POTS Session 2 - Team 1

[Bea]

Dee - 3 books from Dee's shelf

Tien - 3 books from own to read

Charity - 2 books from Charity's POTS

Lauren - 2 books from 2015 SRC

Bea - 2 books from PAS challenges

Lahni - 1 book from challenge maybes

[Charity]

Thanks Bea! :-)

Here are my recommendations:

Dee:
The Proposal
The Breakup Doctor
Stealing Home
By Design

Tien:
The Hypnotist's Love Story
Scarlet
Leviathan
The Secret History

Bea:
Eleanor & Park
The Hobbit
Anna Karenina

Lahni:
The Lovely Bones
The Night Circus

Lauren:
Fires of Winter
The Wedding Bargain
The Prince Who Loved Me

[Bea]

My picks for y'all

Dee:

Tien:

Charity:

Lauren:

Lahni:

[Dee]

whoo-hoo! i just got home from the pool and have a long bike ride scheduled for tomorrow am, so i'll do it as soon as i get home then - hopefully by noon-ish but no later than tomorrow night

[Lahni]

Dee:
Far Gone
Nothing To Lose
Aidan
Circle of Influence

I wasn't familiar with any of the books on your list so I chose books with titles I liked!

Tien:
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Matched
The Girl on the Train
World Without End

I've read all but The Girl on the train and I want to read that one!! I included World without end because I want to encourage you to keep plugging away at it!!

Charity:
The Kite Runner
The Thirteenth Tale
Jane Eyre

These are some of my favorite books!!

Lauren:
Grave Sight
Unspeakable
The Curse of the Pharaohs

The first 2 are books from authors I've enjoyed. The last one just caught my eye.

Bea:
East of Eden
Never Let Me Go
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

These are all books I really liked!

[Lahni]

Thanks for getting this set up Bea!!

[Lauren]

Thanks for the great picks so far. I'll post my choices for you now.

[Lauren]

Dee:

I haven't read any on your list but these look good:


Tien:

Three great books that I really enjoyed:


Charity:

All books I enjoyed:


Bea:

I enjoyed these as well:


Lahni:

Although I haven't read these, they are ones have heard of:

[Tien]

Lahni wrote: "I've read all but The Girl on the train and I want to read that one!! I included World without end because I want to encourage you to keep plugging away at it!! "

hahaha, I will finish it, one day, Lahni... I will :)

[Tien]

Thanks for setting this up, Bea!

[Tien]

Dee:
Vodka Doesn't Freeze -loved this book! set in Sydney & surrounding suburbs, most of which I'm familiar with :)
The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken
Empire of Shadows
Ripper

Charity:
Coraline
Naked in Death
Interview with the Vampire

Lauren:
The Silkworm
Forbidden Magic
If Books Could Kill

Bea:
Outlander -I still remember reading this in highschool (yes, high school, the title was still 'Cross Stitch' which I much preferred, btw) and loved it! I adore time travel fiction so I'd read anything I could get my hands on back then ;)
The Girl in the Steel Corset
Sarah's Key

Lahni:
Son
Time Will Tell

[Tien]

@Lauren: the rule is to pick the number of books they've nominated plus one.

For example, for me (I've asked for 3), you'll have to pick 4 books whilst Lahni asked for 1, so you'll have to pick 2 books.

Hope that makes sense...

[Lauren]

Oops. Sorry. I'll pick more :0)

[Bea]

Aw, y'all are welcome. For such a reluctant player, I am now eager to start.

Actually, although I looking forward to Dee's selections, y'all have managed to pick two books that I just got out of the library the other day: Eleanor & Park and Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet. Both are for Pursuit (duplicate slices - no credit), so I am very tempted to make them my POTS reads.

Anyway, Dee will have her selections up today, and then we can start!

[Dee]

sorry guys! between my 3.5 hour bike ride yetserday and my 10 miler road race today i'm dead!

anyways here you go:

Tien
Hunted
The Girl with All the Gifts
Blameless
Fever

Charity
On the Edge
The Blade Itself #1
Night Road

Lauren
Murder on Astor Place
Archangel's Consort
Unspeakable

Bea
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
On the Edge
The Accidental Time Machine

Lahni
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[Bea]

Thanks, Dee. Wow! Are you doing another triathalon this year?

[Dee]

yeah a couple - first one is in 3 weeks and i'm soo not ready for it...

[Bea]

All of our team has picked so we can start reading anytime. I will start with Eleanor & Park.

[Charity]

I am going to start with Small Favor. I will probably follow-up with Jane Eyre since both of these help out my Reader's Pursuit challenge.

[Dee]

i'm probably going to start with Bea's recommendation of Temptation in a Kilt because I have that slotted into another challenge already; as well as Charity's picks of The Proposal and Stealing Home that I also have slotted into challenges - hopefully will fit in another 1 or 2

[Dee]

so i read Stealing Home over the weekend - it was a cute romance

currently reading Temptation in a Kilt (Bea) and By Design (Lauren/Charity)

[Bea]

I should finish my first book in a couple of days, so I am already planning to start Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet as my second book.

[Lauren]

I finished the other day and was disappointed. It contains every PNR trope known to man and they aren't presented particularly well at that. I later learned that the author also wrote another series (under another name) that I wasn't a fan of. I don't think I'll be reading any more of her books.

[Bea]

I have finished both my books: Eleanor & Park and Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet.

I gave Eleanor & Park 3*. It is a lovely story of teen love, but I think I am too old to identify with that age.

I gave Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet 4*. I read most of this book in one day. Love the sexy Son of Satan; and I identify some with Charley. Fun read.

[Lauren]

I've finished two more books (doing better this round).

- 4 stars. I've become hooked on Charlaine Harris's cozy mysteries. I really like the way she draws her characters.

- 2 stars. Underdeveloped plot, mediocre romance and stereotypical depictions of magic. Not reading any more in the series.

[Bea]

Looks like Lauren and I have met our POTs goals. How are the rest of you doing?

[Tien]

Gah! I'm so behind with my review books, I'm not sure when I'll get to this :(

April was slooooow reading month for me (Easter followed by 2 weeks school holidays made it too busy for me to read). I'm hoping for a better May.

Well done, Lauren & Bea, for reading your POTS nice and early!

[Dee]

I finished up By Design - disappointed because the heroine was such a doormat - i spent the whole book mentally screaming at her

also finished Temptation in a Kilt - enjoyed this one more than the first book I read by the author - i'm split on continuing or not - so i'll probably read one more to decide

[Bea]

Dee wrote: "also finished Temptation in a Kilt"

That title sounded soooo good - and I don't generally like Romance. Or maybe it was the cover that I liked. {evil smile)

BTW, Dee, that makes your three books. Congrats!

[Dee]

i've got 2 more i'm going to try and read that fit for SRC - so those are next - Quid Pro Quo (the sci-fi task) and Nothing To Lose (the fifty pointer)

[Lahni]

Ugh I got bogged down with an audiobook that I wanted to finish because it's been a goal of mine go years but took a sheer act of will each time I listened. I FINALLY finished it. I have a couple of other audibooks I've been on the holds list for that I have to finish before they are due back in the next few days. The good news and the bad news is we finally are under contract for selling our house and will hopefully be putting an offer on the one we like tomorrow. This means this month I get to pack up and move. My husband is living and working out of town until the end of the month and only a couple of my 7 kids are old enough to really be helpful. Oh and I'll be gone for 5 days to go see my oldest graduate from his arts high school in MI. So while I'll have lots of time to listen to audiobooks while I pack, I don't think I'll have much time for any actual reading. I'll take one to MI though so I should be able to meet my goal. I just have to see which from my choices is available.

[Charity]

I finished Small Favor. I really enjoyed it and look forward to some day reading more in that series (I read the 1st one and chose this as part of Reader's Pursuit). Thanks Lauren for the pick! On to Jane Eyre I hope I get this done by the end of May!

[Lahni]

I'm going to listen to A Great and Terrible Beauty because it fits the Gothic shelf too.

[Tien]

so, I was being totally ambitious wanting to read 3!

I have, however, just finished on (Blameless). So far, I've really loved book 1, book 2 ended in a sort of *gasp, I can't believe that just happened* and this book is #3... was really looking forward to the resolution of the ending of book 2 but a little bit disappointed -I think because it took til the end to book 3 so all the tension that was built kinda died down and it felt anticlimactic so it was just 'meh' :|

sorry, Dee! I do have book 4 so I will continue it one day but not in a rush...

and... I am trying to pick up the second book for POTS (been carrying it around today but haven't had a chance to crack it open yet)

[Lahni]

I did end up finishing A Great and Terrible Beauty. I really liked it. I had hoped to maybe squeeze in one more but with the move coming up in a week I don't think its going to happen.