Thursday, September 15, 2011

Challenge - Welcome to Cedar Cove

Welcome to Cedar Cove
a series by Debbie Macomber

Ms. Macomber has written a delightful series with the town setting based on her real life home town! Visit her website for a look at all the books she has written or skip right to her Cedar Cove page which has cover graphics, book descriptions and links to excerpts.

As a personal challenge, I will finish reading this series. Why don't you join me?

Must they be read in order? I don't think so but I will be. I think it will spoil some of the previous story lines. I'm pretty sure each is a stand alone book, except book 12. If I remember correctly each book has characters from the other stories but they're there just in passing. Book 12 gives us a chance to catch up with everyone....and say good-bye.

The first 9 books were re-released with new covers in 2010 so they shouldn't be too hard to find and with the author's popularity, your local library may have a copy.

What: Read all the books related to Cedar Cove, maybe not the cookbook ;)

When: now to ???? (hoping for December 31, 2012)


Titles:
16 Lighthouse Road
204 Rosewood Lane
311 Pelican Court
44 Cranberry Point
50 Harbor Street
6 Rainier Drive
74 Seaside Avenue
8 Sandpiper Way
92 Pacific Boulevard
1022 Evergreen Place
1105 Yakima Street
1225 Christmas Tree Lane - release date: Sept 27

plus two related stories:
5-B, a novella in the Hearts Divided anthology (Feb 2006)
A Cedar Cove Christmas (Oct 2008)


Ready? Since I'm still trying to figure out InLinkz.....sign-ups are at the bottom of my blog posts. There are two down there, Cedar Cove and Landover (info, just in case).


copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2011

2 comments:

JNCL said...

I've been wanting to try this series for several years, and there's no time like 2012 to get started. Is there going to be a sign-up here, or is there one already that I've just missed?
JNCL
The Beauty of Eclecticism

Becca said...

How neat....I have read them all and am so sad the series is ending :(

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Stats

New blog goal for 2010. I'm going to try keeping a running total of the following. We'll see how long it lasts... well, let's try this again for 2011! Just remember, anything with an ISBN counts, even the short stories.
Up to date as of December 18 (to the best of my knowledge)

Books read, new: 231
Books read, re-read: 27
New to me authors: 64
Pages: 19,841 plus 168 ebooks
Reviews posted: 29


Nonfiction: 10
Picture Books to Young Adult: 34
Banned/Challenged Books: none? fix this next year!

books left to read in 2012

Don't know if this will work or not but will give it a try. . .

As of May 25, early a.m., I have the following books left to read to complete all of my open challenges.

68 separate ISBNs
22 21 specific states
1-6 :: 0-5 :: 0-4 cozy mysteries
1 Mystery/Suspense with a weapon in title (Poison)
4 3 Dystopia
1 Fairy Tale
1 from 100 Best list
1 Science Fiction
1 Literary Fiction
1 Classic (Hound of the Baskervilles)
3 Memoirs
1 Fae
?? The Unread Book
7 Harry Potter
7 Narnia
3 by Dean Koontz
5 Song of Fire and Ice series - Game of Thrones
7 free ebooks
Redwall
Easy Prey
Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold
1 Disney Lit
311 Pelican Court
5 specific colors
1 foodie
12 11 specific...Summer Book Challenge
8-10 8-9 specific...Summer Reading Challenge
5 specific..Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book
1 AlA's Top Ten/2011
"x" title
review 2+ personal books
review 8 already read ARCs
review 15 ARCs
Room
11 Shelf Discovery books


Some of these can/will overlap but it is still a HUGE list.