Team 10: 10 More Minutes

[Mary X]

I thought we decided on 10 More Minutes? But really I'm fine with any of the suggestions. Naming is not my strong suit. I get hung up trying to put the team number in there.

[SandyL]

It looks like 10 More Minutes gets the nod!

Are you guys ready to start tomorrow? Fingers crossed for a good first category!!!

[Mary X]

I should be unless I have library issues with the category called. But then I'd just read my Free space book first while waiting for something (or looking for something else).

My real life book club picked a YA book for next month (gag) and I'm hoping if I'm going to read one anyway, that it gets called soon.

[SandyL]

I hope it's not too bad, Mary!

I'm reading (well, listening to) The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt for another challenge and it's painful!!! I have to listen in short increments and then switch to something else. The things we read for our clubs/challenges, huh?

[Jen K]

Ugh, that's why I'm going with Grave Mercy on that challenge but hopefully it improves!

I'm hoping for a category that fits one of the many physical books sitting on my end table so I finally read it.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

I love the name

[Jen K]

We look so official now! Go team 10 More Minutes!!

[Tiffany]

I love the name! How are we picking what we read?

[SandyL]

Tiffany wrote: "I love the name! How are we picking what we read?"

The first call will be tomorrow - Ezi will announce a category and you'll find a book that fits. You also need to find a book for the Free Space and read that at some point (a book you got for free.)

[Mary X]

I was hoping the call would come in the morning. Oh well.

I have a meeting on Tuesday nights. If it gets posted late my time, I might not see it until Wed morning. Later in the game, if there's a potential winner for us I will make sure to check on Tuesday night. But crossing my fingers that it will come earlier in the day my time.

[SandyL]

Hey Team! Here is the format for the selection post once the first shelf is called:

Selection Post
Shelf: Name of Shelf called
Book: Link to your book and to the author
Pages: # of pages
Qualification: State how the book qualifies (even if it's obvioius)

If you know what you're going to read for your Free Space you can post it now - you just can't start reading until the first shelf is called.

Let me know if you have any questions! Hopefully we'll get the first shelf soon - I know everyone is anxious to get started!!

[SandyL]

The first shelf call is in - HISTORICAL

[SandyL]

Week 1: Historical - 6/6

Alejandro - Water for Elephants - completed 6/7/19 - Msg 110
Jen K - Emily of New Moon - completed 6/8/19 - Msg 143
Mary - The Song of Achilles - completed 6/6/19 - Msg 107
Meg - Pride and Prejudice - completed 6/6/19 - Msg 103
Sandy - The Duke and I - completed 6/7/19 - Msg 111
Tiffany -Voyage of the Heart - completed 6/5/19 - Msg 95

[Mary X]

Yay! It's coming lunch time in my area. If she sticks with this time, that would be awesome for me.

I'll be back with what I plan to read. Have to go through the current library selections.

[Mary X]

Selection Post

Shelf: Historical

Madeline Miller
352 pages
Fits: shelved 3509 times as historical

[Mary X]

Selection Post

Free Space

A.L. Herbert
276 pages
Fits: library book

[Jen K]

Shelf: Free Space
Book: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Pages: 228 pages (kindle version)
Qualification: Free borrow from library

[Jen K]

Shelf: Historical- VOIDED
Book: Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
Pages: 491 pages
Qualification: Tagged as history

Non-fiction is okay, right?

[Mary X]

I grew up in the same area as Emily Dickinson. Still live pretty much in that same area.

[Jen K]

Very cool, I'm excited to read the book. I grew up a few hours north of you off of I-91 in Vermont. I miss New England.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "Selection Post
Shelf: Historical
by Madeline Miller"

I really really liked this one

[Mary X]

I live so close but I don't go up into Vermont all that often. I used to as a kid when my dad had a motorcycle and we'd take rides to Vermont.

We studied Dickinson a lot in school because she's a local hero.

[Meg]

Shelf: Historical
Book: Pride and Prejudice
Pages: 279
Qualification: Shelved as historical/historical fiction/romance-historical

[SandyL]

Selection Post

Shelf: Historical
Book:
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Pages: 384
Qualification: MPG Historical

[Jen K]

@Mary, I grew up closer to the Canadian border than Mass but great towns down there. I almost went to Mt Holyoke.

For those who have played bingo before, is there a strategy o the game or considerations in a book pick? I'm assuming that I'm ok with a bigger book because no one can win with less than 5 stamps in the game?

[SandyL]

Jen K wrote: "@Mary, I grew up closer to the Canadian border than Mass but great towns down there. I almost went to Mt Holyoke.

For those who have played bingo before, is there a strategy o the game or conside..."

For now there isn't a strategy - when we get closer to someone getting a bingo, then shorter/quicker books may help.

[Jen K]

Thanks Sandy!

[Mary X]

The main strategy is to not let yourself get too far behind so if your teams has a chance to win you aren’t frantically trying to finish multiple books. So I try to get my free space book done early too.

The only other thing I can think of is making sure you have access to at least one book for the shelves you are most worried about.

[Mary X]

Other than that it’s all up to the order the shelves get called and you can’t plan for that.

[Alejandro]

Selection Post
Shelf: Historical
Book: Check out this book on Goodreads: Water for Elephants http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43...
Pages: 335
Qualification: On Goodreads Historical Popular reads shelf.

[Alejandro]

Selection Post

Shelf: Historical
Book: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Pages: 335
Qualification: On Goodreads Historical Popular
reads shelf.

[Tiffany]

Completion post
Shelf: Historical
Book: Voyage of the Heart by Soraya M. Lane
Pages: 368
Completed: 6/5
Qualification: Historical fiction

[Jen K]

@Mary, thanks for the advice!!

@Sandy, I just saw that Ezinwayni advised another group that a tag for history would NOT count for historical so I will revise my choice for the shelf. Luckily I started with my free space book first and have plenty to choose from for historical.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Jen K wrote: "@Mary, thanks for the advice!!

@Sandy, I just saw that Ezinwayni advised another group that a tag for history would NOT count for historical so I will revise my choice for the shelf. Luckily I sta..."

Correct. It had to be “historical” not history or historic

[SandyL]

Jen K wrote: "@Mary, thanks for the advice!!

@Sandy, I just saw that Ezinwayni advised another group that a tag for history would NOT count for historical so I will revise my choice for the shelf. Luckily I sta..."

Thanks for the heads up Jen! Sorry your book won't work, but I'm glad you hadn't started it yet!

[SandyL]

Selection Post - FREE SPACE

Book:
Erik by Sawyer Bennett
Pages: 244
Qualification: Borrowed free from Overdrive

[Jen K]

Selection Post
Shelf: Historical (revised)
Book: Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
Pages: 368
Qualification: Tagged as Historical

[SandyL]

Completion Post - FREE SPACE

Book:
Erik by Sawyer Bennett
Pages: 244
Qualification: Borrowed free from Overdrive
Completed: 6/6/19
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I'm still getting used to this new series (and having withdrawals from the Cold Fury guys!) but I did enjoy this second book about Erik Dahlberg. Erik gets shot down when he tries to hit on the new team flight attendant, Blue Gardner. He's usually pretty good with the ladies, so he can't understand why she hates him so much!!! When Blue isn't working, she's taking care of her disabled brother. When Erik finds out about Billy, he starts helping out where he can and Blue starts to warm up to him. I liked the dynamic between the Erik and Blue, and how Erik has matured over the years and tried to show Blue he was a changed guy. And I loved how Blue cared for her brother. Another thing I like about these series is meeting the other 'players' (pun intended!) and how the current book sets things up for a future book. I'm really looking forward to Tracker's story, although I think Legend is up next.

[Jen K]

Woo-hoo, our first completion! Nice work Sandy! Glad it was a book you enjoyed too.

I should be able to finish my free space tonight. Go team!

[Tiffany]

I posted mine wrong. Editing it now.

[Meg]

Go Sandy!

[Tiffany]

Good job, Sandy!

[SandyL]

Tiffany wrote: "I posted mine wrong. Editing it now."

Hey Tiff (and team) - for your completion post, please make a new post rather than editing your selection post. It will make it easier for me not to miss something. Thanks!!!!

[Tiffany]

SandyL wrote: "Tiffany wrote: "I posted mine wrong. Editing it now."

Hey Tiff (and team) - for your completion post, please make a new post rather than editing your selection post. It will make it easier for me ..."
Will do🙂

[Tiffany]

Completion post:
Shelf: Historical
Voyage of the Heart by Soraya M. Lane
Pages: 368
Completed: 6/5
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I really enjoyed this one! Soraya Lane is an incredible author and really does a lot of research in her topics. This one is about a group of British women who married American soldiers during WWII. They meet on a ship as they travel to New York to live with their husbands. The book chronicles their voyage and their reunions with their respective spouses and whether life in their new home lives up to their expectations. It’s truly an amazing story about a group of incredible women.

[SandyL]

One more thing, team (sorry to not mention this earlier) - in your completion post, please include your rating and a review -

Per Ezi:
Review: Just 3-4 sentences. Tell us what the book is about, what you thought of your read, what you liked or disliked, and would you recommend this book to your friends

Thanks!

[SandyL]

PS - Great job finishing first for our first shelf/square, Tiffany!!!!

[Jen K]

Nice work Tiffany!!! Hope it was a good read!

[Tiffany]

It was so good! I’m so glad I found this author! I enjoyed her book Hearts of Resistance. It’s a Historical, too, if anyone needs a book.

[Tiffany]

Thank you