Team Mira

[Ghost in the Stacks]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Sonia wrote: "What? The Aussies sleep too?"

I feel asleep on the last episode of Spartacus Vengeance. Now, the rest of the week is Spartacus, the War of the Damned--the final season.

@Renee, I ca..."

Ezi, who did you sweet talk to get on Team Mira...???
This couldn't be a have happened on accident.....

[Ezi]

Abbie wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Sonia wrote: "What? The Aussies sleep too?"

Ezi, who did you sweet talk to get on Team Mira...???
This couldn't be a have happened on accident......."

MUHAHAHAHAHA!
My deal was on the hush-hush.

[Ghost in the Stacks]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Sonia wrote: "What? The Aussies sleep too?"

Ezi, who did you sweet talk to get on Team Mira...???
This couldn't be a have happened on accident........"

...my deal fell through....

[Holli]

On the nurse challenge, does it have to be a nurse? Or can it be someone not a doctor? Like a corpsman? I have Lone Survivor and Service by Marcus Luttrell, who was one in the SEALs.

[Renee]

Holli wrote: "On the nurse challenge, does it have to be a nurse? Or can it be someone not a doctor? Like a corpsman? I have Lone Survivor and Service by Marcus Luttrell, who was one in the SEALs."

I don't think that one will count. I think it would actually have to use the job title nurse in the book. I'm sure I have one somewhere if no one else has. I need to finish the books I'm reading now first though.

[Berit☀️✨]

How big a part does the nurse have to have? I'm reading a murder mystery now, there is a possibility a nurse will show up at some point.

[Renee]

in the previous challenges the character had to have a speaking role in the book to count.

[Ezi]

Abbie wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Sonia wrote: "What? The Aussies sleep too?"

Ezi, who did you sweet talk to get on Team Mira...???
This couldn't ..."

sorry Abbie, I think I might have considered quitting the challenge had I been paired with Ashur the syrian toad. I have a very intense hatred of that snake

[Ezi]

I think the person has to be an actual nurse. They don't have to be a main character but they at least have to speak i.e. "what's your level of pain today?"
LOL!

[Ezi]

Book: Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews (352 pages)
Finished: August 5
Rating & Review: ★★★★. Anyone who wants a UF with a LOT of action, this is the series for you. There is always a big bad guy, big battles and great teamwork by Kate, Curran and the gang.
This was the first books since Curran stepped down as the Beast Lord and took Kate to live in the Surburbs.
That in itself is hilarious. Curran, big bad lion living in the 'Burbs. We all know that live with Curran and Kate will never be "quiet". It's not who or what they are.
As Ghastek told Kate, she is trouble because of her heritage. Those around her will always be fighting.

What I loved about this book is Curran and Kate's banter. I also loved seeing her dad as not Satan's right hand man, but as a man who loved Kate's mother. That was interesting to see another side of him. There was some foreshadowing in this book so I am looking forward to Last night of the Werewolf summer

[Berit☀️✨]

I really want to start that series :-) I just finished a book for my book club, I'll post it when I get home tonight :-)

[Ezi]

Berit wrote: "I really want to start that series :-) I just finished a book for my book club, I'll post it when I get home tonight :-)"

what book did you read for your Book club? we read and I didn't like it

[Diane ~Firefly~]

I agree with Ezinwanyi - the Kate Daniels series is awesome! I hope to finish book 8 tonight, but it will be iffy.

[Ezi]

I have an hour left in . then I can start my leek book.

I checked. We are smack dab in the middle (#10 of 19). So we aren't at the bottom :D

One group, I believe Gannicus' group has to read a book with Artichoke, LOL!
Although Leek was pretty hard to find

[Renee]

Yeah the mods decided to put some harder ones in. Two of the other mods teams have got artichoke and another one got asparagus, so they're coming back to bite us! We were pretty lucky to fluke the Character starting with X the day after I finished reading a book with an X character.

[Renee]

Updated to here

Current goals

Read a book that contains the word leek
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Canada
Read a book where a character is a nurse

[Berit☀️✨]

Book completion Pages 304 8/6***

This was for my Mistry book club, it was OK, I'm reading in my fiction book club, this looks a lot better.
I did read wasn't crazy about it, it was depressing and I really didn't care about the girls in this book.

[Holli]

by Louis L'Amour
Finished: 8/6/15
240 pages

[Ezi]

Book: Stray by Rachel Vincent (618 pages)
Finished: August 5
Rating & Review: ★★★. I liked this one. Faythe is a cat shifter wanting some autonomy from her pride. She tries to live among humans until a crisis forces her home. Faythe has to deal with who she is, who she wants to be and who she can be in the future.
A good book 1 so I went ahead and bought book 2.

[Renee]

Updated to here

[Holli]

Ezi, I just realized when I helped you pick out your book for this challenge it was the same selling point I gave for the M&G challenge as well. I've apparently slept real well since then. These power naps do wonders, don't they? Clears the mind of fog...and what you've told someone already. Oh well, I'm glad you liked the book. :-)

[Ezi]

Holli wrote: "Ezi, I just realized when I helped you pick out your book for this challenge it was the same selling point I gave for the M&G challenge as well. I've apparently slept real well since then. These po..."

Lol. Thank you Holli. I enjoyed the growth in Faythe.

[Ezi]

Book: On the Clock by L.A. Witt. (219 pages)
Finished: August 6
Rating & Review: ★★★. too much sex and very little plot and character development.

[Ezi]

Updated up to here.

I am almost done with

[Holli]

I just realized one of the books I read previously will work for the nurse challenge. And, of course, it's an obvious one as well. :-)

by Lemony Snicket
272 pages
Finished: 8/4/15
Rating: 2 stars
Challenge: A book where a character is a nurse: There are many real (and fake) nurses in this one with several speaking.
Review: *groans* Once more into the breach of unhappiness that is this series. Although, hearing Tim Curry singing the VFD song meant to cheer up everyone and make everything better at the hospital was silly and fun.

[Ezi]

Holli wrote: "I just realized one of the books I read previously will work for the nurse challenge. And, of course, it's an obvious one as well. :-)

by Lemony Snicket
2..."

yea!!!!!
I am assuming Nurse Flo?

[Holli]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Holli wrote: "I just realized one of the books I read previously will work for the nurse challenge. And, of course, it's an obvious one as well. :-)

by Le..."

I did a face-palm/head-desk kind of thing when I realized this. Then did a few cheers as well. :)

[Ezi]

Book: The Proposal by Mary Balogh. (311 pages)
Task: Character visited a farm (Lady Gwen visited Lord Hugo's farm)
Finished: August 7
Rating & Review: ★★★. It was really slow. I never felt any angst or excitement but I applaud Mary Balogh for writing characters who have weathered serious issues, tragedies, disabilities etc

[Ezi]

We are updated to here.
We had gotten two goals:
❖Read a book where the character had visited a farm (I used Proposal by Mary Balogh)
❖Read a book that is 6,7,8 or 9 in a series (I used On the Clock, Market Garden #8)

Current goals
❖Read a book that contains the word leek
❖Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Canada
➜Read a book that starts with the letter N

[Ezi]

Holli,
I think it was awesome

[Berit☀️✨]

Great job guys!!! I just finished Pages 301, 8/7****

I have a couple books that start with N, I can start after I finish my current book :-)

[Ezi]

Berit wrote: "Great job guys!!! I just finished Pages 301, 8/7****

I have a couple books that start with N, I can start after I finish my current book :-)"

well done. I also have sometime for next week, if you don't get to your book

[Ezi]

updated.
I am leaving work and will be unable for the next couple of hours

[Diane ~Firefly~]

completed 8/7/15
352 pgs

Loved this book! Can't say enough good things about Kate and Curran.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Team,

I won't finish anything else before the week is up as I'll be at a board game convention all weekend - no time for reading.

[Berit☀️✨]

What is that???

[Holli]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "I am assuming Nurse Flo?"

Yes; and the cheering peanut gallery ones. I think on some level I do like the books, they're just so depressing and wrong. Knowing me, I'll probably read them all the way through again sometime in the future. I'm strange that way. :-)

[Diane ~Firefly~]

A place to go and play board games all day. This is a smaller convention so there aren't many vendors/publishers, mostly just people playing games. They have a library of games you can check out or you can bring your own.

I'll be bringing a bag of games, although the only one I have definitely scheduled to play is Firefly: the Game (and it takes about 3-4 hours which is why I scheduled it).

Board Game Bash

[Berit☀️✨]

Well, have fun!

[Holli]

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "A place to go and play board games all day. This is a smaller convention so there aren't many vendors/publishers, mostly just people playing games. They have a library of games you can check out ..."

Have fun and win a round or two for us!

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Thanks!

[Renee]

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "A place to go and play board games all day. This is a smaller convention so there aren't many vendors/publishers, mostly just people playing games. They have a library of games you can check out ..."

Sounds like fun.

I should have the Canada book finished soon.

[Renee]

Finished

314 pages
8/8
Set in Canada

[Renee]

Updated to here

New goal was Read a book where a character goes to a dance - I used Into the Unknown that I'd already read

Current tasks/goals

Read a book that contains the word leek
Read a book that starts with the letter N
Read a book with 91+ chapters

[Ezi]

Book: Fat Chance by Nick Spalding (288 pages)
Task: has the word "leek" ("With a muffled curse, I spat the potato and leek soup into the bin") on Pg 238.
Finished: August 8
Rating & Review: ★★★. this was a cute story about a girl Zoe who essentially blackmails her fiancée Greg into joining a weight-loss challenge offered by her favorite radio station (think The Biggest Loser Couple Edition). Greg used to be an athlete but now they just eat out a lot. So Zoe says if he didn't join her on this challenge, no more BJs. Can you guess Greg's response?

[Ezi]

I have the audiobook of / . Does anyone have the book and can tell me how many chapters it has? I know it's long book because it's 30 hours long but I don't know how many chapters

[Renee]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "I have the audiobook of /. Does anyone have the book and can tell me how many chapters it has? I know it's long book beca..."

Looked up a sample online and it only seems to have 20 chapters in the index. This is going to be a hard one!

[Renee]

Books with over 91 chapters

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale 135 chapters (663 pages)

Life of Pi 100 chapters (356 pages)

In the Language of Love: A Novel in 100 Chapters 100 chapters (368 pages)

I couldn't bear to read Moby Dick, but it's free if anyone else is interested. I've already read Life of Pi, but if anyone else hasn't, it was an interesting read. Great on audio. Don't know much about the last one, but it sounds interesting. I can't find it free and I'm already blown my book budget.

[Renee]

Updated to here

Current tasks/goals

Read a book that starts with the letter N
Read a book with 91+ chapters
Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter A

[Ezi]

Thanks Renee. I'll see what else I have. I've started for title "N"

Did we get a new task to replace leek? My iPad won't let me update the Google spreadsheet