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Day 28: RedMy favorite red book is definitely One by One. It's the 5th book in the Robert Hunter series, one of my favorite series. Chris Carter writes serial killers really really well and Hunter is a wonderfully flawed character. Always eager to read it when new books come out, and he just released the cover of the next book though it doesn't come out til next year. :(
If I had to pick a series starter for favorite red book, I guess I would go with Heartsick. Though I got sick (no pun intended) of the later books, the first few were really enjoyable.
My favorite book with Red in the title is probably NYPD Red. Patterson's books are hit or miss with me, I think it has to do with the co-writer, and Marshall Karp is an author I already enjoyed. The series is about two detectives in NYC who take on the high society cases.
The prompt is just "red" so it's up to you on how you interpret it!
30 Days of Read-a-Thon
Day 30: Favorite Book
My Favorite Book is The Night Circus.
My Husband and I had a conversation today about the ability, or inability to have a favorite book. For me, it's a no brainer. Sure, I can list 10-20 and more books I absolutely adore and love, but above them all, sits The Night Circus.
It's a beautiful book, the circus is so alive and it a book in which I was completely lost to the sights and sounds of the circus. It just was so very magical to me and I adore it more than any other book. I'm not saying another book will never take its place, but it's been my favorite since 2011 and I don't see that changing any time soon. :)
Day 29: Short Book
The first thing that popped into my head when I thought of Short Books was the Gamehouse series. While there are other short books I like, this trilogy of 100 page books really caught my attention when I first read them.
The premise behind the books is that a game is being played out. But instead of a game being played out on a game board, the world itself is the game board. In the first book, The Serpent, a game is played out set in a city. In the second book, The Thief, a game of Tag is being played out in a country. In the last book, The Master, a game of Chess is being played out in the whole world.
I found these books to be very unique and very very enjoyable. I loved them all, though the first one was my favorite of the three. A different and enjoyable trilogy that I wish was a series!
LOL! Monday! Definitely Monday. So we don't have to wait too much longer, and I can start to share stuff about this crazy challenge. :D
Oh yay, I'm glad you liked Olympics specifically. :) I was actually thinking I need to do a version of the page jumping challenge like from Olympics, since we did the title relay. Just been thinking about how to best make it badassy. :)Hopefully everyone will like Evo. I like it, but I'm a bit biased. :D I actually kept having to make myself not give out info this week and wait til next week. I kept wanting to talk about it. :D
Yay!! I'm so glad that you are liking them!!Our brains are all wrapped up in Evo at the moment, but we definitely have more planned, it's just a matter of getting them fleshed out and putting them up. :) We have one that we've had on the back burner for a while now (actually mentioned it a time or two, but didn't put it out) that is gonna be quite tricky and we're having problems just coming up with examples on how to explain it.
We definitely have the crazy brains working! :) Hopefully everyone will love Evo, cuz it's pretty detailed, and it's only just really started. :D
Completed Tasks
~ 3 Tasks / 10 BooksChapter Five ~ Diagon Alley
Task: Read a book where the Main Characters go to a Pub
Book: Cursed Moon
Author: Jaye Wells
Pages: 400
Start Date: 9/23/17
Finish Date: 9/26/17
How it Fits: The MCs went to a Pub ~ "Hours later, we had all gathered at a pub called the Irish Rover." ~ 55%
Rating: 2.5 stars
Find ALL of the following in the Text of a book
Task: a Book with the word Wand in the Text
Book: Gank
Author: Skyler Grant
Pages: 200
Start Date: 9/18
Finish Date: 9/18
How it Fits: "Do you even know what to do with a WAND?" @ 47%
Rating: 3 stars
Task: a Book with the word Cauldron in the Text
Book: Dirty Magic
Author: Jaye Wells
Pages: 416
Start Date: 9/17
Finish Date: 9/19
How it Fits: "It was just another fucked-up night in the CAULDRON." ~ first line of book
Rating: 3.5
Task: a Book with the word Phial in the Text
Book: Rotherweird
Author: Andrew Caldecott
Pages: 480
Start Date: 9/20
Finish Date: 9/27
How it Fits: "He returned to his lodgins to find a parcel containing a tiny glass PHIAL of golden liquid with a short letter" @ 82%
Rating: 4 stars
Task: a Book with the word Telescope in the Text
Book: Last Year
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Pages: 352
Start Date: 9/21
Finish Date: 9/22
How it Fits: "....where the man with the TELESCOPE eventually rang a bell and shouted 'Airship ho!'"
Rating: 5 stars
Task: a Book with the word Scale in the Text
Book: Magic Burns
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 272
Start Date: 9/20/17
Finish Date: 9/21/17
How it Fits: "On a SCALE from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one." 3%
Rating: 4 stars
Read at least FOUR of the following:
Task: Read a Book with the word Spells in the Title
Book: Deadly Spells
Author: Jaye Wells
Pages: 390
Start Date: 9/27/17
Finish Date: 9/28/17
How it Fits: Spells in the Title
Rating: 3 stars
Task: Read a Book with the word Guide in the Title
Book: Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft
Author: Jody Gehrman
Pages: 293
Start Date: 9/29/17
Finish Date: 10/1/17
How it Fits: Guide in Title
Rating: 2 stars
Task: Read a Book with the word Dark in the Title
Book: A Cold Dark Place
Author: Toni Anderson
Pages: 350
Start Date: 9/30/17
Finish Date: 10/1/17
How it Fits: Dark in Title
Rating: 2 stars
Task: Read a Book with the word History in the Title
Book: And The Rest is History
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 321
Start Date: 10/2/17
Finish Date: 10/2/17
How it Fits: History in Title
Rating: 4 stars
Do you have any brothers or sisters? How many?Biologically ~ 3 half sisters & 1 half brother. Realistically ~ they have nothing to do with me, or me them.
What was your favorite subject in school?
None. If I had to pick, I'd say "Peer Counselling" cuz we didn't do a damn thing for the 3 years (I think) I was in it.
How did you meet your spouse / girlfriend / boyfriend?
Jesse and I met our junior year of high school when we sat with a mutual friend at lunch time. We were best friends, then drifted apart and didn't see each other for 7+ years. Then I found Him and we've been together ever since, Oct 4th will be 13 years that we've been "back together".
What are your top three favorite books and why?
The Night Circus ~ because it is a beautifully written book. If was the one and only book that I really felt like I was there. I love it very very much
That one was easy, the other two change, it depends really, so today I'll say:
The Martian cuz Mark Watney is probably my 2nd favorite character of all time. He's sooo funny and awesome, and I adore him!! (My all time favorite character is in the Night Circus).
The Shadow of the Wind cuz it's a beautiful book about the love of books.
What’s something most people don’t know about you? What’s something you wish everyone knew about you?
Ha!! Most people don't know the biggest things about me, only two people in this group know "me" and only two or three more know me IRL. I wish everyone knew me sometimes, but it's better if not.
If you could only keep five possessions, what would they be?
Widget (my gaming PC), my Kindle Fire, my Ipad Mini, a laptop (if/when I get a working one again) and my colored pencils.
Have you ever danced in the rain?
Yup. A memorable time was walking/dancing/kissing in the rain down Main Street in the MK. Everyone but Jesse and I were under cover in the shops and we were just walking down the road in the pouring, and I mean POURING rain. :) It was a good day.
YAY that y'all are working together!! :) If you need me somewhere, here's what I got going on:3 Cover books:
~ all picked out, haven't started
4 Title books planned:
~ Spells ~ (Completed 9/28)
~ Guide ~ (Completed 10/1)
~ Beast
~ Dark ~ (Completed 10/1)
5 Text books:
~ Wand (Completed 9/18)
~ Cauldron (Completed 9/19)
~ Scale (Completed 9/21)
~ Phial ~ (Completed 9/27) ~ finally!
~ Telescope ~ (Completed 9/22)
What do you think you cook or bake the best? Can we have the recipe?I'm only an ok cook and I can't bake at all. My best thing lately is a slow cooker Chicken Ranch thing. It's sooooo yummy!
Where is the most beautiful place on earth and why?
Disney Parks, Disneyland if I had to pick, because they are just magical.
What’s under your bed?
Nothing. Our bed is ghetto and sits on the floor
How many bones have you broken?
Just a finger
What’s the best way to comfort you when you’re having a really terrible day?
Let me have space to read or play video games. A snack helps. :)
Which famous person would you like to be best friends with?
Dick Van Dyke. I think he's about the most awesome person in Hollywood. :)
Yes, that's fine.
We have it set up so you all can post your rewards to your thread. If you are unsure about it, or don't want to, we certainly can, but we made it so you can so you can move 'em around and display them how you would like to.There's info on how to do that in This Thread.
As for redeeming them, we suggested the first few posts of your toy box thread be for showing the ones you redeemed. So say you used a BARCy Bite, you could put (in the actual challenge) that you used the reward then in your toy box, you could move the redeemed one to your redeemed post and state what you used it for and when.
Hope that makes sense? Not really awake yet, so LMK if it doesn't. :)
Waiting for "Evolution of WDW"RABID
Read a Book set in any WDW ParkUNYIELDING ~ COMPLETED 1/27/18
Read the following 5 Books: Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of MICKEY in its Title
Book: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
Author: Leanna Renee Hieber
Pages: 339
Start Date: 11/5/17
Finish Date: 11/9/17
How it Fits: Mickey in Title: the strangely beautiful tale of MIss perCY parKEr
Rating: 3 stars
Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of MINNIE in its Title
Book: Ginny Gordon and the Missing Heirloom
Author: Julie Campbell
Pages: 249
Start Date: 10/13/17
Finish Date: 10/15/17
How it Fits: Minnie in Title: gINNy gordon and thE MIssing heirloom
Rating: 2 stars
Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of GOOFY in its Title
Book: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Pages: 288
Start Date: 12/23/17
Finish Date: 12/25/17
How it Fits: Goofy in Title
Rating: 1 Star
Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of DONALD in its Title
Book: Law and Disorder
Author: Heather Graham
Pages: 256
Start Date: 10/6/17
Finish Date: 10/6/17
How it Fits: LAw aND DisOrder ~ Donald in title
Rating: 3 stars
Read a Book that has all the letters of PLUTO in its TitleTitle: Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch
Author: Serena Valentino
Pages: 208
Date Started: 1/27/18
Date Finished: 1/27/18
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: Pluto in Title ~ (view spoiler)
FORMIDABLE FRENZY ~ COMPLETED 5/10/18
E ~ Estep, Jennifer ~ Spider's Bite ~ 10/16/17
V ~ Venom ~ 11/17/17
O ~ Omega City ~ 12/27/17
L ~ Last Year ~ 9/22/17
U ~ U is for Undertow ~ 11/21/17
T ~ Tess Gerritsen ~ The Apprentice ~ 10/17/17
I ~ Ilona Andrews ~ Magic Burns ~ 9/21/17
O ~ Otherworld ~ 2/19/18
N ~ No Easy Target ~ 12/31/17
O ~ One Way ~ 4/3/18
F ~ Fifty Fifty ~ 10/4/17
W ~ Wild Spark ~ 1/8/18
A ~ And The Rest is History ~ 10/2/17
L ~ Lutz, John ~ Tropical Heat ~ 10/26/17
T ~ The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase ~ 10/19/17
D ~ Dirty Magic ~ 9/19/17
I ~ Infinity Base ~ 4/18/18
S ~ Shelter for Elizabeth ~ 10/21/17
N ~ Natalie Lloyd The Key to Extraordinary ~ 10/21/17
E ~ Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads ~ 11/22/17
Y ~ Yap, Cosimo ~ Earth's Gambit ~ 1/19/18
W ~ Wells, Jaye Deadly Spells ~ 9/28/17
O ~ Odyssey, Shawn The Wizard of Dark Street ~ 10/21/17
R ~ Rick Chesler ~ Hotel Megalodon ~ 10/1/17
L ~ Linda Barnes ~ Steel Guitar ~ 10/27/17
D ~ DLC ~ 10/21/17
&
M ~ My Sister's Grave ~ 10/20/17
A ~ A Killing Frost ~ 10/12/17
G ~ George's Secret Key to the Universe ~ 10/9/17
I ~ Into the Drowning Deep ~ 1/27/18
C ~ Cursed Moon ~ 9/26/17
K ~ Kong, Aleron ~ The Land: Founding ~ 10/13/17
I ~ It's All Fun and Games ~ 1/28/18
N ~ Never Rest ~ 4/28/18
G ~ Gank ~ 9/18/17
D ~ Dead Spark ~ 10/30/17
O ~ O'Russell, Megan ~ How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days ~ 5/10/18
M ~ Mortal Danger ~ 11/30/17
She (Caly) does as her own Tasks, to get it to count for her own for one Task, which she said she was going to read. She mentioned doing the 3 cover, then any of the 1 book tasks as she doesn't want to do the 4/5 books for one.But her reading just the Cloak one for the Completed Criteria works perfectly, as far as opening up the Next Chapter. She doesn't have to be the one to contribute the other 2, as at least 8 members need to read 12 tasks.
I'm doing
, it's 87.8% black.Here are two others I know of that fit:
87% Black
90.7% Black
Everything after the color is considered the subtitle, yes.
July 13th
I'm looking through the words not too. 
has all 5 words, so that's a good one. :)I'm still looking. Have all the others but cauldron a 2nd time (if I use Rotherweird for Phial).
Also have something for all 3 of the Cover titles and have, so far, 2 of the Title ones. So I can cover whatever, if y'all let me know what. :)
No worries Ashley, we won't throw you into the fires of Mt Doom because of it. :D
The second scenario, not the first.8 members do not have to read EACH of the Tasks individually. All of the Tasks just have to be covered by at least 8 members. I'd do a Title Task, you'd do a Cover Task and so on.
That's for the Completed Criteria. Individually, to consider those Tasks done, each member must complete the 3, 4 or 5, (if they do one of those tasks) but for the Completed Criteria, all the tasks just must be done by at least 8 members.
