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Feb 06, 2012 04:42PM
Soooo... what name are we going with? Seven Spellbinding Sirens??
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Freespace:5/5 Completed
Sassy (Amy)Hunger Untamed02/09/12 ★★★★ review
Celine Shadowfever 04/02/12 ★★★★★ review
Cathy (#123) Dark Desires After Dusk02/10/12 ★★★★ review
Taly A Perfect Blood02/26/2012 ★★★★★ review
Angi One Grave at a Time02/26/12 ★★★★ 1/2 review
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I7 Shelf Announced: 2/5/12
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Sassy (Amy) Rapture Untamed 02/08/12 ★★★★★ review
CelineThe Wolf Gift 02/22/12 ★★★ review
Cathy (#123) Iron Kissed02/09/12 ★★★★★ review
Taly The Phantom of the Opera02/09/12 ★★★★★ review
Angi Chicks Kick Butt02/11/2012★★★ review
Judithe wrote: "I'll just be a busy-body and jump in here, too! It's pretty easy.
For your team, you should make a list of the books they will/did read (include a post number where they post their review, rat..."
HAHA! I totally copied! Thanks for the link!!
Someone let me know if I messed it up!
Go, Ang, Go Ang! :D
Looks good Amy, but I've added the Review link as well now, so when someone finishes their reads you can do that too :D
Celine wrote: "Amy, would you like to be captain? Or should I?
I like Seven Spellbinding Sirens (:
By the way, has anyone heard anything from Taly? She hasn't posted on the threat once :\"
Sorry for the absence. Was celebrating both my parents birthday this weekend. I'm catching up, reading the thread and choosing the book.
And I like Seven Spellbinding Sirens too (what can I say, I'm a sucker for alliteration :D)
I like Seven Spellbinding Sirens (:
By the way, has anyone heard anything from Taly? She hasn't posted on the threat once :\"
Sorry for the absence. Was celebrating both my parents birthday this weekend. I'm catching up, reading the thread and choosing the book.
And I like Seven Spellbinding Sirens too (what can I say, I'm a sucker for alliteration :D)
Yeah! Welcome Taly!! Thank you Amy! :)Now off to get ready for work ;-p have a great day all (btw I'm in Budapest, Hungary. 6 hrs ahead of EST)
Ps- thanks Steph!! :-D
:D Thank you Angi. Happy to be up and running..ehr... reading.
And Go Amy, team cap!.
As for my book, I'm picking
Just realized it's on the bookshelf, and I have it right here :D
And Go Amy, team cap!.
As for my book, I'm picking
Just realized it's on the bookshelf, and I have it right here :D
Yay, hi Taly! And great work Amy, looks very professional, haha!I'm from the Netherlands, so that's in the same timezone as Angi (:
Oh, good to know. I saw someone saying mine was same as EEUU. True. Central time I think, so, maybe 7 hours earlier than you here?
Have you picked a book yet? I'll be so stealing ideas from all of you guys :D
I was relieved to see one of my family's purchases being on the list, cause my internet connection is not great here for downloads (no p2p or torrent access). Will improve for next week, when I'm back home. It'll be good to worry less about picking :D
Have you picked a book yet? I'll be so stealing ideas from all of you guys :D
I was relieved to see one of my family's purchases being on the list, cause my internet connection is not great here for downloads (no p2p or torrent access). Will improve for next week, when I'm back home. It'll be good to worry less about picking :D
Ohhh, great book!! I absolutely loved it. The whole saga, really. It's a very intense volume. Get to it with time, 'cause you wont want to stop :D
Angi wrote: "Yeah! Welcome Taly!! Thank you Amy! :)Now off to get ready for work ;-p have a great day all (btw I'm in Budapest, Hungary. 6 hrs ahead of EST)
That is so cool! My friend is from Toponar... She was on the Kayak team years ago.
AHH!
Very cool! I'm originally from WV! :)Celine you are going to LOVE it.... one of my favoritie series and that was a great one in the series. Enjoy!!! :)
Im trucking along with my book. You would think I would learn my lesson about anthologies. It's just not fulfilling for me unless its part of a series I already read. Then it's like a little extra goodie :) Oh well... maybe I'll find a story I like inside and be compelled to start the series. That's probably the idea anyway, huh? ;-)
You all have a great day - I had a two hour zumba night last night....was a lot of fun actually and didn't feel like two hours but I'm rather tired today :)
Amy thanks for taking on the captain role. Looks great. I am halfway through Iron Kissed. We seem to have an international.team...I am from South Carolina.Currently I am sitting at work watching my 2 month old trached patient during her sleep study. It is 3:45 am in a dark room with a ventilator running. Talk about a LONG 12 hours. But she is cute as a button.
Cathy wrote: "Amy thanks for taking on the captain role. Looks great. I am halfway through Iron Kissed. We seem to have an international.team...I am from South Carolina.
Currently I am sitting at work watching ..."
Yeap, a very mixed bag. You are a... pediatrician? or is it about the sleep part?
And poor Angi. I always end up reading only the story related to the series I'm following from the anthologies, lol. I guess they aren't for me.
Currently I am sitting at work watching ..."
Yeap, a very mixed bag. You are a... pediatrician? or is it about the sleep part?
And poor Angi. I always end up reading only the story related to the series I'm following from the anthologies, lol. I guess they aren't for me.
Steph wrote: "Gotta look that one up, Amy. We don't get the commercials here in JP.ETA: We just LOL watching it on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9ZeX...). The ending [spoilers removed] LOL! I..."
Late to the party, but thanks for sharing that one, Steph! LOL!
Completely missed the SB...who won? Scratch that, who PLAYED? Judithe retreats back under her homey little rock....
Judithe, even I know that the Giants beat the Patriots! Wait, who are the Patriots again?
:D This is all so over my head, lol.
...
Baseball, right? ^^
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Baseball, right? ^^
No...not baseball~definitely up on that! And it's too COLD to play baseball right now...Didn't the Patriots fight the British...something to do with the Boston Tea Pary??? Yoowhoo, Steph! We need a hand with this...
OK...blame it on finals (I'm the wicked, whip-wielding prof, not poor, stressed student, though we're both sleep-deprived) which is why the SB was just a passing blip in my consciousness. Did watch some bits of college bowls...back when I had guilt-free free time!And I honestly had no clue who was in it...even on FB, just glazed over those and moved on to the plethora of food pics...
Sassy ~ Amy wrote: "Judithe wrote: "I'll just be a busy-body and jump in here, too! It's pretty easy.
For your team, you should make a list of the books they will/did read (include a post number where they post t..."
How do I do the review link? I am as far as I can go.
I finished
02/08/12 & give it ★★★★★!I started this series because one of my GR friends said they liked it. This book did not sound very good based on what the back cover said, but I went ahead and read it anyway. It ended up being great!
I loved this book about Jag and his Therian Guard partner (only for this book) Olivia. A 300 y/o scottish red head that can take his crap & fight him back. She has been Draden kissed. You find out what that means in this book. It added a whole new twist to the fight to capture the Daemens let loose by the Mages. Not everything ends good.
Olivia is teamed up with Jag to hunt down 3 Daemens. They find out the Mages (their enemies)are using the Daemens & they (the shifters called Ferals) must stop them from completing the plan. During this back story, a**hole Jag, blackmails Olivia with her secret (not that she minds being his slave). There is tons of action and I really liked Jags inner battle with himself. There was never a dull moment & it took me a day to read.
To link any post, right click on the time stamp: (message 52: by Sassy ~ Amy(last edited 9 minutes ago)Feb 06, 2012 04:57pm and copy the url. It looks like this:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...
Then just paste that into the post you want it in. You can choose the "some html is ok" button to make the link really pretty: Seven Spellbinding Sirens Shelf list
Does that help?
Judithe wrote: "To link any post, right click on the time stamp: (message 52: by Sassy ~ Amy(last edited 9 minutes ago)Feb 06, 2012 04:57pm and copy the url. It looks like this:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic..." Duh! I just need to learn to navigate this place!! LOL!
NP....I asked that very same question!
Yay!! Amy rocks :)
Yeah! Att'a good cap! And thanks Judithe.
Also, cap unknowingly answered a question of mine, of whether I should copy my review in this thread when I finish the book. Very near the end now (weee! :D)
Also, cap unknowingly answered a question of mine, of whether I should copy my review in this thread when I finish the book. Very near the end now (weee! :D)
Taly wrote: "Cathy wrote: "Amy thanks for taking on the captain role. Looks great. I am halfway through Iron Kissed. We seem to have an international.team...I am from South Carolina.Currently I am sitting at ..."
I am a nurse in an 80 bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Was a long night but the baby did great.
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs 2/9/12 ★★★★★This series had been on my to be read shelf for way to long so I decided it was time to read them. Now I am hooked. Iron Kissed is my favorite so far. I really like how Patricia Briggs has developed the characters in the series. Mercedes is a strong, independent and will do anything including risk her own life to help her friends. Adam is the definition of an Alpha male while still being patient and understanding. I love the way Ben has been slowly redeeming himself throughout the series, he is becoming one of my favorite characters. Iron Kissed dealt with some very heavy and disturbing issues towards the end, but I feel it just made the book/series even better.
I've read
02/09/2012
The Phantom of the Opera by Gastón Leroux for the supernatural shelf & rate it ★★★★★
Another classic to the bag. I've been wanting to read this for some years, and recently purchased it.
It's a strange form of narration. It would have taken me more to get into it if I hadn't read Frankenstein recently. While not exactly the same, it has that aspect of not being a book where the story is immediately contained inside the covers, but is instead being a told by a intermediary character, chronicling old news, rumors, tales, bits and stories from other people, and passing it as true. Down right fourth wall banging. Sometimes, the narrative even changes a bit, like it goes to a fade, and then we are yanked back to hard relief, and reminded of the meta aspect, whenever the chronicling restarts.
The atmosphere is dark, shadowy, dreamlike. I would classify the book as Gothic more than anything. Straddles the "maybe real, maybe magic" fence. I do not believe it quite "supernatural", but realize why people shelve it as such. Or maybe I fall on the real side of the ground.
The cast is a veritable dysfunction junction. A collection of deeply flawed characters. We have a very superstitious, naive Christine, a green, immature viscount of Chagny, a tortured genius Phantom, enabler ex police Persian (my favorite character after the Phantom). And then excessively innocent old Valerius, proud mom Giry, jokesters directors that make bad victims, the scheming singer Carlotta, the patronizing count of Chagny. Thrown in, some that pass muster, like superstitious but brave Sorelli, efficient Remy, cunning Grabriel, Mercier. They don't appear much, of course.
Some character grow. Or just grow on you. Christine annoyed me by the middle of the book, and then she matured, cast away that deep naivete (out of shock, probably), but kept her compassion, and that made me like her. Raoul is young, but proves undaunted. The Persian is guilty by complicity, but tries to atone, and gives value to life. The Phantom is a true monster first, an unparalleled genius and inspired creator later, a well of madness and longing and cruelty, and ultimately pitiable.
I knew the story, but loved reading it. Loved the nuances, the descriptions, the long and detailed, and even more the short, cheeky ones. Loved the unfolding. Heard the music. I liked it. A lot.
02/09/2012 The Phantom of the Opera by Gastón Leroux for the supernatural shelf & rate it ★★★★★
Another classic to the bag. I've been wanting to read this for some years, and recently purchased it.
It's a strange form of narration. It would have taken me more to get into it if I hadn't read Frankenstein recently. While not exactly the same, it has that aspect of not being a book where the story is immediately contained inside the covers, but is instead being a told by a intermediary character, chronicling old news, rumors, tales, bits and stories from other people, and passing it as true. Down right fourth wall banging. Sometimes, the narrative even changes a bit, like it goes to a fade, and then we are yanked back to hard relief, and reminded of the meta aspect, whenever the chronicling restarts.
The atmosphere is dark, shadowy, dreamlike. I would classify the book as Gothic more than anything. Straddles the "maybe real, maybe magic" fence. I do not believe it quite "supernatural", but realize why people shelve it as such. Or maybe I fall on the real side of the ground.
The cast is a veritable dysfunction junction. A collection of deeply flawed characters. We have a very superstitious, naive Christine, a green, immature viscount of Chagny, a tortured genius Phantom, enabler ex police Persian (my favorite character after the Phantom). And then excessively innocent old Valerius, proud mom Giry, jokesters directors that make bad victims, the scheming singer Carlotta, the patronizing count of Chagny. Thrown in, some that pass muster, like superstitious but brave Sorelli, efficient Remy, cunning Grabriel, Mercier. They don't appear much, of course.
Some character grow. Or just grow on you. Christine annoyed me by the middle of the book, and then she matured, cast away that deep naivete (out of shock, probably), but kept her compassion, and that made me like her. Raoul is young, but proves undaunted. The Persian is guilty by complicity, but tries to atone, and gives value to life. The Phantom is a true monster first, an unparalleled genius and inspired creator later, a well of madness and longing and cruelty, and ultimately pitiable.
I knew the story, but loved reading it. Loved the nuances, the descriptions, the long and detailed, and even more the short, cheeky ones. Loved the unfolding. Heard the music. I liked it. A lot.
Cathy wrote: "Taly wrote: "Cathy wrote: "Amy thanks for taking on the captain role. Looks great. I am halfway through Iron Kissed. We seem to have an international.team...I am from South Carolina.Currently I a..."
Yay for the baby girl!!
Cathy wrote: I am a nurse in an 80 bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Was a long night but the baby did great."
Whoa, that must be a very demanding job. I'm glad the baby did fine ^_^
Whoa, that must be a very demanding job. I'm glad the baby did fine ^_^
I finished
on 2/09/12 and give it ★★★★.In this one the shifter Kouger reconnects with his Ilina queen mate Ariana who severed her mate bond 1000 years prior in order o save him and her people. She has been poisoned & has pretended to be dead for that long as well.
Kouger & the Therians are trying to rescue Hawke & Tighe from some worm hole trap created by the mage before they are seperated from their animals & die permanently. Ariana can supposedly rescue them because she can turn to mist.
So many things are happening during this book & not all end well or are sorted out how it can be to allow the series to go on. She had an out and didn't take it this time arod so it left me frustrated. Oh well.
Sorry for the terrible spelling, but I don't have the book infront of me to get the name spellings right.
Alright! I think I am totally updated. I didn't get any messages about this board today, so I was slacking a little! Sorry!Since I have this book link thingy down, it's pretty easy. I may be missing a character when I post initially, so it will look bad but I clean it up once I figure out what the heck I missed! This last time it was a quotation mark! just 1 & it messed up the whole thing! LOL!
Weee!!! WTG Amy! :D
I'm leaving for home in some hour, and will get to my pc and my connection!! And my books! Say YES with me!! I get to pick and read my free-space book tomorrow, yay!
I'm leaving for home in some hour, and will get to my pc and my connection!! And my books! Say YES with me!! I get to pick and read my free-space book tomorrow, yay!
Taly wrote: I'm leaving for home in some hour, and will get to my pc and my connection!! And my books! Say YES with me!! I get to pick and read my free-space book tomorrow, yay!"Yay! & be safe travelling!
Busy week!! Happy Friday all! :) I'm 3/4th of the way done with my book. I just wish I could sit and read for as long as I wanted...::sigh::: Tonight I'm taking my oldest daughter to get braces. She is actually really excited. I'll finish my book this weekend. Will the next shelf be called on Sunday? Last time I played it was two weeks and the time before it was one week (hmm... I guess I've played twice before).
TGIF!
Yep, Sunday morning Japan time, Angi.
Happy Friday! I'm still reading Shadowfever, it's really exciting but such a long book :o I'll try to finish as soon as possible, so I can get on with my supernatural read...
Almost done with my free space read
Happy weekend gals! I'm back home, and mired on the amount of things I have to do, lol, but relieved. No place like home.
I know it's ten days to the release, but I'm choosing A Perfect Blood for my free-space ('cause I really want to polish it as soon as I can get my hand on it ^_^). I'm starting on the five preview chapters today. Cheers. And a great weekend to all of you.
I know it's ten days to the release, but I'm choosing A Perfect Blood for my free-space ('cause I really want to polish it as soon as I can get my hand on it ^_^). I'm starting on the five preview chapters today. Cheers. And a great weekend to all of you.
Nice choice Taly! I still have to catch up with Kim Harrison's books... Maybe I'll try to fit a few of her books in the upcoming shelves.Hope all of you guys are having a great weekend (:
Do so, they are addictive. And yeah, lazy and good so far. Good luck with Shadowfever. It IS long, but so worth it.
Taly wrote: "Happy weekend gals! I'm back home, and mired on the amount of things I have to do, lol, but relieved. No place like home. I know it's ten days to the release, but I'm choosing [book:A Perfect Blo..."
I haven't started those yet! I am going to see how you like them. I have them all, but other books come up and I get side tracked! I amadding your book now!
Hi Sirens! :)I finished my chosen book, "Chicks Kick Butt". I have to remind myself that I don't like books like this. Especially in this case because I can't just choose the ones I WANT to read lol. Oh well - I found some interesting series I will check out.
Finished
on 2/11/2012 I give it ★★★ overall.In order:
"Shiny" by Rachel Caine : While I'm not a big fan of the "Weather Wardens" series (tried the first one and could never get into it) I thought this one was interesting. I liked how real the main character was and I liked the ending.... never judge a book by its cover :)
"In Vino Veritas" by Karen Chance: I grew tired of the Cassandra Clare series and was dreading reading this one. I was happy to find out it was actually a "Dory" one. I really liked the first book from her series so it was nice to remember why I have the second one on my TBR pile. Though, this story left a bit to be desired - there wasn't much to it - I did enjoy the character once again :)
"Hunt" by Rachel Vincent : I LOVE the Shifter series so this was the main reason I chose to read this book in the first place. Though, there wasn't a lot to it, I was happy to see the characters I love. I got to see Abby take front stage and a bit of Jace (yummy). Love these guys!
"Monsters" by Lilith Saintcrow : Honestly, I didn't enjoy this so much. Just the whole tone of the story, really put me off. It was a lot darker than my tastes.
"Vampires Prefer Blondes" by P.N. Elrod: This was a cute story but there didn't seem to be a whole lot going on but a lot of "girl-power" which is really the whole idea of the book :)
"Nine-Tenths of the Law" by Jenna Black: I really liked this one. I should have known I would though because I really enjoy Jenna Black's writing. I'll be checking for this one to see if it's a part of a series.
"Double Dead" by Cheyenne McCray- Totally new to me author that I've never read before. I thought this was a very intriguing story with interesting characters and a lead female I really liked. I'll definitely be checking into her series.
"A Rose By Any Other Name Would Still Be Red" by Elizabeth A. Vaughan : This story was lacking a lot for me. I thought it was just okay but there wasn't much "meat" in the story for me.
"Superman" by Jeanne C. Stein : Taken from another series I really like - the "Anna Strong" series. I am not as up-to-date on this series as I would like to be. Because of this, this story had some spoilers in it for me but it didn't ruin the story. I still enjoy this character a lot.
"Monster Mash" by Carole Nelson Douglas: This one was pretty weird and I could never quite get into it.
"Wanted Dead or Alive" by LA Banks: I was a bit worried about reading this one as I have tried to read LA Banks before I couldn't quite get into it. This story however was intriguing. I liked the premise and I will check it out because it seems like it is leading up to a series.
"Mist" by Susan Krinard: This one was a bit interesting but I don't think I would read the series. It didn't quite "grab" me like I like my books to :)
"Beyond the Pale" by Nancy Holder: This one did grab me and I really enjoyed it. I've never read this author before so I'll definitely be looking her up!
BTW I really have no idea what my free space will be... I'll look into it and let you ladies know :)
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