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Week 3
by J.D. RobbRead:25 Jan 2013
Rating:5 stars
Items
6-Winter
People go all winter bitching and whining
about the cold,... page 159 PB
7-Ghost
He had his family, and he had nothing in common with
these strangers but a ghost.page 154 PB
8-Library
She led the way to an office, past a series of session
rooms and a small library. page 105 PB
Week # 3
Items Claimed:9
Finished:Jan 23,13
Rating: 4 stars
Items:
Winter:we'll talk about this when you're home for winter break...pg 145
Ghost:she didn't look anything like a ghost...pg 212
Cat:I don't have spell books, or a talking cat...pg 11
High School:in a lot of ways it was like a normal high school...pg 112
Library:but instead I went downstairs and into the library...pg 149
Email:I've talked to him on the phone, and e-mail...pg 38
Finished: Jan 25,13
Rating: 4 stars
Items:
Tile:I slumped against the tile and let the water glide over my skin...pg 134
Bathtub:I crumpled against the side of the bathtub...pg 149
Sandwich:I looked up from my sandwich...pg 268
Items Claimed:9
Finished:Jan 23,13
Rating: 4 stars
Items:
Winter:we'll talk about this when you're home for winter break...pg 145
Ghost:she didn't look anything like a ghost...pg 212
Cat:I don't have spell books, or a talking cat...pg 11
High School:in a lot of ways it was like a normal high school...pg 112
Library:but instead I went downstairs and into the library...pg 149
Email:I've talked to him on the phone, and e-mail...pg 38
Finished: Jan 25,13
Rating: 4 stars
Items:
Tile:I slumped against the tile and let the water glide over my skin...pg 134
Bathtub:I crumpled against the side of the bathtub...pg 149
Sandwich:I looked up from my sandwich...pg 268
Week 3Items Claimed: 6/10
24.01.13 4 Stars
Tile - page 375 - The bathroom was filthy, dirt gritty on the tile floor, graffiti scratched on the stalls, and it smelled of urine.
Bathtub - page 159 - She drowned somehow...in a pool, in the bathtub or the ocean. Gray doesn't know.
Ghost - page 141 - it's a ghost ship.
Cat - page 125 - That Cheshire - cat look he had is long gone.
High School - page 258 - After high school i joined the navy.
23.01.13 5 Stars
Sandwich - page 271 - I shoved the plate of sanwiches at him, but he ignored them.
Week 3
Veil of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Finished:1/24
Rating:★★★★
1. Tile:
...all over the tiny black and white tiles under...__Disc 5/Track 23 (00:22)
2. Bathtub;
...then stepped into the bathtub...__Disc /Track 4 (00:36)
3. Winter :
Northern Russia, the dead of winter.__
4. Sandwich :
...Mira bit into the sandwich and ate...__Disc 4/Track 1 (02:32)
6. Ghost :
...moving through the woods like a ghost...__Disc 4/Track 3 (01:42)
7. E-mail :
...downloading the morning's e-mail when he noticed...__Disc 4/Track 22 (00:58)
10. Library :
...waited in the hallway outside the library...__Disc 8/Track 13 (02:10)
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
Finished:1/25
Rating:★★�
5. Cupcake :
And let's face it you make cupcakes.__Part 1 (21:49)
8. Cat :
We had cats, dogs, hamsters...__Part (06:33)
9. High School :
I chose culinary school after high school...__Part 1 (00:55)
Total Items Claimed this Week:10/10
Alley wrote: "Week 3
Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs - Molly Harper
Completed: 01/22
Rating: ★★★☆�
Items Found: 10/10
Tile - pg 63 - ...and set it on the white
til..."
WOW Alley -- finding everything in one book!
Points this Post: 10Points this Week: 10/10
Book:
by Sara ShepardRead: On January 21
Rating: ˥♥�
Claimed word: Tile
"...a funky mosaic tile around the mantel, and real logs in the fireplace."
Kindle Location 2378
Claimed word: Bathtub
"Aria walked in and noticed a claw-foot bathtub in the middle of Ezra’s living room."
Kindle Location 2374
Claimed word: Winter
"Emily still wore those earmuffs on the coldest days in the winter."
Kindle Location 1961
Claimed word: Sandwich
"She’d chomped through one sandwich in less than ten seconds..."
Kindle Location 1835
Claimed word: Ghost
"A ghost could have easily slid between the cracks of the women’s bathroom."
Kindle Location 1903
Claimed word: Email
"She clicked on her e-mail and saw an unopened letter."
Kindle Location 966
Claimed word: Cat
"...the time her cat, Kitten, carried a dead mole from the creek out back and left it in her bedroom."
Kindle Location 947
Claimed word: High school
"Ian broke up with her back in high school."
Kindle Location 2910
Claimed word: Library
"But as she pushed through the library doors..."
Kindle Location 1701
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Book:
by Neve MaslakovicRead: On January 25
Rating: ˥♥˥♥
Claimed word: Cupcake
"...ingredients in killer cupcakes traceable to local markets frequented by the poisoner and so on."
Kindle Location 526
Week 3:
- Virgina WoolfFinished: January 27th, 2013
Rating: 3/5
Items to claim:
Sandwich: "...sandwich men shuffling and swinging..." (pg. 4)
Cat: "...up went her back like a cat's; or she purred." (pg. 9)
Ghost: "People arrive to be announced by the hired butler like ghosts of the past." (pg. xliv; intro)
High school: "She was at a High School, at the inarticulate stage last time he was over..." (pg. 86)
Library: "...self-educated men whose education is all learnt from books borrowed from public libraries..." (pg. 92)
Winter: "Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Nor the furious winter's rages." (pg. 10)
Post total: 6/10
Week total: 6/10
Week 3Items Claimed: 9
Book:
by Kristen AshleyRead: 1/25/13
Rating: ★★★★�
Items Claimed: 1
Claimed Word: Ghost
"'Is the ghost of Wyatt Earp gonna walk through the door?'"
Location: 1266
Book:
by Jessica ShirvingtonRead: 1/23/12
Rating: ★★★★�
Items Claimed: 8
Claimed Word: Tile
"That you'll regret," I finished for her, looking down at the grubby bathroom floor tiles."
Location: 1229
Claimed Word: Bathtub
"I balanced on the edge of the oversized bath feeling nauseous and nervous."
Location: 556
Claimed Word: Winter
"...it appeared from the piles of ash that were all over the floor, had been burned to keep squatter's warm in the winter."
Location: 4641
Claimed Word: Sandwich
"Lincold tried but failed to get me to eat some sandwiches he'd made while I was changing."
Location: 669
Claimed Word: Email
"I could hear fingers tapping away on a computer, probably Dad sending emails."
Location: 2328
Claimed Word: Cat
"Zoe fought like a cat."
Location: 1336
Claimed Word: High School
"I looked down at my school uniform and then ran to the bathroom to put on the spare clothes..."
"Steph was waiting for me, pacing near the top of the school steps when I jumped out of the taxi."
Location: 2708 and 1151
Claimed Word: Library
"...which mostly involved gluing Steph to a computer and the library for the next couple of days."
Location: 3545
Week #3Items Claimed 10/10
Tile: pg 12 smashed against what look like industrial tile floor.
Winter: pg 49 The evening air had an early winter bite to it...
Sandwich: pg 54 between bites of her turkey sandwich
Ghost: pg 111 and it's like he is chasing a ghost
Email:pg 219 We could email it to him.
High School:pg 13 Park City High School
Library: pg 88 I made my way to the shool library
Bathtub: pg 265 put me in a bathtub full of ice....
Cupcake: pg 16 give my wet shoe to your blistering cupcake
Cat: pg 83 a cat startles up out of the black cavity...
Week #3
by Kea NoliFinished:1/27/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~10/10
Bathtub:After Max had died, Maria sold off the stocks and shares, which had been in a dry bathtub, valued at almost two million francs. Kindle App for PC Location 2025
WEEK 3:Total Items found: 9 out of 10
1.Tile: “His eyes were wide open, blood pooled on the white tile and he took a few more ragged gasps.� (KL 1707 in Fury)
2. Bathtub: “T full tub of warm water waited.� (KL. 1465 in Fury)
3. Winter: “One of those winter day .� (Pg 37 in Devil in Winter)
4. Sandwich: � Ellie fixed Fury a turkey sandwich and grabbed a soda.� (KL 4146 in Fury)
5. Cupcake: N/A
6. Ghost: “Tn you’ll take the risk of having his ghost haunt the club.� (Pg. 146 in Devil in Winter )
7. Email: “Phone calls and emails , have been pouring in supporting us.� (KL 4014 in Fury)
8. Cat: “She was a strange-looking women who appeared part calico cat with her multi-colored hair and feline features.� (KL 1356 in Fury)
9. High School: “I looked at him like he was crazy, a look I perfected in high school � (Pg. 121 in Mind Games )
10. Library: “T safest place would be the library.� (Pg. 1761 in Fury)
by Laurann Dohner (Done 1/22, 4-stars)
by Carolyn Crane (Done 1/25, 3.5 stars)
by Lisa Kleypas (Done 1/27, 5-stars)
Week 3:Read:
by Evangeline AndersonFinished: 1/27/13
Rating: ★★★★�
Items Found: 1
but she fought like a wild cat KL# 1570
Week 3 - 10/10
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Completed: Jan 21 {Counts from p.65}
Rating: ★★�
1. Cat
"…the blue-gray Persian cat who lorded over the shop brushed past."
p. 74
2. Library
"I reached the library, my face lashed by rain."
p. 123
3. Ghost
"I thought I was going to turn around and see Isaac's ghost."
p. 165
Christine by Stephen King
Completed: Jan 21 {Counts from KL. 1873}
Rating: ★★�
4. Sandwich
"I went into the kitchen and slapped together a cold chicken sandwich."
KL. 1884
5. Winter
"…I might find a steady job for him this winter."
KL. 2233
6. High School
"…we got out of the bus in the Hidden Hills High School parking lot."
KL. 2621
Room by Emma Donoghue
Completed: Jan 25
Rating: ★★
7. Tile
"…every cork tile is nearly bigger than Ruler."
KL. 253
8. Email
"He wants to take some photos to e-mail to Grandpa in Australia�"
KL. 2969
Pure by Julianna Baggott
Completed: Jan 27
Rating: ★★�
9. Cupcake
"…have been replaced by cupcakes sitting in all the tables�"
p. 61
10. Bathtub
"…somewhere overhead must be a bathtub and a fluffy bed."
p. 241
Week 3Items Claimed: 8/10
Items claimed in this post: 2
27.01
Library - page 66 - The library should be the most comfortable for you.
Email - page 48 -...as long as she didn't try to make any unsupervised calls, e-mails, texts...
Week 3
by Heidi CullinanRead :27 Jan 2013
Rating:4 stars
Items
9-High school:
He used to take this drive all the time in high school, on his bike... (page 20 , ebook)
Week 3:
- Karen Marie MoningRating: 5/5
Finished: January 28th, 2013
Items to claim:
Tile: "...in the process tipping fingernail polish onto the tiled patio..." (Kobo pg. 226)
Email: "...trying to recall every detail about Dublin I'd ever picked up from Alina in our phone calls and e-mails." (Kobo pg. 19)
Post total: 2/10
Week total: 8/10
Week 4: - Karen Marie MoningRating: 5/5
Finished: January 28th, 2013
On Kobo pg. 107 when week 4 items called.
Items to claim:
Empire: "...J.J. Jr. had turned his back on his father's vast financial empire..." (Kobo pg. 108)
Post total: 1/10
Week total: 1/10
Week 3 - 10/10
by Nora Roberts Finished 1/28
4�
Tile - "...noted The Lobby restrooms with their fancy tiles" ~ KL 210
Bathtub - "Moving past him, she stepped into the bath. "Oh, look at the tub."" ~ KL 3177
Winter - "The cold gripped winter in a breathless, frigid stranglehold." ~ KL 923
Sandwich - "...Owen took a sandwich after all." ~ KL 4307
Cupcake - "...unless Mom thinks we're going to start baking cupcakes." ~ KL 4302
Ghost - "It must be the ghost." ~ KL 229
Email - "He didn't mind the regular interruptions to answer a call, return a text, read an email." ~ KL 351
Cat - "And you'd have three dogs, two cats, and five babies." ~ KL 962
High School - "We were friendly in high school." ~ KL 3065
Library - "I read that the library in the school's named for her." ~ KL 4755
Read:
Tidewater Inn by Colleen CobleFinished 1/28/2013
3 stars
Week #3
Email: "No e-mail yet." - KL#319
Total items claimed: 8/10
Week #4
I'm not sure exactly what page I was on when the items were called, but I know I read this sentence after.
Lighthouse: "Out at the lighthouse ruins." - KL#4957
Items claimed: 1/10
Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson - 2 stars
Read from January 23 to 25, 2013
The Tenth Plague by Adam Blumer - 4 stars
Read on January 28, 2013
Tile: "In fact, it was cresting and overflowing onto the tile floor." (The Tenth Plague, location 585)
Bathtub: "Daddy, Connor had diarrhea in the bathtub." (The Tenth Plague, location 8114)
Winter: "Paul tried to imagine clearing snow in winter for this length of driveway." (Full Disclosure, location 1604)
Sandwich: "He headed to his home office, sandwich on a plate and coffee in the other hand." (Full Disclosure, location 598)
Cupcake: "A birthday cupcake ." (Full Disclosure, location 2482)
Ghost: "By her actions she intensifies the hunt to find her, she's no longer a ghost, and she's got to be on edge about that." (Full Disclosure, location 2177)
Email: "He logged into the private email system the Falcon family maintained and brought up the secure family website." (Full Disclosure, location 620)
Cat: "I found this adorable cat that has a coat so soft it's like cashmere." (Full Disclosure, location 386)
High School: "You didn't have a girlfriend in high school, college, that you thought might be the true love of your life?" (Full Disclosure, location 2348)
Library: "Jim's in the library." (Full Disclosure, location 3016)
Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid 1/29
Finished: 1/29
Ratings: 3 stars
*Udder: "...mixed the special soap we used on the cows' udders and teats to kill any bacteria..." page 33
This week so far: 1
Week 4:Read:
by Terri GareyFinished: 1/29/13
Rating: ★★★★�
I'd been to the Vortex and followed the fire truck KL# 927
Items Found: 1
Week #4
by Sherrilyn KenyonFinished:1/30/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~1/10
Empire:Why would Merjack, Chief Minister of Justice for the Ritadarion Empire, do such a thing? Page 116
Week #4
by Frankie RobertsonFinised:1/30/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~2/10
Vortex:Isn’t Sedona where all the vortexes are? Kindle App for PC Location 1393
Week #4
by Amanda TurnerFinished:1/31/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~3/10
Armageddon:“It's an Armageddon for witches.� Kindle App for PC Location 610
Week #4
by L.S. FayneFinished:2/1/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~4/10
Inflatable:Jake placed inflatable pillows for them into the center of the tent. Page 267
Week 4:
by J.A. Saare2/1/13
Rating: ★★★★�
Items Found:2
The front of her face was now concave KL#1432
Armageddon is, as we speak, at hand KL#4720
Week 4
byKim Harrison1/30/2013
rating: 4 stars
Items Found:1
pointing to a concave, round scar pg 193
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Finished: 2/2
Rating: 4 stars
*"They arrived as the hearses appeared at the top of the road..." page 493
This week so far:2
Week 4 -- Jan 28-Feb 4 Listing
(1/29 - 4.5stars);
(2/1 - 3.5stars);
(1/31 - 3.5stars;
2/1 - 5stars);
(2/1 - 3.5stars);
(2/2 - 3stars)9/10 items found
1. Metaphor Lover Mine(pg 470) -- And the metaphor was too frickin' obvious: What he was staring at was a huge hole in his house…�
2. Vortex: Lover Mine (pg 437) -- A sudden, twirling vertigo sent her reeling, her feet swining around and around her body, her mind the vortex about which she spun.
3. Armageddon: Hide and Seek (pg 205) -- Without a backward glance he walked out, closing the door softly on the Armageddon he'd left behind him
4. Concave Shotgun Bride (McKettrick Cowboys #2)(pg 40) -- The old man looked like the scrapings from last week’s batch of pinto beans, dry and gray and oddly concave, as if he were shrinking away from his own hide
5. Hearse: The Casual Vacancy(pg 449) They arrived as the hearses appeared at the top of the road, and hurried into the graveyard while the pall-bearers were shuffling out onto the pavement
6. Lighthouse: Wet in Whispering Cove (pg 43) -- Katy was a light in the darkness, shining brighter than any lighthouse beacon, but lately,�...
7. Colander: Wallbanger (pg 102) -- I handed him a bottle of Merlot and the opener, then grabbed a bunch of grapes from the colander in the fridge.
8. Empire: Lover Mine (pg 330) -- Upstairs was all victorian empire, with heavy mahogany furniture and Oriental rugs�..
9. Udder:
10. Inflatable (has to be this form):Wet in Whispering Cove (pg 76) -- He fell into the inflatable dingy, which was somewhat padded, but his hand slammed into the motor and his left ankle crashed against the boat with a resounding crack.
still looking for that elusive udder - i might have to cry uncle this week!
Week #4
by Karen Marie MoningFinished:2/2/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:2~6/10
Metaphor:Can't we metaphor some things? Page 74
Lighthouse:We stole off to Paradise Point out by the lighthouse, dressed up like it was our wedding day, and took vows with each other. Page 156
Week #4
by Joshua Grover-DavidFinished:2/2/13
Rating:4 Stars
Items Claimed:1~7/10
Hearse:He could write us a ticket, send us on our way, and call an ambulance, or a hearse, or whatever he needed to pick that person up. Kindle App for PC Location 2006
Week 4Items claimed: 6/10
29.01 4 Stars
Hearse - page 135 - Sam drives a hearse...
Empire - page 161 - ...goes back as far as the Byzantine Empire.
31.01 3 Stars
Colander - page 10 - I watched him dump the pasta into a waiting colander.
Inflatable - page 44 - What i want is to be seen as having more to offer than an inflatable sex doll.
03.02 2 Stars
Metaphor - page 301 - Thanks, Lucas replied a little confused by the alien metaphor...
Lighthouse - page 5 -...top of the lighthouse in siasconset.
Insurgent byVeronica Roth
Finished: 2/3
Rating: 3 stars
*"It's a metaphor," said Christina. page 448
Week so far: 3
Week 4: Total Items Found 5/10
The Eight - Katherine Neville
Completed: 01/30
Rating: ★★★☆�
Items Found: 2/10
Lighthouse - pg 411 - ...like the beacon of a lighthouse shining across a wintry sea.
Empire - pg 390 - ...her son Phoenix founded the Phoenician Empire ...
Killbox - Ann Aguirre
Completed: 02/02
Rating: ★★★★�
Items Found: 1/10
Vortex - pg 1 - It's a possibility vortex ...
One Shot - Lee Child
Completed: 02/03
Rating: ★★★☆�
Items Found: 2/10
Metaphor - pg 138 - People like to use computer metaphors now...
Inflatable - pg 120 Behind them was a giant inflatable gorilla...
Week 4:
- Colson WhiteheadFinished: Feb. 3rd, 2013
Rating: 2.5/5
Items to claim:
Metaphor: "The barricade is the only metaphor left in this mess." (Kobo pg. 87)
Vortex: "...four blood-streaked hands snatched him into the vortex." (Kobo pg. 209)
Inflatable: "They did not stir the masses from their poly-this poly-that inflatable mattresses to pledge their lives to reconstruction." (Kobo pg. 71)
Colander: "...the splayed pinstriped legs of an urban golfer putting into a colander..." (Kobo pg. 10)
Hearse: "...pounding on the blood-smeared back window of, the overturned yellow cab, radio-station promo van, or hearse." (Kobo pg. 118)
Post total: 5/10
Week total: 6/10
Week 4
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Finished:1/30
Rating:★★★★
6. Lighthouse :
...ever-turning beam of the lighthouse.__Part 1 (01:15:43)
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Finished:1/31
Rating:★★★★�
1. Metaphor :
...could think of a serpent metaphor to describe...__Part 1 (34:54)
3. Armageddon :
...the highway of Armageddon lay in silent...__Part 3 (04:29)
8. Empire :
It's an evil empire, of course.__Part 6 (52:49)
Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
Finished:2/4
Rating:★★★★
5. Hearse :
...glide out of the night in a black hearse.__Part 6 (08:07)
Total Found=5/10
crips I found this set of words really hard to find
Finished: Jan 31,13
5 stars
Items Claimed: 1
Vortex: through some kind of vortex to get here...pg 126
Finished: Jan 31,13
5 stars
Items Claimed: 1
Vortex: through some kind of vortex to get here...pg 126
Week 3:Read
by B.G. HarlenFinished 2/3/13
Rating: ★★
Items Found: 1
She had already been metaphorically eviscerated KL#2797
Week 4Points this Post: 8
Points this Week: 8/10
Book:
by Jasper FfordeRead: From February 1 to 3
Rating: ˥♥˥♥
Claimed word: Armageddon
"...had nearly brought about a gooey Dream Topping Armageddon."
Kindle Location 684
Claimed word: Lighthouse
"...darkest gale-torn night, and before me stood a lighthouse."
Kindle Location 4406
Claimed word: Colander
"...have so many holes we could use it as a colander."
Kindle Location 1650
Claimed word: Empire
"Britain voted favourite empire tenth year running, said one."
Kindle Location 3015
Claimed word: Udder
"He said: "Thirsty! Wode - Cone, udder whirled" or something quite like it."
Kindle Location 4867
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Book:
by Peter HellerRead: On February 4
Rating: ˥♥˥♥
Claimed word: Metaphor
"...than with any sense of unbounded freedom or metaphors of the soaring spirit."
Kindle Location 698
Claimed word: Vortex
"Creates a vortex, a crosscurrent like the two flags at the airport..."
Kindle Location 1168
Claimed word: Concave
"...the lower plain of her concave belly..."
Kindle Location 3332
Week 5Points this Post: 5
Points this Week: 5/10
Book:
by Peter HellerRead: On February 4
Rating: ˥♥˥♥
Claimed word: Lime
"...an elder at water's edge, leaves the color of limes."
Kindle Location 2377
Claimed word: Freckles
"...deep tanned and freckled on the top and milky below."
Kindle Location 3118
Claimed word: Giggle
"...while all the kids giggled and the teachers died of cuteness assault."
Kindle Location 951
Claimed word: Puppy
"You're acting like a goddamn lost puppy."
Kindle Location 2208
Claimed word: Quilt
"I put an heirloom quilt on his side."
Kindle Location 934
@Camilla -- luckily you had that book! it was supposed to be medium and you're treating it like it was easy.
I know! I was so lucky! I didn't have it on my Kindle when I first searched, but then I was listening to the audio and realised there were two words in there... THEN checked the book and it had 5 (!) words! :)And it was pure coincidence and luck that the book I read today for a few more items had 5 of your new items, Pat!
Items found: 9/101. Metaphor : “He’d taken off with only a few cryptic metaphors and a warning� (Pg. 37 in Blood of the Wicked)
2. Vortex: “A vortex of emotions too damned complex for her to work them out now, but all Silas.� (Pg. 75 in Blood of the Wicked)
3. Armageddon: “Populations all over the world had come too damn close toarmageddon to tolerate a second go.� (Pg. 40 in Blood of the Wicked)
4. Concave: “T concave dip of her belly twitched.� (Pg. 80 in Blood of the Wicked)
5. Hearse: “T hearsewas about three cars in front of them.� (Pg. 338 in )
6. Lighthouse : “Like the Dungeness spitlighthouse that both showedmariners the way home and warn of dangerous shoals� (Pg. 126 in True Colors)
7. Colander: � Then grabbed a bunch of grapes from the colander in the fridge.� ( KL 2200 in Wallbanger)
8. Empire: “With massive government funding, he’d built a research empire � (Pg. 119 in The Better Part of Darkness)
9. Udder: N/A
10. Inflatable: “and the ball was an oversize, inflatable, slightly weighted beach ball designed to look like a vollyeball.� (KL 4435 inExclusively Yours)
by Kelly Gay (3-stars, Done 1/31)
by Alice Clayton (5-stars, Done 2/1)
by Kristin Hannah (3-stars, Done 2/2)
by Karina Cooper (3.5-stars, Done 2/4)
by Shannon Stacey (3-stars, Done 2/4)
Read:
Finished 2/4/2013
3 stars
Week #4
Metaphor: "But he'd played his last chip and had no other moves left on this particular chessboard, if that wasn't a complete mix of metaphors." - Page 113
Concave: "Even in moonlight, Robin could identify the metallic concave shape of the satellite dish falling past the kitchen window to smash into the ground." - Page 377
Empire: "And in so doing built not only business empires, but political empires still friendly to the West." - Page 110
Week Total: 4/10
Week #5
I was on page 276 when I saw the items posted.
Jungle: "It's life in the jungle, animals acting according to their own nature and need." - Page 292
Zigzag: "With a brightening sky overhead, Robin could now make out the zigzag of a footpath leading upward where blasting had not yet disturbed the rock formation." - Page 451
Week Total: 2/10
WEEK 4
Rating: 4½�'
Read: 1/29/13-1/30/13
Items Claimed: 1 ~ 1/10
Colander Location 4181/Page 273
"Do you have a colander?" she asked. "I have no idea what you're talking about." "A strainer. To drain the pasta."
Rating: 5�'
Read: 2/2/13 - 2/4/13
Items Claimed: 5 ~ 6/10
Metaphor Location 1526/Page 79
"No, that's a metaphor," I said. Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for."
Armageddon Location 4709/Page 245
"You say Mab wants to hold an Armageddon-athon, fine. How is she going to do it?"
Hearse Location 1463/Page 76
"It was an ancient hearse, a Caddy that must have been built sometime in the years immediately following World War II, complete with rounded tail fins. It had been painted dark, dark blue, and given a flame job in shades of electric purple."
Empire Location 4574/Page 239
"Wars have raged. Empires have fallen."
Lighthouse Location 2830/Page 147 "... top of the hill is a ruined lighthouse made of stone."
WEEK 5
Rating: 5�'
Read: Started *Only counted from Page 236 read after list posted today - 2/4/13
Items Claimed: 2 ~ 1/10
Giggle Location 5228/Page 273
"No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster."
Puppy Location 4638/Page 242
"... a warm shower, and snuggling a fuzzy puppy all at the same time."
Week #4
Married By Christmas by Scarlett Bailey
Finished: 2/1/13
Rating: 4 Stars
Items Claimed: 4/10
Armageddon: ...fast women and - into the microphone, Miles rendition was... (Location 2924)
Empire: You can't be cooking in puffed sleeves and an empire line dress. (Location 249)
Colander: She was holding a colander rather defensively... (Location 362)
Metaphor: ...could almost be a metaphor for their friendship. (Location 2006)
Week #4
Lasso Me a Mom by Stephanie Jackson
Finished: 2/3/13
Rating: 5 Stars
Items Claimed: 2/10
Udder: She grabbed a metal bucket and placed it underneath the udders (Location 1202)
Lighthouse: I mean, shouldnt you be at the lighthouse mission by now?(Location 125)
Week #4
No Exchanges, No Returns by Laurie Kellogg
Finished: 2/4/13
Rating: 4 Stars
Items Claimed: 2/10
Vortex: Caught in a vortex of sensation, she moaned as his mouth... (Location 3134)
Inflatable: Sge grabbed the inflatable raft and draped...(Location 4315)
Week #4
The Dead Tide by A.D. Bloom
Finished: 2/3/13
Rating: 2 Stars
Items Claimed: 1/10
Concave: That side of him was flat, almost concave where the stone had crushed his ribs. (Location 293)
Week #4
When Slumber Falls by S.D. Hintz
Finished: 2/3/13
Rating: 2 Stars
Items Claimed: 1/10
Hearse: ...Murray glanced back in time to see a black hearse slam into Pontius. (Location 902)
Items Claimed 10/10
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Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs - Molly Harper
Completed: 01/22
Rating: ★★★☆�
Items Found: 10/10
Tile - pg 63 - ...and set it on the white tile counter next to the cookie jar shaped like a cheeky raccoon.
Bathtub - pg 88 - We tossed a toaster in the bathtub with me.
Winter - pg 86 - ...a pantry big enough to store winter rations for a family of ten...
Sandwich - pg 237 - Uncle Lonnie sent me to work at the sandwich shop.
Cupcake - pg 77 - I guess I’ll just empty that box of Hostess Cupcakes into the trash.
Ghost - pg 52 - I’m not delusion, Jane, I’m a ghost .
Email - pg 180 - “How exactly did she get my e-mail address?� I asked..
Cat - pg 20 - Single vampires tend to live alone in historic family homes…with a lot of cats .
High School - pg 8 - We moved in different circles in high school .
Library - pg 3 - She allowed the library to stock “questionable� books such as The Catcher in the Rye and the Harry Potter series but tracked who read them.