2015 Snagged @ The Library Challenge discussion

Providing that I don't have to wait for these, this is my plan for January.



Mating Instinct (Moon Shifter #3) by Katie Reus
☊ Bayou Moon (The Edge #2) by Ilona Andrews
My Lady Quicksilver (London Steampunk, #3) by Bec McMasters

Let's see.....assuming I keep with the Night Huntress series, I plan to check out and read
And then there's the Vaginal Fantasy book club pick for January

I just finished Red Queen by Christopher Pike. I will need to get the next book, Black Knight, in the Witch World Series soon.

My first book of the year checked from the library is The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane which I started this morning and am already halfway through. I'm enjoying it. I also checked out the Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain,Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society by Amy Hill Hearth, and Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, all are novels by authors I have never read. This Shipwreck Lane book is going to also cross over to my Foodie Read challenge and my Women's Literature Challenge which is a good thing! I went a little crazy on the Challenges for 2015, so we'll see how it goes.

This group could be bad for my wishlist! I have already added a book. Sorry that I don't recall the whole title but it's the one with Shipwreck Lane in the title. I'm using my IPad to type this and it won't let me move this box to get the whole title.

I'm listening to A Cowboy for Christmas by Lori Wilde that I downloaded from the library. As for a whole list of what I plan to read, sorry I'm not that organized...I pick as I go!

I've only ever done a couple of audio books. One year I drove to Florida and listened to them while I was driving. That worked pretty well, but I've always thought I might get distracted and miss something or fall asleep just listening to a book, so I haven't done it again. Do any of you regularly listen to audiobooks and do you enjoy that? How does it stack up against reading a book or ebook?

I have read A Spear of Summer Grass and enjoyed it. I have The Silent Sister on hold at the library right now and need to pick it up.

Now that family is gone. I can get back to reading. This is my first reading challenge ever and I love this reading challenge and look forward to participating with everyone. I'll post books once I figure out what I'm going to read from the library. Happy New Year Everyone! ^_^

Finished reading my first 2015 read--The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms. Really enjoyed it!

On the 1st, I checked out and read "Hollow City" from my library via Overdrive.
Not sure what will be next...

Right now I am working on and I have a few others in my stack from the library!

I am a HUGE library user. I utilize both print and digital content and I've read both already this year, I've finished 3 books.

Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas, 2nd in the series, digital
Only by HelenKay Dimon, also 2nd in series, paperback
In Close by Brenda Novak, 3rd in series, digital

I'm working on my fourth, Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen, hardcover.

This is all romantic suspense. I'll have to move on to some UF next!

Felicia wrote: "I am tinkering with the idea of when we start a month--totaling up the money we saved from the month before by using the library as a group..."

Oooh, I like that idea!

And I already have another book to add for this month. My husband checked out the graphic novel Serenity: Leaves on the Wind and I decided to give it a read before returning it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It tells what happens after the movie.

I started reading another Library book today, The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain. I think I may have read a couple of her books early in her career, but nothing in a very long time. This one is really good so far. I didn't want to put it down to go to work today! Its about a woman whose father just died and she is finding out things she did not know about her family. I started it this morning and I'm already about 100 pages in. This was one of the Fall selections on SheReads.org. I've found some very good selections there.

Felicia wrote: "I finished Pride Mates and now starting Primal Bonds! I am so glad they had books 1 and 2. I need to see if they have 3 and 4 LOL"

I am often like that with series. I have been known to check out the first 5-6 books if they have them all on shelf even if I haven't read book 1 just in case I love it and, therefore, must binge read.

Today I finished Fire Me Up by Kimberly Kincaid which wasn't a library book, but an e-arc. I will finish the Lori Wilde book on audio soon. I'm a bit upset with myself because I'm not really a re-reader and I discovered today that I had already read the Wilde book!

I decided to finally take some time and attempt to figure out how to use Windows 8 and add more titles to my IPod. I have downloaded:
Top Secret Twenty One by Janet Evanovich (I long ago gave up reading this series with my eyes, and keep up by listening to the audios)
Love Letters by Debbie Macomber (Again an author I used to love but have pretty much set aside, and decided since I could do this in audio from the library I should get caught up on this series)
Love At First Sight by Lori Wilde It's the first in a series.
The Groom Says Yes by Cathy Maxwell. I'm not really a historical person, but I read the first one in this series because she was phoning into one of the local book clubs. I am completing the series by getting the audios from the library.
2 Bodies for the Price of 1 by Stephanie Bond. It's part of a series
I've also downloaded Two Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark as well as I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark

As you can see when I start downloading I go whole hog!

Ok..so lesson learned...watch the format when downloading an audio. I can't use the Mary Higgins Clark books on my IPod. Boo hoo!

Great start to the new year! Just finished Wonder by R.J. Palacio as my first read of the year AND my first "Snagged @ The Library Challenge read! I have a few choices for book #2 as ALL the library books I requested decided to come in at the same time! :-)

Hope everyone is enjoying their reading too!

Currently reading Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. I downloaded it as a test to make sure Overdrive was working correctly (it was on my TBR list anyway). It's been laugh outloud funny at points and it fits for a category for the Read Harder Challenge. I love when things like that happen.

So are we to post here when we read new books or just when we have something interesting to say? So far I've read 6 books in 5 days this year and 5 of them from the library. You can understand why I chose "Library Card on Fire". It's below zero and I have no desire to leave the house until it warms up.

The one I just finished today is Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs. I've read all of this series - the tv show
Bones is based on it - but the books are not like the tv show at all. Still it's interesting. And there will definitely be reading later today of some sort.

Finished my first book of the new year from the Library: Rev It Up (Black Knights Inc.). Got a few on hold I'm waiting for.

Finished my first library book of the year! The Gates by John Connolly! The other books waiting to be read from the library this month... and

Lost in A Good Book by Jasper Fforde, A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger and The Infernals by John Connolly.

Finished The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain today. Loved it! Great story. Will definitely be looking for other books by this author.

Felicia wrote: "Sarah78 wrote: "Finished my first library book of the year! The Gates by John Connolly! The other books waiting to be read from the library this month... [bookc..."

I really enjoy his writing style! The Book of Lost Things is one of my favorite books!

Started my second library book of the year! Lost in a Good Book! (Finished The Jungle Book last night, but it wasn't a library book!)

Finished my third book for this challenge today. "The House on Mermaid Point" by Wendy Wax. I enjoyed this book, the same as I enjoyed the first 2 in this trilogy + a novella, although I'm hoping the author writes another in this series as I enjoy the settings and the characters. I like just about anything set at the beach! This is a book about women's friendships, house renovation, reality TV, romance - endings and beginnings of, relationships between Moms and daughters, sisters and brothers, moms and son, paparazzi, celebrity and just life in general at different stages. Light, enjoyable read!

Finished my first library book! 1/9/15

I finished The Groom Says Yes by Cathy Maxwell. It's an audio that I downloaded from the library. Now I'm listening to Love Letters which is another book I downloaded from the library.

From my TBR pile I read Depraved by Debra Webb. I know it's not a library book, but thought I'd let you know what I read anyway!

I finished my first library book of the year--The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling).

I loved the earlier idea of keeping track of how much money I save by borrowing from the library. I'm posting it in my comments in my review of the book, and I'm keeping track of my library books on a special goodreads shelf. I look forward to going back and adding it up at the end of the year! So far, $11 saved!

I'm about 2/3s of the way through "The Beekeeper's Ball" by Susan Wiggs, with "Notorious" by Allison Brennan waiting on tap. With today and tomorrow off, I'm hoping to get more reading done.

BJ wrote: "I'm about 2/3s of the way through "The Beekeeper's Ball" by Susan Wiggs, with "Notorious" by Allison Brennan waiting on tap. With today and tomorrow off, I'm hoping to get more reading done."

Bj...Did you read The Apple Orchard? I liked The Beekeeper's Ball better, but didn't really care for either book as much as I was hoping to. Susan Wiggs was a favorite, and now I'm wondering how dedicated I will be to sticking with her blurb unread.

BJ wrote: "Finished my third book for this challenge today. "The House on Mermaid Point" by Wendy Wax. I enjoyed this book, the same as I enjoyed the first 2 in this trilogy + a novella, although I'm hoping..."

How did you get the book in your post?

Just finished
I've got & on hold. Looks like a long wait on them.

Finished "The BeeKeeper's Ball." It's been awhile since I read the first book in the Bella Vista Chronicles, but I liked this one more. Isabel's story just resonated with me, I felt she grew so much over the course of this book! I loved Isabel and Mac's relationship and how it developed, the cooking and planning for the cooking school and her sister's wedding, the way she finally brought a resolution to her past trauma and I found the passages about her grandfather's past in the resistance movement of the war very moving. A very enjoyable read.

Sandi - these are the instructions I found for adding book cover images to post in the help section:

If you're trying to add a book cover image, the easiest way to do so is:
1. Navigate to the discussion thread in which you would like the post to appear.
2. Scroll down until you see the text field that appears below all of the comments.
3. Click the beige "add book/author" link that appears on top of the text field.
4. A window will pop up. Make sure that you select the radio button for "cover" at the bottom of the window, then search for the book in question.
5. As soon as you find it, click "add". The cover image should automatically appear when you publish your comment.

Hope this helps./bj

First library book second audio of the month! Review is HERE :)

Angel wrote: "I finished my first library book of the year--The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling).

I loved the earlier idea of keeping track of how much money I save by borrowing from the ..."

What a great idea! I think I will keep track too! My hubby will enjoy seeing it ;-)

An idea was posted earlier about taping the name of the borrowed book to a dollar or even just a quarter so you have tat extra surprise of a treat at the end of the year. I loved the idea and have already finished several books on my library TBR list. Just trying to decide where to hide the jar.

My hold came in so i am listening the audio of .

I finished listening to Love Letters by Debbie Macomber, and started Listening to Mean Streak by Sandra Brown. I have downloaded so many book from the library onto my Ipod that I have no more room, and my holds that have come in will expire, and I will have to put them on hold again after I get some things listened to!

Sandi

Felicia wrote: You are sooooooooooooo lucky. My libraries didn't have them :( I used audible cr..."

You need to get them to use Hoopla! They have them on that library service!

My next book from the library/Hoopla is Magic Bleeds! (audio)

So far in January the books I've read in January are:

Felicia wrote: "Sandi wrote: "I finished listening to Love Letters by Debbie Macomber, and started Listening to Mean Streak by Sandra Brown. I have downloaded so many book from the library onto my Ipod that I hav..."

I know Felicia! I need to get listening! I have decided to start listening at work, so that might help. Only problem with that is I didn't go to the office today and not going tomorrow either That means no listening because I'm actually out working!
Sandi

What is hoopla? How do I find out if my library has it?

What is hoopla? How do I find out if my library has it?

Yep my library uses Hoopla too and its awesome. It meade me start only using my Audible credits for the audios they don't have. I finished up and am moving to my next Hoopla/audio listen .

Finished "Notorious" by Allison Brennan this morning. This is a little different from her usual FBI/serial killer cases. The main character in this book is an investigative journalist who generally investigates cold cases. Max is a great strong female character and I really liked her and really enjoyed the book! Already started my next one, a memoir by Nellie Bennett titled, "Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love". How's that for a title?

I had promised myself I was going to slow down however already this month I've read The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men, Black Widow, Bitter Spirits, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Written in Red. Just finished Murder of Crows and started Dark Currents.

Started the "Only in Spain" book but I had also checked out Dogwood Hill by Sherryl Woods and my sister wants to read it too, so I put down the first book and read Dogwood Hill. Finished it this morning. Sherryl Woods is one of my Go-To romance authors along with Robyn Carr, Mariah Stewart, Susan Mallory, and Jill Shalvis. This one was good, another of her O'Brien series, but not as good as some of her previous ones in this series. Going back to the Memoir now.

I read Dogwood Hill recently. It's amazing but Woods is one of the few authors who I manage to stay caught up with. I'm also up to date with Robyn Carr and Susan Mallery. I have to get caught up with Jill Shalvis (thankfully her Lucky Harbor series is finished). I really need to try Mariah Stewart!