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

My theme song for this year's challenge:
"Breakfast Cereal Killer" by Chris Chandler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2Hs...

Edited last November 6th

Books read/Series in progress to continue:
Doomsday Book in the Connie Willis Oxford Time Travel quartet (had read 2 previous to this year and now 1 more)
American Fried in the Calvin Trillin Tummy trilogy (read at least one of the books years ago - probably going to re-read)
The Shadow of the Wind (1 of 3 read previously in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series prior to 2015)
Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series (had read #1-3 of 7 previously; have read 6 as of date of this post)
Agatha H and the Airship City (1 of 3 read previous to 2015 in Phil Foglio and Kaja Folio's Girl Genius series)
Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently series (had read 1 of 4 previous to 2015) - FINISHED
Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy (had read 1 of 3 previously) - FINISHED
Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time Quintet (had read 1 of 5 previously) - FINISHED


Books/Series to begin in 2015 for this challenge:
Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations) - FINISHED all 6 this year
Neuromancer (3 books in William Gibson's Sprawl series; have read 1 now this year)
Wool (3 books in Hugh Howey's Silo series)
1Q84 (3 in Haruki Murakami's IQ84 series; will finish all 3 this year)
Swann's Way (7 in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time series)
Shadow Country (3 in Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country trilogy)
The Country Girls Trilogy - used complete trilogy paperback - MY COPY
The Name of the Wind (3 primary in Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Trilogy)
The Egg and I (5 in Betty MacDonald Memoir Series)
Whose Body? (10+ in Lord Peter Wimsey series)

Series in progress maybe/maybe not continue:
Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools: Tuck Into a Slice of Andalucían Life (read in 2015 1st of 3 in Two Old Fools series)
Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series (have read 1 of 10+)
Ruth Birmingham's Sunny Childs series (have read #6 in series of 6)
A Tale Dark and Grimm (read 1 of 3 in 2015)
Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series (had read #1 and #2 of 10+ previously; now have read #12 in 2015)
Pearl S. Buck's House of Earth trilogy (read #1 of 3 previous to 2015)
Patricia Highsmith's Mr. Ripley series (have read #1 of 5 previously)
Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat series (have read #1 of 3)
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (have read previously #1 and #2 of 7)
Shamini Flint's Inspector Singh Investigates series (have read prior to 2015 #1 of 6)
Alexander McCall Smith's No 1 Ladies Detective series (have read previously #1 of 10+)
Agnes Newton Keith's Borneo trilogy (have read previously 1 of 3)
Dogs Don't Lie: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir (have read in 2015 1 of 5 in Clea Simon's Pru Marlow Pet Noir series)
Sookie Stackhouse (read 1 of 10 in 2015; series not for me)

Additional interesting series to maybe begin:
The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum / Cat and Mouse / Dog Years by Günter Grass
Gilead trilogy (3 books in series)
Kate Shugak series (10+)
Dr. Gideon Fell series (especially #6 of 10+)
Hangman's Daughter series (3 books in series)
Merrily Watkins (10+)
Outlander Epic (8)
Wayward Pines (3)
Rose Strickland (3)
Erast Fandorin Mysteries (10+ but only 5 in English)
Chet and Bernie Mysteries (7)
The Emigrants (4)
Little Britches (8)
The Sandman comic book series (10+)
Hear the Wind Sing (4 in Haruki Murakami's The Rat series)- NOT WIDELY AVAILABLE :(

LEVEL
ONE

As of Date: Level completed on 24 Feb 2015

note: ✔ indicates book begun and completed within level

Books Planned/Completed:
✔Dogs Don't Lie: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir 1/7 Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series: 5 points

✔Guards! Guards! 1/7 City Watch Sub-Series of Discworld: 5 points

✔ The Crown Conspiracy 1/6 Riyria Revelations: 5 points

✔Birds, Beasts, and Relatives 2/3 Corfu Trilogy: 5 pts

✔Still Life 1/11 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series : 5 pts

✔A Wind in the Door 2/5 Wrinkle in Time Quintet: 5 pts
✔A Swiftly Tilting Planet 3/5 Wrinkle in Time Quintet: 5 pts
✔Many Waters 4/5 Wrinkle in Time Quintet: 5 pts
✔An Acceptable Time 5/5 Wrinkle in Time Quintet: 5 pts

✔I Am Half-Sick of Shadows 4/7 Flavia de Luce Series: 5 pts

Series completed at this level:
✔Wrinkle in Time Quintet: 50 pts

Final Point Count for Level One: 100 points

LEVEL
TWO

As of Date: Level completed on 27 April 2015

Books Planned/Completed:
✔Avempartha 2/6 Riyria Revelations: 5 pts

✔The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 2/3 Dirk Gently Trilogy: 5 pts
✔The Salmon of Doubt 3/3 Dirk Gently Trilogy: 5 pts

✔The Garden of the Gods 3/3 Corfu Trilogy: 5 pts

✔Men at Arms 2/7 City Watch Discworld series: 5 pts

✔Dead Until Dark 1/13 Sookie Stackhouse series: 5 pts

✔A Tale Dark & Grimm 1/3 A Tale Dark and Grimm series: 5 pts

✔Feet of Clay: 5 pts

Series completed:
✔Dirk Gently trilogy: 30 pts
✔Corfu trilogy: 30 pts

Final Point Count for Level Two: 100 pts

LEVEL
THREE

As of Date: 3 October 2015

Books Planned/Completed:

✔Feet of Clay 3/7 City Watch Discworld: 5 pts

✔Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools: Tuck into a Slice of Andalucían Life 1/3 Old Fools trilogy: 5 pts

✔Blackout 3/4 Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel: 5 pts

✔The Track of Sand 3/10+ Inspector Montalbano series: 5 pts

✔Neuromancer 1/3 of Sprawl trilogy: 5 pts

✔Speaking from Among the Bones 5 of 7 in Flavià de Luce series: 5 pts

✔Nyphron Rising 3 of 6 in Riyria Revelations: 5 pts

✔The Emerald Storm 4 of 6 in Riyria Revelations: 5 pts

✔Wintertide 5 of 6 in RR: 5 pts

✔Percepliquis 6 of 6 in RR: 5 pts

✔Dandelion Wine 1 of 4 in Green Town series: 0 pts (read for Dinner Bell challenge)

Series completed:
✔Riyria Revelations (6 books in series): 60 pts

Final Point Count for Level Three:
110 pts

LEVEL
FOUR

As of Date: 10 November

Books Planned/Completed:

✔1Q84 BOOK 1Book #1 of trilogy: 5 pts
✔1Q84 BOOK 2: 5 pts
✔1Q84 BOOK 3: 5 pts

✔The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 6/7 Flavia de Luce series: 5 pts

✔As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust 7/7 Flavia de Luce series: 5 pts

✔Something Wicked This Way Comes #2 in Green Town quartet: 5 pts (read for October group read)

Series completed:
✔Flavia de Luce series: 70 pts
✔1Q84 Murakami trilogy: 30 pts

Point Count for Completed Books: 130 pts

LEVEL
FIVE Still hoping/thinking I might get to here :)

As of Date:

Books Planned for this or future level:

Farewell Summer

Summer Morning, Summer Night

The Country Girls 1 of 3
Country Girls trilogy 2 of 3
Country Girls trilogy 3 of 3

The Egg and I

Series completed:
Green Town quartet (40 pts)
probably Country Girls trilogy (30 pts)

Point Count for Completed Books:

LEVEL
SIX

As of Date:

Books Planned:
Wool series??

Series completed:

Point Count for Completed Books:

Whoo hoo - first blood, hee hee. I have 5 points : )

Nnnnoooooooo! I did not know that there were two more books in L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time series. I read them in middle school in the early '60s. I always had fond memories of them. I bought the first book for my daughter but she nor her sisters ever cared to read it. My granddaughter read it but never cared to read the rest.

I'm astounded, too, Cherie!! I loved/still love A Wrinkle in Time trilogy, but two more books I didn't know about?!!?

That makes me a little sad that your daughters and granddaughter didn't care for these :(

However, I'm happy to report that my nephew at age 5 wanted to go to bed early just so his dad could keep reading this series to him!! :D

Yeah, didn't you notice that it said "quintet". ROFL!

I read the 1-3 in childhood and young adulthood as stand alone books. Never saw "quintet" until goffering for this series challenge : ) Now, I want to read 4 and 5. Maybe reread 1-3 first.

I am thinking the same, TJ. I wonder how they will feel now?

Cherie, I'm liking them. I picked up with book 2 (during mystery date toppler) because I've read book 1 numerous times, including last about 10-12 years ago. Read book 3 over the last few days.

I'm liking the series tho not to the same "it's amazing" level I felt/feel for book 1. I'm looking forward to reading books 4 and 5 - and killing off my first series and reaching 100 points. Yay, almost there!

I am glad you are still feeling the same about them, TJ. I might have to revisit them again. There are so many things that I still remember like it was yesterday. I know that I read the last two, but they are not as clear to me. Maybe, if there is time before the challenge is over, I will order them from the library.

I've decided to scrap His Majesty's Dragon for now. Just not in the mood. Can try again some other time. That's how it goes sometimes.

So I recently read two books with the same title, "Feet of Clay." I read Feet of Clay because I inadvertently reserved it from the library! But i decided, what the heck, give it a go and I liked it. Turned out it was part of the Sunny Childs mystery series : )

Then i went on to read the book i meant to in the first place which was Feet of Clay in the Discworld/City Guard series. I liked it a lot, too. Pretty funny.

I'm substituting Neuromancer in my level three plans in place of "His Majesty's Dragon," which i tried out as an audiobook and couldn't get on-board with. I just seem to always have trouble with audiobooks. What's wrong with me?

Any way, I'm doing a read-along with my husband and one of our local good friends so i'll have them to discuss with. It's regarded as a classic in sci-fi, and it's where the term "cyberspace" originated.

I liked the Terry Pratchet book too!