7 Series to Complete (Update)

Hi my loves

I'm sharing about my previous challenges and where I am in those challenges I am working on.  One thing I can say is when I love an author's writing I purchase everything it's one of the reasons you can see on each month's wrap up that an author's name is repeated every month.  Which of course leads to so many series ending up on my shelves.  As a way to clean that up I have been challenging myself to complete a few series.  Here are the original five  series I was supposed to work on.  These don't include my perpetual author list. However since then i have added way too may other series to be completed. These are just a few of the books with the most books on the shelves or the ones I have been reading the longest. 

Darynda Jones Charley Davidson Series. I have a few of these left as well. I'm trying not to take this series too seriously because at times the characters are just. UGH 

1. Fifth Grave Past the Light Currently Reading 
2. Sixth Grave on The Edge
3. Seventh Grave & No Body 
4. Eighth Grave After Dark
5. The Dirt On Ninth Grave 
6. The Curse of Tenth Gave
7. Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
8. The Trouble with Twelfth Grave 
9. Summoned to Thirteenth Grave

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series. I need to re-read this and catch up to the show and before the newest book comes out which is soonish.

1. Outlander
2. Dragonfly In Amber
3. Voyager
4. Drums of Autumn
5. The Fiery Cross
6. A Breath of Snow & Ashes
7. An Echo In The Bone
8. Written In My Own Heart Blood

Newest book Go Tell The Bees I'm Gone not sure when this one comes out, it doesn't show a date on the system.  

Heather Graham: Way too many to list, but I'm focusing on the romantic thriller series she has going. the Krewe of Hunters as much as possible, I do also own a few of er historicals but I have seen a few recent reviews that make me want to rethink reading those now as an adult.  

1. Heart of Evil # 2
2. Sacred Evil # 3
3. The Evil Inside # 4
4. The Unholy #5
5. The Unspoken #7
6. The Uninvited #8
7. The Night Is Alive # 10
8. The Night is Forever # 11
9. The Cursed # 12
10. Hexed # 13
11. The Betrayed # 14
12. The Silenced # 15
13. The Forgotten # 16
14. The Hidden #17
15. Haunted Destiny # 18
16. Deadly Fate
17. Darkest Journey
18. Dying Breath
19. Dark Rites
20. Wicked Deeds

Cafferty & Quinn

1. Waking The Dead
2. The Dead Play On
3. Bitter Reckoning

Harrison Investigations:

1. The Dead Room
2. The Death Dealer
3. Nightwalker
4. Unhallowed Ground
5. The Killing Edge

Bone Island Trilogy

1. Ghost Night
2. Ghost Moon

Julie Garwood's Renard- Buchanan Series I have read a few books in the series starting with book 8 to book 13 ( I didn't know it was a series when I started it) I need to read books the last two books which I also own:

1. Fire & Ice
2. Wired (not owned but final book so far) 

Tara Sue Me I've been reading this series for a while now I own a few of them that I haven't gotten to yet. 

1. The Master
2. The Claiming
3. The Exposure
4. The Flirtation
5. Mentor's Match (Novella)
6. The Mentor & The Master (Novella)
7. Top Trouble 

Miranda Keneally  The Hundred Oak series has been one I've been working on for a while.  

1. Jesse's Girl 
2. defending Taylor
3. Breathe, Annie, Breathe
4. Racing Savannah
5. Things I can't Forget
6. Stealing Parker

Since the original 7 series, I completed two and have now added on my Gena Showalter shelf, which includes several of her series. 

Lords of the Underworld Series has 15 books I need to read: Called the Darkest:

1. Night
2. Kiss
3. Pleasure
4. Prison
5. Whisper
6. Passion
7. Lie
8. Secret
9. surrender
10. Seduction
11. Craving
12. Touch
13. Torment
14. Promises
15. Warrior
16. King

Jennifer Probst: I only have three books left in this series, one I have started and put aside because I wasn't really into the characters. I'm going to work on finishing these this quarter. Normally I challenge myself with a Jennifer in July reading challenge to complete as many books by a Jennifer on my shelf, this year I didn't bother but I do have an extensive list for next year.  

1. Searching For Beautiful
2. Searching For Disaster
3. Searching for Always

I can't wait to check in again at the end of the year to see how far we have come in each series.  Have you read any of these series or books my loves?? Share with me down below.  

Happy Reading 

July Challenge Update: Nora Roberts

 Total Books: 51

2022 Goal: 12

Currently Read:  16

January: 1/ May: 6/ June: 9 / July: 

 A few years ago I shared with you my most unread authors on my shelves.  The queen of this list of course was Nora Roberts. Since December 2021, I have been working on really knocking out the books on this shelf.  I'm going to share with you the books on the shelf that I still have to read:

Donovan Legacy:

• Entranced
• Charmed & Enchanted

Key Trilogy

• Key of Light
• Key of Valor CURRENTLY READING
• Key of Knowledge 

Dream trilogy

• Daring To Dream
• Holding The Dream

Three Sisters Island Completed July 2022

• Dance Upon The Air
• Heaven & Earth
• Face the Fire 

Bride Quartet

• Vision in White
• Bed of Roses
• Savor The Moment
• Happy Ever After

Guardians Trilogy

• Bay of Sighs

Chesapeake Bay  Completed June 2022

• Chesapeake Blue
• Rising Tides
• Inner Harbour

Night Tales: COMPLETED

• Nightshade/ Night Smoke
• Night Tales: Night Shift/ Night Shadow/ Night Shield

1. From the Heart
2. Truly Madly Manhattan 
3. Summer Deserts
4. Lawless
5. Hot Rocks
6. Birthright
7. Forever
8. Table for Two
9. The Villa
10. A Little Magic
11. O'Hurley's Return
12. The Law of Love
13. Public Secrets June 2022
14. Treasures
15. Hot Ice
16. All The Possibilities
17. Honest Illusions
18. Sweet Rains
19. Mysterious
20. Irish Hearts
21. Big Jack
22. Playing The Odds
23. Temptation
24. Treasures Lost Treasures Found
25. Tribute
26. Stars
27. Love by Design 
28. High Noon
29. Dangerous

I had to remove the following titles because they are bind ups of single titles on the list 

1. The Quinn Legacy 
2. The Quinn Brothers

Truly I got most of this done because Nora's books are now on Scribd and they didn't throttle my reading this month so I knocked so many off the list and I'm loving it. I'm loving being able to clean up this shelf of books and can't wait to see what else I get done. I'm so excited to share with you my thoughts on these books especially because many are backlist books and from the late 80s and early 90s.  

How has your reading year been so far?? Getting anything done on your 2022 reading goals?? Share in the comments so we can all cheer you on!!

See you in the next one

Happy reading my loves

  

20 Books In 2020 From The Backlists:

Hi my loves,

After last year's boon of actually reading over 150 books, I'm so excited to try to see what I can complete this year. I raised the levels to 225 books. I wish to try 20 books again from the bookshelves that I have had for several years.

Here are some I'm looking to pull from the shelves to read this year:

Spiritual Books:

1. Queen Afua
2. How to Practice by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
3. Jambayla by Luisah Teish
4. Souls Revealed by Dawn Marie Daniels & Candace Smith

Fiction/Romance Books:

1.  Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai ( I didn't get to it during 2019 so I want to read more of her work this year.) 
2. Second Time Sweeter (Blessing 9) by Beverly Jenkins
3. The Perfect Marriage by Kimberla Lawson Roby
4. One In A Million by Kimberla Lawson Roby
5. Changing Faces by Kimberla Lawson Roby
6. A Taste of Reality by Kimberla Lawson Roby
7. What looks like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Connie Brixcoe

Young Adult

Piecing Me Together by Renee' Watson

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson

The Saltroads by Nalo Hopkinson

For Non-Fiction/ Cultural Discussion or as my mother loves to call it edifying reading:

Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston 

Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Shifting by Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter Gooden PhD

Black Pain by Terrie M. Williams 

A few of these are leftovers from last year that I want to get to this year; and I added on a few more that I want to see this year. 

And that is is. I have a tone of others I'm looking forward to really diving into these.  What are you looking forward to reading this year??

And As Always, Happy Reading my loves