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

2016 Reading Challenge 232 books toward a goal of 200 books.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! = 110/65
Doorstops = 22/10
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die = 10/5
Shortcuts =32/ 20
Reality Check =14/10

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Double Dog Dare = 64/60
Shelving Unit (Sai King Recommends) = 22/20

✔January You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Sherlockian 12 Jan
January You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Sacred Monster 27 Jan
January/February Sai King Recommends Group Read ~ The Killer Next Door 10 Jan
✔February You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Dodger 14 Feb
✔February You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ 61 Hours = number 7 19 Feb
February You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔Up Your Banners: A Comedy of Controversy 27 Feb
✔My Sister's Keeper 26 Feb
✔How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming 24 Feb
✔All the Bright Placess 23 Feb
✔Never Let Me Go 21 Feb
March You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ A Fatal Grace 24 Mar
✔March You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ The Melting Clock 27 Mar
March/April Sai King Recommends Group Read ~ Night Has a Thousand Eyes 3 Apr
✔April You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Girl on the Train 21 Apr
✔April You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ The Little Sister (view spoiler)[Debra is my little sister (hide spoiler)]
April You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔Florida Roadkill 17 Apr
✔ Mort 16 Apr
✔May You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Murder at the Vicarage 21 May
✔May You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Death of a Tart Mayor 29 May
May/June Sai King Recommends Group Read ~ The Poison Artist 23 May
✔June You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 20 Jun
✔June You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ A Deeper Darkness 15 Jun
June You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut 18 Jun
✔Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow 19 Jun
✔The Seventh Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake 19 Jun
✔The Third Man 19 Jun
✔The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 20 Jun
✔Raptor Red 20 Jun
✔A Malady Of Magicks 21 Jun
✔The Thirteen Problems a.k.a. The Tuesday Club Murders 21 Jun
✔Coraline 22 Jun
✔Zazie in the Metro 22 Jun
✔Brother Cadfael's Penance 23 Jun
I Am Legend 24 Jun
✔Holmes on the Range 24 Jun
✔Murder on the Yellow Brick Road 25 Jun
✔July You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ The Library at Mount Char 28 Jul
✔July You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ The Drowning Pool 23 Jul
✔July/August Sai King Recommends Group Read ~ HEX 14 Aug
✔August You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Louisiana Longshot 26 Aug
✔Aug. YLTO! Group Challenge ~ The Knife of Never Letting Go /It's Now or Never 22 Aug
August You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
Blockade Billy, Stephen King 20 Aug
Caught Stealing, Charlie Huston 20 Aug
✔When Rain Clouds Gather 21 Aug
✔September You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Last Rituals 12 Sep
✔September You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ The Map of Chaos 28 Sep
✔September/October Sai King Recommends Group Read ~ Life or Death 10 Oct
✔October You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ True Grit 26 Oct
✔October You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ The Sharpshooter- Western 29 Oct
October You'll Love This One! Toppler ~
✔The Monkey Thief= Toto, animal as a character 28 Oct
✔Mr Wong Goes West = Glinda the Good Witch of the North, crown 28 Oct
✔The Coral Turtle Mystery = Scarecrow, children's book 22 Oct
✔Wicked= Follow the Yellow Brick Road, fantasy 23 Oct
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? =Tin Man, artificial intelligence 27 Oct
✔Eileen = I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too, thriller book 25 Oct
✔Farewell, Dorothy Parker = "Follow the Yellow Brick Road", fantasy 25 Oct
✔The Last Policeman = "We're Off to See the Wizard" – sci fi 26 Oct
✔True Grit ="If I Only Had the Nerve" – genre you rarely read, westerns 26 Oct
Crank ="If I Only Had the Nerve" – genre you rarely read, poetry 25 Oct
✔Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Ruby Slippers 23 Oct
✔November You'll Love This One! Group Read ~ Britt-Marie Was Here 30 Nov
✔November You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ On the Wrong Track 11 Nov
November/December Sai King Recommends Group Read ~
✔Big Little Lies 10 Dec
✔December You'll Love This One! Group Read ~Pollyanna 28 Dec
✔December You'll Love This One! Group Challenge ~ Jacob's Folly 27 Dec
✔December You'll Love This One! Toppler ~ Carol of the Bells A Christmas Carol 18 Dec

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Chain Link Fence (got-connections) = 31/31
Got Connections
10/1 - 9/30/16
minimum 150 pages
Level 5: 31 books/30 connections
No Plurals
author, title, published date
only two consecutive authors or publishing dates

✔0. Die Trying, Lee Child Lee► 5 Oct
✔Lee Child's Tripwire, Lee► 18 Nov
✔Lee Farewell My Concubine (1985), Lilian Lee► 3 Dec
Lee The Book of the Damned Tanith Lee ► 6 Feb
Lee The Book of the Beast Tanith Lee ► 8 Feb
Lee The Investigation, Jung-Myung Lee ►12 Feb
Lee The Book of the Dead Tanith Lee ► 16 Feb
Lee The Book of the Mad Tanith Lee ► 17 Feb
✔Lee Child, 61 Hours Lee► 19 Feb
✔Lee Yu Ovidia, Aunty Lee's Delights Lee 1 Mar
Lee Doing Max Vinyl (Annie Ogden, #1) (2011), Frederick Lee Brooke► 11 Mar
Lee Echo Burning, Lee Child► 13 Mar
Child The Fifth Child► 15 Mar
Child The Last Child (2009), John Hart John► 17 Mar
John Station Eleven, Mandel, Emily St. 2014► 29 Mar
✔2014 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas, Marie-Helene Bertino (2014) Pajamas► 4 Apr
✔Pajamas Cat's Pajamas, Ray Bradbury) 2004► 13 Apr
2004 Garden of Beasts Garden► 1 May
Garden of Evening Mists 2011► 2 May
✔2011 Chasing Fire, Nora Roberts Chasing ► 5 May
20. Chasing Eden, Sharon Linnea 2007 ► 10 May
2007 Leante, Luis , See How Much I Love You(2007) Love► 12 May
Love Lies and Liquor #17, M.C. Beaton 2006► 15 May
✔ 2006 Linda Francis Lee's The Devil in the Junior League (2006) Devil► 17 May
✔Devil Horacio Moya , She Devil in the Mirror (2000) Devil► 18 May
Devil s Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, 2000► 25 May
2000 Daughter of the Forest (Vaginal Fantasy) Juliet Marillier Daughter► 27 May
✔Daughter Maron's Bootlegger's Daughter (1992) Daughter► 31 May
✔Daughter The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1992), Sharyn McCrumb Beautiful 2 Jun
Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Szczypiorski, A Beautiful► 4 Jun
✔30. Beautiful Lies (2006), Lisa Unger 3 Jul


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

ROUND TWO ~ AUTHORS

COMPLETED

Yearbook = 104/136
150 pages

Yearbook Countdown

World Tour: = 70/50

In A Land Far Far Away

In 2011, the year I joined Goodreads, I signed on for a challenge to read a book from each of the 50 member states that signed the first United Nations charter on June 26th, 1945. I never completed that challenge and intend to finish it up this year.

50 Original United Nations Members

Perpetual Serial Killer Challenge !
Serial Eyes = 105/55 toward series', 6 completed

Crazy Challenge Cereal

Serial Killers Are Not Recoverable

Curses, foiled again!
Richard Stark, a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake
✔The Seventh 19 Jun
✔Sacred Monster 27 Jan
✔The Dortmunder Workout or Criminal Exercise... 3 Jun
✔ Up Your Banners: A Comedy of Controversy 27 Feb
✔Sacred Monster 27 Jan

Left Over Stew = 19/10

✔The Song of Achilles
✔Blood Poison: A C.S.U. Investigation
✔Dying on the Vine
✔Dodger
✔The Alchemist Coelho, Paulo 1 Apr
✔The Collaborator of Bethlehem Rees, Matt 16 Nov
✔ Doing Max Vinyl, Frederick Lee Brooke 11 Mar
✔The Orkney Scroll , Lyn Hamilton, 10 Jun
✔Chasing Eden (Eden Thrillers, #1)Linnea, Sharon
✔Pago Pago Tango, 13 May
✔The She-Devil in the MirrorMoya, Horacio Castellanos 18 May
✔The Orphan Master's Son 27 May
✔The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Szczypiorski, Andrzej 4 Jun
✔Beneath a Panamanian Moon21 Nov
The Garden of Evening Mists 2 May
Burial Rites Kent, Hannah 20 Jul
✔Major Pettigrew's Last Stand ], Helen imonson 25 Dec
✔See How Much I Love You 12 May
✔Mission Canyon 4 Feb

Home Alone =19/30
✔The Fifth Child 15 Mar
✔The Last Child, John Hart 17 Mar
✔The Kite Runner, Hosseini, Khaled 6 Apr
✔ Doing Max Vinyl, Frederick Lee Brooke 11 Mar
✔61 Hours, Child, Lee 19 Feb
✔ Matthew Flinders' Cat, Courtenay, Bryce 8 Jul
✔Major Pettigrew's Last Stand ], Helen imonson 25 Dec
✔Turning Angel, Iles, Greg 7 Nov
✔The Potato Factory 16 Sep
✔The Case of the Missing Servant 9 Jul
✔Look Out For Space 7 Jul
✔I Am Legend 24 Jun
✔Garden of Beasts 1 May
✔The Bat 10 Feb
✔The Book of the Damned 6 Feb
✔The Book of the Beast 8 Feb
✔ The Book of the Dead 16 Feb
✔The Book of the Mad 17 Feb
✔Cockroaches 8 Mar

Reserved

Reserved

I am reminded that 2016 is just 3 months away and I had better screw the electric-conducting brain booster on so that I can dream up a new truly twisty challenge for 2016.

Janice wrote: "I am reminded that 2016 is just 3 months away and I had better screw the electric-conducting brain booster on so that I can dream up a new truly twisty challenge for 2016."

I knooow! It is creeping up quickly.

AND I'll need to make the YLTO! Yearly Challenge fit in with all of these others!☻

*mystified but interested*

Deborah wrote: "*mystified but interested*"

lol! Just lists.☻

I was at the library Saturday and picked up a review magazine on the table. There was a review about a mystery book written by a Korean writer named Lee, but I cannot remember the title now. I thought it sounded very good. I will add the title when I get home tonight.

Oh, and one of your lists needed a character name with a "T" and I thought of Theodosia Throckmorton. Did you read any of the series books with her? I killed her off in one of my levels. Check out my series thread at the top.

Cherie wrote: "I...Oh, and one of your lists needed a character name with a "T" and I thought of Theodosia Throckmorton. Did you read any of the series books with her?..."

Thanks for the tip. I've added her. The series does sound like something I would enjoy.

It was fun.

So, here is the mystery book. The Investigation by Jung-Myung Lee.

Another book that I thought sounded good too. Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig. The reviewer mentioned that this author had died earlier this year. He wrote 16 books.

Cherie wrote: "So, here is the mystery book. The Investigation by Jung-Myung Lee.

Another book that I thought sounded good too. Last Bus to Wisdom ..."

I just bought The Investigation! and added Last Bus to Wisdom, which I think I can read on-line at some point.

Both do sound good.

Glad to help!

God! Did I read the title of this thread right?!? 2016?!? That is way too organised for my liking ;-

Sarah wrote: "God! Did I read the title of this thread right?!? 2016?!? That is way too organised for my liking ;-"

Had to. Some of my challenges began the first of October!

Sarah wrote: "God! Did I read the title of this thread right?!? 2016?!? That is way too organised for my liking ;-"

I'm still trying to gopher for the toppler, let alone 2016.

I am speechless... but this is beautiful ;-

Ariane wrote: "I am speechless... but this is beautiful ;-"

FRAGILE! I never end up following my big plans!

February Toppler ideas:

The World Without Us
48 Hours to Chaos: An Engineer Looks at Life and How the World Really Works
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
A Brief History of Time
Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers:
Earth - The Power of the Planet
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm

Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

101 Great Philosophers: Makers of Modern Thought

Out of My Mind
The Brain Fog Fix:

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (40 pages)

The Stamp Collector (32 pages)

A Single Man
4000 Years of Uppity Women

I might have to steal one of your toppler titles, if I decide to do it. I can't think what I want to know about, only what I don't care to think about. I feel more and more like the ostrich with his head in the sand.

Almeta wrote: "February Toppler ideas:

The World Without Us
48 Hours to Chaos: An Engineer Looks at Life and How the World Really Works
[book:The Magic of Reality: How We Know What'..."


Hmm... I think I'm in a brain fog. Maybe I should read that one.

Now that jax has made a clarification, most of my "science" books and all the rest won't work!

Deeper into the gopher hole, I must go!

Cherie wrote: .... I can't think what I want to know about, only what I don't care to think about. I feel more and more like the ostrich with his head in the sand. hi..."

Cherie, I know exactly what you mean.

In the end I will likely choose the more lighthearted subjects.

Janice wrote: "Hmm... I think I'm in a brain fog. Maybe I should read that one. ..."

Should be an interesting book....but not for the Toppler, unfortunately!☻

Try again...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Pluto demoted as a planet - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Alternative Energy vs Fossil Fuels -Renewable Energy Systems
Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing - The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Climate Change/Global warming - Meltdown
Climate Change/Global warming - An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Climate Change/Global warming - Global Warming-Alarmists, Skeptics & Deniers: A Geoscientist looks at the Science of Climate Change
Genetically Modified Foods - Green Phoenix: A History of Genetically Modified Plants
Genetically Modified Foods - Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering, Future of Seeds

MEDICAL
Genetic engineering - My Sister's Keeper
Euthanasia/Assisted suicide - The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Mental Illness - All the Bright Places
Cloning - The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
Cloning - Never Let Me Go

CULTURAL
Ebonics - Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America
☭ Afghanistan - The Kite Runner
☭ Human Rights - The Screaming of the Innocent
☭ Human Rights - The Investigation
Illegal Immigration - Citizens, Strangers, And In-between
☭ Immigrants/Refugees - Little Bee
☭ African gem trade - The Sapphire Sea
☭ Black History - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Black History - Up Your Banners
Otherness - Out of My Mind

POLITCAL
Gun Control - Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun Cultures

SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century

LITERATURE
Harry Potter Controversy - The Mystery of Harry Potter Family Guide
Shakespeare Controversy - Case for Shakespeare: End of the Authorship Question

I left you a suggestion in the main toppler thread for cloning, but maybe it would be better here - Never Let Me Go. I gave it 1 star, but really should have given it 5 because it had such an impact on me.

Janice wrote: "I left you a suggestion in the main toppler thread for cloning, but maybe it would be better here - Never Let Me Go. I gave it 1 star, but really should have given it 5 because it had s..."

Thanks for the suggestion.

I had it on my TBR shelf, but it would not have surfaced for a long while, without prompting!

Gophering for June 2016 Toppler
*Geocaching

soldier
Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6), Lee Child

takes place in the Middle East
*The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani

a main character over 60
The Thirteen Problems- Miss Marple, Agatha Christie (TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS)

Read a classic
Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau

humor on its GR homepage
Cops and Robbers , Donald E. Westlake

was made into a movie
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Pop. 1280, Jim Thompson
Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Read a book with a character dealing with a mental health issue.
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Read a true crime thriller.
*Girl Waits with Gun

Read a book set during the Middle Ages (the 5th to the 15th century)
Brother Cadfael's Penance

Fame – Read a book with a celebrity in it. They don’t have to be a main character, but have to be more than a mention.
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road, Stuart M. Kaminsky

China Girl – Read a book that takes place in China, or where a main character is Chinese
The Chinese Alchemist, Lyn Hamilton

Rebel Rebel - Read a GLBT book
The Back Passage, James Lear

Read a book about a larger than life character
The BFG, Roald Dahl or
*Mademoiselle Chanel

Conscientious objector – Read a book that shows a character dealing with war (objector, living in war zone, aid worker…)
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman

Parkinson’s disease – read a book with a main character dealing with a life threatening condition
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham

Read a book by a bestselling female author
Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies

Desperado – Read a western.
Holmes on the Range

Are you really going to hold off till 2017 to read End of Watch? Are you sure you don't want to join us the end of July 2016 in the buddy read? Can I tempt you?

Janice wrote: "Are you really going to hold off till 2017 to read End of Watch? Are you sure you don't want to join us the end of July 2016 in the buddy read? Can I tempt you?"

lol! No I won't be waiting. ☺

Will have to wait until July to commit to the Buddy Read.

Phew! Glad to hear it. I couldn't fathom how someone could hold off for almost a year to read it.

Janice wrote: "Phew! Glad to hear it. I couldn't fathom how someone could hold off for almost a year to read it."

I'm number five in line at the library. ☻

Ah well, that's all good then.