It's a beautiful day here in Kansas, a perfect day for a read-a-thon! I hope this means I can get some outside Vitamin D makin' reading time in today. How's everyone doing? I spent awhile visiting friends that are also doing the read-a-thon, so I think during the next segment I'll try to visit some other random participants and see what they're up to! It's time to start thinking about lunch!
 | Title: Dragon Temple #3: Forged by Fire Author: Janine Cross Total Pages: started on page 201-237 Time Started: 9:05 - 10:05 am Time Finished: Thoughts: Have already started this one, but want to try and finish it up during the read-a-thon. Probably won't read it all at one stretch, but will slip chapters in between other reads. |
 | Title: Visions of Sugar Plums Author: Janet Evanovich Total Pages: 164 Time Started: 10:26 AM Time Finished: Thoughts: |
| Totals | # Books finished: 1 # Pages Read: 123 Time spent reading: 1 hour 15 minutes |
 | Title: The Private Life of the Cat Who... Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Total Pages: 123 Time Started: 7:25 am Time Finished: 8:40 am Thoughts: Kind of like when a couple of cat-loving friends get together and tell stories on their treasured pets. Not really necessary to have read the Cat Who series, if you're a cat lover it would be a cute and fast read, but probably you would get more out of it if you are already somewhat familiar with the basic idea of the series. A nice quick start to my read-a-thon day! |
Hour 1 challenge: | Title: Dragon Temple #3: Forged by Fire Author: Janine Cross Total Pages: started on page 200 Time Started: 9:00 am Time Finished: Thoughts: Have already started this one, but want to try and finish it up during the read-a-thon. Probably won't read it all at one stretch, but will slip chapters in between other reads. |
| Title: Visions of Sugar Plums Author: Janet Evanovich Total Pages: 164 Time Started: Time Finished: Thoughts: |
| Totals | # Books finished: 1 # Pages Read: 123 Time spent reading: 1 hour 15 minutes |
| Title: The Private Life of the Cat Who... Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Total Pages: 123 Time Started: 7:25 am Time Finished: 8:40 am Thoughts: Kind of like when a couple of cat-loving friends get together and tell stories on their treasured pets. Not really necessary to have read the Cat Who series, if you're a cat lover it would be a cute and fast read, but probably you would get more out of it if you are already somewhat familiar with the basic idea of the series. A nice quick start to my read-a-thon day! |
 | Title: Dragon Temple #3: Forged by Fire Author: Janine Cross Total Pages: started on page 200 Time Started: Time Finished: Thoughts: Have already started this one, but want to try and finish it up during the read-a-thon. |
 | Title: The Private Life of the Cat Who... Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Total Pages: Time Started: Time Finished: Thoughts: |
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Rachel Caine's Weather Warden Series
Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series
Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan Series
Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld Series
 | Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards -- Dani Myers has become an expert at romantic breakups ever since she was hired to "facilitate" them for clients of Your Big Break, Inc. In other words, she dumps people for money. But company rule #5 (do not get personally involved) is getting harder to obey. One of her dumpees is turning out to be the kind of guy she might just want to pick up on the rebound. and a new client has just walked in, begging for Dani's help breaking up with The Big Jackass, who's been leading her on all this time-and now turns out to be married. It would be a routine job except for one problem: the so-called Big Jackass is married to none other than Dani's mother. |
| Dragon Temple Saga #3, Forged by Fire by Janine Cross -- this has been a very dark and gritty fantasy trilogy, I can't really say that I like it, but I also have to know how it turns out, so I would say that does mean it's good! The story is very solid, it's just brutal! |
 | I'm listening to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson -- So I'm not quite halfway through now, and it's well written, and I'm a little more interested, I like Salander, but I'm still not quite understanding why this is getting so much attention. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it isn't good, and it could just be that it's too far from my normal tastes for me to really get into it. I would be interested to know what others liked about it, just because I'm curious, I want to make sure I'm not missing out! But then again, I do have a little over halfway to go, so maybe I'm just not there yet! |
 | Firespell (Dark Elite #1) by Chloe Neill -- Good and selfless vs. selfish and evil in the bowels of a boarding school. It was a fun read, I'll be picking up the next one when it's out. I liked Scout, she was a good character. |
 | The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) by Kelley Armstrong -- My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me. |
| "Sophie's a loose cannon, Dani. I don't know what I ever saw in her in the first place." |
| Firespell (Dark Elite #1) by Chloe Neill -- Ah, the dangers of boarding school! |
| Dragon Temple Saga #3, Forged by Fire by Janine Cross -- this has been a very dark and gritty fantasy trilogy, I can't really say that I like it, but I also have to know how it turns out, so I would say that does mean it's good! The story is very solid, it's just brutal! |
| I'm listening to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson -- it's just not keeping my attention very well yet, I'm about an hour into the audio, however, the book's namesake is just now being described, so I'll give it a little while longer to work it's magic on me! |
 | Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison - Excellent! Paranormal Teen, but with Angels, not a vampire or werewolf in sight! Madison is dead, tied only to life by an amulet that she stole, and in training to be a light reaper, though it's not going so well. None of the living know she's dead, and all she wants is to be back to normal, and I thought I had it rough as a teenager! Highly recommend, and looking forward to the next one! |
 | Slightly Single by Wendy Markham -- Tracey and Will have been together for about 3 years. She followed him to New York. We see right off that Will is a jerk, but it takes Tracey the rest of the Summer with Will being gone to realize that it was pretty much a one sided relationship all along. During her friend Raphael's birthday party she meets Buckley, who she originally believes is gay, and therefore not someone she has to try and impress, so she's herself, right from the beginning, and then she finds out that he isn't, after he kisses her. But she has a boyfriend, doesn't she? Yet somehow she keeps ending up running to Buckley whenever she's in trouble, because he's nice, and he takes care of her, he's a great friend. But she loves Will, and Will loves her, right? Except she finds herself thinking about what it would be like if Buckley was her boyfriend. Typical Chicklit, which is fine, because it's what I was in the mood for. |
 | Darkyn #5: Evermore by Lynn Viehl -- My 100th read for the year! This was another fun ride, this time about the big Scottish Darkyn Aedan mac Byrne and his female Seneschal Jayr. They've wanted only each other since she was made into a Darkyn, but have kept it from each other, believing it to be wrong. Byrne has decided to hold a tournament of the Kyn at his Realm, normally a medieval dinner theater for the human public's entertainment, to help decide who the successor of his suzerain should be, as he feels he is becoming too unstable to continue as it's leader. Quite a reveal at the end as well, related to who Jayr really is. As always, Alexandra is her irreverent self during the whole affair. Looking forward to the rest of the series, I have 2 more novels and a novella to go! |
 | Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr - 3rd book in the Wicked Lovely series, I'm really enjoying these, Lots of changes going on! Looking forward to seeing how it plays out. I definitely recommend this series, these are not your cutesy kind of faeries! |
| Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards -- Dani Myers has become an expert at romantic breakups ever since she was hired to "facilitate" them for clients of Your Big Break, Inc. In other words, she dumps people for money. But company rule #5 (do not get personally involved) is getting harder to obey. One of her dumpees is turning out to be the kind of guy she might just want to pick up on the rebound. and a new client has just walked in, begging for Dani's help breaking up with The Big Jackass, who's been leading her on all this time-and now turns out to be married. It would be a routine job except for one problem: the so-called Big Jackass is married to none other than Dani's mother. |
| The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) by Kelley Armstrong -- My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me. |
| Hi, Dad. Evil Father Time is going to kill Josh. Not to worry, since I'm going to steal his source of power again. I'll be back before lunch. Kiss-kiss! -- Once Dead, Twice Shy, pg 119 by Kim Harrison |
| I'm listening to Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr - 3rd book in the Wicked Lovely series, watch out for scary faeries! |
| Darkyn #5: Evermore by Lynn Viehl -- I'm taking part in a challenge to read this series by the end of 2010, I think I can make it! |
| Slightly Single by Wendy Markham -- I already don't like Will, and I've only read about 20 pages! |
 | Beastly by Alex Flinn - A modern day Beauty and the Beast retelling. Fast and cute, the perfect and shallow boy gets a spell cast on him by a witch, and learns what is really important in life as he tries to break the spell put on him by finding true love. This author has done a few other fairytale retellings, so I'll have to be on the lookout for them. |
 | Fantasy Life by Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Very misleading cover picture of a bunch of stereotypical fantasy creatures that aren't even in the story. Anchor Bay is a small coastal town in Oregon where the Buckinghams have always lived as guardians for the refuge where the Fantasy Life lives. There is a disaster brewing on the horizon that could destroy the town, and it will take all the Buckingham women to hold it off as the truths of the past come to light. A well done story, I would have liked to know more about Cliffside House, as it seemed to have a mind of it's own, and there were some threads that seemed important, but didn't manifest by the end. Almost like they were setting characters up to continue on, but there isn't a sequel that I can see. I will likely read more by this author. |
| Dragon Temple Saga #3, Forged by Fire by Janine Cross -- this has been a very dark and gritty fantasy trilogy, I can't really say that I like it, but I also have to know how it turns out, so I would say that does mean it's good! The story is very solid, it's just brutal! |
| "Oh, look, honey," Alex said sweetly. "Conan and his barbarian army are here." She checked her watch. "How about we head home? If Phil floors it, we could make it back before the learjet cools off." -- Evermore, pg 60 by Lynn Viehl |
