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October - Serial Slayers
Welcome, everybody 🤗 Participants list
Still Premeditating:
Asma - 0/8
D. L. - 0/5
Hayley - 0/10
Lucy - 0/7
Suzanne - 0/5
The Book Girl - 0/10
Serial Wannabes:
Brittany (msg 56) - 1/5
Brittany (msg 74) - 4/5
Kelly - 3/4
Megan - 4/10
Nicole - 18/25
Rebecca - 3/10
Samantha - 3/4
Sunshine - 5/7
Yana (msg 12) - 1/3
Serious Serialists:
🎈 Yana (msg 6) - 10/10
🎊 Greg - 5/5
🎉 Carmen - 13/10
🎁 Sunny - 3/3
🏅 oshizu - 10/8
💐 SarahKat - 4/4
🎏 Mie - 5/5
🎀 Karin - 12/12
🎂 Alison - 5/5
💃 Alekhya - 4/4
🏵 Sue - 10/10
🎖 Sarah - 8/8
🌺 Lynn - 5/5
🥳 Rachael - 5/5
🏆 Margie - 12/7
🎯 Sara - 2/2
🌼 TerryJane - 10/10
When posting your progress, please include your original (sign-up) message number plus the current progress using the format below:
Update to msg #xx: books read/books pledged
I will update every Sunday (European time, which will probably be some time Saturday night in the US).
I’m in for 5 books 📚5/5 - COMPLETE ✔️
📗 Monk's Hood
📗 Royal Assassin - Farseer 2
📗 The Defenceless - Anna Fekete 2
📗 Summer Knight - Dresden Files 4
📗 Blodmåne - Kørner/Werner 2
I'm so excited about this challenge! Please sign me up for 8 books, Mie!
Progress: 10/8
✔️1. Lazlo Kreizler #2: The Angel of Darkness
✔️2. Dresden Files #6: Blood Rites
✔️3. Dublin Murder Squad #2: The Likeness
✔️4. Magical Bakery #7: Potions and Pastries
✔️5. Anna Fekete #2: The Defenceless
✔️6. Goldy Bears #3: The Cereal Murders
✔️7. Greta Helsing #2: Dreadful Company
✔️8. Brother Cadfael #9: Dead Man's Ransom
✔️9. Sebastian St. Cyr #7: When Maidens Mourn
✔️10. Thomas Cromwell #3: The Mirror & the Light
My planning post
Hola Mie!Count me in, please 😉
PROGRESS: 13/10 📚
1. Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti (A Magical Bakery Mystery, #2)✔
2. This Side of the Grave (Night Huntress, #5)✔
3. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #39)✔
4. The Twisted Sword (The Poldark Saga, #11)✔
5. The Hanging Girl (Department Q, #6)✔
6. The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)✔
7. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)✔
8. Hangman's Holiday (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)✔
9. The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion, #10)✔
10. Pilgrim's Rest (Miss Silver, #10)✔
11. My Ántonia (Great Plain Trilogy, #3)✔
12. Bella Poldark (The Poldark Saga, #12)✔
13. He's So Fine (Lucky Harbor, #11)✔
Sign me up please!! PROGRESS : 10/10 completed
1. ✔️Falling for Fitz
2. ✔️ Anyone but Alex
3. ✔️ Seduced by Stratton
4. ✔️Mockingjay
5. ✔️A Dog's Journey
6. ✔️Dragonfly in Amber
7. ✔️ Voyager
8. ✔️ Shopaholic Ties the Knot
9. ✔️ The Wedding
10. ✔️ Scarlet
Welcome, oshizu - me too! Oh, how I love a good series 🤩Hola, Carmen - great to see you. Welcome 🤗
Sure thing, Yana - welcome to the challenge 📕
Please sign me up for five books.COMPLETED: 5/5
✔️ Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5) finished 3 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
✔️ Small Gods (Discworld #13) finished 8 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
✔️ The Spook's Curse (The Last Apprentice/Wardstone Chronicles #2) finished 11 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ The Spook's Secret (The Last Apprentice/Wardstone Chronicles #3) finished 18 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️ The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope #9) finished 31 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Welcome, Rachael 🤗Uhh, Cormoran Strike - looking forward to that! Not entirely sure, I have the patience to wait for the Danish translation, haha...
I will sign up for 4!I would love to do more, but I have to finish my yearly challenges and most of those are stand-alones.
4/4
4/4
1. Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter
2. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
3. Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret by Obert Skye
4. The Likeness by Tana French
I will try 3 books:1. Last Argument of Kings
2. The Titan's Curse
3. The Vampire Lestat
Progress: 1/3
The Murder on the Links (Убивство на полі для гольфу): 288
I have a lot going on this October. Will sign up for 4🤞🏻Progress: 4/4
✓ Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles #4)
✓ A Clash of Kings(A Song Of Ice and Fire #2)
✓ Mostly Harmless(HHGTG #5) (gasp! this series will be done!!!!)
✓ The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)
If time permits Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4)
I'm going to try for ten.Progress: 3/10
2. 500 Miles from You (Scottish Bookshop #3)
4. The Game of Silence (Birchbark House #2)
5. About Face (Commissario Brunetti #18)
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Welcome, all! 🤩GR won’t let me edit any of my posts, so I can’t add you to the participants list right now 😟
But I have my own list of your names and goals, so as soon as the problem is solved, I will update it 🙏
Mie wrote: "Welcome, all! 🤩GR won’t let me edit any of my posts, so I can’t add you to the participants list right now 😟
But I have my own list of your names and goals, so as soon as the problem is solved, ..."
I have the same problem!😟
Update : changing my total to 12 >> 10 for series + 2 for continuation Progress: 12/12-COMPLETED CHALLENGE
Series : 10/10 books --- 8 Series completed
Continued on in series----2/2 books
The Magician King #2 -✔
The Magician Land # 3-✔
Millennium #5 - ✔️
Millennium #6- ✔
Game of Thrones #5 & 6- these wont be ready till xmas , so I'll add 2 others which won't change the number
Wildflowers Series-Into the Garden #5 ✔️
Orphans Series - Raven # 4✔️
Hudson Series -Gathering Clouds ✔️
Mercy Falls Series - Sinner #4 ✔️
Jesse Stone Series -Fool's Paradise #19 ✔️
Robert Langdon Series - Origin #5 ✔️
Continuation :
Alex Cross Series- london Bridges #10 ✔️
Jack Reacher #6- Without Fail #6- ✔️
Sign me up for 8 books8/8-COMPLETED
Princess Diaries
✅1)Ten Out of Ten (The Princess Diaries #10)(20/10/20)
✅2)Royal Wedding (The Princess Diaries #11)(21/10/20)
Heather Wells
✅1)Size 12 and Ready to Rock (Heather Wells #4)(2/10/20)
✅2)The Bride Wore Size 12 (Heather Wells #5)(20/10/20)
Angels Unlimited
✅1)Keeping It Real (Angels Unlimited #9)(1/10/20)
✅2)Going for Gold (Angels Unlimited #10)(2/10/20)
✅3)Feeling the Vibes (Angels Unlimited #11)(3/10/20)
✅4)Living The Dream (Angels Unlimited #12)(4/10/20)
Nice - welcome, Sarah 🤗Editing problems seem to be solved, and everybody should now be on the participants list 📋
Please sign me up for 4!Progress: 3/4
The Witch's Daughter
The Return of the Witch ✔️
The Wicked Years
A Lion Among Men ✔️
Out of Oz ✔️
Practical Magic
Magic Lessons
Time to Tackle and make progress on some series!Please sign me up for 5 books, Mie! :)
5/5 books as of 10/26/2020...***Complete**
Veronica Speedwell Series
√ A Perilous Undertaking
Mortal Instruments
√ City of Fallen Angels
Dublin Murder Squad
√ The Likeness
Hercule Poirot
√ Hallowe'en Party...reading this a lot out of order but it is in the spirit of Halloween & Just the Facts, Ma'am challenge :)
A Court of Thorns and Roses Series
√ A Court of Mist and Fury
Please sign me up for 10 books Possible options are :
1. Girls with Razor Hearts (Girls with sharp sticks #2)
2. Midnight Sun ( Twilight #5)
3. Onyx ( Lux Series #2)
4. The Speaker (The Reader Trilogy #2)
5. Fire (Graceling Realm Series #2)
6. Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2)
7. Deadly Little Scandals ( Debutantes #2)
8. Are Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava Quartet #2)
9. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (Pandava Quartet #3)
10. Hidden Bodies ( You #2)
11. Find Me ⌛️- currently reading
Looking good 👍Welcome to Alison and The Book Girl 🤗
Serial SlayersOctober 1-31, 2020
5/5 as of October 29
DONE!
The Angel of Darkness: Book 2 of the Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #2) by Caleb Carr
October 10--5/5 stars
The Iggy Chronicles, Volume One (Chet and Bernie #5.1) by Spencer Quinn
October 14--5/5 stars
The Zodiac Killer (Zodiac Killers #1) by W.L. Knightly
October 20--3/5 stars
A Cat in the Manger (Alice Nestleton #1) by Lydia Adamson/pseudonym Franklin B. King
October 25--2/5 stars
The Cleverness of Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12.6) by Alexander McCall Smith
October 29--5/5 stars
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians #2) by Kevin Kwan
Whispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger Chronicles #2) by L. Penelope
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab
Hallowed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #5) by Carolyn Haines
Bones To Pick (Sarah Booth Delaney #6) by Carolyn Haines
The Careful Use of Compliments (Isabel Dalhousie #4) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Cleverness of Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12.6) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #16) by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #17) by Alexander McCall Smith
Mma Ramotswe and Rra Burns (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #17.5) by Alexander McCall Smith (http://alexandermccallsmithca.crushdi...)
The No. 1 Lady Detective's New Year Resolutions (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #17.6) by Alexander McCall Smith
The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #19) by Alexander McCall Smith
To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #20) by Alexander McCall Smith
How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #21) by Alexander McCall Smith
Uhm. I think that I was thinking this was a quarterly challenge rather than monthly! LOL Look at that list! :)
Cool challenge! Please put me down for 5 books.Pretty Little Liars
Flawless
Perfect
Unbelievable
Wicked
Twlight Saga
New Moon
Hi Mie, 😊I'm in for these 7 books to finish the The Outlaw series.
Oct 21st: Opted to read only 3 books.
🏰Holy Warrior
🏰King's Man: A Novel of Robin Hood
🏰Warlord
Progress: 3/3
Good plan, Sunny 👏 Welcome to the challenge 🤗
I'm in for 10.10/10
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This is the stretchiest of stretch goals for me, but I'm going to try for 10 this month.Oct 10: 4/10 read
1. The Spirit is Willing by Max McCoy (Book #2)
2. Voodoo Shanghai by Kristi Charish (Book #3)
3. Idle Ingredients by Matt Wallace (Book #4)
4. Greedy Pigs by Matt Wallace (Book #5)
I'm going to try and tackle the rest of the Warriors series I was supposed to finish this month, and finally finish the Shades of Magic trilogy. I'll sign up for 20. 2/2 COMPLETED
Shades of Magic
[x] A Gathering of Shadows (Rating ★★★★)
[x] A Conjuring of Light (Rating ★★★★)
Only 7 for me this month: 0/7
Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers
Return of the King
The Dark Tower
Wizard and Glass
Wolves of Calla
Women's Murder Club
Unlucky 13
14th Deadly Sin
15th Affair
Whoa, some serious series on the table, there 🤩Welcome, Sara and Lucy 🤗
2020 Reading ChallengeOctober - Serial Slayers
Duration: October 1-31, 2020
Progress: 1 out of 1
Do you love starting new series but often get distracted and never finish them? Have you signed up for the Serial Readers challenge but find yourself falling behind?
If you nodded yes to either question, this challenge offers the intervention your bookshelves have been craving.
It's your choice: you can finally pick up Book 2, move on with a series you started long ago, or even (gasp!) finish a series!
For this challenge, you can count any book that is part of a series except, of course, Book 1. This is not the Serial Starters challenge, duh.
Choose one or more series, then read as many or few books from each series as you wish.
To become an aspiring Serial Slayer, let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read.
1. White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland - ***** - 10/28/2020 - 320 Pages
Welcome, Suzanne 🤗I have put you down for 5 books. If you wish to change it, just let me know in a new post 👍
Karin wrote: "i'm in for 23, if I get all completed it will also finish 6 series Magicians #2 & 3
Millennium #5 & 6
Game of Thrones #5 & 6
Mercy Falls #4
Jesse Stone #19
Robert Langdon #5"
Wow, Karin, 23 serial books!?! So impressive!!!
SERIAL SLAYERS - Monthly ChallengeDuration: October 1-31, 2020
Progress: 10/10 -- COMPLETE
📚 Hallowe'en Party Hercule Poirot #39
📚 Akata Warrior Akata Witch #2
📚 Dreams of Joy Shanghai Girls #2
📚 Hero at the Fall Rebel of the Sands #3
📚 The Bookshop on the Shore Scottish Bookshop #2
📚 500 Miles from You Scottish Bookshop #3
📚 The Guests on South Battery Tradd Street #5
📚 The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street Tradd Street #6
📚 A Dog's Promise A Dog's Purpose #3
📚 Cards on the Table Hercule Poirot #15
Nice! Welcome, Kelly 🤗Sure thing, TerryJane - welcome also to you 🤗
oshizu wrote: "Karin wrote: "i'm in for 23, if I get all completed it will also finish 6 series Magicians #2 & 3
Millennium #5 & 6
Game of Thrones #5 & 6
Mercy Falls #4
Jesse Stone #19
Robert Langdon #5"
Wow, ..."
thank you ! 9 in total will complete these, but there are other series im working on too that will cover the remaining ( I hope ) Here's to a happy month of reading
This is such a great challenge idea - thanks for hosting, Mie! Please sign me up for 7 to start. Progress: 12/7 - Challenge Complete!
1. Corinna Chapman #6: Cooking the Books (Cozy mystery - Australia)
2. Thieftaker Chronicles #4: Dead Man's Reach (Paranormal mystery - Revolutionary Boston, US)
3. Siri Palboun #4: Anarchy and Old Dogs (Mystery, 1970s Laos)
4. Rosalind Thorne #3: And Dangerous to Know (Historical mystery - Regency England)
5. Witchcraft Mystery #10: Bewitched and Betrothed (Paranormal mystery - San Francisco, US)
6. Richard Jury #25: The Old Success (Police procedural - England)
7. Joe Ide #2: Righteous (PI Mystery - US)
8. Magical Bakery Mystery #9: Witches and Wedding Cake (Paranormal mystery - US)
9. Inspector McClean #3: The Hangman's Song (Police procedural - Scotland)
10. Kyochiro Kaga #2: Newcomer (Police procedural, Japan)
11. Bruno, Chief of Police #5: The Devil's Cave (Police procedural, France)
12. Vee Johnson Mysteries #2: The Score (Mystery, South Africa)
Lynn wrote: "Uhm. I think that I was thinking this was a quarterly challenge rather than monthly! LOL Look at that list! :)"@Lynn
Thanks for the clarification!
I'd assumed that you'd wiped your October reading schedule clean of everything except serials. :D
oshizu wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Uhm. I think that I was thinking this was a quarterly challenge rather than monthly! LOL Look at that list! :)"@Lynn
Thanks for the clarification!
I'd assumed that you'd wiped your October reading schedule clean of everything except serials. :D"
And the two bricks we're buddy reading! :)
Lynn wrote: "And the two bricks we're buddy reading! :)"@Lynn
Just think of the money we saved this month on paperweights!
Lol, we could do weight-lifting with them!
Thanks, Margie - welcome to the challenge 🤗
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
White Trash Zombie Apocalypse (other topics)The Alchemist and an Amaretto (other topics)
The Outcast Dead (other topics)
The Body in the Library (other topics)
Hallowe'en Party (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Diana Rowland (other topics)Alex Erickson (other topics)
N.D. Stevenson (other topics)
Brian K. Vaughan (other topics)
Stephen King (other topics)
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Duration: October 1-31, 2020
Do you love starting new series but often get distracted and never finish them? Have you signed up for the Serial Readers challenge but find yourself falling behind?
If you nodded yes to either question, this challenge offers the intervention your bookshelves have been craving.
It's your choice: you can finally pick up Book 2, move on with a series you started long ago, or even (gasp!) finish a series!
For this challenge, you can count any book that is part of a series except, of course, Book 1. This is not the Serial Starters challenge, duh.
Choose one or more series, then read as many or few books from each series as you wish.
To become an aspiring Serial Slayer, let the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read.
Mie created this challenge and will be leading it. Thank you!