The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Amazing Aces (15)

[SandyL]

I'm reading The Werewolf Meets His Match - 356 pages

[Amanda A]

I plan to read Things in Jars (416 pages).

[SandyL]

Completion Post

85. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books tagged 'magic' or 'magical'.
Book: The Werewolf Meets His Match
Author: Kristen Painter
Pages: 356
Qualification: Tagged "magic" 23x
Read: 5/6/20

**356/1200 pages**

[Navi]

Completion Post

Task: 85. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books tagged 'magic' or 'magical'.
Book: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Pages: 177
How it works: Tagged "magic" 80x
Read: 5/7

**533/1200 pages**

[Tammie]

Completed

Task: 85. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books tagged 'magic' or 'magical'.
Bitterblue, Kristen Cashore
539 pgs
Qualification: Tagged ‘magic’ on pg 1, x283
Read: 5/7

**1072/1200 pages**

[Amanda A]

Completion

Task: 85. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books tagged 'magic' or 'magical'.
Book: Things in Jars
Page numbers: 416
How book qualified: Tagged magic 7 times
Date Completed: 5/7

1,418/1,200 pages

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is Task 12:

86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which.

Decide on which and include in your qualification. Please show the cover in you completion post. You can use any edition cover, but please use the English language Kindle first edition for your page count.

[Tammie]

Hmmm...I guess there’s more than 75 tasks...

Going through my personal kindle library for shorter books, this is what I have so far:

Airplane
...I read this one so it would be a reread for me, but it’s a good suspense...still free on ku
...I got this when it was free...no longer but you may have in your tbr

Car
...free ku
...used to be free ku...I read, pretty good
...I’ve read...this edition has a truck on cover but it’s less than 150 pgs...the 1st edition has more than

Boat


Anyone have short ku to rec that would support this task?
What’s are your choices in order of preference?

[Tammie]

I’m tied for car or plane...prefer no boat unless someone has a rec for short ku boat
I've found several options for boats...so now I have no preference...all a tie for me.
Someone please decide.

[Navi]

I’ve just started reading from ku so unfortunately I don’t have any recommendations. My order of preference: cars, planes, boats

[Amanda A]

I am fine with any of them. Car might be the easiest to find.

[SandyL]

I’m also fine with any of them but agree with Amanda that car is easiest to find

[Tammie]

...will look and start reading unless someone messages back that they've found something they realllly want to read instead. Should we say by 1.5 hrs from now that if someone hasn't messaged here that we are reading for cars?

[Tammie]

I found trying to find something that also works for PtP challenge.
It's not KU, but I found at my library, on Hoopla and free on Audible Escape. Story looks good. Am continuing to look...

[SandyL]

I found - it's on Audible Escape, but not KU. It looks like you've already read it, though, Tammie. I'm still looking as well.

[Tammie]

SandyL wrote: "I found - it's on Audible Escape, but not KU. It looks like you've already read it, though, Tammie. I'm still looking as well."

Yes...this series is pretty good...fast read and several cars...I've read the entire series. A good choice is you like alpha romance.

[Tammie]

I like the narrator Andi Arndt quite well...I just found this one on Audible Escape... ...car in background...you can't see it on the kindle version. If I read, I think I'll need to ask to make sure it's ok to use

[Amanda A]

I am going with . It is on KU and Audible Escape. I am looking for a second book as well.

[Navi]

I’ll be reading !

[Tammie]

Completion

86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which -- CAR

Breaking Travis, Jill Sanders
250 pgs
Qualification: Car on cover
Read: 5/9

[Navi]

Changed my book to reread an old favourite!

Completion Post
86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which -- CAR

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
482 pages
Qualification: Car on cover
Read: 5/9

[Amanda A]

Completion

Task: 86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. {Car}
Book: Test Drive
Page numbers: 384
How book qualified: Car on the cover

Date Completed: 5/9

[Amanda A]

Completion

Task: 86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. {Car}
Book: Moment of Truth
Page numbers: 352
How book qualified: Car on the cover

Date Completed: 5/9

[Tammie]

Completion

86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which -- CAR

Roping Ryan, Jill Sanders
275 pgs
Qualification: Car on cover
Read: 5/9

[SandyL]

Completion Post

Task: 86. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. {Car}
Book: Jacked Up
Author: Erin McCarthy
Pages: 320
Qualification: car on cover

Read: 5/9/20

**books completed 5/6**

[SandyL]

Tammie or Navi - are either of you reading a second book or should I find one? Thanks!

[Amanda A]

SandyL wrote: "Tammie or Navi - are either of you reading a second book or should I find one? Thanks!"

Tammie read a second book.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is lucky Task 13:

59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.

For this task, use the initial publication date for your books. Choose the birth decade of one teammate and everyone reads a book initially published in that decade.

[Amanda A]

The options for this task were 60's, 80's and 90's. Will the 90's still work for everyone?

[SandyL]

Yes, that would be my choice

[Tammie]

That works

[Navi]

Sounds good to me!

[Navi]

I’ll be reading Interpreter of Maladies

[Tammie]

Completed
59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.

Only His
Qualification: Pub July, 1991 -> Only His - 90s = decade of Navi's birth
400 pages
Read: 5/11

[Amanda A]

Completion

Task: 59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.
Book: A Little Bit Country
Page numbers: 192
How book qualified: First published in 1990 - Navi was born in the 1990's
Date Completed: 5/11

[SandyL]

Completion Post

Task: 59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.
Book: Ravished
Author: Amanda Quick
Pages: 418
Qualification: Originally published in 1992; Navi was born in the '90's
Date read: 5/11/20

[Navi]

Completion Post

Task: 59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.
Book: Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Pages: 209
Qualification: Originally published in 1999; I was born in the '90's
Date read: 5/11/20

[Amanda A]

Navi wrote: "Completion Post

Task: 59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.
Book: Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Pag..."

Navi, please change your book link and page count to this Kindle edition. Interpreter of Maladies

[Amanda A]

SandyL wrote: "Completion Post

Task: 59. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate.
Book: Ravished
Author: Amanda Quick
Pages: 385
Qual..."

Sandy, please change your book link and page count to this Kindle edition. Ravished

[SandyL]

Done - sorry!

[Navi]

Hi everyone. Unfortunately, my job has become more demanding in the past few days and I expect that it will continue to stay this way for the near future. I don't think I will be able to participate to the best of my ability. I would like to withdraw from this challenge. I will wait until we can find a replacement player to sub in. I will be fully committed until we find someone that can replace me. I'm so sorry about this but there is only so much energy I can devote to reading at this time :(

[Tammie]

Navi wrote: "Hi everyone. Unfortunately, my job has become more demanding in the past few days and I expect that it will continue to stay this way for the near future. I don't think I will be able to participat..."

Navi...I'll hate not having you on our team! I will leave MK a message...hopefully she can replace you quickly.

[Navi]

Tammie wrote: "Navi...I'll hate not having you on our team! I will leave MK a message...hopefully she can replace you quickly."

I'm so sad about it, Tammie! This is such a fun reading challenge :( But if no one is willing to step in, I'll definitely continue reading for the tasks!

[Amanda A]

Navi wrote: "Hi everyone. Unfortunately, my job has become more demanding in the past few days and I expect that it will continue to stay this way for the near future. I don't think I will be able to participat..."

I'm so sorry to hear this, Navi! I understand and hope things settle down for you soon.

[SandyL]

I'm sorry to see you go Navi, but I completely understand. I also want to thank you for saying something - too frequently in these challenges people just disappear, so I appreciate you letting us know. I hope things calm down at work for you!

[Tammie]

Amanda and Sandy...not sure if we'll get a replacement, but thought I'd do a bit of updating on tasks to go. I noticed there are more tasks than what are posted...added those I could surmise to post 16 -> https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Included in those, I added those that we'll need to make decisions for...updated that list too...post 37 -> https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Tammie]

Tammie's List:
53. Each teammate reads a different book by the same author, no pass for this task
This is basically the same as #1. Which author do we want to go with? favorites I have on my list: Jaci Burton, J.D. Robb (these can be longer), ok with L.J. Shen again too

58. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books published in any one year prior to 2018, team picks the year--2016 would be my top, but I can do whatever

60. Read 6 books set on a beach or in the mountains, teams decide which...we tied when we polled this one. 6 books...what do you all think? I have no pref

63. Read over 1000 pages in books that start with the same letter (no articles), teams decide letter. NO ARTICLES...thoughts...maybe decide this one IF we get it. Current my most common on tbr is A, I, U

67. Read 6 books with a specific item on the cover, team selects item. shirt-pants-dress? Do you think we could get away with something as simple as 'clothing'?...maybe we can decide if we have to be specific IF we get this task

68. Read a minimum of 1000 pages in books written by an author whose first or last name begins with the first letter of a teammate's screen name. I'm thinking 'S' for Sandy is going to be the easiest...thoughts?

More tasks:
89. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. No pass for this task. 1960 - 60

91. Read 6 books not set in a continent of any teammate ? Australia or Europe

93. Read 6 books published in sequential years, teams decide years
13-18 OR 14-19 OR 15-20

94. As a team, select an animal. Read 8 books tagged with that animal - tied horses or dogs, cats my 3rd choice

98. Each teammate lists 5 favorite books. Select books from 2 teammates and read them...should we try and keep these shorter books? I just read 'same book in a series is OK'. Thoughts on these lists?

I'll compile and update our posts for decisions for easy ref

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Hi all, first let's address that I have you complete for Task 13!

Now as for a replacement player. I do not have a back up list and have not been replacing teammates for teams, just adjusting the tasks as necessary. So, as I see it the options are:

1. Things continue as normal knowing that Navi has one pass available to her if work gets too demanding.

OR

2. Navi removes herself from the team and the rest of you go forward as a team of three.

Let me know how you wish to proceed. I will assign the next task so you can go forward either way.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is Task 14:

64. Each teammate reads a book from a teammate's to-read shelf.

The books you choose need to be unread, on the teammate's to-read shelf and unrated.

[Tammie]

MountainKat wrote: "Hi all, first let's address that I have you complete for Task 13!

Now as for a replacement player. I do not have a back up list and have not been replacing teammates for teams, just adjusting the ..."

I guess this is really up to Navi right? I'm gathering from her message she would prefer to be removed...