R18: Team #5 ~ Five in a Row

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Team #5
Captain: Mary

Members:
Skandia
Carrie
Allison Ann
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Just a Hop, Skip & Click Away
Happy Reading!

Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Captain's Log ~ Share team shelf stats prior to requesting a stamp
Stamp Me! ~ Request a stamp for your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo!

Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Captain's Log prior to requesting a stamp
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Link to print your own copy: BINGO card

[Steph, Serious series addict]

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[Mary X]

Team 5: Five in a Row Updating Page.

Free Space:-Done
Skandia: A Court of Frost and Starlight-Sarah J Moss (On Group Bookshelf)review 3 stars 3/15/19
Carrie: Seventh Grave and No Body-Darynda Jones review 4 stars 3/20/19
Allison Ann: Dead Reckoning-Charlaine Harris #6 on Best of UF Series review 4 stars 3/16/19
Mary: The Silenced-Heather Graham (On Group Bookshelf) review 4 stars 3/20/19

Dark Urban Fantasy-done
Skandia: Clean Sweep-Ilona Andrews review 5 stars 3/16/19
Carrie: Circus of the Damned-Laurell K Hamilton review 3 stars 3/16/19
Allison Ann: Turn Coat-Jim Butcher review 3/22/19 4 stars
Mary: Venom-Jennifer Estep review 4 stars 3/23/19

Paranormal-requested
Skandia: The Visitor-Amanda Stevens review 4 stars 3/24/19
Carrie: Bloodfever-Karen Marie Moning review 4 stars 4/1/19
Allison Ann: The Kingdom-Amanda Stevens review 3.5 stars 3/23/19
Mary: Zinnia-Jayne Castle Review 4 stars 3/26/19

Favorite Author
Skandia: Royally Screwed-Emma Chase Review 3.5 stars 4/1/19
Carrie: Eighth Grave After Dark-Darynda Jones Review 4 stars 4/5/19
Allison Ann: Clean Sweep-Ilona AndrewsReview 5 stars 4/1/19
Mary:Into the Drowning Deep-Mira Grant Review 3 stars 4/7/19

Vampires-Werewolves
Skandia The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires-Molly Harper Review 3 stars 4/15/19
Carrie Undead and Unreturnable-Mary Janice Davidson Review 4/9/19 2.5 stars
Allison Ann: Forever-Maggie Stiefvater Review 4/15/19 2 stars
Mary: A Discovery of Witches-Deborah Harkness Review 4 stars 4/15/19

Science Fiction

Skandia-Sleeping Giants-Sylvain Neuval Review 3 stars 4/26/19
Carrie: Touched by an Alien-Gina Kock Review 3 stars 4/20/19
Allison Ann: Artemis-Andy Weir Review 4 stars 4/14/19
Mary:Monster Hunter International-Larry Correia Review 4 stars 4/19/19

Alpha-male-done
Skandia: Dirty-Kylie Scott Review 4.5 stars 4/20/19
Carrie: A Court of Mist and Fury-Sarah Maas Review 5 stars 4/24/19
Allison Ann River Marked-Patricia Briggs Review 4 stars 4/21/19
Mary:Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed-Anna Campbell review 3 stars 4/24/19

Psychic Abilities
Skandia: Rhapsodic-Laura Thalassa review 4.5 stars 5/5/19
Carrie:White Hot-Ilona Andrews
Allison Ann: The Night Is Watching-Heather Graham review 3 stars 4/27/19
Mary:Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye-Victoria Laurie review 4 stars, 5/8/19

Series
Skandia: City of Lost Souls-Cassandra Clare review 3 stars 5/12/19
Carrie: A Court of Wings and Ruin-Sarah J Maas review 5 stars 5/11/19
Allison Ann: Relic-Douglas Preston review 4 stars 5/4/19
Mary:The Forgotten-Heather Graham review 4 stars 5/6/19

Next In Series
Skandia: Sweep in Peace-Ilona Andrews review 5 stars 5/17/19
Carrie: Dead Beat-Jim Butcher review 4 stars 5/15/19
Allison Ann: Speaker for the Dead-Orson Scott Card review 4 stars 5/15/19
Mary: The Long Way Home-Louise Penny review 3 stars 5/13/19

Kindle Freebie
Mary: The Vampire's Mail Order Bride-Kristen Painter review 4 stars 5/20/19
Carrie: No One to Trust-Katie Reus review 3 stars 5/28/19
Allison Ann: Eternity-Maggie Shayne review 3 stars 5/18/19
Skandia: Addicted to You-Krista Ritchie review 1.5 stars 5/22/19

Favorite Series:
Mary: The Duke and I-Julia Quinn review 4 stars 5/25/19

[Skandia]

Hi team!
Glad to start again! I think I've been playing since round 4 and missed only couple of rounds so it's obviously my favorite team challenge here :)

[Mary X]

I have captained several rounds and don't mind doing it again. But I also have no problem whatsoever if someone else want to do it this round.

I'm drawing a blank on names at the moment.

[Allison Ann]

Good morning team. Love this game. Hate having to come up with a name. :D We could always just be the No Names.

Let's hope Carrie is a genius at names.

Thanks for volunteering for captain Mary. I'm happy to just be a regular player this round.

[Skandia]

I'm ok with Mary taking the captain duties, too.

Names are not my thing also but we must have one anyway so there are some I came up with -

Fifth Element
Fifth Avenue Window Shoppers
Five In A Row = Bingo

Maybe Carrie will have some better ideas :)

[Mary X]

I messaged Carrie to let her know teams are up. Hopefully she just didn't notice that they were posted.

[Mary X]

I tend to get hung up on using the # in the name. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just never think of anything else.

Five Alive?

[Carrie]

Hi. so sorry for not checking in before now, I never had a notification for the teams. And Mary thank you so much for messaging.

[Carrie]

Names hmm

Five by Five?

[Mary X]

They didn't send a notice so that's why I messaged-just in case.

I always feel like a pest if I message.

[Allison Ann]

The only people who will think you a pest are flakes. Anyone else will be glad you got ahold of them for the reminder. :D

I like Five In A Row best of the choices I think. But the others are all fine too. I personally don't like Babes or Chicks or things like that in a team name, but everything else is cool. We could be Turkey Watermelon Microplaner and I'd be fine with that too. :D Even though I don't like turkey.

[Carrie]

I'm good with any name.

[Skandia]

yeah, no chicks and babes, everything else is fine.

[Mary X]

Five in a Row sounded good but now I'm kind of feeling Turkey Watermelon Microplaner.

[Mary X]

Playing on some movie titles:

Five Readers of Death (I know we're technically 4)
Five Easy Shelves
The Five Books You Read in Heaven

[Carrie]

Five More Minutes
Chapter Five
Five Star Reads or Readers

[Skandia]

High Five
One Short of Five
Jive for Five

[Allison Ann]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Five in a Row sounded good but now I'm kind of feeling Turkey Watermelon Microplaner."

It's the microplaner isn't it? Hard to resist a microplaner! :D

I think Five in a Row is still my first number choice. With Chapter Five as second.

[Carrie]

What time zone is everyone in?

[Mary X]

I'm in Massachusetts so EST. The shelf call will come around 7pm my time. I am usually at Aqua Zumba that time on Wed. But I'm willing to play hookie and stay home and read if we get winning shelf call at some point.

[Allison Ann]

I'm in NW Ontario, Canada, so CST. I'll be at work for shelf call, so I can check in easily.

[Mary X]

Remember, you can start your free space book as soon as the first shelf call is made.

My free space book will be:



It's on the group bookshelf.

I like to get my free space book out of the way early if I can. All shelves must be completed to win even if they aren't part of the actual BINGO.

[Mary X]

Is everyone good with Five in a Row and me as captain? I don't want to assume. I have captained several times and really don't mind letting someone else do it if they want. But no one has said anything.

[Skandia]

I'm good with Mary taking captain duties and with name.

I'm in Europe and the shelf call will be in the middle of the night for me at 1 AM, I guess. Bummer.

[Allison Ann]

I'm happy with the name and you being captain. Thanks Mary.

I usually read a Southern Vampire Mysteries for the Free Space. Not sure what number I'm up to now, but I will figure it out tonight.

[Mary X]

Does anyone have a shelf that concerns them and where they think they might want to use one of the alternate options?

The only one I, personally, am concerned about is the 2018 Most Anticipated Reads. Mostly because of availability from library of the few that I am interested in on that one. Seems like a lot of YA on that shelf, which I don't normally care for much and later books in series I haven't started yet. I found a couple of stand alone books that interest me but they have wait lists at my library, on which I am working my way up.

[Allison Ann]

I have gone through all the shelves and picked out 2-3 choices for each. I can guarantee that when the shelf is actually called, 99% of the time I will pick something completely different. :) But I don't think I'll need the alternate at all.

[Mary X]

I do the same thing. But at least I know if I need to get in line for a library book if I don't have much for a particular shelf.

Plus it helps kill the time while waiting for the game to start.

[Carrie]

Newfoundland time for me, so when call are made it'll be 8:30 or later if they are running late.

[Mary X]

First shelf is Dark Urban Fantasy. On my phone so can’t link.

[Skandia]

I'll be reading for Free Space. On Group Bookshelf.

for Dark Urban Fantasy shelf

[Carrie]

I'm going with

[Mary X]

For Dark Urban Fantasy I will be reading:

[Allison Ann]

Selection Post

Dark Urban Fantasy - - 420 pages - shelved 1 time

Free Space - - 335 pages - #6 on Best of UF series

How weird, both my books are #11 in series!

[Skandia]

Shelf: Free Space

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 272
Read: 03/15/2019
Rating: 3 stars

I'm kind of confused why this book was written and is a part of this series. For me this is just a filler and a place holder for pleasing hardcore fans of ACOTAR series. Nothing happens, story doesn't develop and move forward or even focus on specific story line as in-between books in series usually do. It's really more like oversized epilogue to book 3.

My expectations are higher for book #4. Looks like it's going to be Nesta's story and I'm good with it. The less Feyre, the better.

[Skandia]

Shelf: Dark Urban Fantasy

Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews

Pages: 235
Read: 03/16/2019
Rating: 5 stars

Wow! I'm so impressed. Ilona Andrews has done it again and it's even better than Kate Daniels series.
I just loved everything about this book - world building, creatures from another planets, magic of Inn and the main characters Dina, Sean and Arland. So much fun, good humor and a very unique approach to weres and vamps with their alien origins. Half star bonus for fun fact that one of those ancient vampire clans had my last name :) Ha, I have always suspected that the pull towards everything vampire is not without a reason :) :) :)

[Carrie]

Completion Post:
Shelf: Dark Urban Fantasy

Book: Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton
Read: March 16th
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I liked it...I didn't love it.

This novel didn't have a lot of slow moments , events happened bang bang bang which for me was good. I don't think I could have handled Anita if she was given enough alone or downtime then I would have had to deal with her mind. And honestly at this stage in the game, 3 books in is only early but I'm not a big fan of the character. Or the characters.

The story over all is interesting, and the actions scenes are attention holding. I'm hoping as time goes on the characters develop better and become more likable.

Also holy dated....driving around to find a payphone..."gag me with a spoon"... oh the good ol'days..

Edited to say I just noticed the first 2 books I gave 4 stars...I hope the drop in stars isn't going to be a start in the decline of this series...if so that is a shame as it's such a long one.

Will I read on?
Yes....I did buy a nice chunk of these like 13 years ago...new at that...besides it's a long series, Anita has to get better right??

[Allison Ann]

Completion Post
Shelf: Free Space

Book: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
How Does It Fit: #6 on Best of UF Series
Read: 3/16/19
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I think back to the first few books in this series and to how much I didn't like Sookie but loved all the secondary characters. Now flash to book #11 and I love Sookie but don't particularly like how anyone else treats her. I get protective of my book faves. Sorry Sookie, people kind of suck. You should probably stop being so nice to most of them. Definitely stop letting them live in your house.

[Carrie]

Time to figure out my free space

[Carrie]

My free space is going to be found on the S.O.S bookshelf

[Mary X]

You guys are doing great. I am half way through my free space. It’s a library book. I own my dark fantasy book so I put that one 2nd.

Just an FYI that I tend to be on more during weekdays. I work on a computer all day and then don’t feel like using one at nights and weekends.

[Allison Ann]

Did everyone have a good weekend? Didn't do too much reading myself - family dinner, birthday party, etc, etc. Plus on Friday night my BBQ set my hair on fire when I lit it. :D I got a little singed but I still have my eyesbrows, so yay! I hope nobody else caught on fire. I'm going to veg out and read my book now.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Wow!!!!! Hope you're ok now Allison Ann.

[Carrie]

Wow....are you ok?

[Allison Ann]

I'm fine thank you. Needed a little trim on Sunday, but I was wearing an oven mitt, so put the crispy hair out pretty fast. :D