness I found three of my books on nook for free because the three I'm taking about
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are all Apple IBooks , so now I have copies of them on my nook app:Challenges are:
Romance Readers Reading Challenges:Pick-It-For-Me Challenge ( August 's pick it for me)books are:
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Feeding the Kindle Addiction........with Hot:Pick me a buddy challenge ( August)
Hooked on Books:Pick it for me ( monthly) book is:
,August 2-9 week long read a thonThe Challenge Factory: challenges are :Monthly )Dusty Bookshelf Challenge=
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,2nd challenge is :(Monthly) Finish What You've Started (Series) Challenge=
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Paranormal Addicts & Newbies:( monthly) read a thon August 2-8
#AYearAThon: August ( 3-9)-TV & Movie Adaptation :
and
( so far)and that's so far. think goodness my sister let me put both the kindle and nook app on her new laptop.
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