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[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

The Desert Spear


Rating: 4 stars
Date Read: 10/19/19
Pages: 674
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Dark Fantasy first page
Alternate: Avarice (anything goes)
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N

[Joy]

Stacie wrote:

There's a collector's versioN?? O____O I need it.

@Nicole: I also love love All the Light We Cannot See.

Now to post my weekly book completion....

[Joy]

Completion Post!
Book: Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen
Date read: 10/19/2019
Pages: 238
Sin: Lust
Criteria: Red cover
Alternate: Gluttony (Genre: Historical Romance)
Sin Bingo: No
BOM: No

[Joy]

Because of the mini challenge for next week, I'm going to start Watership Down tomorrow for the animals!

[Snowtulip]

Joy wrote: "Because of the mini challenge for next week, I'm going to start Watership Down tomorrow for the animals!
"

Oh, very smart!

[Eldarwen]

Snowtulip wrote: "Completion Post

The Desert Spear
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Ooooh!! And and?? Does it hold up after the fantastic firs book??

[Eldarwen]

Joy wrote: "Because of the mini challenge for next week, I'm going to start Watership Down tomorrow for the animals!
"

Good choice!

[Stacie]

Completion Post

10/19
287 pages
Sin: Envy
How it fits: Green cover
Back up - Vanity
How it fits: MPG Contemporary
BOM: N
Bingo: N

[Snowtulip]

Eldarwen wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "Completion Post

The Desert Spear
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Ooooh!! And and?? Does it hold up after the fantastic firs book??"

Not as good as the first book, but definately still a really good solid book. It took some time getting through the first part of the book about Jardir...but it was worth the slower pace to understand all those shades of grey (what really is good or bad and the greater good, who decides what that is??). Was debating whether to go straight into book 3 or not...

[Snowtulip]

So I was going to start looking for the tricky animals, does anyone already have books they are reading for tricky? That way I'll look for the ones that aren't already being read for to maximize points...

[Stacie]

I started looking and then got distracted

[Stacie]

I have nothing tricky that I can see :(

[Eldarwen]

Haven't really looked through the animal list yet except for Dodo and that is apparently an easy one so I'm not even going to consider reading that doorstop of a book. (That is a bit of a relief though actually haha.)

It doesn't really help that I can't easily search through my paperbacks ;-) Or that I've never heard of most these animals on the tricky list. There really are some very odd ones...

What we definitely have so far is the very obvious "Rabbit" from Joy's Watership Down, but that is one of the easy ones. Still, 5 points! And maybe there is a tricky one hidden somewhere in the book as well?

[Eldarwen]

Snowtulip wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "Completion Post

The Desert Spear
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Ooooh!! And and?? Does it hold up after the fantastic firs book??"

Not as..."


The first one was fairly slow to get into as well what with the world setting, characters etc etc. It was a book that in general took me ages to read because there is a lot on those pages, so I'm sort of prepared for it to take a while hehe. It's good to hear though that the second book holds up to the first one - almost anyway! :-)

[Eldarwen]

Completion Post

Book: Grave Ransom by Kalayne Price

Date Read: 19th October
Pages: 372
Sin: Sloth
How it works: blue cover

[Melissa]

Completion Post

The Testaments

Date Read: 10/19/19
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: >50% blue cover
Alternate: Avarice (dystopia)
Sin Bingo: no
BOM: no

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 22, Sin Bingo
Book: When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Date Read: 20/10
Pages: 390
Sin: Lust
Criteria:
- Color: Red:
- Genre: Guilty Pleasure: Shelved 14 times
- Criteria: Books that you lust after: 30,471 people have read it

[Snowtulip]

So I think I’ll have 2 more books for this week.

[Vian]

Snowtulip wrote: "

Book: Blowout: Corrupted Democr...
Oh, how did you like that one?"

I enjoyed it. If you're interested in politics you'll really like it.

[Vian]

For the mini challenge, I'm going to read The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates.

I've had this book forever and never read it. It's not a super long read, but Bonobo is listed as a tricky animal. I know I have some other books about primates, but I need to dig through my nonfiction shelf.

I'm on vacation starting Tuesday, so I'll probably be able to up my reading.

[Eldarwen]

Oh, that's fantastic, Vianvamp! The tricky animal and being on vacation, I mean :-)

[Eldarwen]

Snowtulip wrote: "So I think I’ll have 2 more books for this week."

Awesome!

[Eldarwen]

I'm going to try and read Can You Keep a Secret? today but I've got plans this afternoon, so it isn't likely, unless my plans are cut short a little.

I should be able to finish it tomorrow though, which isn't all too far off, and I think my next read might then be Kushiel's Dart. Though I have to see if there's an animal in there, hopefully a tricky one. If not, I'll go with something else.

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 23
Book: Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
Date Read: 20/10
Pages: 533
Sin: Sloth
Criteria:
- Color: Blue:

[Stacie]

in this book I'm reading now they refer to the school mascot

"...to our school mascot, the Ocelot of Opportunity.". (opportunity is their town/high school)

I would think this counts because the mascot is the actual animal but I wanted opinions from the team.

[Stacie]

Happy International Sloth Day!!

[Nicole]

Stacie wrote: "Happy International Sloth Day!!"

There's an actual day dedicated to them?! How cool!

[Nicole]

Completion Post, Book 24
Book: Riley's Secret by Christina Smith
Date Read: 20/10
Pages: 328
Sin: Sloth
Criteria:
- Color: Blue:

[Nicole]

Stacie wrote: "in this book I'm reading now they refer to the school mascot

"...to our school mascot, the Ocelot of Opportunity.". (opportunity is their town/high school)

I would think this counts because the m..."

I don't think it would count because it's referring to a mascot and not it being an actual animal.

[Nicole]

That's it for me for week 2. Will definitely spend the coming week reading bigger books.

Did we meet our target for week 2 in terms of books read?

[Stacie]

oh you're right Nicole, thanks.

[Melindam]

Nicole wrote: "Stacie wrote: "in this book I'm reading now they refer to the school mascot

"...to our school mascot, the Ocelot of Opportunity.". (opportunity is their town/high school)

I would think this count..."

This is my understanding as well. It is not an actual animal, so it doesn't count.

[Stacie]

I have a book finished but I'm out for a bit so I'm not sure I'll get it posted in time for week 2 cutoff

[Melindam]

No problem, Stacie.

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST:

(audiobook)
Pages: 266
Date read: 20 Oct
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: MPG Contemporary

Plus checking in for week 2.

[Melindam]

Ladies!

Awesome reading this week. :)

So far we've read excatly 38 books for week 2.
(Week 1 was 35 books - sorry for messing that up a bit in my earlier post)

7 more are allowed before we hit the penalisation zone.

We have a little less than 3 hours to go.

COUNTDOWN

[Stacie]

Completion Post

10/20
4 stars
Pages: 336
Sin: Envy
How it fits: MPG Young Adult
Alternate: Vanity
How it fits: MPG Contemporary
BOM: No
Bingo: No

[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

Wilder Girls


Rating: 2.5 stars
Date Read: 10/20/19
Pages: 353
Sin: Envy
Criteria: Green cover, Young adult, BOTM members
Sin Bingo: Yes
BOM: Yes

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Eldarwen]

Well, I spent way more time out of the house than I thought haha, so I will definitely not finish my book in the next two hours. I should however be done with it tomorrow.

Sucks though that I've once again not been able to read my second book for the week.

Good thing we have some power readers on the team who can pick up the slack. THANK YOU!! for that :-))

[Snowtulip]

Completion Post

The Only One


Rating: 3 stars
Date Read: 10/20/19
Pages: 140
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: Contemporary
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N

That's my last book for this week :)

[Joy]

I think Watership Down also has cats and dogs in it. It is a pretty high page count book, but if I get through it I might also try to add something from the Redwall series.

Also, as far as counting animals, I think the school mascot works per this rule: "Find as many animals as you can either on the cover, in the title or in the text of the books you are reading. The reference to the animal within the text of the book needs to be to the actual animal and not an expression such as "lazy like a sloth", for example. The animal can be real or imaginary (e.g. a teddy bear, picture of a moose)."

Wouldn't the ocelot count as imaginary, but actually referring to the actual animal and not a figure of speech?

[Stacie]

I already reported the book as read so it doesn't matter for this case but it's a good question!

[Eldarwen]

That is indeed a good question.
I guess it depends on whether the mascot is a teddy bear or a costume as that would make all the difference in this case. Sometimes there's also an actual animal - or so I've seen in movies.

[Sammy]

Dear E, you (and whomever else feels so inclined) are hereby cordially invited to come along and drool join the fun on the team Lust thread... ;)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Eldarwen]

Now, with such a cordial invitation I just have to go look because I know it'll be good :-D

[Stacie]

Should we list all the animals we find in our books or just one?

[Stacie]

Completion Post

10/20
3 stars
384 pages
Sin: Lust
How it fits: guilty pleasures on tags, also lusty cover and color
Bingo: Yes
BOM: No

Animals:

Location 209-210 "..if you're carrying a hedgehog or a rat..."
Location 229-230 "...brush over the horse's shining flanks."
Location 383-384 "...trying to teach tricks to Beatrix's pet squirrel."
Location 932 "...a muster of peacocks..."
Location 924 "...knot of toads..."
Location 924: "...colony of penguins..."
Location 978: "...rumpus of baboons..."
Location 1333: "...slithery body of a ferret..."

[Snowtulip]

Stacie wrote: "Completion Post

10/20
3 stars
384 pages
Sin: Lust
How it fits: guilty pleasures on tags, also lusty cover and color
Bingo: Yes
BOM: No

Animals:

Location 2..."

Bingo and lots of animals...SCORE!

[Joy]

I think you can only count books either for bingo or for animals, so I think it makes more sense to count it as a bingo right?

[Snowtulip]

I'll definately be reading books that have the following:

cassowary
kingfisher
honey bee