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[Eldarwen]

LaurLa wrote: "So it's all Sammy's fault?"

Laura wrote: "Seems like a logical conclusion to me!"

Of course it is ;-))

[Eldarwen]

Kayt wrote: "Finished.

Posting from my phone, so I can’t get the link to work.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3/2/23
3.5 of 5 The ending just made me feel like nothing…. "


Thank you!!
I keep getting weird looks when I say that. And all the rest I think of the book haha.

[Eldarwen]

Completion Post


Book: Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus
Date Read: 4th March 2023
Rating: 4 stars (always enjoy her books)

Cards:
0 - stand-alone
2 - character: Noah "Tripp" Talbot
3 - character: Charlotte Holbrook
6 - character: Shane Delgado
8 - character: Ellie Gallagher
9 - title
Skip - author

[Sammy]

Yeah, I have several problems with The Midnight Library. Aside from the fact I thought it was such a downer, I found it supremely irritating that the paths she could have chosen ended up with her at the very top of whatever field it was she'd chosen to pursue. Stretches my disbelief a little too far...

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "And can I just 'Grrrrr' at GR messing with notifications again?"

Just check the threads without notifications *shrug* ;-)"

I would, but I am following a LOT of threads, lol. I'd rather just visit them when a notification appears, or I'll be at it all day!

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "So it's all Sammy's fault?"

Laura wrote: "Seems like a logical conclusion to me!"

Of course it is ;-))"

[Eldarwen]

hehehe :-)

[Sammy]

Completion:

Bookcover:
Book: Killers of a Certain Age
Date Read: 4/3/23
Pages: 353
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:

RED

0 - stand alone
3- C: Helen
9 - C: Natalie
SKIP - title

[Sammy]

was rather a lot of fun by the way! Just in case anyone fancies it for a reverse ;)

[Eldarwen]

Good to know, Sammy! :-)

[Eldarwen]

I started my latest book club read today, about a character who mindfully murders haha. His wife sends him to a mindfulness coach so he can sort out his work-life balance and reduce stress at work. He applies it rather usefully to his very first (and the subsequent) murders - he is actually a lawyer hehe.


Eta:
No English translation (so far).

[Kayt]

Eldarwen wrote: "Kayt wrote: "Finished.

Posting from my phone, so I can’t get the link to work.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3/2/23
3.5 of 5 The ending just made me feel like nothing…. "


Thank you!!
I ke..."

I wanted to like the book so much.. and there were parts that I liked. But my imagination went so many other places, that I hoped the book would have gone.

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Moon Called
Date Read: 3/4
Rating: 4 stars
Cards it fits:
0 - Character Zee Adelbertsmiter
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Mercy Thompson
3 - Character Adam Hauptman
4 - Character Alan MacKenzie Frazier
6 - Character Samuel Cornick
7, 8 - Character Elizaveta Arkadevna Vyshnevetskaya
Skip - Author Patricia Briggs
Reverse - Read by nearly all of us

[Laura]

Moon Called was soooo close to working for everything. Just the 5 & 9.

[Eldarwen]

Haha nice!

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "I started my latest book club read today, about a character who mindfully murders haha. His wife sends him to a mindfulness coach so he can sort out his work-life balance and reduce stress at work...."

Sounds like fun! If I decide I feel like dusting off my German one of these days, I may give it a go :)

[Eldarwen]

It's good fun so far. I laughed quite a few times already :-) And it's speedy reading - which is nice for me, as I'm already behind on my yearly goal haha.

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa


Book🔹Rock Solid
Read🔹03.04 ★★★
Possible Cards
0 - standalone
2 - char Trish Morgan
3 - author Samantha Hunter
4 - set in Florida
6 - author Samantha Hunter
9 - char Jackie Nelson
Skip - char Brody Palmer

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa


Book🔹Drive Me Crazy
Read🔹03.04 ★★★
Possible Cards
0 - char Zoe Ambrose
1 - #1 Holland Springs
3 - series Holland Springs
6 - char Melanie Ann Smith
7 - author Marquita Valentine
Skip - char Kyle Phelps

[Sammy]

Completion:

Bookcover:
Book: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Date Read: 5/3/23
Pages: 368
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:

BLUE (didn't claim it as a blue card, only picked this up a few days ago, but it's there if it's needed)

0 - Stand alone
5 - title
SKIP - A: Jon Krakauer

[Eldarwen]

Always good to have back-ups :-)
For now, it makes a lovely 5 hehe.

[Sammy]

Finally!

Completion:

Bookcover:
Book: The Giver of Stars
Date Read: 6/3/23
Pages: 448
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:

0 - Stand alone
1 - C: Margery O'Hare
2 - title
3 - C: Jim Homer
4 - C: Fred
5 - C: Izzy Brady
6 - C: Sven Gustavsson
7 - C: Virginia O'Hare/Gustavsson
9 - C: Nancy
SKIP - C: Kathleen Bligh


Technically there is an 'E' character too, but he only appears once very briefly, and it doesn't feel right to include him, even if having only the 8 missing off the list makes me itchy-scratchy, lol.

[Eldarwen]

Hehe, ah well, look at it like this: it's missing reverse, too ;-)

[Sammy]

There is that, but then I have virtually nothing on my tbr that works for reverse, so I'm subconsciously ignoring that one completely, lol.

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹Danger Zone
Read🔹03.05 ★★★★
Possible Cards
1 - char Detective O'Kelley
2 - #2 Adrenaline Highs
3 - char Hank Gullus
4 - char Bill "Fido" Fidelo
8 - char Ellie Morgan

[Eldarwen]

Sammy wrote: "There is that, but then I have virtually nothing on my tbr that works for reverse, so I'm subconsciously ignoring that one completely, lol."

So I was curious and went through your TBR hahaha.

I've read The M&M Boys many moons ago.

Oh, and I know that at least Laura has read The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

[Eldarwen]

Not that we won't get the reverses together one way or another :-)

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "There is that, but then I have virtually nothing on my tbr that works for reverse, so I'm subconsciously ignoring that one completely, lol."

So I was curious and went through your TB..."

ah, I don't actually use the GR 'want to read' as my tbr, lol. It's mostly something I use to add things I've been recommended and then I'll glance through before going book shopping. Once I've bought something, it becomes TBR ;)

Most of what I'll be reading will come from here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Sammy]

I am planning to read in the next few days though, and that one has to have been read by someone! :)

[Eldarwen]

Sammy wrote: "I am planning to read in the next few days though, and that one has to have been read by someone! :)"

Yes, it has been, but I can't remember who... we talked about it though.

I'll maybe read it as a Reverse in April because I finally need to get rid of that one on my TBR, it's been on there for far too long!

[Kayt]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "I am planning to read in the next few days though, and that one has to have been read by someone! :)"

Yes, it has been, but I can't remember who...."

It was me, I have read Big Little Lies :)

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "I am planning to read in the next few days though, and that one has to have been read by someone! :)"

Yes, it has been, but I can't remember who...."

It'll be a good way to inch up a little further in the TBR closet challenge ;)

[Laura]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "There is that, but then I have virtually nothing on my tbr that works for reverse, so I'm subconsciously ignoring that one completely, lol."

So I was curious and went through your TB..."

The Boys in the Boat was so strangely satisfying. It was an unexpectedly good read!

[Eldarwen]

Sammy wrote: "It'll be a good way to inch up a little further in the TBR closet challenge ;)"

Definitely haha.

[Laura]

Sammy wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "There is that, but then I have virtually nothing on my tbr that works for reverse, so I'm subconsciously ignoring that one completely, lol."

So I was curious and wen..."

I got nothing off your list. Although you have Aurora Teagarden #3, and that's the one I'm on, too. And I was going to continue in the Jane Yellowrock series. So while you may not have books on your list that work for you to read as Reverses, you have books that allow me to read for Reverses. :)

ETA: Obviously not the Aurora Teagarden one, but Jane Yellowrock works.

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Blood Bound
Date Read: 3/6
Rating: 4 stars
Cards it fits:
0 - Character Zee Adelbertsmiter
2 - Character Mercy Thompson
3 - Character Adam Hauptman
6 - Character Stefan
9 - Character Naomi
Skip - Author Patricia Briggs
Reverse - Read by Eldarwen

[Sammy]

Laura wrote: "I got nothing off your list. Although you have Aurora Teagarden #3, and that's the one I'm on, too. And I was going to continue in the Jane Yellowrock series. So while you may not have books on your list that work for you to read as Reverses, you have books that allow me to read for Reverses. :)

ETA: Obviously not the Aurora Teagarden one, but Jane Yellowrock works."

Awesome! It's always awkward with these kind of challenges when I tend to read so much stuff no-one has even heard of, lol!

I'll probably end up reading more Jane this month. I have rather a few of them floating around now :)

[Audrey Jane]

Completion Post


Book: Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
Date Read: 6th of March
Pages: 372
Rating: ★★★★

Cards:

📘 1 Blue - October Daye (ch)
2 - Tybalt (ch)
4 - book 4 in the series
6 - Seanan McGuire (author)

[Audrey Jane]

Sammy wrote: "Sounds like fun! If I decide I feel like dusting off my German one of these days, I may give it a go :)"

With your Dutch knowledge you will probably already understand 50% of the book ;)

[Audrey Jane]

Eldarwen wrote: "I started my latest book club read today, about a character who mindfully murders haha. His wife sends him to a mindfulness coach so he can sort out his work-life balance and reduce stress at work...."

Of course he's a lawyer !
Having worked for a law firm until very recently I'm convinced that they studied law just in order to know all the loopholes :D

[Sammy]

Audrey Jane wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Sounds like fun! If I decide I feel like dusting off my German one of these days, I may give it a go :)"

With your Dutch knowledge you will probably already understand 50% of the boo..."

I used to speak German reasonably fluently... I didn't do well at it for some reason when we lived in The Netherlands, but after we moved back to Scotland, I suddenly shot way ahead. I got my German qualifications 2 years early, and the teacher (who was half German, half Polish) set me up extra classes the year after that, which was basically just us chatting, me reading books and writing essays. All in German. (to date, I still think of Momo as one of my childhood favourites!)

Unfortunately, I've not spoken more than a few words of it since leaving school *cough27cough* years ago, so I've forgotten most of it, sadly. But yes, there are many words that are decipherable when you also speak Dutch, so if I was really determined, I'm sure I'd manage. :D

[Sammy]

Completion:

Book:
Book: The Key to Rebecca
Date Read: 6/3/23
Pages: 352
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:

0 - Stand alone
2 - title
4 - A: Ken Follett
6 - C: Sonja
7 - C: William Vandam
8 - C: Elene Fontana
SKIP - title

[Eldarwen]

Audrey Jane wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "I started my latest book club read today, about a character who mindfully murders haha. His wife sends him to a mindfulness coach so he can sort out his work-life balance and reduc..."

Exactly!!
That was my thought, too, and it makes the book even more hilarious in some places, knowing how lawyer brains function hehe. (I used to work in a law firm until last year as well.)

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹Can't Text This
Read🔹03.06 ★★★★
Possible Cards
0 - char Zach Hastings
2 - author Teagan Hunter
3 - #3 Texting

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹Three Little Words
Read🔹03.06 ★★★★
Possible Cards
1 - #1 Three Little Words
2 - title
3 - author Lauren Hawkeye
Skip - char Pax

[Sammy]

Completion:

Book:
Book: The Hand of Oberon
Date Read: 7/3/23
Pages: 188
Rating: 3 stars

Cards:

0 - A: Roger Zelazny
2 - Title
3 - Title
4 - #4 in series

[Eldarwen]

Keep those books coming :-)
We're doing well for the first week of March!

[Sammy]

I'll be having a few non-reading days around the middle of the month, as we're driving up to Scotland and back to take stuff for daughter's wedding to get it out of the way :)

So I'm getting an extra couple in now while I can ;)

[Sammy]

Completion:

Book:
Book: The Courts of Chaos
Date Read: 7/3/23
Pages: 189
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:

0 - A: Roger Zelazny
1 - King Oberon of Amber
2 - Title
4 - C: Fiona of Amber
5 - #5 in series

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: F*ckboy Psychos
Date Read: 3/6
Rating: 4 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Emma Jean Thompson
3 - Character Lucy Hall
4, 6 - Character Scarlett Force
8 - Character Emma Jean Thompson
9 - Character Nisha Webber
Skip - Character Kellin Bohnes