The Lost Challenges discussion

How this challenge works: I post two pairs of letters. They have to be pairs that actually occur with reasonable frequency in English words, and to avoid making this more difficult than fun I'd like to suggest we stay away from Z and X. :-)

I post two pairs of letters. The next participant picks any book whose title contains any word that STARTS WITH either pair of letters, and posts the book as the one he or she is going to read for the challenge. They then repost the unused pair of letters, and pick a pair of letters to replace the one that has now been used. The next participant picks a book from his/her TBR that matches one of the letter pairs, reposts the other, and picks a new replacement pair.

Example: I post AL and RU. Sharon posts that she is going to read All the King's Men . She then reposts RU, and chooses CH as her next pair.

Barbara chooses Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , reposts RU and chooses EM as the new pair.

Connie chooses Beautiful Ruins , reposts EM and chooses BR as the replacement pair.

You can finish your chosen book before you repost, or you can do what I do and always have one going from your "double trouble" pick list but re-participate if you see something truly delicious come up that you have a book you're dying to read for...

I'll post the first pairs of letters-- come join the fun!

The first pairs:

TR and DE

Wow, I get to be first? I'll take the DE and read Let's Play Dead, by Sheila Connolly.

New pairs: TR and SE

I pick TR

I'll be reading:
One Last Try


Completed: 8/19 ★★★

New Pairs: SE & HA

I will read Half Magic


Completed: 8/19 ★★★★

New Pairs: SE & RO

I found one!

The Study of Seduction

New Pairs: RO & LA

I pick Murder at Lambswool Farm .

New Pairs: RO and CR

I pick RO

I'll be reading:
Romancing the Wrong Twin


Completed: 8/22 ★★★★

New Pairs: CR & MA

I'll take MA and read The Rithmatist


New choices: CR & LY

Katharine wrote: "I'll take MA and read The Rithmatist


New choices: CR & LY"

Hey, the title needs to have a word that STARTS with the pair. Have you got another pick available?

This sounds fun, Jennifer. What a clever idea. But where do we stand at this point?

Let's use Katherine's posted pairs to pick. I don't know if she has another book available for the letter pair she chose but let's keep the challenge going regardless.

I'll take LY and read: by Ruth Ware

Completed 8/30/17

New Letters: CR & EV

I can take EV as long as I can use the subtitle:

Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth


Next: CR and TO

Yep subtitle is fine

I pick CR

I'll be reading:
Every Crooked Nanny


Completed: 8/24 ★★


New Pairs: TO & BA

TO--

For Whom the Bluebell Tolls

New Pairs:

BA and ST

Jennifer wrote: "Let's use Katherine's posted pairs to pick. I don't know if she has another book available for the letter pair she chose but let's keep the challenge going regardless."

Ooops...sorry ladies. Must've had a lapse in my memory of what I was doing.

Katharine wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Let's use Katherine's posted pairs to pick. I don't know if she has another book available for the letter pair she chose but let's keep the challenge going regardless."

Ooops...so..."

No worries. The point is to knock books off the TBR...which on my phone autocorrects to TNT.... there's a joke there somewhere.

Jennifer wrote: No worries. The point is to knock books off the TBR...which on my phone autocorrects to TNT.... there's a joke there somewhere. "

LOL

Jennifer wrote: "The point is to knock books off the TBR...which on my phone autocorrects to TNT.... there's a joke there somewhere."

Don't you just love autocorrect? LOL

Barb wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "The point is to knock books off the TBR...which on my phone autocorrects to TNT.... there's a joke there somewhere."

Don't you just love autocorrect? LOL"

So a friend and coworker of mine with an unusual last name was behaving like a butthead one day, and coincidentally another coworker of mine happened to text me about him, and on her phone the very first time she typed his last name it autocorrected to "sorry I was a d--k"---

Yes, I do love autocorrect....

It can certainly enliven conversations :)

I pick BA

I'll be reading:
Boy Banned


Completed: 8/27 ★★★

New Pairs: ST & AN

I can take AN

Doe and the Wolf
- 8/25

New pairs: ST & TH

I'll read Ruffian: Burning From the Start since I'm doing it for another challenge as well...

new pairs: TH and BA

I pick TH

Then Came Cal


Completed: 8/27 ★★★

New Pairs: BA & PL

:} Sharon {; wrote: "Love this Jennifer! It's moving right along!"

:)

I'll read Always the Baker, Never the Bride.

new pairs: PL and ME

I pick PL

Prince of the Playhouse


Completed: 9/03 ★★★★

New Pairs: ME & SH

I completed The Lying Game on 8/30/17.

I will take ME

New pairs: SH & KN

Niki wrote: "I completed The Lying Game on 8/30/17.

I will take ME

New pairs: SH & KN"

Excellent, what ME book are you reading? We're curious!

Finished The Study of Seduction Sabrina Jeffries 9/4/17

I'll take SH with The Angels' Share.

New Pairs: KN & TR

I pick KN

Knight of Ocean Avenue


Completed: 9/06 ★★★★

New Pairs: TR & YO

I'll go with TR and read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Next pairs: YO and AL

I finished my previous read:

Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell - 9/6/17 ♥♥♥

Next pairs: YO and AL

I have another AL at the ready -- the second in the same series I already started for this challenge: Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride

New pairs: YO and DR

I finished my pick:

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis - 9/10/17 ♥♥♥♥

I'll take Jennifer's DR and read: The Woman in the Movie Star Dress

Next pairs: YO and CH

I'll take "YO" and read While You Were Mine

New pairs -- CH and RO

Finally finished my book:

Let's Play Dead (Museum #2), by Sheila Connolly, finished 9/23 ★★★.5



I don't have anything to match the current letters, but I'll keep watching the thread.

I'll take CH and read Echo

New pairs -- OL and RO

I thought the letter combination had to *start a word in a title, not be in the middle of the word?

it does -- Katharine have you got another pick that starts with CH?

In an attempt to get this moving again, I'll take the RO from message #40 with Royal Flush, by Rhys Bowen. I may not get to it for a month or more, but it's on my list to finish before the end of the year :)

Next pairs: UN or DE

I'll read The Deader The Better and use the DE.

Next pair -- UN and SE

I finally read my book from message #45:

Royal Flush (Her Royal Spyness #3), by Rhys Bowen, finished 11/5 ★★★.5



It's on my list to read before the end of the year, but I don't know how soon I'll get to it. But to keep the chain moving a bit, I'll take the SE with Sex and Salmonella

Next pairs: UN or LO

That looks so fun :-)

I want to read Unending Devotion, Unholy Alliances & Unlocked for quite a time. I'm still not sure which one I'll read but of the those three I'll start this week.

Next pairs: LO & TH

I'll take LO -- The Rules of Love & Grammar.

New pairs: TH and PU

@Barb -- not sure I want to know what relationship sex and salmonella have!! LOL

I'm not sure either, Jennifer LOL Do you want me to report back after I've finished the book? Believe it or not, it's a cozy mystery, so I can't imagine it would be *that bad ... maybe?

Barb wrote: "I'm not sure either, Jennifer LOL Do you want me to report back after I've finished the book? Believe it or not, it's a cozy mystery, so I can't imagine it would be *that bad ... maybe?"

The series looks interesting and is set in South Dakota - pretty hard to find books for that one. Did you read the first one in series? If you did how did you like it?