2025 Big Book Challenge discussion

I'm doing my list a little different this year , I'm going to be posting by the months.

January
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1:Needful Things: A Novel 943 pages1/3/17
2:Noble Man: A Jake Noble Spy Thriller Series book 1 636 pages ( kindle )1/4/17
3:Fringe1/9/17 647 pages
4: Eight1/12/17 558 pages
5:The Roses Underneath1/19/17 419 pages ( Kindle book)
6:Concealed in Death1/20/17 402 pages
7:The Hunt for Atlantis1/23/17 514
8:Splinter Cell 1/25/17 402 pages
9:The Fifth Petal439 pages 1/29/27

February
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1:The Appointed: David Wolf Mystery Thrillers 1 and 2 Bundle2/2/17 439 pages
2:The Secret Of Excalibur2/15/17 500 pages
3:The Murder House461 2/23/17
4:Six Four2/28/17 557 pages

March


1:The Devil's Kiss 449 pages ( kindle) 3/6/17

April

A Bridge Too Far4/2/17

Killing Kate406 pages 4/9/17

Echo Park4/14/17 417pages
Hell's Gate
4/25/17 425 pages
Blood Rose Rebellion 4/30/17 408 pages

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You may want to consider also adding a comment. I think that if you only edit a previous post, it doesn't bump you up in the list and mention a new post.

Bumblesby wrote: "You may want to consider also adding a comment. I think that if you only edit a previous post, it doesn't bump you up in the list and mention a new post."

That's a good idea.

Notes on
January:

Needful Things: A Novel:
What is it about:
Now available for the first time in a mass-market premium paperback edition—master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return.

“There are two prices for this. Half…and half. One half is cash. The other is a deed. Do you understand?”

The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is a peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign handing on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer beware
My rating:5 stars
Paper back
Why: it's one.of my all time favorite books of Stephen King,so glad tjaty sister got me a new copy for 2016 Christmas ,it's been forever since i've read it.Even though it's been a while I actually remember some of it .
Challenges: 2017 Around The Year in 52 Books:
Week 18: a really long book (600+ pages)

Noble Man: A Jake Noble Spy Thriller Series book 1
What it's about:
Disavowed agent Jake Noble is living on his boat, trying to scrape together enough money for his mother’s cancer treatment when the CIA offers him one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for one last mission.

Bati Ramos, daughter of a Philippine diplomat, has been snatched off the street in broad daylight. She is diabetic and will die without insulin.

With the clock ticking on Bati’s life, Noble delves back into the seedy underbelly of Manila’s sex trade. What he finds goes deeper than a random kidnapping.
**Between 21 and 30 million people live in slavery. Most are women and children. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the fight against human trafficking*
My rating:2
Kept/deleted: deleted
Why: while I love the.idea of a portion of the proceeds from the sale.of.this book goes to the fight against human trafficking , I just couldn't get into the story ,there was hardly anything happening.

Fringe:
What the book is about:Fringe, a self-taught genius named Peter Bishop and FBI agent Olivia Dunham team up to investigate paranormal activity. They seek help from Bishop’s father, Walter, a brilliant (but possibly insane) scientist who is being held in a mental institution. Fringe explores mysteries of the paranormal as well as the relationships between the characters, and is steeped in mythology.
Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. The series follows Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop, and Walter Bishop, all members of the fictional Fringe Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, based in Boston,Massachusetts, under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses fringe science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe. The series has been described as a hybrid of The X-Files, Altered States, and The Twilight Zone.
The series format combines elements from procedural dramas and serials. The series began as a more traditional mystery-of-the-week series and became more serialized in later seasons. A majority of episodes contain a standalone plot, with several episodes also exploring the series' overarching mythology.
Early critical reception of the first season was lukewarm but became more favorable in subsequent seasons, when the series began to explore its mythology, including parallel universes and alternate timelines. The show, as well as the cast and crew, has been nominated for many major awards.
My rating: 2 stars
Kept/deleted: deleted
Why: the book is completely sporilers of the TV show from season 1-4( haven't seen all the shows even though I do own season 1-3 on DVD )
Challenges : 2017 around the year in 52 books:week 3 : a book you meant to read in 2016

Part 2 of January
Eight
By:W.W. Mortensen
pages:558 pages
what is it about:
TERROR HAS A NEW SPECIES

Deep in the Amazon, the solution to the global energy crisis has been found; a mysterious source of power set to end our dependency on oil.

When she receives stunning photographs related to the discovery – courtesy of expedition leader and former partner, Ed Reardon – entomologist Rebecca Riley finds herself on the next flight to Brazil, heading down to join the team of scientists assembling there. She hasn’t seen Ed for more than a year, and their relationship hadn’t ended well.

But his revelation is impossible to ignore.

What she and Ed uncover is beyond imagination: strange statues in the jungle… a ruined city built by the refugees of a lost Pacific continent… and a terrifying new species of animal.

Forced to confront a crippling childhood phobia she’d thought long dead and buried, Rebecca realises this new species is no ordinary enemy.

It is an ancient enemy, one whose very existence has implications for all of humankind… and the planet itself.

What did I think:
My rating: 5
OMG this book was and is a great read, it had me hooked from the very start to the very end, as well as sitting on the edge of my bed, so glad that I picked it up, and as soon. I can I'm picking up a copy to add to my library. Once again thinks NetGalley for helping me find a new book as well as a new author to check out, all so I would like to say I was giving a chance at reading it in a change for my honest opinion and this is 100 % my honest opinion,also on a side note don't pick this up if you want to sleep a night.

By C.F. Yetmen
Historically fiction
What is it about:
It is August 1945 in Wiesbaden, Germany. With the country in ruins, Anna Klein, displaced and separated from her beloved husband, struggles to support herself and her six-year old daughter Amalia. Her job typing forms at the Collecting Point for the US Army’s Monuments Men is the only thing keeping her afloat. Charged with securing Nazi-looted art and rebuilding Germany’s monuments, the Americans are on the hunt for stolen treasures. But after the horrors of the war, Anna wants only to hide from the truth and rebuild a life with her family. When the easy-going American Captain Henry Cooper recruits her as his reluctant translator, the two of them stumble on a mysterious stash of art in a villa outside of town. Cooper’s penchant for breaking the rules capsizes Anna’s tenuous security and propels her into a search for elusive truth and justice in a world where everyone is hiding something.

In her debut novel C.F. Yetmen tells a story of loss and reconciliation in a shattered world coming to terms with war and its aftermath.

What I thought of it:
Had some trouble getting into the story,but the more I read of it ,I was able to finally start to like it,
My rating : 4 stars
Challenges:2017 Around the year in 52 books: A Historical Fiction



By J.D. Robb
My rating: 5 stars

By:Brunonia Barry
Five stars
What is it about:
Salem’s chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide dubbed “The Goddess Murders,” in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed one Halloween night. Aided by Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims who has returned to town, Rafferty begins to uncover a dark chapter in Salem’s past. Callie, who has always been gifted with premonitions, begins to struggle with visions she doesn’t quite understand and an attraction to a man who has unknown connections to her mother’s murder. Neither believes that the main suspect, Rose Whelan, respected local historian and sometime-aunt to Callie, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover what truly happened, will evil rise again
What did I think:
This is actually book two in a series called The Lace Reader and while I've never heard of the series or even read anything by this author I'm so glad that I requested a copy of it from Blogging for Books, and that in change for do so this is my honest opinion of what I think of the book,
Brunonia Barry has a way with this series that brings the history of Salem,Massachusetts alive, you get not only a mixture of what present day Salme is like but also what the past Salme was like, it's both fact and fiction mixed so beatufully that it doesn't take anything from the story it self , as your reading your pulled into the dark history of Salma in this page turner about magic,beliefs, love , prejudice , murder and secrets .Can't wait to pick up the first book when I can and read more of this series.

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