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[Bookworm_gem]

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Good Girl, Bad Blood

spreadsheet updated

[Judy]

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Title: Dear Martin
Author: Nic Stone
Pages: 240
Date read: 20 July
Letters: N, S (author), E, R (Emmanuel Rivers)
Task: 109 - epistolary style
BOM:
DQ 1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ 2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ 3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ 4 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Maddy]

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Title: Seer
Author: Erin M. Leaf
Pages: 194
Date read: 7/20
Letters: S - title, E -author, N - character Nick Auspex, G - Guy Keaton
Tag: No
Task: 135 Read a book with a one word title
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Judy]

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Title: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Author: Roxane Gay
Pages: 307
Date read: 20 July
Letters: R, G (author)
Task: 69 - MPG Memoir

[Ora]

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Title: Six of Crows
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Pages: 465
Date read: Jul 20
Letters:
S title
N character Nina
R narrator Brandon Rubin
K character Kaz
L author
I character Inej
Tag: None
Task: Read a book recommended by someone in your team

[Maddy]

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Title: Odd Hours
Author: Dean Koontz
Pages: 416
Date read: 7/20
Letters: O - title, K - author
Tag: No
Task: 149 Read a book written in first person point of view
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Maddy]

cityscape?

[Maddy]

Also. Bird on cover. Can it be more than 1 bird?

[Judy]

Yes from me on both counts :)

[Maddy]

Lovely :)
Can't promise I will get them all, but I will certainly try :D
And sorry, but no Eliza this week either. Just don't feel in the mood for mental issues book ...

[Maddy]

Hey Ora, how did you like Kaz? :)

[Colleen]

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Title: The Book of Longings
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Pages: 416
Date read: 7/20
Letters: S & K - author
Tag: No?
Task: Read a book set in the past
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Ali]

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Red at the Bone

Spreadsheet updated

[Ora]

Maddy wrote: "Hey Ora, how did you like Kaz? :)"

I love Kaz!!!! I still need to read Smoke and Bone. Probably have a better understanding of the griesha and what happened before.

[Maddy]

I haven't read the trilogy either, just started with Crows and wow. I like them all, but Kaz is definitely a favorite and Inej is close second. Will you read Smoke and Bone too?

[Ora]

Yes. Not quite sure if I will before end of this challenge.

[Judy]

I also went Six of Crows first before going back to read Shadow & Bone. It worked, but reading the first trilogy definitely gave me a lot better understanding of the world - and made rereading SoC a lot of fun.

[Maddy]

I haven't decided about the Shadow and bone, but if it is anything like crows, then I will probably like it :D
Fingers crossed we get a good word next week and can use them :D

[Judy]

It's definitely not as good and not as dark as SoC, but I still thought it was a very solid and enjoyable YA fantasy and I absolutely love the world. And if you want to go on with the new series, King of Scars, you definitely need the info from S&B.

[Jackie]

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Title: The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Author: Nancy Pickard
Pages: 320
Date read: 7/20
Letters: S, N, L, R
Tag: No
Task: Read a book that takes place in two timelines - 2009 and 1986

Planning sheet updated

[Jackie]

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Title:
Author: Martha Carr
Pages: 270
Date read: 7/21
Letters: G, L, R, E
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a cityscape on the cover

Planning sheet updated

[Annalisa]

I read Shadow and Bone shortly after it was released and I’ve been avoiding the author since. I didn’t dislike the book but I also didn’t like it enough to continue the series. Maybe I should give her another try.

[Melindam]

That series has been on my radar as a "might-try-it-some-day", but I have not read anything by L.B. yet.

While I love the Fantasy genre in general, YA fantasy is strongly a hit-or-miss category for me and based on the reviews of my GR friends I am not sure it's my kinda book. :) But I might still give it a try ...

[Devann]

i think shadow and bone is more 'classic' YA with like more of a focus on romance and a not-really-but-kind-of-almost love triangle but six of crows is really good and you don't need to read the original trilogy to enjoy it. i really loved king of scars as well but unfortunately you *do* need to read the grisha trilogy for that. i do enjoy the grisha trilogy for what it is but there's definitely a lot of places where it doesn't necessarily 'break the mold' of YA imo.

[Judy]

Devann wrote: "i think shadow and bone is more 'classic' YA with like more of a focus on romance and a not-really-but-kind-of-almost love triangle but six of crows is really good and you don't need to read the or..."

Yes to all of that!

[Annalisa]

And now I remember why I didn’t care for Shadow and Bone. Love triangles make me feel a little crazy if they aren’t very very well done and I didn’t think this one was. I read it in 2013 so it was a long time ago.

[Maddy]

Devann wrote: "i think shadow and bone is more 'classic' YA with like more of a focus on romance and a not-really-but-kind-of-almost love triangle but six of crows is really good and you don't need to read the or..."

I totally agree. Shadow and bone sounds too cliche YA Fantasy, but Six of crows is just something else.

[Ora]

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Title: Crooked Kingdom
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Pages: 536
Date read: Jul 21
Letters:
S character Speck
N character Nina
R character Retvenko
K character Kaz
E narrator Elizabeth Evans
L author
I character Inej
character Genya
Tag: None
Task: Read a book with multiple points of view

[Jackie]

Just want to confirm that on other teams' recommendations, if they say they recommend the whole series or any book by a certain author, then we can read any book in the series or books by that author.

[Melindam]

Jackie wrote: "Just want to confirm that on other teams' recommendations, if they say they recommend the whole series or any book by a certain author, then we can read any book in the series or books by that author."

Correct, Jackie. If it's such a vague recommendation, then we have lots of leeway.

[Jackie]

Great, thanks!

[Maddy]

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Title: Snake Snack
Author: Lisa Oliver
Pages: 421
Date read: 7/21
Letters: S - title, O - author, R - character Ra, L - character Liam, G - character Gus, E - character Ella
Tag: No
Task: 19 Read a book with an animal word in the title (e.g. cat / chicken / egg / etc)
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Ora]

I'm not sure if this is pushing it for road trip, does the mode of transportation have to be a car or can it take place in space going to planets? I just remembered the constellation sereis that features AI (hate to say robots because Abel is so much more, but there are other robots only doing what they are programmed to do) and wanted to know if an unintentional road trip counts. Can't remember all the details since it's been a while since I read the series, but after Noemi and Abel find themselves as unwilling allies and wind up going to a "pleasure planet" then have to go to two other planets before going to Earth. I think they make it to Earth in the first book.

If you haven't read the series and like SF dystopian books, it's a MUST read.

[Melindam]

Ora, I really like the idea of an interstellar road trip, but I think it's something that we may need to run by the captains' group to see if this would be accepted.

[Ora]

K. Thanks!!

[Judy]

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Title: The Weight of the Stars
Author: K. Ancrum
Pages: 384
Date read: 21 July
Letters: K - author, R - Ryann character, S - Shannon character
Task: 141 - MPG Sci-Fi

Planning spreadsheet updated

[Maddy]

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Title: Crooked Kingdom
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Pages: 546
Date read: 7/21
Letters: L - author, K - character Kaz, G or S - character Genya Safin, I or G - character Inej Ghafa, E - character Wylan Van Eck, N - character Nina Zenik
Tag: No
Task: 42 Read a book with a map
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Jackie]

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Title:
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Pages: 383
Date read: 7/21
Letters: S, G, K, R, E
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a bird on the cover

Planning sheet updated

[Annalisa]

Jackie wrote: "Completion Post

Title:
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Pages: 383
Date read: 7/21
Letters: S, G, K, R, E
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a bird on the cov..."

How did you like it? This book has been on my TBR for a while and I keep wondering about it and the author.

[Annalisa]

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Book:
Date: July 21

Updated the planning sheet.

[Jackie]

Annalisa wrote: "Jackie wrote: "Completion Post

Title:
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Pages: 383
Date read: 7/21
Letters: S, G, K, R, E
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a ..."

I gave it 3 stars. The writing is good but it just didn't grab me. I know it's fantasy but the characters' actions were just so unrealistic that it really bugged me. I'll probably read the next book though (view spoiler)[because it ended with one of the MCs in a terrible situation. (hide spoiler)] I'm hopeful that I'll like the next one more.

[Ali]

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Empire of Sand

Spreadsheet updated

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST:

Miss Marjoribanks

The Thirteenth House

Dark Moon Defender

Hester - A story of Contemporary Life - Complete Volume

Planning Sheet updated

[Judy]

Our new word is out.... it's BARBEQUE!

The tags for this round will be:
- Switzerland
- Mountain
- Freedom
- Breathing
- Winter

[Melindam]

Well, I am hungry after so much exercise and snorkelling. 😂

[Judy]

We definitely deserve some food after all that!

But all those Bs... and the Q... and the U... whew!

[Melindam]

Judy wrote: "We definitely deserve some food after all that!

But all those Bs... and the Q... and the U... whew!"

I definitely have 4 U books and one Q saved precisely for such a word. :)

[Jackie]

Maybe time for some Julia Quinn. :)

[Melindam]

I can recommend some U/Q books, if you like classics and fantasy.

Q
Barchester Towers - character Mr Quiverful
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

U
Unquiet Land though this is a 4th book of a series
The Custom of the Country - character Undine
Phoebe Junior - character Ursula

[Melindam]

Jackie wrote: "Maybe time for some Julia Quinn. :)"

👍😊