'Gem of a book' Challenge

[Cherie]

Update:


A
P - Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker = 6/21/12
R - Rules Of Prey by John Sandford = 8/12/12
I - Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs = 5/31/12
L - The List/Siobhan Vivian = 5/27/12

D - Defending Jacob/William Landay = 5/12/12
I - I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb = 7/8/12
A
M - Moon Called/Patricia Briggs = 5/28/12
O - One For The Money/Janet Evanovich = 5/17/12
N - The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases by Gary Small = 6/24/12
D -

.........

[Cherie]

Update:


J
U - Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi = 8/8/12
N - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith = 8/7/12
E - The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale = 8/6/12

P
E - Eilis O'Neal / The False Princess = 8/14/12
A
R
L - Lene Kaaberbøl / The Boy in the Suitcase = 7/16/12
. .

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Duration:7/1/12-6/30/14
4/162

July
3/4
Janet Evanovich Wicked Appetite 7/8
Unbecoming of Mara Dyer The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer 8/15
Lucas Awake at Dawn 7/18
Y


Ruby
1/4
Rachel Vincent Pride 7/18
U
B
Y

[Paris]

Is there a page number minimum for the books we use for this challenge? For example are novellas okay to use? I looked through the posts to find an answer, but I didn't see anything.

Thanks!

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Sorry I took so long. Yes, Novellas are ok for this one.

I guess it doesn't state in the rules specifically, but I used them. It doesn't state no, and it is such a long challenge.

[Adele]

Gem of a book challenge
July 23 2012 - July 22 2014

January 4/7
Julia Romp, A Friend Like Ben, 6 Aug 12
A
Nettie Parker's Backyard by C V Smith, 14 Aug 12, 4 stars
Ulysses by James Joyce, 19 Aug 2012
A
Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness, 16 Aug 12, 5 stars
Y

Garnet 1/6

G
A
R
N
E
The girl who played with fire by stieg Larsson 3 Aug 2012


February 1/8
F
E
Bentley Cheryl, Petronella and the Trogot, 08 Aug 2012
R
U
A
R
Y

Amethyst 1/8
A
M
E
T
H
Y
Silent are the dead, George Harmon Coxe, 20 aug 2012
T


March
Bloodstone

April
Diamond

May
Emerald

June
Pearl

July
Ruby

August
Peridot

September
Sapphire

October
Tourmaline

November
Topaz

December
Tanzanite

[Jenne]

Update: 29/163 read!

[Rabaab]

I am in

[Angie H]

updating

Gem of a book

Gem of a Book Challenge (TLC)
Duration: Aug 1 2012-July 31 2014
9/154 books completed

You pick one to spell out with titles,character names (first or last), author names (first or last),or series name or you can do both the month name and birthstone.And for bonus read is read a book with the some cover or close to it as the birthstone

January
Birthstone:Garnet
4/13

J
A-Anne of Green Gables Aug 7
N
U-.Until We Reach Home Sept 2
A
R
Y-The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling Aug 13

G
A
R
N
E--Elin Hilderbrand/Barefoot Aug 9
T

February
Birthstone: Amethyst
3/16

F
E-Evening Class Aug 18
B
R
U
A
R
Y

A
M-Mary Beth Chapman.Choosing to SEE Aug 27
E-Eason, Lynette-Too Close to Home Aug 25
T
H
Y
S
T



March
Birthstone: Aquamarine
1/15

M
A
R
C
H

A
Q
U
A
M
A
R
I-.Insurgent Aug 24
N
E

April
Birthstone: Diamond
0/12

May
Birthstone: Emerald
0/10

June
Birthstone: Pearl
0/9

July
Birthstone: Ruby
0/8

August
Birthstone: Peridot
0/13

September
Birthstone: Sapphire
0/17

October
Birthstone: Opal
0/11

November
Birthstone: Topaz
1/13

N
O
V
E
M
B
E
R

T
O
P
A
Z-Zora Hurston-Their Eyes Were Watching God Sept 1


December
Birthstone: Tanzanite
0/17

[Chaitra]

GEM OF A BOOK

Duration: Jul 01, 2012 - Dec 31, 2013
Completed: 170/170

SPELL
158/158

PART 1

January: Garnet
13/13

✔ J - Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★★★ (07/31)
✔ A - Animal's People: A Novel | Indra Sinha ★★★ (07/11)
✔ N - The Newlyweds | Nell Freudenberger ★ (07/08)
✔ U - The Undertow | Jo Baker ★★ (07/22)
✔ A - A Patchwork Planet | Anne Tyler ★★★★★ (07/23)
✔ R - Canada | Richard Ford ★★★ (07/10)
✔ Y - Snow Country | Yasunari Kawabata ★★★ (07/06)

✔ G - Gifted | Nikita Lalwani ★ (07/23)
✔ A - Hope: A Tragedy | Shalom Auslander ★★★★ (07/24)
✔ R - Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie ★★★★★ (07/15)
✔ N - Nothing Right | Antonya Nelson ★★★★★ (08/01)
✔ E - A Cupboard Full of Coats | Yvvette Edwards ★★★ (07/01)
✔ T - The Great Indian Novel | Shashi Tharoor ★★★★ (07/24)

February: Amethyst
16/16

✔ F - Skios: A Novel | Michael Frayn ★★★★ (09/01)
✔ E - East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ★★ (07/18)
✔ B - A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine ★★★ (09/14)
✔ R - The Folded Earth: A Novel | Anuradha Roy ★★ (07/30)
✔ U - Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth ★★★★ (08/11)
✔ A - Dancing Girls | Margaret Atwood ★★★ (07/30)
✔ R - The Red House: A Novel | Mark Haddon ★★★★ (08/14)
✔ Y - You've Got Murder | Donna Andrews ★★ (08/21)

✔ A - The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga ★ (07/31)
✔ M - The Death of Vishnu | Manil Suri ★★★★★ (07/30)
✔ E - English, August: An Indian Story | Upamanyu Chatterjee ★★★★ (07/22)
✔ T - Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh ★★★★★ (07/31)
✔ H - House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski ★★★ (07/12)
✔ Y - Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima ★★ (10/19)
✔ S - Scat | Carl Hiaasen ★★★ (07/14)
✔ T - Tomorrow | Graham Swift ★ (08/29)

March: Aquamarine
15/15

✔ M - The Hunger Angel: A Novel | Herta Müller ★★★ (08/01)
✔ A - Alif the Unseen | G. Willow Wilson ★★★★★ (08/09)
✔ R - The Kissing List | Stephanie Reents ★★★★ (08/20)
✔ C - The Chaperone | Laura Moriarty ★★★★★ (07/08)
✔ H - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | Kiran Desai ★★★★★ (07/30)

✔ A - The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker ★★★★★ (08/15)
✔ Q - The Quality of Mercy: A Novel | Barry Unsworth ★★ (08/22)
✔ U - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Rachel Joyce ★★★★★ (8/31)
✔ A - Carry the One | Carol Anshaw ★★ (08/17)
✔ M - Home | Toni Morrison ★★★ (08/07)
✔ A - The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie ★★★★ (08/29)
✔ R - The Lifeboat | Charlotte Rogan ★★★ (08/21)
✔ I - In One Person | John Irving ★★★ (08/22)
✔ N - On the Beach | Nevil Shute ★ (07/31)
✔ E - Equal Rites | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (08/08)

April: Diamond
12/12

✔ A - Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie ★★★★★ (08/29)
✔ P - This Bright River | Patrick Somerville ★ (09/13)
✔ R - Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys ★★★ (08/23)
✔ I - Saturday | Ian McEwan ★ (08/24)
✔ L - A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel | Wiley Cash ★★★★ (07/22)

✔ D - The Dream of the Celt: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa ★ (08/19)
✔ I - The Inquisitor: A Novel | Mark Allen Smith ★★ (09/11)
✔ A - Arcadia | Lauren Groff ★★★ (09/05)
✔ M - Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel ★★★★★ (08/07)
✔ O - Our Lady of Alice Bhatti | Mohammed Hanif ★★★★ (07/07)
✔ N - Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (09/07)
✔ D - The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau ★★★ (08/28)

May: Emerald
10/10

✔ M - The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry ★★★ (08/08)
✔ A - Absolution | Patrick Flanery ★★ (09/13)
✔ Y - The Yips | Nicola Barker ★★★ (11/10)

✔ E - Wild Decembers | Edna O'Brien ★★★ (07/23)
✔ M - The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller ★★★★ (08/12)
✔ E - A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (08/23)
✔ R - The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel | Christopher Tilghman ★★★★ (09/05)
✔ A - Little Century: A Novel | Anna Keesey ★★★ (10/10)
✔ L - Life and Times of Michael K | J.M. Coetzee ★★★ (08/01)
✔ D - The Cold Light of Mourning | Elizabeth J. Duncan ★★★ (09/06)

June: Moonstone
13/13

✔ J - A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar | Suzanne Joinson ★ (08/08)
✔ U - Under the Dome | Stephen King ★★ (11/09)
✔ N - Stardust | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (09/15)
✔ E - The End of the Affair | Graham Greene ★★ (08/26)

✔ M - Me: Stories of My Life | Katharine Hepburn ★★★★ (08/24)
✔ O - Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck ★★★★ (09/06)
✔ O - One For The Money | Janet Evanovich ★★★ (09/20)
✔ N - Coraline | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (09/17)
✔ S - Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee | Charles J. Shields ★★★★★ (08/29)
✔ T - Tilt-a-Whirl | Chris Grabenstein ★★★★ (09/13)
✔ O - Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson ★★★ (09/25)
✔ N - Fragile Things | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (10/17)
✔ E - The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway ★★ (09/04)

July: Ruby
8/8

✔ J - Capital | John Lanchester ★★ (09/14)
✔ U - Up the Down Staircase | Bel Kaufman ★★★★ (12/18)
✔ L - Lord of the Flies | William Golding ★★★★★ (08/28)
✔ Y - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu ★★★★ (11/30)

✔ R - The Round House | Louise Erdrich ★★★★★ (10/05)
✔ U - Unless | Carol Shields ★★★★ (03/19)
✔ B - City of Bohane | Kevin Barry ★★★★★ (07/24)
✔ Y - The Retrospective | Abraham B. Yehoshua ★★★★ (05/17)

[Chaitra]

PART 2

August: Peridot
13/13

✔ A - The Age of Desire | Jennie Fields ★ (10/26)
✔ U - The Witches of Eastwick | John Updike ★ (05/26)
✔ G - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows ★★★★ (10/07)
✔ U - The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett ★★★★★ (06/09)
✔ S - Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen ★★★ (10/21)
✔ T - True Believers | Kurt Andersen ★★★ (09/28)

✔ P - The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter ★★★★ (09/22)
✔ E - Monument 14 | Emmy Laybourne ★★ (09/18)
✔ R - The Casual Vacancy | J.K. Rowling ★ (10/19)
✔ I - If I Stay | Gayle Forman ★ (09/21)
✔ D - Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell ★★★★★ (09/20)
✔ O - Ordeal By Innocence | Agatha Christie ★★ (10/05)
✔ T - Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island | Christopher Camuto ★★ (10/18)

September: Sapphire
17/17

✔ S - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (10/18)
✔ E - A Hologram for the King | Dave Eggers ★★★★ (10/05)
✔ P - Theft: A Love Story | Peter Carey ★★★ (09/30)
✔ T - Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe ★★★★★ (10/12)
✔ E - Silence | Shusaku Endo ★★★★★ (09/26)
✔ M - The Flight of Gemma Hardy | Margot Livesey ★ (09/05)
✔ B - Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter ★★★★★ (09/19)
✔ E - The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern ★★★★★ (10/26)
✔ R - River of Smoke | Amitav Ghosh ★★★★ (10/21)

✔ S - The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman ★ (10/05)
✔ A - Await Your Reply | Dan Chaon ★★★★ (10/30)
✔ P - Peaches for Father Francis | Joanne Harris ★★★ (10/11)
✔ P - Mort | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (11/04)
✔ H - Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami ★★★★★ (11/24)
✔ I - I Scream, You Scream | Wendy Lyn Watson ★ (10/13)
✔ R - The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★ (10/12)
✔ E - Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother | Eve LaPlante ★★★ (11/04)

October: Opal
11/11

✔ O - On What Grounds | Cleo Coyle ★ (10/19)
✔ C - The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins ★★★★★ (09/11)
✔ T - The Forgetting Tree | Tatjana Soli ★ (10/31)
✔ O - Black Water | Joyce Carol Oates ★★ (11/21)
✔ B - Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories | Sherman Alexie ★★★ (11/26)
✔ E - Elantris | Brandon Sanderson ★ (11/21)
✔ R - In the Shadow of the Banyan | Vaddey Ratner ★★★★ (10/28)

✔ O - When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka ★★★★ (12/24)
✔ P - Good Omens | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (11/29)
✔ A - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith ★★★ (11/09)
✔ L - The Land of Decoration | Grace McCleen ★★★★ (09/08)

November: Topaz
13/13

✔ N - American Gods | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (11/09)
✔ O - The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka ★★★★ (12/26)
✔ V - Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut ★★★ (11/26)
✔ E - The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery ★ (11/28)
✔ M - Just Desserts | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (10/08)
✔ B - Ancient Light | John Banville ★★★ (12/16)
✔ E - The Plum Tree | Ellen Marie Wiseman ★★ (12/18)
✔ R - Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth ★ (11/25)

✔ T - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith ★★ (11/01)
✔ O - Snow | Orhan Pamuk ★ (12/28)
✔ P - Sourcery | Terry Pratchett ★★★ (11/29)
✔ A - Anacacho, An Allie Armington Mystery | Louise Gaylord ★ (11/16)
✔ Z - The Book Thief | Markus Zusak ★★ (11/11)

December: Turquoise
17/17

✔ D - Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson ★★★ (10/27)
✔ E - Night, Dawn, the Accident: A Trilogy | Elie Wiesel ★★★★★ (12/22)
✔ C - Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez ★★★★★ (11/01)
✔ E - Astray | Emma Donoghue ★★★★★ (01/07)
✔ M - Seating Arrangements | Maggie Shipstead ★ (09/19)
✔ B - Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ (12/21)
✔ E - Landing | Emma Donoghue ★ (01/11)
✔ R - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore ★★ (12/12)

✔ T - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré ★★★★★ (11/12)
✔ U - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand ★★★★ (07/30)
✔ R - Joseph Anton | Salman Rushdie ★★★★ (01/04)
✔ Q - Every Last One | Anna Quindlen ★★ (12/03)
✔ U - An Expert in Murder | Nicola Upson ★★★ (09/17)
✔ O - Silent House | Orhan Pamuk ★ (01/04)
✔ I - Ignorance: A Novel | Michèle Roberts ★★★ (12/06)
✔ S - The Kill Artist | Daniel Silva ★★ (11/04)
✔ E - Room | Emma Donoghue ★★ (01/25)

COVER
12/12

✔ Garnet - Alys, Always: A Novel | Harriet Lane ★★ (09/25)
✔ Amethyst - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (11/11)
✔ Aquamarine - No One is Here Except All of Us | Ramona Ausubel ★ (08/01)
✔ Diamond - Kingdom Come | J.G. Ballard ★ (07/11)
✔ Emerald - The Light Fantastic | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/13)
✔ Moonstone - A Cold and Lonely Place: A Novel | Sara J. Henry ★★★★ (12/11)
✔ Ruby - Horns | Joe Hill ★★★★ (11/28)
✔ Peridot - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (09/07)
✔ Sapphire - Shine Shine Shine | Lydia Netzer ★★★ (09/26)
✔ Opal - Summer | Edith Wharton ★★★ (08/29)
✔ Topaz - The Gourmet Detective | Peter King ★ (12/05)
✔ Turquoise - Beautiful Lies | Clare Clark ★ (11/19)

*** Completed (09/17) ***

[Barbara ★]

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

First half: Post #3
Second half: Post #66

[Jenne]

Update: 45/163 Read

[Jenne]

Update: 50 done out of 163

Post 77

[Cherie]

I haven't updated any of my challenges in over a month! Yikes! Here's one month that I actually finished back in September:

A - Aimee Agresti / Illuminate = 8/21/12
P - Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker = 6/21/12
R - Rules Of Prey by John Sandford = 8/12/12
I - Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs = 5/31/12
L - The List/Siobhan Vivian = 5/27/12

D - Defending Jacob/William Landay = 5/12/12
I - I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb = 7/8/12
A - Alexander Gordon Smith / Solitary = 9/1/12
M - Moon Called/Patricia Briggs = 5/28/12
O - One For The Money/Janet Evanovich = 5/17/12
N - The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases by Gary Small = 6/24/12
D - Dean Koontz / Odd Thomas = 9/19/12

...........

[Laurie]

July
J: Jennifer Crusie - Bet Me
U: Up in Smoke - Katie Macalister
L: Light My Fire - Katie Macalister
Y: You Only Die Twice - Edna Buchanan
R: Robards, Karen - Ghost Moon
U: Undead and Unemployed - Mary Janice Davidson
B: Blood Trails - Sharon Sala
Y: Young, Karen - Never Tell



August
A: Andersen, Susan - Head Over Heels
U: Unlucky - Jana DeLeon
G: Georgette Heyer - Behold Here's Poison
U: Undead and Underminded - Mary Janice Davidson
S: Soulless - Gail Carriger
T: Terrell, Heather - The Map Thief
P: Playing with Fire - Katie Macalister
E: Evans, Mary Anne - Artifacts
R: Richard Hooker - MASH
I: In Too Deep - Cherry Adair
D: Death Artist, The - Jonathan Santlofer
O: Oh.My.Gods - Tera Lynn Childs
T: Thomas Fitzsimmons - City of Fire



September
S: Stephen King - Salem's Lot
E: Elgin Long - Amelia Earhart
P: Professor and the Madman, The - Simon Winchester
T: Tender is the Storm - Johanna Lindsey
E: Ernest, Barry - The Girl on the Stairs
M: Mayer, Bob/Jennifer Crusie - Wild Ride
B: Baum, Spencer - The Homecoming Masquerade
E: Edna Buchanan - Cold Case Squad
R: Rose, Karen - Silent Scream
S: Secret of Chimneys, The - Agatha Christie
A: Agatha Christe - A Caribbean Mystery
P: Playing Dirty - Susan Andersen
P: Perfect Neighbor, The - Nora Roberts
H: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire - Kerrilyn Sparks
I: It Happened One Autumn - Lisa Kleypas
R: Royal Pain, The - Mary Janice Davidson
E: Edna Buchanan - Shadows



October
O: Obsession - Karen Robards
C: Crusie, Jennifer - Maybe This Time
T: Thirty Nine Steps, The - John Buchan
O: One of Our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
B: Becton, Jennifer - Absolute Liability
E: Every Move She Makes - Beverly Barton
R: Ross, JoAnn - Blaze
T: Thigh High - Christina Dodd
O: Once a Thief - Suzann Ledbetter
U: Urban Cowboys - Vicki Lewis Thompson
R: Robert W. Walker - Titanic 2012
M: Much Ado About Vampires - Katie Macalister
I: Into The Fire - Jessica Hall
L: Love in the Time of Dragons - Katie Macalister
I: Interred with Their Bones - Jennifer Lee Carrell
N: Next of Kin - Sharon Sala
E: Everybody Love Evie - Beth Ciotta



November
N: Nora Roberts - The Winning Hand
O: On Thin Ice - Susan Andersen
V: Vaughn, Carrie - Discord's Apple
E: Erica Spindler - Watch Me Die
M: Macalister, Katie - Me and My Shadow
B: Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
E: Enter a Murderer - Ngaio Marsh
R: Rose Killer, The - Pat Gragg
C: Case, Stacy Verdick - A Grand Murder
I: Iris Johansen - Pandora's Daughter
T: Tim Maltin - 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic But Didn't
R: Rose Garden, The - Susan Kearsley
I: Ice Maiden, The - Edna Buchanan
N: Ngaio Marsh - Death and the Dancing Footman
E: Evanovich, Janet - Love in a Nutshell



December
D: Dead Girl in Love - Linda Joy Singleton
E: Every Move You Make - Carla Cassidy
C: Camp Follower - Suzanne Adair
E: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
M: Macalister, Katie - Holy Smokes
B: Brockmann, Suzanne - Infamous
E: Eva Murray - Well Out to Sea
R: Remy, Jerry - Watching Baseball
T: They Came to Baghdad - Agatha Christie
U: Unger, Lisa - Fragile
R: Roberts, Nora - And Then There Was You
Q: Quinn, Julia - Just Like Heaven
U: Undressed - Stef Ann Holm
O: Out of the Mist - JoAnn Ross
I: I'm in No Mood for Love - Rachel Gibson
S: Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper
E: Ellen Elizabeth Hunter - Murder on the Ghost Walk



Second Half done!

[Jenne]

98/162 Read!

[Zuzana]

I'll try this one.

GEM OF A BOOK
Duration: Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2014

Check my progress here.

[Juana "Darkness"]

I'm in for all the months and birthstones. I'll post ask go along.

[Jenne]

Update 120 of 162

[Suzanne]

The Lost Challenges
'Gem of a book' Challenge
Duration: 9/1/2012 - 8/31/2014

titles,character names (first or last), author names (first or last),or series name

Progress: 174 out of 174

Part 1

January
Birthstone: Garnet

January
J: E.L. James; Fifty Shades Darker
A: After by Amy Efaw
N: Nalini Singh; Hostage to Pleasure
U: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
A: At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost
R: River Marked by Patricia Briggs
Y: Yasmine Galenorn; Witchling



Garnet
G: Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
A: The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
R: Rachel Hartman; Seraphina
N: Nicholas Sparks; Safe Haven
E: An Enchanted Season by Maggie Shayne
T: Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich



February
Birthstone: Amethyst

February
F: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones
E: E.L. James; Fifty Shades Freed
B: Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh
R: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
U: Undone by Rachel Caine
A: The Audition by Rachel Hartman
R: A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
Y: Yasmine Galenorn; Etched in Silver



Amethyst
A: Ally Carter; Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story
M: Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews
E: Janet Evanovich; The Husband List
T: Thomas French; Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
H: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Y: Yasmine Galenorn; Changeling
S: Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
T: Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella



March
Birthstone: Aquamarine or Bloodstone

March
M: Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh
A: Adriana Trigiani; The Shoemaker's Wife
R: J.D. Robb; Loyalty in Death
C: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
H: Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs



Aquamarine
A: Amanda Quick; Second Sight
Q: Queen of Dragons by Shana Abe
U: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
A: Kelley Armstrong; The Gathering
M: Fanny Merkin; Fifty Shames of Earl Grey
A: Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf Volume Two by Patricia Briggs
R: Karen Robards; Vanished
I: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
N: Nalini Singh; Blaze of Memory
E: Entice by Carrie Jones



April
Birthstone: Diamond

April
A: Ann Aguirre; Foundation
P: Phantom Evil by Heather Graham
R: Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
I: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
L: Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward



Diamond
D: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
I: The Inn At Eagle Point by Sherryl Woods
A: Ilona Andrews; Magic Strikes
M: Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
O: Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
N: Nora Roberts; The Witness
D: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris



May
Birthstone: Emerald

May
M: Catherine Gilbert Murdock; Dairy Queen
A: Ilona Andrews; Magic Bleeds
Y: Yasmine Galenorn; Darkling



Emerald
E: Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
M: Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews
E: Janet Evanovich; Four to Score
R: Red Lily by Nora Roberts
A: Alex Craft Book #2: Grave Dance by Kalayna Price
L: Jack London; The Call of the Wild
D: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama



June
Birthstone: Pearl

June
J: Jeanne DuPrau; The City of Ember
U: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
N: Night Huntress by Yasmine Galenorn
E: Eloisa James; Storming the Castle



Pearl
P: Patricia Briggs; Fair Game
E: Laura Esquivel; Like Water for Chocolate
A: And One Last Thing ... by Molly Harper
R: Rachel Caine; Glass Houses
L: Laurie Flannery; Walt Disney World

[Suzanne]

Part 2

July
Birthstone: Ruby

July
J: Jim Butcher; Storm Front
U: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
L: Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
Y: Yasmine Galenorn; Dragon Wytch



Ruby
R: Karen Russell; Swamplandia!
U: Unclean Spirits by M.L.N. Hanover
B: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Y: Your Wicked Heart by Meredith Duran



August
Birthstone: Peridot

August
A: Gordon Andrews; Curran, Vol. I
U: The Untamed Bride by Stephanie Laurens
G: Grave Mercy by R.L. LaFevers
U: Untamed by P.C. Cast
S: Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
T: Thea Harrison; Dragon Bound



Peridot
P: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
E: Cynthia Eden; Deadly Fear
R: Nora Roberts; Key of Light
I: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
D: Daytripper by Fábio Moon
O: Barbara O'Neal; The Lost Recipe for Happiness
T: Tara Sivec; Seduction and Snacks



September
Birthstone: Sapphire

September
S: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
E: Ellen Sussman; French Lessons
P: Peter S. Beagle; The Last Unicorn
T: Teach Yourself Visually Microsoft Office Access 2007 by Faithe Wempen
E: Ellen Schreiber; Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, Vol. 3
M: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
B: Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
E: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
R: Roald Dahl; James and the Giant Peach



Sapphire
S: The Substitute Millionaire by Susan Mallery
A: Alan Bradley; Speaking from Among the Bones
P: Kalayna Price; Grave Witch
P: A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison
H: Heart of a Desert Warrior by Lucy Monroe
I: I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions by Shirley Maclaine
R: Roald Dahl; Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
E: David Ebershoff; The 19th Wife



October
Birthstone: Tourmaline or Opal

October
O: Out on a Leash: Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love by Shirley Maclaine
C: Crazy For You by Jennifer Crusie
T: Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
O: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
B: Patricia Briggs; Silver Borne
E: E.L. James; Fifty Shades of Grey
R: Roald Dahl; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator



Tourmaline
T: The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
O: Barbara O'Neal; How to Bake a Perfect Life
U: Unsinkable: A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds
R: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
M: Marissa Meyer; Scarlet
A: Against the Wind by Kat Martin
L: Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
I: I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden
N: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs by Molly Harper
E: Barbara Ehrenreich; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America



November
Birthstone: Topaz or Citrine

November
N: Nora Roberts; Key Of Knowledge
O: On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves
V: Veronica Roth; Divergent
E: E. Lockhart; The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
M: Karen Marie Moning; Dreamfever
B: Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh
E: Susan Ee; Angelfall
R: Nora Roberts; Key of Valor



Citrine
C: Charlaine Harris; Dead in the Family
I: Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
T: Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
R: Nora Roberts; Black Hills
I: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
N: Nevada Barr; A Superior Death
E: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger



December
Birthstone: Turquoise

December
D: The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic by Jennifer Love Hewitt
E: Eloisa James; When Beauty Tamed the Beast
C: Covet by J.R. Ward
E: Ever After by Kim Harrison
M: Marissa Meyer; Cinder
B: Jim Butcher; Welcome to the Jungle
E: Eloisa James; Winning the Wallflower
R: Nora Roberts; Black Rose




Turquoise
T: The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm by Jim Butcher
U: Uncharted by Tracey Garvis-Graves
R: Nora Roberts; Dance Upon the Air
Q: Anna Quindlen; Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
U: The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison
O: Osho; Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
I: Immortals After Dark series: The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole
S: Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
E: Erin McCarthy; Flat-Out Sexy



Bonus: For bonus read is read a book with some cover or close to it as the birthstone:

Garnet= Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas
Amethyst= Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
Aquamarine= A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
Diamond= Vanish by Sophie Jordan
Emerald = A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Pearl= First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Ruby= Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Peridot= The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
Sapphire= The Dream Thief by Shana Abe
Opal = The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers, and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon by John Hanc
Citrine = Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews
Turquoise = Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

I'm down to 3 Y's they are taking forever to get.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

The O's are killing me...

[Paris]

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "I'm down to 3 Y's they are taking forever to get."

I'm down to 6 Y's. I just need to read all the Samantha Young books I have I guess.

[Paris]

I had to split my post into 2. The first part can be found Here. That's the part that still has 6 Y's to finish before I'm done. This second part is finished.

AUGUST/PERIDOT 13/13
(view spoiler)[
A: Annelise Drew – Blood Fever by Veronica Wolff - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/29/12
U: Under Suspicion by Hannah Jayne - ♥♥♥ - 2/28/13
G: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/3/13
U: Undone by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/19/13
S: Stray by Rachel Vincent - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/2/12
T: Thorn Grantham – Kept by Shawntelle Madison - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 10/12/12

P: Branded Psy-Changeling Series by Fire by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/29/12
E: Elder Griffin – Finding Magic by Stacia Kane - ♥♥♥♥ - 10/28/12
R: The Renfield Syndrom by J.A. Saare - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 9/28/12
I: Ian Long – Long Shots by Christine D’Abo - ♥♥♥ - 9/19/12
D: Darkness Hunts by Keri Arthur - ♥♥♥♥ - 2/24/13
O: On Dublin Street by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 9/4/12
T: The Mighty Storm by Samantha Towle - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/14/12 (hide spoiler)]

SEPTEMBER/SAPPHIRE 17/17
(view spoiler)[
S: Vision of Heat by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/4/12
E: Eden Colfax – Hyde by Lauren Stewart - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/8/12
P: A Sliver of Shadow by Allison Pang - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/21/12
T: Thin Air by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/2/12
E: Emma Johnson – Crimson Moon by J.A. Saare - ♥♥♥♥ - 10/8/12
M: Killing Rites by M.L.N. Hanover - ♥♥♥ - 1/4/13
B: Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/10/12
E: Ethan Blackstone – All In by Raine Miller - ♥♥♥ - 11/18/12
R: The Ripple Effect by J.A. Saare - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 10/1/12

S: Coveted by Shawntelle Madison - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 9/14/12
A: Bad Rep by A. Meredith Walters - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/27/12
P: Grave Memory by Kalayna Price - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/9/12
P: Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 2/27/13
H: Heat Stroke by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/23/12
I: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 2/21/13
R: Reflected in You by Sylvia Day - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 10/13/12
E: Incarnation by Emma Cornwall - 1/8/13 - ♥♥♥ (hide spoiler)]

OCTOBER/OPAL 11/11
(view spoiler)[
O: Oliver Stephenson – Calling the Shots by Christine D’Abo - ♥♥♥ - 10/9/12
C: Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/19/12
T: Tony Adamo – Sharing Hailey by Samantha Ann King - ♥♥♥ - 11/22/12
O: Double Time by Olivia Cunning - ♥♥♥♥ - 12/12/12
B: Blood of the Wicked by Karina Cooper - ♥♥♥♥ - 11/25/12
E: Entice by Jessica Shirvington - 1/23/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
R: Firestorm by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥ - 10/29/12

O: Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien - 1/21/13 - ♥♥♥♥
P: Pepper Martin – Supernatural Born Killers by Casey Daniels - ♥♥♥♥ - 1/2/13
A: Allie Beckstrom – Magic for a Price by Devon Monk - ♥♥♥ - 12/24/12
L: Lane Vance – Rock the Heart by Michelle A Valentine - ♥♥♥ - 12/1/12 (hide spoiler)]

NOVEMBER/CITRINE 15/15
(view spoiler)[
N: Nora Dearly – Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel - ♥♥♥♥ - 11/4/12
O: Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien - 1/28/13 - ♥♥♥♥
V: Vampire’s Kiss by Veronica Wolff - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/6/12
E: Exquisite by Ella Frank - 1/26/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
M: Keeping Secrets in Seattle by Brooke Moss - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/1/13
B: Bared to you by Sylvia Day - ♥♥♥♥ - 10/6/12
E: Entice by Ella Frank - 1/31/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
R: Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard - ♥♥♥ - 10/29/12

C: Black Lament by Christina Henry - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/3/13
I: India Savage – Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley - ♥♥♥♥ - 1/4/13
T: Time Mends by Tammy Blackwell - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 11/10/12
R: Gabriel’s Rapture by Sylvain Reynard - ♥♥ - 11/3/12
I: I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter - ♥♥♥ - 3/13/13
N: Natalya Stravinsky – Collected by Shawntelle Madison - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 11/7/12
E: Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/26/13 (hide spoiler)]
DECEMBER/TURQUOISE 17/17
(view spoiler)[
D: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones - ♥♥♥ - 3/12/13
E: Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 2/27/13
C: House Rules by Chloe Neill - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 2/26/13
E: Real by Katy Evans - ♥♥♥♥ - 4/26/13
M: Down to You by M Leighton - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/24/12
B: Bah, Humbug! By Heather Horrocks - ♥♥♥ - 9/12/12
E: Ethan Swift Tempest by Kelly Meding - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/21/13
R: Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley - 1/11/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥

T: Fate Succumbs by Tammy Blackwell - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 11/11/12
U: Unknown by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 4/15/13
R: Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley - 1/27/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
Q: Logan Quinn Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/26/13
U: Grounded Up in the Air Series by R.K. Lilley - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/16/13
O: Promised by Caragh M O'Brien - 2/13/13 - ♥♥♥♥
I: Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews - ♥♥♥♥ - 4/1/13
S: Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 11/20/12
E: Ethan Swift Changeling by Kelly Meding - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/17/13 (hide spoiler)]

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

1 more Y!!!!

[Jenne]

134/162 Read!

[Paris]

So I can't update my original post cause there's supposedly malware on page 2 of this thread. So here is my update. I am down to 1 last Y, which I think I will finish up here shortly when I read one more Samantha Young offering.

TLC: Gem Of a Book
Duration: Jul 01, 2012 - Dec 31, 2013
Completed: 168/168

JANUARY/GARNET 13/13
(view spoiler)[
J: Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/19/12
A: Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley - 1/25/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
N: The Numbers Game by Frances Vidakovic - ♥♥ - 12/9/12
U: Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson - ♥♥♥ - 4/4/13
A: Angelfall by Susan Ee - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 8/18/12
R: Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton - ♥♥♥ - 9/12/12
Y: Down London Road by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 5/9/13

G: Collide by Gail McHugh - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/5/13
A: Broken by A.E. Rought - ♥♥♥ - 12/5/12
R: Alpha Instinct by Katie Reus - ♥♥♥ - 3/24/13
N: Biting Cold by Chloe Neill - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/16/12
E: Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/10/12
T: Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/3/12 (hide spoiler)]

FEBRUARY/AMETHYST 16/16
(view spoiler)[
F: Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost - ♥♥♥ - 3/20/13
E: Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/31/12
B: By a Thread by Jennifer Estep - ♥♥♥ - 8/6/12
R: Chill Factor by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/28/12
U: Undead and Unpopular by MaryJanice Davidson - ♥♥♥ - 4/12/13
A: Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander - ♥♥ - 10/15/12
R: Devil's Bargain by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥ - 3/29/13
Y: Yours At Midnight by Robin Bielman - ♥♥♥♥ - 6/9/13

A: Obsidian by Jennifer L Armentrout - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/8/13
M: Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/12/12
E: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland - ♥♥♥♥ - 2/17/13
T: A Trace of Moonlight by Allison Pang - ♥♥♥ - 3/13/13
H: Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥ - 7/15/12
Y: Moon Spell by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥ - 6/18/13
S: Sin Undone by Larissa Ione - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/11/12
T: Destiny Binds by Tammy Blackwell - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 11/10/12 (hide spoiler)]

MARCH/BLOODSTONE 15/15
(view spoiler)[
M: The Mage in Black by Jaye Wells - ♥♥♥ - 8/15/12
A: Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/9/13
R: Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/7/13
C: Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/5/12
H: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/6/12

B: Soul Trade Black London Series by Caitlin Kittredge - ♥♥♥ - 10/24/12
L: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/29/12
O: Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/2/12
O: Outpost by Ann Aguirre - ♥♥♥♥ - 11/11/12
D: Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/25/12
S: Spellbound by Rachel Hawkins - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/21/12
T: The Taken by Vicki Pettersson - ♥♥♥ - 7/5/12
O: Tortured by Caragh M. O'Brien - 1/29/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
N: Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 8/20/12
E: Endgame by Ann Aguirre - ♥♥♥ - 10/6/12 (hide spoiler)]

APRIL/DIAMOND 12/12
(view spoiler)[
A: Opal by Jennifer L Armentrout - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/10/13
P: Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/8/12
R: Rock Chick Regret by Kristen Ashley - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/24/13
I: Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 9/23/12
L: Taken by Storm by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/29/13

D: Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins - ♥♥♥♥ - 7/8/12
I: Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/24/12
A: The Calling by Kelley Armstrong - ♥♥♥ - 3/21/13
M: Vicious Grace by M.L.N. Hanover - ♥♥♥ - 10/18/12
O: Ruled by Caragh M. O'Brien - 1/29/13 - ♥♥♥♥♥
N: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs by Molly Harper - ♥♥♥ - 3/26/13
D: Dreamless by Josephine Angelini - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/11/12 (hide spoiler)]

MAY/EMERALD 10/10
(view spoiler)[
M: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - ♥♥♥♥ - 2/19/13
A: Alix Gordon – Mr. Real by Carolyn Crane - ♥♥♥♥ - 1/11/13
Y: River Cast by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥ - 6/20/13

E: Beyond Eden Eden Series by Kele Moon - ♥♥♥♥ - 3/25/13
M: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/28/13
E: Storm’s Heart by Thea Harrison - Elder Races Series - ♥♥♥♥ - 2/19/13
R: Rogue by Rachel Vincent - ♥♥♥♥ - 4/9/13
A: Eternal Starling by Angela Corbett - ♥♥♥ - 9/18/12
L: The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/28/12
D: Deadly Descendant by Jenna Black - ♥♥♥♥ - 11/14/12 (hide spoiler)]

JUNE/PEARL 9/9
(view spoiler)[
J: Long Hard Ride by Lorelei James - 1/24/13 - ♥♥♥
U: In Flight Up In The Air Series by R.K. Lilley - ♥♥♥♥ - 4/14/13
N: Naked by Raine Miller - ♥♥♥♥ - 10/4/12
E: Devoured by Emily Snow - ♥♥♥♥ - 10/31/12

P: Play of Passion by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 8/14/12
E: Emma Mills – Love Left Behind by S.H. Kolee - ♥♥♥♥ - 11/2/12
A: The Abandoned by Amanda Stevens - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/21/12
R: Dead, Undead or Somewhere in Between by J.A. Saare - Rhiannon’s Law - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/7/12
L: Wait for You by J. Lynn - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 3/4/13
(hide spoiler)]

JULY/RUBY 7/8
(view spoiler)[
J: Stand-In Star by Rachael Johns - ♥♥♥♥ - 2/25/13
U: Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent - Unbound Series - ♥♥♥ 9/1/12
L: Leashing the Tempest by Jenn Bennett - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/10/13
Y: - Blood Solstice by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥ - 6/21/13

R: Windfall by Rachel Caine - ♥♥♥♥ - 9/26/12
U: Mile High Up In The Air Series by R.K. Lilley - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 4/16/13
B: Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh - ♥♥♥♥ - 8/7/12
Y: Until Fountain Bridge by Samantha Young - ♥♥♥♥♥ - 7/7/13 (hide spoiler)]

[Jenne]

155/162

5 more to go!

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

W2G Everyone

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Message #100 Completed on 8/3/13

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Great job!

[Paris]

Woohoo! Finally finished! What a great challenge.

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

W2G Melissa and Paris

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Congrats Paris!

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

Great job all. I've got one pesky Y left.

[Turtlefrog]

Gem of a Book Challenge

Time Limit Two Years - 9/28/13 - 9/28/15

January
Birthstone:Garnet
J: Jet 6/11/14
A: Annihilate Me Vol. 1 10/6/13
N: Never Forget 6/19/14
U: Unteachable 4/22/14
A: After Tuesday 10/19/13
R: Rapture 3/30/14
Y: Yank 7/9/14

G: Greed 5/26/14
A: Absorbed 10/28/13
R: The Road to Price 7/7/14
N: Never Ever After 10/24/14
E: Either Side of Midnight 5/31/14
T: Three Years Later 4/3/14


February
Birthstone: Amethyst
(view spoiler)[F: Fallen in Love 2/17/14
E: Edge of Disaster 6/16/14
B: Breaking Nova 10/5/13
R: Reckless Nights in Rome 8/9/14
U: Until November 6/13/14
A: American Girl On Saturn 10/30/13
R: Raising Ryann 10/25/14

A: Aurora Sky 11/29/13
M: My Life Next Door 9/28/13
E: Eragon 9/15/14
H: Heartless 5/1/14
S: Staged Fright 10/23/13
T: Tangled 5/2/14 (hide spoiler)]

March
Birthstone: Aquamarine or Bloodstone
(view spoiler)[M: Masquerade 7/26/14
A: Alluring Turmoil 12/2/13
R: Ruin 11/15/14
C: Cake 10/10/13

A: Awakened 12/14/13
A: Awakening 12/30/13
A: Arouse: A Spiral of Bliss Novel 2/5/14
I: I Remember You 6/21/14
E: El Train Love Story 11/24/14

B: Beautiful Bastard 10/7/13
L: Losing It 12/23/13
O: One Broke Girl 7/19/14
O: Obsidian 10/5/14
D: 12 Days of Waiting 1/14/14
S: Shattered Promises 5/17/14
T: Two Thousand Miles 7/14/14
O: The Opportunist 10/20/14 (hide spoiler)]

April
Birthstone: Diamond
(view spoiler)[A: Allure: A Spiral of Bliss Novel 2/15/14
P: The Perpetual Quest for the Perfect Life 4/24/14
I: Inking Him 10/4/14
L: La Lune 6/30/14

D: Darkness Falls 11/19/13
I: Insurgent 10/10/14
A: All the Pretty Lies 11/9/14
D: Darkhouse 11/23/14 (hide spoiler)]

May
Birthstone: Emerald
(view spoiler)[L: Leaving Green Island 9/29/14
D: Dragonfly 12/6/13 (hide spoiler)]

June
Birthstone: Pearl or Alexandrite or Moonstone
(view spoiler)[P: Price of a Kiss 4/29/14

D: Divergent 2/27/14
I: In the Air 11/28/14
T: Tall, Tatted and Tempting 7/18/14

S: Sometimes Never 7/11/14
T: A Tragic Wreck 8/13/14 (hide spoiler)]

July
Birthstone: Ruby
(view spoiler)[B: Beautiful Bitch 10/15/13 (hide spoiler)]

August
Birthstone: Peridot or Sardonyx
(view spoiler)[G: Gorgeous Chaos 8/20/14
S: The Shadowhunter's Codex 9/20/15
T: Thirty-Two Going on Spinster 11/8/14

D: Demon At My Door 8/7/14
T: Take a Breath 12/5/14

S: Shadow Kiss 11/15/14 (hide spoiler)]

September
Birthstone: Sapphire
(view spoiler)[B: Baby & Bump 10/26/13

H: His for One Night 6/19/14 (hide spoiler)]

October
Birthstone: Tourmaline or Opal
(view spoiler)[C: The chasing diaries 11/8/13
B: Banished from Grace 11/7/13
(hide spoiler)]

November
Birthstone: Topaz or Citrine
(view spoiler)[V: Vampire Academy 8/5/14
B: Beautiful Broken Rules 11/14/13

C: Consequences 1/12/14 (hide spoiler)]

December
Birthstone: Tanzanite or Zircon or Turquoise
(view spoiler)[D: Dante's Girl 6/25/14
C: Chasing Imperfection 4/11/14
B: Beautiful Stranger 11/23/13

C: Catch Me 3/6/14 (hide spoiler)]

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Well, I did finally finish - and before my two years were up. But I never would have gotten all the O's with using character names (which I had been trying to avoid).

Gem of a Book Challenge
11/1/11 - 10/31/13
81/81
I will only add after they have been read

January - done
G: What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken - 12/1/11
A: Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day - 12/7/11
R: Angel with Attitude by Michelle Rowan - 11/5/11
N: Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon - 11/20/11
E: Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey - 5/3/13
T: The Third Circle by Amanda Quick - 5/20/12

February - done
A: Double Booked for Death by Ali Brandon - 1/7/12
M: Midnight Crystal by Jayne Castle - 1/6/12
E: Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep - 1/15/12
T: Death Magic by Eileen Wilks - 12/30/11
H: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper - 1/3/12
Y: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff - 12/27/11
S: Soulless by Gail Carriger - 11/11/11
T: Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank - 6/21/12

March - done
B: Kiss of the Blue Dragon by Julie Beard - 11/4/11
L: George and the Virgin by Lisa Cach - 11/12/11
O: On the Run by Sue Fineman - 2/4/12
O: Opal Fire by Barbra Annino - 4/5/13
D: Disappearing Nightly by Laura Resnick - 5/24/12
S: Siren Song by Cat Adams - 3/12/12
T: Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb - 9/16/12
O: (Owen Grayson) Spider's Revenge by Jennifer Estep - 11/24/11
N: Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler - 7/3/12
E: Ex and the Single Girl by Lani Diane Rich - 1/17/12

April - done
D: Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay - 11/21/11
I: Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews - 12/10/11
A: Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie - 1/20/12
M: Mystery Man by Kristen Ashley - 2/29/12
O: (Owen Grayson) Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep - 5/12/13
N: Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill - 9/22/12
D: Darkness Everlasting by Alexandra Ivy - 12/11/11

May - done
E: Karma's a Bitch by Shannon Esposito - 3/16/12
M: And One Last Thing by Molly Harper - 1/9/13
E: Dark Frost by Jennifer Estep - 6/29/12
R: Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz - 7/14/12
A: Second Sight by Amanda Quick - 2/19/12
L: Mai Tai One On by Jill Marie Landis - 1/21/12
D: Cheri on Top by Susan Donovan - 3/29/12

June - Done
P: The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs - 11/19/11
E: Mouth to Mouth by Erin McCarthy - 6/9/12
A: Quicksilver by Amanda Quick - 8/21/12
R: Redshirts by John Scalzi - 8/8/12
L: Fatal Circle by Linda Robertson - 3/22/12

July - Done
R: Red Velvet Revenge by Jenn McKinlay - 1/16/13
U: Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger - 11/30/11
B: It Takes a Witch by Heather Blake - 2/11/12
Y: You Only Love Twice by Lori Wilde - 2/7/12

August - done
P: Sweet Inspiration by Penny Watson - 12/21/11
E: Early to Death, Early to Rise by Kim Harrison - 8/17/12
R: Sealed with a Curse by Cecy Robson - 1/13/13
I: In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz - 1/2/12
D: First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones - 4/12/12
O: (Owen Grayson) Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep - 5/13/13
T: Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec - 3/8/13

September - Done
S: Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz - 4/28/12
A: Wild Man by Kristen Ashley - 9/8/12
P: River Marked by Patricia Briggs - 2/4/12
P: Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole - 2/14/12
H: Hell Fire by Ann Agguire - 4/2/12
I: If I Die by Rachel Vincent - 2/8/12
R: Playing for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson - 2/7/13
E: By a Thread by Jennifer Estep - 10/19/12

October
O: (Oscar Park) A Charming Crime by Tonya Kappes - 8/14/13
P: Bite Me by Parker Blue - 2/26/12
A: Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews - 10/3/12
L: Blood Kin by Maria Lima - 4/19/12

November
T: Too Wild to Wed by Jayne Ann Krentz - 4/28/13
O: (Olivia Limoges) A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams - 8/30/13
P: The Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick - 7/31/12
A: Shady Lady by Ann Aguirre - 2/16/13
Z: Zinnia by Jayne Castle - 11/8/11

December
T: Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Trent - 2/28/13
U: Undeniably Yours by Shannon Stacey - 6/16/13
R: Rogue Descendant by Jenna Black - 4/6/13
Q: Queen of Shadows by Dianne Sylvan - 12/24/11
U: Scrumptious by Amanda Usen - 2/23/13
O: (Owen Grayson) Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep - 9/1/13
I: Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/25/12
S: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis - 5/18/12
E: Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep - 1/12/13

[Chaitra]

I'm done.

GEM OF A BOOK

Duration: Jul 01, 2012 - Dec 31, 2013
Completed: 170/170

SPELL
158/158

PART 1

January: Garnet
13/13

✔ J - Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★★★ (07/31)
✔ A - Animal's People: A Novel | Indra Sinha ★★★ (07/11)
✔ N - The Newlyweds | Nell Freudenberger ★ (07/08)
✔ U - The Undertow | Jo Baker ★★ (07/22)
✔ A - A Patchwork Planet | Anne Tyler ★★★★★ (07/23)
✔ R - Canada | Richard Ford ★★★ (07/10)
✔ Y - Snow Country | Yasunari Kawabata ★★★ (07/06)

✔ G - Gifted | Nikita Lalwani ★ (07/23)
✔ A - Hope: A Tragedy | Shalom Auslander ★★★★ (07/24)
✔ R - Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie ★★★★★ (07/15)
✔ N - Nothing Right | Antonya Nelson ★★★★★ (08/01)
✔ E - A Cupboard Full of Coats | Yvvette Edwards ★★★ (07/01)
✔ T - The Great Indian Novel | Shashi Tharoor ★★★★ (07/24)

February: Amethyst
16/16

✔ F - Skios: A Novel | Michael Frayn ★★★★ (09/01)
✔ E - East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ★★ (07/18)
✔ B - A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine ★★★ (09/14)
✔ R - The Folded Earth: A Novel | Anuradha Roy ★★ (07/30)
✔ U - Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth ★★★★ (08/11)
✔ A - Dancing Girls | Margaret Atwood ★★★ (07/30)
✔ R - The Red House: A Novel | Mark Haddon ★★★★ (08/14)
✔ Y - You've Got Murder | Donna Andrews ★★ (08/21)

✔ A - The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga ★ (07/31)
✔ M - The Death of Vishnu | Manil Suri ★★★★★ (07/30)
✔ E - English, August: An Indian Story | Upamanyu Chatterjee ★★★★ (07/22)
✔ T - Train to Pakistan | Khushwant Singh ★★★★★ (07/31)
✔ H - House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski ★★★ (07/12)
✔ Y - Confessions of a Mask | Yukio Mishima ★★ (10/19)
✔ S - Scat | Carl Hiaasen ★★★ (07/14)
✔ T - Tomorrow | Graham Swift ★ (08/29)

March: Aquamarine
15/15

✔ M - The Hunger Angel: A Novel | Herta Müller ★★★ (08/01)
✔ A - Alif the Unseen | G. Willow Wilson ★★★★★ (08/09)
✔ R - The Kissing List | Stephanie Reents ★★★★ (08/20)
✔ C - The Chaperone | Laura Moriarty ★★★★★ (07/08)
✔ H - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | Kiran Desai ★★★★★ (07/30)

✔ A - The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker ★★★★★ (08/15)
✔ Q - The Quality of Mercy: A Novel | Barry Unsworth ★★ (08/22)
✔ U - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Rachel Joyce ★★★★★ (8/31)
✔ A - Carry the One | Carol Anshaw ★★ (08/17)
✔ M - Home | Toni Morrison ★★★ (08/07)
✔ A - The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie ★★★★ (08/29)
✔ R - The Lifeboat | Charlotte Rogan ★★★ (08/21)
✔ I - In One Person | John Irving ★★★ (08/22)
✔ N - On the Beach | Nevil Shute ★ (07/31)
✔ E - Equal Rites | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (08/08)

April: Diamond
12/12

✔ A - Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie ★★★★★ (08/29)
✔ P - This Bright River | Patrick Somerville ★ (09/13)
✔ R - Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys ★★★ (08/23)
✔ I - Saturday | Ian McEwan ★ (08/24)
✔ L - A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel | Wiley Cash ★★★★ (07/22)

✔ D - The Dream of the Celt: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa ★ (08/19)
✔ I - The Inquisitor: A Novel | Mark Allen Smith ★★ (09/11)
✔ A - Arcadia | Lauren Groff ★★★ (09/05)
✔ M - Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel ★★★★★ (08/07)
✔ O - Our Lady of Alice Bhatti | Mohammed Hanif ★★★★ (07/07)
✔ N - Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (09/07)
✔ D - The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau ★★★ (08/28)

May: Emerald
10/10

✔ M - The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry ★★★ (08/08)
✔ A - Absolution | Patrick Flanery ★★ (09/13)
✔ Y - The Yips | Nicola Barker ★★★ (11/10)

✔ E - Wild Decembers | Edna O'Brien ★★★ (07/23)
✔ M - The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller ★★★★ (08/12)
✔ E - A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan ★★★★★ (08/23)
✔ R - The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel | Christopher Tilghman ★★★★ (09/05)
✔ A - Little Century: A Novel | Anna Keesey ★★★ (10/10)
✔ L - Life and Times of Michael K | J.M. Coetzee ★★★ (08/01)
✔ D - The Cold Light of Mourning | Elizabeth J. Duncan ★★★ (09/06)

June: Moonstone
13/13

✔ J - A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar | Suzanne Joinson ★ (08/08)
✔ U - Under the Dome | Stephen King ★★ (11/09)
✔ N - Stardust | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (09/15)
✔ E - The End of the Affair | Graham Greene ★★ (08/26)

✔ M - Me: Stories of My Life | Katharine Hepburn ★★★★ (08/24)
✔ O - Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck ★★★★ (09/06)
✔ O - One For The Money | Janet Evanovich ★★★ (09/20)
✔ N - Coraline | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (09/17)
✔ S - Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee | Charles J. Shields ★★★★★ (08/29)
✔ T - Tilt-a-Whirl | Chris Grabenstein ★★★★ (09/13)
✔ O - Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson ★★★ (09/25)
✔ N - Fragile Things | Neil Gaiman ★★★★ (10/17)
✔ E - The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway ★★ (09/04)

July: Ruby
8/8

✔ J - Capital | John Lanchester ★★ (09/14)
✔ U - Up the Down Staircase | Bel Kaufman ★★★★ (12/18)
✔ L - Lord of the Flies | William Golding ★★★★★ (08/28)
✔ Y - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu ★★★★ (11/30)

✔ R - The Round House | Louise Erdrich ★★★★★ (10/05)
✔ U - Unless | Carol Shields ★★★★ (03/19)
✔ B - City of Bohane | Kevin Barry ★★★★★ (07/24)
✔ Y - The Retrospective | Abraham B. Yehoshua ★★★★ (05/17)

[Chaitra]

PART 2

August: Peridot
13/13

✔ A - The Age of Desire | Jennie Fields ★ (10/26)
✔ U - The Witches of Eastwick | John Updike ★ (05/26)
✔ G - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows ★★★★ (10/07)
✔ U - The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett ★★★★★ (06/09)
✔ S - Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen ★★★ (10/21)
✔ T - True Believers | Kurt Andersen ★★★ (09/28)

✔ P - The Long Earth | Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter ★★★★ (09/22)
✔ E - Monument 14 | Emmy Laybourne ★★ (09/18)
✔ R - The Casual Vacancy | J.K. Rowling ★ (10/19)
✔ I - If I Stay | Gayle Forman ★ (09/21)
✔ D - Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell ★★★★★ (09/20)
✔ O - Ordeal By Innocence | Agatha Christie ★★ (10/05)
✔ T - Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island | Christopher Camuto ★★ (10/18)

September: Sapphire
17/17

✔ S - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (10/18)
✔ E - A Hologram for the King | Dave Eggers ★★★★ (10/05)
✔ P - Theft: A Love Story | Peter Carey ★★★ (09/30)
✔ T - Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe ★★★★★ (10/12)
✔ E - Silence | Shusaku Endo ★★★★★ (09/26)
✔ M - The Flight of Gemma Hardy | Margot Livesey ★ (09/05)
✔ B - Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter ★★★★★ (09/19)
✔ E - The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern ★★★★★ (10/26)
✔ R - River of Smoke | Amitav Ghosh ★★★★ (10/21)

✔ S - The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman ★ (10/05)
✔ A - Await Your Reply | Dan Chaon ★★★★ (10/30)
✔ P - Peaches for Father Francis | Joanne Harris ★★★ (10/11)
✔ P - Mort | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (11/04)
✔ H - Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami ★★★★★ (11/24)
✔ I - I Scream, You Scream | Wendy Lyn Watson ★ (10/13)
✔ R - The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★ (10/12)
✔ E - Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother | Eve LaPlante ★★★ (11/04)

October: Opal
11/11

✔ O - On What Grounds | Cleo Coyle ★ (10/19)
✔ C - The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins ★★★★★ (09/11)
✔ T - The Forgetting Tree | Tatjana Soli ★ (10/31)
✔ O - Black Water | Joyce Carol Oates ★★ (11/21)
✔ B - Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories | Sherman Alexie ★★★ (11/26)
✔ E - Elantris | Brandon Sanderson ★ (11/21)
✔ R - In the Shadow of the Banyan | Vaddey Ratner ★★★★ (10/28)

✔ O - When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka ★★★★ (12/24)
✔ P - Good Omens | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (11/29)
✔ A - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith ★★★ (11/09)
✔ L - The Land of Decoration | Grace McCleen ★★★★ (09/08)

November: Topaz
13/13

✔ N - American Gods | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (11/09)
✔ O - The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka ★★★★ (12/26)
✔ V - Timequake | Kurt Vonnegut ★★★ (11/26)
✔ E - The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery ★ (11/28)
✔ M - Just Desserts | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (10/08)
✔ B - Ancient Light | John Banville ★★★ (12/16)
✔ E - The Plum Tree | Ellen Marie Wiseman ★★ (12/18)
✔ R - Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth ★ (11/25)

✔ T - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith ★★ (11/01)
✔ O - Snow | Orhan Pamuk ★ (12/28)
✔ P - Sourcery | Terry Pratchett ★★★ (11/29)
✔ A - Anacacho, An Allie Armington Mystery | Louise Gaylord ★ (11/16)
✔ Z - The Book Thief | Markus Zusak ★★ (11/11)

December: Turquoise
17/17

✔ D - Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson ★★★ (10/27)
✔ E - Night, Dawn, the Accident: A Trilogy | Elie Wiesel ★★★★★ (12/22)
✔ C - Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez ★★★★★ (11/01)
✔ E - Astray | Emma Donoghue ★★★★★ (01/07)
✔ M - Seating Arrangements | Maggie Shipstead ★ (09/19)
✔ B - Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ (12/21)
✔ E - Landing | Emma Donoghue ★ (01/11)
✔ R - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore ★★ (12/12)

✔ T - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John le Carré ★★★★★ (11/12)
✔ U - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand ★★★★ (07/30)
✔ R - Joseph Anton | Salman Rushdie ★★★★ (01/04)
✔ Q - Every Last One | Anna Quindlen ★★ (12/03)
✔ U - An Expert in Murder | Nicola Upson ★★★ (09/17)
✔ O - Silent House | Orhan Pamuk ★ (01/04)
✔ I - Ignorance: A Novel | Michèle Roberts ★★★ (12/06)
✔ S - The Kill Artist | Daniel Silva ★★ (11/04)
✔ E - Room | Emma Donoghue ★★ (01/25)

COVER
12/12

✔ Garnet - Alys, Always: A Novel | Harriet Lane ★★ (09/25)
✔ Amethyst - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (11/11)
✔ Aquamarine - No One is Here Except All of Us | Ramona Ausubel ★ (08/01)
✔ Diamond - Kingdom Come | J.G. Ballard ★ (07/11)
✔ Emerald - The Light Fantastic | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/13)
✔ Moonstone - A Cold and Lonely Place: A Novel | Sara J. Henry ★★★★ (12/11)
✔ Ruby - Horns | Joe Hill ★★★★ (11/28)
✔ Peridot - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (09/07)
✔ Sapphire - Shine Shine Shine | Lydia Netzer ★★★ (09/26)
✔ Opal - Summer | Edith Wharton ★★★ (08/29)
✔ Topaz - The Gourmet Detective | Peter King ★ (12/05)
✔ Turquoise - Beautiful Lies | Clare Clark ★ (11/19)

*** Completed (09/17) ***

[Zuzana]

Congratulations, Chaitra. :)


TLC GEM OF A BOOK - PART I
Duration: Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2014
Completed: 75/75

PART II

J: Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death Mar 12, 2013 ****
A: A.C. Doyle: His Last Bow Jan 27, 2013 ***
N: Night by Elie Wiesel Mar 1, 2013 *****
U: An Unconventional Courtship by Scotty Cade Feb 23, 2013 **
A: Agatha Christie: The Big Four Jan 31, 2013 **
R: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Mar 17, 2013 ****
Y: Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy Apr 21, 2013 ****



G: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Jan 10, 2013 ****
A: The Actor and the Earl by Rebecca Cohen Jan 26, 2013 **
R: Renault, Mary: Funeral Games Feb 15, 2013 ****
N: The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault Feb 17, 2013 ****
E: Eromenos by Melanie J. McDonald Feb 18, 2013 ***
T: The Tempest by W. Shakespeare Jan 5, 2013 ***



F: Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault Jan 20, 2013 ****
E: Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles Jan 12, 2013 ***
B: The Bride by Julie Garwood Jan 28, 2013 ***
R: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Mar 31, 2013 ***
U: An Unconventional Union by Scotty Cade Feb 25, 2013 *
A: Alward, Donna: Hired by the Cowboy Feb 1, 2013 **
R: Rachel Van Dyken: The Devil Duke Takes a Bride Apr 10, 2013 **
Y: Yeats, W.B.: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore May 11, 2013 **



A: Amanda Brown: Family Trust Feb 6, 2013 *
M: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester Jan 3, 2013 ***
E: Eugenides, Jeffrey: The Virgin Suicides Mar 9, 2013 ****
T: Twelfth Night by W. Shakespeare Feb 21, 2013 *****
H: Hornblower: Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S. Forester Jan 6, 2013 ****
Y: Yoshimoto, Banana: The Lake July 6, 2013 ****
S: St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters Jan 25, 2013 ***
T: (Tin Woodman) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Jan 30, 2013 ****



M: Mr. Darcy's Refuge: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds Feb 20, 2013 ***
A: Austen, Jane: Lady Susan Feb 21, 2013 ****
R: Rebecca Cohen: Duty to the Crown Apr 14, 2013 **
C: C.S. Forester: Hornblower During the Crisis Jan 7, 2013 ***
H: Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester Jan 16, 2013 ****



A: Angličtina na rovinu by Darren Crown Mar 14, 2013 ***
Q: Quinn, Julia: To Catch an Heiress Feb 2, 2013 **
U: The Ugly Duckling Debutante by Rachel Van Dyken Apr 23, 2013 *
A: Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Mar 24, 2013 ****
M: McIntyre, Vonda N.: Dreamsnake Jan 30, 2013 ****
A: Anything Goes: My Autobiography by Carole E. Barrowman and John Barrowman Apr 21, 2013 ***
R: Roger Zelazny: This Immortal Apr 13, 2013 ****
I: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Jan 6, 2013 *****
N: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Mar 11, 2013 ***
E: (Eddard Stark) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin May 31, 2013 ****



A: Alan Moore: From Hell Apr 25, 2013 ****
P: The Persian Boy by Mary Renault Feb 9, 2013 ****
R: (Redman, Stuart) The Stand by Stephen King May 25, 2013 ***
I: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Feb 10, 2013 ****
L: Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester Jan 4, 2013 ****



D: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris Jan 2, 2013 **
I: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron Apr 7, 2013 ***
A: Awaken To Pleasure by Nalini Singh May 7, 2013 *
M: Michael Moore: Stupid White Men Mar 15, 2013 ***
O: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Apr 9, 2013 ***
N: Neil Gaiman: Coraline May 11, 2013 ***
D: Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs Jan 24, 2013 **



M: Monyová, Simona: Jednou nohou v blázinci Apr 8, 2013 ***
A: Alice Sebold: Lucky May 12, 2013 ****
Y: (Yongxing) Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik July 31, 2013 ****



E: Erickson, Carolly: The Favored Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Third Wife Oct 15, 2013 **
M: (Mikael Blomquist) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson Apr 5, 2013 ***
E: (Earp, Wyatt) Gunman's Rhapsody by Robert B. Parker June 11, 2013 ***
R: (Randall, Beth) Dark Lover by J.R. Ward Feb 4, 2013 ***
A: (Annie Tompkins) A Lantern In the Window by Bobby Hutchinson Jan 31, 2013 ****
L: Larsson, Stieg:The Girl Who Played with Fire Mar 29, 2013 ****
D: (Dresden, Harry) Storm Front by Jim Butcher May 10, 2013 ***



J: John M. Ford: How Much for Just the Planet? July 23, 2013 *
U: (Umbopa) King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard June 19, 2013 ***
N: Norman Mailer: The Gospel According to the Son June 27, 2013 ***
E: (Equality 7-2521) Anthem by Ayn Rand June 30, 2013 ***



P: Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle June 29, 2013 *****
E: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding June 13, 2013 ***
A: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton June 7, 2013 ****
R: (Raoul Nathan) A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac Mar 10, 2013 *****
L: The Last Concubine by Catt Ford Apr 18, 2013 **

[Zuzana]

TLC GEM OF A BOOK - PART II
Duration: Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2014
Completed: 76/76

J: (Jonas) The Giver by Lois Lowry Sep 25, 2013 ****
U: (Uhura) The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane July 25, 2013 ***
L: Louis L'Amour: The Quick and the Dead July 9, 2013 ***
Y: (Young, Edward) The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island by Louis Becke Oct 27, 2013 ***



R: Rowling, J.K.: The Tales of Beedle the Bard July 2, 2013 ***
U: Urban, Madeleine and Abigail Roux: Cut & Run Nov 11, 2013 ***
B: (Bush, William) Flying Colours by C.S. Forester June 6, 2013 ***
Y: Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai by Qiu Xiaolong Nov 30, 2013 ****



A: Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies by C.S. Forester June 26, 2013 ***
U: Urban, Madeleine and Abigail Roux:Sticks & Stones Dec 1, 2013 ****
G: The Gladiator's Master by Fae Sutherland Feb 19, 2013 ***
U: (Ubaldo DaTriesta) City of Silver: A Mystery by Annamaria Alfieri Dec 3, 2013 ****
S: Simak, Clifford D.: City Mar 20, 2013 ***
T: Texas Pride by Kindle Alexander July 8, 2013 **



P: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia by C.S. Lewis July 1, 2013 ***
E: (Edmund) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis June 30, 2013 ****
R: (Rhiannon) Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between by J.A. Saare July 4, 2013 ***
I: Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone June 8, 2013 ***
D: (Daren Boothe) Xylophone by K.Z. Snow Nov 17, 2013 ***
O: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway July 5, 2013 *****
T: (Tyler, Rose) Doctor Who: The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner July 26, 2013 ***



S: Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester June 5, 2013 ***
E: (Eustace) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis July 2, 2013 ***
P: The Pearl by John Steinbeck July 7, 2013 ****
T: (Temeraire) His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik July 21, 2013 ***
E: Ellis Peters: One Corpse Too Many July 11, 2013 ***
M: Michael Cunningham: The Hours July 18, 2013 ****
B: Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester Feb 5, 2013 ****
E: The Emperor's Pearl by Robert van Gulik July 14, 2013 ***
R: The Ronin: A Novel Based on a Zen Myth by William Dale Jennings July 10, 2013 ***



S: (Scrubb, Eustace The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis Nov 9, 2013 ***
A: (Arthur Dimmesdale) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Aug 23, 2013 ***
P: The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory Aug 2, 2013 ***
P: Philippa Gregory: The Virgin's Lover Aug 31, 2013 ***
H: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Sep 2, 2013 *****
I: Ice Tomb by Deborah Jackson Oct 24, 2013 **
R: Robert van Gulik: The Chinese Lake Murders July 16, 2013 ***
E: (Erik Monteague) Savin' Me by Alannah Lynne Aug 1, 2013 *



O: The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory Aug 6, 2013 ****
C: Commodore Hornblower by C.S. Forester June 24, 2013 ***
T: The Trader's Wife by Louis Becke Sep 5, 2013 ***
O: The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory Sep 30, 2013 ***
B: The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory Aug 16, 2013 ****
E: (Elizabeth I) The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory Aug 21, 2013 **
R: (Prince Rabadash) The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis Nov 3, 2013 ***



O: Orczy, Emmuska: I Will Repay June 10, 2013 **
P: A Play of Heresy by Margaret Frazer Oct 13, 2013 ***
A: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A.C. Doyle Oct 8, 2013 ***
L: Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue Sep 26, 2013 ***



N: Nancy Goldstone: Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe Oct 30, 2013 ****
O: (Oswy) Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne Oct 18, 2013 ***
V: (Vilém) May by Karel Hynek Mácha Nov 25, 2013 ****
E: Erben, Karel Jaromír: Kytice Sep 2, 2013 *****
M: The Murderer's Tale by Margaret Frazer Oct 20, 2013 ***
B: By Reef and Palm by Louis Becke Sep 5, 2013 ****
E: (Eleyna) The Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah July 28, 2013 ****
R: (Prince Rilian) The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis Nov 6, 2013 ****



T: (Talien) Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem Nov 27, 2013 ****
O: O'Brian, Patrick: Master and Commander Dec 18, 2013 ****
P: Pavel, Ota: Smrt krásných srnců Jan 3, 2014 *****
A: (Alys) Son by Lois Lowry Dec 5, 2013 ****
Z: (Zane) Fish & Chips by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban Dec 10, 2013 ***



D: (Durden, Tyler) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Nov 22, 2013 ****
E: (Everdeen, Katniss) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Sep 6, 2013 ***
C: C.S. Forester: Lord Hornblower Oct 21, 2013 ****
E: (Everdeen, Katniss) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Sep 7, 2013 ***
M: (Mircalla Karnstein) Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Nov 24, 2013 ***
B: Black Powder War by Naomi Novik Oct 2, 2013 ***
E: (Esther Greenwood) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Nov 20, 2013 ****
R: (Roger Mortimer) The Follies of the King by Jean Plaidy Oct 28, 2013 ***



Z: Zoo Station by David Downing Dec 11, 2013 ***
I: Isabeau: A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer by N. Gemini Sasson Nov 18, 2013 ***
R: Renault, Mary: The King Must Die Dec 20, 2013 ****
C: C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew Nov 23, 2013 ***
O: Once Upon A Rose by by Judith O'Brien Nov 19, 2013 **
N: Netzel, Stacey Joy: Mistletoe Mischief Dec 1, 2013 ***

[PepperP0t]

Gem of a Book-Challenge November 1, 2013 thru October 31, 2014
Total Books Completed for this Challenge: (77/77)
Birthmonths are msg 155
Last Update: April 20, 2014
Birthstones
January - Garnet 6/6books read
(view spoiler)[G: To the Limit by Cindy Gerard -- 1/1 - 3.75stars
A: The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/18 - 3.75stars
R: Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur -- 12/20 - 4.5stars (Riley Jenson)
N: Night Fall by Cherry Adair -- 11/16 - 3.5stars
E: Mortal Sins by Eileen Wilks -- 12/23 - 5stars
TThe Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis -- 12/4 - 4.25stars (Tara Daniels) (hide spoiler)]
February - Amethyst 8/8 books read
(view spoiler)[A: At Last by Jill Shalvis -- 12/22 - 4stars
M: What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries -- 12/30 - 4stars(MC/Maximillian)
E: Midnight Lies by Ella Grace -- 1/7 - 4stars
T: Thomas's Choice by Tina Folsom -- 12/13 - 4.25stars
H: Immortal Warrior by Lisa Hendrix -- 11/6 - 4.25stars
Y: In Firm Pursuit by Pamela Samuels Young -- 3/30 - 4.25
S: Damien by Jacquelyn Frank -- 11/18 - 3.25stars (Syreena - Character)
T: Tiger by Laurann Dohner 12/24 - 4.75stars (hide spoiler)]
March -( Aquamarine or) Bloodstone 10/10 books read
(view spoiler)[B: Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher -- 12/29 - 4.5stars
L: Wrath by Laurann Dohner -- 12/21 -- 4.75stars
O: Obsidian by Laurann Dohner -- 12/31 3.5stars
O: Over the Lineby Cindy Gerard -- 1/15 - 4.5stars
D: Dark Triumph by R.L. LaFevers -- 12/27 - 4stars
S: South of Surrender by Laura Kaye -- 12/25 - 4.5stars
T: Primal Law by J.D. Tyler -- 1/11 - 4.25stars (Primal Law)
O: Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas -- 3/2 - 4stars (Olivia)
N: Howling For You by Chloe Neill -- 1/16 - 4stars
E: Embrace The Darkness by Alexandra Ivy -- 1/16 - 4stars (hide spoiler)]
April - Diamond 7/7 books read
(view spoiler)[D: The Darkest Craving by Gena Showalter -- 11/20 - 4stars
I: Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley 12/1 - 3.75stars (Ivey)
A: Written in Red by Anne Bishop -- 1/4 - 4.25stars
M: Immortal Outlaw by Lisa Hendrix (Matilde/Marian) -- 1/15 - 3stars
O: One Shot by Laurie Roma -- 4/11 - 4 Stars
N: Moon by Laurann Dohner -- 1/8 - 3.5stars (New Species)
D: The Duke's Perfect Wife by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/10 -- 4stars (hide spoiler)]
May - Emerald 7/7 books read
(view spoiler)[E: Blood Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 1/18 - 4.25stars
M: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/10 -- 4stars
E: Death Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 2/11 - 4.25
R: Twilight Memories (Wings in the Night, #2) by Maggie Shayne(Rhiannon & Roland) -- 1/17 - 2.75stars
A: Bite Me, Your Grace by Brooklyn Ann -- 1/5 - 4stars
L: Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis -- 12/19 - 4.5stars
D: Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian 12/15 - 5star (hide spoiler)]
June - Pearl (or Alexandrite or Moonstone) 5/5 books read
(view spoiler)[P: Sweet Release by Pamela Clare -- 1/31 - 4stars
E: Edge of Dawn by Lara Adrian -- 2/7 - 4.25stars
A: The Bride by Julie Garwood (Alec) -- 1/12 - 4.5stars
R: The Ranger by Monica McCarty -- 1/27 - 4.5stars
L: Shadow by Laurann Dohner 12/24 - 4.75stars (hide spoiler)]
July - Ruby 4/4 books read
(view spoiler)[R: To Command and Collar by Cherise Sinclair -- 12/27 - 4.5stars (Raoul - Character)
U: Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods -- 2/4 - 3stars
B: Bound by Night by Larissa Ione -- 12/9 - 4stars
Y: Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young -- 3/21 - 4stars (hide spoiler)]
August - Peridot (or Sardonyx) 7/7 books read
(view spoiler)[P: Do Or Die by Suzanne Brockmann -- 2/12 - 4.25 (Phoebe Kruger)
E: Taming the Scotsman by Kinley MacGregor -- 2/4 - 4stars (Ewan Mac Allister)
R: Reaver by Larissa Ione -- 2/8 - 4.5stars
I: When Darkness Comes by Alexandra Ivy -- 1/5 - 3stars
D: Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall -- 12/16 - 5stars
O: Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley -- by 3/17 - 4.5stars
T: Twilight Phantasies by Maggie Shayne -- 1/9 - 3.75stars (hide spoiler)]
September - Sapphire 8/8 books read
(view spoiler)[S: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis -- 11/26 - 4stars
A: A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian -- 1/19 - 4.5
P: Carnal Gift by Pamela Clare -- 2/18 - 4.5stars
P: Fairytale Come Alive by Kristen Ashley -- 2/16 - 4stars (Prentice)
H: Hide from Evil by Jami Alden -- 1/26 - 5stars
I: Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley -- 12/1 -- 3.75stars (Ivey Cody)
R: Death Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 2/11 - 4.25 (Rule)
E: Never Miss a Chance by Maureen Driscoll -- 2/6 - 4.75stars (Elizabeth Kellington) (hide spoiler)]
October - (Tourmaline or) Opal 4/4 books read
(view spoiler)[O: Once in a Lifetime by Jill Shalvis -- 3/10 - 4stars
P: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling -- 3/15 - 5stars (Harry Potter)
A: Broken Dove by Kristen Ashley -- 2/10 - 4stars (Apollo)
L Lady Sophia's Lover by Lisa Kleypas -- 2/12 - 4stars (hide spoiler)]
November - Topaz (or Citrine) 5/5 books read
(view spoiler)[T: True by Laurann Dohner -- 1/23 - 4.5stars
O: Off the Edge by Carolyn Crane -- 3/10 - 4stars
P: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling -- 3/21 - 4.5stars (Harry Potter)
A: A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian -- 1/19 - 4.5
Z: Warrior by Zoe Archer -- 11/19 - 4.5stars (hide spoiler)]
December - (Tanzanite or )Zircon (or Turquoise) 6/6 books read
(view spoiler)[Z: Jagged by Kristen Ashley -- 12/16 - 4stars (Zara Cinders)
I: Secrets of a Viscount by Rose Gordon -- 2/20 - 4stars (Isabella)
R: Savage Awakening by J.D. Tyler -- 2/22 - 4.25stars (Rowan Chase)
C: To the Brink by Cindy Gerard -- 1/9 - 4.25stars
O: Once Bitten by Trina M. Lee -- 4/17 - 3.75 stars
N: Wild Things by Chloe Neill -- 2/20 - 3.75stars (hide spoiler)]

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Timeframe: Jan - Dec 2014
Completed: 97/153

J Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones 1/12/14 3.5♥
A Atkinson, Rick An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 1/13/14 3♥
N Nalini Singh Archangel's Consort 1/1/14 4♥
U Under Wraps by Hannah Jayne 1/16/14 3♥
A Ashley, Kristen Mystery Man 1/16/14 4.5♥
R Rapture in Death by J D Robb 1/5/14 4♥
Y Yasmine Galenorn Witchling 1/7/14 3♥

G Graceling by Kristen Cashore 1/19/14 4♥
A Ashley, Kristen Wild Man 2/4/14 4.5♥
R Robb, J D Ceremony in Death 1/21/14 4♥
N Nalini Singh Archangel's Blade 2/12/14 4♥
E Extreme Exposure by Pamela Clare 1/5/14 4♥
T Tatiana de Rosnay Sarah's Key 1/7/14 4♥

F Fool Moon by Jim Butcher 2/25/14 3.5♥
E Erin McCarthy Flat-Out Sexy 2/1/14 4♥
B Baum, L Frank The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1/29/14 3♥
R Red's Hot Cowboy by Carolyn Brown 2/6/14 4♥
U Unspoken by Dee Henderson 2/21/14 4♥
A Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 2/3/14 3♥
R Robb, J D Vengeance in Death 1/28/14 4♥
Y Yasmine Galenorn Changeling 2/16/14 3♥

A Ashley, Kristen Law Man 2/5/14 4.5♥
M Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley 2/5/14 4.5♥
E Erin McCarthy Hard and Fast 2/9/14 4♥
T Thea Harrison Kinked 1/18/14 4♥
H Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs 1/19/14 4♥
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S Serpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison 1/3/14 4♥
T Thea Harrison Lord's Fall 1/15/14 4♥

M Mariah Stewart Home Again 3/5/14 3♥
A All Shook Up by Susan Anderson 2/12/14 3♥
R Robb, J D Holiday in Death 2/26/14 3.5♥
C Carolyn Brown Darn Good Cowboy Christmas 2/7/14 4♥
H A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole 2/24/14 4♥

A And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 1/27/14 3.5♥
Q The Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee 1/15/14 3♥
U Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare 3/13/14 4♥
A Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas 1/18/14 3.5♥
M McCarthy, Erin Slow Ride 2/15/14 4♥
A Adler-Olsen, Jussi The Absent One 2/11/14 3.5♥
R Robb, J D Conspiracy in Death 3/12/14 4♥
I Into The Shadow by Christina Dodd 1/6/14 4♥
N No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean 3/16/14 3.5♥
E Evanovich, Janet Takedown Twenty 2/17/14 3♥

A Ashley, Kristin Fire Inside 2/18/14 4♥
P Poisoned Prose by Ellery Adams 2/17/14 3♥
R A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean 3/15/14 3♥
I Ivy Pochoda Visitation Street 2/20/14 3♥
L Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 2/19/14 3♥

D Dodd, Christina Scent of Darkness 1/2/14 3.5♥
I Into the Flame by Christina Dodd 1/24/14 4♥
A Ashley, Kristen The Gamble 3/4/14 4♥
M Moning, Karen Marie Beyond the Highland Mist 1/21/14 3.5♥
O Oracle's Moon by Thea Harrison 1/5/14 4♥
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M Moning, Karen Marie To Tame A Highland Warrior 2/24/14 3.5♥
A Ashley, Kristen Own the Wind 2/18/14 4♥
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E Erle Stanley Gardner The Case of the Stuttering Bishop 2/14/14 3.5♥
M Mann, Catherine Hot Zone 3/1/14 3♥
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L Lisa Kleypas Secrets of a Summer Night 2/16/14 3.5♥
D Dodd, Christina Touch of Darkness 1/6/14 4♥

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P Patterson, James Confessions: The Private School Murders 1/14/14 3♥
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[Turtlecollector Dennis]

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J Jaci Burton Changing the Game 2/1/14 4♥
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A Ashley, Kristen At Peace 3/17/14 4♥
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G The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross 1/20/14 3.5♥
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S Shalvis, Jill Always On My Mind 2/28/14 4♥
T Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck 3/22/14 3.5♥

P The Perfect Play by Jaci Burton 2/1/14 4♥
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D Dacus, Kaye Stand-In Groom 3/21/14 3♥
O Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout 1/23/14 3♥
T Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck 3/23/14 4♥

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B Breathe by Kristen Ashley 3/10/14 4♥
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H Hard Evidence by Pamela Clare 2/25/14 4♥
I It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis 2/27/14 4♥
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O Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2/23/14 3♥
C Cross, Kady The Girl in the Clockwork Collar 2/24/14 4♥
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O Onyx by Jennifer Armentrout 2/28/14 3.5♥
B Butcher, Jim Grave Peril 3/9/14 3.5♥
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O Opal by Jennifer Armentrout 3/1/14 3.5♥
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A Ashley, Kristen For You 3/17/14 4♥
L Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge 3/8/14 3.5♥

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V Victoria Dahl Good Girls Don't 3/21/14 3.5♥
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C Cross, Kady The Girl with the Iron Touch 2/27/14 4♥
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[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos), Group Creator]

Ok I am going to start all over again

[Asmaa]

'Gem of a book' Challenge
Duration: Sep 19th, 2013 - ?

READ: 36/154

May & Emerald
✔ M: Freefall by Mindi Scott
✔ A: The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook
✔ Y: A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young

✔ E: Forget You by Jennifer Echols
M: Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
E: Everneath by Brodi Ashton
✔ R: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔ A: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
L: Hold Still by Nina LaCour
✔ D: Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson

April & Diamond
✔ A: The Vincent Brothers - Abbi Glines
P: Purity - Jackson Pearce
✔ R: Room Service (Do Not Disturb) - Jill Shalvis
I: The Iron King - Julie Kagawa
L: If You Could Read My Mind - Jeanie London

D: Knowing the Score - Marie Donovan
I: In Good Hands - Kathy Lyons
A: Onyx - J.L. Armentrout
M: Inevitable - Michelle Rowen
O: One for the Road - Crystal Green
N: Teach Me - R.A. Nelson
D: A Midnight Dance - Lili Dipasqua

March & Bloodstone
✔ M: Midnight Angel by Lisa Marie Rice
✔ A: The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke
✔ R: Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett
✔ C: Good, Bad...Better by Cindi Myers
✔ H: The Iliad by Homer

✔ B: Beautiful Player by Christina Lauren
✔ L: Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
✔ O: Old Magic by Marianne Curley
✔ O: 1984 - George Orwell
✔ D: Deadline by Chris Crutcher
✔ S: Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
✔ T: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
✔ O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
✔ N: Cloak and Dagger by Nenia Campbell
✔ E: Every Day by David Levithan

February & Amethyst
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✔ M: Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
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✔ S: Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
✔ T: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke


January & Garnet
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✔ E: Scarlet Heat by Evangeline Anderson
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✔ U: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
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[Asmaa]

RESERVED FOR

November & Topaz
October & Opal
September & Sapphire
August & Peridot
July & Ruby
June & Pearl

[PepperP0t]

Will post Gems here instead of message 145

Gem of a Book-Challenge November 1, 2013 thru October 31, 2014
Total Books Completed for this Challenge: (62/77)
Birthmonths are msg 155
Last Update: February 15, 2014

Birthstones
January - Garnet 6/6books read

(view spoiler)[G: To the Limit by Cindy Gerard -- 1/1 - 3.75stars
A: The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/18 - 3.75stars
R: Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur -- 12/20 - 4.5stars (Riley Jenson)
N: Night Fall by Cherry Adair -- 11/16 - 3.5stars
E: Mortal Sins by Eileen Wilks -- 12/23 - 5stars
TThe Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis -- 12/4 - 4.25stars (Tara Daniels) (hide spoiler)]
February - Amethyst 7/8 books read
(view spoiler)[A: At Last by Jill Shalvis -- 12/22 - 4stars
M: What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries -- 12/30 - 4stars(MC/Maximillian)
E: Midnight Lies by Ella Grace -- 1/7 - 4stars
T: Thomas's Choice by Tina Folsom -- 12/13 - 4.25stars
H: Immortal Warrior by Lisa Hendrix -- 11/6 - 4.25stars
Y:
S: Damien by Jacquelyn Frank -- 11/18 - 3.25stars (Syreena - Character)
T: Tiger by Laurann Dohner 12/24 - 4.75stars (hide spoiler)]
March -( Aquamarine or) Bloodstone 9/10 books read
(view spoiler)[B: Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher -- 12/29 - 4.5stars
L: Wrath by Laurann Dohner -- 12/21 -- 4.75stars
O: Obsidian by Laurann Dohner -- 12/31 3.5stars
O: Over the Lineby Cindy Gerard -- 1/15 - 4.5stars
D: Dark Triumph by R.L. LaFevers -- 12/27 - 4stars
S: South of Surrender by Laura Kaye -- 12/25 - 4.5stars
T: Primal Law by J.D. Tyler -- 1/11 - 4.25stars (Primal Law)
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N: Howling For You by Chloe Neill -- 1/16 - 4stars
E: Embrace The Darkness by Alexandra Ivy -- 1/16 - 4stars (hide spoiler)]
April - Diamond 6/7 books read
(view spoiler)[D: The Darkest Craving by Gena Showalter -- 11/20 - 4stars
I: Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley 12/1 - 3.75stars (Ivey)
A: Written in Red by Anne Bishop -- 1/4 - 4.25stars
M: Immortal Outlaw by Lisa Hendrix (Matilde/Marian) -- 1/15 - 3stars
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N: Moon by Laurann Dohner -- 1/8 - 3.5stars (New Species)
D: The Duke's Perfect Wife by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/10 -- 4stars (hide spoiler)]
May - Emerald 7/7 books read

(view spoiler)[E: Blood Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 1/18 - 4.25stars
M: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley -- 12/10 -- 4stars
E: Death Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 2/11 - 4.25
R: Twilight Memories (Wings in the Night, #2) by Maggie Shayne(Rhiannon & Roland) -- 1/17 - 2.75stars
A: Bite Me, Your Grace by Brooklyn Ann -- 1/5 - 4stars
L: Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis -- 12/19 - 4.5stars
D: Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian 12/15 - 5star (hide spoiler)]
June - Pearl (or Alexandrite or Moonstone) 5/5 books read

(view spoiler)[P: Sweet Release by Pamela Clare -- 1/31 - 4stars
E: Edge of Dawn by Lara Adrian -- 2/7 - 4.25stars
A: The Bride by Julie Garwood (Alec) -- 1/12 - 4.5stars
R: The Ranger by Monica McCarty -- 1/27 - 4.5stars
L: Shadow by Laurann Dohner 12/24 - 4.75stars (hide spoiler)]
July - Ruby 3/4 books read
(view spoiler)[R: To Command and Collar by Cherise Sinclair -- 12/27 - 4.5stars (Raoul - Character)
U: Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods -- 2/4 - 3stars
B: Bound by Night by Larissa Ione -- 12/9 - 4stars
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August - Peridot (or Sardonyx) 5/7 books read
(view spoiler)[P: Do Or Die by Suzanne Brockmann -- 2/12 - 4.25 (Phoebe Kruger)
E: Taming the Scotsman by Kinley MacGregor -- 2/4 - 4stars (Ewan Mac Allister)
R: Reaver by Larissa Ione -- 2/8 - 4.5stars
I: When Darkness Comes by Alexandra Ivy -- 1/5 - 3stars
D: Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall -- 12/16 - 5stars
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T: Twilight Phantasies by Maggie Shayne -- 1/9 - 3.75stars (hide spoiler)]
September - Sapphire 5/8 books read
(view spoiler)[S: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis -- 11/26 - 4stars
A: A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian -- 1/19 - 4.5
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H: Hide from Evil by Jami Alden -- 1/26 - 5stars
I: Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley -- 12/1 -- 3.75stars (Ivey Cody)
R: Death Magic by Eileen Wilks -- 2/11 - 4.25 (Rule)
E: Never Miss a Chance by Maureen Driscoll -- 2/6 - 4.75stars (Elizabeth Kellington) (hide spoiler)]
October - (Tourmaline or) Opal 0/4 books read
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A: Broken Dove by Kristen Ashley -- 2/10 - 4stars (Apollo)
LLady Sophia's Lover by Lisa Kleypas -- 2/12 - 4stars (hide spoiler)]
November - Topaz (or Citrine) 3/5 books read
(view spoiler)[T: True by Laurann Dohner -- 1/23 - 4.5stars
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A: A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian -- 1/19 - 4.5
Z: Warrior by Zoe Archer -- 11/19 - 4.5stars (hide spoiler)]
December - (Tanzanite or)Zircon(or Turquoise) 3/6 books read
(view spoiler)[Z: Jagged by Kristen Ashley -- 12/16 - 4stars (Zara Cinders)
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C: To the Brink by Cindy Gerard -- 1/9 - 4.25stars
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N: (hide spoiler)]