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October - Pick It For Me! Challenge
Sue wrote: "Fran wrote: "Sue,I'm so glad you liked the pics! Yes, I have 7 Exes to lend to you, just PM me your email address and I'll send it out whenever you are ready for it :) "
Fran,
I finished [book:..."
Sue,
I'm so glad you liked Archangel's Blood! I sent you Seven Exes, I hope you enjoy that one too :)
Lacy wrote: "CathyHappy Monday! Let me know if you want to start One Grave at a Time today or tomorrow. Both days work for me! If not, that is fine too!"
I'm ready to start right now. Do you want to discuss as we go or when we're both done? Should we set up a thread in the Dare you to Read section?
Ok, update time. I've finished two more form my recommended list. 
Cowgirls Don't Cry - I'm gibing this one 4 stars. I could have given it more, but honestly I was disappointed that Brandt McKay was to insensitive to make the request he did. Especially when he supposedly has loved this woman for years. Last time I checked when you love someone you want to cause less pain and anguish, not add to it. However, I really really wish I read these in order! This is the 3rd in the Rough Riders series I have read thus far and I must say Ms. James does not ever disappoint. Unlike Long Hard Ride and Rough, Raw, and Ready, Cowgirls Don't Cry was less erotic and dare I say raunchy and more sweet and romantic. Also checked off the TBR list this weekend was
Tempting the Beast - 3 starsI enjoyed reading this, however, there were times when I wasn't too fond of the heroine, if you could call her that. The characters and storyline were well thought out and well written. And yes, it did make me want to go out and get the next book in the series.
Currently reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but paused in order to read a book by our ask the author of the week. However, I can see why it's such a popular book, so I will be picking it back up as soon as I'm done with my current book.
Cathy wrote: "Lacy wrote: "CathyHappy Monday! Let me know if you want to start One Grave at a Time today or tomorrow. Both days work for me! If not, that is fine too!"
I'm ready to start right now. Do you..."
Okay, I will start it in the morning. I'm cool with doing it either way, discussing during or at the end. If we decide to discuss it while reading it, we should set up a thread. It seems to work well, not having to search this thread for our posts. Let me know if you want me to start the thread. I am looking forward to reading this with you!
Iris, wow, so many books checked off already? I'm jealous. I haven't even made to mine yet.I'm happy you starter Harry Potter. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Okay Lacy, I started a thread in Dare you to Read. See you over there!
Hi Cathy, I decided to start a thread for our buddy read just in case: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...Talk to you soon!
Oh no! Great minds think alike!I'll go and delete mine!
I just finished A Hunger Like No Other and enjoyed it. Once I understood what the main guy's major malfunction was, he didn't seem like as much of a jerk as I originally thought.Now...it's on to Dark Lover!
Alyssa wrote: "I just finished A Hunger Like No Other and enjoyed it. Once I understood what the main guy's major malfunction was, he didn't seem like as much of a jerk as I originally thought.Now...."
I enjoyed A Hunger Like No Other when I read it a couple months ago. I hope you like Dark Lover! It's one of my favourites.
Iris wrote: "Also checked off the TBR list this weekend was Tempting the Beast - 3 stars I enjoyed reading this, however, there were times when I wasn't too fond of the heroine, if you could call her that. The characters and storyline were well thought out and well written. And yes, it did make me want to go out and get the next book in the series...."
Iris, I hope you continue with the series. It gets better and the 3rd book in the series, IMO is the best book out of the series - Elizabeth's Wolf.
Gigi wrote: "Iris wrote: "Iris, I hope you continue with the series. It gets better and the 3rd book in the series, IMO is the best book out of the series - Elizabeth's Wolf."OH - I have to totally agree with that statement. In fact, I liked it so much that the only reason I kept reading the next 17 books was in the hopes that one of them would be as good as this one. Nope. While there were others in the series that were pretty good, I was mostly disappointed.
Julia wrote: "Hi Amanda, How about we start our buddy read nest week? I just committed to readA Discovery of Witchesthis week.
How about we read Bad Boys Do? I want to see w..."
Thats sounds good. This week is kinda busy for me, I'll pick up the book over the weekend. I also want to know where the series is going.
I started this book, and it's taking me forever (hehe) to get through it. It's just not keeping my interest and I feel like I'm having to force myself to finish it :(Shirley wrote: "Caroline wrote: "Shirley wrote: "Just finished one of my recommendations
. The book in the whole wasn't that bad, but it lacked a couple of things. It had almost no dia..."
I really liked the Chase Brothers Series, and then there's one more with Nathan, one of the main characters brothers, it's Petal Georgia I think, but I ended up really like them =)Kimberly wrote: "Hey Kerste,
I just finished
this was a 2.75 star read. Almost a 3 but I didn't like a number of things. I will be continuing the series though."
I finished First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones, my buddy read with Gigi. I thought it was really good and gave it four stars. I want to read the second book in the series now.
Hi Pam,I just finished City of Bones. It was the best mindsuck of a book that I have read in a while. I spent half the time wanting to punch Clary and the other half just loving the story and the book.
I think I am going to move on to Ravished by Amanda Quick now.
Tiffanny chose Party Naked for me and we read it together as a Buddy Read. I really liked it- short, sweet, no drama, just a sexy love story. Thanks for joining me Tiffanny!
This has been my first time doing a challenge, and I am LOVING it!All my books so far have been 4 or 5 star reads for me.
I read
Twenties Girl as a buddy read with Nancy which was tons of fun.
Really enjoyed an older Jennifer Crusie, Tell Me Lies, and I just finished Your Scandalous Ways.
Nancy recommended One Night Is Never Enough which I'm about to start. Since it's the second in the series, I had to read Seven Secrets of Seduction first.
Just finished
for the Buddy Read. Thank you, Lanh-Din for this pick. I've been meaning to read this for awhile. It was definitely an interesting read for me. Very outside my comfort zone, both YA and distopian fiction. I gave it 3 stars. I liked it but had major problems with it. But interestingly enough, I've also found myself talking about this book more than most. So a really good read in the sense that it got my intellectual juices going a little bit more than usual.
Leslie wrote: "Just finished for the Buddy Read. Thank you, Lanh-Din for this pick. I've been meaning to read this for awhile. It was definitely an interesting read for me. V..."I agree - I think buddy reads make everything more enjoyable. Because even if you don't like the book, it's great to discuss it with others. Thanks for joining me! Since we bought the trilogy at such a great price, we should probably keep reading at some point. I'm not in a huge rush to do so, but let me know when you decide to.
ErinI finished
yesterday. As usual, Singh did not disappoint. Thanks for the push to read this book. I do miss the Psy/Changeling world.
Lan-Dinh wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Just finished for the Buddy Read. Thank you, Lanh-Din for this pick. I've been meaning to read this for awhile. It was definitely an interesting ..."I definitely want to finish the trilogy. I'm interested to see where she is going with it all. Please let me know also when you are thinking of picking it back up. It would be great to continue the buddy read with the it. thanks!
I finished my buddy read with Cathy tonight of One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost. I really liked it, one of the best of the series. I give it 5 stars. Thanks for the rec and push to read it, Cathy. I'm still enjoying our chat session. I'll check by our thread tomorrow to see what you thought.
I'm going to try to get to my second pick this month. We will see. I am way behind on my reading!
Hey Moviemavengal I finished The Graveyard Book 2 nights ago and gave it 5 stars, this is my favourite of Gaiman's so far, I love how vivid his imagination is and I think Nobody Owens will go down as one of the greatest literary characters. Thankyou for picking it for me :)
Pollyanna wrote: "Hey Moviemavengal I finished The Graveyard Book 2 nights ago and gave it 5 stars, this is my favourite of Gaiman's so far, I love how vivid his imagination is and I think Nobody Owen..."Loved it, too! If you want to do a buddy read, let me know!
Hey Polina I finished My One and Only today! It was really good. I can't lie though, I couldn't stand the main girls personality at the beginning... maybe she does that on purpose though. I also thought the end just kind of felt rushed it felt like the entire book focused on their unfixable problems then at the end she's like all of our problems were fixed and everything was perfect. Other than that though, I loved the story! I'm probably going to read Slave to Sensation next because I keep getting it recommended and need to stop putting it off ;) Thanks again!Books read this month:
Finished Angels' Blood last night - stayed up a lot later than I should have because I just couldn't put it down! First time reading a book by this author and she was fantastic! There were parts of the book where you never actually found out what the full story was but I wonder if this was setting up some of the plot for the next one, which incidentally I am just searching for on Amazon to buy for my kindle now :) Thanks so much for the recommendations Kimberly
Think I will read One for the Money next. Finding my picks this month so easy to read! Enjoyed 2/2 so great success rate too :)
Alyssa, I finished
& it was fantastic! Thank you very much for the rec!
I finish the buddy read of One Grave at a Time with Lacy. I really liked the book and had fun reading it with a buddy. Thanks Lacy!
Suzanne wrote: "Think I will read One for the Money next. Finding my picks this month so easy to read! Enjoyed 2/2 so great success rate too :)"So glad you liked the picks Suzanne!! I'm starting Angel's Blood tonight and I'll post what I think as I go along in our thread you created :)
Kimberly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Think I will read One for the Money next. Finding my picks this month so easy to read! Enjoyed 2/2 so great success rate too :)"S..."
Sounds good - I kept meaning to write things in the dare you to read post but with never doing one before I wasn't sure what to write. I can also see why you like "One for the Money" only a couple of chapters in and Janet Evanovich's writing style really appeals to me
Suzanne wrote: "Kimberly wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Think I will read One for the Money next. Finding my picks this month so easy to read! Enjoyed 2/2 so great success rate too :)[bookcover:One for the ..."
She's so good!! The series gets better and better :) I'm on book 12.
LethalLovely~Don't Feed Me Violins, Just Run wrote: "Alyssa, I finished & it was fantastic! Thank you very much for the rec!"I'm so glad you liked it!!! It was definitely one of my favorite stories by far!! ^___^
I Polina I finished Slave to Sensation this afternoon and all I can say is thank you for giving me that little push to finally read it! Idk why I've been putting it off, I guess the summary confused me and I thought it'd be too hard for me to enjoy. But, I was wrong I absolutely loved it! I'm talking stayed up till three to read then forced myself to go to bed since I had to be up in four hours. I'm going to try to read Water for Elephants sometime this weekend but I'm not sure if I'll get to it or not. Otherwise I'll read it over the next week or so. Thanks again!Books read this month
Lexa - IMHO, the psy-changling series just keeps getting better and better..I wasn't a fan of book 3 or book 7 (I think) - but other than that, wow
Dee wrote: "Lexa - IMHO, the psy-changling series just keeps getting better and better..I wasn't a fan of book 3 or book 7 (I think) - but other than that, wow"I didn't like the non-changeling books as much. So Bonds of Justice and Blaze of Memory were not my favorites of the series. But I LOVE the rest of them.
Dee wrote: "Lexa - IMHO, the psy-changling series just keeps getting better and better..I wasn't a fan of book 3 or book 7 (I think) - but other than that, wow"I'm so glad they keep getting better! I always worry when I read a first book in a series that I love because then I get even more disappointed when the rest stink. I'm glad I have multiple people telling me that the books are great! It'll push me to continue reading them sooner ;)
Diane Whitney ~ completed Too Hot To Touch was really good if you haven't read yet. Good beginning to a (i believe) trilogy. How did you like The Night Circus I saw several picked it this month? Thanks again for the rec's. I'm gonna continue w/ all three of these series
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Lacy, Thanks again for the picks - I just finished Glory in Death by J.D. Robb, and I really enjoyed it. This is an excellent series, and I don't know why I have put off reading it for so long. I am definitely going to continue with them, though. I really like the Eve Dallas character.
Hi Pam. I just finished
Amanda Quick. I loved it. I love books with a Beauty and the Beast themes. Gideon is one of my favorite heroes right now.I think I am going to keep with the ravished theme and move onto
Lexa wrote: "Dee wrote: "Lexa - IMHO, the psy-changling series just keeps getting better and better..I wasn't a fan of book 3 or book 7 (I think) - but other than that, wow"I'm so glad they keep getting bette..."
And each time I've delayed reading one of these books (Psy-changling), I've kicked myself and wondered why I didn't jump on it sooner!! (I'm nearly up to date now - just waiting on Kiss of Snow to arrive - can't wait!!)
I finished Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent, my second buddy read with Brett. I really liked it a lot. It was so scary and exciting and romantic. I gave that one four stars. I have to find the second book in this series to find out what happens to Liv. Good grief, that was a scary cliffhanger of an ending.
Yz the Whyz wrote: "ErinI finished
yesterday. As usual, Singh did not disappoint. Thanks for the push to read this book. I do miss the Psy/Changeling world."It's such a fun and enjoyable series. Glad you liked Bonds of Justice. It's one of my favorites from the series.
Finished
and loved it. The characters are engaging and the romance is sweet and sexy. Thanks for the pick Yz the Whyz. I can't wait to read the next one in the series.
I liked Bonds of Justice - but not Blaze of Memory - but lots love BoMLan-Dinh wrote: "Dee wrote: "Lexa - IMHO, the psy-changling series just keeps getting better and better..I wasn't a fan of book 3 or book 7 (I think) - but other than that, wow"
I didn't like the non-changeling bo..."
Finished
loved the book.. :-)
thnaks for the pick Roxy...
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Thanks I do like the Greek Mythology/ gods and goddesses angle. I will try to add the next book to one of the challenge's i do next month or I'll see if i can add it to my "seasonal" challenge.
I know what I'm gonna recommend are young adult/children's books but have you tried Rick Riordan's mythology series. They are quick reads and actually pretty well written. My son and I read the Percy Jackson series together; we are now working on the Kane (Egypt mythology) family series and the Heroes of Olympus series.