1. Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts (Friend) -- Requested, plan on reading this month
2. Death's Excellent Vacation by Charlaine Harris et al (Friend) -- Um...I've now had this one a year. Oops.
3. Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Friend) -- actually, I have books 4 and 5 of the Night Huntress Series, plus books 1 and 2 of the Night Huntress World
4. The Gift of Murder, an anthology of short mysteries (Sister/BIL)
5. Heat Wave by Richard Castle (Friend)
6. Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson (Sister/BIL) -- Books 1-3 of the series
7. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (BIL) -- He brought me books 2-4, but not book 1. Sigh...
8. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Sister)
9. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Sister) -- So long as I get it read before the movie comes out, I'm good. It's said to be "in production," but no release date as yet.
10. The Third Secret by Steve Berry (Sister) -- I think this was based on our reading of the Dan Brown books
11. The Valcourt Heiress by Catherine Coulter (Friend) -- Book 7 of a series; book 6 was out way back in 2002.
12. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Sister/BIL) -- Requested because I wanted to try some of her single title books and this one sounds good.
13. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Sister) -- She might get this one back. Might. *g* And no, I have NOT seen the musical, though I really wanted to when it was in town last fall.
Have you borrowed a book recently that you need to finish and return? Or, is there a book that you've recently flung at a friend or family member with the admonition that they must read it?
Maddy Barone * Xakara * Shelley Munro
CountryDew * Harriet * Janice Seagraves * Brenda
Jennifer Leeland * KS Manning * Paige Tyler
Darla M Sands * Kimberly Menozzi * Colleen
Suzanna Medeiros * Norma * Payton Bradshaw
16 comments:
No, no, can't add to my TBR pile. Must. Look. Away.
I really liked 9, need to get 3, have 5 somewhere and can't wait to see how that turned out, I'm very interested in 13, so tell me how it was, and I'm decidely running away from the others because I can't afford it!
Happy TT,
~Xakara
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I haven't read a single one of these, but I'd like to :)
The Lost Symbol was pretty good. You have some good titles in this pile. But I have a huge pile of books of my own that I fear I will never get to!
Thank goodness for summer reading :)
Have a great Thursday!
http://harrietandfriends.com/2011/07/wasting-tax-money/
Xakara: LOL...believe me, I know your pain. My TBR pile is big enough without borrowing from other people. I think some of these will be fairly fast reads once I get to them.
Shelley: Wow, not even one?
Anita: You know what's funny about The Lost Symbol is, when they got it, my sister asked if I wanted to borrow it when they were done, then a year later when I asked about it for a 5th or 6th time said, "Oh, you wanted to borrow that one?" Doh!
Harriet: Amen! *G*
I wish I could read instead of going to the evil day job. Haven't borrowed or lent anything in a while but a friend is planning to give me something that should be interesting. It's some kind of positive thinking self help tome that's supposed to be funny but I can't recall the name (sigh - typical, forgetful me). Happy reading!
Darla: Don't you hate it when the evil day job gets in the way of your reading or writing?
Can't believe you have Heat Wave on there! Too funny!
*hugs*
Paige
Good books. I've read The Lincoln Lawyer and The Lightning Thief but I'm eying the others you've listed and considering adding to my TBR pile.
I'll admit I loved the first half of Wicked, but then lost interest in the middle section and stopped reading. I should have pressed on because that was a while back and I now have no interest in going back to it.
I bought The Lightning Thief (as well as the rest of the series) for my daughters and hope to get to it as well. So many books, so little time!
I don't think I have any borrowed or loaned, but then I'm a librarian (retired). Do you have a plan--this is really ambitious.
http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2011/07/thursday-thirteen-july-7-2011-from.html
I've been curious about Wicked, but haven't read it yet.
Janice~
I've read the Lightning Thief (I enjoyed it) and the Jeaniene Frost (Loved it. I have the Richard Castle but haven't read it yet. Looks like you have some good readingahead of you this sumer.
I so want Heat Wave. Rick Castle/Nathan Fillon...YUM!
Happy TT
That's a pretty heft summer reading list. I haven't read any of those myself.
The Lighting Thief is good! And I haven't read a bunch of these.
There really is a Richard Castle? LOL!!!!
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