You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

✔ LEFT OVER STEW = 14/10

✔Cats Can't Shoot
✔City of Silver: A Mystery
✔The Flying Man
✔Queenpin
✔Click: One Novel, Ten Authors
✔Midnight Library: Voices
✔Elsewhere
✔John Dies at the End
✔We Were Liars
✔The Time Keeper
✔The Dark Monk, Oliver Pötzsch 14 Aug
✔Quarry's List (aka The Broker's Wife), Max Allan Collins 17 Oct
✔The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin 10 Oct
✔Murder Past Due, Miranda James 18 Apr

✔DEWEY'S DEPOSITORY = 125/120
(Probably a lot more. I always forget to indicate this shelf.)
HOME ALONE = 11/30< PITIFUL!!!

✔Finders Keepers, Stephen King
Night Passage, Parker, Robert B.
Cryptonomicon, Stephenson, Neal
Up in Honey's Room, Leonard, Elmore
✔A Likely Story
The Strangler Vine, Carter, M.J.
The Fifth Child
The Last Child, John Hart
Anatomy of a Murder, Traver, Robert
✔Gone, Baby, Gone, Lehane, Dennis
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, Aldridge, Kitty
✔The Flying Man, Farooki, Roopa
Mystery Walk, McCammon, Robert
Catmagic, Strieber, Whitley
✔Killing Floor, Child, Lee 24 Aug
61 Hours, Child, Lee
Turning Angel, Iles, Greg
The Long Fall, Mosley, Walter
The Book of Shadows, Reese, James
Stormy Weather, Hiaasen, Carl
The Shakespeare Secret, Carrell, Jennifer Lee
Careless in Red, George, Elizabeth
Die for You, Unger, Lisa
House of Leaves, Danielewski, Mark Z.
The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Macdonald, Ross

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel
At least 150 pages long
Perpetual

ROUND ONE ~ TITLES
a6 ~ h
e13 ~ r
i18 ~ y
o15 ~ t
u4 ~ f

✔The Lies of Locke Lamora ~ Scott Lynch
Lyrs tf Ltckr Lhmtrh
✔ Laughing Monsters, Denis Johnson 25 Jan
✔You, Caroline Kepnes 20 Dec
✔Rabbit, Run, John Updike 9 Aug
✔Sparkling Cyanide, Agatha Christie 18 Jan
✔Tangled, Emma Chase 16 Jun
✔Fifth Grave Past the Light, Darynda Jones 4 Feb
✔Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove 15 Feb
✔The Three 27 May
✔City of Silver: A Mystery 7 Feb
✔Kill the Dead, Richard Kadrey 6 Jun
✔Rot and Ruin 8 Feb
✔Likely Story 19 Feb
✔Hides 13 May
✔Mr. Mercedes 6 Feb
✔Trigger Warning 13 Apr
✔Rumor Of Bones 16 May
✔Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger 21 Jan

✔Fingersmith ~ Sarah Waters
Fyngrrsmyth
✔Fear Institute 6 Mar
✔You're Never Weird on the Internet 6 Nov
✔Neverending Story 18 Jan
✔Getting Off 7 Jun
✔Raiders of the Nile 28 Aug
✔Rubbernecker 19 Sep
✔She, H. Rider Haggard 30 Jan
✔Maltese Falcon 17 Feb
✔The Yeare's Midnight 13 Nov
✔Talulla Rising 21 Apr
✔Honey in his Mouth 21 Apr

✔Child 44 ~ Tom Rob Smith
Chyld Ftrty-Ftfr
✔Champagne for One, Rex Stout 13 Jan
✔Home to Harlem 24 May
✔Year of the Flood 11 May
✔Loverboy 9 Feb
✔Dirty Magic 15 May
✔ Feint Of Art 12 Aug
✔Tales of the Black Widowers 19 May
✔Running Blind 10 Sep
✔This BookIs Fullof Spiders:Seriously 20 Jul
✔You've Got Murder 9 Jul
✔Flying Man 21 Feb
✔Tonight I Said Goodbye 6 Jul
✔Fleet Street Murders 22 Jul
✔A Reunion of Ghosts 30 Sep

✔Necromancer ~ Jonathan L. Howard
Nrcrtmhncrr
✔Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman 18 Oct
✔Rumpole of the Bailey 24 Dec
✔ Crown Conspiracy, Michael J. Sullivan 8 Jan
✔The Race 25 Nov
✔Time Keeper 14 Feb
✔Merry Misogynist 18 Feb
✔Hag's Nook 18 Aug
✔No Wind of Blame 27 Mar
✔ Conjure-Man Dies 9 Apr
✔Rumpole's Return 16 Dec
✔Rose Rent 26 Dec

✔Gone Girl ~ Gillian Flynn
Gtnr Gyrl
✔Gretel and the Missing Frog Prints 16 Aug
✔Twentieth Century Ghosts 17 Apr
✔Not Without Laughter 12 Apr
✔Road To Ruin 14 Dec
✔Game of Thrones 11 Mar
✔You Suck 19 Oct
✔The Rosie Project 23 Nov
✔Last Town 13 Mar

In A Land Far Far Away = 22/25

✔1. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax 25 Mar
Dorothy Gilman
Albania

✔2. The Providence Rider 25 Dec
(Matthew Corbett #4), Robert McCammon
Bermuda

✔3. City of Silver: A Mystery 7 Feb
Alfieri, Annamaria
Boliva

✔4. Emily of New MoonCanada, Prince Edward Island
L.M. Montgomery
Canada, Prince Edward Island

✔5. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 9 May
Grace Lin
China

✔6. Farewell My Concubine 22 Dec
Lilian Lee
China

✔7. Angel in the Full Moon 28 Aug
Don Easton
Costa Rica

✔8. Raiders of the Nile 28 Aug
Steven Saylor
Egypt

✔9.The Heretic Queen 28 Dec
Michelle Moran
Egypt

✔10. Monsieur Pamplemousse 17 Jun
Michael Bond
France

✔11. The Invention of Curried Sausage 14 Jun
Uwe Timm
Germany

✔12. The Seven Wonders 1 Mar
Steven Saylor
Greece

✔13. The Lover 30 Dec
Marguerite Duras
Indochina

✔14. Pomegranate Soup 29 Jul
Marsha Mehran
Iran (Islamic Rep of)

✔15 At Swim-Two-Birds 14 Mar
Flann O'Brien
Ireland

✔16.[ book:A Bolt from the Blue|6634084] (Leonardo da Vinci Mystery #3) 2 Jul
Diane A.S. Stuckart
Italy

✔17. The Housekeeper and the Professor
Ogawa, Yōko
Japan

✔18. Slash And Burn
Colin Cotterill
Laos 29 Jun

✔19. The Flying Man 21 Feb
Roopa Farooki
Pakistan

✔20. Agent 6 8 Dec
Tom Rob Smith
Russia

✔21. The Keeper of Hands 24 Sep
J. Sydney Jones
Vienna

✔22. The Laughing Monsters 25 Jan
Denis Johnson
West Africa, Sierra Leone

2015 Original Countdown Challenge
120 books
at least 150 pages long

2015
✔1. Eighth Grave After Dark, Darynda Jones 4 Aug
✔2. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy #2), Stephen King 25 Sep
✔3. Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10), Colin Cotterill 26 Jul
✔4. Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3), Amitav Ghosh 27 Sep
✔5. Circus Mirandus, Cassie Beasley 23 Dec
✔6. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7), Alan Bradley 3 Jul
7. Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2), Libba Bray (Aug)
8. Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper #2), Christopher Moore
✔9. A Head Full of Ghosts 13 Dec
✔10. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman 13 Apr
✔11. A Reunion of Ghosts, Judith Claire Mitchell 30 Sep
✔12. Scents and Sensibility, Spencer Quinn 8 Aug
13. Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo (Sept)
14. A Darker Shade of Magic, V.E. Schwab
✔15. The Marvels, Brian Selznick 13 Sep

✔2014
✔1. Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11), Anne Rice 23 Mar
✔2. By Blood We Live 1 May
✔3. Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson #6) by Darynda Jones 5 Apr
✔4. Paw and Order (Chet and Bernie Mystery #7) by Spencer Quinn 24 Jul
✔5. The Brothers Cabal (Johannes Cabal #4) by Jonathan L. Howard 16 Mar
✔6. The Laughing Monsters, Denis Johnson 25 Jan
✔7. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy #1), Stephen King 6 Feb
✔8. The Three, Sarah Lotz 27 May
✔9. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe 19 Mar
✔10. The Last Town 13 Mar
✔11. Dirty Magic, Jaye Wells 15 May
✔12. Seventh Grave and No Body (Charley Davidson, #7), Darynda Jones 25 Jul
✔13. The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton 23 Jun
✔14. The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis 22 Oct

2013
✔1. Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson #5) by Darynda Jones 4 Feb
✔2. MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy #3), Margaret Atwood 25 Jun
✔3. The Cherry Cola Book Club, Ashton Lee 17 Sep
✔4. The Sound and the Furry (Chet and Bernie Mystery #6), Spencer Quinn 15 Jun
✔5. Wayward 25 Feb
✔6. The Burn Palace, Stephen Dobyns 8 Mar
✔7.Tangled (Tangled #1), Emma Chase 16 Jun
✔8. Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger 22 Jun
✔9. Rubbernecker 19 Sep
✔10. The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
✔11. The Striker, Clive Cussler 23 Dec
12. A Tap on the Window, Linwood Barclay
✔13. The Keeper of Hands, J. Sydney Jones 23 Sep

2012
✔1. The Poisoned Pilgrim (The Hangman's Daughter #4), Oliver Pötzsch 2 Sep
2. The Diviners (The Diviners, #1), Libba Bray
3. Say You're Sorry (Joseph O'Loughlin #6), Michael Robotham
4. Percepliquis (The Riyria Revelations #6), Michael J. Sullivan
✔5. Pines, Blake Crouch 23 Jan
6. Dying on the Vine
7. The Orphan Master's Son
✔8. City of Women 22 Mar
9. Pago Pago Tango
✔10. Cats Can't Shoot: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, Clea Simon 28 Dec
✔11. The Providence Rider (Matthew Corbett #4), Robert McCammon 25 Dec
12. Dodger (Dodger #1), Terry Pratchett

2011
✔1. The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal #3), Jonathan L. Howard 6 Mar
✔2. These Things Hidden, Heather Gudenkauf 23 Aug
✔3. The Song of Achilles. 2 Jan
✔4. The Race, Clive Cussler 25 Nov
✔5. Slash and Burn (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #8), Colin Cotterill 29 Jun
✔6. Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood #1), Ann 14 NovCharles
✔7. Agent 6 8 Dec
✔8. Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf, #2)(2011), Glen Duncan 21 Apr
9. Classified as Murder, Miranda James
✔10. Getting Off (Hard Case Crime #101), Jill Emerson 7 Jun
✔11. Hell's Bells: Samuel Johnson Vs the Devil, John Connolly 26 Jun

2010
✔1. The Beggar King (The Hangman's Daughter #3)by Oliver Pötzsch 4 Sep
✔2. Bite Me (A Love Story #3) by Christopher Moore 5 Sep
✔3. Murder Past Due, Miranda James 18 Feb
✔4.Darkside (Exmoor Trilogy #2), Belinda Bauer 28 Oct
5. The Singapore School of Villainy(Inspector Singh Investigates #3), Shamini Flint
✔6. The Emerald Storm (The Riyria Revelations #4), Michael J. Sullivan 21 Nov
7. Wintertide (The Riyria Revelations #5), Michael J. Sullivan
✔8. Rot and Ruin, Jonathan Maberry 8 Feb
✔9. Kill the Dead, Richard Kadrey 6 Jun
✔10. Agatha H and the Airship City(Girl Genius Novels, #1), P Foglio 19 Oct

✔2009
✔1. The Magicians, Lev Grossman 30 Jul
✔2. The Year of the Flood(MaddAddam Trilogy #2), Margaret Atwood 11 May
✔3. Portrait of a Lady Portrait of a Lady (Leonardo da Vinci Mystery #2), Diane A.S. Stuckart 3 Mar
✔4.The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Jesse Bullington 30 May
✔5. The Merry Misogynist (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #6), Colin Cotterill 18 Feb
✔6. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 9 May
✔7. Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations #2), Michael J. Sullivan 10 Jan
✔8. The Secret Speech(Leo Demidov #2), Tom Rob Smith 28 Jun
✔9. The Fleet Street Murders, Charles Finch 22 Jul

✔2008
✔1. The Hangman's Daughter4 30 Oct
✔2. Shatter (Joseph O'Loughlin #3), Michael Robotham 25 May
✔3. Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans #2), Lisa Lutz 29 Jun
✔4. The Crown Conspiracy, Michael J. Sullivan 8 Jan
✔5. Ximena, Hillary Raphael
✔6. The September Society, Charles Finch 20 Apr
✔7. The Map of Time, Félix J. Palma 20 Jun
✔8. The Heretic Queen 27 Dec

2007
✔1. The Pig Did It 3 Jan
✔2. You Suck (A Love Story #2), Christopher Moore 19 Oct
✔3. A Beautiful Blue Death, Charles Finch 28 Mar
4. Blood Poison: A C.S.U. Investigation
✔5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 14 June
✔6. 20th Century Ghosts 17 Apr
✔7. Queenpin 1 Mar

2006
✔1. Down the Rabbit Hole (Echo Falls #1), Peter Abrahams 7 Oct
✔2. Zero, Diane Tullson 22 Oct
✔3. Feint Of Art, Hailey Lind 12 Aug
✔4. One Good Turn , Life After Life
5. The Back Passage
✔6. Body Trace (Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U.) #1), D.H. Dublin 3 Apr

2005
✔1. The Outlaw Varjak Paw (Varjak Paw #02), S.F. Said 7 Jul
2. John Crow's Devil
✔3. 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill 17 Apr
✔4. Pomegranate Soup 29 Jul
✔5. The Case of the Missing Books, Ian Sansom 19 Apr

2004
✔1. Tonight I Said Goodbye (Lincoln Perry #1), Michael Koryta 6 Jul
✔2. The Road To Ruin 11 Dec
✔3. Disney after Dark, Ridley Pearson 12 Sep
4. Mission Canyon

✔2003
✔1. Blood Canticle 24 Feb
✔2. Loverboy 9 Feb
✔3. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood 25 Apr

✔2002
✔1. Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9), Anne Rice 16 Jan
✔2. Put a Lid on It 13 Feb

✔2001
✔1. Blood And Gold 10 Feb

Are you sure you've reserved enough messages? :)

Janice wrote: "Are you sure you've reserved enough messages? :)"

Need elbow room!☺


Authors who belong to the Rock Bottom Remainders band
Authorization (Rock Bottom Remainders) = 2/24 (Obviouslly not focusing here!)

Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women, Cynthia Heimel
War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus
Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards, Al Kooper
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory, Roy Blount, Jr.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum
Summer of Love: Ths Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Time in the Wild West, Joel Selvin
✔The Time Keeper, Mitch Albom
Science Fair, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
✔Disney after Dark,The Kingdom Keeper, Ridley Pearson
✔The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
True Evil, Greg Iles
Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow
How To Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons, Sam Barry
✔Stephen King’s In the Tall Grass
✔Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, Amy Tan
The Big Book of Hell: The Best of Life in Hell, Matt Groening
✔The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride


Harlem Renaissance
✔Time Waits for No One (Harlem Renaissance) = 5/5
✔Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800, Arna Bontemps 7 Apr
✔The Conjure-Man Dies first known all black character mystery 9 Apr
✔Not Without Laughter(1930), Langston Hughes 12 Apr
✔Home to Harlem, 1927, Claude McKay 24 May
✔Cane Jean Toomer, 1923 21 Mar

Kin
✔Joe Hill
✔Stephen King
Tabitha King
Owen King
Kelly Braffet

Books that have been there forever
✔Her Fearful Symmetry
✔Wilde West

Curses, foiled again!

Richard Stark, a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake
✔Bank Shot
✔Put a Lid on It
✔Jimmy The Kid
✔A Likely Story
✔Pity Him Afterwards
✔The Road To Ruin

Then maybe you need to reserve more? LOL!

Wonderful books, Almeta =) I will fill in the blanks on my Zone thread as I go. I know I'm going to read my series I listed - other than that I'll fill in the genres I aim to read in 2015 with what I'm in the mood for. I've got so many book recommendations and 8 bookshelves of books I finally unpacked - I want to make a dent in those in 2015.

My sister in law just gave me a book by Greg Iles. I may add Penn Cage to my series to kill.

Janice wrote: "Then maybe you need to reserve more? LOL!"

Hmmmmm, I just peeked in on your lists. I think YOU may need a few more reserved spots as well. ;P

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "My sister in law just gave me a book by Greg Iles. I may add Penn Cage to my series to kill. ..."

I have a feeling that I'm going to like Greg Iles' stand-alone True Evil and then "just like that", I'll be adding (just what I needed) another series to my shelf as well.

Almeta wrote: "Janice wrote: "Then maybe you need to reserve more? LOL!"

Hmmmmm, I just peeked in on your lists. I think YOU may need a few more reserved spots as well. ;P"

You could be right! I think we recognize each other's addictions. Or is it nemesis?

Almeta - Love your lists. And I think you have a picture of my cat Clyde staring out the window, lol.

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Almeta - Love your lists. And I think you have a picture of my cat Clyde staring out the window, lol."

Clyde did tell me he is left Home Alone a lot and likes watching for your arrival!☺

Oh my God. Those massive lists. Good luck, Almeta. I did like The Reader.

Almeta wrote: "Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Almeta - Love your lists. And I think you have a picture of my cat Clyde staring out the window, lol."

Clyde did tell me he is left Home Alone a lot and likes watching for..."

Hi, Almeta - I'm retired. Clyde looks for the deer and fox in our new home and wonders why the ground is frozen and sometimes white. After all, he is a tropical cat. =)

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Hi, Almeta - I'm retired. Clyde looks for the deer and fox in our new home and wonders why the ground is frozen and sometimes white. After all, he is a tropical cat. =)
..."

I look out my window and wonder why also.☺

I look out my window and wonder if it will ever not be white. Cabin fever is setting in early.

Janice wrote: "I look out my window and wonder if it will ever not be white. Cabin fever is setting in early."

I know. Hard to believe winter is just getting started.☻

Almeta wrote: "Janice wrote: "I look out my window and wonder if it will ever not be white. Cabin fever is setting in early."

I know. Hard to believe winter is just getting started.☻"

Yes, I forgot how cold it can get. We've already had 2 snow falls and have had to fill the deer feeder several times.

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Yes, I forgot how cold it can get. We've already had 2 snow falls and have had to fill the deer feeder several times. ..."

I think Michigan and Illinois have similar winters. My parents grew up in Christopher and I went to school at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Both not too far from your "neck of the woods"!☺

Almeta wrote: "Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Yes, I forgot how cold it can get. We've already had 2 snow falls and have had to fill the deer feeder several times. ..."

I think Michigan and Illinois have similar winte..."

Wow! Carbondale is only a 35 minute drive from Muddy. And you're a Saluki! Cool

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "AWow! Carbondale is only a 35 minute drive from Muddy. And you're a Saluki! Cool..."

Yep, go Salukis!☺

How are you doing? I see a few check marks.

Janice wrote: "How are you doing? I see a few check marks."

I'm mostly working toward my first badge level for Serial Killer at the moment.

For March, I am trying to read at least one book from each of the lists, but the King family and Harlem Renaissance will be taking priority soon.

Moved "My plans for next year"!

Beee deee dooo. Bee de de doo. Beee deee dooo. Bee de de dup doo.

“To be is to do”—Socrates.
“To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre.
“Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra.

Almeta wrote: "Some Plans for next year..."

Next year?

Linking? Looks familiar.

My finger is tired scrollong through your pages. Just wow!

These are all 2016 challenges? What is the buy a vowel challenge? It looks interesting.

I don't understand the Buy a Vowel challenge either. I see Round 1 Titles and Round 3 Main Characters, but what happened to Round 2?

It seems like you take the title of a book and substitute vowels for consonants then write the new title vertically and find titles that fit a theme (title, author, main character, setting, genre...). Good for a year long challenge, I think. Very interesting.

It looks like you assign a consonant to each vowel first, then apply it to a title like a cryptogram. Oooh, that gives me an idea to tuck away.

Janice wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Some Plans for next year..." Next year? "

lol! All three of these challenges are repeats of ones I have been doing for a couple of years with the Crazy Challenge group. They are already displayed as part of my 2015 reading plans.

One one them, Got Connections, completes on September 30, 2015. Time to get ready!

Since I try to make my books count for more than one challenge, I am sorta compelled to flesh out the other two challenges; one doesn't end until December and the other is perpetual!

Got Connections is similar to last year's YLTO! Chunkster Challenge, but the rules are much more strict, coupling only titles, authors and original publishing dates.

Countdown Challenge is getting harder to complete since it requires so many books to correspond with the years. I may have to modify it somehow...Start with 2011 instead of 2001 maybe.

You have all guessed correctly about Buy A Vowel. You first pick five of your 5-Star books. Using numbers randomly generated between 1 and 18, you then substitute the vowels in the title with consonants from the provided table.

1 = B
2 = C
3 = D
4 = F
5 = G
6 = H
7 = J
8 = K
9 = L
10 = M
11 = N
12 = P
13 = R
14 = S
15 = T
16 = V
17 = W
18 = Y

Then you chose books for which the title words, author name, or character name initials match with the letters in your modified 5-star book title.

Cherie wrote: "I don't understand the Buy a Vowel challenge either. I see Round 1 Titles and Round 3 Main Characters, but what happened to Round 2?"

Since Buy a Vowel is perpetual, I will be transitioning right to the next round still in 2015. You just didn't notice it because it is right under the Round 1 plans for 2015...Hidden in a spoiler.

That is a lot of planning! Sounds like you gave Janice an evil idea too. LOL!!!

So much planning! Looks like you gave Janice an evil idea. :0)

I found so many books on my TBR that are on your lists. I love the graphics, especially the bottle cap chain links. That is a lot of old bottle caps!

We were at the Old Navy Store and Evan wanted his mom to buy him a glass bottle of Coca Cola. All fine until we left the store. No way to open it because it had a "real" bottle cap and who carries openers on their key rings any more? (I have one on my truck keys, but we were driving my Focus with only my house key and ignition key.) He had to wait until we got home to find the bottle opener in the "junk drawer".

Almeta's lists are always dangerous for me. I can go through them and find a couple of hundred titles (or more) to add to my TBR without even trying.

Roz wrote: "Almeta's lists are always dangerous for me. I can go through them and find a couple of hundred titles (or more) to add to my TBR without even trying."

My 2016 Countdown list is primarily Dagger Award nominees. I felt as though I have been drifting too far away from my favorite genre, and want to get back. If you are fond of historical mysteries, you should find a wide selection here!☺

You all understand, of course, that this plan will be blown to pieces! I never seem to follow my good intentions.☻

Almeta wrote: "Roz wrote: "Almeta's lists are always dangerous for me. I can go through them and find a couple of hundred titles (or more) to add to my TBR without even trying."

My 2016 Countdown list is primari..."

Oh, Almeta, now you're just toying with me. My tbr will grow and grow. You evil thing, you ☻

Roz wrote: "Oh, Almeta, now you're just toying with me. My tbr will grow and grow. You evil thing, you ☻
..."



Toying?

My mouse cannot keep me from clicking on book titles. I don't know how many I looked up today and added to my TBR. It is fantastic how many titles are on your lists that I have never seen, and the small few that I do recognize, I haven't read yet. I noticed Dodger on one of the lists. I am thinking about reading it for the group read. I am not sure I want to read Marina after reading the last two Cemetary books. I think I need to come back to it. I am determined to finish Mrs. Dalloway, but I need something else to round out the group read and Odd #5 is not calling to me.

Your idea for changing up the 20xx challenge sounds like it may be the way to go by moving up to 2011 from 2001. You will still yield 21 books if you use 11 as 1 vs 136 if you go from 2001 to 2016. If you go from 2011 to 2016, it will be 81 if you start at 11 vs 1.

Makes me laugh. It is challenging as trying to figure how many books to read on a level to either minimize the number of books read or minimize the points. it could be a whole year long thing if you mix up genre, published year, etc. okay, I better go home and lay down now. my head hurts.

Cherie wrote: "...okay, I better go home and lay down now. my head hurts... ."

lol! yooour head hurts? Ha!

hahaha. I just went through all 90 pages of my TBR list and identified 304 titles that are #1 books of series that I have marked to read. I probably have 30 of them on hand, but have not added to any Level on my series challenge. I was laughing because I think I have enough books with "dragon" in the title or series name to do one level all alone. Lots with "magic" in the title or series too. I still have too many to kill, but cannot read enough books. I want to enjoy my reading, not just chunk through books.

Cherie wrote: "My mouse cannot keep me from clicking on book titles."

Is it time for a new mouse. :)

Cherie wrote: "hahaha. I just went through all 90 pages of my TBR list and identified 304 titles that are #1 books of series that I have marked to read. I probably have 30 of them on hand, but have not added to any Level on my series challenge..."

I have 1714 books marked as part of a series to read. I started the Serial Killer Challenge at 782!

Many of the originals are probably part of a series that I really don't intend to continue. I need to go through and delete a bunch of them.

BUT, of course since I have practically doubled the starting quantity, I now have, thanks to the members (view spoiler)[ including you (hide spoiler)], LOADS of first in a series to tackle.

I doubt that I will ever close my Story Never Ends thread! I'll just stop counting points and levels.

Are you considering a Got Connections Challenge with just "dragon" books? ☺

LOL, Janice. I did have to put a new battery in my mouse today!

Almeta, I don't think I can separate the unread books marked series from the ones I already read. I will give it a try maybe. I am sure that I do not have all of the titles for all of the series marked. Some I do, but not all. I have not kept updating Fiction Fact either. I am behind with what has been read there. I have a running list of all of all of the books and page numbers for my series challenge that I have read and the ones in progress. Many, I have just added to GR as I have read them. I have a word list with some of the major ones that I am currently reading, but I would have to count it manually. I was just shocked at how many marked as series were for book #1. My word list has books that are series books and their # if I own them and if they are printed, or audio or ebooks.

I wasn't thinking about doing a linked challenge with the dragon books, just putting them all on a series level, if I get that far. I would have to sort them and see if I could kill a series to do it. Not with Temeraire - too many left there, but maybe with Kazam, which I just started. The year may run out before then though.

Off to bed. Night...