The Amazing Race Reporting Thread

[Beth]

Completion Post Week Five
Team Five -- The Fifth Wheel

Team Member: Jen
Book and Author: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Pages: 430
Date read: 8/17/21
Task: Location: Tataouine - read a book NOT set on Earth
How it Fits: Book is set on Luna (the moon) and in space

Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
Date Read 8/15
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 336
Task: Transportation: MC rides in a truck
How it fits: First scene of book is Lizbeth and her crew loading up a truck to make a run

Team Member: Loriidae
Book: A Merciful Promise
Author: Kendra Elliot
Pages: 330
Date Read: August 16
Rating: ★★★★
Task: Mission: use a walkie talkie to locate the radio's counterpart - listen to an audio book
How it fits: audio 8 hours

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Córdova
Date Read: 8/13
Rating: 💛💛💛🖤🖤
Pages: 320
Task: Roadblock: read a book published in a even numbered year
How It Fits: My edition was published September 22nd 2020

Team Member (FIFTH READER) : DeeDee
Book and Author: The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray
Date Finished Reading: 8/15
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 250
FIFTH READER: Task: Roadblock: read a book published in a even numbered year
How It Fits: Published in July 2008

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 5 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: Slow Curve on the Coquihalla by R.E. Donald
Date Read: 8/13
Rating: 3*
Page #: 350 (paper edition - ebook has no page #)
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC rides in a truck
How It Fits: MC is a former Mountie turned trucker and spends most of his day on the road in an 18-wheeler with a 350 horse power rig called The Blue Knight

Team Member: Steph (Free Choice)
Book and Author: Feed by M.T. Anderson
Date Read: 8/17
Rating: 3*
Page #: 300
Task: Roadblock: read a book published in a even numbered year (must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: Published 2012

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray
Date Read: 8/15
Rating: 4*
Page #: 481
Task: Location: read a book NOT set on Earth
How It Fits: the book takes place in the same galaxy as Earth occupies but in space and on other planets. The main character’s planet , Genesis, is at war with Earth. The main action takes place on Genesis and another planet, Haven.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: A Ruthless Proposition by Natasha Anders
Date Read: 8/16
Rating: 3*
Page #: 328
Task: Mission: listen to an audio book
How It Fits: This was a Kindle Unlimited read & listen edition. I just listened to the audiobook.

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: Remembering Him by Lucia Ashta
Date Read: 8/14
Rating: 4*
Page #: 255
Task: Roadblock: read a book published in a even numbered year (must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: Published 07/10/2020

[Jammin Jenny]

Week Five Check in Post
Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Location: Tataouine (the Star Wars set in Tunisia) - read a book NOT set on Earth
Team member: Michelle
Book and Author: Obsidio by Amie Kaufman
Date Read: 8/17/21
Rating: 5 Stars
Pages: 618
Task: Location - read a book NOT set on Earth
How It Fits: Set in Space and on the planet Kerenza IV

Transportation: read a book where the MC rides in a truck
Team member: Rosina
Book: Adam by Jennifer Ashley
Read: August 14 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 237
How It Fits: Transportation: read a book where the MC rides in a truck - @2% Adam is helped out of the truck.
"Adam the MC has been injured and was transported home and his brothers helped him out of the truck."


Mission: use a walkie talkie to locate the radio's counterpart - listen to an audio book
Team member Jammin Jenny
Book and Author: Coconut Layer Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #25) by Joanne Fluke by Joanne Fluke
Date Read: Aug 13
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 352
How it fits: This is an audiobook

Roadblock: ride a camel (a camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus) read a book published in a even numbered year (must be the version you read)
Team member Kathy D
Portrait in Death (reread), J.D. Robb – 8/13/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 372 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ Audible audiobook published May 2008

Free Choice - Roadblock - book published in an even year
Team member Wanda
Book and Author: The Mischief of the Mistletoe-Lauren Willig
Date Read: 8/14
Rating: 💜💜💜💜💜
Pages: 340
How it fits: The book was published October 28, 2010

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Roadblock for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Five:
Team 1 - 25 points
Team 2 - 25 points
Team 3 - 25 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 25 points
Team 6 - 20 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 115 points
Team 2 - 110 points
Team 3 - 105 points
Team 4 - 110 points
Team 5 - 115 points
Team 6 - 100 points
Team 7 - 105 points
Team 8 - 105 points

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 6 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: A Match of Wits by Jen Turano
Date Read: 8/22
Rating: 3*
Page #: 352
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits: MCs travel by train from Colorado Springs to New York City

Team Member: Steph
Book and Author: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Date Read: 8/19
Rating: 5*
Page #: 188
Task: Mission (Foot): read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
How It Fits: There are 13 books in series

Team Member: Emma (Free Choice)
Book and Author: White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
Date Read: 8/22
Rating: 4*
Page #: 320
Task: Roadblock: read a book that is published in more than one language
How It Fits: published in Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Danish, Estonian, French, as well as English.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
Date Read: 8/19
Rating: 5*
Page #: 365
Task: Roadblock: read a book that is published in more than one language
How It Fits: Published in more than one language: English, Spanish, Italian, German, etc..

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: The Italian Duke's Wife by Penny Jordan
Date Read: 8/21
Rating: 4*
Page #: 187
Task: Location: read a book set in Italy
How It Fits: Book set in Italy

[Jammin Jenny]

Week Six Check in Post
Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
Team member: Rosina
Book: Inferno by Dan Brown
Date Read August 23 2021
Rating 4 stars
Pages 611
How it fits: setting is Florence & Venice Italy

Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
Team member: Jammin Jenny
Book and Author: Two Days in Caracas by Luana Ehrlich
Date Read: 8/23/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 377
How it fits: the CIA agent flies from Langley to Costa Rica

Mission: a) Foot - read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)

Team member Kathy D
Imitation in Death (reread), J.D. Robb– 8/18/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 356 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ #17 in a 52+–book series

Roadblock: read a book that is published in more than one language
Team member Michelle
Book and Author: Scourged by Kevin Hearne
Date Read: 8/23/21
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 268.
How It Fits: Book is also published in Polish

Free Choice - Mission a) Foot - read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
Team member Wanda
Book: Prince of Time-Sarah Woodbury
Date Read: 8/20
Rating: 🐴🐴🐴🐴
Number of Pages: 363
How it FIts: #3 in a series of 16 Books

[Louise]

Week 6 - Check-In
Team 6 - Overbooked

Team Member:Namita
Book and Author:The Immortal Who Loved Me by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/19
Rating:4*
Pages: 353
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits:MC flew from New Yok to Canada to attend his daughter's wedding.

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author:A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon
Date Read: 20 Aug 2021
Rating:4*
Pages: 319
Task: Location: read a book set in Italy
How It Fits:Set in Venice, Italy

Team Member: Patti - Free Choice
Book and Author: The Girl in Seat 24B by Jennifer Peel
Date Read: 8/20
Rating: 3*
Pages: 225
Task: Free Choice/Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits:MCs meet on an airplane — MC Carly is sitting in seat 24B

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Date Read: 8/20
Rating:4*
Pages: 602
Task: Roadblock: drive a Smart car to the town square of Sant'Agata Bolognese using a map written entirely in Italian - read a book that is published in more than one language
How It Fits:Published in English, French, Czech

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree by Nancy Atherton
Date Read: 8/23
Rating:3*
Pages: 229
Task: Mission: This leg's Detour was a choice between Foot or Hoof
How It Fits: this book is #16 in the series

[Shelly]

RACE2READ - WEEK 6 COMPLETION POST

CILLA: LOCATION
Book and Author: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Date Read: August 22, 2021
Rating: ****
Pages: 211
Task: (Location
How It Fits: Set in Florence and Tuscany (Italy).

JANE: TRANSPORTATION
Book and Author: Fool Me Once by Mona Ingram
Date Read: 8/20-21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 180
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits: Loc 118: The train picked up speed. Olivia settled into a window seat and watched the outskirts of London ....
Loc 2508: That building we just flew over with the green roof is my home. The aircraft touched down lightly and an old army jeep speed toward the airstrip.

SHELLY - MISSION
Book and Author: The Vampire Knitting Club/Nancy Warren
Date Read: 08/19/21
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 229
Task: Mission: Foot - read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
How It Fits: 1st in a series of 13 books

ROGER - ROADBLOCK
Book & Author: Be Fairy Game by Meghan Maslow
Date Read: 8/23/2021
Rating; 5 stars
Pages: 400 pages/GR
Roadblock: read a book that is published in more than one language.
How it fits: published in English, German, and Italian


Jade aka MrsTosh - OPEN CHOICE
Book and Author: Match Made in Paradise by Barbara Dunlop
Match Made in Paradise (Paradise, Alaska, #1) by Barbara Dunlop
Date Read: August 19, 2021
Rating: ***
Pages: 320
Task: Open Choice: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits: The MC is a pilot do travels by air throughout the book

[Jen K]

Week 6 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Jen K
Book and Author: Wedding Bells at Villa Limoncello by Daisy James
Date Read: 8/21/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 214 pages
Task: Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
How it Fits: Most of book is set in Tuscany, Italy

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: An Artful Assassination by Susan Harper
Date Read: 8/23/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 143 pages
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How it Fits: MC flies to France at end of story

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: The Art of Sinning by Sabrina Jeffries
Date Read: 8/18/21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 400 pages
Task: Mission: b) Hoof - read a book where the MC rides a horse
How it Fits:: Set in the 19th century, the MCs ride horses numerous times

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Aunt Dimity Down Under by Nancy Atherton
Date Read: 8/22/21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 226 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book that is published in more than one language
How it Fits: the book is also published in German - Tante Dimity und die Geister am Ende der Welt

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: Guardian's Grace - Rebecca Zanetti
Date Read: 8/19/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 346 pages
Task: Open Choice: Mission: read a book from a series with 12 or more books
How it Fits: Dark Protectors currently has 13 published full length, 10 novellas and 1 planned publication

[Beth]

Completion Post Week Six
Team Five -- The Fifth Wheel

Team Member: lorii
Book: The Marriage Trap
Author: Jennifer Probst
Pages: 328
Date Read: Aug 24
Rating: ★★★✰✰
Task: Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
How it fits: Set in Bergamo, Italy

Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
Date Read: 8/18/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 291
Task: Transportation: MC rides a train
How It Fits: Lizbeth is on a train on the first page "It had been a long time since I was on a train, and I found I hadn't missed it a bit."

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Immortally Yours by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/23
Rating: 💛💛💛💛🖤
Pages: 304
Task: Mission A: Foot - read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
How It Fits: Book is #26/33 in the series

Team Member: Jen
Book and Author: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
Date read: 8/24/21
Pages: 504
Task: Roadblock: drive a Smart car to the town square of Sant'Agata Bolognese using a map written entirely in Italian - read a book that is published in more than one language
How it fits: According to the Arc of a Scythe wiki, the series has been published in many different languages

Team Member: DeeDee -- FIFTH READER (Location)
Book and Author: Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco #3) (1991) by Lindsey Davis
Date Finished Reading: August 24, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 275
Task: Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
How It Fits: Set entirely in Rome, Italy

[Janeylou]

TEAM 4 ..READERS .WANDERING AROUND THE WORLD
COMPLETION POST
WEEK 6

Celia
Mission - b) Hoof - read a book where the MC rides a horse
Book: The Dragon Prince (Ghostspeaker Chronicles #5) by Patty Jansen by Patty Jansen
Date read: 8/21/21
Pages: 190 Default edition
How it fits: MC rides in horse and carriage often


Janeylou
WEEK 6
Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
The Melody Thief by Shira Anthony
220 pgs
Finished 23rd August
How fits ..set in Italy ..Milan

Leslie ann
Roadblock: drive a Smart car to the town square of Sant'Agata Bolognese using a map written entirely in Italian - read a book that is published in more than one language
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Pages:442
8/22/21
This book was published in several languages

Vicki
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud
Book: I Couldn't Love You More
Author: Esther Freud
Pages: 384
Read: 8/19
How it Fits: Aoife takes the train from London to Ireland (and back again).

Christina
TASK: Mission--This leg's Detour was a choice between Foot or Hoof.
a) Foot - read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, #11) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Book: Devil May Cry
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pages: 317
Read: 8/23/21
How it fits: This is book 11 of 27 so far

[AnnMarie]

Completion Post - Week 6
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet
Date Read: 8/22
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 206
Task: Roadblock - read a book that is published in more than one language
How It Fits: Verso la rovina, Champs de ruines, Verlassen & Verloren

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: The Heart of Texas by R.J. Scott
Date Read: 8/23
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 412 
Task: Mission - b) Hoof - read a book where the MC rides a horse
How It Fits: Riley rides a horse

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Date Read: 8/23
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 178
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits: MC flies on airplane to get from England to Louisiana

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Date Read: 8/24
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 232
Task: Location: Italy - read a book set in Italy
How It Fits: Set in a castle in Portofino, Italy

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Bidding For Her Curves by Flora Ferrari
Date Read: 8/23
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 199
Task: read a book from a series with 12 or more books in it (a foot is 12 inches)
How It Fits: (A Man Who Knows What He Wants Book 208)

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Transportation for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Six:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 25 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 25 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 135 points
Team 2 - 135 points
Team 3 - 125 points
Team 4 - 130 points
Team 5 - 135 points
Team 6 - 125 points
Team 7 - 125 points
Team 8 - 125 points

[Michelle]

Week Seven Check in Post
Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Location: India- read a book set in India
Team member: Rosina
Book: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Read: August 27 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Number of pages: 312
How it fits: The sisters travel to India to spread their mother's ashes. They go to various locations.

Transportation: Transportation- MC flies on a plane
Team member: Wanda
The Choice-Ceci Giltenan
Date Read: 8/28
Rating: ⏱⏱⏱⏱
Pages: 369
How it Fits: Sara and Benedict fly from Greece to Scotland and then to New York on a private jet.

Mission: Mission - a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
Team member Michelle
Book and Author: Wildfire by Ilona Andrews
Date Read: 8/29/21
Rating: 5 Stars
Pages: 400
How it fits - wilDfIRE

Roadblock: read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
Team member - Kathy
The Beauty of Us, Kristen Proby – 8/26/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 307 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ from the précis: “Riley Gibson is over the moon at the prospect of having her restaurant, Seduction, on the Best Bites TV network.”

Free Choice - Transportation: MC flies on a plane
Team member Jenny
Book and Author: The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
Read Aug 28
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 320
How it fits: the MCs all fly on a plane from London to Portugal

[Janeylou]

Team 4
Readers wandering around the world
Check in week 7

Vicki
Task: Mission - a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
For the Love of Friends by Sara Goodman Confino
Book: For the Love of Friends
Date Read: 8/30
Pages: 364
How it fits: for the love ofRIEnDs

Celia
Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
Book: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams by Douglas Adams
Date read: 8/29/21
Pages: 167 default edition (read audio)
How it fits: Arthur and Fenchurch take an airplane from London to Los Angeles to meet Wonko the San

Leslie ann
Completion post
Week 7
Location: read a book set in India
The Case of the Missing Servant
8/29/21
Pages: 311
Set in India

Christina
Completion Post
Week 7
Roadblock: read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
Shifters in the Night (Mystic Bayou, #5) by Molly Harper
Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper
Finished 8/29/21
Pages: 300
HOW IT FITS: Jon, the Hero of our story owns his own boat repair shop

Janeylou
COMPLETION POST
WEEK 7
Location: read a book set in India
A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood by T.A. Chase
Finished 27th August
Pages 155
How fits ..set in India

[Louise]

Week 7 - Completion Team 6 - Overbooked
Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: One Minute Out by Mark Greaney
Date Read: 8/25
Rating:4*
Pages:529
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: MC flies from Treviso, Italy to Washington D.C. on a CIA transport plane

Team Member: Namita - Free Choice
Book and Author: About a Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/26
Rating: 3*
Pages:384
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits:MC travels on the plane to California


Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 4*
Pages: 389
Task: read a book set in India
How It Fits: set in Bombay, India in the 1890’s

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page
Date Read: 8/30
Rating:2*
Pages:290
Task: Roadblock: hire a rickshaw and find a shopkeeper in the Chandni Chowk market - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How It Fits: MC is a caterer

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
Date Read: 8/30
Rating: 4*
Pages: 248
Task: Mission: The teams must chose between Glide and Ride.
b) read a book with all the letters of GLIDE in the title
How It Fits: thE Dead GIrLs dance

[Jen K]

Week 7 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: Destiny's Girl - Adite Banerjie
Date Read: 8/28/21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 149 pages
Task: Location: India - read a book set in India
How it Fits: Set in India

Team Member: Jen K
Book and Author: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Date Read: 8/30/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 322 pages
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How it Fits: Roya and her sister fly to California from Iran for college. "The girls boarded the plane. And as they swerved above the city, they held each other's hands, not quite sure that they wouldn't just die." page 164

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: The Castle School for Troubled Girls by Alyssa Sheinmel
Date Read: 8/31/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 400 pages
Task: Mission: .a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
How it Fits:: ThE Castle School for TRoubleD GIrls

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: All Tied Up by Reese Morrison
Date Read: 8/28/21
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 516 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How it Fits: MCs own and operate their own Lodge/B&B

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz
Date Read: 8/29/21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 329 pages
Task: Open Choice: Mission: a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
How it Fits: all the letters of RIDE are in the title, RIvEr RoaD

[Beth]

Week 7 Report: Team Five -- The Fifth Wheel

(Oops -- I posted early. I'll update with our Roadblock in a few hours
Edited-- OK -- ready now!)

Team Member: Jen
Book: The Henna Artist
Author: Alka Joshi
Pages: 368
Date read: 8/31/21
Rating: 3 stars
Task: Location - read a book set in India
How it fits: Book takes place in India

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman #2) (2014) by Graeme Simsion
Date Finished Reading: August 30, 2021
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 341
Task: Transportation: "MC flies on an airplane"
How It Fits: MC flies from New York City in America to Melbourne in Australia (with a change of planes in Los Angeles, California)

Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Date Finished Reading: August 31, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 288
Task: Mission: b) read a book with all the letters of GLIDE in the title
How It Fits: Future Home of the Living God

Team Member: lorii
Book: Vulnerable (McIntyre Security Bodyguard #1) by April Wilson
Author: April Wilson
Pages: 440
Task: Roadblock: hire a rickshaw and find a shopkeeper in the Chandni Chowk market - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How it fits: MC: Shane McIntyre owns McIntyre security.
Date Read: Aug 31 ★★★✰✰

Team Member: Fifth READER -- Mission -- Bobbi
Book and Author: He Started It by Samantha Downing
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 💛💛💛💛🖤
Pages: 384
Task: FIFTH READER Mission A: read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
How It Fits: He StaRtED It = Ride

[Shelly]

RACE2READ WEEK 7 COMPLETION POST

Cilla - LOCATION
Book/Author: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Date Read: August 27,2021
Rating: *****
Pages: 288
Task: Location: read a book set in India
How It Fits: This book is set in India.

JANE - MISSION
Book and Author: The Revelation of Light and Dark bySawyer Bennett
Date Read: 8/28-21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 416
Task: Mission: The teams must chose between Glide and Ride. b) read a book with all the letters of GLIDE in the title
How It Fits: ThE Revelation of LIGht and Dark

JADE: TRANSPORTATION
Book and Author: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Date Read: 30th Aug
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 501
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: Bella flies from Phoenix to Washington to visit her Father.

SHELLY - ROADBLOCK
Book and Author: The Quiche and the Dead by Kirsten Weiss
Date Read: August 27,2021
Rating: 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧
Pages: 288
Task: Roadblock: Read a Book where the MC owns her own business
How It Fits: Valentine Harris is the owner of PIE TOWN, her pie shop business.

ROGER - OPEN CHOICE
Book and Author: Hostile Ground by L.A. Witt
Date read 8/28/2021
RATING: 5 stars
Pages: 302
Task: OPEN CHOICE, MISSION: How it fit must find a book with either glide or ride in title I can find both words in this title.
Rating 5 stars.

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 7 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: Cherringham - Episode 28-30 by Matthew Costello & Neil Richards
Date Read: 8/28
Rating: 3*
Page #: 312
Task: Roadblock - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How It Fits: Sarah (one of the MCs) owns a small web design company

Team Member: Steph
Book and Author: The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist
Date Read: 8/31
Rating: 2*
Page #: 320
Task: Mission a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
How It Fits: all letters of ride in title - muRDEr ... unlIkely

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 4*
Page #: 384
Task: Location: read a book set in India
How It Fits: Set in Calcutta and Sambalpore, a nation state in 1920s colonial India.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Lucky Stars by Kristen Ashley
Date Read: 8/31
Rating: 4*
Page #: 520
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: Jack (hero) pilots his plane from St. Ives to London and back whenever he has to work in London

Team Member: Maritza (Free Choice)
Book and Author: Skin by Johanna Hawke
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 3*
Page #: 325
Task: Roadblock - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How It Fits: Jesse owns his own tattoo shop

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

Team Completion Post for Adventure is Just a Page Away (Team 7)

Denise - Location
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Read 8/28
304 pages
5 stars
how it fits: takes place in India

Ira - Transportation
Book: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Pages: 361
Date read: 31/08/21
Rating: 3 stars
Task:Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How it fists: MC takes a plane to Cuba

AnnMarie - Mission
Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love by Kim Fielding
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Pages: 320
Task:Mission - b) read a book with all the letters of GLIDE in the title
How It Fits: Teddy Spenser Isn't Looking for Love

Emili - Roadblock
Roadblock: hire a rickshaw and find a shopkeeper in the Chandni Chowk market - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
Sugar and Shakedowns by Peter Styles
⭐⭐⭐⭐
148 pages
Finished 29/8
Mc luke owns a bakery

AnnMarie - Free Choice (Mission)
Fathers of the Bride by Marshall Thornton
Date Read: 8/31
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 236
Task: Mission - a) read a book with all the letters of RIDE in the title
How It Fits: Fathers of the Bride

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Transportation for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Seven:
Team 1 - 25 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 25 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 160 points
Team 2 - 155 points
Team 3 - 145 points
Team 4 - 150 points
Team 5 - 155 points
Team 6 - 150 points
Team 7 - 145 points
Team 8 - 145 points

[Michelle]

Week 8 Completion Posts - Team 1

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

team member A - Michelle
Book and Author: The Accused Dead by Rhiannon Frater
Date Read: 9/3/21
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 265
Task: Mission - read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: Ilyse is raised in a strict religious community where they believe in the lost texts, women should be pious, obedient, and live their life according to the scriptures. Women are also married by a Bridal auction.

team member B - Wanda
Book: The Girl Beneath the Sea-Andrew Mayne
Date read: 9/2
Rating: 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
Pages: 328
Task: Free Choice-Transportation-read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How it Fits: The MC lives on a houseboat and travels on different boats in her profession as diver for the police department.

team member C - Jenny
Book and Author: A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
Date Read: Sep 2
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 400
Task: Location - read a book with a mostly white cover (50+% on tineye)
How it fits: A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram, #1) by Darynda Jones tineye says it's 57.8% white

team member D - Rosina
Completion Post Week 8
Book and Author: The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb
Date Read: September 5 2021
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 368
Task: Roadblock - read a book tagged historical
How It Fits: tagged Historical 19 times

team member E - Kathy
Task 8—Transportation: main character travels by boat, bus, or taxi

You Belong With Me (The Crawfords, #4; With Me In Seattle, #14) by Kristen Proby
You Belong With Me, Kristen Proby – 9/2/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 288 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ page 62: “...we were on the boat that day…drifting around Lake Washington...”

[Shelly]

RACE2READ TEAM #2

WEEK 8 COMPLETION POST


LOCATION: SHELLY
Book and Author: Natural Thorn Killer by Kate E. Dyer-Seeley
Date Read: 09/05/21
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 320
Task: LOCATION: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover
How It Fits: Read a book with a white cover



JADE
Book and Author: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Date Read: 6th Sept
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 736
Task: MISSION: read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: Set in the heart of the Vatican with various religious characters including Father Patrick McKenna the camerlengo who takes over the temporary control of the Vatican whilst a new pope is chosen.

TRANSPORTATION: JANE
Book and Author: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Date Read: 9/2-21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 288
Task: 🧘🏼‍♀️Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: September makes her own boat and sail it. (as the title says)

ROADBLOCK: ROGER
Task: Roadblock read a book tagged historical
Book and Author: Robby Riverton: Mail Order Bride by Eli Easton
Pages: 207 pages
How it fits: MPG historical 184 times shelved
Rating: 5 stars
Date read: 9/1/2021

OPEN CHOICE: CILLA
BOOK AND AUTHOR: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/L. Frank Baum
DATE READ: 9/1/21
RATING: *****
PAGES: 154
TASK: Open Choice - chose Roadblock
HOW IT FITS: Tagged Historical

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 8 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: The Witness by Dee Henderson
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 4*
Page #: 303
Task: Mission - read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: most of the characters are Christian believers (as usual in Christian fiction)

Team Member: Amanda (Free Choice)
Book and Author: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Date Read: 9/7
Rating: 4*
Page #: 287
Task: Roadblock - read a book that is tagged 'historical'
How It Fits: Tagged historical

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: Death and Judgment by Donna Leon
Date Read: 9/3
Rating: 4*
Page #: 326
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: Inspector Brunetti from Venice uses gondola, waterbus and vaporetto to travel around the canals during the course of his investigation

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 4*
Page #: 384
Task: Roadblock - read a book that is tagged 'historical'
How It Fits: MPG Historical

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: The Switch by C.J. Cassidy
Date Read: 9/1
Rating: 5*
Page #: 142
Task: Location - read a book with a mostly white cover
How It Fits: more than 70% white cover

[Louise]

Week 8

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Date Read: 9/5
Rating: 3*
Pages: 368
Task: Roadblock: - read a book that is tagged 'historical
How It Fits: MPG Historical

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Stained by Ella James
Date Read: 4/9
Rating: 2*
Pages: 254
Task: Location: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover
How It Fits: Cover is 92.7% white according to tineye

Team Member: Patti - Free Choice
Book and Author: Trophy by Steffen Jacobsen
Date Read: 9/2
Rating: 4*
Pages: 373
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: pg 456 talking about MC Michael “From Nørrevold, he took a taxi to a specialist shop

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Warrior Fae Trapped (Warrior Fae, #1) by K.F. Breene
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 3*
Pages: 438
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: MC takes the bus to Campus - Pg. 6

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: The Body in the Kelp by Katherine Hall Page
Date Read: 9/6
Rating: 3*
Pages: 304
Task: Mission: find a holy man at the Palace of the Winds - read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: Faith's husband is a minister

[Beth]

Week 8
Team 5 -- The FIFTH WHEEL

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey #4) (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Date Finished Reading: September 05, 2021
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 243
Task: Location: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover (50%+ per tineye)
How It Fits: tineye says cover is 79.7% white

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Date Read: 9/6
Rating: 💛💛💛🖤🖤
Pages: 440
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: The MC takes a trip on a boat to the ocean around the Mariana Trench to study a phenomenon that took her older sister from her

Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer
Date Read: 9/5/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 402
Task: ( Mission): read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: Book is a war between two religions, and main character embraces the persecuted one.

Completion Post
Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Pages: 496
Task: Roadblock - read a book that is tagged 'historical'
How it fits: tagged historical by 126 people

FIFTH READER: Team Member: lorii (Roadblock)
Book: The Bad Luck Bride
Author: Janna MacGregor
Pages: 337
Task: Roadblock: find a clay pot with clues hidden in the Karni Mata Temple - read a book that is tagged 'historical' (clay is the oldest known ceramic material)
How it fits: Tagged as Historical 65 times
Date Read: Sep 7
Rating: ★★★✰✰

[Jen K]

Week 8 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author:
Date Read: 9/5/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 227 pages
Task: Location: read a book with a mostly white cover
How it Fits: tineye says the cover is 59% white

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: The Soulmate Equation - Christina Lauren
Date Read: 9/4/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 365 pages
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How it Fits: We each probably had one too many mai tais, but it wasn’t a problem because we both took Lyfts there and shared a Lyft home [loc 111.7]

Team Member: Jen K
Book and Author: Home by Marilynne Robinson
Date Read: 9/5/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 339 pages
Task: Mission: find a holy man at the Palace of the Winds - read a book with a significant character who is religious
How it Fits: The father is a Presbyterian minister.

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello
Date Read: 9/6/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 338 pages
Task: Roadblock: find a clay pot with clues hidden in the Karni Mata Temple - read a book that is tagged 'historical' (clay is the oldest known ceramic material)
How it Fits: Tagged Historical

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: A Suitable Consort: For the King and His Husband by R. Cooper
Date Read: 9/4/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 236 pages
Task: Open Choice: Roadbloak: read a book that is tagged 'historical'
How it Fits: Tagged historical on main page

[Laila Jane]

Completion Post - Week 8
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: How to Be a Movie Star by T.J. Klune
Date Read: 09/06/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 350
Task: Location - Read a book with a mostly white cover (50%+ per tineye)
How It Fits: 91.4% white per tineye

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: Let Me Be the One by Bella Andre
Date Read: 09/07/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 227
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: Ryan and Vicki ride a taxi several times

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Date Read: 09/07/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 536
Task: Mission - Read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: The main character is a monk, the setting is a monastery and all the characters are monks

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Band Sinister by K.J. Charles
Date Read: 09/03/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 224
Task: Roadblock - Read a book that is tagged 'historical'
How It Fits: MPG Historical

Team Member:
Book and Author:
Date Read:
Rating:
Pages:
Task: Free Book
How It Fits:

(Missing Free Book task from Denise)

[Janeylou]

Team 4
Reader wondering around the world

Christina
Completion Post
Week 8
Location: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover (50%+ per tineye)
It Had to Be You (Lucky Harbor, #7) by Jill Shalvis
It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis
Finished: 9/7/21
Pages: 368
How it fits: mostly white cover

Leslie ann
Completion post
Mission: find a holy man at the Palace of the Winds - read a book with a significant character who is religious
A Morbid Taste for Bones
9/3/21
197 pages
There are several religious characters in this book

Vicki
Roadblock: find a clay pot with clues hidden in the Karni Mata Temple - read a book that is tagged 'historical' (clay is the oldest known ceramic material)
Book: The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
Author: Don Brown
Pages: 352
Read: 9/02
How it Fits: MPG Historical

Janeylou
Completion post
Week 8
Roadblock: find a clay pot with clues hidden in the Karni Mata Temple - read a book that is tagged 'historical' (clay is the oldest known ceramic material)
Downtime by James Allen
MPG Historical 209 times
506 pgs
2 sept

❤Celia has not checked in with her Transport book❤

Not sure if i can read for her..if so
Week 8
Reading for Celia ..if possible
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
Italian Ice by E.M. Lynley
290 pgs
Finished 7/9
You like boating?” Milacio asked Reed as the captain, another of Milacio’s seemingly endless staff, piloted the boat slowly out of the harbor..57%

[Janeylou]

Team 4
Reader wondering around the world

Christina
Completion Post
Week 8
Location: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover (50%+ per tineye)
It Had to Be You (Lucky Harbor, #7) by Jill Shalvis
It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis
Finished: 9/7/21
Pages: 368
How it fits: mostly white cover

Leslie ann
Completion post
Mission: find a holy man at the Palace of the Winds - read a book with a significant character who is religious
A Morbid Taste for Bones
9/3/21
197 pages
There are several religious characters in this book

Vicki
Roadblock: find a clay pot with clues hidden in the Karni Mata Temple - read a book that is tagged 'historical' (clay is the oldest known ceramic material)
Book: The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
Author: Don Brown
Pages: 352
Read: 9/02
How it Fits: MPG Historical


Janeylou
Wk 8
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
Italian Ice by E.M. Lynley
290 pgs
Finished 7/9
You like boating?” Milacio asked Reed as the captain, another of Milacio’s seemingly endless staff, piloted the boat slowly out of the harbor..57%


❤Celia has not checked in with her free read book❤

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Transportation for the extra points. (3rd week in a row!)

Here are the results for Week Eight:
Team 1 - 25 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 25 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 185 points
Team 2 - 175 points
Team 3 - 165 points
Team 4 - 170 points
Team 5 - 175 points
Team 6 - 175 points
Team 7 - 165 points
Team 8 - 165 points

[Shelly]

WEEK 9 COMPLETION POST
RACE2READ - TEAM 2

ROGER:
Book and Author: Rarer Than Rubies - E.M. Lynley
Date Read: 09/08/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 216
Task: LOCATION - read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: MPG settings of Bangkok and Thailand


JADE:
Book and Author: When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards
Date Read: 13th Sept
Rating: ****
Pages: 281
Task: - TRANSPORTATION: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: MC rides a train.

JANE:
Book and Author: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Date Read: 9/10-21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 400
Task: MISSION: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count (examples: 261, 338, 420; must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: My edition is 400 pages


SHELLY:
Book and Author: A Hoe Lot of Trouble/Heather Webber

Date Read: 09/11/21
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 246
Task: ROADBLOCK
How It Fits: 2 full trees on the cover

CILLA:
Book and Author: by Paula Hawkins
Date Read: September 11, 2021
Rating: *****
Pages: 325 (default)
Task: OPEN CHOICE - Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: MC rides a commuter train.

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 9 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer
Date Read: 9/10
Rating: 4*
Page #: 354
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: male MC's kidnapped from a train :-D
From the blurb: On his way to interview for a position at a church in the Piney Woods of Texas, Crockett Archer can scarcely believe it when he's forced off the train by a retired outlaw and presented to the man's daughter as the minister she requested for her birthday.

Team Member: Amanda
Book and Author: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Date Read: 9/12
Rating: 2*
Page #: 336
Task: Location - read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: Takes place in Thailand.

Team Member: Emma (Free Choice)
Book and Author: Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood
Date Read: 9/13
Rating: 4*
Page #: 151
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: the MC is on a train when a murder takes place.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Perfect by Delaney Diamond
Date Read: 9/11
Rating: 4*
Page #: 170 (paper edition, ebook has no page #)
Task: Mission - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits: page count ends with 0

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: House Without Lies by Rachel Branton
Date Read: 9/9
Rating: 4*
Page #: 266
Task: Roadblock - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover
How It Fits: There are 2 trees visible on cover

[Janeylou]

Team 4 Readers wondering around the world

Janeylou
WEEK 9 COMPLETION POST
Location: read a book set in Thailand
The Other Guy by Cary Attwell
233 pgs
Finished 11 sept
How fits ..Emory was stood up at the ailse and goes off to Thailand on a solo honeymoon and meets Nate

Celia
Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover (tigers are essentially associated with forest habitats)
Book: The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) by Rick Yancey by Rick Yancey
475 pages
Date read: 9/9/21
How it fits: trees on cover

Christina
Spartan Heart (Mythos Academy Colorado, #1) by Jennifer Estep
Spartan Heart by Jennifer Estep
Pages 278
Mission: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
Finished: 9/12/21
How it fits: pages ends in 8

Vicki
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
Book: The Necklace
Author: Matt Witten
Pages: 304
Read: 9/08
How it Fits: Susan rides various buses to make it to North Dakota to witness an execution

Leslie ann
Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover (tigers are essentially associated with forest habitats)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
9/10/21
Pages:264
There are several trees on the cover

[Michelle]

Week 9 Completion Posts - Team 1

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

Team Member A - Michelle
Book and Author: The Disallowed by Owen Jones
Date Read: 9/9/21
Rating: 2 Stars
Pages: 182
Task: Location - read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits - Set in Thailand

team member B - Michelle (filling in for Jammin Jenny who is ill)
Book and Author: Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
Date Read: 9/12/21
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 360
Task: Free Choice - Mission: read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page
How It Fits - 360 Pages

team member C - Wanda
Book: The Reincarnationist-M.J. Rose
Date Read: 9/10
Rating: 💧💧💧💧💧
Pages:451
Task: Location: Mission: read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits: The last number in the page count is "1"

team member D - Rosina
The Obituary Society by Jessica L. Randall
Date: September 13 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 216
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
Chapter 5 Loc 1968 Lila decided to pack up her things and take a Greyhound bus to Wyoming to take care of him instead.

team member E - Kathy
Task 9—Roadblock: two or more complete trees on the cover

Trinity Bound (Redwood Pack, #2) by Carrie Ann Ryan
Trinity Bound, Carrie Ann Ryan – 9/10/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle edition ➔ 324 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ French edition has two or more complete trees on the cover

[Jen K]

Week 9 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill
Date Read: 9/12/21
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 384 pages
Task: Location: read a book set in Thailand
How it Fits: Set in Thailand

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Murder on Astor Place
Date Read: 9/9/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 287 pages
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How it Fits: both the MCs use the elevated train to travel around New York City

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: Bonefire of the Vanities by Carolyn Haines
Date Read: 9/9/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 350 pages
Task: Mission: read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How it Fits: page count ends in 0

Team Member: Jen K
Book and Author: You Have a Match by Emma Lord
Date Read: 9/9/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 320 pages
Task: Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover (tigers are essentially associated with forest habitats)
How it Fits:

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: Killer Cruise by A.R. Winters
Date Read: 9/10/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 210 pages
Task: Open Choice: Roadbloak: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover (tigers are essentially associated with forest habitats)
How it Fits:

[Louise]

Week 9

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Little Christmas Teashop of Second Chances by Donna Ashcroft
Date Read: 9/10
Rating: 4*
Pages: 310
Task: Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover
How It Fits:

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Date Read: 9/11
Rating: 4*
Pages: 352
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: MCs meet while travelling on the same train


Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Thai Kiss by Matt Carrell
Date Read: 9/14
Rating: 3.5*
Pages: 220
Task: Location: read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: set in Thailand

Team Member: Namita - Free Choice
Book and Author: Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 9/9
Rating: 4*
Pages: 320
Task: Mission: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count (examples: 261, 338, 420; must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: Page number ends in zero

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: The Obsession by Nora Roberts
Date Read: 9/14
Rating: 4*
Pages: 480
Task: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits:0 is the last # of page count

[Beth]

Team 5 -- the Fifth Wheel

Week 9

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: The Beach by Alex Garland
Date Read: 9/12
Rating: 💛💛💛🖤🖤
Pages: 436
Task: Location: read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: Richard is traveling in Thailand when he gets a map to a secret beach on an island in the Gulf of Thailand

Team Member: lorii
Book: Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean
Pages: 192
Date Read: Sep 13
Rating: ★★★★★
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How it fits: The train journey through the wild west is a major plot development

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock
Date Finished Reading: September 11, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 208
Task: Mission: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count (examples: 261, 338, 420; must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: Pagecount: 208

Team Member: Jen
Book: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Pages: 279
Rating: 4 stars
Task: Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover (tigers are essentially associated with forest habitats)
How it fits: several trees on cover


Team Member: Beth -- Fifth Reader
Book and Author: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Date Read: 9/14/21
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 304
Task: ( Mission) (Fifth Reader) Pages include 1 0 or 8
How It Fits: 304 pages

[Laila Jane]

Completion Post - Week 9
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Date Read: 09/14/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 272
Task: Location - Read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: Short stories set in Thailand

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Upside Down by N.R. Walker
Date Read: 09/13/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 251
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: Both MCs travel by bus, it's where they met

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Missing Linc by Rhys Everly
Date Read: 09/10/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 160
Task: Mission - Read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits: 160 pages

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding
Date Read: 09/14/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 832
Task: Roadblock - Read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover
How It Fits: There are trees on the cover


Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: On Hart’s Boardwalk by Samantha Young
Date Read: 09/13/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 128
Task: Free Book - Mission - Read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits: 128 pages

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Roadblock for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Nine:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 25 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 20 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 25 points

Team 1 - 205 points
Team 2 - 195 points
Team 3 - 185 points
Team 4 - 195 points
Team 5 - 195 points
Team 6 - 195 points
Team 7 - 185 points
Team 8 - 190 points

[Shelly]

WEEK 10 COMPLETION POST
RACE2READ - TEAM 2

LOCATION: JANE
Book and Author: Flying by the Seat of My Knickers by Eliza Watson
Date Read: 9/19-21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 206
Task: LOCATION: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: Pg 154: As we drive through Wicklow National Park, you'll recognize scenery from the movie.

TRANSPORTATION: JADE
Book and Author: Jaws by Peter Benchley
Date Read: 18th Sept
Rating: ****
Pages: 320
Task: TRANSPORTATION: - read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
How It Fits: MC Brody travels the shore line on a boat looking for the great white

MISSION - ROGER
Mission: read a book with a royal significant character
BOOK: Felix and the Prince - Lucy Lennox
Pages 322
How it Fits: Lio is the crown prince of Liorland who becomes the King after his father steps down.
Ratings 5 stars
Date read: 9/15/2021

ROADBLOCK: SHELLY
Book and Author: Fields' Guide to Abduction by Julie Mulhern
Date Read: 09/18/21
Rating: 🧳🧳🧳🧳🧳 (5 stars)
Pages: 248 pages
Task: ROADBLOCK
How It Fits: page 70 “dug through my hastily repacked SUITCASES, found a straw clutch, and jammed my phone and the villa’s key inside.”

OPEN CHOICE: CILLA
Book and Author: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Date Read: September 18, 2021
Rating: ****
Pages: 320
Task: OPEN CHOICE - MISSION: teams must find "the king" at Raile Beach - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
How It Fits: MC is a princess.

[Jen K]

Week 10 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: Deserts, Driving, and Derelicts
Date Read: 9/17/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 205 pages
Task: Location: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How it Fits: Book is set in Daniel Boone National Park, mentioned many times. Page 13 - "...the overlooked a beautiful area of the national park...."

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: Matched To His Dolphin by Lorelei M. Hart
Date Read: 9/19/21
Rating: ★
Pages: 191 pages
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by boat
How it Fits: 17% "The wind whipped at our faces as I steered the boat out to sea while the aroma of the ocean filled my nostrils"

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Seeking Persephone
Date Read: 9/19/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 288 pages
Task: Mission: read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book
How it Fits: one of the MCs is a duke (Adam Boyce, Duke of Kielder)

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: Sacred Evil - Heather Graham
Date Read: 9/18/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 382 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How it Fits: She glanced in the doorway as Jude Crosby set her travel bag on the footrest [loc 50.3]

Team Member: Jen K
Book and Author: Small Country by Gaël Faye
Date Read: 9/19/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 183 pages
Task: Open Choice- Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How it Fits: pg 117 "Christian and I were in the trunk of the car, sitting on the suitcases that contained our outfits."

[Michelle]

Week 10 Completion Posts - Team 1

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

Team Member A - Wanda
Task #10-Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
Book: Speechless-Madeline Freeman
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 🔮🔮🔮🔮
Pages: 348
How it Fits: The MC Aria travels in a small water craft.

Team Member B - Kathy
Task 10—Roadblock: main character uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase (something that is designed to hold clothing while traveling)
Sacred Evil (Krewe of Hunters, #3) by Heather Graham
Sacred Evil, Heather Graham – 9/18/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 382 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ from the page 31: “...to dig into her overnight bag for her…”

Team Member C - Rosina (filling in for Jammin Jenny while she is out sick)
Free Choice - Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase (something that is designed to hold clothing while traveling)
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
Date: September 19 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 452
How it fits:
Location: Chapter 20 I spied a large steamer trunk...inside was stuff he collected over the years and that he carted around .... inside was a stacks of comics, a fine wool blanke

Team Member D - Rosina
Mission: read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot
Date: September 17 2021
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 259
How it fits: MC is Mia Thermopolis - Princess of Genovia

Team Member E - Michelle
Book and Author: The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
Date Read: 9/19/21
Rating: 1 Stars
Pages: 545
Task: Location: read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How it fits task - Set in the 1880's, the Statue of Liberty arriving on Liberty Island is talked about.

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 10 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: The Search by Nora Roberts
Date Read: 9/19
Rating: 4*
Page #: 497
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by boat
How It Fits: The story is set on the San Juan Islands, mainly the Orcas Island; female MC's search and rescue team goes by boat owned by Chuck (one of the team memebers) to all searches on other islands or on the mainland. The first mention of such a search is for an elderly man who has early-onset Alzheimer’s: ... was on her way to Deer Harbor and Chuck’s boat. With Chuck at the helm she briefed the unit while they carved through the passage. (p. 161)

Team Member: Amanda
Book and Author: Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 4*
Page #: 326
Task: Roadblock - read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase (something that is designed to hold clothing while traveling)
How It Fits: Rincewind goes around with Luggage the magical trunk.

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow
Date Read: 9/16
Rating: 4*
Page #: 208
Task: Location - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: The book is set in a National Park in Alaska.

Team Member: Shan A (Free Choice)
Book and Author: Accidentally Compromising the Duke by Stacy Reid
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 4*
Page #: 256
Task: Mission - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book
How It Fits: Duke and Duchess MC

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: Kidnapped for His Royal Heir by Maya Blake
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 4*
Page #: 192
Task: Mission - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book
How It Fits: the main mc is a Prince. Prince Zakary.

[Janeylou]

TEAM 4 Readers wandering around the world
COMPLETION POST WEEK 10

Christina
Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase (something that is designed to hold clothing while traveling)
In the Dark by Loreth Anne White
In the Dark by Loreth Anne White
Pages: 407
Finshed 9/21/21
How it fits: takes place at a vacation spa. All guests have various references to their "bags".
Page 25: "The woman directed him to offload the bags as the rest of the passengers disembarked

Janeylou
Week 10 completion post
Mission: teams must find "the king" at Raile Beach - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
Pauper Prince Saves the Posh Pullet by Chris Cox
121 pgs
Finished 16th sept
MC is Prince Peter

Leslie Ann | 192 commentsCompletion post
Location..Read a book where a National park is mentioned
Boar Island
9/21/21
Pages: 374
374
Acadia National Park is the location for this book

Vicki
Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
The Rise of Light by Olivia Hawker
Book: The Rise of Light by Olivia Hawker
Read: 9/21
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: Joel and Aran had to ride in the boat to get through the flooded streets after the dam broke

DDBR Janeylou
Week 10 completion post
Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase (something that is designed to hold clothing while traveling)
Interlude by C.S. Poe
159 pgs
Finished 20th September
3.75 stars
....".Our suitcase lay on the floor, open, with the clothes askew, as if someone had recently rifled through the contents.."..42%

Celia, no longer playing

[Louise]

Week 10
Team 6 - Overbooked

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 4*
Pages: 388
Task: Roadblock: one team member had to paddle a kayak with their team member and all their luggage down the river - read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How It Fits: luggage - “…he is going home to salvage as many belongings as he can fit into his luggage…”

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
Date Read: 9/19
Rating: 3*
Pages: 245
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by boat
How It Fits: MC lives in Venice and uses the vaporetto (public transport by boat) to get around

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Free Fire by C.J. Box
Date Read: 9/19
Rating: 4*
Pages: 352
Task: Location: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: set in Yosemite National Park

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 9/16
Rating: 4*
Pages: 319
Task: Mission: teams must find "the king" at Raile Beach - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
How It Fits: The Queen Selene is a very significant character in this book. Her daughter to be betrothed and she travels herself to meet the Prince.

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: X Dames by J.J. Henderson
Date Read: 9/21
Rating: 2*
Pages: 159
Task: Location: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: p. 1 ""...near the northern edge of the Everglades National Park."

[Beth]

Week 10
Team 5: The Fifth Wheel

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Date Read: 9/17
Rating: 💛💛💛🖤🖤
Pages: 218
Task: Location: Read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: Main character works as a park ranger in Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Team Member: lorii
Book: Midlife Fairy Hunter
Author: Shannon Mayer
Pages: 352
Date Read: Sep 21 ★★★✰✰
Task: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
How it fits: our boat picked up even more speed, the spray of river water soaking us, (81%)

Team Member: Jen
Book: Raybearer
Author: Jordan Ifueko
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 368
Task: Mission: read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
How it fits: Dayo, the emperor, is one of the main characters

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: Murder à la Mode (A Savannah Reid Mystery #10) (2005) by G.A. McKevett
Date Finished Reading: September 21, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 266
Task:Roadblock: read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How It Fits: Main character packs a suitcase to travel to a 'castle' in the Californian hills. Later, she takes a nightgown and robe out of her suitcase to wear.

Fifth Reader: Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Date Finished Reading: September 21, 2021
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 374
Task: Fifth Reader: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship) --
How It Fits: Sally goes on a ferry boat and then on her boyfriend's fishing boat

[Laila Jane]

Completion Posts - Week 10
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
Date Read: 09/21/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 368
Task: Location - Read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: "I knew it was where I wanted to go: Yosemite National Park." - KL: 544

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Barging in by Josephine Myles
Date Read: 09/18/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 372
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
How It Fits: MC travels on a narrowboat

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Date Read: 09/21/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 416
Task: Mission - Read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book
How It Fits: Main character is a prince

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Rise & Fall by Charlie Cochet
Date Read: 09/20/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 236
Task: Roadblock - Read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How It Fits: Dex packs a bag for Sloane (clothes, toiletries, shoes)

Team Member: - Jeanne
Book and Author: Fast and Loose by Stuart Woods
Date Read: 09/20/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 364
Task: Free Book - Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by boat (not a ship)
How It Fits: Part of book takes place on pleasure boat (yacht-type) of MC

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Location for the extra points. (Only 1 team got it this week.)

Here are the results for Week Ten:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 25 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 225 points
Team 2 - 215 points
Team 3 - 205 points
Team 4 - 215 points
Team 5 - 215 points
Team 6 - 220 points
Team 7 - 205 points
Team 8 - 210 points