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IT'S A PERKS CONNECTED READ-A-THON

As a group let's see what we can read in the month of January and have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!

How this works...

* Each book needs to "connect" to the last one posted

* "Connects" can be based on by genre, author, title, character names, colour of cover, same award won or number of pages

* As soon as you have a book that you have read in Sept 2015 that can connect to the last one, post it with the reasons it "connects" and the running tally for you, and for the group for the month, and let's see how many books we can read and connect in the month!

EXAMPLE

Post 1:
Kristie posts:
Mr. Mercedes
Kristie's tally - 1 book
Perks Group tally - 1 book

Post 2:
Karen Posts
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Connected by: "King" (author and then title)
Karen's tally: 1 book
Perks group tally: 2 books

Post 3:
Kristie posts:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Connected by: Cover colour is yellow
Kirstie's tally: 2 books
Perks group tally: 3 books

.... hopefully you get the idea....

NOTE: You can read any book of any length, children's books and graphic novels also count. Please just remember to check the tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post

Books need to be marked as "read" between Jan 1 and Jan 30. (It doesn't matter when you started)

reserved

I'm in :)

This sounds fun. I'm in!

Will give it a go if I can!

I'll give it a go...

When do we start? It is January 2 here in Australia already :)

Shall I post a book I just finished reading.

The Crown Tower- Michael J Sullivan

Sana's tally- 1 book
Perks Group tally-1 book

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Connection: Both author 's last names begin with an S

Donna's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 2

Connection: Both tagged as contemporary

MB's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 3

Connection: First letter of the first name of author in book 1, is same as the first letter in the last author's name in book 2 (R)

Chava's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 4

The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes

Connection: Both books have GR ratings of between 3.93 and 3.95
(Sorry, struggling to find anything the same between these two!!)

Karen's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 5

First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones

Connection: First letter of the author of the first book and second letter of the author of the second book is same

Sana's Tally- 2
Perk's Tally- 6

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Connection: Both # 1 in their series and both Fantasy genre

Caly's Tally - 1
Perk's Tally - 7

Moonshadow by Thea Harrison

Connection: Both are from Fantasy genre and both are #1 in their series and have nearly same backdrop.

Sana's Tally: 3
Perks Tally: 8

Sana wrote: "

Moonshadow by Thea Harrison

Connection: Both are from Fantasy genre and both are #1 in their series and have nearly same backdrop.

Sana's Tally: ..."

Sana, you are on a roll! Great work!!

Connection: both covers are blue

Donna's Tally: 2
Perk's Tally : 9

Connection: Both are Women Authors who have done well and written numerous books.

Caly's Tally : 2
Perk's Tally : 10

Connection: Both Covers Are White

Colleen's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 11

Connection: Both are classified as Teen

Colleen's Tally: 2
Perk's Tally: 12

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley

Connection: Both involve corpses

Laura's Tally: 1
Perks' Tally: 13

The 4th Man by Lisa Gardner

Connection: both listed as mystery

Chava's tally: 2
Perks' tally: 14

Det fjärde offret by Mari Jungstedt

Connection: Both have mystery/crime as main page genre
(and both have "fourth" in the title; fjärde = fourth in Swedish)

MH's tally: 1
Perk's tally: 15

Connection: both have girls on the cover and both have genre listed as thriller

Chava's tally: 3
Perks' tally: 16

Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks

Connection: Both have a girl on the cover. Sorry guys, that's the only connection I could find, lol.

Sana's Tally: 4
Perks Tally: 17

Sleight of Paw


Connection: "S" in the authors' names: Kerrelyn Sparks and Sofie Kelly.

Ericka's Tally: 1
Perks' Tally: 18

True Devotion by Dee Henderson


Connection: Sleight of Paw is written by Sofie KELLY, and the main character's name in True Devotion is KELLY.

Rose's Tally: 1
Perks' Tally: 19

by Suzanne Brockmann

Connection: Both military men on the cover.

Lisa's Total: 1
Perk's Total 20

by Thea Harrison

Connection: female authors

Lisa's Total: 2
Perk's Total: 21

by Lorraine Heath

Connection: Both covers main colour is shades of blue

Lisa's Total: 3
Perk's Total: 22

Connection: Both are classified as Romance

Colleen's Tally: 3
Perk's Tally: 23

Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Connection: Shared first and last initials

Kate's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 24

Falcon's Curse

Connection : the moon, in the title of 1 and the cover of the other

Donna's Tally : 3
Perk's Tally : 25

Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls

Connection: both falcons and owls are birds (and mentioned in the respective titles)

Alia's tally: 1
Perk's tally: 26

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Connection: Both books involve Mystery and they have similar rating 4.3 and 4.26

Sana's Tally: 5
Perks Tally: 27



A Very Vampy Christmas by Kerrelyn Sparks

Connection: Both are from fantasy genre.

Sana's Tally: 6
Perks Tally: 28

Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb

Connection: Christmas books

Kate's Tally: 2
Perk's Tally: 29

Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner


Connection: In Wishin' and Hopin', Felix is a distant cousin to Annette, the actress. In Stars, Audry becomes a tv actress.

Rose's Tally: 2
Perks' Tally: 30

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen



Connection: Both authors (Erika Johansen & Susan Meissner) grew up on the West side of California, beside the sea within an hours distance of each other. (Really tenuous link I know, but I was struggling!)

Emily's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 31

Connection: Both books have the word queen in the title and both are the first book in their series

Colleen's Tally: 4
Perk's Tally: 32

connection: Both #1 in a series



connection: both authors surnames start with H

Karen's Tally: 3
Perk's Tally: 34

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

connection: both authors are GoodReads authors

Kate's Tally: 3
Perk's Tally: 35

Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

Connection: Both are classified as fantasy and both the authors has letter J in their names.

Sana's Tally: 7
Perks Tally: 36

Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine

Connection - Both are classified as Fantasy/Paranormal; both are about vampires; both have authors with R initial.

Angie's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 37

by Paulo Coelho

Connection - The last name of both authors begins with "C" ( Caine and Coelho)

Caly's Tally - 3
Perks' Tally - 38

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

Connection: Classics with yellow covers



American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis

Connection: Short Stories

Kate's Tally: 5
Perk's Tally: 40

Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

Connection - Last name of both Authors begins with "E"

AND



Gone to Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

Connection - Both are in the Rogue River Series and both have "Grave" in title


Angie's Tally: 3
Perk's Tally 42

by Leigh Bardugo

Connection: Both the authors have "Leigh" in their names.

Aadhu's Tally: 1
Perk's Tally: 43

Valentine by Sorcha Black

Connection: Both authors second names starts with B

Sana's Tally: 8
Perks Tally: 44

Shame by Salman Rushdie

Connection: Both author's first name starts with S



Barkskins by Annie Proulx

Connection: Both books have one word titles

Kate's Tally: 7
Perk's Tally: 46

Connection: Both books have one word titles (I really couldn't find anything else)

MB's Tally: 2
Perk's Tally: 47

Unchained by J. Lynn

Connection: Both authors name starts with J

Sana's Tally: 9
Perks Tally: 48