The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Team 19

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Madelyn wrote: "Task #5: Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task.
Book/cover link: Better Than Good by Lane Hayes
Page numbers with source..."

Remember we are using the Kindle first edition for the page count, please correct. 😊

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task:

31. Read 4 books written by a male author.

Please provide a link to the author page in your qualification.

[Becky]

FYI: a couple of the male authors in my TBR don't have any info on their author pages, so I asked over in the Q&A thread if we could use an alternate link, like an Amazon bio or the author's website. Just in case anyone else has the same problem. I'll let you know when MKat answers.

If you've got a suggestion for a male author who has filled in his author page on GR, let me know! I have a couple books by T.J. Klune, but I'm trying to hold him in reserve in case we get the RRRC author of the month task. (As of the start of the challenge, T.J. was the only m/m author of the month so far for 2020.)

ETA: The two authors I'm thinking about without GR bios are Aiden Bates and Rosalind Abel, which is a pen name for Brandon Witt.

[Becky]

MKat said yes to Amazon bios or author websites for those who don't have anything on their GR author page.

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Male m/m authors:

Nathan Burgoine
E. Davies
Max Walker
Sean Michaels
Andrew Grey
Sean Kennedy
Jay Northcote
Wade lake
Scott Thomas
Marshall Thornton
Tal Bauer
Devin McCormack
Alexis Hall
Aleksandr Voinov
Nick Wilgus
Hank Edwards
Dan Skinner
Bruce Rose
Edward Kendrick
Stephen Osborne
Jake C. Wallace
Ethan Day
Ethan Stone
Eric Arvin
Jamie Fessenden
Matthew Metzger
Geoffrey Knight
Killian Brewer
Rhys Lawless
Brent Hartinger
Brad Vance
Brad Boney
Jerry Cole
Cole McCade

[Becky]

UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "Male m/m authors:

Nathan Burgoine
E. Davies
Max Walker
Sean Michaels
Andrew Grey
Sean Kennedy
Jay Northcote
Wade lake
Scott Thomas
Marshall Thornton
Tal Bauer
Devin McCormack
Alexis Hall
Aleksandr..."

Thanks! I'm familiar with some of these (including a couple that I thought were female authors writing with male pen names, so that's good to know!), but there are some new names on here I'll have to check out. I don't hangout online with the m/m folks as much as I used to, and I looked up about a year ago and realized I hardly recognize any of the players anymore.

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

I did some quick digging before I posted the list, and I think they're all male. A couple are FTM transgender, like Jay Northcote and Matthew Metzger, but that's male in my book.
We had this category called in Bingo a week ago, so I took a quick look, and there were s couple of (fairly) big names I forgot, and a couple I didn't know about.

Jay Bell
Kade Boehme
J.b. Sanders
Chace Potter
Roe Horvat

[Becky]

Oh, no. I definitely meant women who use a male pen name. (And those were sort of general impressions about authors I don't know much about, so I'm sure you're right.) Trans men are men.

Which reminds me, I discovered the other day that Jordan L. Hawk has come out as a trans man, so he would work for this task too. (I just don't have anything of his that I haven't read yet, so he wasn't on my radar for this one, but I remember you mentioning the SPECTR series a few weeks back.)

[Madelyn]

Task 6: Read 4 books written by a male author
Book: Summer Heat by Jay Northcote
Pages: 205 Kindle edition
How book qualifies: male author https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Date Completed: 5/18/2020

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Task 6: read 4 books written by a male author
Book: My Hero
Pages: 262 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
How it qualifies: male author https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Date Completed: 5/17/'20

[Becky]

Task #6: Read 4 books written by a male author
Book/cover link: Accidental Pregnancy by Aiden Bates
Page numbers with source: 204 pages, per 1st Kindle edition
How book qualified: author is male https://smile.amazon.com/Aiden-Bates/...
Date Completed: 5/18/20

[Emeli]

Task #6: Read 4 books written by a male author

256 pages per goodreads
Male author
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Finished 21/5

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task:

6. Each player reads a book by a new to you author - no pass for this task.

You can have other books by your new to you author on your shelves, but only the one you select for this task can be marked as read. Please provide a link to your read shelf in your completion post, this is how I will be confirming your books. 😊

[Madelyn]

Task #7: Each player reads a book by a new to you author - no pass for this task.
Book/cover link: Mages & Mechanisms by Devin Harnois
Page numbers with source: 187 pages, per Kindle edition
How book qualified: author is new to me https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... Completed: 5/24/2020

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Task 7: read a new to you author

On a Lee Shore
Pages: 289 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Qualifies: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Completed: May 24/'20

[Becky]

Task #7: read a book by a new to you author
Book/cover link: New Orleans Rush by Kelly Siskind
Page numbers with source: 285 pages, per 1st Kindle edition https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
How book qualified: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Date Completed: 5/25/20

[Emeli]

Completion Task 7: read a new to you author

220 pages per amazon
Finished 24/5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task:

14. Read 4 books with fewer than 500 reviews.

You can find the number of reviews on the main book page. Use that number in your qualification.

[Madelyn]

Task #8: Read 4 books with fewer than 500 reviews
Book/cover link: What Happens at Christmas
Page numbers with source: 152 pages Kindle edition
How book qualified: 382 reviews
Date Completed: 5/28/20

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Task 8: read 4 books with fewer than 500 ratings

Best New Artist
Pages: 204 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Qualifies: 77 ratings
Completed: May 29/‘20

[Becky]

Task #8: Read 4 books with fewer than 500 reviews
Book/cover link: Tomb of the God King by Julia Talbot
Page numbers with source: 252 pages, per 1st Kindle edition (August 13, 2012) https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
How book qualified: 11 reviews
Date Completed: 5/30/20

[Emeli]

Task #8: Read 4 books with fewer than 500 reviews
Completion

280 pages per goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
24 ratings
Finished 1/6

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task:

48. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters.

For this task I will be looking for 'shifter' or 'were-something' to qualify your book. Don't forget to let me know how you know your book qualifies! Is it in the title or precis? On a list? Tagged? I need to know where to look to qualify your book. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.

[Madelyn]

Task #9: Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters.
Book/cover link: His Omega
Page numbers with source: 186 per Kindle edition
How book qualified: main characters are wolf shifters https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Completed: 6/2/20

[Madelyn]

We can do it! We have time to complete this task, and maybe another!

[Becky]

Things have really been getting to me this week, and my coping mechanism has been to reread the same couple books over and over. I'll try to break that cycle and read something that fits this challenge tomorrow. Starting Sunday, everyone gets the same task, and then it's an all-you-can-read dash to the end. I'd like to get in on that if we can. Those are always fun.

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Task 9: Shifters

Longing for Shelter
Pages: 318 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Qualifies: tagged as "paranormal-shapeshifter" on main page
Completed: June 5/'20

[UnusualChild{beppy}]

Sorry that things aren't going well, Becky. I know all about wanting to get lost in the familiar. Do any of your favourites have shifters? Just an idea if you don't want to venture into unknown territory, since that can sometimes go terribly awry.

[Becky]

That's not a bad idea. I've got something new that fits the task, and I've been looking at it all week and thinking, "I really want to read you, but...." I hadn't considered looking for something else. And I guess I've been hoping I would shake this mood and want to try something new.

[Becky]

Task #9: Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters
Book/cover link: Mating the Omega by Ann-Katrin Byrde
Page numbers with source: 170 pages, per 1st Kindle edition https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
How book qualified: MPG shapeshifters
Date Completed: 6/7/20

[Madelyn]

Good game guys!

[Becky]

You too! The inaugural round of a new game is always interesting.