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Team 1: Novel Nerds
Completion Post - Week 6Shelf: Humour
Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath
Pages: 252
How It Fits: MPG Humor
Date Read: 7/12
Rating: 4*
Review
This was a remarkably good book with plenty of funny moments mixed in with suspense and violence. At first glance this looked like a cozy but the cover held a more serious motive. Definitely be reading more of this series, starting at #1
Completion Post - Week 2Shelf: Disability
Book: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Pages: 481
How It Fits: Tagged Disability 192 times
Date Read: 7/16
Rating: 5*
Review
This has been on my TBR forever, I've avoided all reviews of the book and the movie. I think I went through every emotion possible reading this book. If you haven't read this book please do, there is no HEA in the traditional sense, instead there is a feeling of freedom and an acceptance that love means that we don't get to choose how others live but accept and achnowledge their right to choose.
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Selection Post - Week 7Shelf: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Pages: 436
How It Fits: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2010)
Selection Post - Week 7Shelf: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
Book: Naked Edge by Pamela Clare
Pages: 361
Qualification: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2010)
Selection Post: Week 7Book and Author (prefer links): The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
Pages: 376 pages
How it Fits: Goodreads Choice Award for Middle Grade & Children's (2016)
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Shelf: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
Book: The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
Pages: 336
Qualification: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction 2018
Read: 17 July 2019
Rating: ★★★★
Review: The Flow streams keeping the many planets and star systems of the Interdependency connected have begun to collapse, and the Empire itself is in danger of collapsing right along with them unless desperate measures are taken to save as much of human civilization as possible. But despite scientific proof of the impending disaster, many refuse to believe that life as the citizens of the Interdependency know is about to come to an end, and Emperox Grayland II and her handful of allies have their hands full trying to convince them otherwise.
An excellent sequel to The Collapsing Empire, introducing some fascinating new facets to the wordlbuilding and adding some delicious new twists. Needless to say, I still adore Kiva - in all her frequently foulmouthed, occasionally violent, always asskicking glory.
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I wanted to thank you for your very thorough posts. It makes it easier for me to check as it takes a while to go through the teams posts.
I appreciate your efforts so very much.
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Completion Post - Week 6Shelf: Humour
Hunted by Kevin Hearne
Pages: 384
How It Fits: Tagged Humor 33 times.
Date Read: 7/19
Rating: 3 stars
Review
This is my go to series when I've been DNFing everything and I just need a win. They're always funny, they're always quick, and I always enjoy them. This one was one of the weaker books in the series for me. I didn't click with the humor, the pages flew by but the plot was still kind of slow, and there was some strange character voice things that I just didn't get. Of course there was still Oberon to make everything better so there was at least that much. I'll keep going soon and just hope the next one is a little more my speed.
Completion Post: Week 7Book and Author (prefer links): The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
Pages: 376 pages
How it Fits: Goodreads Choice Award for Middle Grade & Children's (2016)
read 7/20/19
Rated 4 stars
Start of a series set in the same universe as the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The god Apollo has become mortal as punishment for on of his sons opening the gate to let the titaness Gaea out of Hades and the ensuing war that caused. He is now forced to serve Meg Caffery, a demi-goddess and daughter of Demeter, during his exile from Olympus. They go to camp halfblood a safe spot for demigods. there they here about missing demigod and also find that in the woods are the ancient grove of Sacred Oaks known as Dodana which is the oldest known oracle and the only oracle the monster Python cannot control. He has to protect Dodona while defeating his enemies and trying to take back the other oracles so python and the beast can't control the future.
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Completion Post - Week 7Shelf: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
Book: Naked Edge by Pamela Clare
Pages: 361
Qualification: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2010)
Finished: 7/22/19
Rating: 4.5 stars
Review: Another fantastic read in this series. Kat, an investigative reporter who is also a Navajo, is looking into why artifacts are disappearing from Native American lands. She meets Gabe, a forest ranger, when she gets hurt which seemed like an accident. As time goes on, more unexplained accidents keep happening and she is being threatened. This story had many twists and turns to keep the reader engaged. I loved learning more about Native American customs in this story.
Hi guys! I just wanted to update you. I unfortunately need to bow out of the challenge. My laptop is about 10 seconds from dying and this is my only access to goodreads. It will be a hot minute before I'm able to get a new one and I don't want to hold you back if you're able to get a new player. I've really enjoyed this challenge and I wish you guys the best of luck on the rest of the weeks!
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SELECTION POST - Week 8
Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Book: Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake & Rinda Elliott
Pages: 237
Qualification: Dual authors
I just set up a book for another challenge that fits this!SELECTION POST - Week 8
Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Book: Scandal Never Sleeps by Shayla Black & Lexi Blake
Pages: 392
Qualification: Dual Authors
Selection Post: Week 8 Dual/Multiple AuthorsBook and Author (prefer links): Just a Summer Deal by Zach Jenkins & E. Davies
Pages: 294 per Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
How it Fits: 2 Author
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Since you are losing Cait, you have two options:
Continue as a four member team or get a replacement player. The replacement player is NOT responsible for any shelf called before they join your team.
Thanks.
Selection Post: Week 8 Dual/Multiple AuthorsBook and Author (prefer links): Just a Summer Deal by Zach Jenkins & E. Davies
Pages: 294 per Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
How it Fits: 2 Author
read: 7/24/19
rated: 5 stars
review: Two male writers of Gay Romance novels meet in Durango, Colorado, Aaron is fully gay but Conor believed he was straight until he kissed Aaron. For promoting their books and the new series they are writing together they decide to do a fake relationship but soon that turns into a real relationship and an internet storm happens when Conor's past relationships with women are found out. As if Conor couldn't be bisexual or even realized later in life he was gay. The antics of the two men and how their friends and family react make this a book I will enjoy rereading
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OK team do we want a replacement player either way for Weeks 7 and 8 we just need to finish 4 books as a replacement player doesn't have to make up previously called shelves. I am fine with it either way. will be sending out PM to remaining team members
Either way is fine with me. Since there are only a couple of weeks left, if there is no adverse effect to going with an additional player, I think it might make sense to go without.
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go without why bring someone new in when we will barely have time to get to know them.
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Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Book: Killer Bond by Jocelynn Drake & Rinda Elliott
Pages: 237
Qualification: Dual Authors
Read: 27 July 2019
Rating: ★★★★
Review: All Ward Security accountant Daniel Hendricks wanted was a relaxing vacation at the beach... and perhaps a little holiday fling with the hot guy who starts flirting with him pretty much the second he arrives. Little does Daniel know that Edward Raines works for the CIA and is in Bermuda not in search of some R&R but in order to track down a traitor planning to sell secrets to the highest bidder. All he has to go on is a photo of his target, who just so happens to look just like Daniel Hendricks. To top it off, Edward isn't the only one to confuse Daniel with the rogue agent. Soon enough, the two of them end up facing kidnappers, explosions and gunfire, and after Edward has realized his mistake, he is ordered to make use of Daniel's resemblance to the traitor he was supposed to find in order to find the intel he's put up for sale and deal with the potential buyers. Instead of quiet days soaking up the sun, Daniel is dragged along on an international spy adventure taking him from Bermuda to Barcelona and further across Europe, with lethal encounters at every corner and off the charts chemistry with his supposed holiday flirt ramping up the heat.
So much better than the previous book! I love reading books set in places I've been to, and while it's been over a decade since my visit to Barcelona, Toulouse and Paris were on my travelling agenda just a few months ago. I also really liked these guys and their awesome chemistry (which led, not entirely unpredictably, to some seriously hot steamy scenes) - which was almost, almost, enough to make me forget that I really like my spy thrillers a little more realistic and authors getting basic terminology wrong in them happens to be a pet peeve of mine.
SELECTION POST - Week 8Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Dry by Neal Shusterman
Pages: 401
How It Fits: Written by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
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Shelf: Books to TV/Movie
Book: The Night Manager by John le Carré
Pages: 597
Qualification: Listopia Books to Television
SELECTION POST - Week 9Shelf: Books to TV/Movie
Book:
Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 343
Qualification: Tagged Book to Movies 45 times Book To Movies
COMPLETION POST - Week 8Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Book: Scandal Never Sleeps by Shayla Black & Lexi Blake
Pages: 392
Qualification: Dual Authors
Finished: 7/31/19
Rating: 5 stars
Review: Loved this book by two of my favorite authors. The setup is there are 6 friends who are in prep school together. Fast forward where they all have careers and one of the friends is killed in a plane crash. Gabe meets Eve at the bar after the funeral and they hook up for what they both believe will be one night that turns into longer. There is a lot of suspense, as it looks like the plane crash might not have been an accident, along with hot sex between these two. I'm definitely moving on to read the rest of the series.
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Shelf: Books to TV/Movie
Book: The Night Manager by John le Carré
Pages: 597
Qualification: Listopia Books to Television
Read: 01 Aug 2019
Rating: ★★★★
Review: Ex-soldier turned hotel night manager Jonathan Pine lets himself be recruited by British Intelligence to be infiltrated into the inner circle of big shot arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper. Unbeknownst to Pine, however, background squabbles between UK and US intelligence agencies and doublecrosses might pose an even greater danger to him than the lethal people he is moving among to take down Roper.
Le Carré sure knows how to craft an engrossing tale, and Jonathan Pine makes for a compelling protagonist. Suffice it to say, I read the entire novel - all almost 600 pages of it - in a single sitting, on a weekday evening after work. Now on to watching the TV adaptation!
Selection Post: Week 11 Book to TV/MovieBook and Author (prefer links): Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Pages: 320 pages
How it Fits: book made into movie
Selection Post-Week 9Shelf: Books to TV/ Movie
Big Little Lies by Keith Taylor
Pages: 471
How It Fits: Tagged books to movie 34
Completion Post - Week 8Shelf: Dual/Multiple Authors
Dry by Neal Shusterman
Pages: 401
How It Fits: Written by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
Date Read: 7/28
Rating: 5*
Review
This was one of those surprising good reads. It was well written and provided a great deal of food for thought. What would you do if suddenly the water was turned off. The story was so well written that I was drawn in from the start, finding myself rooting for the MCs and wanting to know what befell them next and how they would overcome the obstacles
Completion Post: Week 9 Book to TV/MovieBook and Author (prefer links): Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Pages: 320 pages
How it Fits: book made into movie
Read 8/4/19
rated 5 Stars
How I love rereading this magical adventure of Harry, Ron, Hermionee and Neville and all the others at hogwarts. I love how Snape plays a red Herring and we are led to think that he is the villian when it is actually nervous Professor Quirell that is possessed by Voldemort. Friendship and teamwork are important in this book.
Completion Post-Week 9Shelf: Books to TV/ Movie
Big Little Lies by Keith Taylor
Pages: 471
How It Fits: Tagged books to movie 34
Date Read: 8/5
Rating: 5*
Review
I’d picked this up a couple of times in the past never having got further than a couple of chapters in. This time I perceived and wow. We start at the school trivia night where all we are told is that a riot broke out between the parents with one ending up dead. We are then taking back to the kindergarten orientation day to what is deemed the beginning of the events that lead to that death. As the story progresses we are momentarily brought back to the immediate aftermath of the death where different characters give their version of what they thought happened. As the story unfolds we are led down a rabbit hole where secrets are revealed, and school politics are in full force, but not once are we told who died. When we get to trivia night the final plot twist comes when the death occurs. A very good read that exceeded expectations
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Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
Pages: 305
Qualification: MC is a child (From blurb: "Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving")
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SELECTION POST - Week 10Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book:
Cage Harper Sloan
Pages: 284
Qualification: Listopia - #17 Surprise You're a Daddy
Selection Post - Week 10Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
His Human Slave by Renee Rose
Pages: 171
How It Fits: Pregnancy Tagged 3 times
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Shelf: Pregnancy/Child
Book: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
Pages: 305
Qualification: MC is a child (From blurb: "Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving")
Read: 07 Aug 2019
Rating: ★★★★
Review: It's Christmastime at Buckshaw, and when Flavia isn't busy plotting the entrapment of Father Christmas by means of chemistry, she's sticking her nose into everything and anything to do with the filmcrew that has just invaded her home to use it as the setting in an upcoming movie. It's not long, however, before the star of the production, famous actress Phyllis Wyvern, turns up dead and Flavia's capturing-Father-Christmas scheme takes a backseat to investigating this newest murder she's managed to stumble across.
Delightfully entertaining as always - it was high time I got around to continuing this series, Flavia's exploits are just so much fun to follow.
COMPLETION POST - Week 9Shelf: Books to TV/Movie
Book:
Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 343
Qualification: Tagged Book to Movies 45 times Book To Movies
Finished: 8/7/19
Rating: 5 stars
Another fantastic Nicholas Sparks book. Katie is running from her abusive husband and lands in a small town in NC. She meets Alex who runs the local store and is a widower with 2 small children. She tries to stay clear of him as she knows she will have to run again as she has before. I loved this story of how Alex and his kids reel Katie in so that she ends up caring for them as much as they do her. Of course, Kevin (her husband) is continuing to look for her and there is heart pounding action.
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Shelf - Animals/Pets
Behaving Badly by Isabel Wolff
Pages: 352
How It Fits: Tagged Animals 5 times
Date Read: 7/12
Rating: 3*
Review
This was a sweet beach read type book which has amusing moments. The characters were likeable and fun and a relatively decent plot-line if rather formulaic. It did take a while to get into the story especially with thy mystery of a significant past event, despite that it was an enjoyable read.