Team Ruby

[RachelvlehcaR]

Woohoo Michelle! Those " I " have been the most difficult for us but you and Cheryl are knocking them out.

We are at 205 points.

[Michelle]

If we end up with an extra I we can switch my second book to use the V.

Starting A Monstrous Regiment of Women now.

My day off changed this week because I had a big meeting today and another one tomorrow. I should get a couple finished by Thursday.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Week 5: Sonic Silver
My 5th book.

Book: The Towers of Tuscany
Author: Carol M. Cram
Date Read: 21-Apr-2015
Pages: 388
Rating: 4 stars

S - Char: Sofia
N - Char: Niccolo
C - Author: Carol M. Cram
L - Char: Luca
E - Char: Emilia
R - Char: Ruberto

I really liked this book. I grabbed it from kindle unlimited. A really interesting historical fiction book. I'm so thankful for all those women that paved the way for women's rights. To be a female during this time period would be a nightmare, let alone a female born without money or good kind husband.

[Cheryl]

Book: Left to Tell
Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
Pages: 214

S: Character-Sarah
I: Author-Immaculee Ilibagiza
L: Title-Left to Tell
V: Character-Vianney

[RachelvlehcaR]

Spreadsheet updated.

[Allison Ann]

Book - Never Go Back by Robert Goddard - 369 pages - 3 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Dr. Donald Starkie
O - character - Harry "Ossie" Barnett
N - title
C - character - Peter "Crooked" Askew
L - character - Mervyn "Jabber" LLoyd
E - character - Erica Rawson
R - author - Robert Goddard

[RachelvlehcaR]

Updated. Points 235.

[Allison Ann]

Forgot to mark my last book as a grey cover.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Nice Allison Ann, that gives us 265 points. :)

[Michelle]

No reading done today. Man, work has been insane. Hopefully it all dies down after the Apple Watch launch this weekend. Sorry I'm not able to contribute more this week--I should be back to normal next week.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Title: Charmed by Beth Ciotta, 307 pages

S: char - Sofia Marino
C: title
L: char - Luciana "Lulu" Ross
R: char - Luciana "Lulu" Ross

This was a cute romance between the bodyguard and the "princess"

[RachelvlehcaR]

Don't worry about it Michelle. I know those kind of work weeks. Also, you don't want to read too much that it burns you out. I hope you are able to have some rest time. :)

I'm reading The Girl on the Train at this time. I have my DQs due tomorrow.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Spreadsheet updated.

[Allison Ann]

Read the first 61 pages of The Girl on the Train yesterday and just answered the questions for the BotM. I've never done this before, read the prescribed pages on the prescribed days. It's different. If I was enjoying the book more I think I'd find it a hardship to stop, but since it's still quite annoying so far, I'm okay with it. :D

Back to the store today, I'll read a bunch of my short little books again.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Yes, I am annoyed with the book. I don't like Megan much. She is a bored, spoiled housewife that I never going to be satisfied and Rachel is so weak she I annoying.

I am happy my DQ day is over. Now I can plow through the book.

Have fun grabbing new books. I am at work so I don't know how much reading I can get in today. It's my 13 hour day. Is 8:15pm here yet?

[Michelle]

Done with A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King. 434 pages.
S - Char: Sherlock Holmes
O -
N -
I - Char: Iris Fitzwarren
C - Char: Margery Childe
L - Author: Laurie R King
V - Char: Veronica Beaconsfield
E - Char: Eddie
R - Char: Mary Russell

I slotted it in the empty S but since it has both an I and a V we may want to shift it later. Working on another one that has V for sure.

[Allison Ann]

Still having trouble finding the Is and the Os. Guess I'm not queen of the vowels this week. :)

Book - The Disappearance of Mavis Woodstock by Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Neuman - 258 pages - 2 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Sally Stapleton
N - author - Patricia Neuman
C - character - Celeste DuBois
L - character - Billie Ludlow
V - series - A Val and Kit Mystery
E - character - Emily
R - author - Rosalind Burgess

[Cheryl]

I am reading Bless the Beasts and the Children by Glendon Swarthout for my final book of the week. I should finish it tonight, but perhaps tomorrow morning. I will start working on the next week's reading after that and try to get a couple mostly read. I need to get a bit ahead because I am going to be gone to a convention from Tuesday-Friday of our last week of the challenge and so I am not going to be able to contribute much that week unless I really work at it in the next 2 weeks. (I am actually teaching at the convention and so will not have freetime, at all, during the time that I am away.)

Bless the Beasts and the Children will give us either S, C, or L.

[Allison Ann]

Book - Evidence of Trust by Stacey Joy Netzel - 316 pages - 2 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - author - Stacey Joy Netzel
N - author - Stacey Joy Netzel
C - series - Colorado Trust Series
L - character - Britt Lucas
E - title
R - character - Randy Gifford

[Allison Ann]

Book - Freaks of Greenfield High by Maree Anderson - 253 pages - 2 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Jay Smith
N - character - Vanessa "Nessa" Harris
C - character - Caro Davidson
V - character - Vanessa Harris
E - character - Shawn Evans
R - character - Rachel

[RachelvlehcaR]

Updated the Spreadsheets. 345 points.

I should be finishing The Girl on the Train tonight.

Awesome reading Allison Ann! Great work everyone I can't believe we have 2565 points. Amazing! We are rocking this!

[Michelle]

Finished another one, but it's non-fiction so we can only use it for 2 letters.
by Stephen Key
S - Author: Stephen Key
O - Title: One Simple Idea

I am working on A Serpent's Tooth and will finish before the deadline. I may not be able to get one more after that this week, but I'll try.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Week 5: Sonic Silver
My 7th book.

Book: The Girl on the Train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Date Read: 23-Apr-2015
Pages: 336
Rating: 2 stars

S - Char: Scott
C - Char: Cathy
R - Char: Rachel Watson

Sorry not many letters in this one. Good thing is the letters in it are letters we need.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Spreadsheet updated - 365 points.

[Cheryl]

Final for the week (one that was really impactful upon me as a teenager and so I wanted to re-read):

Book: Bless the Beasts and the Children
Author: Glendon Swarthout
Pages: 192

S: author- Glendon Swarthout
C: character- John Cotton
L: character- Stephen Lally

[Michelle]

Great job, everyone! Updated the sheet for us.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Title: Jinxed by Beth Ciotta, 309 pages

S: char - Afia St. John
C: author
L: char - Jake Leeds
V: char - Vincent Falcone
R: char - Rudy Gallow

Cute romance re-read.

[Allison Ann]

As dog is my witness if I read one more book with a woman who is suicidal because some man broke up with her/cheated on her, I am going to lose it and stop reading. And the sneaky bastards never mention it on the book jacket. Every single genre I have tried lately - mystery, legal, cozy, thriller, medical, historical romance, contemporary romance, chick lit, dick lit, you name it.... woman who can't cope with life. It's so depressing I want to cry or possibly punch something.

[Michelle]

Oh that sucks! I hate it when I get a string of bad plots.

Working late tonight. Plan to finish my last book before work tomorrow.

[Allison Ann]

I'm working on finishing up an O book tonight, but for now.

Book - Hold Tight by Harlan Coben - 416 pages - 3 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Susan Loriman
N - character - Nash
I - character - Ilene Goldfarb
C - author - Harlan Coben
L - character - Susan Loriman
R - character - Ron Hill


Book - Murder at the Art & Craft Fair by Steve Demaree - 213 pages - 3 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - author - Steve Demaree
O - character - Bill O'Connell
N - character - Nick Nickels
I - character - George Ingram
C - character - Cy Dekker
L - character - Lou Murdock
V - character - Vernon Pitts
E - character - Myrtle Evans
R - character - Cara "Rusty" Parsons

[Allison Ann]

NEON CARROT for next week. Time to bust out those R titles I need for another challenge. Do you think either of these is orange enough to count?

They're definitely not neon. :D

[RachelvlehcaR]

Allison Ann wrote: "As dog is my witness if I read one more book with a woman who is suicidal because some man broke up with her/cheated on her, I am going to lose it and stop reading. And the sneaky bastards never m..."

Ah, you are talking The Girl on the Train. I have that a 2 star.

I suggest the genre of horror or Sci-fi. No suicidal weak girls there.

[Allison Ann]

So The Girl on the Train didn't get any better? I was hoping at least for some reasonable resolution to the mystery.

I'm reading a fantasy/sci-fi (spaceships and wizards) and the MC has gone from an ass-kicking witch to mooning around having fantasies about her mentor. Yuck!

I've also got a cozy with the woman who is literally suicidal because her boyfriend broke up with her after a miscarriage - a year ago. Another woman utterly convinced her son didn't kill himself and completely incapable of dealing with her husband or the not-dead children. Guess what, he did kill himself, thanks for the waste of a character there. There's more but it's just so boring.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

@Allison Ann - sorry you've had a run of bad books. Hopefully the next one will be awesome!

[Allison Ann]

Thanks, it's frustrating. The only 4 and 5 star books I've read lately have been re-reads because I NEEDED something I would unreservedly enjoy. I am starting an Elmore Leonard tonight that I have hopes for though. :) Fingers crossed.

[RachelvlehcaR]

I tend to stay away from the Cozy/Chick lit books. They are a genre I do a major battle with and I just end up wanting to punt kick the books across the room.

I read such a variety of books I'm able to switch them about. I don't like weak needy women in my books. They tick me off and I just don't want to waste my time with it.

I'm not a big fan on Girl on the Train. I'll wait until you finish it. I know lots of people in the group read like it a lot. I just hate the main characters and find them very flat, but that's just me. I thought it was an "okay" book but not a book a like. Just, "Meh".

This is what I've been told. We need to have those 1, and 2 star rating books to really appreciate those 4 and 5 star books. Good advice from a fellow Buddy Reader of mine.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Allison Ann wrote: "NEON CARROT for next week. Time to bust out those R titles I need for another challenge. Do you think either of these is orange enough to count?"

Sorry they aren't orange enough.

I do have a orange cover book only with 164 pages. I can whip through it fast too. by Jules Verne

[RachelvlehcaR]

BTW, Fire Opals are doing awesome. They are just 20 points behind us! Amazing climb for them!

I will have four books finished by tomorrow night.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Updated the spreadsheets. We are at 405 points. Once I finish my book we will have three spell outs of Sonic Silver finished. Yay! great job everyone!

[RachelvlehcaR]

Allison Ann, is it possible for you to put the edition of "The Edge" with the pages in your bookshelf. You listed it as 328 pages.

Thank you!

[RachelvlehcaR]

I've checked all the bookshelves we look great so far. :)

[Allison Ann]

RachelvlehcaR wrote: "Allison Ann, is it possible for you to put the edition of "The Edge" with the pages in your bookshelf. You listed it as 328 pages.

Thank you!"

Sorry, apparently they don't have my version with page numbers on the site. I didn't notice. So I switched to one that was close enough, it's under 500 so we get the same points.

I should have my last three books finished by the deadline tonight.

[Wishbear]

Hero by Perry Moore 428 pages

S - char. Scarlett
C = char. Thom Creed
L - char. Typhoid Larry
V - char. Captain Victory
R - char. Ruth


Dead Lawyers Tell No Tales by Randy Singer 431 pages
S - Author
C - char. Parker Clausen
L - CHAR. Landon Reed
E - char. Elias King
R - author

[Michelle]

Finished A Serpent's Tooth and trying to knock one more out before work. I need to leave by 3pm because I'm covering a late shift tonight for someone.

Thanks for checking all if the shelves, Rachel! You have been amazing for the team.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Thanks Michelle. You are doing great too. Thanks for adding all the books you can.

I may have to depend upon your more starting next Friday. I have major schedule changes at work.

Have a good work day Michelle.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Allison Ann wrote: "R\Sorry, apparently they don't have my version with page numbers on the site. I didn't notice. So I switched to one that was close enough, it's under 500 so we get the same points.

I should have my last three books finished by the deadline tonight.
"

I totally understand. I have the same problem. Thanks for doing it.

Have fun reading. I hope they are better books for you. I saw all those 1 and 2 stars in your bookshelf. I was like wow. That's a lot of 1 and 2 stars. That happened to me in January.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Mollie wrote: "Hero by Perry Moore 428 pages

S - char. Scarlett
C = char. Thom Creed
L - char. Typhoid Larry
V - char. Captain Victory
R - char. Ruth


[book..."

Yay Mollie!

[RachelvlehcaR]

Two more hours left. I'm still reading! Getting those last books in. :)

[Allison Ann]

Managed to get four done after all.

Book - Old World Murder by Kathleen Ernst - 325 pages - 2 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Stanley Colontuono
O - title
N - character - Nika Austin
I - character - Ingrid Chloe Ellefson
C - series - Chloe Ellefson Mystery
L - character - Berget Lundquist
E - author - Kathleen Ernst
R - character - Roelke McKenna

[Allison Ann]

Book - Loving Eliza by Ruth Ann Nordin - 236 pages - 3 stars

Colour - SONIC SILVER

S - character - Eliza Sweet
O - character - Daphne O'Conner
N - author - Ruth Ann Nordin
C - character - Charity Grooms
L - title
E - character - Eliza Sweet
R - author - Ruth Ann Nordin