Team The Chipmunks of Creativity & Chaos

[Eldarwen]

Done with my SZ2 book.

[Cat]

whoop!

I have a ton of part read books now! mostly because I wasn't getting on with the first couple I picked up, but also so that I don't finish before we are clear of SZ2 :)

[Eldarwen]

Hehe, I've been going slow with Exit West as well. I have about 20 pages left to read in that one, which I'll finish off as soon as Sonia is done so we can use it in SZ3.


Aaaand then... I'm not sure yet. SOS Bingo has its first shelf call tonight so my next book choice will happen according to that. Might also just pick up Sapphire Flames first for the Free Space... I'll see :-)

[Cat]

I decided not to play SOS Bingo this round. Too much stuff going on :(

[Eldarwen]

I never pass up SOS Bingo! :-D
I've been playing since R13, I think, and I just love it because they're my favourite genres (well, minus the odd spin-off or military shelf..) which is to say: fantasy, fantasy, fantasy!

And since Lava is free-ish choice and TT is, too - I can fit it all in well enough. And these are the only team challenges I'm doing lately. NBRC, Uno and SOS Bingo. So... :-)

[Cat]

I think I'm just off the UF-ish books at the moment. Though Peter Grant is back in October?November? soon-ish. Looking forward to that! :)

[Eldarwen]

Peter Grant.... Ben Aaronovitch? I've never read him.

I have my specific series and authors I enjoy reading but I've become a loooot more picky about new books/series I pick up.

[Cat]

Peter Grant is the Rivers of London series, yes. I am a big fan, but I won't try and push them onto you! too many great books too little time: something's gonna have to be dropped, right? And if for you that's Peter G, that's OK!

[Eldarwen]

I've been told repeatedly by sources I can trust that they're good and the covers are very cool. I'm not going to lie, I've had the first book in hand a couple of times but haven't actually taken one home yet. Maybe maybe. It isn't on my TBR as such, but it's somewhere in the back of my mind.

[Cat]

They are very good, it's true :)

[Eldarwen]

I started Sapphire Flames this morning, and ooooooh it's already soooo good :-DDDD

[Cat]

Sonia.... how are you doing on the yellow cover?

[Laura]

I have easy access to books for task #7 for our next round

[Eldarwen]

I can cover one of these for sure:

7 that is #7 or higher in a series
6 tagged MPG Adventure
5 from the I Only Watched the Movie list
3 that has between 250 and 300 pages


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Notes for me for task #5
- #186: Water for Elephants (p. 2)
- #243: Warm Bodies (p. 3)
- #320: The Last Unicorn (p. 4)
- #524: Blood and Chocolate (p. 6) (didn't know this was a movie?!)
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[Cat]

oooh! I can do prickly / spiky I think, with there's prickly spiky holly wrapped around the tree trunks. That'll work, right?

[Eldarwen]

That should work, yes. There's also some branches sticking up that look rather spiky :-)

[Laura]

I suspect that I 'll be able to read one more book for this current round. Any preference for an I or N or something else?

[Laura]

Cat wrote: "oooh! I can do prickly / spiky I think, with there's prickly spiky holly wrapped around the tree trunks. That'll work, right?"

Was book 2 good? I haven't gotten to read it yet. Sometimes I find book 2 falls flat in a series.

[Eldarwen]

I think I'll start with the MPG Adventure book - has been on my TBR shelf for quite a while. Might as well finally read it :-)

It's a little on the bigger side but should hopefully be a quick read.

[Sonia]

Okay. Finished the book. Updating ss.

Cat, you're free to attack last chapters

[Cat]

Whoo-hoo!

[Eldarwen]

Finished Exit West.

[Cat]

Finished 3 books :)


What was Exit West like, E? I really enjoyed the Reluctant Fundamentalist, but haven't seemed to be in the mood for Exit West...

[Cat]

Laura, I enjoyed book 2 in the Bear & Nightingale trilogy, though it was different in feel, and took a bit longer to get into. Definitely worth it!

[Laura]

Finished two books!

[Eldarwen]

Cat wrote: "Finished 3 books :)


What was Exit West like, E? I really enjoyed the Reluctant Fundamentalist, but haven't seemed to be in the mood for Exit West..."

It was.. odd. It started out alright but then it just descended into a Magical Realism world that was intended to be sort of representative of the current reality, I suppose. I didn't like the main characters (the only two who ever had a name), I couldn't get a feel for them and the storyline just descended into boring as the pages were filled with overly long sentences and nothing really happened.

[Cat]

Oh! I never get on brilliantly with magical realism. The South American version is usually the best bet, but other cultural attempts at it are very hit & miss with me.
I may save that for a time when I am absolutely in the mood for weird!

[Cat]

Finished a couple more books.

Will start looking at word tetris this afternoon, if Laura's not got there already ;P

[Eldarwen]

Finished Sapphire Flames. I'm in love once again. This series is just utterly brilliant. :-D

[Laura]

No, too busy of a day. I have nothing else to add for this round.

[Eldarwen]

I'm done as well.

I've gone through half my current read last night and a few pages on the bus this morning but I'm never going to be done before the deadline since I'm now at work. :-)

[Cat]

I thought I might squeeze one in, but couldn't find one. So I squeezed in some more Les Mis...

[Eldarwen]

I really really should be doing that or I'll never get the book read this year! >.>

[Eldarwen]

Ok, I'm going to read a little Les Mis at work this morning, and once the deadline hits for Round 4 to start, then I'll switch to this wonderful freebie I have lying around about the "Curvy Bear Ranch". The name of the ranch has me in fits hehehehe.

The book is called The Cowbear's Mail Order Bride. My expectations are low *grin*

[Eldarwen]

For SZ2, I can cover either of these two tasks:

iii Read a book with a natural setting on the cover and that contains the word ANIMAL in the text
iv Read a book with a brown item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains at least four of the letters of E-C-H-I-D-N-A in the author's name

[Sonia]

Okay so. Due to the fact my boss told me 'no such nonsense' on my November planned date for the agile test, I have to do it in october.

That means, I'll have to stick at 1 book per week.

Is that okay, or should we ask one of the mods if they want to take over the rest of the challenge?

I'm good with every option

[Cat]

I say we stick with you! If you are OK to do that? We only really need you for the countdown, which is week 1 (depending on when Karen releases the echidnas!) and then you can have a leisurely read for the SZ3, right?

[Sonia]

Cool.

Sounds good.

Anyway, I'm sad that the Mediterranean ends on the Gibraltar narrow... Because I would have the perfect Portuguese book to fit in there.

I'll check if Eragon is tagged as dark fantasy, if yes, I'll read that one for towers. And read the zafon one. We'll see.

Meaning I'll tackle the Mediterranean task.

I promised myself no re-reads, no matter how much I miss red dirt and how it would fit the ranch task.

[Cat]

I think E's snagged the ranch task from you already! ;-P

[Eldarwen]

Hahah, I haven't started it yet and always willing to switch :-)

I was indeed wondering if Sonia wanted to go with Red Dirt for that one but was pretty sure she'd already read all of them.

And since you've now said no re-reads - I saved you from that ;-))

[Sonia]

Ahahahah. Yeah. I'll probably save them for towers, since they're quick lusty reads and first week will be pretty hard on me, since it's the week before the exam.

[Eldarwen]

Better to save them for Towers indeed :-)

[Sonia]

I have found and Italian author that is an I series. And it's mystery. *happy*

[Eldarwen]

Cool!
That will definitely come in handy. Fingers crossed the books are good!

[Eldarwen]

Oh, also, are you going to poke Eni about checking into the team thread some time this week? Or should I send her a pm?

[Sonia]

I'll tell her. This week has been rough.

[Eldarwen]

Sonia wrote: "I'll tell her. This week has been rough."

Sorry to hear that! :-(
And no stress, really. I know she's around, so I know I don't have to hunt her down :-)

[Eldarwen]

Thanks though!!

[Laura]

Will this book work for the first published on the 4th task:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

I've got the hardcover edition.

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "Will this book work for the first published on the 4th task:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

I've got the hardcover edition."

Yep! I'd say so. First published on the 4th, and most editions are published then. Odd that the hardcover of all editions was published later?!